<p>The Alfred Horatio Belo House is a historic mansion in Dallas, Texas, USA. It was built for Colonel Alfred Horatio Belo, a veteran of the Confederate States Army and founder of The Dallas Morning News, circa 1900. It remained in the Belo family until 1977, when it was acquired by the Dallas Bar Association.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 2115 Ross Avenue in Dallas, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built on land formerly owned by Captain William Henry Gaston, a Confederate veteran and banker in Dallas. It was completed circa 1900. It was designed by Herbert M. Greene in the Neoclassical architectural style.</p><br>
<p>It was built for Colonel Alfred Horatio Belo, a Confederate veteran and the founder of The Dallas Morning News. Belo resided here with his wife, Nettie Ennis Belo, his son, Alfred Horatio Belo, Jr. and his daughter-in-law Helen Ponder, as well as his daughter, Jeannette Belo, who married Dr. Charles Peabody. After Colonel Belo died in 1901 and his son died in 1906, his widow lived here with her son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters. After she died in 1913, Helen Ponder Belo and her daughters lived here until 1922, when the Belo family moved back to Col. Belo&#39;s home state of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was leased to house the Loudermilk-Sparkman Funeral Home from 1926 to 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The mansion has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railroad Depot, previously known as the Pekin Depot or Chicago and Alton Depot, is a historic railroad station in Pekin, Illinois. The station is one of the only historic rail-related buildings remaining in Pekin.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The depot is a one-story, rectangular building with a cross gable toward the north end. The building is 1,935 square feet.</p><br>
<p>The north section contains the waiting room, ticket office, hallway, and bathroom. The interior walls have wood wainscoting. The south section has a baggage room with four large double doors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station was built in 1898 when the St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railway (St. L. P. & N.) built a line into Pekin; the railroad had formed only two years earlier as an amalgamation of ten other railroad companies. The new railroad provided direct passenger routes to Springfield, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri and opened up better options for shipping freight north through Peoria.</p><br>
<p>The depot was leased to the Chicago & Alton Railroad (C&A) on November 30, 1899 and sold on March 31, 1900 when C&A purchased the St. L. P. & N. line from Peoria to Springfield. The station served both passenger and freight traffic until passenger service ended in the mid to late 1930s; the railroad also served as an important part of Pekin&#39;s economy, both by employing residents and stimulating local industry.</p><br>
<p>President Herbert Hoover made a campaign stop at the Pekin Depot on November 4, 1932. Everett Dirksen boarded the train at Peoria and stood next to Hoover on the locomotive platform. A crowd of over 7,000 people attended, including children who were dismissed from school to see Hoover.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the property was sold to Carl and Kathryn Wolfer. In 1999, Kathryn Wolfer sold the property to David and Louise Milam.</p><br>
<p>The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2004.</p><br>
<h3>Relocation and Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 2006, the depot was donated to the Pekin Parks Department. The building was relocated about one quarter-mile east to Mineral Springs Park at 1900 Broadway St. This site was originally the Santa Fe and Big Four Railroad Roundhouse, which burned in 1927. The depot building was set on a new foundation and renovated with reclaimed lumber from demolished historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>Green Block, also known as the Smith Frye Building, is a historic commercial building located in Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story, eclectic Italianate style brick commercial building. It features projecting pressed metal bays above each storefront and at the corners and arched second story openings with balconies.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Elkhart Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Melvin Price Federal Building and United States Courthouse, historically known as the United States Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic federal building located at 750 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois. The building served as the citys main post office and still serves as the courthouse of the Southern District of Illinois; it is named for USA Representative Charles Melvin Price. Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor designed the Beaux-Arts building in 1907; construction began the following year and was completed in 1909. The buildings design features a projecting pavilion above the front entrance with four pairs of columns supporting a pediment; the columns frame a three-bay arcade which once housed the courtroom windows. Quoins at the corners and on projecting elements, alternating arched and pedimented windows on the second floor, and a cornice with a balustrade also decorate the building. Two wings in a matching design were added to the building in 1918, and a modern annex was placed on the rear in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Interstate Orphanage was a historic orphanage at 339 Charteroak Street  in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The building in which it was located is a two-story brick building with a hip roof that has broad eaves, and single-story flanking wings. A porch extends across five bays of the front, with a brick balustrade and brick posts. The building was designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1928.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It continues to be used as an orphanage, and is now owned by the Ouachita Children&#39;s Center.</p><br>
<p>The Jack Tar Hotel and Bathhouse is a historic former tourist resort property at 145 Oriole Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-story steel and masonry structure, finished in buff brick, with International style. Its prominent features are a central rectangular stair house, which projects from the main facade and rises two stories above the main block. The front is lined with balconies which are cantilevered out on steel beams.</p><br>
