<p>The Camden Great Fire Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the central business district of the town of Camden, Maine, United States. Extending from the Camden Opera House north nearly to Atlantic Avenue, the area&#39;s buildings were almost all built in 1893, following a large fire in November 1892 that swept through the area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Camden is located on the west side of Penobscot Bay in the Mid Coast area of Maine. Its town center is at the mouth of the Megunticook River, where the first English settlers established mills in 1771. The town was incorporated in 1791, and grew in the 19th century as a shipping and shipbuilding port. Its Main Street (now USA Route 1 ) developed in part across the dam that spans the river just above the harbor, and was lined with mainly wood frame commercial and residential buildings until 1 AM on November 10¸ 1892, when a fire began on the east side of Main Street. The fire swept across Main Street, destroying everything on the dam, and then moved south, across Mechanic Street, to destroy the buildings on the north side of Elm Street (the southern continuation of Main Street, also US 1), as far south as Washington Street. The fire claimed 18 residences and 40 commercial buildings, including the old opera house and social meeting halls.</p><br>
<p>After the fire, the town enacted legislation requiring permanent new construction in the affected area to be built out of fireproof materials. As a result, most of the buildings in the area are built out of brick and stone; a few buildings located on the dam were originally intended to be temporary structures, but have never been replaced. Eighteen of the 22 buildings in the area were built in 1893, despite the global economic depression. Prominent buildings include the Masonic hall, a four-story brick building whose Romanesque features have been harmed by a modern redesign of its ground floor retail spaces, and the Camden Opera House, built on the site of the old one at Elm and Washington, which also houses town offices. The result of the rebuilding effort is a remarkably cohesive late 19th-century commercial center, which has retained much of its period charm.</p><br>
<p>The Ritchie Block is a historic commercial building at 465-473 Main Street in downtown Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1895-96, it is a high quality example of Classical Revival architecture, with a distinctive pressed metal entablature. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ritchie Block is a three-story yellow brick building, located on the south side of Main Street (Vermont Route 9), opposite its junction with School Street, in downtown Bennington. Its ground floor has four storefronts, each with display windows and a recessed entry, with two on either side of the main building entrance. The entrance is set in a round-arch opening, with a rounded transom window above the double door. The upper two floors are divided into five paneled sections, articulated by brick pilasters. The outer four sections each have three sash windows, while the central one, over the main entrance, has one on each level. The building is crowned by an elaborate pressed metal projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1895-96 by Alexander Keith Ritchie, a Scottish immigrant who was operating a dry goods business in Benningtons central Putnam Block. Commercial development was extending eastward along Main Street, and Ritchie had purchased the lot (with a residence on it) in 1891. The house, an impressive Greek Revival structure with temple front, was turned around and moved back in the lot, and now faces Union Street. The upper floor of Ritchies block was designed for use by the local Masonic lodge, which occupied the space until 1911. The space was occupied through the 20th century by a succession of fraternal and social organizations, including the Elks and the American Legion.</p><br>
<p>Ridgewood Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 177 Salem Street in North Andover, Massachusetts. Organized in 1849 and opened in 1850, it is the town&#39;s third cemetery, and the first in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is owned and operated by a non-profit cemetery association, and remains in active use, with about 3,000 marked burials.</p><br>
<h2>Layout and history</h2><br>
<p>Ridgewood Cemetery is located in central North Andover, on the south side of Salem Street between Johnson Street and Marbleridge Road. It is a rough oblong property, extending south nearly to Abbott Street. Facing Salem Street, the property is edged by a fieldstone wall, with an impressive early 20th-century bronze gate as its primary entrance. Secondary entrances are located further southeast on Salem Street and on Marbleridge Road. The oldest portion of the cemetery is on the rise between the two Salem Street entrances. From this height the property slopes down to a stream that roughly divides the property, with a rise on the far side that levels off. The most modern sections of the cemetery are on the far side of the stream.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery organization was established in 1849, and the first burial took place on November 9, 1850. It was originally called Andover Cemetery, but was renamed Ridgewood Cemetery after North Andover was separated from Andover in 1865.</p><br>
<p>The first sections of the cemetery followed the rural cemetery concepts, with winding lanes and sculptural burial sites. In the 1930s an expansion was designed by landscape architect Harland P. Kelsey in consultation with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. The gates, a gift of mill owner George Gilbert, were designed by Julius A. Schweinfurth and installed in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The Reichardt House is a historic house at 1201 Welch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1870 and significantly altered in subsequent decades, it is now a two-story five-bay wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof and weatherboard siding. A central gabled section projects from the front, and a single-story porch wraps across the front, supported by delicate turned posts. The house was built by Edward Reichardt, an early German immigrant to the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Reid House is a historic house at 1425 Kavanaugh Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is a large two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1911 in the Dutch Colonial style to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson. It has a side-gable gambrel roof that extends over the front porch, with shed-roof dormers containing bands of sash windows flanking a large projecting gambreled section. The porch is supported by stone piers, and extends left of the house to form a porte-cochere.