<p>The Edris House is a mid-century modern house designed by E. Stewart Williams in Palm Springs, California for William and Majorie Edris in 1954. The house is situated on a rocky outcrop, with the exterior of the house clad in wood. Edris was the owner of the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington.</p><br>
<p>The house was later owned by J. R. Roberts, former managing director of the Palm Springs Art Museum and Design Center.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Twin Palms, also known as the Frank Sinatra House, at 1148 East Alejo Rd is a mid-century modern house in the Movie Colony–El Mirador neighborhood of Palm Springs, California. The house was designed by E. Stewart Williams, to a commission from the American singer and actor Frank Sinatra. The house was Williams&#39;s first residential commission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sinatra started coming to Palm Springs in the late 1940s. He had been told about it by his close friend, the composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who had stopped for fuel there while flying to Los Angeles. Van Heusen told Sinatra of the beauty of the desert later that day, and Sinatra insisted that they fly there that evening. Fellow acquaintances of Sinatras who had also started frequenting Palm Springs in the 1940s included Lana Turner and Dinah Shore, and the actress Ava Gardner who was to become his second wife. On 1 May 1947 Sinatra walked into the offices of E. Stewart Williams, wearing a white sailor cap and eating an ice cream cone, and requested that the firm build him a Georgian style house as a weekend residence; he had recently signed a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and had made his first $1 million. Feeling that the Georgian style was unsuitable for the extremes of the desert environment, Williams showed Sinatra two architectural drawings, one of the Georgian design, and the other of a single-storey modern house. Sinatra chose the modern design, and the house was to be Williamss first residential commission. Williamss brother and architectural partner, Roger, later said that he was "so glad" that Sinatra chose the modern design, believing that "Wed have been ruined if we&#39;d been forced to build Georgian in the desert". Sinatra demanded that the house be completed in time for a Christmas party he intended to host.</p><br>
<p>The house was eventually finished shortly before the new year at a cost of $150,000. Sinatra lived in the house from its completion in 1947 to 1954, and sold it in 1957. Before selling it, Sinatra rented the house to Moss Hart so that he and Judy Garland could re-write A Star is Born.</p><br>
<p>The house was later occupied by a Texas couple for 43 years who let it become dilapidated, until its 1997 sale for $135,000. It was subsequently sold in 2000 for $1,345,000 and for $2.9 million in 2005. Twin Palms was offered for sale in 2010 for $3.25 million.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Twin Palms is a single-story residential building, 4,500sq ft in size with 4 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms, constructed around long horizontal lines framed with steel and aluminum and windows that stretch to the ground. The house has a flat and slightly sloping roof, and a piano shaped swimming pool, the design of which was entirely accidental. The house is named for the two palm trees that stand next to it. The house would become an early emblematic example of a style known as desert modernism.</p><br>
<p>The former Corinth Town Hall and Corinthian Lodge No. 59, I.O.O.F. is a historic community building at 328 Main Street in Corinth, Maine. Built in 1880 as a joint venture by the town and the local Odd Fellows chapter, it served as Corinth&#39;s town hall for about 100 years, and as a major social meeting and event location for the town. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The building continues to be used as a community center.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Corinth Town Hall and IOOF lodge is located on the east side of Main Street (Maine State Route 15) in the center of East Corinth village, just south of its junction with Exeter Road (Maine State Routes 11 and 43). It is a large 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof topped by a small open square cupola. The exterior is sheathed in clapboards, with its front corners quoined on the first floor and pilastered on the second, rising to paired brackets in the eave. The front-facing gable is decorated with Stick style woodwork. The entrance is in the center of the front, sheltered by a short shed-roof hood with gablet at the center. Windows as tall sash, with cornices above; the central window on the second floor is a more elaborate fixture, with a pair of fixed windows set under a gabled cornice and Eastlake-style carved motif. The interior of the hall was divided, with space formerly used as municipal offices and the town auditorium on the ground floor, and the former IOOF lodge facilities on the second floor and attic level. The IOOF hall retains original murals with symbology of the organization.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built as a joint venture by the town and the local IOOF chapter, the latter paying for 3/7 of the buildings construction and maintenance. The building replaced the towns previous town hall, which was built in 1836 at a different location. Although no architect has been definitively identified for the building, it bears some resemblance to the town hall of Orono, which was designed by Bangor architect George W. Orff and built in 1874. This building is one of East Corinth village&#39;s oldest non-residential buildings, surviving several fires. It served not only its formal civic and fraternal functions, but has also historically been a major local venue for social events, political rallies, and even as a gymnasium for the local schools. The IOOF lodge disbanded in 1986, turning its 3/7 share of the property to the town. Since 2006, it has been used by the local food bank.</p><br>