<p>An elevated pedestrian bridge joins the main hotel to the bathhouse, across Oriole Street. The hotel was built in 1950 by Vance Bryan to a design by local architect Irven McDaniel, and is a rare surviving example of a 1950s hotel in Hot Springs. The building now houses a senior living facility known as the Garland Towers.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Dierks Joers House is a historic house at 2111 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Built in 1955, this single story wood and limestone structure is one of the finest local examples of Mid-Century Modern / Ranch architecture. The house is basically U-shaped, with a central public living area, a bedroom wing, and a service wing. Windows are typically full length in height, and most of the exterior is clad in irregularly-laid limestone, with some weatherboard siding. The house was built for Peter Dierks Joers, heir to the locally prominent Dierks Lumber Company, whose sale to Weyerhaeuser he oversaw. The house interior is a showcase of Arkansas wood types and woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Adams Apartment Building is a historic eight-unit apartment building at 71 Adams Street in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1912, it is a well-preserved local example of Classical Revival architecture. The building, which suffered significant damage in the 2011 Springfield tornado and has been restored, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Adams Apartment Building is located in a residential setting in Springfield&#39;s South End, on the south side of Adams Street between Richelieu Road and Dwight Street Extension. It is a four-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in brick and covered by a flat roof. It has Classical Revival styling, with full-height rounded bays flanking a center bay with the entrance at its base, sheltered by a portico with scrolled brackets. The front is finished in glazed red brick, while the sides are in common brick. A stack of modern wood-frame porches are built on the rear of the building. The interior has two units on each floor, with a central living area, and front and rear bedrooms. Although most doors and windows have been replaced, original trim remains in many places. The main lobby features an original marble floor, and the central staircase retains its railing, although the stairs have been rebuilt to meet modern codes.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1912 by contractors and developers Gagnier & Angers and designed by Pierre Angers, the firm&#39;s junior partner. The building was built for Anatole Payette at a cost $13,500. It was built as part of a trend in the city that saw the construction of brick apartment blocks throughout the city, many by or for the French Canadian immigrant community. Angers, one of those immigrants, is credited with a number of large-scale residential projects in the city. This building suffered significant damage in the 2011 Springfield tornado, including the loss of its roof and extensive water damage. It underwent a certified historic rehabilitation afterward.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown East St. Louis Historic District is a historic commercial district in downtown East St. Louis, Illinois. The district includes 35 buildings, 25 of which are contributing buildings, along Collinsville Avenue, Missouri Avenue, and St. Louis Avenue; all but one of the buildings was historically used for commercial purposes. While development in the area dates back to the late 19th century, the first of the extant buildings in the district were built around 1900 after a tornado devastated the area in 1896. By 1910, the area had become a prosperous commercial district with stores, offices, and entertainment venues; surviving buildings from this period include the Murphy Building and the Cahokia Building. Another large building boom took place in the 1920s, adding buildings such as the Spivey Building, the city&#39;s only skyscraper; the Union Trust Bank Company Building, the largest bank in the city; the Grossman Building; and the Majestic Theatre. The new buildings both coincided with a population and economic expansion in the city and allowed it to forge an architectural identity distinct from neighboring St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1960s, East St. Louis and its downtown entered a period of dramatic decline. Several major businesses left the city for other suburbs, urban decay and blight struck the city, resulting in the abandonment or demolition of several major commercial buildings. In addition, the rise of the automobile and the construction of new expressways took foot traffic away from the downtown area, furthering the decline of its businesses. The citys population is now one-third of its peak in 1950, and many of the districts buildings are abandoned and at risk of demolition or major decay.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Blair Historic District is a historic district located in downtown Belleville, Illinois. The district encompasses a mainly commercial area on the west side of the downtown area; it includes 78 buildings, 57 of which are contributing buildings. The entire district is located within the original plat of the city, which was established following a land donation from George Blair in 1813. The oldest buildings in the district date to circa 1850; development continued from then on into the early twentieth century. Most buildings in the district are two-part brick commercial blocks designed in popular contemporary styles such as the Italianate, Second Empire, Classical Revival, and Romanesque Revival. The Reichert Business Block, a three-story structure at 200 West Main Street, has a particularly significant Second Empire design; the building features a mansard roof with dormers and a decorative cornice and has been described as the district&#39;s most elaborate building. Two Classical Revival buildings, the 1911 United States Post Office Building and the 1924 Turner Hall, also have a commanding presence in the district; the post office was designed by Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The French Colonial Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a major region of 18th-century French colonization in southwestern Illinois. The district is anchored by Fort de Chartres and Fort Kaskaskia, two important French settlements and military posts in what was then the Illinois Country. The Kaskaskia village site is also included within the district; it includes the Pierre Menard House, the only surviving building from Illinois&#39; first state capital. Over a dozen French houses in Prairie du Rocher are also part of the district, including the poteaux-sur-sol Creole House and the 1735 Meilliere House. In addition to the French sites, the district also includes several Native American archaeological sites, such as the Modoc Rock Shelter, the Kolmer Site, the Waterman Site, and the Henke Site.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Read House Hotel is a historic hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 1872. The 141-room main building dates to 1926, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Hamilton County. The 100-room rear wing was added in 1962, originally as a motel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>The first hotel on the site, the Crutchfield House, opened in 1847. It was constructed by future Chattanooga Mayor Thomas Crutchfield Sr., directly across from the Union Depot. The railways were the main source of business and imports to the town and this constant flow of business allowed the Crutchfield House to prosper. Thomas Crutchfield, Sr. died in 1850, and his son, Thomas Crutchfield, Jr., also a future mayor of Chattanooga, took over the hotel.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Davis stayed at the Crutchfield House on January 21, 1861, while traveling home to Mississippi after resigning from the United States Senate. Davis delivered a speech in favor of secession in the hotels dining room, causing future congressman William Crutchfield (Thomas Crutchfield, Jr.s brother) to deliver a fiery speech of his own, denouncing Davis as a "renegade and a traitor," and saying that Tennessee would not be "hood winked, bamboozled and dragged into your Southern, codfish, aristocratic, tory blooded, South Carolina mobocracy." A duel nearly resulted between the men and the argument at the hotel was widely reported as tensions grew on the eve of the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>In 1862, the hotel served as the headquarters for the local Confederate garrison. That winter, Confederate General Samuel Jones, commander of the Department of East Tennessee, converted the hotel to a military hospital. Chattanooga was occupied by the Union on September 9, 1863, and the 92nd Illinois Infantry Regiment placed its regimental colors atop the hotel to signal their control of the town. The hotel later served as a hospital for Union soldiers wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. The Crutchfield House survived the war, but caught fire and burned down in 1867. After the fire, the Crutchfield family chose not to rebuild.</p><br>
