<p>The Mountain Fork Bridge is a historic bridge in rural Polk County, Arkansas. It carries County Road 38 across Mountain Fork River north of Hatfield and southwest of Mena. The bridge consists of two spans of steel Pratt pony trusses, with a total length of 406 ft, including approach spans. The trusses are set on piers consisting of steel rings filled with concrete; each of these spans is 80 ft long. The bridge&#39;s construction date and builder are unknown; it predates the standardization of bridge designs in the state in 1923. It is estimated to date to the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Mountain Fork Bridge is an example of a pony Pratt steel truss bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Polmer Store, built, is a well-preserved example of the once-common plantation store, a type of company store used after slavery ended. The one-story frame structure in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Samuel and Leon Polmer were two successful leaders within Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Before moving to Houma, Louisiana, the Polmer brothers immigrated from Austria to Donaldsonville, Louisiana. There, the Polmer brothers managed a factory that produced heavily leaded glass containers and soda pop. The brothers moved to Houma and purchased the Ducros Plantation from the Woods brothers, R. C. and R.S, in 1909. The Polmer brothers then opened four stores within the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Waubun Store, known as the Big Waubun Store, was the first Polmer Store to open. They leased the property and building from the John T. Moore Company and later purchased the small location on the Waubun Plantation from Alfred P. Danzinger in the year 1924. The second store to open was located on the Ducros Plantation, which the Polmer&#39;s owned. In the next years to follow the Polmer brothers opened two more stores called the Bull Run Store, located on Bull Run Plantation, and the Central Store, the last Polmer Store standing to this day. The Central Polmer Store was purchased from original owner, Raoul Toups. These stores were convenient after the post-Civil War era to the people and plantations, such as, Ellendale, Ardoyne, Bull Run, and Waubun.</p><br>
<p>As their businesses grew, the Polmer Brothers created what was called a "rolling stores" to accommodate the community which made it easy for people who had limited transportation. The stores had horse-drawn wagons, later replaced by trucks, with merchandise that would go from house to house to either deliver goods or take orders for the next day. Women could order household items, such as, food, furnishing items, farming equipment, and even material to make clothing and bedding. The "rolling stores" had samples of these materials, which made it easily accessible. The next day the trucks would deliver the previous days order. The orders were placed on tabbed accounts that people would pay periodically.</p><br>
<p>Plantation workers were paid in scrip as a source of income until the harvesting period was over. In sugar-growing areas like Terrebonne Parish, this was a method of retaining the workforce as plantation owners feared the workers would leave during the harvest and leave plantations in a bind. Scrip was only accepted at plantation stores, such as, the Polmer stores. This allowed the workers to get everyday necessities they needed to live on. "Our first and strongest effort is to serve our patrons- to sell them everything they want to buy and save them money and all the trouble and worry we can." This was an Ad from the Directory of the Parish of Terrebonne. "No matter what you want ask us first. It is our pleasure and business to think for you and work for you. –Polmer Bros."</p><br>
<p>Leon Polmer was a businessman, so he ran the stores. Samuel Polmer was more of a politician and was known by most as "Uncle Sam". He was a powerful part of Huey P. Long Regime, but both brothers played a major role in the highway that connects Thibodaux to Houma, and also the highway from Schriever to Morgan City, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, the stores became general stores for the surrounding areas. Most plantation stores rapidly declined, but the Polmer Stores continued with business. The brothers sold the stores in the 1940s, after nearly thirty years. The Central Polmer Store was sold to an employee, Vital Porche. Samuel died in 1940 and eleven years later Leon died, leaving behind his twin sons, Irvin and Mervin Polmer, to continue on the Polmers legacy. The twins continued caring for the Ducros Plantation and Irvin followed in his Uncle Samuels footsteps into politics. After the twins died, the Ducros plantation has been owned by Dr. Jacob L. Fischman and later to its most recent owners, the Bourgeois Family, since 1994. The Ducros Store burned down in 1989 and the stores, Bull Run and the Big Waubun, were torn down. The Central Store is the last Polmer Store standing today.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Central Polmer Store is a double door, one-story, rectangular-shaped building. The architecture style is known as vernacular architecture and was accommodated for Louisiana&#39;s humid and wet climate. The architecture of the store includes high vaulted ceilings and an open wooden floor plan within the interior. The original shelving was glass, wooden frame cabinets and a large countertop to display the merchandise. A rolling ladder is used to reach the merchandise on the high shelves. On the exterior of the green building there is a large porch in the front and wide white wooden trims that accent the plantation-style building. Big wooden shutters protected the windows from the weather. Gravity gas pumps were added around the 1920s - 1930s. The other Polmer Stores had similar features as the Central Store. The Big Waubun Store also sold fresh refreshments to traveling customers from the railroad tracks.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today the Central Polmer Store is the only plantation store remaining in Terrebonne Parish. It is an easily recognizable building to locals as the green exterior building sits on Highway 311. It is now known as the Old Green Store and is an antique shop. It still holds the same characteristics as if it still was a plantation store.</p><br>
<p>The 3M Administration Building was the corporate headquarters of 3M in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1940 to 1962. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its national significance in commerce, industry, and invention, and its local significance in architecture. The building reflects the corporation&#39;s success in the 1930s and continued rise to international prominence in the 1940s and 50s through its commitment to research, product development, and product diversification. The building is also a distinctive example of Moderne architecture within Saint Paul.</p><br>
