<p>Kyle House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The original Kyle House, home to merchant James Kyle, burned in a city fire in 1831. Rumor had it that the great fire began in the Kyle House&#39;s kitchen. It was then rebuilt in about 1855 as a two-story, five-bay, brick town house with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements. It features a three-bay wide one-story porch with a flat roof supported by four fluted Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Ward-Jackson House is a historic house at 122 North Louisiana Street in Hope, Arkansas. The -story wood-frame house was built sometime in the 1890s, and is a particularly fine local example of Folk Victorian architecture. It has a busy exterior typical of Queen Anne styling, including different types of cut shingles, and has a porch with turned-spindle balustrade, and an Eastlake-style frieze. The windows are long and narrow, giving the house a somewhat Gothic appearance.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Fries Miners Cabins are a group of six small houses located on the 500 block of Kennedy Street, in the Starr Hill neighborhood adjacent to downtown Juneau, Alaska. The six were built as essentially identical structures in 1913 to house miners working in the local gold mines. The houses are -story structures of wood-frame construction, and are in the Craftsman style popular at the time. Of the more than 200 miner houses built during Juneaus gold boom, these are among the few that survive.</p><br>
<p>They are named after Conrad W Fries (1851-1922) who moved to Juneau with his wife Mary (nee Grone) from St Louis, Missouri, wanting to make a new start after their 2 young sons died. Conrad was from Germany and had previously been owner of Fries Brewery in St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>The six buildings were included in the Fries Miners&#39; Cabins historical district, also known as Kennedy Street Mine Workers Houses and Kennedy Street Historical District, on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Magruder Plots are experimental winter wheat field plots at Oklahoma State University established in 1892. They are the third longest-running such field trial in the United States, following the Morrow Plots established in 1876 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , and the Sanborn Field established in 1888 at the University of Missouri . They are examples of long-term experiments.</p><br>
<p>Originally planted in the fall of 1892 by A. C. Magruder, first</p><br>
<p>professor of agriculture at Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University), these plots were established to obtain information on the</p><br>
<p>ability of the soil to continue to produce good yields of wheat without fertilization.</p><br>
<p>Researchers have conducted hundreds of experiments comparing various fertilizer treatments with manure applications and without such treatments. The plots became the center for wheat soil</p><br>
<p>research in the region and provided constant data which helped farmers get maximum yield from their arid climates and naturally dry soils.</p><br>
<h2>Changes over time</h2><br>
<p>For the past 122 years there have been several changes in the Magruder Plots.</p><br>
<p>Between 1893 and 1898, the field was not fertilized and the yield data were taken from the 1.25-acre plot as a unit.</p><br>
<p>The plots were divided in the summer of 1899, and yields were taken separately from the north and south halves to allow measurement of soil variability. Between 1899 and 1929, the south half was fertilized with barnyard manure and north half left unfertilized. No commercial fertilizer was used.</p><br>
<p>From 1930 to 1947, ten treatments were evaluated. Six of the ten treatments have been continued to the present. From 1930 to 1937 the check plot continued to produce near maximum yield; that was not the case from 1938 to 1947.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, university officials decided that the area where the soil plots were located had to be used for space for a new dormitory. That year the soils were moved to the present location. Before the</p><br>
<p>construction of the dormitory, university officials dispatched workers to carefully move the surface and immediate subsurface soils from six of the ten main plots to a location about one mile west on the OSU agronomy farm. The reddish clay subsoil under the new location was similar to the subsoil under the original plot. Dr. Horace J. Harper, agronomist in charge of the plots for 1926 to 1951, described the task of moving the soil as follows: "The top eight inches of soil was removed with a bulldozer from an area of 100 feet in length near the center of each plot and was piled on each end of that plot. The subsurface soil from 8 to 16 inches was excavated and transferred to prepared trenches dug in a east-west direction on the agronomy farm". Studies conducted on the site after the move, when compared to similar studies conducted before the soil was tampered with, have shown that moving the plots of soil did not cause significant change in their relative crop-producing capacities. No evidence has indicated that the move disturbed the soil or hindered the research value of the area, which continues to be used for its original purpose.</p><br>
<p>Six of the ten treatments (check since 1892, manure since 1899, P, NP, NPK, and NPKL since 1929) were moved to their present location. The response to N over P remained small over this time.</p><br>
<p>From 1958 to 1967, wheat grain yield increased substantially as a result of applying N in addition to P.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, N rates were doubled in all the treatments except the unfertilized check as a result of increased yield potential of newer varieties.</p><br>
<p>From 1978 to 1987, this was the last period where moderate increases in grain yield were observed as a result of applying on P versus the check.</p><br>
<p>From 1988 to 1994, wheat grain yield increases were first detected as a result of applying K.</p><br>
<p>After 122 years of continuous winter wheat production under conventional tillage, the check plot that has never received any fertilization continues to produce yields greater than 1 Mg/ha. Despite the decline in soil organic matter from 4 to 1% grain yields in the check continue to show slight increases, probably due to improved genetics.</p><br>