<p>Chief Justice Joseph M. Beck House is a historic building located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joseph M. Beck moved to Fort Madison in 1850. He was a locally prominent lawyer who was elected mayor and county attorney. In addition to the law, he was also involved in banking, railroad development, and organizing First Baptist Church. Initially a Whig, he helped establish the Republican Party. Beck served as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from 1868 to 1891. For five of those years he served as chief justice. On the court he was a supporter of civil rights for Blacks and the prohibition of alcohol.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story brick house sits on a corner lot. The Beck family owned the property from 1859 to 1937 when it was sold to the Napier family. The house was built in 1869. The structure portrays the influences of the Gothic Revival, Italianate, and the Romanesque Revival styles. The first two are strongly invoked in the high pitch of the north facade&#39;s gable, the elaborate verge boards, and the bracketed eaves at the cornice. The round arch windows are from the Romanesque Revival style. The house is painted in the same red hue as its original surface.</p><br>
<p>The Moore and Thompson Paper Mill Complex is a major late 19th-century industrial site off Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. It is the largest surviving mill complex from the village&#39;s industrial heyday, and is one of the largest of the period in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Moore and Thompson Paper Mill Complex is located at the southern end of the Island of Bellows Falls, created by the Connecticut River to the east and the Bellows Falls Power Canal to the west. It consists of two large clusters of buildings, one immediately east of the power station at the dam located at the southern end of the canal, and the other between that and Bridge Street to the north. The lower complex, built primarily in the 1880s, consists of multi-story brick structures formed into a roughly rectangular shape. These are connected via a bridge to a similarly sized group of single-story buildings, erected in 1924-25. The bridge crosses a former canal and railroad right-of-way, and historically carried utilities.</p><br>
<p>Albert C. Moore started in the papermaking business in Bartonsville, northwest of Bellows Falls. His mill destroyed by a flood in 1869, he entered the paper business of William Russell in Bellows Falls. In partnership with Edward Arms, Moore built the lower complex of buildings in 1880-81. Financing of this endeavor apparently prompted the partners to take on Horace W. Thompson as a third owner. Arms withdrew from the business in 1892, and Moore and Thompson was formally incorporated in 1893. In 1914 the company leased its water rights (to divert water from the canal for power) to the Bellows Falls Electric Company, in exchange for electricity delivered by its hydroelectric plant; this agreement was in 1984 still in force. The partners withdrew from the business in the early 1920s, and it is their successor, the Hudson Bag Company, that built the upper complex.</p><br>
<p>Moore and Thompson was not the largest papermaking operation in Bellows Falls. The largest, established by a predecessor to International Paper, was located northeast of its facility, and most of it was torn in the late 1920s, after it was closed following a major strike in 1921. Hudson Bag remained in business (as the area&#39;s largest papermaker) at the Moore and Thompson complex until 1963.</p><br>
<p>The Albright House, also known as the William and James Albright Duplex and the Betsy Ross House, is a historic building located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The duplex was built in 1858 by brothers Jacob and William Albright, who had moved to Fort Madison in 1839 from Philadelphia. They patterned their house after the design of a double Italianate residence found in Samuel Sloan&#39;s The Model Architect (1852). The three-story brick house follows a cross-shaped plan. The watertable, lintels and window sills are all stone. It has a wide, overhanging cornice that is decorated with dentils and paired brackets with pendants. The entrance porch for each unit was built into the front angles of the structure. The house was known locally as the Betsy Ross House because Jacob Albright was married to Rachel Wilson, a granddaughter of Betsy Ross.</p><br>
<p>The Moyce–Steffens House, also known as the French Creek House, is a historic residence located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The house is named for the first two owners of the house, who also substantially built it. John Moyce was a stonemason, originally from Scotland. He built the original section of the house in 1844. It was a single room dwelling that was typical of the vernacular architecture built in frontier Iowa. It is noteworthy for its finely-hewn stone cellar walls. Moyce moved to Illinois in 1848 and the house was bought by Hermann Steffens. He was a carpenter&#39;s laborer who added a single room to the northeast corner of the house. It shows the advancement in building techniques by the use of milled studs instead of the pit-sawn and hewn studs, and the absence of brace framing that are found in the original section of the house.</p><br>
<p>Steffens died in 1882, and his widow Anna continued to live in the house until her death in 1904. During this time the western two rooms were added to the structure. It is possible this created a duplex as both the eastern and western sections of the house have their own front and rear entrances. This section, completed about 1892, shows further advancement in 19th-century building techniques. It utilizes balloon framing, and the brick nogging utilized in the earlier two sections is absent. The Tuscan columns found on the front porch are typical of the Colonial Revival style and replaced the original square posts with chamfered edges around 1910. Three of them were located in the cellar supporting a sagging foundation sill plate.</p><br>
<p>The George E. Schlapp House is a historic residence located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>George E. Schlapp was born in 1839 in what is now Germany. He immigrated with his family to the United States when he was twelve years old, and they had settled in Lee County, Iowa by 1853. Schlapp started working in the brewing business by 1858. He built his own brewery on Front Street, now Avenue H, in 1866. His brother Henry joined him in 1871, and the brewery became known as George Schlapp and Brother. George Schlapp was also involved in banking, the development of the Fort Madison Western Narrow Gauge Railroad, and as a stock broker. He married Mary Dupuis in 1863 and they had six children. The exact date this house was built is unknown, but it is thought to have been built in the early 1870s. George Schlapp lived here until he died in 1912, and the house remained in the family until 1968.</p><br>