<p>Mag Blue House is a historic home near Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1836, and is a -story, five bay by three bay, frame Coastal Cottage form dwelling, with Federal style decorative elements. It has a one-story gabled roof kitchen/dining room wing. It features a dominant gable roof that extends to shelter the full-width front porch, flush sheathing across the porch facade, and a hall-and-parlor plan.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Stewart-Hawley-Malloy House is a historic home located near Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800, and is a transitional Georgian / Federal style frame dwelling. It consists of a two-story, five bay by two bay, main block with a one-story, two bay by four bay, wing. The main block has a full-width, one-story front porch and rear shed additions. It was built by North Carolina politician James Stewart  and the birthplace of Connecticut politician Joseph Roswell Hawley .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Mena City Hall, also known as the Old Post Office, is the city hall of Mena, Arkansas, located at 520 North Mena Street. It is a two-story brick building with Classical Revival and Colonial Revival features, designed by Treasury architect James Wetmore and built in 1917. Its elaborate lobby decorations are still visible despite the building&#39;s conversion for use as city hall. Its exterior features a Classical pedimented portico, and an entrance topped by a Colonial Revival fanlight.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Polk County Courthouse is a historic government building at Church Avenue and DeQueen Streets in Mena, Arkansas, the county seat of Polk County. The original portion of the building is a two-story light-colored brick structure, with restrained Art Deco styling. It was designed by Haralson & Mott of Fort Smith, and was built in 1939 with funding from the Public Works Administration. To the rear of the courthouse is a modern wing, joined by a breezeway. The original building is little-altered—only its front doors have been replaced with modern glass and aluminum doors.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>St. Agnes Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 203 Eighth Street in Mena, Arkansas. The parish, established not long after Menas founding in 1896, meets in a stone Spanish Mission Revival built in 1921–22 to a design by Rev. A. P. Gallagher, who oversaw the parish for more than 50 years. It is one of Polk Countys most significant architectural statements, merging the common use of local fieldstone with more sophistical Mission style elements. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Wardwell-Trickey Double House is a historic two-family residence at 97-99 Ohio Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1836, it is one of the least-altered early duplex brick houses in the city, in a form that were rarely seen in the state outside Bangor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wardwell-Tricky House is located on the north side of Ohio Street, just east of Coe Park, and a short way northwest of Bangor&#39;s central business district. It is a -story brick structure, with a gable end facing the street to the south. The house is divided longitudinally along its gable ridge into two units, and presents two five-bay fronts to the east and west. A -story wood-frame addition extends to the north, continuing this division. Each unit has two chimneys at the ends of the main block, and a third in the ell. The entrances are set in recessed openings at the centers of the facades, and appear to be early 20th-century Colonial Revival replacements. The interiors of both units have retained a significant amount of original woodwork and hardware, including plasterwork, Greek Revival doors, stair rails, and newel posts.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1836 by two masons, Oren Wardwell and Daniel Trickey. The style of the house, with the division along the gable, is apparently a peculiarity of Bangor, and was most frequently repeated in wood-frame construction. This house is among the best-preserved of those that survive from the first half of the 19th century, especially its interiors.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Washington Survey Marker is a survey marker in San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino County, California. The marker served as the earliest initial points of the San Bernardino Baseline and Meridian, which in turn mark the starting points for the surveying and subdivision of land in Southern California. Colonel Henry Washington placed the marker in 1852 at the beginning of the USA Surveyor Generals Offices land survey of Southern California, the first survey of the region. Later surveys in 1897 and 1907 set new initial points for the survey east and west of the marker; these points replaced Washingtons marker as the official initial points in 1917. Washingtons original marker nonetheless still serves as a point along the baseline.</p><br>
<p>The marker was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Euclid View Flats is a historic apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, constructed 1894–1895. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in architecture. Euclid View Flats is a sophisticated early example of an apartment building designed to attract the middle class. Prior to the 1890s, multi-family housing in the United States was overwhelmingly in the form of tenements catering to the poor. Euclid View Flats provided an acceptable alternative to the single-family houses that dominated middle-class residential options in Saint Paul and the Dayton&#39;s Bluff neighborhood in particular. In addition to representing a change in housing preferences, the building reveals in its transitional architecture a shift from the highly ornamented Queen Anne style to the more restrained Romanesque Revival style during the same period.</p><br>
<p>Euclid View Flats is currently being rehabilitated, with plans to offer all 12 units as affordable housing. The building had fallen into some disrepair and was then vacant beginning in 2010.</p><br>