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Retan House is a historic house at 2510 South Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a modest two-story frame structure, with shallow-pitch hip roof with broad eaves. A single-story porch extends across the front, with a broad gable roof supported by stone piers. The entrance is on the left side, and there is a three-part window at the center of the front under the porch. Above the porch are a band of four multi-pane windows in the Prairie School style. The house was built in 1915 to a design by Charles L. Thompson, and is one of his finer examples of the Prairie School style.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Derrick Boat No. 8, also known as DB 8, is a historic floating derrick located at Oswego, Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1927, and it is one of the few surviving steam-powered floating derricks to have worked on the New York State Barge Canal. It has a 75 foot by 28 foot hull composed of both riveted and welded heavy steel plate. The site of the vessel&#39;s caretaker is the H. Lee White Marine Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at Springfield Center, Otsego County, New York, in the Diocese of Albany. It is known for its historic church, built in 1889, and moved to its present site in 1902.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Episcopal worship in the area began in the spring of 1875, when the Rev. E. Folsom Baker, rector of St. Paul’s Church in East Springfield, began holding occasional services. An official mission in Springfield Center was not established until 1889, and the cornerstone for the new church was laid on September 21. The congregation was elevated to a full parish in 1899.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The complex also includes the parish hall, the rectory, and the wagon shed. The fin-de-siècle church building exhibits an unusual combination of Shingle and Gothic Revival styles and designed to evoke the feel of a medieval English chapel. The rectory was built in 1902, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a one-story wraparound porch. The parish hall was built in 1910–1911, and is a two-story, Gothic Revival style stuccoed and shingled building that complements the church. The group was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 as St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church Complex.</p><br>
<p>The Bath Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century business district of Bath, Maine, along with an adjacent period neighborhood. The city has a long history as one of the nation&#39;s preeminent shipbuilding centers. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>What is now the city of Bath was first settled by Europeans in mid-17th century, and was from an early date recognized as an ideal spot for shipbuilding. It is set on a stretch of the lower Kennebec River that was originally called Long Reach, because it could be sailed without changing the rigging. The town was incorporated as Bath in 1781, named after Bath, England. In the 19th century the city grew up on the west bank of the river, with the banks lined by shipyards. West of the river neighborhoods grew up north and south of a central business district, now located just north of United States Route 1. The neighborhood north of the downtown area is where some of it finest early residential architecture is to be found. The citys fortunes started to decline with the advent of steel ships, but the 1889 founding of the Bath Iron Works (now the citys only shipyard), and its success as a major shipbuilder for the United States Navy buoyed the local economy.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the south by US 1 and Centre Street, on the west by High Street, the north by Beacon Street, and the east by the Kennebec River. The downtown is located in the southeastern part of this area, and includes fine mid-19th buildings such as the former United States Customhouse and Post Office, designed by Ammi B. Young and built in 1853–58, the Sagadahoc County Courthouse, built 1869 to a design by Portland architect Francis H. Fassett, and the Italianate 1863 Church Block. The residential areas to the north and west include fine examples of Italianate and Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The School Street Duplexes are a pair of historic two-family worker houses at 343-345 and 347-349 School Street in Bennington, Vermont. Built about 1916, they are well-preserved examples of typical worker housing units of the 1910s. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The School Street duplexes stand north of downtown Bennington, on the east side of School Street at its junction with County Street. The two buildings are nearly identical two-story wood-frame structures, with side gable roofs, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundations. Their front facades are four bays wide, with entrances in the center two bays. Each has a hipped-roof single-story porch extending across the front facade, with Queen Anne style turned balustrades and posts. The interiors of both buildings retain trim and other details original to their period of construction.</p><br>
<p>These two houses were built sometime between 1916 and 1921, during a period of prosperity in Bennington that followed the First World War. They were built by two local residents as a speculative venture to provide rental housing to workers in the nearby mills (located a short walk away), and were probably identical in design as an economic measure to reduce costs. They went through only a few owners prior to their acquisition in 1990 by the Regional Affordable Housing Corporation, which rehabilitated the buildings and converted them into a four-unit condominium complex.</p><br>
<p>The Mike Meyer Disfarmer Gravesite is a historic gravesite in the Heber Springs Cemetery, Heber Springs, Arkansas. The grave is marked by a simple granite marker, bearing the legend "Mike Meyer Disfarmer / 1884–1959", with an egg-and-dart pattern in the bottom center between the dates, and a floral design above each of the dates. It is the only known surviving place associated with Mike Disfarmer, a noted regional portrait photographer. Disfarmer had his studio in Heber Springs, and photographed mainly local subjects. His work was the subject of a major retrospective in New York City in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Heber Springs Commercial Historic District encompasses the early commercial heart of Heber Springs, Arkansas. The district extends along Main Street, between Broadway and 6th Street, including several buildings along some of the cross streets. The area was developed beginning in 1881, and grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring a diversity of commercial architecture from that period. Prominent buildings include the Cleburne County Courthouse  and the Morton Building at 101 South 3rd Street, the city&#39;s oldest surviving commercial building .</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It includes several individually listed properties, including the courthouse, the T.E. Olmstead & Son Funeral Home, and the Woman&#39;s Community Club Band Shell in Spring Park.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Retan House is a historic house at 506 North Elm Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a complex cross-gabled hip roof configuration studded by gabled projections. