<p>The Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot-Leachville is a historic railroad station at the junction of 2nd and McNamee Streets in Leachville, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with an asphalt roof and wide overhanging eaves. The telegrapher&#39;s station is in a small projection on the track side of the building. The station, which provided both passenger and freight service, was built in 1910 by the Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad, a small regional railroad seeking to provide additional means for area farmers to bring their products to a wider market.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Old Anchorage City Hall, also known as Historic City Hall, is located at 524 West Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. It is a two-story cast concrete building, designed by E. Ellsworth Sedille and built in 1936 with funding from the Public Works Administration. It housed the city administration of the city until 1979, when most of the integrated city-borough administration was moved to the Hill Building at 632 West 6th Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The old city hall started the second generation of municipal architecture in the city, moving from frame construction to reinforced concrete. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the sales staff for Visit Anchorage, formerly the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau.</p><br>
<p>Eli Hoyle House is a historic plantation house located near Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1830–1833, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal-style frame dwelling. It has a side-gable roof, exterior brick end chimneys, and sits on a stone foundation. It was built by Eli Hoyle , great-grandson of Pieter Hieyl who built the nearby Hoyle Historic Homestead.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>William J. Wilson House is a historic home located near Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1824, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal-style brick dwelling. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. It has a side-gable roof and exterior brick end chimneys. It features a one-story, Late Victorian porch with porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Selma Schricker House is a historic building located in a residential neighborhood in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. At one time the house served as the official residence of Davenport&#39;s Catholic bishop. It is a contributing property in the Riverview Terrace Historic District. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was built for Selma Schricker in 1902. She was the daughter of Lorenzo Schricker, a lumber baron, and his third wife Johanna. The Schrickers had lived nearby in the Marquette Heights neighborhood. Selma had been educated in the local public schools and graduated from St. Katherines, a private preparatory school for girls in Davenport. She had this house built after her mother&#39;s death in 1898. Selma never married and died in the house in September 1931 at the age of 50. She is buried with her mother, sister and half-brother in a mausoleum in Oakdale Memorial Gardens.</p><br>
<p>The Diocese of Davenport purchased the house as the official residence of its bishop in 1933. It was the home of Bishops Henry Rohlman, Ralph Hayes, Gerald O&#39;Keefe and William Franklin. The diocese sold the house in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Mark and Judy Westrom bought the house in November 2000 and did extensive restoration work for which they received recognition from local preservationists.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Selma Schricker House was designed by the prominent Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Burrows. The two-story house is one of the finest examples of the Georgian Revival style in the city. The rectangular main block is capped with a bracketed cornice and a hipped roof. It features a symmetrical three-bay front, a large portico on the main façade, a sun porch on the east side, a porte-cochère on the west side, and a gabled wing off the back of the house. The exterior is composed of yellow-tan Roman brick with quoining on the corners of the main block, also in brick. It is built on a stone foundation. The house is situated on a slightly raised terrace, across the street from Riverview Terrace Park.</p><br>
<p>The front of the house is dominated by a large semi-circular, Federal inspired, portico. It features fluted columns following the Ionic order. The main entrance into the house is framed with sidelights and a transom with Adamesque tracery. There is art glass on the double-door entrance onto the upper level of the portico. Above the portico is a large central dormer with a Palladian window. It is flanked by two smaller dormers with round-arch windows. The other dormers on the house have similar windows. The porte-cochere features columns that follow the Doric order and a denticular cornice. There are also two tall, symmetrically placed, interior chimneys with corbelled caps.</p><br>
<p>The J. & O. Irish Store is a historic retail building, now used as a museum, on Maine State Route 140 in Hartford, Maine. Built in 1888 by Orlando Irish, it is virtually unaltered since that time, representing a time capsule of the period in rural Maine. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Irish Store is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with a gable roof, which is attached to a similar barn. The main facade of the store has its entrance centered on the main facade, flanked on each side by a single sash window. The second level also has two windows, stepped in from those on the first level, with a sign reading "J&O Store" in between. There are also two windows in the gable. The windows and door all have simple molded surrounds. The barn features a similar array of fenestration, with a wide two-leaf barn door that has an opening for a hay loft above.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the store building has the retail space on the first floor and a residential space above. Both spaces feature original wood flooring and simple trim lacking ornamentation. The store fixtures include wooden counters and shelves, a desk for sorting mail, and a wooden ice box.</p><br>
<p>The store was built by Orlando Irish, a prosperous local farmer, in 1887–88. The store was operated by members of the Irish family, and was given to the Hartford Historical Society by James Irish in 1976. The Society operates the property as a museum and storage facility for its collections.</p><br>