<p>FitzRandolph Gate is a wrought-iron structure that serves as the official entrance of Princeton University, standing in front of Nassau Hall on Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey. The gate was funded by a bequest of Augustus Van Wickle in honor of his great-grandfather, Nathaniel FitzRandolph, who had donated to the university the land on which Nassau Hall sits. The gate was completed in 1905 and was designed by McKim, Mead & White. The gate remained closed and locked apart from graduation and the P-rade until 1970, when that graduating class ensured that it would always remain open, "in a symbol of the University&#39;s openness to the local and worldwide community."</p><br>
<p>At commencement each year the graduating seniors process out of the gates to mark the completion of their time at Princeton. A widespread legend exists on campus that students who walk out of the gates before graduation will not finish their degree. In 2004 a tradition was added at Princeton&#39;s opening exercises called the Pre-Rade where the matriculating freshmen march into the gates behind the banners of their residential colleges to mark their entrance into Princeton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nathaniel FitzRandolph (1703–1780) was a son of one of the original 17th-century Quaker settlers of Princeton. He was instrumental in raising the funds necessary to bring the College of New Jersey, as Princeton University was then known, to the town. FitzRandolph personally donated the four and half acres for Nassau Hall. His great-grandson, Augustus Van Wickle, died in a skeet-shooting accident in 1898 and he provided in his will for both the Van Wickle Gates at his alma mater, Brown University, and the FitzRandolph Gates in honor of his great-grandfather. The gate was restored in 2005 for its centenary with some original elements needing to be reconstructed. Over 230 pieces of cast metal were replaced and all new and restored parts were made of authentic wrought iron from England, using traditional blacksmithing tools and techniques.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel FitzRandolph died in 1780 and was buried nearby in his family plot. In 1909, during the construction of Holder Hall, 32 family graves were discovered. At Woodrow Wilson&#39;s direction, the remains were re-interred under the eastern arch of the new hall and a plaque was erected to commemorate FitzRandolph. It is inscribed with the Latin phrase:</p><br>
<p>In agro jacet nostro immo suo,</p><br>
<p>In our ground he sleeps, nay, rather in his own.</p><br>
<p>The Square Rock Dipping Vat is a historic former cattle dipping facility in Ouachita National Forest, northeast of Waldron, Arkansas. It is located south of Square Rock Creek, off a forest road that runs south from County Road 94. It is a partially buried U-shaped concrete structure, with a concrete pad at one end, through which cattle were directed to dip them with chemical treatment for Texas tick fever. A barbed-wire holding pen of uncertain age stands nearby. It is believed to have been built about 1920, and was probably used until 1943, when the disease was determined to have been eradicated.</p><br>
<p>The vat was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The former Scott County Courthouse is located at 252 South Main Street in Waldron, Arkansas. The current facility is located on 1st Street. The old courthouse is a two-story brick Art Deco building, set on a high foundation, and with a flat roof that has a parapet. The building was designed by Bassham & Wheeler of Fort Smith, and was built in 1934 with funding from the Works Progress Administration. It replaced an older building on the same site that was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989; it is also a contributing element to the Waldron Commercial Historic District. In 2022, the Scott County Museum of History opened in the building.</p><br>
<p>Beverly Ranch is a historic orange grove located at 923 West Fern Avenue in Redlands, California. Will and Elizabeth Eddy established the grove in 1888; after Wills death, Elizabeth married John Fisk, and the couple built the groves main house in 1890. The couple was one of the many wealthy immigrant families from the East Coast who owned Southern California orange groves in the late 1800s. While citrus groves were ubiquitous at the time, Beverly Ranch is one of the few which is still in operation.</p><br>
<p>Architect Corydon B. Bishop designed the groves Queen Anne house. The two-story redwood house has an asymmetrical plan with a multi-component roof. A wraparound front porch at the main entrance features a balustrade, turned posts, and decorative bracketing. The upper stories of the house feature shingle siding, several balconies, more brackets on the cornice, and cresting along the roofs gables.</p><br>
<p>The grove was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The rectory on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands is a rare example of transitional Spanish-Japanese architecture in the archipelago, now a United States commonwealth. It was built about 1930, during the South Seas Mandate period of Japanese administration, when the native Chamorro people were displaced to this area by workers imported by the Japanese to work in the sugar fields. The rectory is an L-shaped concrete structure measuring 13.7 x, and originally had a wood-framed second floor and roof. Although only the concrete frame remains, elements such as its massive steps and window placement are typical of the earlier Spanish period, while decorative elements such as its porch columns and window opening details are distinctly Japanese.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Shady Lake Recreation Area is a campground and public recreation area in southwestern Ouachita National Forest, southwest of Mena, Arkansas and west of Glenwood, Arkansas. The area is oriented around Shady Lake, a body of water on the South Fork Saline River impounded by a dam built c. 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps . The area is administered by the United States Forest Service .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Shady Lake is located in central western Arkansas, on the southern fringe of Ouachita National Forest, about 30 mi west of Glenwood. The lake itself is roughly crescent-shaped and was created in 1935 with the assistance of enrollees from the CCC, particularly by members from Company 742 stationed at Camp F-4 (situated within the community of Shady). The dam measures 130 ft long and 40 ft high across the Saline River. The dam, along with seven other CCC-built structures, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The developed facilities are located on the north side of the lake, and include four camping loops, an swimming area, fishing pier, amphitheater, and other recreational facilities. Comfort facilities consist of 50 camping units including 19 units with water and electricity and one with full hookups, bathroom facilities with warm-water showers, and flush toilets. A central feature of the beach area is its CCC-built bathhouse, a rustic log structure with novelty siding, which includes changing areas at the ends and an open picnic area in the middle. A second CCC-built picnic shelter is located north of the dock.</p><br>