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, and it has a single-story wraparound porch with turned posts and delicate woodwork balustrade and spindled frieze. The house was built in 1893 for Albert Retan, an early investor in the Pulaski Heights subdivision where it stands.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Arvine and Elizabeth W. White House is a historical residence located in Albia, Iowa, United States. It is the only brick house in town that remains from before the American Civil War. The vernacular-style house has an Adamesque character about it, and it is reminiscent of the style popularized in by Charles Bulfinch and advocated by Asher Benjamin as late as the 1840s. Because White was originally from the Western Reserve of Ohio he was no doubt familiar with the style as it was popular there. The two-story brick house rests on a foundation of native limestone, and it is capped with a hipped roof. It is four bays across the front with the main entrance in the first bay from the left. The house also features a cornice, bracketed eaves, and a 1½-story wing attached to the rear of the main block. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Henry County Courthouse, located at 307 West Center Street in Cambridge, is the county courthouse serving Henry County, Illinois. Built in 1878–1880, the courthouse is the fourth used in Henry County and the second built in Cambridge. Prominent Midwestern architects T. J. Tolan and Son designed the courthouses in the Second Empire style. The courthouses four facades each feature three pavilions, one at the center and one at each edge; the main facade on the east side has a clock tower atop its central pavilion. The buildings mansard roof includes several dormers and is surrounded by a dentillated cornice. Decorative stone elements such as moldings, belt courses, and quoins are used throughout the building.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. George A. Jenkins House is a historic house located at 223 South C Street in Albia, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1926, it is the largest Tudor Revival house in the city. The 2½-story, wood-framed house features a symmetrical facade, and half-timbering that is associated with the style. It is capped with a steeply pitched gable roof and gable dormers. It has an unusual exterior cladding of concrete with river gravel cobblestone set in the wet concrete during construction. The hen&#39;s egg sized stones are more than likely from the Des Moines River near Eddyville, Iowa, as they are consistent with other rocks available from that location.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Jacob H. Patten House is a historic home located in the former village of Lansingburgh at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1881–1882, and is a two-story, two-bay-wide by three-bay-deep, Italianate style brick dwelling. It sits on a brick and stone foundation and a pitched roof hidden by a low parapet. The front facade features a one-story, shallow, hipped roof porch with square, chamfered columns and brackets. Also on the property is a contributing two-story carriage house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick Francis Woodland Palace is a historic house located in Francis Park 2.5 mi northeast of Kewanee, Illinois. Frederick Francis, a multi-talented architect, engineer, and artist, began work on the house in 1889; while he and his wife moved into the house a year later, he continued to work on it until his death in 1926. The house has an eclectic design noted both for its vernacular interpretation of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival architecture and its innovative engineering. The buildings exterior design includes a hand-chipped brick exterior, a concrete tower above the main entrance, two porches on the south side, a solarium on the west side, and a gambrel roof. The interiors noteworthy features include a bedroom designed like a Pullman sleeping car, a system of levers which opened both front doors at once, a hearth with a flue system that also helped heat the house, a water filtration and heating system supplied by a cistern, and several secret compartments.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 14, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Elbert-Bates House is a historical residence located in Albia, Iowa, United States. The house is named for two of its earlier owners. Benjamin F. Elbert was a cashier and member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Albia, as well as a cattle farmer. He relocated to Des Moines, where he was a successful businessman. David W. Bates was a local attorney and banker. He served as the Iowa State Superintendent of Banking during the Great Depression. Elbert had the original house built from 1873 to 1875. Bates had the two-story Prairie Style-influenced solarium built onto the rear of the house from 1917 to 1918. The house originally had a wooden porch on the front, but, because of extensive wood rot, it was removed at the same time the solarium was added.</p><br>
<p>The house is a vernacular form of the Italianate style. It is one of four large brick houses in Albia known as the Four Sisters. They all feature a running brick bonding on their exterior walls. It is an unusual architectural feature for southern Iowa in the period they were built, and it also suggests they have the same architect and/or brick mason. The T.B. Perry House, one of the other houses in this group, was designed by Burlington, Iowa architect Charles A. Dunham. He was also responsible for the Vermilion Estate in adjacent Appanoose County, which is similar in style to the original block of this house. It is possible he is the architect for all of these houses. The Elbert-Bates house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Coletti–Rowland–Agan Farmstead is a historic farm and national historic district located at Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York. The farm property consists of an East Farm and a West Farm. The East Farm includes a house , shop barn , tractor shed , hen house , dairy barn , horse barn , oat barn , and tool barn  The West Farm farmhouse was about 1870, and has a 2 1/2-story, Greek Revival style main block with two 1 1/2-story additions. Also on the property are the contributing shed , horse barn , garage , main barn group , milk house , oat house , and two corn cribs .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Main School, also known as the Suffern Central School District Administration Building, is a historic school building located at Hillburn, Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story hollow tile and concrete building covered in stucco and set on a raised basement. The building features Colonial Revival style design elements and originally housed eight classrooms. In 1943, it was the focus of a prominent school desegregation battle, following the overturning of New York State&#39;s segregation law in 1938.</p><br>