<p>The Bell House is a historic house at 303 West Cherry Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1895 by J. V. Bell, owner of one of Jonesboro&#39;s first bookstores. The house is an elaborately-decorated Queen Anne Victorian, with an asymmetrical arrangement of projecting bays, gables, and porches. The front porch has a delicate spindle-work frieze, and is supported by turned columns. Different types of cut shingles give variety to the wall surfaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Berger House is a historic house at 1120 South Main Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1896 by Morris Berger, one of Jonesboro&#39;s first Jewish businessmen. The house was home to the Jonesboro public library between 1950 and 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick structure with a cross gable roof. The house is an example of the Queen Anne style in brick, although it has lost some details (notably its porch and decorative elements on its chimneys). A two-story turret is capped by a roof with polychrome and varied-shape slate, with a textured frieze board just below its roof line.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Gaston County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was designed by Milburn, Heister & Company in 1909 and built in 1910. It is a three-story, rectangular, Classical Revival-style tan brick building with a rear addition. It features pedimented porticoes supported by Ionic order columns, a heavy modillion and dentil cornice, and three-sided pavilions on the side elevations. The building was renovated in 1954.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Downtown Gastonia Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Third National Bank Building is a historic office building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA. It was designed by Milburn, Heister & Company and built in 1923. It is an eight-story, four bay wide, English Tudor Revival-style steel frame building. It is sheathed in dark red brick and stone with a molded terra cotta covered top story. It features a projecting main entrance with a two-story segmental arched opening.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is located in the Downtown Gastonia Historic District.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank Building, also known as the Lawyers Building, is a historic office building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was designed by Wilson & Sompayrac and built in 1916–1917. It is a seven-story, rectangular, Classical Revival-style steel frame building. It is sheathed in cream-colored brick with limestone and terra cotta trim.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is located in the Downtown Gastonia Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Robinson–Gardner Building, also known as the Robinson Brothers Building, is a historic commercial building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was built in 1899, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with Renaissance Revival-style design elements. The second story of the front facade features a round arch with a decorative cartouche at the keystone position and terra cotta swirls at the bases. Within the arch is a pressed metal swag between a pair of ribboned wreaths pierced by vertical torches. Above the arch, pressed metal wreaths hold another, larger, metal swag.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is located in the Downtown Gastonia Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Craig Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. The William Moore Craig House was built about 1852, and is a one-story, single pile, two-room hewn- and sawn-frame house. The William Newton Craig House was built in 1886, and is a two-story, single pile Italianate style frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing privy , meat / well house , frame barn , rectangular log pen barn , and corn crib .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Valdez-Trail  is an historic early trail in southern Alaska. It is a section of unpaved roadway, eight to ten feet in width, that extends roughly northward from milepost 106.5 of the Richardson Highway, between Copper Center and Glennallen. It is a rare surviving segment of the original Valdez Trail, the first major road built in Alaska, which extends 700 mi from Valdez into the Alaskan interior. This segment was constructed in 1900 by the Alaska Road Commission, and is now within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Zadoc Long Free Library is the public library of Buckfield, Maine, United States. It is located at 5 Turner Street in a small wood-frame building designed by John Calvin Stevens and built in 1901. It was a gift to the town from Buckfield native John Davis Long in honor of his father Zadoc, and was the town&#39;s first library. The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The library is a single-storey wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, walls sheathed in wood shingles, and a granite foundation. A slightly projecting gable hangs over the entrance, which is centered on the three-bay main facade. The doorway is flanked by sidelight windows with diamond panes, echoing a feature in the elliptical hood, which surmounts the door. The gable is supported by a pair of console brackets. To the left of the entry are paired sash windows with multi-pane upper and two-pane lower; to the right there are three such windows. The interior of the library is divided into three spaces: the center has the circulation desk, the right side has a reading area, and the left side has the stacks. The stacks consist of original wooden shelving with Craftsman style pedestals at the ends. The reading room has a large brick fireplace.</p><br>
<p>John Davis Long (1838–1915), a Buckfield native, served as Governor of Massachusetts in the 1880s and as United States Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley. In 1900, he acted on an idea he had harbored for some time to provide his place of birth with a library, hiring the noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens to design the building. The property on which it stands was donated to the town, and the building was completed in 1901. Long and his relatives provided an initial collection of books. The library is one of a series designed by Stevens for a number of small Maine communities around the turn of the 20th century; the design of the Long library was influential in his work on the Rumford Public Library, and the Cary Library in Houlton, both designed in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The former Delmont State Bank is a historic bank building at 104 West Main Street in Delmont, South Dakota. It is a single-story brick structure, with a flat roof. Its main facade has three bays, two with plate glass windows of differing size on the left, and the main entry  on the right. The facade is topped by a corbelled brick parapet, whose central section is topped by a concrete cap in which the year of construction, 1903, is incised. The Delmont State Bank was one of two banks established in Delmont in the early 1900s. The other folded in 1933, while the Delmont State Bank was merged into the First State Bank of Armour in 1966. After moving to larger facilities in 1976, the bank building was sold to the city for $1, and now houses city offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Burdette School Complex is a collection of historic school buildings at 153 East Park Lane in Burdette, Arkansas. It consists of six buildings, five of which were built between 1922 and 1948. The oldest is a stuccoed Prairie Style structure with a hip roof. Also of note is a red brick building built in 1939 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and the gymnasium, which consists of three Quonset huts with a false front. The complex is regionally distinctive in that none of its buildings have been significantly altered or removed.