<p>Camp Mont Shenandoah is an all-girls summer camp near Millboro Springs, Virginia. Located on 60 acre in the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia, it was established in 1927, and is one of the oldest continuously-operating summer camps in the state. Its buildings and grounds are mainly in a rustic style befitting the environment. In addition to residential cabins, it has a lodge and dining hall. Activities supported include tennis, basketball, canoeing on the Cowpasture River, and archery, as well as arts and crafts. The camp was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Spiller Farm Paleoindian Site, designated Site 4.13 by the Maine Archaeological Survey, is a prehistoric archaeological site in Wells, Maine. Located overlooking a stream on the Spiller Farm property on Branch Road, it is an extensive site at which a fine collection of stone artifacts has been found, dating to c. 8,000 BCE. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Spiller Farm Site is located on the grounds of Spiller Farm, a 60 acre property located inland in northern Wells, near a tributary of the Merriland River. The site was discovered in a plowed field in 1995, and underwent several seasons of excavation thereafter.</p><br>
<p>The most significant materials found at the site include nearly 300 stone tools. Most of these tools are made from a type of chert that was taken from the Willard Brook Quarry in the interior of central Maine, although some rhyolite materials were found from the Mount Jasper Lithic Source in Berlin, New Hampshire, along with one instance of chalcedony that probably originated in Atlantic Canada. The site is distinct from the nearby Hedden Site in terms of this distribution of stone materials: the latter site has a much more diverse array of sources for its stone materials. Excavation at the site also yielded evidence of at least two hearth sites.</p><br>
<p>The Louis Gray Homestead, Barn is a historic barn in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located off Arkansas Highway 157 east of Plainview. It is a two-story frame structure, with a gambrel roof and side shed, and is finished with board-and-batten siding. It is built in a transverse crib plan, with five bays on the left and six on the right, with a hay loft above. It has a hay hood. Built about 1932, it is a well-preserved and little-altered example of this form within the county.</p><br>
<p>The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Rufus Gray House is a historic house at the southeast corner of Austin and South Streets in Pangburn, Arkansas, USA. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip-roofed central section that extends to projecting gables to the front and side. The front to the left of the gable section is sheltered by a shed-roof porch supported by Doric columns. The house was built about 1912 and is one of the few surviving houses in the community from this period.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Griffithville School was a historic school building, located on the south side of Arkansas Highway 11 on the west side of Griffithville, Arkansas. Built in 1939, it was the community&#39;s only school, and was a fine example of a Craftsman-style school built with Works Progress Administration funding. It was a rectangular frame structure, finished in brick veneer and capped by a gable-on-hip roof with exposed rafter ends in the eaves. Entrances were sheltered by gable-roofed porches supported by brick piers.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Peacock Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1907, and is a three-story, U-shaped Classical Revival style brick building with limestone detailing. It has a low-pitched roof, heavily dentiled cornice, and brick parapet. The front facade once featured a three-story porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>YWCA is a historic YWCA building located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, five bay by three bay, restrained Colonial Revival style brick building with limestone detailing. It has swimming pool in the basement, meeting and recreation rooms on the first floor, and sleeping rooms on the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Goldsmith C. Gilbert Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 75 contributing buildings and is located in the oldest residential section of Muncie. The district includes notable examples of Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed J.C. Johnson House. Other notable buildings include the A.L. Johnson House, Meeks Mortuary Building, Joseph Hummel House, and Miller Livery .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 66 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object, and is located in the central business district of Muncie. The district includes notable examples of Italianate, Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Beaux-Arts style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Moore-Youse-Maxon House, Roberts Hotel, and Goddard Warehouse. Other notable buildings include the Patterson Bock , McNaughton Block , Mitchell Block , American National Bank Building , Marsh Block , and the Old Post Office designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Wysor Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 61 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed between about 1890 and 1930, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, American Foursquare, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the equestrian sculpture and landscape ensemble "Appeal to the Great Spirit" by Cyrus Edwin Dallin , Roy Thomas House , Burt Whiteley House , and the first Delaware County Children&#39;s Home building .