<h3>First Read House Hotel</h3><br>
<p>Civil War surgeon John T. Read had previously owned a hotel with his wife Caroline in their hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee, which had similarly burned down. They moved to Chattanooga in 1871 and purchased a three-story office building that had been built on the site of the Crutchfield House. Read converted that structure to a 45-room hotel, the Read House Hotel, which opened on New Year&#39;s Day 1872. In 1879, he sold the hotel to his 19-year-old son, Samuel R. Read, who expanded the hotel to 202 rooms by 1902.</p><br>
<h3>Modern Read House Hotel</h3><br>
<p>In 1925, the majority of the original structure was torn down. It was replaced with the current 10-story Read House Hotel, opened on July 5, 1926. The new hotel was designed by the Chicago firm Holabird & Roche, in the Georgian style and constructed by the George A. Fuller Construction Company of Washington, D.C., at a cost of $2.7 million. The new wing had 280 rooms, while the remaining portion of the old structure had an additional 120 rooms, which were kept in operation until the new wing was completed, so the hotel did not need to fully close during construction. Samuel R. Read died in 1942, and in 1943 the hotel was sold to Albert Noe, Jr. He died four years later, and his son Albert Noe III assumed control of the hotel. In 1962, Noe built a six-story motel wing with an underground garage and an outdoor pool in the rear of the hotel, to appeal to travelers on the newly constructed Interstate Highway System. It is today known as the "Manor" wing. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company bought the hotel from Noe in 1968 and retained the National Hotel Company to manage it.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the hotel was sold to the owners of the nearby Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel and renamed the Choo-Choo Read House. A nightclub was added on the mezzanine, the Grand Central Station Disco, which remained in business until 1980. Soon after, the hotel became a Best Western franchise and was renamed the Best Western Choo-Choo Read House. The hotel would go through seven different owners between 1980 and 2000, as its luster slowly dimmed. Radisson Hotels assumed management in 1986 and the hotel became the Radisson Read House.</p><br>
<p>After an $11 million renovation in 2004, Sheraton Hotels assumed management and the hotel became the Sheraton Read House, reopening on November 18, 2004. The hotel dropped its affiliation with Sheraton in 2015 and became The Read House Historic Inn & Suites. On August 30, 2016, the hotel was purchased by Avocet Hospitality Group of Charleston, SC. The hotel was renovated at a cost of $27 million, which included the movement of the main entrance from Broad Street to its original location on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, in front of the hotel, the addition of multiple dining outlets and the renovation of all guest rooms. The hotel reopened in 2018 as The Read House. In 2022, the hotel celebrated its 150th anniversary.</p><br>
<h2>Famous visitors</h2><br>
<p>In the heart of Chattanooga, the Read House has hosted many celebrities and politicians. Among them are presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, as well as Edwin Booth, Gene Autry, Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, Gary Cooper, Winston Churchill, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Bob Hope, and Al Capone. Capone stayed in the Read House a short time during his federal trial in the early 20th century. Custom iron bars were added to the windows in the room Capone resided in (Room 311), and remain there to this day.</p><br>
<h2>Room 311</h2><br>
<p>Perhaps the thing the Read House is most known for is the haunting of room 311. Many believe the room harbors the spirit of a woman named Annalisa Netherly. There are many legends as to who this woman was and how she became the famous spirit to haunt the hotel, but it is most well known that Ms. Netherly was a prostitute in Chattanooga during 1920s and 1930&#39;s. She supposedly resided in room 311 for an extended time. While details are hazy, Ms. Netherly in fact died in that very room. Some legends have it that she was found soaking in the tub with her head almost completely decapitated- more than likely done by a jealous lover or husband. Other legends say that as she took a gentleman suitor to her room and he later directed his time and attention elsewhere to another woman. This supposedly left her broken hearted and suicidal, and it was then that Ms. Netherly took her own life. People who have stayed in room 311 say that Ms. Netherly hates men, especially those who smoke. Many guests that have stayed in the room, including Al Capone, have made it through the night without any paranormal activity, while others report it being heavy during their stay.</p><br>
<p>The Old Hampden Academy Building is a historic school building on United States Route 1A in Hampden, Maine. Built in 1842-43, it was the home of Hampden Academy, now the town&#39;s public high school, for many years. The building is now part the campus of the McGraw School, a local elementary school. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 for its educational and architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hampden Academy building stands on the west side of US Route 1A in Hampden village, just south of its junction with Cottage Street. It stands at the back of a semicircular drive that is now almost completely surrounded by parking for the McGraw School, whose modern section is attached to the rear of this building. The academy building is a -story brick building, with a front-facing gable roof and granite foundation. A square tower rises above the roof ridge, with a short first stage, and a taller belfry stage with louvered round-arch openings. The front (west-facing) facade is symmetrical, three bays wide, with a projecting entry vestibule in the center bay, and a fully pedimented gable with a half-round louver at its center. The entry has pilasters at all four corners (as does the building) and the entrance is recessed in a paneled opening, with a balustrade balcony above.</p><br>