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The City Hall of Osceola, Arkansas, is located at 316 West Hale Street, in the citys central business district. It is a single-story red brick building with flat roof, built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration to house the local post office. The interior lobby space is decorated by a mural entitled "Early Settlers of Osceola", painted in 1939 by Orville Carroll with funding from the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Copper River and Northwestern Railway Bunkhouse and Messhouse are historic railroad worker facilities on Third Street in Chitina, Alaska. The messhouse is a single-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, measuring 26 x. It has a porch on the east side, and a timber-braced entrance on the west side leading to a root cellar under the building. The bunkhouse is also a single-story structure, measuring 43 x. It has an enclosed porch on its southern facade, and is divide internally into two large chambers. These facilities were built in 1910 by the Copper River and Northwestern Railway to house its work crews, a service they performed until the railroad shut down in 1938. They are the only surviving elements of what was once a larger CR&NW presence in the community. The buildings are now hosting the Chitina House bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Lovejoy Bridge is a historic covered bridge in South Andover, Maine. It is a Paddleford truss bridge, which carries Covered Bridge Road over the Ellis River, about 9 mi north of US Route 2. Built in 1868, it is one of a small number of 19th-century covered bridges remaining in the state, and it is the state&#39;s shortest covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ellis River cuts a meandering course through the town of Andover, joining the Androscoggin River at Rumford Point. There has probably been a bridge at this site in southern Andover since the early 19th century, as the river course narrows sufficiently, and provides a crossing point for people traveling between Rumford Point and the main village of Andover, which is located further north. This bridge was built in 1868, but it is known that a small village already existed nearby, suggesting the existence of a previous bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 70 ft long and 20 ft wide, with a roadway width of 17 ft and an internal clearance of 14 ft. It rests on abutments built out of large granite blocks. The bridge has a gabled roof, giving it a total height of 22 ft. Its sides are sheathed in vertical boards, and the gable ends have been trimmed.</p><br>
<p>The Berger-Graham House is a historic house at 1327 South Main Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Situated on one of the highest points in the city, this is an imposing brick structure with Classical Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque characteristics. Its brick walls are eighteen inches think, supporting a hip roof with cross gables and dormers. The main entrance is recessed under a large round arch that is the focal point of the front elevation. The house was built in 1904 by Marcus Berger, a wealthy businessman, as a wedding present for his son Joseph. In 1909 it was purchased by W. H. Graham, a wholesale cotton broker. After financial reverses in the Great Depression, Graham converted the property into a boarding house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The US Sen. Hattie Caraway Gravesite is located in Oaklawn Cemetery on the west side of Jonesboro, Arkansas. It is the only surviving site in Arkansas associated with the life of Hattie Caraway , the first woman to be elected to a full term in the United States Senate. The gravesite consists of a family headstone, simply engraved "Caraway", and three footstones: one for the senator, one for her husband Thaddeus, whom she succeeded in the Senate, and their son Robert. The site is located on the western central edge of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The gravesite was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Community Center No. 1 is a historic government building at 1212 South Church Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA. It is a single-story building, faced in buff brick, with a stylish Art Deco entrance area consisting of towers and projections made of smooth white concrete. The entrance is flanked by large flat-roof sections which house recreational facilities, while the center section has a low-pitch gable roof. The community center was designed by Elmer A. Stuck, and built in 1936 with funding from the Public Works Administration. The center has undergone several name changes, and is now known as the Earl Bell Community Center, after the Olympic pole vaulter and Jonesboro native.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Curry Lookout, also known as Camp Regalvista, is an historic backcountry shelter in Denali State Park, Alaska. It is located on top of Curry Ridge, overlooking the Susitna River and the hamlet of Curry, a former depot on the Alaska Railroad. The only access to the shelter is via a 3 mi hiking trail beginning at mile 137.2 of the Parks Highway. The shelter is a hexagonal wood-frame structure with a tent-shaped roof, and no foundation. Each side is about 6.5 ft wide and 8 ft high. A flagpole rises from the center of the shelter, and is secured to the structure via steel cables. The shelter was built by the railroad in 1923, the same year the Curry Hotel  was built. It was intended as an excursion point for visitors, providing views of the surrounding area, including Denali.</p><br>
<p>The shelter was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Menard House, also known as The Oaks, is a historic detached-home located at 1605 Thirty-Third Street in Galveston, Texas. Built in 1838, it is the oldest surviving structure in Galveston as recently as 2014 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.The address for the home is 1604 33rd St, Galveston TX.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Menard House is named for its first owner, Michel B. Menard, a Canadian-born trader, real estate investor, and a founder of Galveston. Menard built on outlot block 37, indicating a location outside of Galveston city limits. The Menard House was fabricated, then shipped from Maine in parts. The combination of a dearth of carpenters in 1830s Texas and excess cargo space in Texas-bound ships made prefabricated buildings economically viable. Menard probably started building the house in 1837 for his second wife, Catherine Maxwell. She died in the summer of 1838, the same year construction was completed. Houston co-founder and Galveston City Company investor John Kirby Allen purchased the property in 1838, but died that July.</p><br>
<p>By 1843, a cousin had deeded the property to Menards third wife, Mary Jane (Clemens) Riddle Menard. She lived in the house until her death in December 1843. Michel Menard married Rebecca Mary Bass and adopted her two children. In 1850, they had a child, Doswell Menard. Around this time, Menard added two wings to the house, which later became the venue for Galvestons first Mardi Gras ball in 1853.</p><br>
<p>Four years after Michel Menard died in 1856, Rebecca Menard married Colonel J.S. Thrasher, former United States Consul at Havana, Cuba.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Galveston Historical Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation bought the Menard House in June 1992. In 1994, Pat and Fred Burns of Houston acquired the deteriorating building, then completed its restoration in 1995. The Menard House opened for the 1995 Historic Homes Tour, hosting 6,500 visitors for the event.</p><br>
<p>The Menard House suffered no serious damage during Hurricane Ike.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic church located near Mount Holly, North Carolina, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was the fourth Catholic church built in North Carolina, the first west of Raleigh, and the first in what is today the Diocese of Charlotte. Built to serve the Irish miners in the area, it underwent a long period of neglect until restoration efforts began in the mid-20th century. Today it is operated as a mission church of Queen of the Apostles Church in Belmont.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chevalier Riva de Finola established gold mines in the region starting in the 1830s, and many Irish immigrants came to the area to work in the mines. At first, they worshipped at de Finolas home, but he left in 1835 after a court ordered his mines closed. John England, Bishop of Charleston, assigned missionary Fr. T.J. Cronin to serve the miners in 1838, and he quickly began fundraising to build a church near what would become Mount Holly. Lonergan did not live to see the church completed, and was buried in 1842 on the site, the first burial in what would become St. Josephs Cemetery; Cronin died of yellow fever the same year, and his body was moved to St. Joseph&#39;s in 1843.</p><br>