<p>The Gilmore Building, also known as the Gilmore Hotel, is a historic commercial building at 326 Front Street in Ketchikan, Alaska. It is a three-story masonry building located adjacent to Ketchikan City Hall, and was built in 1926-27 by P. J. Gilmore, Sr. to meet growing demand in the growing community for retail space and hotel rooms. The build is in the shape of a reversed L, whose base lies along Front Street, and includes three commercial storefronts. The upper floors are populated with hotel rooms.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is one of the only buildings in the city to survive from the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Site is an archaeological site in the Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area in Marshall County, Illinois, across the Illinois River from Chillicothe. The site consists of a boulder carved with five petroglyphs. The petroglyphs, which archaeologists believe were created by Native Americans between 1673 and 1835, depict three anthropomorphs, an L-shaped figure, and a possible avimorph. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The petroglyphs are carved on a granite boulder located on a wooded hillside overlooking the eastern bank of the Illinois River. This section of the river lies in the central Illinois River Valley and is administered by the state of Illinois as the Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area. The valley was formed during the Wisconsin glaciation, which is responsible for the cobbles and boulders left in the area. Compared to the northern Illinois River valley and Southern Illinois, the central Illinois River valley has relatively few large boulders or rock structures; this may explain why the petroglyphs were carved on a smaller boulder. The site was located by three area residents in 2011, who reported their discovery to archaeologists at the Dickson Mounds Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The boulder consists of five petroglyphs, all carved on its top face: three anthropomorphs, an L-shaped figure, and a possible avimorph. All of the petroglyphs were carved with fine tools and consist of thin lines. The three anthropomorphs are arranged vertically; the largest is 12.25 cm long, and each includes roughly 20-25 lines. Each figure consists of arms, legs, and a head extending from a V-shaped chest; the figures lack extremities, genitalia, or facial features. The L-shaped figure is formed by two sets of lines and is thought to depict a weapon such as a celt or axe. The avimorph consists of a set of straight lines intersecting a set of curved lines; while the former may signify a body and the latter wings, the figure is not detailed enough to conclusively state this.</p><br>
<p>According to Wagner et al., "The significance of the site lies in part in the fact that based on the method of manufacture it is possible that that the Marshall site petroglyphs were created by historic period (A.D. 1673–1835) Native American peoples."</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>Wagner et al. proposed in 2013 that the petroglyphs were created by Native Americans in the Historic period (A.D. 1673&ndash;1835) The anthropomorphic imagery is consistent with other Native American art in the region, making it unlikely that the petroglyphs were created by Europeans. In addition, the petroglyphs were carved using fine tools; while finely carved artifacts dating as early as the Woodland period have been found in Illinois, no prehistoric rock art using the technique has been discovered in the state. The site was also near several Native American villages during the Historic period, as the Potawatomi and Kickapoo both occupied the river valley.</p><br>
<p>Woodside was a historic residence in Belle Mina, Alabama. The land on which the house was built was originally part of Alabama Governor Thomas Bibbs estate, Belle Mina. Thomas son, Porter Bibb, built Woodside in 1861 for his daughter, Mary Chambers Bibb. The two houses stood one-half mile  apart. Woodside was a two-story Greek Revival house, originally with a central, double-height portico that was extended to the full width of the façade in the early 1900s. The house has a center-hall plan, with two rooms on either side of a hallway on both floors. The rear of the house was originally a pair of one-story wings, but a second story was added in an early 20th-century renovation. Greek Revival details continued inside the house, such as mantels and architrave-framed panels in the stairwell. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Woodside was destroyed by a fire in late November 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Tucker Carriage House is a historic carriage house located at Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It is a large, three-story outbuilding that is the only remaining structure from the estate of Rufus Sylvester Tucker, a Confederate army officer and prominent merchant in post-Civil War Raleigh. It is believed to have been built around 1883, when Tucker purchased materials for a "wagon shed", but does not appear on maps of the area until 1909.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house is 35 ft wide and 100 ft long, and originally housed the estate&#39;s wheeled vehicles as well as the horses and mules that pulled them. The building is sheathed in clapboard on the first floor, and shakes on the second. The roof is covered with slate shingles and is capped by a square cupola that served to ventilate the interior.</p><br>
<p>William McDiarmid House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1907, and is a -story, three-bay, American Foursquare frame dwelling with Late Victorian / Colonial Revival styling. It features a massive wraparound porch with a gazebo-like pentagonal corner projection and Tuscan order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Henry McLean House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1840, and is a two-story, side-hall plan, vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. A Victorian style two-story, four room wing was added between about 1875 and 1880. Additional rooms were added in the early-20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>John A. Oates House is a historic home originally located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It is a late-18th / early 19th century dwelling remodeled in 1909. It is a two-story, five-bay frame Classical Revival style frame dwelling. It features a two-story pedimented portico supported by four fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Oates House has since been relocated to a Vass, NC country club where it has been repurposed as a private clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>John E. Patterson House, also known as Cashwell House, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a -story, five-bay frame coastal cottage form frame dwelling. It features a full-width, engaged front porch and Greek Revival style design elements. It was the home of a free black brick mason and real estate speculator John E. Patterson.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Robert Strange Country House, also known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1825, and is a -story, gable roofed, Federal style frame dwelling. It has a -story rear ell and features a gable portico supported by two Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are a contributing spring house and a summer kitchen. It was the country home of USA Senator Robert Strange . The house stood at the center of Strange&#39;s large plantation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Cottonwood Community Center, built about 1889, is significant for its historic associations with the development of Stillwater, Oklahoma&#39;s rural agricultural community. The center is indicative of school house architecture that was popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the Stillwater community.</p><br>