<p>Hampden Academy was established in 1803 and constructed its first building on this site in 1806. That building was destroyed by fire in February 1842, and the present building was built soon thereafter. It is one of a handful of brick Greek Revival academy buildings, resembling the Bloomfield Academy in Skowhegan (1840) and the Somerset Academy in Athens.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn–Harpswell Association Historic District encompasses a well-preserved enclave of summer residences built in the early 20th century in southern Harpswell, Maine. The district includes ten Shingle style houses, a Colonial Revival dining hall, and a Greek Revival meeting hall. The Auburn Colony, an exclusive company of businessmen from Auburn, Maine, was responsible for their development. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Harpswell consists of several fingers of land, some of which are islands joined to the mainland by bridges, on the east side of Casco Bay on the southern coast of Maine. The principal western finger extends from Brunswick in the north to Potts Point at its very southern tip. Several miles north of Potts Point, in South Harpswell, the peninsula narrows sharply. On the west side of Harpswell Neck Road (Maine State Route 123) near this point is where the Auburn Colony is located. The main access road to the colony is located just south of a tennis court on the colony property. Lining a small network of roads in a roughly east–west orientation are the ten houses of the colony, with the two common buildings just to their north.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Colony was founded in 1877 by a group of businessmen from Auburn, "for the purpose of securing the material advantage of society, health, and recreation." Twenty small Gothic Victorian cottages were built on the property they acquired, which were tragically destroyed by fire in 1899, although the two community buildings survived. The colony was rebuilt, with a reduced membership, resulting in construction ten -story Shingle style houses. Only three have known architects, all credited to the Lewiston firm of Coombs & Gibbs. In addition to the already-mentioned facilities, the association has a salt-water swimming pool and a small beach.</p><br>
<p>The Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store, also known as the Lum n Abner Jot Em Down Store and Museum, are a historic museum property on Arkansas Highway 88 in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. These two wood-frame retail buildings are all that remain of the pre-1920 buildings of the town; they were constructed by Dick Huddleston in 1912 and A.A. McKinzie in 1904, respectively. They now house a museum devoted to the radio show Lum and Abner, a comedy program featuring a fictional Pine Ridge based on this town, which was originally called Waters. It was renamed to Pine Ridge to honor the radio shows setting.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Montgomery County Courthouse is located at Court Square in the center of Mount Ida, the county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, distinctively blending local rustic character with Classical Revival styling. Its walls are fashioned out of randomly laid fieldstone, but features a projecting entry section with a fully pedimented gable with an oriel window at its center. The courthouse was built in 1923 to a design by Clyde A. Ferrel.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Ida Cities Service Filling Station is a historic automotive service station at 204 Whittington Street in Mount Ida, Arkansas. It is a small five-sided frame structure, finished in brick covered with stucco, with a hip roof that extends to form a canopy over the service area, with supporting brick piers at the far corners. Its front  has fixed four-pane windows flanking a center entrance. Built in 1925 by Cities Service, it was used as a gas station until 1966, and has since housed a variety of small businesses. Its role as a gas station was briefly resurrected in the film White River Kid, which was shot here in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Evans Court Apartment Building is a historic apartment building at 22-24 Winthrop Street in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1910, it is an example of a Classical Revival apartment house, and one of the first to be built in the city after it introduced a new fire code. Rehabilitated in 2014, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Evans Court Apartment Building is located in Springfield&#39;s South End, on the west side of Winthrop Street north of Main Street. It is a four-story brick structure, shaped like an L, with a section projecting to the left at its rear. The front facade has three-story projecting polygonal bays flanking the center entrance, which are topped by decorative cartouches. The main entrance is framed by concrete quoining at the sides, with scrolled brackets supporting an arched pediment. A similarly-decorated entrance provides access to the residential units of the rear portion of the building. The building has sixteen units, whose interiors have been updated in historically sensitive ways in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The building and was built in 1910, a period when nearby Main Street was heavily developed with such apartment blocks. The developer who headed the development was Frank Dunlap, a major real estate developer in the city, and it was built and designed by the firm of J. E. Angers and Brother, a construction firm run by French-Canadian immigrants. Dunlap and the Angers collaborated on a number of projects in the city. Early residents of the building were predominantly American-born, but by 1930 the demographics had changed to predominantly immigrant families. The building was damaged in 2011 Springfield tornado, suffering interior water penetration and damage to its parapet; these were fixed during the 2014 rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>The Hancock Apartment Building. also known as the Schaffer Apartments, is a historic mixed-used retail and residential apartment building at 116-118 Hancock Street and 130 Tyler Street on the east side of Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1912, it is good local example of an early 20th-century Classical Revival apartment house, built as the city&#39;s outer neighborhoods grew as streetcar suburbs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hancock Apartment Building is located in Springfield&#39;s Old Hill neighborhood, at the northwest corner of Tyler and Hancock Streets. It is a four-story brick structure, with an exterior of orange brick, a pressed metal cornice, and a flat roof. Decorative brick banding joins the tops of the windows, and runs just below the sills of the upper-level windows. Some of the upper-level windows are set in decorative metal panels in groups of three. The building underwent a certified historic rehabilitation in 2014, in which interior features such as trim and pressed metal ceilings were preserved.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1911-12 to a design by Burton E. Geckler, a local architect whose works include apartment blocks like this, single-family residences, commercial buildings, and churches both in Springfield and nearby Longmeadow. It was built for Tessie Schaffer & Company, a consortium of eastern European Jewish immigrants. It originally housed a dry goods store in the corner retail space. Many of the early residents were either native-born Americans or French-Canadian immigrants.</p><br>
<p>The David Hyatt Van Dolah House  is a historic house located at 10 North Spencer Street in Lexington, Illinois. The house was built in 1898 for David Hyatt Van Dolah, a prominent local landowner best known as an importer and broker of French horses. Architect George H. Miller, one of the most well-regarded architects in the Bloomington area, and his partner James E. Fisher designed the house in the Queen Anne style. The front of the house features a large round turret on one corner, a wraparound porch, and a large stepped gable opposite the turret. The house&#39;s exterior is decorated with brickwork patterns, a departure from the ornamental woodwork usually used to side Queen Anne homes. The hipped roof of the house features cross gables, a cone atop the turret, and several pinnacles and spires.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Delavan Commercial Historic District is a historic district in downtown Delavan, Illinois. The district includes 26 buildings along two blocks of Locust Street, 20 of which are contributing buildings. The oldest buildings in the district, two simple brick commercial structures, were built around 1860. The remaining buildings were mainly built later in the 19th century, with a few built during the early 20th century. The buildings mostly have either Italianate or vernacular commercial designs, as was typical for commercial buildings of the period. Several of the buildings feature decorative metal elements such as storefronts, cornices, and window treatments. One notable exception to this design trend is the Masonic Hall at 401 Locust Street, which has a Queen Anne design featuring a large turret.