<p>Other CCC-built structures in the recreation area include the diving platform, amphitheater, caretaker&#39;s house, and two stone bridges. The first bridge crosses the South Fork on the forest road east of the lake, and is a stone arch structure built over a metal culvert. The second bridge carries part of the campground loop road across East Fork, just north of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Miller Chapel is the spiritual center of the Princeton Theological Seminary, located in New Jersey, United States, and has been in continuous use since its completion in 1834. It was built by renowned local architect and builder Charles Steadman in stuccoed brick with a simple Doric portico. As the chapel of the oldest Presbyterian Seminary in the United States, the building has been home to many of the most important Presbyterian theologians, including the great figures of the Princeton Theology. The narthex has plaques that honor Samuel Miller, after whom the chapel is named, Charles Hodge, Archibald Alexander Hodge, Caspar Wistar Hodge, Sr., and B. B. Warfield.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel originally faced Mercer Street to the east and slightly behind Alexander Hall. It was designed in the Reformed tradition with one worship space, unifying the choir, congregants, and clergy, and with a central pulpit, emphasizing the proclamation of the Word of God. Originally a twin building was planned so as to flank Alexander Hall with Greek Revival buildings in the same way Nassau Hall was flanked by the original Whig and Clio Halls.</p><br>
<p>An 1874 renovation added Victorian stained glass windows and an organ, moving away from the traditional Reformed aversion to instruments in worship. In 1933 a more substantial renovation by Delano & Aldrich moved the chapel so as to face the interior of the campus, serving as the cornerstone of two squares, bounded by Alexander and Hodge Halls to the north and Stuart and Brown Halls in the south. The renovation also enlarged the building and removed the Victorian windows so as to restore a more simple appearance, consistent with the Seminary&#39;s Reformed heritage. Later renovations took place in 1964 and 2000. The chapel is home to the Joe R. Engle Organ, given to the Seminary in 2000. In addition to daily services the chapel hosts a variety of concerts during the course of the year. Weddings in the chapel are limited to those where either the bride, groom, or parent of either, is a student, graduate, trustee, or employee of the seminary.</p><br>
<p>On January 25, 2022, the Board of Trustees of Princeton Seminary voted to rename Miller Chapel in light of Samuel Miller&#39;s direct ties to slavery. "This decision followed thoughtful deliberation by the Board of Trustees, and it is part of their commitment to the ongoing work of confession and repentance that was part of the historical audit on slavery." The new name is Seminary Chapel.</p><br>
<p>Nike Missile Site C-47 is a former missile site near Portage, Indiana. The Nike defense system was a Cold War-era missile system in the United States. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the USA so costly as to be futile.</p><br>
<h2>Facility</h2><br>
<h2>Chicago–Gary Defense Area</h2><br>
<p>The Chicago defensive area, one of the larger in the nation, had about 20 bases ringing metropolitan Chicago. Due to the relatively short range of the first generation Nike missiles, bases had to be close to the area they protected.</p><br>
<p>The Army began to buy land and build sites in the early 1950s. The basic system was operational by 1954 using MIM-3 Nike Ajax missiles. Newer Nike missiles extended the capability of the rings. The "Nike-Hercules" were nuclear capable and could destroy fleets of Soviet bombers over a wide area. These were deployed at a few selected sites. The Hercules could reach Soviet airspace to intercept aircraft and had the potential to be used against ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). C-47 was one of the first Nike sites to receive the Hercules missiles.</p><br>
<h2>Related sites</h2><br>
<p>C-32 Nike 3B/12H, 20A/12L-U in Porter, Indiana, was redeveloped for the offices of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The launch site is a half-mile east of the National Lakeshore offices on Wagner Road, and is fenced behind a locked gate, although largely intact. It is privately owned, and while overgrown at one point there has been some clean up of the area.</p><br>
<p>C-44 Nike 2B, 4C/60A/24L-AA in Hegewisch/Wolf Lake, Illinois (dual site) is abandoned and overgrown at the south end of recreation area. The access road entrance at Avenue J and 133rd Street is largely obliterated. The launch site is also abandoned. It is on the north shore of the lake, where S. Wolf Lake Boulevard becomes S. State Line Road. The buildings are gone but foundations remain.</p><br>
<p>C-45 Nike 2B/20A/8L-A at Gary Municipal Airport, Indiana, is a redeveloped area at the north tip of the airport. A general aviation hangar, parking lot, and ramp area for aircraft parking were created. The former launch site is across Industrial Highway. The launch site was razed but remnants are still visible.</p><br>
<p>C-46 Nike 1B, 1C/12H, 20A/12L-U, (8L-H) in Munster, Indiana, was redeveloped into an industrial park. It is on the west side of Calumet Avenue north of 45th Street. The launch site is on the west side of Columbia Avenue. It was razed in 2008 and is now in private ownership.</p><br>
<p>C-48 Nike 2B/20A/8L-A in Gary, Indiana, was redeveloped as an automobile dealership on Grant Street and later abandoned. The launch site was redeveloped into commercial/industrial site near NW corner of 35th Avenue and Grant Street.</p><br>
<h2>Discontinuance</h2><br>