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Old West End Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 273 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district largely developed between about 1880 and 1915, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include Temple Beth-El , First Church of Christ Scientist, Wittmore Apartments , Martin Sisters House , Christian Church / Wesleyan Chapel , Vandercook House , First English Lutheran Church , Muncie Hospital and Invalids Home , and Ira Hunter House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Westwood Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 83 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed after 1923, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the William H. Ball House , Alexander Bracken House , Michael Broderick House , Bennett Heath House , and Fred Kencht House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 74 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed between about 1895 and 1949, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Meeks Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed between about 1904 and 1939, and includes notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. A notable building is a service station constructed in 1939.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Kirby Historic District is an American national historic district located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed between about 1839 and 1930, and includes notable examples of Greek Revival and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Thomas Kirby House , William F. Spencer House , John Fitzgibbons House , Theopharia A. Hough House , Pearl Hopkins House , and Edward R. Templar House . This are said to be oldest homes in the district.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>HISTORY</p><br>
<p>The district is named for the Kirby family, with Thomas Kirby being one of the founding fathers of Muncie, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>Minnetrista Boulevard Historic District is a national historic district in the city of Muncie, in Delaware County, East Central Indiana. It is located along the northeast side of Minnetrista Boulevard and the north bank of the White River, about a mile north of downtown Muncie.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses five distinguished homes and their associated secondary structures, in a predominantly residential section of Muncie. The district developed between c.1895 and 1910, and includes notable examples of Shingle style, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival, and Colonial Revival style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h3>Contributing properties</h3><br>
<p>The principal residences in the district are:</p><br>
<p>"Nebosham" — Edmund and Bertha Ball House, 1907 Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival style residence designed by Wing & Mahurin, part of present-day Ball State University facility.</p><br>
<p>"Maplewood" — William and Emma Ball House, 1899 Georgian Revival style residence with Greek Revival portico, and present day guesthouse for the Ball Corporation, with its first floor a historic house museum of the Minnetrista cultural complex.</p><br>
<p>"Oakhurst" — George and Frances Ball House, 1895 Shingle style residence designed by Louis Gibson.</p><br>
<p>Lucius and Sarah Ball House — c. 1875 farmhouse, remodeled/enlarged in Colonial Revival style by Balls in 1908, present day orientation center for the Minnetrista cultural complex.</p><br>
<p>Mary Lincoln Cottage — 1907 Late Victorian style house.</p><br>
<p>"Minnetrista" (residence site) — former Frank and Elizabeth Ball House, 1894 mansion designed by Louis Gibson and destroyed by fire in 1967. Present day site of the 1988 Center Building housing the Minnetrista Heritage Collection.</p><br>
<p>Minnetrista is a cultural center is within the district on three former Ball Brothers properties, with museums, gardens, a sculpture park, and natural areas. It includes the "Oakhurst" mansion and historic gardens, the Lucius and Sarah Ball residence, and the surviving limestone columns of "Minnetrista" in the Colonnade Garden.</p><br>
<p>The Ball family, founders of the Ball Corporation, purchased most of the land along the north bank of White River between Wheeling and Granville Pikes in 1893. The name chosen by the family for the property was taken from a Sioux word, "mna" (pronounced mini) which means "water," and combined with the English word, "tryst," to form "Minnetrista," or, "a gathering place by the water."</p><br>
<p>J. C. Johnson House was a historic home located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was designed by the noted Fort Wayne architectural firm Grindle & Weatherhogg and built in 1897. It is a large -story brick dwelling with Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival style design elements. It features a projecting tower, two-story bay constructed of limestone, four slender chimneys, and a slate roof with decorative ridge trim.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was delisted in 2018. It is located in the Goldsmith C. Gilbert Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Moore–Youse–Maxon House, also known as the Moore–Youse Home Museum, is a historic home located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a rebuilt front porch with sawnwork and brackets. It has a two-story rear addition. The house remained in the same family from 1864 to 1982. The building is operated by the Delaware County Historical Society as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the Walnut Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Roberts Hotel is a historic hotel located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1921, and is a six-story, Colonial Revival style steel-frame building sheathed in red brick with limestone detailing. The basement, first, and mezzanine floors measure 120 feet by 125 feet, where the second through sixth floors above are L-shaped. It has a flat roof behind a parapet. The hotel closed in 1972, but reopened in 1976. The building has been renovated into loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Walnut Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>George Roberts, the hotels proprietor, was a Jew who fled from Russia to the United States in the late 1890s, among others from his native village, in order to avoid being drafted into the Russian Czars army. In Muncie, he also started and owned a dry goods store. George Roberts lost everything in the Depression, entered the oil business, then died of a heart attack in a tent in the oil fields of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His grandson is Henry Kravis.</p><br>