<p>Of the four remaining one-room school structures in the Stillwater area, only the Cottonwood has been in continuous use from the time it was built to the present. It has been, and continues to be, an important</p><br>
<p>focus of life for the rural community west of the town. The other one-room school house in Payne County listed as a National Historic Place is the Pleasant Valley School.</p><br>
<p>It was named Cottonwood because there was an abundance of cottonwood from which the center</p><br>
<p>was constructed, using hand-cut wood.</p><br>
<p>The building belongs to the School District of Stillwater but the community residents do maintenance and repair. The land belongs to a corporation of community residents.</p><br>
<p>The Prosperity Cemetery is located on McNeary Street  on the south side of Prosperity, South Carolina, United States. The cemetery is about 3 acre in size, with more than 1,000 marked graves dating back to its founding in 1802. The cemetery is distinctive for the fine quality of its funerary art in what is essentially a rural backcountry setting, and for the unusual concentration of gravestones that were signed by local merchants and stonecutters. The cemetery was established as the burying ground for a Presbyterian congregation, but is now managed by a local cemetery company and now serves as the town&#39;s main cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick Nance House, also known as Oak Grove, is a historic house at 931 Jessica Avenue in Newberry, South Carolina. The brick plantation house was built c. 1822–25 on land owned by Frederick Nance, a prominent local politician, who had served as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina 1808–10. The house is a virtually intact example of antebellum plantation architecture, and is accompanied by a somewhat rare local example of a surviving slave quarters. The house&#39;s design has been attributed to Robert Mills.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot is a historic train station building in Glenwood, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, located just west of the point were USA Route 70 crosses the Union Pacific tracks. It was built by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, and used by that railroad and its successor, the Missouri Pacific Railroad until 1969. It was sold that year and relocated out of town for use as a hay barn. The city purchased the building in 1995, and returned it to a location a short way south of its original location, which is now occupied by a major road intersection.</p><br>
<p>The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Jones General Store and Esso Station is a historic Esso automotive service station and general store on Arkansas Highway 84 in Langley, Arkansas. It is a single-story structure built out of fieldstone, with concrete door and window lintels. The car porch extends in front of the building, supported by three fieldstone columns topped by simple capitals. It was built in 1939, and served as the towns general store, operated by Johnny Jones, until the 1980s, when the store closed and the building was converted to residential use. The building is locally significant in part for a circular millstone, used in the towns first gristmill, which is embedded in the wall near the eastern corner.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Murfreesboro Cities Service Station is a historic automotive service station on Arkansas Highway 26, facing the northeast side of the town square in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. It is a simple single-story brick building with a cross-gable roof and modest English Revival styling. It was built in 1939 by A. P. Terrell, a local builder, using bricks from a building that had previously stood on the site. It was operated as a Cities Service  gas station into the 1980s, and was purchased by the Murfreesboro Community Foundation in 1989. The building plan for this structure is similar to that of other surviving Cities Service stations, including a station in Rison and another in Clinton.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Josephine Reifsnyder Lustron House in Stillwater, Oklahoma is a historic prefabricated home. One of several Lustron houses built in Oklahoma during the post World War II housing shortage, this house is a well-preserved two-bedroom Lustron Westchester model with a detached Lustron garage.</p><br>
<h2>Background and history</h2><br>
<p>At the end of World War II in 1945, the USA Government estimated that the country needed to create nearly 3 million houses moderate to low income houses for returning soldiers and their families as soon as possible, followed by an additional 10 million units in the next decade. It found that home builders could not supply such a demand using conventional techniques. Carl Strandlund, owner of Lustron Company, proposed a solution: use prefabricated units that could be assembled quickly and cheaply all over the United States, using local dealerships to assemble the final products.</p><br>
<h2>Reifsnyder House description</h2><br>
<p>The Reifsnyder house was built in 1949 by the Lustron dealership of Hall and Abercrombie of Cushing and Stillwater. Designated as the "Westchester Model," it has a living, dining and kitchen area, a bathroom and two bedrooms dimensions, providing 1,021 ft2 of living area in one story. on a 31 ft by 35 ft floor plan. It is constructed of steel components including interior and exterior enameled steel panels for the walls. The roof consists of porcelain enamel coated steel panels resembling roof shingles. The interior features steel cabinets and pocket doors. Hot water pipes laid in the concrete floors provided radiant heating.</p><br>
<p>This house was purchased by Josephine Reifsnyder in November 1949. The house changed hands several times between 1962 and 1983, and has been a rental property in the Oklahoma State University campus area for many years.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The dealership built two Lustrons in Cushing after constructing this first Lustron in Stillwater.</p><br>
<p>The Hygieostatic Bat Roost is located in Kendall County, approximately 1.5 mi east of Comfort on the south side of RM 473, in the USA state of Texas. It was erected in 1918 on property owned by former San Antonio Mayor Pro Tem Albert Steves, who had commissioned San Antonio health officer Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell to design the structure. The shingled pyramid-shaped raised tower stands 30 ft high. One dormer serves as an entrance for the bats, while the other dormers are ornamental. The lower portion of the tower allows access for humans. The concrete base of the tower is raised 7 ft off the ground, facilitating wagons being driven beneath to collect the guano.</p><br>