<p>In 1943, the attorney Thurgood Marshall won a disparity case regarding integration of the schools of Hillburn, 11 years before his landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. He represented the village&#39;s African-American parents. In 2010, the state legislature designated May 17 as Thurgood Marshall Day in honor of his work in civil rights. Mixed-race children who lived in the town of Ramapo attended the Brook School in Hillburn, a wood structure that did not have a library, indoor bathrooms or gymnasium. The Main School was reserved for white children and included a gymnasium, a library and indoor plumbing.</p><br>
<p>It is now used as the headquarters of the Suffern Central School District. The Rockland African Diaspora Heritage Center in Pomona, New York, has an exhibit of artifacts and photographs loaned by a student who attended the Brook School. The student went on to college, and eventually taught English and history.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The T.B. Perry House is a historical residence located in Albia, Iowa, United States. Theodore Perry was a local attorney and businessman who served two terms in the Iowa Senate. He is also responsible for a couple of buildings in the Albia Square and Central Commercial Historic District. This house is a High Victorian eclectic style structure. It is one of four large brick houses in Albia known as the Four Sisters. They all feature a running brick bond on their exterior walls. It is an unusual architectural feature for southern Iowa in the period they were built, and it also suggests they have the same architect and/or brick mason. The Elbert-Bates House is another house in this group. The Perry house was designed by Charles A. Dunham from the prominent Burlington, Iowa architectural firm of Dunham & Jordan. It is noteworthy for its elaborate roofing system. It features five dormer windows, two hip-and-deck roofs, three gable roofs, and two hipped roofs. The steeply pitched roof also has finials, pendants, and brackets with a modified frieze under the eaves. Other elements of the richly ornamented exterior include barge boards on the second story and entry gables, and a front porch with Gothic tracery millwork. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Noble-Kendall House, also known as Kendall Place, is a historical residence located in Albia, Iowa, United States. Alvis E. Noble was a local businessman and contractor who operated a concrete block factory. He and his wife Cordelia had this house built after their previous house was destroyed in a fire. Completed in 1907, it was built with concrete block, which was an unusual building material for residential construction at the time.</p><br>
<p>This Neoclassical-style house is also associated with Nathan E. Kendall. He was a local attorney who became a politician. A Republican, he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1899, and served as Speaker of the House during the 32nd and 32nd extra sessions. From 1909 to 1913 he served the United States House of Representatives representing Iowas 6th congressional district. Due to health concerns, he pulled out of the 1912 race and returned to Albia to practice law. He and his wife Belle bought his house in 1916. Kendall was then elected the 23rd Governor of Iowa in 1920, and served two terms. Ill health plagued his second term. The Kendalls remained in Des Moines after he was governor, eventually living in the home he bought from his colleague Senator Albert B. Cummins. The Kendalls donated their house in Albia to the Albia Woman&#39;s Club. From that time it has been known as "Kendall Place", and it has been used as a club house and community meeting center. Nathan Kendall had his cremated remains buried on the lawn of Kendall Place in 1936. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Gothic House is a historical residence located south of Albia in rural Monroe County, Iowa, United States. Built in 1885 it is a rare example of a Gothic Revival house located on a farm in southeast Iowa. The 2 story brick house features nine Gothic arch windows on the first floor and three on the second level. A polygonal bay is located on the south elevation. The structure follows a T-plan, with the main entrance in the leg of the "T". A single-story porch is located in an inside corner, also on the south side. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Roaring Camp Bridge was a private covered bridge spanning Elk Creek about 6 mi west of Drain in the USA state of Oregon. and other local residents used it as well. Roaring Camp was also the name of a roadhouse near the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Roaring Camp Bridge, clad with unpainted vertical 1 by boards, had ribbon openings along its side walls. The Howe truss bridge, 88 ft long, was demolished in 1995. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, it was delisted after its demolition.</p><br>
<p>The Buxton Historic Townsite is a historical site located east of Lovilia, Iowa, United States in rural Monroe County. The unincorporated community was founded in 1895, developed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway as a coal mining company town to supply the railroad. It was a racially integrated community, in 1905 consisting of European immigrants and a majority-African American population, that was developed in the midst of southern Iowa coalfields.</p><br>
<p>With changes in the industry and conversion of locomotives to electric or diesel operations in the early 20th century, mining declined here. A large fire in 1916 added to the exodus of population as well. By 1927 the community had lost all of its residents. The town site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>J.E. Buxton came to Iowa in the mid-1880s as an agent for the Consolidation Coal Company. Consolidation was a division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and it mined coal in Iowa to fuel the company&#39;s trains. His son Ben succeeded him, and he was faced with a lack of workers, strikes, and the increased demand for workers from his competitors. The company sent H.A. Armstrong to the Southern United States to recruit African-American workers and white workers from nearby coal mines as strike breakers and cheap labor.</p><br>
<p>As the mines in Muchakinock in adjacent Mahaska County started to decline, the railroad extended its line to Monroe County. Ben Buxton, who became president of Consolidation Coal, founded his namesake town in 1895. All the coal mined there was bought by the railroad, which resulted in steady work for the miners and relatively high wages.</p><br>
<p>Ackers Coal Company and the Regal Coal Company opened mines near Buxton in the early 20th century. By that time Buxton grew to be the largest coal town west of the Mississippi River, and the largest unincorporated community in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Buxton was a company town. Consolidation Coals headquarters were located there. They built houses, schools, parks, a YMCA, and other establishments. The companys security guards acted as a police force. A department store, the Monroe Mercantile Company, was established in 1901. It employed 100 people until it burned down in 1911. The department store opened the same year as the post office. The town also had its own baseball team, known as the Buxton Wonders.</p><br>