<p>F. D. Rose Building, also known as Rose Court, is a historic commercial building located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1926, and is a two-story, rectangular, Rural Medieval style brick building. The building features a steep slate gable roof concealing a flat roof, an arcade / atrium plan, and a stucco and half-timber exterior.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Francis T. Roots Building, also known as the Roots Building, is a historic commercial building located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1895, and is a three-story, square plan, Queen Anne style brick building. The building features marble and limestone panels, projecting bays, and a corner turret. The building was remodeled about 1940 and restored in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Otto Carmichael House, also known as the Mary Louise Farm, is a historic home located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. The original section was built in 1875, and later enlarged and remodeled in 1929. It is a rambling -story, brick and frame dwelling Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival design elements. It features steeply pitched gable roofs. It is associated with noted journalist and civic leader Otto Carmichael.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Margaret and George Riley Jones House, also known as the Riley-Jones Club, Inc., is a historic home located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1901, and is a -story, "L"-plan, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling sheathed in brick. It features a gable roof with dormers, arched windows, and full-width front porch with mosaic tile floor. It housed a private women&#39;s club. The club closed in 2003 and the building now houses law offices.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Allentown Union Hall is a historic meeting hall located 2 mi east of Illinois Route 121 in Allentown, Illinois. The building was built in 1892 to host community events in Allentown, a small rural settlement. Like many small communities nationwide at the turn of the century, the citizens of Allentown wished to expand their educational and cultural horizons; since rough dirt roads made travel outside the community difficult, the community used the hall to host its own cultural events. The Allentown Helping Hand Circle, the community organization that raised the money for the building, hosted many of the halls early events, which included community dinners and talent shows. The hall also hosted shows put on both by actors and musicians from Allentown and the surrounding area and by traveling acts who stopped in the community. As the only large public building in the area, the town hall also served as a polling place, a clubhouse for womens clubs and fraternal organizations, a church for the community&#39;s religious groups, and an auditorium for the local school.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Ayer Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 208 Locust Street in Delavan, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The library was the city&#39;s fifth attempt at forming a library; it succeeded and assumed the collection of a library founded in 1902 by the Blue Button Army temperance organization. When the Blue Button library closed in 1907, supporter Amos K. Ayer called for the city to establish a permanent public library.</p><br>
<p>With Ayer&#39;s financial backing, a library for all citizens of Delavan Township was approved in 1907; however, it used a temporary space and lacked a permanent home until the city applied to the Carnegie Foundation for assistance in 1912. After a protracted misunderstanding with James Bertram, who expected a city library tax and did not understand that the township provided tax support, the Foundation provided a $10,000 grant for the library and construction began in 1914. The Classical Revival library opened later in the year; it remains open to this day.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1998.</p><br>
<p>Camp Lawton or the Millen Prison was a stockade which held Union soldiers who been taken as prisoners-of-war during the American Civil War. Located beside the Augusta and Savannah Railroad right-of-way five miles north of what was then Millen Junction  in Burke County , the new prison facility was modeled after Camp Sumter. It opened in October 1864 but had to be evacuated within six weeks, due to the advance of Sherman&#39;s army through Georgia. With an area of 42 acre and holding over 10,000 of a planned 40,000 men, it was said to be the largest prison in the world at that time.</p><br>
<p>The area of Magnolia Springs State Park that now comprises the day-use area was used as the prison. The park still houses remnants of the earthen fort that guarded the 10,000-prisoner camp. Two huge timbers, possibly from the prison but more likely from work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1938 and 1942, were recovered. The parks new History Center currently displays some of the first artifacts excavated by the archaeology team from Georgia Southern University. Georgia Southerns Sociology/Anthropology Department has been conducting surveys and excavations for a number of years at the park, serving as a partner in revealing and interpreting the history of Camp Lawton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Camp Lawton was established during the Civil War in the fall of 1864 by the Confederate Army to house Union prisoners of war. The Magnolia Springs site was selected to take advantage of the abundant water supply. Built by slave labor and a group of Union prisoners of pine timber harvested on site, the walls measured 12 to 15 ft high. The stockade began receiving the first of at least 10,299 prisoners in early October. The post was abandoned by the end of November when threatened by Sherman&#39;s drive on Savannah.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Adin B. Underwood wrote that they found, on December 5, 1864, a "village of graves, 900 of them." (Atlanta Post-Appeal, The Three Years Service of the Thirty-third Mass. Infantry Regiment, November 23, 1881, p. 239.) Chaplain Thomas M. Stevenson wrote, "God will certainly visit the authors of this crime with his terrible lightning." (History of the Seventy-eighth Regiment O.V.V.I., Zanesville, Hugh Dunne, 1865, pp. 316-317.)</p><br>