<p>The house is considered to be the best example of Italianate architecture in Fort Madison. The 2½-story, brick house sits on a bluff overlooking the city and the Mississippi River below. The rectangular main block is almost square, and it has a smaller, two-story wing in the back. It is capped with a hipped roof that is pierced by four symmetrically spaced interior brick chimneys with corbelled caps. The cornice that surrounds the house features elaborately carved, paired wooden brackets and dentils under the eaves. At the top of the main facade is a triangular pediment with a single round arch window. There is a flat area on top of the roof that suggests a widow&#39;s walk, but there is no evidence that it was ever built.</p><br>
<p>The Luxor Apartments are a historic apartment building at 1923 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a U-shaped two-story brick building, with sparse Craftsman styling that includes brackets on the shed roof over its main entrance. It houses 28 small units, most of which retain original features such as Murphy beds, built-in china cabinets, and flooring. When built in 1924, it was the largest apartment building in the city by square footage, and represented a rapid urbanization trend of the period.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The MacArthur Park Historic District encompasses a remarkably well-preserved collection of Victorian buildings in the heart of Little Rock, Arkansas. The main focal point of the district is MacArthur Park, site of the Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal and Little Rocks 19th-century military arsenal. The district extends north and west from the park for about four blocks, to East Capitol Avenue in the north and Scott Street to the west, and extends south, beyond Interstate 630, to East 17th Street. This area contains some of the citys finest surviving antebellum and late Victorian architecture, including an particularly large number  of Second Empire houses, and achieved its present form roughly by the 1880s. The MacArthur Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The George R. Mann Building, also known as the Adkins Building, is a historic commercial building at 115 East 5th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1906 to a design by local architect George R. Mann, it is an important local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and served as the site of Manns office until 1912. It also served as an office for other notable Little Rock professionals such as Dr. Frank Visonhaler, Dr. E. R. Dibrell and Dr. M. E. McCaskilI. Despite the buildings comparatively modest scale, it has a monumental-appearing facade, with two-story fluted columns set on paneled stone posts, with angled Ionic capitals supporting a heavily carved entablature. A line of dentil moulding separates that from a projecting modillioned cornice topped by a series of cartouches, with a recessed parapet behind.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The John P. Furber House is a historic house in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, United States, built in 1871, the same year Furber officially platted the 20-year-old settlement. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the theme of community planning and development.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The John P. Furber House is a two-story wood frame building. It is gabled on the front façade and on the two side bays, with round windows at the peaks. Elements of Italianate architecture are found in the low-pitched roof, wide eaves supported by scrolled brackets, and tall narrow windows.</p><br>
<p>The house originally had a full-width porch across the front façade. A lean-to was added to the rear sometime before 1940, replacing a small back porch.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John P. Furber and his four brothers originally hailed from New Hampshire, but between 1844 and 1860 they moved one-by-one to the Cottage Grove area, one of the first Euro-American farming regions in the future state of Minnesota. One of Washington County&#39;s first inland settlements emerged there as an informal village by 1851. The Furber brothers were notable early settlers, and John (or J.P.) was the village shopkeeper. In 1871 he conducted a survey of the townsite, formally platting the already-established community. This phenomenon of post-settlement platting also occurred in several other Washington County towns, such as Stillwater, Afton, and Point Douglas.</p><br>
<p>Some sources say Furbers house dates to the 1850s, making it the oldest standing building in the historic core of Cottage Grove. Official National Register documentation gives a construction date of 1871, the same year as Furbers survey.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Furber family for decades, only changing hands in 1940 with its acquisition by Jacob and Arlene Vandenberg. In 1947 Jacob Vandenberg built on the property a 130 ft dairy barn with an arched Gothic Revival roof. The estate stayed in the Vandenberg family for 70 years, only passing to all-new owners in 2010. Now billed as the Historic John P. Furber Farm, the third family to own the property has renovated the barn to serve as a wedding venue; However, they are expected to declare bankruptcy as seen in their other venue (Circle B).</p><br>