<p>The residents developed a strong community, and African Americans made good lives for their families. It was a place served by African-American doctors and lawyers, as well as teachers. Several African-American citizens from Buxton rose to state and national prominence. E.A. Carter was the first black graduate from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He returned to Buxton in 1907 to become assistant chief surgeon for Consolidation Coal; he was promoted to chief surgeon in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Attorney George H. Woodson co-founded the Niagara Movement in 1905. It became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Woodson and fellow Buxton attorney Samuel Joe Brown later were co-founders, along with three other attorneys, of the National Bar Association in 1925, a black professional association.</p><br>
<p>Coal production reached its peak in 1914. African Americans had started to leave the town in 1911, and by 1915 European Americans were in the majority. More residents left after large fires destroyed parts of the town in 1916. By 1919 only about 400 people remained in Buxton. Most of the nearby mines were closed in the early 1920s because of decreased demand for coal to power locomotives.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, Consolidation&#39;s headquarters were moved to Haydock in western Monroe County. The same year the Buxton post office closed. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway ceased operations in the area in 1935, and the tracks were removed the following year. Subsequently, most of the remaining buildings in the town were torn down, and much of the land is either forested or farmed. A few structures from the town remain as ruins.</p><br>
<h2>Representation in other media</h2><br>
<p>The Kewanee Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 102 South Tremont Street in Kewanee, Illinois. The library was built in 1907–08 to house the citys public library, which was formed in 1875 and had previously occupied a room in the town hall. The citys first attempt at building a Carnegie library came in 1901, but it could not secure funding to match Carnegies $20,000 grant; later in the decade, it approved additional community funding and convinced Carnegie to supply an additional $5,000. Chicago architects Patton & Miller, who were well known for their work on Carnegie libraries, designed the Classical Revival building. The librarys design includes an entrance flanked by four stone columns and topped by a portico, stone pilasters to either side of the front windows, and a classical entablature with a frieze and dentillated cornice.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 2006.</p><br>
<p>First Reformed Church, also known as Piermont Reformed Church and First Protestant Dutch Church of Piermont, is a historic Reformed Church in America church located at Piermont, Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1946, and is a one-story, three-bay by four-bay, Wren-Gibbs Colonial Revival style church. It features a central square tower topped by a hexagonal steeple. Attached to the church is a side-gabled, I-shaped parish hall, completed in 1952. Also on the property is the contributing parsonage . Organized in 1839, it is home to oldest congregation in Piermont.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Moses Carlton House is a historic house on Hollywood Boulevard in Alna, Maine. Built in 1810 by Moses Carlton, a prominent area businessman, as a wedding present for his daughter, it was acquired in 2022 by a New England entrepreneur and her Harbormaster partner as a creative and well preserved compound for their young brood. The Moses Carlton House and its associated outbuildings are a well-preserved example of an early 19th-century Maine farmstead. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Moses Carlton House stands in a rural area east of the village of Head Tide, on 37 acre overlooking the Sheepscot River. The house and its associated outbuildings stand among fields on the north side of Hollywood Boulevard, about 0.2 mi east of Maine State Route 94. The house is surrounded by two barns and a carriage shed, all of 19th-century construction. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main facade faces south, and has a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and corniced entablature. A single-story ell extends to the rear. The interior follows a center-chimney plan, with a narrow winding stair in the entry vestibule, with parlors on either side of the chimney, and the old kitchen behind it.</p><br>
<p>Moses Carlton was one of the leading businessmen of nearby Wiscasset, which was the largest shipping port east of Boston in the 1790s. Carleton had five daughters, and built a house for each one, either in Alna or neighboring Whitefield. This house was probably built sometime between 1796 and 1810, for his daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Dole, who were married in 1796 and known to be occupying the house in 1810. It was sold out of the Carleton family in 1866.</p><br>
<p>The Jenny Lind Chapel is a historic church located at the southwest corner of 6th and Oak Streets in Andover, Illinois. Completed in 1851 for a congregation founded the previous year, the church was the first built by the Augustana Synod, the main Swedish Lutheran church in America. Pastor Lars Paul Ebsjorn founded the church for local Swedes who still wished to worship with the Church of Sweden; many were former members of the nearby Bishop Hill Colony who had lost faith in Eric Janssons teachings, while the others were Swedes who had immigrated to the area due to the colonys fame. The church was named in honor of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, who donated $1,500 for its construction. The building has a simple design with Greek Revival features, a common form for small rural churches of the era.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Eli and Diadama Beecher House  is a historic home located at 2 Military Road in Beecher Hollow, Saratoga County, New York.</p><br>