<p>The simple wooden church, dedicated to Saints Mary and Joseph, was completed in 1843 and dedicated by a Fr. J.J. OConnell, another missionary. Early records of church activities were lost in 1861 when the archives of the Diocese of Charleston were lost in the Great Fire of Charleston. OConnell returned to serve as parish priest 1870–77, and in 1871, he purchased 500 acres of land from the Caldwell family. This land was eventually accepted by the Benedictines at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Pennsylvania, who arrived in 1876 and established what is today Belmont Abbey.</p><br>
<p>After OConnells departure, however, regular services ceased. The construction of St. Peter&#39;s in Charlotte and losses and disruption from the American Civil War contributed to declining parish rolls. Eventually, the entire congregation shifted to the Abbey, and the church underwent a long period of neglect.</p><br>
<p>The church underwent a long period of neglect. It was restored in 1974 thanks to a fundraising effort led by Francis Galligan of Gastonia. It was rededicated the following year by Bishop Michael Joseph Begley, and in 1979 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A small group of volunteers led by Carl Heil has looked after the property since 1993.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, a statue of Saint Joseph that had stood outside St. Joseph&#39;s Hospital in Asheville was moved to the site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1844, the structure a vernacular temple-form, Greek Revival style frame church clad in white clapboard. It has a gable roof and its front facade features a tetrastyle portico.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church has a simple center aisle plan, finished with wood molding. As of 2005, about 70 percent of the window glass was original, and the flooring of the church is original planking as well.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Belmont Historic District is a national historic district located at Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 264 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and adjacent residential areas of Belmont. The district was developed after 1873, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed USA Post Office, Former. Other notable buildings include the R.L. Stowe Mills Office Building, Bank of Belmont , Piedmont and Northern Railroad Depot , Belmont Hotel , Abel C. Lineberger House No. 2  designed by Charles Christian Hook , Samuel Pinckney Stowe House , James W. Stowe House , Sacred Heart College, and Belmont High School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Dallas Historic District is a national historic district located at Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses eight contributing buildings surrounding the courthouse square and dated between about 1840 and 1900. Dallas served as the county seat of Gaston County from 1847 to 1911. They are the Greek Revival style old Gaston County Courthouse, which now functions as the Dallas Town Hall; the county jail; the Hoffman Hotel; the Rhyne Store; the Smyre-Pasour House; the Matthews Hotel; the Late Victorian style Wilson-Spargo House; and the Setzer General Store.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Gastonia Historic District is a national historic district located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Gastonia. The commercial, civic, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings were built between the 1890s and 1954, and include notable examples of Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed former Gaston County Courthouse, First National Bank Building, Third National Bank Building, and Robinson-Gardner Building. Other notable buildings include the USA Post Office , York Medical Building , Kress Department Store, Leibowitz Department Store , Ideal Moving Picture Theater , City Hall, Kirby Building , First Baptist Church , Gaston County War Memorial Hall , and the  Gaston County Public Library .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Porter-Parsonsfield Bridge is a covered bridge in western Maine, and one of the few 19th-century covered bridges left in the state. The bridge spans the Ossipee River just east of the modern alignment of North Road , which it formerly carried, between the towns of Porter and Parsonsfield. Built in 1876 by the towns, it is a Paddleford truss bridge which has been strengthened with laminated arches. The bridge was closed to traffic in 1960, and is now maintained by the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The bridge has two spans, resting on granite block abutments and a central pier. The total length of the bridge is 152 ft, and it is 26 ft from the flooring to the peak of the gable roof. The total width is 22 ft; the portals have an internal width of 18 ft and height of 15 ft. The bridge trusses are from a design by Peter Paddleford, a modification of the more common Long truss. The laminated arches, a 20th-century addition, consist of 21 layers of planking bolted together, to which the King posts of the truss have also been fastened. The sides of the bridge are sheathed in vertical boarding to two-thirds of the height. The roof is made of cedar shingles.</p><br>
<p>The first bridge to join the small towns of Porter and Parsonsfield at this site was completed in 1800. The site is one where the Ossipee River flows slowly, but accelerates just downstream, as it heads toward Kezar Falls. A second bridge was built in 1808, and a third in 1858. Construction of the third bridge inaugurated a dispute between the towns over how much of the bridge each town should pay for. Eventually an agreement was reached, but the bad blood between the towns meant that, when this bridge was built in 1876, they could not agree on roofing materials, and the two portions of the bridge were differently shingled. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic in 1960, when the present alignment of North Road was built, and the state took over the bridge&#39;s maintenance in 1967. Around that time, the present roof was built, and the bridge underwent a major restoration.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Library at Livermore, California, opened in 1911 and continued in use as a library until 1966. It now hosts a historical museum and art gallery. The building was designed by William H. Weeks in the Greek Revival style and is included on the National Register of Historic Places. A weekly farmers&#39; market takes place in the surrounding park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Livermore Library was organized in 1875 by the Livermore Library and Dramatic Association. It initially had a collection of 250 books. Members of the public were asked to pay three dollars a year for a family membership (or twenty dollars for a lifetime membership) for the privilege of borrowing books. In 1878, the Livermore Public Library Association was organized to manage the operation. This association raised funds to build a library building, but closed in 1887, after public interest waned. The books were stored in the local newspaper office.</p><br>