<p>Campbell had been researching a method of controlling the spread of mosquito-carried malaria, by encouraging the insect&#39;s natural enemy, the bat. Although mosquitoes have other natural enemies, many of them are active only during the daytime hours, while bats fly in search of food during the night when mosquitoes are most active. Campbell patented his bat roost design and erected several of them in the San Antonio area beginning in 1907. When the bat roost was built on his Kendall County property, Steves coined the name Hygieostatic Bat Roost based on the Greek words hygiea (health) and stasis (standing). The descendants of Albert Steves still own the property where the tower is located. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981. In 1983, the roost was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Devane-MacQueen House is a historic home located near Grays Creek, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a hipped roof. It has a double-pile central-hall plan. Also on the property are the contributing schoolhouse, chicken coop, smokehouse, two tobacco barns, and a two-story slave-turned-tenant house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>McArthur-Council House is a historic home located near Grays Creek, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The earliest two room section was built about 1835, and was enlarged and modified between 1918 and 1920. It is a two-story, Late Victorian style frame dwelling with a gable roof. It features a double-tiered front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Maxwell House is a historic home located near Stedman, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It consists of two sections: a coastal cottage form log section dated to about 1790–1815 and a two-story, five-bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style section dated to about 1845. Also on the property are the contributing dairy, a shed, cinder block smokehouse, a tin roof stable, and a diminutive slave kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Cool Springs was a historic home located near Carvers Creek, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It consisted of two sections: a -story Federal style coastal cottage form section dated to about 1815-1820 and a two-story, Greek Revival style section dated to about 1825–1830. Also on the property are the contributing barn; a late-19th century storage building; a mid-19th century one-story house, said to have been a school; and a spring house. The house has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Colcord Farmstead, now Longmeadows Farm, is an historic farm property at 184 Unity Road in Benton, Maine, USA. With a development origin in 1786, it is recognized architecturally for its farmstead complex, a fine example of late 19th-century agricultural architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Longmeadows Farm occupies about 194 acre of land in central Benton, bounded on the west by the Sebasticook River, and extending eastward across Unity Road (Maine State Route 139). The farm complex stands just west of the road, and consists of a collection of wood-frame buildings, most of which were built after 1880. The house, built in 1882 by John Colcord, is a -story wood-frame structure with Italianate styling. It has a gabled roof whose eaves are decorated with paired brackets, and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The interior retains period high quality woodwork, including original floors, plaster walls, and mouldings.</p><br>
<p>The house is connected via two structures, now called the shop and shed, to the barn. The shop is the oldest structure on the farm, dating to the early 19th century. The barn is a large three-story bank barn, with a high stone foundation, and was built by John Colcord out of sawn and hand-hewn timbers. Other buildings in the farm complex include 20th-century structures for milking, equipment storage, and a chicken house; there is also a windmill and c. 1950 sawmill on the property.</p><br>
<p>Most of the land that makes up the farm was sold as a unit in 1786 by the Kennebec Proprietors, the area&#39;s first landowners. Unlike many surviving historic farms, this one did not have a long period of ownership by a single family until the 20th century, passing through thirteen owners in its history up to the start of the 21st century. Its present farm complex is largely the work of either John Colcord, who owned the property in the late 19th century, or the Brown family, who have owned it since 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Bond Street Historic District is a residential historic district on Bond Street in Augusta, Maine, United States. The district comprises seven residential buildings built primarily in 1884 by Edwards Manufacturing Company, which was a textile manufacturer in the area. The buildings housed mill workers and their families from 1878, when the first building was constructed until 1946, when the properties were sold to private owners. The buildings are the only surviving mill worker housing in Augusta. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bond Street is a short residential through street, joining Water Street (Maine State Route 104) with State Street (Maine State Route 27). It is located north of Augusta&#39;s downtown area and immediately south of Bond Brook, near its mouth at the Kennebec River. The street is lined with seven -story residential wood-frame structures, noted for the similarity of scale, setback from the road, and generally vernacular style. On the north side of the street are two multi-unit buildings, each housing four units, and one single-family house. On the south side there are four duplexes.</p><br>