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<p>It was built about 1830, and is a T-shaped timber frame dwelling with a -story, front-gabled main block with flanking one-story wings and a -story rear wing. It is banked and has late-Federal/early-Greek Revival style detailing. The front room of the basement contains postal boxes reflecting the building&#39;s sometime use as the Beecher Hollow Post Office. The building housed a post office between 1880 and 1948. Also on the property is a contributing barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Dunning Street Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Malta, Saratoga County, New York. The cemetery was established about 1775, and incorporated by the Dunning Street Cemetery Association in 1908. It is the final resting place of many important early Malta residents, including veterans of American Revolutionary War and includes a number of notable examples of 19th century local funerary art. It remains an active burial ground.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Park Hill Fire Station and Water Company Complex is a collection of historic public facilities at 3417-21 Magnolia Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The complex consists of a fire station, a water company office, two concrete reservoirs, and two stone pump houses, all built in 1938 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration. The fire station and water company office are distinguished architecturally by their fieldstone exteriors and Mediterranean style, including red tiled roofs. They were designed by the Little Rock firm of Brueggeman, Swaim and Allen.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Park Hill Historic District encompasses the first suburban residential subdivision of the city of North Little Rock, Arkansas. It covers 172 acre in a geographically central part of the city, bisected by JFK Boulevard, and roughly bounded on the north by H Avenue, the west by Ridge Road, the east by Cedar Street and Plainview Circle, and the south by Crestview Drive. This area was developed beginning in 1922 by Justin Matthews, a major local developer, and greatly expanded the city&#39;s housing stock through the 1940s and 1950s. The vast majority of its architecture is residential, with commercial development limited to its major arterial roadways. The district includes Crestview Park and the Park Hill Fire Station and Water Company Complex.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Pyeatte-Mason Cemetery is a small historic cemetery at the junction of Waterside and Lily Streets on the west side of Maumelle, Arkansas. It occupies a small wooded lot, and has ten marked graves. It contains graves of some of Pulaski Countys earliest settlers, the Pyeatte and Carnahan families. They settled this area in 1812, calling it Crystal Hill. The only dated graves in the cemetery are marked 1818 and 1883. They were led by the brothers James Pyeatt, a farmer, and Jacob Pyeatt, who operated a ferry on the Arkansas River. The first Protestant services held in Arkansas were conducted in 1812 in the home of James Pyeatt by the Reverend John Carnahan of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The original settlement, called Pyeattstown, grew to 150 people by 1819. Pyeatte township was formed in 1823. James Pyeatt died in 1833 and was buried near his land in a small cemetery that is now near the Maumelle Country Clubs golf course. The township of Maumelle was formed in 1842. It was composed of two sections: Little Maumelle and Big Maumelle.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Galva Opera House is a historic theater located at 334-348 Front Street in Galva, Illinois. Built in 1878, the theater opened as the Blue Ribbon Temperance Hall; by 1886, it had lost its association with the temperance movement and was known by its present name. Galva&#39;s location on two major railroad lines allowed traveling theatrical troupes to visit the theater; shows produced by local talent performed in the building as well. Local schools also used the building for their graduation ceremonies, sporting events, and school plays until Galva High School opened its own auditorium in 1932. The building was used as a roller skating rink in the 1920s and 1930s and hosted Lions Club events in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 2020 the City Council accepted the only proposal for the Galva Opera House block at a special meeting. The proposal came from Brian Anderson of Galva, owner of Anderson Family Coffee which opened in Galva in 2019. Anderson said his proposal includes investing about $237,000 as part of a four-year plan to renovate the building. Anderson said his plans include having his coffee shop in the far east storefront. In the middle of three ground-level storefronts, he envisions a coffee lounge and craft and gift shop. Rm EL to facebook + Sp</p><br>
<p>The Olof Johnson House is a historic house located at 408 NW 4th Street in Galva, Illinois. The house was built in 1863 for Olof Johnson, one of the trustees of the Bishop Hill Colony. In addition to his position within the colony, Johnson also played a significant role in Galvas founding and named the community after his birthplace of Gävle, Sweden. Johnsons house has an Italianate design, a popular style in the late 19th century. The houses wraparound front porch is supported by thin columns and features paired brackets along its roof; similar brackets can be found on the eaves of the houses cross gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Camden Opera House Block is a historic multifunction building at 29 Elm Street in the center of Camden, Maine, United States. Built in 1893 after the town&#39;s great 1892 fire, it is one of its most prominent buildings. It houses town offices, a social meeting hall, and a 500-seat theater. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Camden Opera House Block is located near the southern end of Camden&#39;s downtown business district, opposite the town common on the southwest corner of Washington and Elm Streets, and within the Camden Great Fire Historic District. It is a rectangular brick three-story structure, with storefronts (now mostly occupied by town offices) on the ground floor, the theater and meeting spaces on the second floor, and a large social hall on the third floor. The exterior styling is Romanesque, with round-arch windows on the third floor of both street-facing facades, and the main entrance recessed in a round-arch opening on the Elm Street facade.</p><br>
<p>On November 19, 1892, a fire swept through downtown Camden, destroying a large number of wood-frame commercial structures, including the town offices, numerous fraternal meeting facilities, and the town&#39;s opera house. The Opera House was one of the most prominent buildings constructed in the wake of the fire, designed by Lewiston architect Elmer I. Thomas and completed in 1893. The building was designed to house not just town offices and the theater, but meeting spaces for local business organizations and the local post office, as well as two retail storefronts. In 1932, the former post office space, facing Washington Street, was remodeled to serve as Camden town offices. This renovation, which included a new Colonial Revival facade, was designed by Portland architect E. Leander Higgins. Since that time, the town has expanded into other parts of the building. The theater is used for town meetings, local productions of all types, and is one of the host sites of the Camden International Film Festival.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick Squire House is a historic house at 185 North Street in Bennington, Vermont. Built about 1887, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Queen Anne Victorian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