<p>The Livermore Ladies League of Progress reopened the library in 1896, naming it the Livermore Free Library. They created a new "corporation of public benefit" and sold shares to purchase the former library building. In 1901, the city took over the free library and put it under municipal control and financial support. By then, the library&#39;s inventory had grown to 3,500 books.</p><br>
<p>Led by Mrs. Dell C. Savage, president of the library board, Livermore began its campaign to obtain a library grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1908. A formal application was made and a grant of $10,000 was approved that year. The city agreed to match the grant by providing $1,000 per year for ten years, provide land for the building, and support the operation with tax money. A bond election was scheduled for December 17, 1909. The election passed easily, supported by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Livermore Valley Improvement Association. The city purchased a 1.83 acre site at Third Street and L street for $9,000. The plot was formerly the site of the Peter McKeany corral and slaughterhouse.</p><br>
<p>The new building opened in 1911 and continued to serve as the main public library until 1966, when the city built a new central library in the Civic Center on South Livermore Street. The original structure, which was built in the Classical Revival architectural style, still stands and now houses the Livermore Heritage Guilds History Center and Museum. The building sits in the middle of a square block of parkland bounded by 3rd Street on the north, J street on the east, 4th Street on the south, and K street on the west. The park is the site of a weekly farmers market that draws many visitors who buy locally grown produce and listen to music performed by local artists. The building and park are managed by the Livermore Area Parks and Recreation District (LARPD).</p><br>
<h2>Building description</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by William H. Weeks and approved by Carnegie prior to the award of the grant. Weeks designed more than 20 Carnegie Libraries in California. He also designed the decorative fountain at the foot of the library entrance steps. Hoyt Brothers were paid $10,640 to construct the building. Several Livermore residents and local farmers furnished volunteer labor to assist the construction effort.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The architectural style is Greek Revival, Temple style. It is one story high with a full basement, and almost square, with dimensions of 45 by. The walls were built of locally-made buff brick, sheathed with terra cotta and plaster. There are light colored quoins at the corners, projections and foundation that provide contrast with the yellow walls. A low parapet around the roof line is decorated with large dentils. The center of the roof is raised and shows ornamental lions on one side of the building.</p><br>
<p>A central portico, decorated with a pediment that is supported by two pairs of Greek Ionic columns, frames the main entrance (on the Third Street side). The entrance is wooden double doors with glass panels. A rounded clear glass arch sits above the doors.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main floor was divided into four areas. The largest was called the Reference Room, which contained shelves of books, chairs and tables, and covered the east side of the building. The west side had two corner rooms used as offices and a large foyer. The library desk was directly across the foyer from the entrance. The basement had a large 26 by area designated as the Children&#39;s Reading Room, plus two small offices and a service area.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building has been maintained as it was built, except for modernization of plumbing, addition of emergency exit doors, installation of an exterior elevator and a concrete ramp.</p><br>
<h3>Park</h3><br>
<p>The Livermore Herald donated a sundial and several street lamps for installation in the park. Architect Weeks designed the decorative fountain that stands in front of the entrance. It is made of Colusa sandstone with a carved bowl 5.1667 feet in diameter, over which water flows into an octagonal basin that is 14 feet in diameter. It has remained in operation since it was installed in May 1911.</p><br>
<p>Park landscaping has undergone a number of changes since its creation. Two tiers of concrete steps connect the park elevation with the main building entrance. A World War II memorial plaque was installed at the southeast corner of the park in 1946. The 60 ft tall flagpole that was formerly at the intersection of Livermore Avenue and First Street was relocated to Carnegie Park and erected beside the plaque. The east and west ends of the park contain picnic tables that were installed late in the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Current status of Carnegie building</h2><br>
<p>The Livermore Historical Guild and the Livermore Arts Association have shared use of the former library building since 1974. The building and its surrounding park were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, with reference number 11000876.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Brothers Building is a historic commercial building at 319 West Hale Street in Osceola, Arkansas. It is a single-story structure, built of cut stone, with a flat roof. Built in 1936 by Thomas P. Florida to house a real estate business, it is a good example of restrained Art Deco styling. Its main facade has a center entry flanked by plate glass windows, which are topped by stone lintels cut to give the appearance of dentil molding. The entry has a projecting stone outline with reeding, and is topped by a decorative carving.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Garden Point Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Arkansas Highway 140 in southern Etowah, Arkansas. It is the citys oldest cemetery, and where many of its earliest citizens are buried. The cemetery occupies a ridge of land south of the city center, which is one of the highest areas overlooking the Mississippi River plains. Although the oldest known graves date to 1890, the oldest marked grave is dated 1903, and is for Reddrick Henry Jackson, one of Etowahs founders. The cemetery, now owned by the city, has more than 2000 burials.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Fairview Inn is a historic hotel building on Main Street in the center of Talkeetna, Alaska, United States. It is a two-story frame structure, with a hip roof. The main block, 36 ft square, was built between 1920 and 1923, following the arrival in the area of the Alaska Railroad. The building exterior is little-altered since then; its major modification has been the addition in the 1970s of an addition for owner living quarters. The interior also still follows essentially the same floor plan as when it was built.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982</p><br>