<p>The Oak Grove School is a historic school building in rural eastern Grant County, Arkansas. It is located on the south side of United States Route 270, about 6 mi east of Sheridan, and is now home to the Center Grove United Methodist Church. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and novelty siding. It was built in 1938 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and originally housed four classrooms. It was used as a school until 1950, and has served as the church since then.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel McConn Barn is a historic agricultural building located in near Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The Pennsylvania-type barn was built around 1857 on a farm owned by Daniel McConn, a native of County Down, Ireland. He made his way to Fort Madison in 1837 where he became a merchant. While he owned the farm, it was worked by a tenant farmer. The foundation of the structure is of rubble construction and the sides of the upper structure are of vertical board-and-batten siding. It is capped with a low-pitched, gable roof that features three pyramid-shaped hip roofed ventilation cupolas located along the ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Johannes Erickson House is a historic log cabin in Scandia, Minnesota, United States, built in 1868 with a gambrel roof, a distinctive tradition from southern Sweden. It was moved to its current site adjacent to the Hay Lake School in 1974 to be part of a small museum complex operated by the Washington County Historical Society. The Erickson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement. It was nominated as a rare surviving example of a style brought to Minnesota by Swedish immigrants from Dalsland and Småland.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Johannes Erickson House is a small, two-story house measuring 28 by. The walls are of hewn oak logs, covered over with plank siding. There are two rooms on each floor. The gambrel roof allows for a full-height upper story instead of the cramped loft space of most log cabins.</p><br>
<p>Access to the upper floor was originally gained by an exterior staircase. In its early days the house also had a lean-to at the rear for use as a summer kitchen.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1868 by Johannes Erickson and his 13-year-old son Alfred. In 1904 the adult Alfred Erickson built a new home for the family, and the original cabin saw use over the years as a granary, a garage, and even a playhouse. By 1974 it was no longer useful to owner Vernon Jellum, and he made plans to have it demolished or relocated. The Washington County Historical Society purchased the building and had it moved 1.5 mi to its current site to form a small museum complex near a 1900 monument to the first Swedish settlers in Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The Trulock-Cook House is a historic house at 703 West 2nd Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built about 1903 in an unusual combination of Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. It has a two-stage gambrel roof, which slopes down in one section to form the roof of a single-story porch that wraps around the porch on the southwest corner. The porch also wraps around a semicircular bay that rises above the main entrance, and is supported by Tuscan columns. The house is one of Pine Bluff&#39;s few surviving Shingle style buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Trulock-Gould-Mullis House is a historic house at 704 West Barraque Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, a gabled roof with a large cross gable, and clapboard siding. The cross gable is set over the main entrance, which is sheltered by a porch extending across the front facade. The gable has set in it three narrow round-arch windows, in a Palladian style where the outer windows are slightly smaller. The cornice line is decorated with bargeboard. The house was built in 1876 for Marshall Trulock, and is locally distinctive for its unusual Gothic features.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Rockland Road Bridge Historic District is a national historic district located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures in the village of Piermont. It developed between about 1785 and 1940, and includes representative examples of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed William Ferdon House, Haddock&#39;s Hall, and the Rockland Road Bridge. Other notable buildings and structures include the Sparkill Pump House and Dam , "Protection Engine Company" , and The Mine Hole.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The John T. Cyphers House is a historic house in Lakeland, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1858 using an early form of concrete poured around undressed rock. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 for having state-level significance in the theme of architecture. It was nominated as a rare Minnesota example of Northern European-style masonry, particularly unusual in a logging region with plentiful lumber.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Early Lakeland settler John T. Cyphers read an article in an 1855 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press suggesting a concrete mixture as a building material. This mixture, known at the time as "grout", comprised lime, sand, mud, and gravel. In 1858 Cyphers began constructing a house for himself using this method. He formed the core of the walls with small, undressed boulders. He outlined the two-foot-thick walls with wooden frames and poured in the grout. The principle walls were all built this way, but above the first story the gables, roof, and dormers are all wood.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The John T. Cyphers House is a small, one-story cottage with a lower wing projecting from the rear. The main entrance is centered on the long west façade, flanked symmetrically by a pair of windows on either side. Directly above the windows are two dormers projecting from the roof, mirrored by another two dormers facing the rear. The house is largely plain, but there are Gothic Revival decorations in an arch above the door, arched windows on the gable ends, and rusticated wooden trim. Much of this trim is covered up by modern roofing material, and the carved bargeboards are gone. A 20th-century owner recoated the outer walls to prevent spalling of the original grout.</p><br>
<p>Valhalla Highlands Historic District, also known as Lake Valhalla, is a national historic district located near Cold Spring in Putnam County, New York. The district encompasses 57 contributing buildings, 11 contributing sites, 10 contributing structures, 7 contributing objects and a 900-acre forest in an early second home community established by primarily German/Austrians and Norwegians from New York City. It developed between the early-1930s and mid-1940s, and includes lodges that are typically one or two stories high and have fieldstone foundations. They are characterized by structural stone walls and full log construction and frame dwellings clad with half-log wood siding and fieldstone veneer, chimneys and terraces. The district also includes a boat lodge with a ping-pong room and terrace, a swimming dock, a boat dock, a tea pavilion, a recreation pavilion, a lookout pavilion, shuffleboard courts, a tennis court, a playing field, a picnic area, rustic improvements throughout the forest and the remnants of a hunting cabin.</p><br>