<p>Bond Street is located at the northern edge of Augustas early development, and was probably laid out about 1838. Bond Brook had been a source of industrial power since the 18th century, and the 1837 construction of a dam across the river (since removed), just upstream of Bond Brook, brought a wave of industrialization and population growth. In 1882 the main mill was purchased by the Edwards Corporation, which was one of the citys largest employers by the end of the 19th century. Edwards, as well as earlier mill operators, all built housing for their workers. These were built between 1878 and 1884; although designed to house seventeen families, the 1900 census recorded twenty families in residence, with a total headcount of 167 inhabitants. This collection of houses represents the best-surviving group of 19th-century worker housing units to survive in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Grandison D. Royston House is a historic house at Columbus and Water Streets in Historic Washington State Park, Washington, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, about 55 ft wide and 51 ft deep, with a hip roof pierced by two chimneys with corbelled tops. The main entry is centered under a projecting gable-roof porch, and is framed by sidelights and transom windows. The porch is supported at the front by pairs of square columns with moulded capitals and a square plinth. At the back of the house is a shed-roof addition which housed the kitchen. The interior of the main block is divided into four rooms, two on either side of a large central hall.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1833 by Grandison Delaney Royston, then at the start of a long and distinguished career in Arkansas politics, serving in the state legislature, as United States District Attorney, and as a state militia general during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is one of the finest early examples of the Greek Revival in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Nesburt T. Ruggles House is a historic house in rural Hempstead County, Arkansas. It is a single story wood-frame structure, located southeast of the hamlet of Shover Springs, on the east side of Arkansas Highway 32. It is a Plain Tradition structure with an American Craftsman-style hip roof, built in 1912-14 by Nesburt Ruggles, and is the best example of its style in the area. The house is clad in novelty siding, and is roughly rectangular, with projecting hip roof sections on the sides. A shed-roof porch stands in the right-side ell created by the front facade and the right projection.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Old Georgetown Road is a historic road section near McClellanville, South Carolina, USA. It runs from the Santee River to South Carolina Highway 45, and is about 6.6 mi in length. It is one of longest surviving unpaved sections of the King&#39;s Highway, a colonial-era road network that extended all the way from Charleston, South Carolina, to Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Valley School building is an example of a one-room country school that was common throughout Oklahoma during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The building was built in 1899 and continued to function as a one-room school until 1941. It remains the only extant one-room, frame school building in Payne County. It is one of the very few in Oklahoma still located on its original site and still playing the role of an educational and social center.</p><br>
<p>The Bennett Bridge is a historic covered bridge in rural northern Oxford County, Maine. The bridge, now closed to traffic, formerly carried Littlehale Road over the Magalloway River, about 1.5 mi south of the village Wilsons Mills in Lincoln Plantation. Built in 1901, it is one of Maine&#39;s few older covered bridges. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The sign on the bridge itself has a date of 1898. That date is also cited on the Lost Bridges site maintained by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The bridge is a Paddleford truss bridge, a type of truss in which diagonal cross members are connected to King posts, fastened by metal bolts. It is 92 ft in length, resting on granite abutments. Its total width is 168", with an interior roadway width of 148". Its total height is 23 ft (from roadbed to top of gable), with a portal clearance of 15 ft. Its sides are clad in vertical boarding roughly 2/3 of the way to the roof; the ends are also clad in vertical boarding above and around the portals. The bridge is further stabilized by wire cables at each corner, which are anchored to concrete settings about 25 ft from the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Bennett Bridge was built in 1901, to provide access from a handful of small farms to Maine State Route 16, the major road through Lincoln Plantation. It spans the Magalloway River at a point where it is swiftly flowing, passing through a fairly narrow valley in the hilly region. The bridge saw heavy use from logging trucks that also worked in the area,</p><br>
<p>Abbott Memorial Library is the public library of Dexter, Maine. It is located at 1 Church Street, in an architecturally sophisticated Renaissance Revival structure, built in 1894 as a gift from George Amos Abbott, a local mill owner. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Abbott Memorial Library is located in the heart of Dexters main village center, on a block bounded by Church, Hall, and Pleasant Streets, and Main Street Hill. The sloping block is landscaped, with an open lawn raised from Church Street with benches in front of the library, and a small garden in the rear, along with memorials to the towns military. The library is a T-shaped masonry structure, one story in height, with a brick exterior, granite foundation, and a hipped slate roof. The main facade, facing west toward Church Street, is five bays wide, with a projecting gabled entry at the center. The gable is fully pedimented, with a modillioned and dentillated cornice that continues around the building. The pediment houses a floral design surrounding a central medallion. The entrance below is set in a tall round-arch and keystoned opening, the arch supported by attached Ionic columns and flanked by floral motifs. The building cornice is adorned with swags, and incised with the names of prominent European literary figures. The projecting section at the rear is a later addition.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1894 to a design by J. Williams Beal, and is an unusually sophisticated work for its setting in the rural interior of Maine. It, and the land on which it sits, were the gift of George Amos Abbott, owner of Amos Abbott and Company, a local woolen mill. The land and building cost $32,000.</p><br>
<p>Robert Williams House is a historic home located near Eastover, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a -story Greek Revival style Coastal Cottage form dwelling. It has a gable roof with exterior end chimneys and features an engaged porch. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, original log corn crib, and a stable with loft.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Oak Grove is a historic home located near Erwin in Harnett County and Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1764, and is a two-story, five bay by two bay, Georgian frame dwelling. It has a full-width front porch and shed roofed wings. During the American Civil War, in March, 1865, the Battle of Averasborough was fought on the grounds of Oak Grove.