<p>York-Chester Historic District is a national historic district located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It encompasses 649 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Gastonia. The dwellings were built between about 1856 and 1955, and include notable examples of Queen Anne and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed former Gastonia High School. Other notable contributing resources include the Beal-Ragan Garden, Oakwood Cemetery, Caroline Hanna House , Spurrier Apartment building , Edgewood Apartments , the Joseph W. Lineberger House  and Devant J. and June S. Purvis House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>McAdenville Historic District is a national historic district located at McAdenville, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 93 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the mill village associated with McAden Mills, a cotton mill chartered by the state legislature in 1881. The buildings were built between about 1884 and 1959, and include notable examples of Late Victorian and Italianate architecture. Notable buildings include 15 brick mill worker houses, remnants of McAden Mill No. 1  and McAden Mill No. 2 , McAden Mill No. 3 , and Pharr Corporate Offices  redesigned by Earle Sumner Draper.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Mount Holly Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Holly, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Mount Holly. The buildings were built between about 1883 and 1960, and characterized by one- and two-story brick commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the Classical Revival style Mount Holly Bank, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd , First Presbyterian Church , and Charlie&#39;s Drugs and Sundries .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Loray Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 649 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Gastonia. The district includes the five-story brick Loray Mill  and all or parts of some thirty blocks of frame mill houses constructed primarily between the early 1900s and the 1920s. They include notable examples of Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Other notable buildings include the Loray Baptist Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, with a boundary increase in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The district is linked to the Main Avenue section of downtown Gastonia via the FUSE District that includes a new stadium. The stadium has artificial turf and can be configured for baseball, soccer, football, rugby, and concerts to spur economic growth and investment in the area near the Loray Mill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Hubbard Rice Dryer is a historic rice processing facility at 15015 Senteney Road , about 7 mi northeast of Weiner, Arkansas. It consists of ten concrete silos 50 ft in height, arranged in pairs retreating from the roadway, which passes to the south of the facility. In the interior spaces between these concrete silos are five metal silos, 40 ft in height. Large metal pipes protrude from the east and west side of the structure. Each silo is mounted on a concrete ring, most of which have doorways providing access into the facility&#39;s substructure, which facilitates movement between the silos. Built c. 1945, it is a well-preserved example of a period rice dryer. It was last used in 1979, and has stood vacant since then.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Lepanto Commercial Historic District encompasses the traditional commercial heart of the small city of Lepanto, Arkansas. The district includes one block of Greenwood Avenue between Berry and Holmes Streets, and portions of two more blocks at either end, as well as two blocks of Berry Street, with a few buildings on adjacent streets. Lepanto was founded in 1903, but its surviving commercial architecture only dates as far back as, when the Portis Company cotton gin was built at the eastern end of the district. Other early buildings include the triangular Arlington Light and Power building at 320 Greenwood, and the unusual Barton&#39;s of Lepanto building at 111 Berny Street, built as a wood frame lumber yard office; its walls were bricked in 1955 when it was converted to a hardware store.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Atwood Campus Center is the student center of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska. It is a two-story square building 113 ft on each side, elevated on a podium extending ten or more feet to each side. It is flanked by two residence halls, which, although also 25 ft in height, have three stories. This complex was designed by Edward Durell Stone and built in 1966, when the school was known as Alaska Methodist University. This complex has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as the site of a major 1971 conference of more than 600 Alaska Native representatives, at which they formally accepted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, landmark legislation which fundamentally altered the handling of land ownership and use in the state, particularly with respect to native title, which had long clouded many real estate transfers.</p><br>
<p>The center is effectively managed by the student population, providing spaces for meeting and relaxation, as well as a kitchen and dining area, and offices for a variety of student services. The residence halls continue to be used as student housing: the south hall houses incoming freshmen, while the north hall houses upperclass students in suites.</p><br>
<p>The Lovell Meeting House is a historic meeting house at 1133 Main Street  in Lovell, Maine. Built in 1796, it served as Lovells town hall and as a religious meeting place until 1852, when the Lovell Village Church was built. From then it has served strictly civic functions, and is still the location of Lovells town meetings and voting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The meeting house is a single story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, and resting on a modern concrete foundation capped in granite. It occupies part of a larger lot in the village of Center Lovell, which also includes the town&#39;s traditional parade ground. The building is 34 ft wide and 46 ft long. The main facade faces south (not toward the street, and is five bays wide. The center bay houses the entry, which is sheltered by a small gabled hood supported by simple wooden brackets, and is reached by three wooden steps. The entry is flanked by two sash windows on each side. The building has simple wood-block quoining at the corners. The street-facing (western) facade has a centered group of four narrow one-over-one sash windows, above which is a decorated wooden triangular panel. The gable peak is adorned with Stick style wooden truss elements, behind which flushboarding finishes the wall, which is otherwise clapboarded.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building is a single large open space, with a raised platform stage at the eastern end, with seating in the remainder of the space. The stage is accessed by stairs at either end, with railings that have turned balusters. A beam extends across the space aligned with the front of the stage, and the otherwise open attic area is partitioned, creating the effect of a proscenium arch. The town&#39;s voting equipment is normally placed on the stage, and there is a wood stove at the southeast corner, where the door to the town vault is also located. The roof is supported by a series of open modified King post trusses. The walls are finished in pine wainscoting up to the windows, with an early form of gypsum board above.</p><br>
<p>The town of Lovell was settled in 1788. When the town built the meeting house in 1796-98, it had two stories, providing a gallery space on the second level. It is believed that it had, on the eastern wall, a traditional colonial-era pulpit board and elevated pulpit, and the floor was filled with box pews, although much of this work was not completed until c. 1820. Complaints about the draftiness of the building prompted a decision in 1819 to lower the ceiling, and it was apparently lowered again in 1827. The building was used for both civic and religious purposes until 1852, when the church congregation moved to the newly built Lovell Village Church. Some of the religious elements of the interior remained behind, however, and were only removed during alterations in 1890. Around 1920 the town authorized further changes to facilitate the staging of theatrical productions.</p><br>