<p>The on-site National Register plaque states:</p><br>
<p>"Valhalla Highlands was initiated in the early 1930s as a stylistically cohesive summer community with individual lodges, shared amenities, including Lake Valhalla, community buildings and a 1,100 acre forest with trails and rustic facilities and Valkyrie, the home of Ludwig Novoting, the creator of Valhalla Highlands.</p><br>
<p>All the lodges were placed on a planned layout with a carefully organized system of boulder-lined unpaved roads, vistas and landscape features. No two lodges were the same and the community was harmoniously placed within its magnificent natural setting. The District was an early occurrence of seasonal retreats for New Yorkers in the rural areas of the Hudson Valley during the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The lodges, roads, common facilities and landscaping were a rustic interpretation of the Storybook Style popular in America between World War I and World War II. With whimsy and creative playfulness, the Valhalla Highlands interpretation was picturesque and nostalgic. These qualities were evident in the buttressed field stone and half-log walls, swooping multi-color asphalt shingle roofs with peaks, asymmetrical roof pitches, prominent field stone chimneys, cantilevered entry canopies, free-standing peeled log arches at the entrances, window awnings, half-log flower boxes, small-paned steel and wood windows, field stone paths and steps, boulder borders, rock gardens with elf figurines and knotty pine interiors. The ensemble blurred the line of fantasy and true reality with an inherent sense of humor. The playful, fairy-tale aesthetic of Valhalla Highlands matched the community’s theme of a Nordic paradise.</p><br>
<p>Eighty years later, on November 12, 2014, when the United States Department of the Interior listed the Valhalla Highlands Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places, the district was essentially unchanged from its time of origin."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Brownell–Cornell–Gibbs Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Buskirk, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built between about 1800 and 1825, and consists of a two-story, banked, rectangular frame main block with an attached large two-story woodshed. It has a one-story, hip roofed addition dated to 1943, and Federal style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing threshing barn , tool barn / grain house , hen house , garage , and wagon shed .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Thomas–Wiley–Johnson Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Johnsonville, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built between about 1790 and 1800, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style frame main block with a kitchen wing added. It was remodeled about 1870, and has another wing added about the same time. Also on the property are the contributing main barn group with cow barn and milk house additions , hen house and corn crib , work shop , and garage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Cornell–Manchester Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County, New York. The main house was built between about 1820 and 1840, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, gable roofed frame main block with an adjoining 1 1/2-story, gable roofed block added about 1850. It was remodeled about 1900 and three open Queen Anne style porches were added. Another 1 1/2-story frame house was added to the property about 1860. Also on the property are the contributing tool barn / grain house , pig house , blacksmith&#39;s shop , smokehouse , grain house , corn cribs , two hay sheds , shed , garage and vehicle shed , hen house , small pig house , three hen houses , and barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Baum–Wallis Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Johnsonville, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1811, and is a one-story, square frame dwelling on a stone foundation. It has a gable roof with dormer added about 1915. Also on the property are the contributing wagon barn , main barn group , corn crib , ice house / milk house / well house , and pig house / garage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Cannon–Brownell–Herrington Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Johnsonville, Rensselaer County, New York. The original section of the farmhouse was built about 1830, with the central block and wing added about 1870. The house consists of a two-story, central block with flanking 1 1/2-story wings. It has a long woodshed ell, now converted to an apartment. Also on the property are the contributing corn crib , main barn group , and sheep barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Halford–Hayner Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built between about 1835 and 1850, and consists of a -story, five-bay, frame main block with a later two-story rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing shed , ice house , main barn group , wagon / tool barn , hay barn , and shop / garage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Auclair–Button Farmstead is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Melrose, Rensselaer County, New York. The original section of the farmhouse was built about 1785, with the main block built in 1849. It is a two-story, five-bay, frame house with a side-gabled roof. It features a full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing garage , ice house , tenant house  and garage , shop barn , dairy barn , milk house , horse barn , hen house , and corn crib .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Cartin–Snyder–Overacker Farmstead is a historic farm located at Melrose, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmstead includes a number of contributing outbuildings. The farmhouse was built in 1974 to replace one burned that year. The contributing resources include the outhouse , garage , ice house , milk house , chicken house , threshing barn , tool barn , horse barn , and rabbit house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Adams–Myers–Bryan Farmstead is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Valley Falls, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1855, and consists of three blocks. It consists of a two-story, Greek Revival style main block with a two-story side wing and 1 1/2-story rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing main barn group , pump house , milk house , horse barn , corn house , pig house , carriage barn , ice house , and outhouse .