<p>The Nike system protected the United States until 1972. The bases were closed in accord with the SALT treaty limits, and the onset of "détente".</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>To be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, Nike sites are required to be historically exceptional and retain a high degree of integrity, including all three major components: (1) administration, (2) radar, and (3) launch functions. There are fifteen Nike sites in Illinois that are part of the Chicago-Gary Defense Area. Several have some buildings and launch areas. C-84 in Palatine, Illinois, was the last substantial site to be redeveloped. Five of the bases in the Chicago ring were in Indiana. C-47 is the only site to retain all three functions. A few buildings remain at several of the bases in Indiana. The National Park Service uses several buildings from a base near the Chellberg Farm for offices and service buildings at Indiana Dunes National Park. As elsewhere, they are remnants of bases, not complete units. The early use of nuclear missiles on the site further makes C-47 a rare and exceptional site.</p><br>
<h2>Missiles on display</h2><br>
<p>A Nike Ajax and Hercules are on display in front of the VFW post in Cedar Lake, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>A Nike Ajax is on display near the Toledo Rockets Glass Bowl Stadium on the campus of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>A Nike Ajax is on display in front of the Villa Park VFW post # 2801 in Villa Park Illinois</p><br>
<p>Villa Nova, also known as The Captain Stephen M. Thomas House, is a historic home located near Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1880, and is a two-story, three bay by one bay, Italianate style brick dwelling, with one-story gabled roof ells. It has a free-standing one-story brick kitchen connected by a covered passage. It has a one-story front porch with a red and blue patterned grey slate roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Robert Nancy Monroe House is a historic home located near Silver Hill, a populated place within the Township of Laurel Hill in Scotland County, North Carolina, USA.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1912, during the prosperous period of the regional cotton boom. It is a 1½-story, three bay by three bay, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a tall truncated-hip roof covered with decorat1ve metal shingles and pierced by two large, heavily corbeled, interior brick chimneys. It features a wrap-around porch with Tuscan order columns, imbricated wood shingles on its gables, dormers, and a three-stage rear tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Thomas J. Gill House is a historic home located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a -story, three bay by three bay, frame dwelling, with Stick Style and Bungalow design elements. The interior is in the Colonial Revival style. It has a hipped roof, exterior stucco and brackets, and full-width front porch. Also on the property is a contributing gazebo. It was the home of North Carolina State Treasurer Edwin M. Gill .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Nanyō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha Sugar Mill is a former industrial facility in the village of Songsong on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands. Its ruins are a significant reminder of the South Seas Mandate period, when Imperial Japan engaged in large-scale sugar cane farming in the Northern Marianas, and are the only brick structure in the Northern Marianas. The sugar mill on Rota was one of the major installations of the Nanyō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, the Japanese company responsible for economic development of the mandate area. Its executive director turned board chairman, Haruji Matsue, considered the Northern Mariana Islands the best place to establish the sugar industry, and more especially since previous Japanese commercial enterprises tried their hand at growing and processing sugar cane, but failed. The Nanyō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, was the most dominant economic force and being the largest Japanese Corporation, came to the Northern Marianas in 1921. Not unlike its predecessors, the NKK experienced a very tough few years, which almost forced the company to cease operations. Things started to take a turn for the better in 1926. By the early 1930s, Matsue proceeded to expand the companys landholdings and operations to Tinian and Rota, respectively. Rota had one mill and 38% of the farmlands had sugar cane growing. The remnants of this sugar mill, all that survived the Allied capture of Rota during World War II, are located on the north side of the peninsula that projects southwest from Songsong, and consist of fragments of brick and concrete structures. The most impressive single element is a brick and concrete tunnel 42.5 m long, from which openings lead to the locations of other parts of the once-extensive complex.</p><br>
<p>The mill site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Temple Baptist Church/King Solomon Baptist Church consists of two buildings at the intersection of Fourteenth Avenue and Marquette Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. The original church, which later became known as the Educational and Recreation Building, is a Tudor Revival structure built by architect J. Will Wilson in 1917, then remodeled and made into classrooms and office space by 1940. The second building, also known as the Main Auditorium, is an Art Deco building constructed in 1937 and remains largely unchanged. The buildings are now owned by King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>The church was first known as the Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Church when it opened in 1917 by the Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Society, founded in 1892. In 1921 the Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Society merged with the Grand River Avenue Baptist Church; the combined church became Temple Baptist Church. The congregation consisted mostly of white southerners who had moved to Detroit seeking employment. In 1934 Temple Baptist Church invited leading fundamentalist Rev. J. Frank Norris to serve as pastor. J. Frank Norris simultaneously pastored his home church, First Baptist Church of Fort Worth Texas, flying himself between Fort Worth and Detroit. In 1950, after internal feuding, George Beauchamp Vick became pastor and remained so after the church moved to new location on Grand River Avenue. In 1968, the third Temple Baptist Church opened in Redford Township, at 23800 West Chicago (now Detroit World Outreach). After the death of G. Beauchamp Vick, Temple Baptist was pastored by A.V. Henderson and then by Truman Dollar until his death by suicide in the 1996. Brad Powell was then called in as pastor in 1990 and the church changed its name to Northridge Church after it was relocated to Plymouth Michigan.</p><br>