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<p>The Squire House is located north of downtown Bennington, at the southeast corner of North Street (United States Route 7) and Gage Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof, an exterior clad in clapboards and decoratively cut shingles, and a foundation of brick, stone, and concrete. It has a projecting front porch, now enclosed in glass, extending across the front, with a smaller second-story porch above. A band of cut shingles extends around the building between the first and second floors, with more such shingling in the gables above the second-floor windows. Small oval keystoned windows make decorative accents on the side facades. The interior retains original high-quality woodwork, including the staircase, builtin cabinetry, and spindlework transom screens on some of the windows. The dining room has a pressed metal ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1887 by Frederick Squire, a jeweler who was prominent in the local business community. The front porches and other Colonial Revival details were probably added by the house&#39;s second owner, who purchased it in 1904. For most of the 20th century it saw a variety of uses, including as a convent for an adjacent school, and as a real estate office.</p><br>
<p>The Albia Square and Central Commercial Historic District encompasses most of the central business district of Albia, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1985. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 92 resources, including 65 contributing buildings and 27 non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
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<p>Three locating commissioners chose the town site for Albia in 1845 for the county seat for Kishkekosh County, later renamed Monroe County. The town, originally called Princeton, was platted the same year. It included a central public square and streets that were laid out in a gridiron pattern following the points on a compass. Albia continues to follow this plan to the present. The 1858 brick county courthouse was built on the square and the early buildings surrounding the square were largely frame structures with "boom town" facades. Most were one- or two-story structures. The railroad arrived in Albia 1866 and Clinton Street connected the depot with the square. Three brick buildings from 1868 and the 1870s remain on the square and they are the oldest structures in the district. The last frame building on the square was destroyed in a fire in 1902.</p><br>
<p>Albia experienced an economic boom between 1900 and 1920 when Consolidation Coal Company relocated their operations to Buxton. They joined other coal mines that were already operating in Monroe County. During this time period the county led all Iowa counties in coal production. It peaked during World War I and then declined. Many of the contributing properties are commercial buildings built during the coal era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They are primarily two-story brick structures that follow the architectural styles that were prominent when they were built. The Monroe County Courthouse (1903) replaced the brick courthouse on the square, and it is individually listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>A newspaper story that called Albia the ugliest town in Iowa was the catalyst that First Iowa State Bank Board Chairman Robert T. Bates needed to organize in 1965 what became "Operation Facelift." Bates was a renowned interior designer who had worked in Hollywood before returning to Albia in the 1950s. Volunteers solicited a $25 contribution from building and business owners to the Albia Area Improvement Association fund as seed money for the project. Bates himself established a $2,000,000 trust for revitalization efforts in later years.</p><br>
<p>The Rapillard House is a historic house at 123 West 7th Street in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof, and an exterior of brick and stucco. A two-story cross-gabled section flanks the entrance on the right, while the roof above the center and left bays is broken by gabled dormers. A porch extends across the left two bays. The house was built in 1927, and is a good local example of vernacular English Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Home is a historic Roman Catholic orphanage on Camp Robinson Road in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large three-story brick building, with a tile hip roof and a stone foundation. The roof is topped by a cupola with a cross as a spire. The building is roughly H-shaped, with projecting wings on either side of central section. It has eighty bedrooms. It was built in 1910 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock.</p><br>
<p>The facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Appanoose County Sheriff&#39;s House and Jail is a historic structure located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Provisions for a jail in Appanoose County were not realized until 1855 when a small stone building was constructed. It was used for about ten years when one of the inmates easily escaped.</p><br>
<p>The county sent its inmates to Wapello County until 1872 when this facility was completed. Jacob Shaw and Thomas Wentworth built the two-part facility. The front portion of the structure is a two-story brick structure that served as the sheriff&#39;s residence. The single-story stone jail facility was in the rear of the structure. A single story frame wing that served as a kitchen and pantry was added to the south end of the house around 1879. In 1904 the Pauly Jail Building Company of St. Louis designed and installed the steel and iron cells when the building was remodelled. There were four cells for men and two for juveniles or women. A frame addition was made to the jail around the same time. A shed roof was added around 1940 and connected this addition to the kitchen addition, and created a carport.</p><br>
<p>The facility is located on the east side of Main Street, one and one-half blocks north of Centervilles Courthouse Square. The grade of Main Street has been raised over the years and it is now necessary to descend a set of steps to reach the front yard and entrance of the building. The facility was used as the countys jail until the mid-1960s, and in 1973 the county Board of Supervisors gave the building to the Appanoose County Historical Society for use as a museum. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The former United States Post Office is a historic building located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. The Georgian Revival style structure was designed by the architectural section of the USA Treasury Department, which was under the supervision of James Knox Taylor at that time. Completed in 1904, the main block of the building is five bays wide, and three deep. It has quoined corners, and it is capped with a hipped roof with a wooden modillion cornice and a narrow, decorative frieze. The roof originally had a cupola in the center and a balustrade. An addition was built onto the west side of the building in 1932, and an enclosed loading dock was added in 1951. The post office moved into a new facility on North Tenth Street in 1977. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The West Water Tower and Ground Storage Tank are a historic water tower and storage tank located at 310 11th Avenue in Orion, Illinois. The tower and tank were built in 1928 as part of the village&#39;s new water system, which had been approved the previous year. The water system was introduced both as a response to several fires which had plagued the village and as an effort to bring modern technology and progress, among other civic concerns. The water tower consists of a steel tank with a hemispherical bottom supported by a steel trestle; the structure is 136.5 ft tall. The ground storage tank, located at the base of the tower, is made of redwood and holds 30,000 USgal of water.</p><br>