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Primrose Hill Historic District encompasses a group of high-quality 19th century residences in Belfast, Maine. Set on Church and High Streets between Primrose and Anderson, this area is where the elite of early 19th-century Belfast built their homes. Four of the five most prominent houses are Federal, while one is Gothic Revival in style. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Primrose Hill area of Belfast was developed after High Street was laid out in 1805. The part of High Street north of the citys central business district is elevated, with commanding views over the downtown and harbor beyond. As such, it became a desirable location for the citys elite to live. The historic district, when described in 1973 for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, described only five properties, extending along High Street from Primrose Street south to a triangular junction with High and Church Streets, and then south on Church Street to Anderson. Its bounds, however, are actually larger, as a portion of Anderson Street (between Church and Waldo Streets) was included in a 1993 amendment to the Belfast Historic District due to its earlier inclusion in this district. (The Belfast Historic District was intended to completely include this district).</p><br>
<p>On the east side of High Street stand two of the districts finer houses. The Benjamin Field House is a Federal style two-story wood-frame house, with a hip roof, while directly to its south is the 1824 Benjamin Haseltine House, also Federal style. On the west side of High Street, opposite the Field House, stands the Johnson-Pratt House, built in 1812 for the son of one of Bowdoin Colleges founders. It has an elaborate Ionic portico, which was added about 1830. To its south stands the 1859 Gothic Revival House of Charles Haseltine, and the Anderson House, one of Belfasts finest brick Federal-style houses, stands further south; it was the residence of Hugh J. Anderson, a Governor of Maine. Houses on Anderson Street include a fine Gothic Revival cottage built by a ships captain about 1853.</p><br>
<p>Marsh–Link–Pollock Farm, also known as the Pollock Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1840, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, Greek Revival style timber frame dwelling with a one-story rear ell. The original section was expanded in the 1920s to its present size. Also on the property are the contributing main barn, a small light-frame barn that was used for calves and a concrete block cow barn with a silo .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Howard–Odmin–Sherman Farmstead, also known as the Hidden Pond Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1860, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a one-story rear ell in a transitional Greek Revival / Italianate style. Also on the property are the contributing carriage barn , outbuilding , grain house , main barn , henhouse , turkey coop , small outbuilding , and two pole barns .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Commercial District is a historic district encompassing a typical downtown city block of Little Rock, Arkansas, during the first half of the 20th century. The district consists of ten buildings lining the east side of the 300 block of Main Street. This area was completely redeveloped after a fire in February 1900 sparked an explosion at an arms company, levelling the block. The buildings in the district are stylistically diverse, and were built between 1900 and 1955.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Four of the district&#39;s buildings are also individually listed on the National Register: the Fulk Building, the Taylor Building, the Rose Building, and the Gus Blass Department Store.</p><br>
<p>Tomhannock Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1845, and is a one-story, vernacular Greek Revival style brick church building with a front gable roof. It is topped by an open belfry topped by a low pyramidal roof. The interior was remodeled in 1871 and 1896. A two-story frame addition was built about 1980 to replace a two-story social hall added in 1855. The church was abandoned by United Methodist Conference in 2010 and subsequently adapted for municipal purposes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Angelo Marre House, also known as Villa Marre, is a historic house at 1321 Scott Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a high style Italianate house, two stories in height, with a flared mansard roof and a -story tower set above its entry. Built of painted brick, it has been a landmark of the city since its construction, and has had at least two notable occupants: Jeff Davis, a Governor of Arkansas, and Edgar Burton Kinsworthy, a state attorney general and long-serving state senator.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The home was used for exterior shots of Sugarbaker & Associates Interior Design on the television series Designing Women. It was also used for an exterior shot of the Pittsburgh home of Jennifer Bloom in the 2006 television miniseries The Lost Room.</p><br>
<p>United Waste Manufacturing Company Building, also known as the Hudson River Terminal Warehouse Company and "The Fortress", is a historic warehouse building located at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1902, and is a six-story, load bearing masonry building in the Romanesque Revival style. It features castellated detailing, three blind arcades, crenellated corner towers, and a prominent main tower that resembles castle keep.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Square Historic District encompasses a collection of sixteen nearly identical houses in Little Rock, Arkansas. The houses are set on 17th  and 18th  Streets between McAlmont and Vance Streets, and were built in 1917-18 as rental properties Josephus C. Marshall. All are single-story wood-frame structures, with hip roofs and projecting front gables, and are built to essentially identical floor plans. They exhibit only minor variations, in the placement of porches and dormers, and in the type of fenestration.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Marshall_Square_Historic_District.JPGHouses on Vance Street, Little Rock, Arkansas</p><br>