<p>Research using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) conducted in December 2009 by the Lamar Institute of Technology revealed a possible location for the southwest corner of the prison stockade. In 2010 Georgia Southern University undertook archaeological investigations to "ground truth" the results of the GPR survey. In August of that year several Georgia Southern archaeology students uncovered the stockade and around 200 Civil War artifacts. The students had used watercolors by an imprisoned private to locate the site. A fence has been erected to keep people away from the archeological dig near the park&#39;s aquarium.</p><br>
<p>The Romanzo Kingman House was a historic house on Main Street  in Kingman, Maine. Built in 1871, it was the unincorporated communitys most sophisticated example of 19th-century architecture. It was built for Romanzo Kingman, the areas namesake and owner of a locally important tannery. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. and was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kingman House was located on Main Street in the rural town center of Kingman, an unincorporated community in southeastern Penobscot County. It was two stories in height, with a hip roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. Its main facade, facing southwest, was three bays wide, with the entrance in the left bay, sheltered by a portico support by square posts and pilasters. It had a denticulated cornice and a low balustrade on the sides. First floor windows were crowned by gabled pediments with consoles, while the second floor windows had flat pediments with consoles. A two-story ell extended northeast from the main block, joining the house to a carriage barn.</p><br>
<p>Romanzo Kingman and Francis Shaw established a tannery in Kingman in the 1860s, which was billed for a time as one of the largest in the nation. The tannery was a major local industry until it was destroyed in a massive explosion in the 1920s. Kingman and Shaw, both bachelors at the time, built this house, the only house of architectural distinction in the small community, in 1871–72. Kingman left the area a few years later to open a second tannery in Wisconsin; when the community incorporated as a plantation, it was named in his honor. His home was destroyed by fire about 2005.</p><br>
<p>The former Franklin County Jail is a historic building at 3rd and River Streets in Ozark, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of native sandstone. It is roughly cubic in shape, with a flat roof obscured by a crenellated parapet, and its entrance set in a Romanesque arch. It was built in 1914, and has been rehabilitated to house professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The German-American Bank is a historic commercial building at Franklin and Main Streets in Altus, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with a stone foundation and trim. It has an angled store entrance at the corner, sheltered by an overhang with a dentillated cornice and supported by a round column. Windows on the second level are set in segmented-arch openings, and the flat roof is obscured by a raised brick parapet. Built in 1905, it is Altus&#39; finest example of commercial Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Dement-Zinser House is a historic house located at 105 Zinser Place in Washington, Illinois. The house was built in 1858 for Richard C. Dement, a businessman and riverboat owner. Its Greek Revival design features a transom and sidelights around the front door, a cornice with a frieze board, and a gable roof with eave returns. The house is the only standing Greek Revival house in Washington and may be the oldest house in the city. Dement sold the house only three years after building it, and it passed through several owners until Dr. Harley Zinser acquired it in 1905. Zinser used his home as his doctors office, from which he served as a respected village doctor; he also made house calls, delivered babies, and even treated animals as part of his work. The house remained in Zinsers family until 1994, when the Washington Historical Society bought it for a museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Claiborne Creasy House is a historic house at 415 South Main Street in Gretna, Virginia. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1840 with later additions that substantially complemented the original construction. The original main block is Italianate in style, with Colonial Revival addition made in the 1880s and a Craftsman addition in 1923. A Colonial Revival porch wraps around much of the structure, unifying the parts. The house stands on a large landscaped parcel that includes several surviving farm outbuildings and the family cemetery of the Creasys. Thomas Creasy, who bought the 1840 house and substantially enlarged it, was one of Gretna&#39;s wealthiest businessmen of the post-Reconstruction era. The property is now used as a function and event facility.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri-Pacific Depot, Altus is a historic railroad station on United States Route 64 in Altus, Arkansas. It is a long rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, finished in stucco, with a gable-on-hip roof with broad eaves. It was built in 1920 by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and served as both a passenger and freight depot. It is representative of the town&#39;s early history as a railroad town.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri-Pacific Depot, Ozark, now the Ozark Area Depot Museum, is a historic railroad station and museum at 1st and River Streets in Ozark, Arkansas. It is a roughly rectangular stone structure with a hip roof, standing between River Street and the railroad tracks. On its southern  side a telegrapher&#39;s booth projects. The roof has broad eaves extending around the building, supported by large Craftsman-style knee braces, and with exposed rafters visible. The station was built in 1910 by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and is notable for its association with the economically important railroad, and for its fine Craftsman architecture. It is now a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Selah Barnes House is a historic house at 282 Prospect Street Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1778 for a local merchant, it is a good local example of vernacular Georgian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Selah Barnes House is located in Southington&#39;s Plantsville area, on the south side of Prospect Street opposite its junction with Ashwell Drive. It is set facing east on about 2 acre of land that fronts on the Eightmile River to the west. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and stone foundation. The roof gable is relatively broad, with a shallow-pitch section to the rear giving the house a variant of a classical saltbox profile. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance framed by simple molding with a dentillated lintel. Windows are generally 12-over-12 sash.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1778 for Selah Barnes, a local merchant who shipped cornmeal to the West Indies. Barnes was the son of Asa Barnes, who owned a tavern in the town. The house&#39;s architecture differs from others in the area from the same period, in that its front eave is deeper than typical, and because its clapboarding is nailed directly to the studs. Its chimney is also not as massive as most period chimneys, and is taller.</p><br>
<p>The Blakeslee Forging Company is a historic industrial complex at 100 West Main Street in the Plantsville area of Southington, Connecticut. The surviving six buildings, dating to about 1910 or later, were developed for a company founded in 1877 that specialized in drop forging. The buildings are well preserved structures typifying industrial buildings found in Southington from that era. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Blakeslee Forging Company complex is located on the south side of the central village of Plantsville. It is set well back from the street, behind a municipal parking lot and the former Pultz & Walkley Company industrial complex. Its largest two buildings form a T, whose top runs parallel to the former railroad right-of-way that now serves as the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. The top of the T is a two-story brick building, 20 bays long, with industrial Colonial Revival trim elements, while the leg of the T is a longer single-story brick structure with a gabled roof. Also facing the railroad right-of-way, north of those buildings, is a single-story six-bay brick building. Three smaller structures are tucked behind these, between the T and the adjacent buildings to the north.</p><br>
<p>The Blakeslee Forging Company was founded in 1877 and incorporated in 1896 by Sherman Blakeslee, and first operated in mainly wood-frame buildings built on this site by the Plantsville Manufacturing Company. The company manufactured parts for carriages, and provided custom drop-forging services. Most of the buildings in this complex date to 1912–14, when the older buildings were torn down.</p><br>
<p>The Icabod Bradley House is a historic building at 537 Shuttle Meadow Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built in 1813, it is a good local example of transitional Colonial-Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ichabod Bradley House stands in a rural-residential area of northeastern Southington, on the north side of Shuttle Meadow Road just west of the Plainville Reservoir. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, center chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade faces south, and is five bays wide. The ground-floor windows are topped by shallow cornices, while the second-floor windows butt against the eave. The main entrance is at the center, with flanking narrow fluted pilasters, and a half-round fanlight transom above, topped by a dentillated cap. The building corners also exhibit pilasters. A single-story addition extends the building to the rear, and the 3 acre property also includes a shed and garage, both from the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house is believed to have been built about 1813 by Ichabod Bradley, a successful farmer in northeastern Southington. The basic plan of the house is Colonial in style, but the door surround and other trim elements are distinctly Federal in style. Bradley was the father of Amon Bradley, a leading figure of civic and business leadership in Southington in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Brothers Factory No. 1 was a historic industrial complex at 1331 South Main Street in the Milldale area of Southington, Connecticut. Developed beginning in the 1850s, it was one of the nation&#39;s largest sources of carriage bolts. The complex listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 consisted of a group of brick buildings dating to 1893 and later. It has since been entirely demolished, and the land stands vacant and overgrown.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark Brothers Factory was located in central southern Southington, on the east side of South Main Street just south of the Quinnipiac River and east of Clark Street. The complex consisted of nine connected buildings, the largest of which were all either one or 1-1/2 stories in height. The main buildings housed the machine shops in which the company manufactured its products, while the smaller attached buildings typically provided space for supporting functions. The complex included a dam across the Quinnipiac River, and a headrace that supplied water to the complex for power.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Brothers were one of the first industries in Southington, and played a significant role in its development as an industrial community in the second half of the 19th century. The company began manufacturing bolts for carriages in wood-frame buildings on this site, using water power from the Quinnipiac River. It developed innovations in the manufacture of these fasteners, including a specialized "hammer lathe" that formed the bolts head while cutting the thread, and eventually fully automated the manufacturing process. The companys existing buildings on the site were destroyed by fire in 1893, and new facilities were immediately built in brick.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were demolished some time after their listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The dam was removed from the river in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Brothers Factory No. 2, also known as Clark Brothers Bolt Company, is an industrial complex at 409 Canal Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built between 1911 and 1918, the complex is a good example of vernacular industrial architecture of the early 20th century, and was home to one of the community&#39;s major industrial employers. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The Clark Brothers Factory No. 2 is located in Southington&#39;s Milldale section, on the east side of Canal Street, roughly midway between Burritt Street and Connecticut Route 322. It is a long and basically linear complex, most of which is sandwiched between the road and a railroad right-of-way that now carries the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. The complex consists of eleven buildings, ten of which are connected, and one (a boiler house) that is located across the railroad right-of-way. Notable buildings in the complex include a large manufacturing building with an original sawtooth roof, and a heat-treatment and forge building with a monitor roof.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Brothers Company was one of the early industrial concerns in Southington, and was influential in its growth as an industrial community in the second half of the 19th century. In the 1850s they developed specialized equipment for the manufacture of carriage bolts, a process they eventually automated in its entirety. Originally located in a factory on South Main Street (since demolished), they had this facility built beginning in 1911, using steam power for the manufacturing processes instead of water. It was expanded during the First World War, and broadened its production line to include other types of fasteners.</p><br>
<p>The Avery Clark House is a historic house at 1460 Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1792, it is one of the town&#39;s surviving 18th-century houses, and well-preserved example of late Georgian vernacular architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Avery Clark House stands on the west side of Meriden Avenue (Connecticut Route 120), a busy through street in southeastern Southington. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, set close to the road. It is covered by a gabled roof that is more steeply pitched than is typical for the period, and has a central chimney. The roof also extends slightly beyond the first floor on all four sides. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance. A single-story wing, four bays wide, extends northward at a recess. It also has a central chimney, and a secondary entrance in the rightmost bay. Period interior features include three original fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1792. It was built for Avery and Anna Walkley Clark, who came to Southington from Durham. The house was owned by five generations of Clark descendants. Twentieth-century updates to the house include new windows and doors, and it is probable that the chimneys are not original.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer Evans House is a historic house at 17 Long Bottom Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1767, it is a well-preserved example of a Georgian Cape house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Ebenezer Evans House stands in a rural area of northeastern Southington, on the north side of Long Bottom Road just west of its junction with Andrews Street. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. Its main block is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by fluted pilasters and a plain entablature. A similarly styled modern ell extends to the main block&#39;s right at a recess. Windows are twelve-over-eight sash. The roof is set at a steeper pitch than is typical for Cape houses of the period, and the block is also slightly deeper.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1767 by Ebenezer Evans, who moved north to Conway, Massachusetts by 1782. A later owner was Anson Merriman, who was involved in early efforts to mine limestone in the area for use in portland cement. Merriman&#39;s descendants, mainly apple farmers, owned the property into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Grannis House was a historic house at 1193 West Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1812, it was a good local example of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and was demolished sometime thereafter.</p><br>
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<p>The Stephen Grannis House stood on the east side of West Street (Connecticut Route 229), a busy through street in northwestern Southington, between Curtiss and Churchill Streets. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and exterior finished in clapboard-like asbestos siding. Its front facade was five bays wide, with symmetrically placed one-over-one sash windows on either side of a center entrance. The entrance was topped by a patterned rectangular glass transom window, and a flat projecting cap with dentil moulding. The windows were topped by similar caps without moulding.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1812 for Stephen Grannis, and is a good vernacular expression of Federal period architecture. Family tradition states that this house, and a similar one at 1137 West Street, were both built by Grannis father for his two sons on the occasion of their marriages. It remained in the hands of Grannis descendants, part of the locally significant interrelated Grannis, Andrews, and Tolles families, until the late 20th century. The house has been demolished since its listing on the National Register in 1988; the vacant land is still within the Tolles family.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Hart House is a historic house at 521 Flanders Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1810, it is a well-preserved local example of vernacular early 19th-century Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Timothy Hart House stands in what is now a rural-suburban residential area of northeastern Southington. It is located on the east side of Flanders Road, south of its junction with Flanders Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior, set on a partial basement of ashlar brownstone. It has a central chimney that is a replacement of the original. Its formal front facade is oriented facing south; it is five bays wide with the entrance at the center. The street-facing west facade has an exposed basement level owing to the sloping site, with a secondary entrance at the center of three bays, three windows on the main level, and three more in the attic level. Original interior features include a winding central staircase, wide floorboards, and three fireplaces, one with a period oven.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s construction date is uncertain. Although a local history gives it a date of 1822, other research has suggested a date of 1798. Based on architectural analysis, it appears to date to the first decade of the 19th century. It is remarkably well preserved as an essentially vernacular piece of period architecture, and is unusual for its treatment of the exposed basement level.</p><br>