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Hill Farm is a historic farmhouse in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located on the east side of County Road 6, just southwest of the Beebe city limits. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, and a porch across the front and rear with a shed roof supported by square box columns. Built in 1928, it is a well-preserved example of a Craftsman house in a rural setting.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Hoag House is a historic house in Judsonia, Arkansas. It is located on a wooded lot northeast of the junction of Arkansas Highways 157 and 367 in the northeastern part of the town. It is a rambling two-story wood-frame structure, with central section oriented north–south, and projecting gabled sections on the east and west sides. A two-story turret stands at the northeast junction of the main and eastern sections, topped by a pyramidal roof with gable dormers. A single-story porch with Victorian decoration wraps around the outside of the turret, joining the northern and eastern sections. Built about 1900, the house is locally distinctive for its central two-story box structure, and its Folk Victorian styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Holly Grove School was a historic school building in rural White County, Arkansas. It was located northwest of Bald Knob, north of the junction of Stanley and Honeysuckle Roads. It was a single story Craftsman-style structure, fashioned out of local fieldstone and brick in 1939 by a crew of the National Youth Administration, a Depression-era jobs program. It was one of the better examples of NYA construction.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was destroyed by fire in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Ivernia Apartment Building is a historic residential apartment building at 91-93 Pine Street on the east side of Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1910, it is a well-preserved example of a Classical Revival apartment house, built during a boom period of apartment construction in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ivernia Apartment Building is located in Springfield&#39;s Six Corners neighborhood, on the east side of Pine Street opposite the Springfield Cemetery. It is the only brick apartment building on the street, flanked in both directions by single and multiple-family wood-frame houses. It is a four-story brick structure, built out of glazed red brick with marble trim. The building is larger than typical apartment houses of the period in which it was built (1910), housing twelve units unstead of the usual eight. It is correspondingly wider, with a three-part facade, each of which has a projecting rounded bay, and two entrances and stairwells.</p><br>
<p>The apartment house was built in 1910 by the firm of Gagnier and Angers, who built dozens of similar apartment houses throughout Springfield. It was built during a period when the interior parts of the city were being developed residentially as streetcar suburbs, with growth spurred by the running of streetcar lines into the area. Early residents of The Ivernia were typically either French-Canadian immigrants or English-speaking immigrants or new citizens.</p><br>
<p>Hardscrabble Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searsmont, Maine, United States. Located south of its village center at 122 Maine State Route 131, the 70 acre property features a typical New England connected farmstead with a c. 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse. The property is notable as the leisure time summer residence of author Ben Ames Williams, who fictionalized Searsmont as the town of "Fraternity" in his works. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hardscrabble Farm is located south of the village center of Searsmont, on the east side of Maine SR 131 near its junction with Appleton Ridge Road. The main farm complex has as its main house a -story wood-frame structure, oriented facing west toward the road, with a side-gable roof and central chimney. The main façade is symmetrical, with a recessed center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and wide pilasters, with an entablature above. A series of ells, telescoping in size, join the house to a 19th-century barn. Although the interior has had some modernization done in the 20th century, it has retained some Greek Revival features, including fireplace mantels, and the staircase to the upper level, which, in an unusual configuration, extends as a single run from the entry vestibule between two fireplace flues.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse is estimated to have been either built or extensively modified in the 1840s. A house was standing on the property when it was purchased by David Lincoln in 1841, but it is not known if this house is a restyling of an earlier 19th-century house, or a new construction. In 1852 the property came into the Weed family, whose descendants would own it until the death of Bert McCorisson in 1931. During that period, the farm became known as "Hardscrabble Farm", honoring the same-named property of American Civil War General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Bert McCorisson was a close friend of author Ben Ames Williams, and willed the property to his friend upon his death. Williams made the property his summer home until his own death in 1953. Williams was known for his prodigious short story output and a number of novels. Some of his writing was set in the fictional rural Maine community of "Fraternity", based loosely on Searsmont. Bert McCorrison appeared in some of his works as "Bert McAusland".</p><br>
<p>The Baxter Summer Home is a historic house on Mackworth Island, in Casco Bay off the coast of Falmouth, Maine. Now a centerpiece of the campus of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, the house was built in 1917–18 by James Phinney Baxter, and was given  to the state by his son Percival, a two-term Governor of Maine best known for establishing Baxter State Park. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Baxter Summer Home is located near the center of Mackworth Island, a roughly circular island located just of the coast of Maine, and joined to it by a causeway. Most of the island is a state park, and open to the public. The house is located in a campus-like setting, surrounded by the dormitories and school facilities of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, an area not generally accessible to the public except by prior arrangement.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2½ story masonry structure, built out of dark red brick, with a green terracotta tile roof and a fieldstone foundation. An enclosed porch extends along the south side of the building, and there is a circular solarium on the north side. The main entrance faces east, and is flanked by sidelights, with a transom window above which has stained glass highlights in a sailing motif. The entry is sheltered by a portico supported by Ionic columns and Doric pilasters.</p><br>