<p>Marshall_Square_Historic_District,_9_of_10.JPGOld and new: house with car in Marshall Square Historic District</p><br>
<p>Marshall_Square_Historic_District,_6_of_10.JPGYellow theme: house in Marshall Square Historic District</p><br>
<p>Searle, Gardner and Company Cuff and Collar Factory, also known as the Marshall Ray Building, is a historic textile factory located at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1898–1899, and consists of a five-story, 18 bay wide, rectangular, main block with an attached two-story block. It features segmental arched windows and Romanesque Revival style design elements. The building housed a collar and cuff, and later shirt, manufacturing plant into the mid-1900s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Scott Covered Bridge is a covered bridge spanning the West River in Townshend, Vermont. Built in 1870, it is at 277 ft one of the longest covered bridges in the state , exhibiting three different forms of support: a Town lattice truss, kingpost trusses, and laminated arches. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is closed to all traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Scott Covered Bridge is located west of Townshend&#39;s main village, spanning the West River just west of Vermont Route 30 south of Townshend Dam. The bridge consists of three spans: a main Town lattice truss span that is 166 ft long, and two kingspost truss spans with a combined length of 111 ft. The Town lattice truss has been strengthened with laminated arches. The bridge has a total width of 20 ft, and a roadway width of 16 ft. The sides and gable ends of the bridge are sheathed with vertical board siding.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was constructed in 1870, with original ownership by the town of Townshend. Originally, the kingspost trusses were exposed, but they were covered in 1873. The bridge was ceded to the Vermont Historical Commission (later the ) in 1955 and subsequently added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The bridge has been modified on four occasions to improve the structural stability: adding a concrete facing to the piers in 1915; adding structural support beams in 1961, and a concrete pier in 1981. The bridge was closed to foot traffic in 2012, after a routine inspection showed serious structural integrity issues.</p><br>
<p>In May 2017, the Scott Covered Bridge was reopened to foot and bicycle traffic after a $2.35 million repair project administered by the Vermont Agency of Transportation and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>Troy Waste Manufacturing Company Building, also known as the McCarthy Building, is a historic textile factory located at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1908, and is a five-story, triangular shaped brick building with a flat roof and high basement. It features a tall square stair tower, formal entranceway, and Classical Revival style terra cotta ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Theta Xi Fraternity Chapter House, also known as the Alpha of Theta Xi Fraternity Chapter House, or less formally as The Zoo, is a historic fraternity house associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and located at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1931 as a chapter house for Theta Xi fraternity, and is a -story, irregular "T" plan, Tudor Revival style hollow tile building with a brick veneer. It sits on a poured concrete foundation and has a tall slate gable roof. The building features an entry pavilion, half-timbering, and a Tudor arch limestone entryway.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Property Acquisition and Construction</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded attempts of the fraternity to secure land owned by the university occurred in 1910, through letters sent to the then school president and brother Palmer C. Ricketts. However, due to the schools long term plans to expand creating more dormitories along with a graduate program the only one plot of land was available at the time. This land was described as a "hillside nobody would think to build on," and "practically useless", by the then president and would later become the E-Complex dormitory. That year, a different plot of land was purchased from the university for $25,000 in the area where the Sage Dining Hall and RPI Playhouse currently reside. A proposal for the construction was created by brothers in 1913 for this plot of land, but was never acted upon due to a lack of funding.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, the alumni of the chapter reorganized to reopen the discussion of building a permanent establishment for the chapter. Following one more acquisition and selling of a property on 15th Street in 1926, the final plot on Sage Avenue was purchased. Redesigns for this new property were proposed at that time by architects Joseph M. Lawlor, but due to the Great Depression were not able to be acted upon until 1931. An offer for the construction of the house for $50,000, gracious for the time, was agreed upon, split half between money owned by the chapter and loans taken out from a local bank.</p><br>
<p>On June 13, 1931, the construction commenced with brother Ricketts placing the first stone. A crowd of around 100 was present including many alumni responsible for the organization and ultimate completion of the chapter house. By its eventual completion in September of the same year, the building had taken more than 20 years of effort and upwards of $57,000 for its completion.</p><br>