<p>1010 Shuttle Meadow Road is a historic house at 1010 Shuttle Meadow Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1772, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Shuttle Meadow Road is an east–west road in northern Southington, now residential in character and crossed in its western section by Interstate 84. Number 1010 is on the south side of the street, east of its junction with Dunham Street, and is set closer to the street than surrounding 20th-century development. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a roof that is gabled at one end and hipped at the other, and a clapboarded exterior. It is set on a brownstone foundation, and as a brownstone front step. Its main facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance at the center, framed by fluted pilasters and a corniced entablature, and flanked by wide sidelight windows. The ground floor interior retains original wide floorboards and fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1772. It is a well-preserved local example of Georgian architecture, with its most unusual distinctive feature being the double-wide sidelight windows.</p><br>
<p>590 West Street is a historic house in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1790, it is one of the town&#39;s small number of surviving 18th-century houses, and a well-preserved example of Georgian colonial architecture. It was listed on the National Register in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>West Street is a major north–south route on the west side of Southington, paralleling Interstate 84 which runs just to the west. Number 590 stands on the west side of the road, just south of its junction with Sunnybrook Hill Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It rests on a cut brownstone foundation. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by an entablature and projecting cornice. Windows are rectangular sash, set in openings framed by corniced moulding. Ells extend to both the right side and rear of the main block; the right-side ell is modern, while the rear ell is possibly older than the main block. The interior of the house retains original period features, including wide flooring, doors with period hardware, and a narrow winding staircase in the front vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1790. It is locally significant as a surviving and well-preserved 18th-century house. Modifications at one time included a late 19th-century Victorian portico sheltering the main entrance; this has since been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Hurwood Company is a historic industrial complex at 379 Summer Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built beginning sometime before 1884, this complex of mainly brick buildings is typical of the town&#39;s industrial landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was where solid-headed screwdrivers were first manufactured. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The Hurwood Company complex is located north of the village center of Plantsville, on the east side of Summer Street near its junction with Cowles Street. It is separated from Summer Street by the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, a former railroad right-of-way. Set on over 4 acre of land is a complex of more than a dozen interconnected structures. Set perpendicular to the street are two brick buildings, the left one two stories in height and the right one one story tall. Attached to the left one at a right angle to its rear corner is a large steel forge shed with a monitor roof. Each of these buildings is encrusted with small buildings, and they are joined near the rear by a more modern structure.</p><br>
<p>The oldest buildings of this complex, the two brick buildings, were standing here by 1885, and were probably built by the Connecticut Motor Company, a maker of electric motors. In 1901, George Wood and John Hurley began production of solid-headed screwdrivers here; their company was purchased by Stanley Tools in 1905, continuing operations in the left brick building to make screwdrivers and chisels through the first half of the 20th century. The large forge building was added about 1915. The right brick building became part of Thompson Drop Forge, another local manufacturer. Industrial facilities of this type once dotted Southington&#39;s landscape, and are now becoming increasingly rare.</p><br>
<p>The Roswell Moore II House is a historic house at 1166 Andrews Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built around 1787, it is one of a small number of surviving 18th-century houses in the town, and is a well-preserved example of Georgian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
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<p>The Roswell Moore II House is located in a rural-residential setting of northeastern Southington, on the west side of Andrews Street overlooking Wassell Reservoir. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It rests on a foundation of ashlar cut brownstone. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance topped by a half-round fanlight and sheltered by a 19th-century gabled hood. The interior retains some of its original period features, include carved wood paneling, fireplaces, and the winding front staircase. The house&#39;s chimney is also distinctive, largely made out of brownstone instead of the more usual brick.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Roswell Moore II, the son of one of Southingtons early settlers. It was probably built not long after his 1787 marriage. The house remained in the Moore family for three generations. Moores son Sheldon was instrumental in the establishment of the cement industry in Southington.</p><br>