<p>Mackworth Island was purchased in 1885 by James Phinney Baxter, a six-time mayor of Portland and a leading historian and businessman of the period. He retained Portland architect Frederick Thompson to design this house, which was built in 1917–18, replacing an earlier wood-frame structure (since demolished). The property was inherited by his son Percival, who served two terms as Governor of Maine in the 1920s, and most notably gave the state most of the lands that make up Baxter State Park. In 1943 he donated the island to the state to provide a permanent home for the state School for the Deaf, which was renamed in his honor. The school moved onto the island in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>St. John in the Wilderness  is a historic church and cemetery in Flat Rock, North Carolina. It was the first Episcopal Church in Western North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>A building from the 1850s is a contributing structure to Flat Rock Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was consecrated by Bishop Levi Silliman Ives on August 28, 1836. Charles and Susan Baring, who considered Charleston, South Carolina too hot in the summer, were among the first settlers of Flat Rock in the 1820s. Other people moved from Charleston to Flat Rock, which Bishop Ives called a "new but interesting settlement" in 1837. The church started as a private chapel for the Barings, who later transferred the title to Bishop Ives and the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. 20 members "formed themselves into a congregation".</p><br>
<p>St. John, named for John the Baptist, was unusual in that white people and slaves sat together in church. The first wedding performed in St. Johns was between two slaves. Later, slaves and free blacks were buried in the churchs cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Before 1958, St. John&#39;s did not have enough members to stay open year-round, but the number of members has increased to 400. The church building was renovated in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Jones School is a historic school building at Linwood and Hobson Avenues in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a three-story masonry structure, finished in red and beige brick, with concrete trim elements. The building is an eclectic blend of Classical Revival and American craftsman styling, with Craftsman style window groupings and a Classical entrance portico. It was built in 1913, and now houses the Hot Springs School District administrative offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Joplin Commercial Block is a historic commercial building at 426-443 Ouachita Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, with retail storefronts on the ground floor and offices above. It is architecturally undistinguished, with nods toward the Tudor Revival in its styling. Built in 1905, after a fire had swept through the area, it is one of the only buildings in the area to survive an even larger fire in 1913. As such, it is a rare surviving example of early 20th century commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The King-Neimeyer-Mathis House is a historic house at 2145 Malvern Road in Hot Springs, Arkansas, opposite the Hot Springs Golf Club. It is a -story Craftsman style house, with a broad shallow-pitch gable roof. Originally built outside the city, the city&#39;s growth has brought it within the city limits, but it still stands on more than 7 acre, along with a number of agricultural outbuildings. The house was built in 1917-18 by D. D. King as a summer house, apparently due in part to its proximity to the golf club.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The George Klein Tourist Court Historic District, also known as Green Elf Court, is a historic tourist accommodation at 501 Morrison Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Now an apartment complex, it consists of seven single-story cabins, an elaborate American Craftsman style managers house, and an octagonal central residence unit with a cantilevered second floor and a bellcast roof. The complex was built about 1940, is one of the citys finest example of a Craftsman style tourist court, a popular form of traveler accommodation prior to World War II.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Kraemer-Harman House is a historic house at 513 2nd Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, originally built in 1884 with vernacular styling, and embellished in the 20th century with Craftsman and Classical Revival elements. It has a hip-roof porch extending across its front, supported by square columns mounted on short brick piers. The interior features particularly elaborate Craftsman style, with carved plaster ceilings, and a buffet with ornate woodwork and leaded glass doors.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Langdon Filling Station is a historic automotive service station at 311 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry building, constructed out of concrete blocks and finished with brick veneer, and houses three service bays and a small office and storage area. The building has a steeply-pitched roof with rectangular vents in the English  Revival style. Built about 1938, it was used as a service station into the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument, also known as the Roosevelt Friendship Monument or Friendship Tower, located in the Black Hills National Forest on the outskirts of Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, is a 31-foot stone tower, including the six-foot-high platform, honoring Theodore Roosevelt. It was the first tribute to the president&#39;s memory and was dedicated July 4, 1919.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt was a deputy sheriff in Medora, North Dakota in 1884. While looking for a group of horse thieves he met up with Seth Bullock who was the Sheriff of Deadwood. The two became lifelong friends and when Roosevelt died Bullock wanted to erect a monument for his friend. The Society of the Black Hills Pioneers provided financial support to build a tower and it was dedicated on July 4, 1919. In 1966, the Society donated the tower to the United States Forest Service.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 2010 a restoration project was completed that included foundation stabilization and stone repair. Stairs were added leading up to the platform and handrails on the stairs and the platform. The project was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, the Black Hills Parks and Forest Association, and the Black Hills National Forest were all involved.</p><br>
<p>The Denhart Bank Building is a historic bank building located at 101 Washington Square in Washington, Illinois. Charles Anthony and Henry Denhart built the building for their bank, which began business in 1866, around 1872. The building has an Italianate design, a popular choice for the era, featuring tall windows with sandstone crowns, stone quoins, and an ornate framed entrance. The bank grew to not only be a prominent local bank but also to issue farm loans throughout the state and acquire holdings throughout the country. The partners dissolved their bank in 1885, though Denhart opened a new bank in the same building in 1886. Denhart&#39;s bank continued to use the building until it closed in 1930 following the 1929 stock market crash.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The North Eighth Street Plaza is a historic strip mall located at 1500-1532 North Eighth Street in Pekin, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Orfeo Gianessi built the mall in 1950; at the time, its location was just outside the built-up area of Pekin. The mall was the first of its kind in the Pekin area and signified the onset of post-World War II car culture, as it was designed to draw in automobile traffic from Eighth Street rather than neighborhood foot traffic. It also predates any strip mall in the nearby larger city of Peoria and is one of the oldest strip malls in Illinois; the building type soon became quite common, and over 60,000 strip malls exist in the United States today. The buildings design, a single-story straight row of joined storefronts, was typical of early strip malls and is still representative of the International Council of Shopping Centers official classification of the strip mall.</p><br>