<p>King Solomon Baptist Church, founded in 1926, purchased the Temple Baptist Church buildings in 1951. The Main Auditorium, with a capacity of over 5,000 people, was at the time the largest African American-owned auditorium in Detroit. The church was an important location to the Civil Rights Movement, as it was an early member of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the site of that bodys second annual conference. It served as the location of Malcolm Xs 1963 "Message to the Grass Roots" address, one of his most influential speeches. Numerous guests, including Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph D. Abernathy, and Benjamin Mays, also gave talks there.</p><br>
<p>The Mortimer Webster House is a historic house in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, constructed 1865–1866. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for being one of the best examples of Italianate architecture in Stillwater, and for its association with Mortimer Webster, one of the town&#39;s notable early entrepreneurs.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mortimer Webster house is a two-story, wood-frame house originally built as a cube with a rooftop cupola. Initially there were porches extending across the front and rear façades. A one-story wing was added to the rear around 1900.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mortimer Webster was born in Owego, New York, in 1836. He worked as a house painter in the region before heading west in his late teens. Following stops in Hudson and New Richmond, Wisconsin, he and his brother William arrived in Stillwater in the summer of 1856 and established a painting business. In 1860 Webster transferred his livelihood to livery services and real estate. By 1866 he was concentrating exclusively on real estate, and had prospered enough to commission this fine house on a bluff overlooking the town. By the end of the decade he had platted two additions to Stillwater and by 1881 had significant interests in lots in the area as well as in Fargo, Dakota Territory.</p><br>
<p>435 Broadway-43.jpgView from the Mortimer Webster House&#39;s cupola</p><br>
<p>435 Broadway-62.jpgStaircase</p><br>
<p>435 Broadway-77.jpgLiving room</p><br>
<p>435 Broadway-84.jpgDining room (added in the early 20th century)</p><br>
<p>The Agana-Hagåtña Pillbox is a former Japanese defensive fortification in Hagåtña, Guam. It is a six-sided reinforced concrete structure, located a short way above the high-tide line on the west side of the Paseo de Susana, a small peninsula jutting north from the village center. There is another wall providing cover for the entrance on the land side. The interior is divided into two chambers, each of which has a gun port. The structure was built by Guam&#39;s Japanese defenders during their occupation of the island  in World War II.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It may be seen as part of a walking tour of Hagåtña.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Evan Alexander Erwin House is a historic home located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1904, and extensively remodeled in 1939 in the Classical Revival style. It is a two-story, five-bay, double pile, frame dwelling, with one-story side-gable flanking side wings. It features a two-story front porch with a flat roof and supported by four square slender wood columns with Tuscan order caps. Also on the property is a contributing two car garage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>E. Hervey Evans House is a historic home located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect John A. Weaver with initial plans presented to his clients on June 2, 1939. Weaver was employed in the Architectural Department of Macys Department Store and listed his office as 1328 Broadway, NYC. Hervey Evans was an executive of various enterprises owned by his grandfather, John F. McNair. Evans was instrumental in selecting Weaver to design the Arts and Crafts style McNairs Department Store in 1938.</p><br>
<p>Hervey and his wife, Anne Borden Evans, were particularly inspired by the restoration incurring at colonial Williamsburg by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. During a tour along the James River, two homes greatly influenced their decision to build a Georgian Revival style brick dwelling: Westover (1729) and Carter&#39;s Grove (1750). Weaver incorporated elements of both plantations into the final design for the E. Hervey Evans House and Gardens.</p><br>
<p>Landscape architect Charles Gillette (1886–1969) of Richmond, Virginia, designed the extensive grounds. The peak years of Gillettes career coincided with the height of the Country Place era, when wealthy property owners throughout the United States built impressive country residences surrounded by meticulously conceived gardens. When the Architectural League of New York honored his work in 1938 for its “charm and adherence to the Southern tradition”, Gillettes reputation as the interpreter of southern gardens had already been firmly established in Virginia and the upper South. The Evans plan, dated August 1939, appears as Account 650 in Gillette&#39;s office Client Log. Gillette would also design two other landscapes in Laurinburg: Edwin Morgan (June 1948) and Z.V. Pate (December 1948).</p><br>
<p>Gillette planned extensive brick terraces, walkways, walls and formal plantings. Magnolia, dogwood, azalea, hydrangea and camellia provide color throughout the year while Tea Olive and Confederate Jasmine scent the air. An original Gillette designed fish pond is located in the Conservatory Courtyard. Two garden structures are based on earlier Gillette designs. The pool pavilion is based on the gazebo at the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace in Staunton, Virginia, and the pump house originated from the design for a never constructed tool shed at Elderslie in Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The house consists of a -story, central five-bay block flanked by two recessed, symmetrical, two-bay, -story wings. Also on the property are the contributing three-car garage, smokehouse, pergola, greenhouse and croquet lawn.</p><br>