<p>Dickinson Hill Fire Tower is a historic fire observation station located at Grafton, Rensselaer County, New York. The 60 ft, steel frame lookout tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation in 1924. Also on the property are the contributing concrete water tank and foundation of the observer&#39;s cabin. It has not been staffed since 1972, and is the last remaining fire tower in Rensselaer County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Connors House  is a historic house at 277 State Street in Bangor, Maine. Built about 1866–67, it is a fine example of the "Bangor style" of Second Empire architecture, notable as the last known work of architect Benjamin S. Deane, and as the home of Edward Connors, operator of Bangors log boom and the citys wealthiest Irish-American. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1983; it now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is located east of Bangor&#39;s central business district at the southwest corner of State Street (United States Route 2) and Birch Street. It is a rambling three-story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof that has a flared eave, and matchboard siding treated to resemble stone. At the center of the north-facing front is a broad bellcast dormer, emulating the curve of the mansard roof flare. The eaves are bracketed and dentillated, and windows are topped by bracketed cornices. The front entrance is sheltered by an elaborately decorated porch.</p><br>
<p>It was built about 1866-67 for Edward Connors, an Irishman who apparently inherited a fortune through his wife, and was the owner and operator of Bangors log boom, a critical element of the towns booming lumber-based economy of the time. The house was designed by local architect Benjamin S. Deane, and is his last known work. The house is stylistically of a type known as the "Bangor style", and is the only one of the type in the city whose architect is known. The house served for many years as Bangor&#39;s Home for Aged Women, resulting in a number of additions, generally sympathetic in style to the original house. The house now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>Park Farm is a historic farm property at 26 Woodchuck Hill Road in Grafton, Vermont. With a farmhouse dating to about 1820, and most of its outbuildings to the 19th century, the farm remains an excellent example of a typical 19th-century Vermont farmstead. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Park Farm is located northwest of Grafton Village, on 65 acre of land on either side of Middletown Road. The farmstead is located at the corner of Woodchuck Hill Road and Middletown Road, not far from the early town center of Grafton, and is part of the Middletown Rural Historic District. It is set amid open fields and an old apple orchard. The main farmhouse is a 1½ story wood frame Cape, built about 1820, to which a number of additions have been made. Outbuildings on the farmstead lie on both sides of Middletown Road, and include a chicken house, several barns, a sheep shed, and an equipment shed. One of the oldest elements of the farm is a c. 1790 spring-fed well, which was probably originally associated with a neighboring property.</p><br>
<p>The farm is notable for its long association with the local Park family, which acquired the farm in 1842, and has held it for eleven generations, excepting only a brief period outside the family in the 20th century. The farm exhibits a basic pattern of land use and buildings that are typical of the 19th century, when virtually all of its structures were built. The extended Park family historically owned significant amounts of land in the community, and this is the only farm that is still in the hands of its descendants. The farm has fluctuated in size, reaching a maximum size of about 200 acre.</p><br>
<p>Cyrus Rexford House is a historic home located at Rexford, Saratoga County, New York. It consists of a three-story, Stick style main block built in 1883, with a -story rear block built about 1850. It also has a one-story rear ell. The main block has a steeply pitched hipped roof with bracketed overhang. The house features an elaborate mix of decorative detailing and polychrome paint scheme. Also on the property are the contributing carriage house and gambrel roofed barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Jonesville Store is a historic general store located at Jonesville, Saratoga County, New York. It was built about 1860, and expanded about 1900. It consists of a -story front block with a two-story rear block. The frame building is sheathed in clapboard and has a gable roof. It sits on a brick over limestone foundation. The three-bay front facade features a one-story full-width porch. The building once housed a store and post office, and remains a retail outlet and popular community gathering place.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham Best House is a historic house located at 113 Vischer Ferry Road near Vischer Ferry, Saratoga County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1815 by Abraham and Harriet Best of Claverack, Columbia County, and is a two-story, five-bay wide, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a -story rear kitchen ell. The house sits on a limestone foundation and the front block has a side gable roof and interior end chimneys. The house was renovated in the 1940s. The front facade features a Palladian window on the second floor over the main entry. Also on the property is a contributing barn (c. 1900).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Garnsey House is a historic home located near Rexford, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1789, and is a two-story, five-bay, double-pile, Federal style brick dwelling painted white. The house sits on a limestone foundation and has a side-gable roof and central chimney. The house has two small rear additions. Also on the property is a contributing barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Mohawk Valley Grange Hall, also known as Union Hall and Moser Hall, is a historic Grange hall located near Grooms Corners, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1896, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay by four bay, timber frame building. It sits on a dry lad stone foundation and has a steep gable roof. A one-story, shed roofed addition was built in 1934. The Grange purchased the building in 1931, and deeded the building to the Town of Clifton Park in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Smith&#39;s Grain and Feed Store is a historic feed store located at Elnora, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1892, and is a 2 1/2-story, gable roofed frame building with three additions. It is sheathed in clapboard and has a standing seam metal roof topped by an air vent cupola. Also on the property is a contributing railroad building; a 1 1/2-story, rectangular frame building dated to the early-20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