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Mansard Roof House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a -story, three bay by six bay, Second Empire style frame dwelling. It has a side-hall plan and rear wing. It features a mansard roof covered with diaper-patterned pressed metal and wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Sedberry-Holmes House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1886, and is a two-story, five bay by three bay, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a two-story gabled projection with an attached corner turret. It features a steep gable roof and wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Frank H. Stedman House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, main block with a hip roof and projecting one-story, flat-roofed wings that form a "U"-shape. It is sheathed in stucco and is in the Italian Renaissance style. The front facade features an arcade supported by two Corinthian order columns. Also on the property is a contributing garage apartment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Dr. William C. Verdery House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a Colonial Revival-style brick dwelling. It consists of a two-story, main block flanked by a two-story wing and a one-story porch wing on the west and a one-story wing and recessed two-bay wing on the east. It is topped by a slate gable roof and features an Ionic order entrance surround.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Westlawn is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a double-pile center-hall plan in the Greek Revival style. It features a one-story, hip roofed porch supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing hip roofed smokehouse with cupola.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Ellerslie is a historic plantation house located near Linden, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a 1 1/2-story, six bay by two bay, Georgian style frame dwelling with a two-story Greek Revival style addition. It features a wide shed porch with plastered cove ceiling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ellerslie&#39;s founder, George Elliot, was born in Scotland in 1755. He immigrated to the American colonies around 1774 and soon entered the lumber business along the Cape Fear River Valley. After building Ellerslie sometime between 1790-1801, Elliot emerged as the largest landowner in his district and was an active political leader. In 1788 he represented Cumberland County at the Hillsborough Convention, which had been called to vote on the new United States Constitution.</p><br>
<p>Ellerslie’s location on the Lower Little River was important for community and commerce. The Little River and the Cape Fear River connected the Highland-Scot community with Wilmington, NC and closely linked the regions commercially. Additionally, the Elliot family cemetery was located where the Little River joins the Cape Fear River.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the Ellerslie Plantation was used at separate times to quarter both Confederate and Union troops. Prior to the Battle of Averasborough, Federal troops under Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman raided Ellerslie. The encounter was recorded by resident and Civil War diarist Jane Evans Elliot:</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>John Newland Maffitt (privateer), the renowned Confederate blockade runner, spent part of his childhood on the Ellerslie Plantation after he was adopted around 1824 by his uncle Dr. William Maffitt, a respected Cumberland County physician. The Maffitt family home was on or near the Ellerslie estate. Contrary to some reports, Dr. Maffitt did not own the Ellerslie plantation.</p><br>
<p>Jane Evans Elliot (1820-1886), the Civil War memoirist, lived at Ellerslie after marrying Col. Alexander Elliot.</p><br>
<p>Henry Elliot, the Elliot Pecan&#39;s namesake, was raised at Ellerslie. He was the son of Col. Alexander Elliot and Jane Evans Elliot.</p><br>
<p>The Averitt House is a historic house in the rural central part of Miller County, Arkansas. It is a single-story log structure, located about 7 mi south of Texarkana on the west side of United States Route 71. It was built in 1931-33 by Tom Averitt, the local health inspector at the time, and is a locally unique example of rustic log architecture. It is roughly L-shaped, with a shed-roof porch on its northeastern facade. A single fieldstone chimney rises through the roof near the junction of the L. The walls are made of unfinished logs joined by saddle notches. The logs for its construction were supposedly taken by clearing the site on which it stands. Not far from the house stands a garage, also built by Averitt from logs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Citizens Bank is one of the original buildings in the downtown area  of Stillwater and only one of two buildings in the town with this early architectural style of the Nineteenth Century.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1894. Citizens Bank moved out in 1900, and a series of businesses have occupied the space to the present. These have included a harness and bridle shop (which later sold automobile tops), a barber shop with Stillwater&#39;s first beauty shop, a cafe, a justice of the peace who at various times ran a pawn shop, real estate office, insurance business, a feed store, bakery, clothing store and saloon. From 1936 to 1978 the building served as a shoe repair shop.</p><br>
<p>The Beech Street Brick Street is an historic section of the Beech Street roadway in Texarkana, Arkansas. It consists of a section of road, between 14th and 24th Streets, which was paved in brick c. 1904. It is a residential road located northeast of Texarkana&#39;s downtown, and is about 3,425 ft long and 23 ft wide. The bricks, which measure 4 by, are laid in a running bond pattern. The road section is a rare surviving example of the use of brick as a paving material, as most such roads have since been paved over with asphalt.</p><br>
<p>The road section was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It contributes to the historic significance of the Beech Street Historic District, which includes the residential properties on Beech Street and some adjacent roads.</p><br>