<p>The E. Hervey Evans House and Gardens was awarded the 2005 Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation Award, North Carolina&#39;s highest award for the preservation, restoration and maintenance of gardens relating to historic structures.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and operated as the Thomas Walton Manor Bed & Breakfast from 2002 until 2016 when it again became a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Richmond Temperance and Literary Society Hall is a historic building located near Wagram, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1860, and is a small, one-story, one room, hexagonal brick building. It was built for local temperance society meetings held through the end of the 19th century. It was used as a school until the 1920s. After 1959, it was restored for use as a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Shaw Family Farms are historic family farms and a national historic district located near Wagram, Scotland County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include three houses: The Dr. Daniel Shaw House, a large two-story, double-pile house with a dominant double tier gable portico built about 1885 with a Greek Revival interior; the Alexander Edwin Shaw House, a rambling one-story vernacular frame dwelling with an extensive Victorian wraparound porch also built about 1885; and the Dr. William Graham Shaw House, a one-story house of traditional local form, treated with a variety of simplified Queen Anne elements and built in 1900. Also on the farms are a number of contributing agricultural outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Laurinburg Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Laurinburg, North Carolina. The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Laurinburg.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Structures in the historic district were built between about 1893 and 1953 and include notable examples of Streamline Moderne and Art Deco architecture. Notable buildings include the Central Hotel (c. 1893), McDougalds Furniture Store and Funeral Parlor (c. 1904), Everingtons Drug Store (c. 1904), Scotland Pharmacy (1935), USA Post Office (1939) designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon and built by the Federal Works Administration, First United Methodist Church (1918), Hammond Company Building, and (former) Winn Dixie Grocery Store (1953).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Albemarle Historic District is a national historic district located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Albemarle. They were built between about 1898 and 1950 and include notable examples of Early Commercial architecture. Located in the district and separately listed is the Starnes Opera House. Other notable buildings include the Central Lunch , Farmers Hardware and General Store , King Block I , King Block II , King Block III , J. C. Parker Building , King Building , Hall&#39;s Pharmacy Building , Efird Dry Goods Store , The Enterprise Steam Print Building , "The Big Store" , Fitzgerald Building , and Morgan Furniture Building .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Five Points Historic District is a national historic district located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings in the central business district of Albemarle. They were built between about 1905 and 1950 and include notable examples of Early Commercial and Industrial architecture. Notable buildings include the Service Station-Building , Anderson Grocery Building , The Model Tailoring Company , Morgan Motor Company Building , and Lillian Knitting Mills .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Second Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of Albemarle. They were built between about 1898 and 1950 and include notable examples of Early Commercial and Late Gothic Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include The Alameda Theater , Albemarle Hotel , First Presbyterian Church ,  USA Post Office , First Baptist Church , Wilhelm Service Station , Central Methodist Church , City Hall , and Hearne Building .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Pee Dee Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Albemarle. They were built between about 1891 and 1947 and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture. Notable buildings include the Brown-Parker House , Crowell House , Lambert-Hughes-Ferrell House , W. Berly Beaver House , David Augustus Holbrook House , Langley-Holbrook House , William Thomas Huckabee, Jr., House , Robert Lee Smith Family House , and Wade F. Denning House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Badin Historic District is a national historic district located at Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 200 contributing buildings and 8 contributing sites in the company town of Badin. They were built starting about 1912 and include residential, institutional, and commercial structures in Gothic Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The community was developed by the Southern Aluminum Company of America, later Alcoa, with Badin developed for white residents. Notable buildings include the Badin Hospital , Badin Elementary School , 24 Henderson Street , 28-30 Henderson Street duplex , 27-33 Boyden Street quadruplex , Badin Club House  and Club House Annex , and Badin Baptist Church .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>West Badin Historic District is a national historic district located at Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 153 contributing buildings and 4 contributing sites in the company town of Badin. They were built starting about 1912 and include residential, institutional, and commercial structures in Gothic Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The community was developed by the Southern Aluminum Company of America, later Alcoa, with West Badin developed for African-American residents. Notable buildings include the houses at 704 Roosevelt Street and 417 Jackson Street, 228-226 Lincoln Avenue duplex, Baptist Church, McDonald&#39;s Chapel AME Zion Church, and Badin Colored School.