<p>The structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Central Park Bandstand, also known as the Music Pavilion, is a historic bandshell located within Central Park in Orion, Illinois. The bandstand was built in 1913 following a series of successful outdoor concerts in the park. Local engineer J. C. Ericson built the structure in the then-recently popularized bandshell form, which projected sound toward the audience through its rear wall. The bandstand was completed in three weeks; its opening concert hosted the largest crowd that the park had ever held until that time. From its inception until 1925, the bandstand continued to host concerts, usually once per week; movie screenings and church services were also held at the bandstand. Beginning in 1947, the bandstand became an event stage for the Midwest Corn Show, which later became the Orion Fall Festival; the structure is now mainly used during the festival.</p><br>
<p>The bandstand was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Butterfield-Sampson House is a historic house at 18 River Road in Bowdoinham, Maine. It is an unusual combination of an early 19th-century Federal period house, to which a Stick style house was added about 1890. The latter portion is a rare example in the state of a mail-order design from Palliser & Palliser. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
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<p>The Butterfield-Sampson House stands in the village center of Bowdoinham, on the west side of River Road (Maine State Route 24), just north of Railroad Avenue. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof covering the main block and a gabled roof covering the older rear ell. The exterior is clad in a combination of wooden clapboards and scallop-cut wooden shingles, and it is set on a brick foundation. A single-story porch extends across the front facade, with slender columns and a spindled frieze beneath a shed roof. The front-facing gable has a deep eave decorated with Stick style applied woodwork and large brackets.</p><br>
<p>The rear ell of the house is its original portion. It is a -story five-bay wood-frame structure, one room deep, oriented facing north (the current main block faces east). Its construction date is uncertain, but based on architectural evidence was probably built in the 1810s. In the 1840s that house was purchased by the railroad which runs just out of the property, and was sold 1861 to Robert Butterfield, the local postmaster, and in 1888 to Harriet Sampson. The Stick style main block was probably built soon after that sale, moving the old house further back on the property. It matches fairly closely Plate VII of Palliser&#39;s Model Homes, published in 1878 by the Palliser & Palliser Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Stick style architecture is generally uncommon in Maine, and the number of documented houses built to mail-order plans are also relatively few.</p><br>
<p>The Tudor House is a historic house on Vermont Route 8 in Stamford, Vermont. Built in 1900 by what was probably then the town&#39;s wealthiest residents, this transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house is one of the most architecturally sophisticated buildings in the rural mountain community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>The Tudor House is located near the southern end of the Stamford&#39;s central village, on the west side of Main Road (Vermont Routes 8/100), between Jepson Road and The Lane. It is a -story wood-frame structure, basically rectangular in shape, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. Its shape is obscured by the exuberant Queen Anne wealth of projecting gables, turrets, bays, and porches. Predominant features of the front of the house are a rounded two-story turret-roofed projection on the right, and a tall gable on the left, whose roof slopes down to the first floor and shelters a recessed porch. Inside its gable is a recessed round-arch porch opening. The interior of the house features high quality woodwork in a more restrained Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1900 by John Tudor, a Welsh immigrant who had made a fortune as a mill owner in northern Vermont and settled in Stamford in 1890. Stamford was then experiencing a population decline, and most of its architecture is conservative and vernacular. This house, set in a somewhat prominent setting on the southern approach to the main village, is a striking departure from the surrounding houses because of its style and size. It was built for Tudor in 1900; its architect and builder are not known.</p><br>
<p>The Hendrix College Addition Neighborhood Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of Conway, Arkansas that was developed in the first half of the 20th century. Located just north of the Hendrix College campus, it is an area of about 40 acre and twelve square blocks, bounded on the south by Winfield Street, the west by Washington Avenue, the east by Harkrider Street, and the north by Fleming Street. Architecturally, the houses in the neighborhood represent a cross-section of styles popular in the period, from the Prairie School and English Revival, to post-World War II ranch houses. The land had been acquired by Hendrix College when it relocated to Conway in the 1890s, and was developed as a way to pay off some of the debts incurred because of the move. It was one of the city&#39;s first formally platted subdivisions.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Michael M. Hiegel House is a historic house at 504 Second Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a picturesque -story structure, finished in brick and stucco and covered by a gable-on-hip roof. The main facade bays are articulated by brick pilasters, with the two right bays filled with round-arch windows, and the bay to their left housing the main entrance, deeply recessed under a similar rounded arch. To its left is a projecting gable-arched section with a pair of sash windows. Built about 1911, it is a high quality local example of Tudor Revival architecture. It was built by Michael Hiegel, a prominent local businessman who operated a grocery store and lumber business, and was active in local political affairs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