<p>The town&#39;s offices are located in a modern building elsewhere in Center Lovell. This building continues to be used for town meetings and as a polling place.</p><br>
<p>The James L. Hardaway House is a historic home in Thomson, Georgia. It was built in the Greek Revival style by George Washington Hardaway in 1842. who sold it to his youngest son James Lafayette Hardaway for $10 upon his twenty-first birthday. It was built to face the tracks of the Georgia Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The house is a classic sand hills raised cottage with a four-over-four floor plan. The ground floor is constructed of weathered granite. The second floor is southern modified braced beam construction. The ground floor ceilings are 8 feet tall while the second story is 12 feet tall. All ceilings are wood except the room with faux marble walls which has a plaster ceiling. The second floor has extensive moulding around all windows and doors. All architectural details except the rear addition are original. Of major interest are the pediments over the front façade windows and side lights on the second story.</p><br>
<p>The home has had only four owners since leaving the Hardaway family in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The home is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dowling House is the oldest building in Galena, Illinois, United States, now a historic house museum. As well as the 16th oldest in the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Dowling arrived in Galena with his son Nicholas in 1826. The limestone house was built in 1826–27 in the single-pen style. The first floor was used as a trading post while the Dowlings lived upstairs. Dowling was an important early resident of Galena. He served on the 1834 fire committee and was elected to the 1838 town board of trustees. He also sold the county a plot of land for its first court house. Nicholas was elected alderman in 1841, serving until his election as mayor in 1843. Though he resigned after only a few months, he was again elected to the office in 1851, serving for two years.</p><br>
<p>The building sat abandoned for several decades, It was rehabilitated by William McCauley in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the building was opened to the public. Thirty minute tours of the building, furnished with period supplies and furnishings, are now offered from May to November. It was recognized as a contributing property to the Galena Historic District on October 18, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Paul–Helen Building is a historic building in downtown Iowa City, Iowa. The Chicago school building was the first part of a renewal of downtown Iowa City starting in the 1910s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the Paul–Helen Building coincided with a period of growth for Iowa City. The Paul–Helen was the first new building in the central business district in over 20 years. It is thought that it was designed and built by Frank X. Freyder, the owner of the Iowa City Planing & Molding Mill; Freyder designed several other city buildings of the era. The building was owned by the Schmidt–Kurz Improvement Company. G. W. Schmidt owned the Iowa City Iron Works and was an alderman. William Kurz owned a saloon on College Street. Charles A Schmidt owned a bakery on Clinton Street and a billiards parlor. When the Paul–Helen was completed, Kurz moved his establishment into one of the storefronts. The main tenant was the Iowa City Gas & Electric Company, who remained from its completion until the late 1970s. The building was named after the children of the Schmidt–Kurz Improvement Company partners. Construction began in April 1910 and finished that December. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Chicago school. Typical of the style, the three-story building features steel framing. There are also Prairie School elements in the building with banded windows emphasizing the horizontal aspects. The cornice is likewise banded. It is adjacent to the Englert Theatre, completed three years later. The first floor has three retail spaces and the upper floors have office spaces.</p><br>
<p>The Boyce Building is an historic building in Chicago, Illinois, associated with William D. Boyce and his publishing house, which catered to small towns. The building was also the headquarters of his Lone Scouts of America.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Boyce Building is a twelve-story office building clad in light gray Vermont granite and red brick. The steel-framed structure is on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Illinois Streets on Chicagos Near North Side. It was built in three phases from 1911 to 1923. Boyce commissioned Daniel H. Burnham & Co. to design the building in 1911. Plans were made to expand it to a ten-story structure, but this never happened. A four-story section of the building was built in 1912 north of another building housing Boyces offices. The older building was then demolished, and the second portion of the four-story building was completed in 1914. The basement had a power plant and the first floor housed five printing presses and a mail room. The building could manufacture 180,000 papers per hour at full capacity.</p><br>
<p>Christian A. Eckstrom designed an eight-story expansion in 1921, completed in 1923. Eckstrom adopted some of Burnham&#39;s plan, but eliminated his mansard roof, making a more cohesive though less intricate building. A terra cotta cornice was removed in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William D. Boyce was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in a rural town. He moved to Chicago in 1881, where he gained experience in sales and publishing. He briefly moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he co-founded The Commercial, then found a job as a reporter in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1882, he moved to nearby Lisbon, North Dakota, and founded the Dakota Clipper weekly newspaper. During the 1884 World Cotton Centennial, Boyce worked at the Bureau of Correspondence, which provided news from the fair to 1200 member newspapers across the nation. He sold his interest in the Clipper in 1885 and returned to Chicago with an interest in small-town news.</p><br>
<p>Boyce partnered with R. R. Donnelley to found a print service for small-town newspapers. These "ready print" stories catered to the interest of small-town readers, but were of higher quality than most towns could otherwise afford. He convinced Donnelley and two other partners to found a national weekly newspaper to cater to these audiences, the Saturday Blade. First published in June 1887, Boyce soon purchased the shares of his partners and managed the paper as the W. D. Boyce Publishing Company. Boyce purchased a story paper, the Chicago Ledger, in 1891. He consolidated his publishing interests into one building 1907. Boyce distributed his papers through a network of paperboys. At its peak in the 1910s, his agency was associated with 30,000 boys throughout the United States and Canada.</p><br>
<p>While in London for business, Boyce happened across a Boy Scout. He sought out the leader of the organization, Robert Baden-Powell, and became interested in their practices. When he returned to Chicago, he founded a national chapter, the Boy Scouts of America. He agreed to turn over control of the organization to the Y.M.C.A. soon thereafter. He intended to continue to finance and print Boys Life from his printing house, but the Y.M.C.A. refused. Though Boyces affiliation with the Boy Scouts was brief, he soon founded a companion organization, the Lone Scouts of America. The Lone Scouts focused on Boyce&#39;s target audience—small town residents—which had been largely ignored by the burgeoning Boy Scout chapter. He published its magazine, Lone Scout, at the Boyce Building. By 1919, there were 300,000 Lone Scouts in 4,600 "tribes". However, the diminishing isolation felt in small town America by the 1920s due to improved technology and infrastructure caused a reduction in Lone Scout enrollment.</p><br>