<p>The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Factory was a historic factory complex at 217 Center Street in Southington, Connecticut. Begun in 1870, it was home to the town&#39;s largest industrial employer of the late 19th century. Surviving elements of the factory, dating to 1912, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The complex was demolished in 2015 after it was shuttered in 2003.</p><br>
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<p>The former Peck, Stow & Wilcox Factory complex was located west of the town center of Southington, and occupied most of a block bounded by Center, Water, and Mill Streets, and the railroad right-of-way now occupied by the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. When it was described in 1989 for the National Register, its main buildings were a large forge with a sawtooth roof, and an equally large annealing building. These two were accompanied by an assortment of smaller one and two-story brick buildings. Buildings already demolished at that time included the company&#39;s original 1870 plant.</p><br>
<p>Peck, Stow & Wilcox was founded in 1870 by the merger of three different industrial tool manufacturers specializing in tin-processing equipment. The company grew rapidly, and was by 1890 producing a diversified array of tools. It was also the towns largest employer, its business leadership occupying positions of influence in the towns civic, social, and political spheres. The plant was substantially enlarged in 1912, which is the period when most of the buildings surviving in 1989 were built. By that time, the complex was operated by Ideal Forging. That company went bankrupt in 2003, and the plant was acquired by real estate developers not long afterward. Demolition of the premises took place in 2015, after hazardous materials were removed.</p><br>
<p>Peck, Stow & Wilcox also operated a plant in Cleveland, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. J. Porter House is a historic house at 391 Belleview Avenue in Southington, Connecticut. Estimated to have been built about 1728, it is one of the towns few surviving 18th-century houses. It was home from 1754 home to one of the towns largest landowners. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Dr. J. Porter House stands in what is now a rural-suburban area south of Southington center, on the east side of Belleview Avenue just east of its junction with Meriden Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It has a five-bay front facade, with the second floor projecting slightly beyond the first. The main entrance is at the center, flanked by sidelight windows and sheltered by a Greek Revival portico. The portico has fluted Doric columns rising to a plain entablature and a low-pitch hip roof. The interior retains a number of original features, including wide floorboards in some of its rooms, and four fireplaces, including one with a beehive oven. Also preserved is the original front staircase, a traditional colonial winding stair set in the front vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built about 1728. It was purchased in 1754 by Dr. Joshua Porter at the time of his marriage; Porter was described as one of the town&#39;s largest landowners, and as a prominent owner of slaves. The Greek Revival portico is a 19th-century alteration.</p><br>
<p>The Pultz & Walkley Company, also known more recently as The Five Star Company, is a historic industrial complex at 120 West Main Street in the Plantsville village of Southington, Connecticut. Founded in the 1870s, Pultz & Walkley was a major producer of paper bags. The multi-building complex is one of the town&#39;s better-preserved industrial properties, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The Pultz & Walkley complex is located on the south side of the central village of Plantsville. It is set well back from the street, behind a municipal parking lot and in front of the former Blakeslee Forging Company industrial complex. Its main buildings are tall 3-1/2 and 2-1/2 story brick buildings, oriented in a T shape with the leg of the T facing north toward West Main Street. These buildings are in typical late 19th-century commercial Italianate style, with windows set in segmented-arch openings, and with corbelled brickwork cornices. Smaller buildings have been attached to the southern side of the larger structure.</p><br>
<p>Pultz & Walkley was established in 1870 by L.V. Walkley and J.P. Pultz, who had invented machinery for manufacturing paper bags. The surviving main building of the complex is estimated to date to 1875, and was enlarged in 1898. The plant turned out 3 million bags in 1899. The well-preserved street-facing northern facade is a prominent reminder of Southington&#39;s industrial heritage.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Henry Skelton House is a historic house at 889 South Main Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1748, it is a well-preserved example of colonial Georgian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Dr. Henry Skelton House is located south of the village center of Southington, at the northeast corner of South Main Street and Buckland Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central brick chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with windows placed with slight asymmetry around a center entrance. The entrance has a period board door with strap hinges; it and the first floor windows (which are unusually tall for the period) are topped by a wooden stringcourse that serves as a lintel. A leanto section (apparently integral to the main body construction) extends to the rear, giving the house a saltbox profile. The side gable peak sections are finished in decorative Queen Anne style cut wooden shingles.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1748 for Southington&#39;s second doctor, Henry Skelton, who was born in England in 1688. The tall windows on the first floor are probably a later Greek Revival modification, and the building at one time sported a full-width Italianate porch.</p><br>