<p>The C.F. Haynsworth Federal Building and United States Courthouse, formerly known as the USA Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic civic building at 300 East Washington Street in Greenville, South Carolina. It is named for jurist Clement Haynsworth. It is a three-story building, clad in limestone with granite trim, resting on a brick foundation. It was designed by Eric Kebbon and built in 1937 with funding from the federal Public Works Administration, and was designed to house the local post office and federal court facilities. It continues to perform these functions, also housing other federal offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Monticello Courthouse Square Historic District is a historic district in downtown Monticello, Illinois. The district includes the historic commercial center of the city, the county seat of Piatt County, and is centered on the Piatt County Courthouse. 80 buildings are included in the district, 73 of which are considered contributing to its historic character. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Monticello was founded in 1837 as a commercial center for the future Piatt County, which was considered too far from Decatur to reasonably conduct trade there. The original town plat covers all but four blocks of the historic district, with the remainder coming from one of the citys first additions. When Piatt County was formed in 1841, Monticello was named the county seat, and its population and development both increased in the ensuing years. Merchant J.C. Johnson built the citys first brick building at 204-206 West Washington Street in 1856; the building is the oldest surviving structure in the district. In the same year, Monticello gained its own newspaper, the Monticello Times, and the county built a new courthouse. Development accelerated further after the Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago and Paducah Railroad began service to Monticello in the 1870s. The city received a major civic development in 1897, when the Town Hall and Opera House and the Allerton Library both opened in a new building. The third county courthouse, which still serves as the seat of county government, was built in 1903-04; by this point, the courthouse square had become the established center of local commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Piatt County Courthouse, the focal point of the district, is a Classical Revival building designed by Urbana architect Joseph W. Royer. The three-story building is built with red brick and features limestone decorations. Each side of the building features an entrance pavilion. On the north and south sides, the pavilions are divided by Ionic pilasters topped by a belt course; the east and west pavilions are projecting and have two pilasters each. Triangular pediments with dentillated cornices top these two facades, and a balustrade encircles the roof of the building. The courthouse&#39;s corners, including those on the projecting pavilions, feature limestone quoins.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate style is most prevalent among the districts commercial buildings, as 25 buildings feature the style. The prevalence of the style is a reflection of the districts growth in the late 19th century, the peak of the style&#39;s popularity in America. Several of the Italianate buildings feature cast iron storefronts, a popular decorative feature for commercial buildings at the time. The district also features eighteen vernacular interpretations of the Commercial Style. The Romanesque Revival style makes a prominent appearance in the town hall and library building, which features a stone arched entrance and contrasting brickwork and stonework. Other styles featured in the district include the Gothic Revival style in the First Presbyterian Church; the Stick Style in the Wabash Depot; the Dutch Colonial Revival style in two houses; and the Streamline Moderne style in the Country Charm Dairy Bar.</p><br>
<p>The James E. Berry Berry House was constructed in 1908. It is significant both because of its association with James E. Berry, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma from 1935 to 1955, but also because of its unique architectural style, described as “vaguely Italianate with a Midwestern feeling.”</p><br>
<p>The Berry House is a two-story rectangular wood frame with lapped wood siding. The front door is flanked by glass sidelights; three Tuscan columns on the front support the upper story. A bay window occurs on each side of the structure. The roof, which is double-hipped, is set off by three low dormers, one on the front and one on each side. The interior has been remodeled only slightly, and includes egg and dart molding, in-laid oak doors, stained glass, and wooden wall paneling.</p><br>
<p>Brandon Mill, now the West Village Lofts, is a historic textile mill complex, situated just west of the city of Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina. The mill was built during the early decades of the 20th century and is one example of the mills in the Greenville "Textile Crescent" that became central to the economic development of the South Carolina upstate during this period. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, and the main mill has been converted into loft apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The original building was planned in 1899 by J. Irving Westervelt (1862-1939), designed by Lockwood, Greene & Company of Providence, Rhode Island, and built by local construction engineer Jacob W. Cagle (1832-1910). Completed in January 1901, the mill was named Brandon, supposedly for a hamlet near Belfast that produced textiles. Employees were largely recruited from Appalachia and other rural areas in the southeastern United States. In five years, the mill expanded from 16,000 to 86,000 spindles, the work force from 150 to 420 employees, and the mill village from 66 to 420 homes. By 1918 the company sponsored a school, church, nursery, and community house with a dining room, library, showers, and nurse&#39;s station.</p><br>
<p>Baseball played by teams of mill employees became a popular sport during the first two decades of the century; and mill owners competed for the best players, hoping thereby to encourage employee pride and to control the leisure time of their "operatives" with a disciplined pastime. The most famous of the mill team players was Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888-1951), who began his career at Brandon Mill before eventually becoming one of professional baseball&#39;s greatest hitters.</p><br>
<p>Meeting with financial reverses, Brandon Mill went into receivership by 1913; and August W. Smith of Spartanburg became its second president. In 1919, the New York firm of Woodward, Baldwin & Co. gained a controlling interest, though local management remained unchanged. In the 1920s, the mill was substantially expanded under the direction of Joseph E. Sirrine (1872-1947), arguably the most prominent engineer in the region.</p><br>