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Narrows Dam and Power Plant Complex is a national historic district located at Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing structures in the company town of Badin. The dam and power plant were built in 1917 by Alcoa to support the Badin plant. At the time of its completion, the Narrows Dam was the world&#39;s highest overflow type dam. The Narrows power plant is a one-story building nine bays wide with a gable roof and six-foot raised monitor roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Opera House–Starnes Jewelers Building, also known as Starnes Jewelers and Opera House, is a historic commercial building located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. It was built in 1907–1908, and is a 2 1/2-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It has a parapet-front standing-seam metal roof. About 1939, the first floor storefronts were remodeled and fitted with black Carrara glass panel facades and plate glass and chromium display windows and entrances in the Art Moderne style. The building&#39;s front was restored in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is located in the Downtown Albemarle Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Isaiah Wilson Snugs House, also known as the Isaiah Wilson Snugs House and the Marks House, are two historic homes located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. The Marks House was built about 1847, and is a two-story, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is the oldest surviving house in Albemarle. It was moved to its present site behind the Snuggs house in 1975. The Isaiah Wilson Snuggs House, the second oldest in Albemarle, was built about 1874, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling, with a two-room kitchen/dining room ell. The houses were restored in the 1980s and are operated as historic house museums by the Stanly County Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Randle House, also known as the Randall House, is a historic plantation house located near Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a two-story, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame I-house dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a gable roof. It has a gable roofed ell and attached kitchen/dining building. The front facade features a hipped roof porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Marcellus Denning House, also known as the Randall House, is a historic home located at Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury and built in 1924–1925. It is a two-story, double pile, Spanish Colonial Revival style brick dwelling. It features bracketed, tiled pent cornices; full-façade porch with a parapet roof; and a side/sun porch with a porte cochere. Also on the property is a contributing brick garage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>R. W. George Mill, also known as Bob George&#39;s Mill and Spencer Mill, is historic corn mill located near Francisco, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built in 1881, and is a two-story, rectangular, frame building sheathed in weatherboard. It has a gable roof and three frame additions dating from the mid-1940s. Also on the property is the contributing concrete mill dam. During World War II, it was converted from a corn mill to a small textile mill, known as Spencer Mills, that produced parachute fabric for the federal government.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Leak-Chaffin-Browder House is historic home located near Germanton, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built between about 1853 and 1860, and is a large two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It has a Colonial Revival style front porch that dates from the early 20th century. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen-slave/servants&#39; house, granary / tobacco pack house, wood shed, privy, shed, barn, and combination corn crib, equipment shed, and meat house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Rock House, also known as the John Martin House, is a historic home located near King, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a two-story, fieldstone ruin. It has been a ruin since the late-19th century. It is believed to have been built by Colonel John Martin, an early landowner in Stokes County. The property is maintained by the Stokes County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Matthew Moore House is historic home located at Moores Springs, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built about 1786, and is a small -story brick cottage on a raised fieldstone basement. It has segmental-arched openings and the interior follows a simple Quaker plans. It was the home of Matthew Moore, an early and prominent settler and a large landowner in Stokes County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Cove Colored School, also known as London School, is historic Rosenwald School located at Walnut Cove, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921 with a grant from Sears & Roebuck financier, Julius Rosenwald. A condition of the grant was that it had to have local matching funds. Therefore, it was built on land donated by John William Dalton and his brother George Samuel Dalton and with materials provided by The Dan River Lumber Company.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story, rectangular frame building with five classrooms and Bungalow / American Craftsman design elements. It has weatherboard siding, a broad clipped gable roof, large sash windows, and a projecting front vestibule. The building measures approximately 49 feet wide by 73 feet deep and rests on a brick foundation. It housed a school until 1952. It was later renovated for use as a senior citizens&#39; community center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Danbury Historic District is a national historic district located at Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential section of Danbury. They were built between about 1860 and 1930 and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Bungalow architecture. Located in the district and separately listed is the Stokes County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the County Jail , Petree Store, the Martin Store, Stack-Bickett Law office , Bank of Stokes County , McCannless Hotel , James Pepper House , Wilson Fulton brick house , Samuel H. Taylor House/Hotel, the N. E. Wall House , Baptist Mission Church, Clark Memorial Presbyterian Church , and the Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>King Historic District is a national historic district located at King, Stokes County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 72 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of King. They were built between about 1914 to the 1950s and include notable examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Notable buildings include the Bank of King, King Drug Company, Simeon Wesley Pulliam House , James Robert Hutchins House , King Milling Company , and King Moravian Church .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Surry County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Harry Barton and built in 1916. It is a three-story, rectangular Classical Revival style tan brick building. The five bay front and rear elevations feature a central entrance flanked by pairs of Ionic order pilasters. Two-story wings were added to the main block in 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