<p>The original Boyce Building was only four stories tall, even though the original plan was to build ten. The extra space was intended for lease, but Boyce did not see the need for additional income at the time. Now more financially strapped, Boyce commissioned the construction of the rest of his namesake building in 1921, completed two years later. The Lone Scouts were merged into the Boy Scouts in 1924. Boyce died in his penthouse on the top floor of the Boyce Building on June 11, 1929. The Boyce Building is the only remaining building associated with his publishing and scouting career. Earlier publishing buildings at 116 and 215 Dearborn, as well as an earlier office building at 32 North Dearborn, have been demolished. Both of Boyces houses have been destroyed; only his hunting lodge at South Dakotas Fort Sisseton Historic State Park, which was not associated with his scouting or publishing interests, remains. The main period of significance for the building is 1912, when the first four-story portion was completed, to 1929, when Boyce died. The building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on February 29, 1996. Current tenants include New Chicago Consulting LLC, Valerio Dewalt Train, and the Chicago Humanities Festival, among others.</p><br>
<p>The Bloomfield-Nulhegan River Route 102 Bridge is a historic bridge in Bloomfield, Vermont. It carries Vermont Route 102 over the Nulhegan River, near its mouth at the Connecticut River just south of Bloomfield Village. Built in 1937, it is a well-preserved example of a Pratt through truss, exhibiting then state-of-the-art engineering. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Vermont Route 102 crosses the Nulhegan River just south of the village center and west of the Connecticut River. The bridge carrying the highway is a six-panel single-span steel Pratt through truss bridge, resting on concrete abutments. Its length is 134 ft and its width is 24 ft, with a portal clearance height of 15 ft. It stands about 10 ft above the river and carries two lanes of traffic. The trusses are formed out of rolled I-beams that were assembled on site using hydraulic riveting, a technology introduced in the 1920s. The decking consists of pavement laid on concrete over I-beams that are mounted on the truss bottom chords and riveted to their vertical elements.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1937, and was built using standards and technologies introduced by the state during a bridge-building program introduced after a major flooding event in the state in 1927. It is a well-preserved example of a Pratt truss of the period, and the riveting technology enabled the bridge to be fabricated on site, rather than shipping the trusses from a factory.</p><br>
<p>The Gordon-Center House is a historic house on West Shore Road  in Grand Isle, Vermont. Probably built in first quarter of the 19th century, it was long been associated with the nearby ferry service to Plattsburgh, New York, and is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 19th-century stone buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gordon-Center House stands on the east side of West Shore Road, north of the Gordons Landing ferry terminus and just south of the Ed Weed Cultural Fish Station. It is a -story stone structure, built out of ashlar granite and coursed rubble, with a side-gable slate roof and two interior chimneys. The entrance is centered on the main facade, and features a distinctive oversized keystone arch. A -story wood-frame wing, dating to early in the buildings history, extends to the left. The property also includes five barns, all built before 1930, reflective of the evolutionary changes in the property&#39;s agricultural uses.</p><br>
<p>Apparently completed in 1824, the interior has retained a few Federal style details despite fairly extensive alterations early in the 20th century. The building was long been associated with the ferry service operated, and tradition has it that its construction was begun by Hazen Bell and completed by someone named Boardman. Both were known to be operators of the ferry service, and its subsequent owners were also ferry owners and operators until 1941. The Gordon and Center families were later owners of both the house and ferry privilege in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Gilead Brook Bridge was an historic bridge which carried Vermont Route 12 across Gilead Brook north of the center of Bethel, Vermont. Built in 1928, it was one of four multi-span Warren deck truss bridges built in the state after extensive flooding in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was replaced in 2019-2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gilead Brook Bridge is located in northern Bethel, carrying Vermont Route 12 across Gilead Brook just south of its junction with Gilead Brook Road. It is a four-span Warren deck truss bridge, resting on concrete abutments and piers. It is 326 ft long and 26 ft wide, and rises about 33 ft above the brook. The trusses are assembled with rivets, and the approach spans consist of rolled I-beams with extra plates on the lower flange for additional reinforcement. The bridge deck is concrete, with concrete curbs, and carries two lanes of traffic.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1928 as part of a major bridge-building program after extensive flooding in the state in 1927. At that time, Route 12 was one of the major north-south routes in the White River valley between White River Junction and Montpelier. It is one of only four Warren deck truss bridges built at the time, and is nearly identical to the former Ottauquechee River Bridge, which carried United States Route 5 in Hartland. These types of trusses were used by the state to replace the longest spans, and was well suited to the deep stream bed and inclined route of the roadway.</p><br>
<p>The Lamoille River Route 15-A Bridge is a modern steel-and-concrete structure, built in 2013 to carry Vermont Route 15A over the Lamoille River east of Morrisville, Vermont, United States. It was built to replace a metal truss bridge erected there in 1928. The old bridge, of Pratt through truss design, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and was dismantled in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The Route 15-A Bridge is located in a rural area east of the town center of Morrisville. Route 15-A runs east paralleling the south bank of the Lamoille River, and provides access from the town center to Vermont Route 15, which runs north of the river. The bridge alignment is roughly east–west, at a point where the west-flowing river bends temporarily to the north.</p><br>
<h2>Historic bridges</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the present bridge, two bridges have stood at this site. The first was a covered bridge, known as the Tenney Covered Bridge, which was built in 1833, and was swept away in Vermont&#39;s devastating 1927 floods. The second bridge, an iron Pratt truss structure, was built by the Berlin Construction Company as part of a major effort by the state to rebuild its bridge infrastructure after the flooding. It was built using standardized guidelines for bridges of its length (111 ft), and used rolled I-beams as a means to speed fabrication. That bridge was closed and disassembled in 2007, and replaced by a temporary span.</p><br>