<p>The mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Portola Valley School is a one-room schoolhouse that sits at 775 Portola Road in Portola Valley, California. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is currently used for Portola Valley town-hall meetings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed in 1909 by LeBaron R. Olive and is a rare, surviving example of a school in Mission Revival style. This building was built with wood construction and use of shingles.</p><br>
<p>Becketts Castle is a historic summer house on Singles Road in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A picturesque two-story stone building with a three-story tower, it was built in 1871-74 by Sylvester Beckett, a Portland lawyer and a major figure in the citys literary scene. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, for its association with Beckett, and for its distinctive Gothic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Beckett&#39;s Castle is set facing Casco Bay on the east side of Cape Elizabeth, at the end of Singles Road, a private lane off Shore Road. It is a two-story masonry structure, built of local gray fieldstone laid in irregular courses, and with a three-story square tower projecting south from its southeast corner. The roof is gabled, with steeply pitched gables at the ends and on the south (front) facade. The main entrance is on the south side of the tower, with a three-part window on the main facade to its left. The tower has three stages, each slightly smaller than the one below, with a projecting beltcourse at the top of each stage. At the top is a modillioned cornice with a short observation area above, topped by a hip roof. The building interior has restrained period woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The castle was constructed by the labor of Sylvester Beckett, a Portland-born son of English immigrants who trained and worked as a lawyer, but also worked as a journalist and writer, and had an amateur interest in ornithology. Beckett was a major social force in Portland&#39;s literary community, hosting social gatherings here that included expansive dinners cooked in a rustic fireplace.</p><br>
<p>The Beaconsfield Supply Store is a one-story brick building in rural Ringgold County, Iowa, United States. Built in 1916, it became the birthplace of the Hy-Vee chain of stores when Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg opened a general store together in 1930. The building was later used for a variety of purposes, including a telephone exchange. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The building serves as the community center for Beaconsfield, which, with 15 residents as of 2021, has been described as the second smallest incorporated city in Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In late 1929, the founders of Hy-Vee paid $3,000 to buy the building, which had previously housed a dry goods store that failed during the stock market crash. It served as a retail store until 1956, when a local phone company took ownership.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the building was named one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. The small local community is working to preserve and restore it, with the possibility of making it a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Hodges House is a historic house on the east side of Arkansas Highway 7 south of the rural community of Bismarck, Arkansas. It is a distinctive single-story wood-frame house, with a projecting polygonal bay at one corner, and a porch that wraps around three sides of the house. The porch is supported by turned posts and has an elaborate Folk Victorian balustrade. The house was built in 1907 by Lee and Clara DeBray, and was sold to Thomas and Charlotte Hodges in 1925. Both of the Hodgeses were leading figures in the early development of archaeology in the state of Arkansas, amassing a collection of more than 50,000 artifacts, and occupying leadership positions in the Arkansas Archaeological Society. The Menard–Hodges site, now a National Historic Landmark, was purchased by Hodges in order to control research and preservation activities.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Hot Spring County Courthouse is located at 210 Locust Street in Malvern, the county seat of Hot Spring County, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The Hot Spring County Courthouse is a -story frame structure, its exterior clad in brick. It is an H-shaped structure, with slightly projecting end wings and a central connecting section, where the main entrance is located. The bays of the central section are articulated by brick pilasters, with the building otherwise exhibiting a restrained Art Deco styling. The building was designed by Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was built in 1936. It is the only significant example of Art Deco architecture in the county. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Union Banking Company Building  is a historic three-story brick building in Douglas, Georgia. The building was built in 1910-11 and has two facades facing streets, which include ten distinctive terracotta gargoyles. It is located at the intersection of Peterson Avenue  and Ward Street .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built by the Union Banking Company, but it closed in 1930, along with many other banks. The Coffee County Bank was started in 1931 and used the building, which it later bought. It is now a BB&T but they will vacate the property moving down the street to their other location in February 2016. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 10, 1982. It is also a contributing building to the 1993 NRHP Downtown Douglas Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Lerner Theatre, previously known as the Elco Theatre, is a historic theatre located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lerner Theatre was built in 1924, after Harry E. Lerner commissioned Chicago architect K. V. Vitchum to design it. Built as a vaudeville theatre, by the late 1920s it had evolved into a motion picture palace.</p><br>
<p>Lerner sold it to Warner Brothers in 1932, who operated it for a couple of years under the name Warner Theatre. They redecorated it in red and gold and added the distinctive "waterfall curtain", and a "huge vertical marquee spelling out the theatre&#39;s name in bold letters" out the front. After Warner Brothers went bankrupt, the Indiana-Illinois Theatre took over in 1934. They held a contest to rename it, with Elco Theatre chosen as the winning name.</p><br>
<p>In 1940, Manta & Rose Theatres acquired the Elco in 1940 and operated it for 20 years. They modernized it and took down the old vertical marquee, replacing it with a horizontal one.</p><br>