<p>Even before the onset of the Great Depression, the textile industry had declined; and in an attempt to increase productivity, mill operators instituted the "stretch-out," a requirement that workers manage more machines. In March 1929, 1,200 workers struck Brandon Mill. Though owners and workers reached a compromise in May, the textile economy continued to deteriorate. In order to keep the mill open through the 1930s, August Smith cut hours and pay rather than eliminate jobs—a strategy that produced substantial loyalty to the mill during the general textile strike of 1934 when workers reportedly met organizers for the United Textile Workers of America with "picker sticks" and rifles and ordered them to keep going.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, Brandon Mill prospered with government orders for duck cloth, medical gauze, and uniform twill fabric. In December 1946, Abney Mills bought the assets of Brandon Corporation and began selling the mill village houses. Although textile mills remained reasonably prosperous during the 1950s and &#39;60s, textile manufacturers began offshoring—moving operations outside the United States to countries where labor costs were cheaper. Brandon Mill reduced its workforce in 1969, and the mill closed in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The main building was first sold for use as a warehouse, then in 2001 to Focus Golf to serve as a distribution center for Dunlop Sport. In 2014 real estate developer Pace Burt purchased the property and converted the main building into loft apartments. For tax purposes, Burt applied for National Register status, which was granted in September. In 2015 Burt donated one building in the complex to the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. The loft apartments opened for occupancy in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Overholser Mansion is a historic house museum in Oklahoma City&#39;s Heritage Hills neighborhood, built in 1903.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built by Henry Overholser, considered to be the "father of Oklahoma City" by many, and his socialite wife Anna Ione Murphy Overholser, and is considered to be Oklahoma Citys first mansion. Overholser bought the land for the purpose of building a residence in 1901 and, when built, the mansion was located away from the city center and surrounded by farmland. Mr. Overholser died in 1915. The couples daughter, Henry Ione Overholser (born in 1905), married David Perry in 1926 and lived in the mansion with Mrs. Overholser until her death in 1940. Mrs. Overholser transferred ownership to Henry lone in 1937. After Henry Ione&#39;s death in 1959, the property was transferred to her husband David Perry, who then sold the mansion and its furnishings to the Oklahoma Chapter of American Institute of Architects and Historical Preservation Inc. The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The mansion was later donated to the State of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Historical Society managed the property from 1982 to 2003, and from 2003 to the present the site has been managed by Preservation Oklahoma. The Overholser Mansion was restored in 2015 and is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>According to The Oklahoman local ghost stories in Oklahoma City claim Anna Ione Murphy Overholser&#39;s ghost haunts the mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 11,700 square-foot Châteauesque-styled mansion was designed by London-trained architect W. S. Matthews and built at a cost of $38,000. On the south facade, facing the Hales Mansion, is a porte-cochère. At the southeast corner is a three-story octagonal tower capped with an 8-sided pyramidal roof with a finial. The mansion is clad in buff-colored brick and red sandstone. Interior walls and ceilings were hand-painted and are illuminated by light fixtures imported from Italy. Original French stained-glass windows remain, and the floors are original English carpets and are accented by Belgian woodwork.</p><br>
<p>A carriage house accompanies the mansion to the west and measures an additional 4,000 ft&sup2;. Built at the same time as the mansion, the carriage house is also clad in the same buff-colored brick. It has a square footprint and a pyramid roof with prominent wall dormers on all four sides. A cupola with a bell roof caps the apex of the pyramid roof.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<h3>Mansion</h3><br>
<h4>Basement</h4><br>
<p>Access to the basement is located under the back staircase, near the kitchen.</p><br>
<h4>First floor</h4><br>
<p>Two prominent entrances that face and N Hudson Avenue (east entrance) and NW 15th Street (south entrance) are located on the first floor. Connecting these two entrances is an L-shaped hallway. The main staircase is located at the east entrance, leading up to the second floor. Across the hall to the north is the drawing room. Connected to the west through a colonnade is the music room. Across the hall to the south of the music room is the library. At the confluence of the L-shaped hallway is the back staircase, leading up to the second and third floors. To the east of the library, across the hallway, is the dining room. Located to the north of the dining room is the butler&#39;s pantry, leading into the kitchen. The rear entrance leads out to the north from the kitchen. The kitchen connects to the main halls through another doorway to the east, leading to the underside of the back stairs, where the entrance to the basement is located.</p><br>
<h4>Second floor</h4><br>
<p>The second floor is accessible from two staircases. The main staircase leads up to two landings and a large hall. The second and larger stair landing has a small sitting area that occupies part of the tower. Also at the top of the staircase are two large stained-glass windows, each depicting Greek women playing an instrument, one a violin and the other a tambourine. To the north is the Monroney Bedroom. Connected to the Monroney Bedroom to the west is a bathroom, which then leads into the Overholser Bedroom. Across the hall from the main bedroom is the Perry Bedroom. This bedroom was updated and redecorated in the 1950s. Connected to the Perry Bedroom is another bathroom to the west, which then leads into the second floor sitting room. The sitting room is also accessible from a small hallway where the back stairs are located. To the north of the sitting room is a small sewing room that leads into the nursery. The nursery also connects to the small back hallway.</p><br>
<h4>Third floor</h4><br>
<p>The third floor is only accessible from the back staircase. The stairs lead into a ballroom and nooks under three dormers. To the east is another room with access to another dormer nook and a hallway to a room in the tower. This room contains display cases containing antique furniture and items. To the northeast of the ballroom is a spacious maid&#39;s room with a bathroom and three more dormer nooks. Located throughout the third floor along the exterior walls are numerous closets and storage rooms.</p><br>
<h3>Carriage house</h3><br>
<p>Located to the west of the mansion and constructed at the same time is a two-story carriage house. The first floor originally housed stables, while the second floor was the hayloft. The first floor later became a garage and the second floor became servants&#39; quarters. The carriage house now houses offices and event space.</p><br>
<p>USA Post Office is a historic post office building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built between 1909 and 1911, and is a one-story, five-bay, Classical Revival-style brick building. A wing was added in 1935. It housed a post office into the 1960s, after which it was used as a branch library.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