<p>In 1961 the building was purchased by Miller Theaters, Inc., run by William Miller and his family, until it was closed in 1987. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 Premier Arts, a non-profit group, purchased the Elco, intending to restore it for use as a performing arts venue. During the mid-1990s the city of Elkhart became involved, obtaining with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1996 restoration work began and the theatre was restored to its 1920 design. The Elco Commission for the Performing Arts was created in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Renovation continued into the 21st century, and it reverted to its original name, Lerner Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The theatre is a two-story, reinforced concrete and steel, Beaux-Arts style building. The front facade features four Corinthian order columns, three freestanding urns, enriched cornice, parapet and frieze. The building is faced with terra cotta and has a lighted canopy projecting over the sidewalk. The auditorium features a large central dome measuring in diameter.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Elkhart Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Young Women&#39;s Christian Association, also known as the Elkhart Y.W.C.A. and Lexington House, is a historic YWCA located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1919, and is a three-story, brick building on a raised basement and Bungalow / American Craftsman style design elements. It measures approximately 40 feet wide and 150 feet deep. It has a flat roof and arched openings on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Elkhart Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Elkhart County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA. It was originally built in 1868–1870, and renovated between 1905 and 1908 in the Renaissance Revival style. It is a three-story, brick building with a clay tile dome tower. It features a portico with four freestanding Doric order columns, with stylized triglyphs, set on a rusticated podium.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Goshen Carnegie Public Library, also known as the Goshen Public Library, is a historic Carnegie library located at Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1901, and is a -story, Beaux-Arts style building clad in Bedford limestone. It has a red tile roof and projecting entrance pavilion with two Tuscan order columns. Its construction was funded with $25,000 provided by the Carnegie Foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The building today houses the Goshen City Hall. The current Goshen Public Library is located at 601 South 5th Street.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The exterior is unchanged from its original design. It is one and a half stories from street levelt to the eave of the red tile roof. Details from the Ecole des Beaux Arts and clad with Bedford limestone. The front (west) façade features an entrance pavilion. The double door is framed by two Tuscan Order columns with a stained glass transom. The pavilion is capped with a parapet inscribed, "Goshen Public Library A.D. 1901". A stone sphere rests atop each end of the parapet.</p><br>
<p>To the left and right of the entrance are two large, arched windows.</p><br>
<p>You enter into a marble vestibule with a bronze plaque of the original Library Board and Andrew Carnegie. Stairs to the right lead to the basement. Ahead are through the doors is the rotunda or charging room. This room is extensively decorated room. It has terrazzo floors, marble baseboards, and mahogany cabinets with marble counters. The original curved librarian&#39;s desk of marble and mahogany has been retained. The dome is painted with floral designs and includes the classical authors. A stained glass skylight, 9 ft long pierces the center. Corinthian columns and pilasters surround the rotunda. The gilding and color scheme of greens and yellows have been restored to the building.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Goshen Daily News Times, various issues, 1901 through 1903</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Libraries, George S. Bobinski, ALA, 1969</p><br>
<p>Violett-Martin House and Gardens is a historic home and garden located in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana. The house was built between 1855 and 1858, and is a two-story, Italianate style red brick dwelling with a hipped roof. It was enlarged in the 1920s. Also on the property are the contributing garage, workhouse, greenhouse built circa 1920 and landscaped grounds with pergola.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Hayford Block is a historic commercial building at 47 Church Street in downtown Belfast, Maine. Built in 1866 and enlarged in 1869, it was the first significant construction after a major fire devastated central Belfast in 1865. It is also home to Hayford Hall, an opera house that was for many years the city&#39;s major performance venue.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The commercial heart of Belfast is a five-way intersection including Main Street, Church Street, and Beaver Street. The Hayford Block is located on the east side of this intersection bounded on the north by Beaver Street and the south by Church Street. The block has two distinct sections: the one facing the intersection, which is three stories in height, and one further along Church Street, which is four stories. The three-story section has a "flatiron" triangular form, with an exposed basement level along Beaver Street. The first floor and basement are finished in granite, with retail storefronts. The second and third floors are identical, with sash windows set between stone sills and lintels, with projecting brick piers at the corners and ends of the section. A broad bracketed cornice tops the structure. The four-story section continues the same styling, the only notable difference being a second-floor loading bay facing Church Street, set under a projecting cornice. This section also houses the former opera house, a 1300-seat performance space with relatively restrained decoration.</p><br>
<p>The Hayford Block was built by Belfast Mayor Axel Hayford after a devastating fire swept through downtown Belfast in 1865, and was the first major construction to take place. The three-story section was completed in 1866, and the four-story section was added in 1869. The opera house was one of the city&#39;s leading performance venues, playing host to traveling theater companies, vaudeville shows, and local entertainment.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Captain S. C. Blanchard House is an historic house at 317 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1855, it is one of Yarmouths finest examples of Italianate architecture. It was built for Sylvanus Blanchard, a ships captain and shipyard owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The building is now home to the 317 Main Community Music Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Blanchard House is located on the north side of Main Street (Maine State Route 115), at its northwest corner with Mill Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, its main block capped by a hip roof with cupola, and a series of ells that extended to a carriage house at the rear of the property, which was torn down around 2018. The roof has deep eaves studded with pairs of ornately carved brackets, and the eight-sided cupola has round-arch windows, and single brackets under its eight-sided roof. The main facade faces east, with an ornately decorated single-story hip-roofed porch across its width. The street-facing southern facade is two bays wide, with projecting bay windows on the first floor, topped by bracketed cornices. The second-floor sash windows are topped by half-round transom windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Portland architect Charles A. Alexander, and was built in 1855 for Captain Sylvanus Blanchard (1778–1858), a ships captain and boatbuilder who was one of Yarmouths leading citizens of the day. Blanchard lived in the house just three years, dying in 1858, and the house passed to his son, Sylvanus Cushing Blanchard (1811–1888). Since 2004 it has housed the community music education facility known as 317 Main.</p><br>
