<p>The E.E. Hooten House is a historic house at 400 Arkansas Highway 25 in Guy, Arkansas. It is a single story rectangular wood-frame structure, its exterior finished in veneered stone and cream-colored brick. A gabled porch projects from the front, sheltering the main entrance, and featuring stone supports rising to rounded arch openings. The house was probably built in the 1930s, but is notable for the applied stone veneer, which is the work of Silas Owens Sr., a prominent local mason known for his distinctive styles of stone and brickwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Vermilion Estate is a historic building located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. W.F. Vermilion was a native of Kentucky who settled in Iowa after earning his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago. He served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war he was admitted to the Iowa Bar, and served a term in the Iowa Senate as a Republican.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate style structure was designed for the Vermilions by Burlington, Iowa architect C.A. Dunham from the architectural firm of Dunham and Jordan. Completed in 1870, the two-story frame house rests on a stone foundation, has bracketed eaves, and is capped with a hipped roof. The house is part of a 26 acre estate just outside the western city limits of Centerville. It was originally a 40 acre estate, and Dr. Vermilion did rely on livestock or horses for part of his livelihood. Most of the acreage was used for grazing land, and the crops that were cultivated on it were for livestock feed. The gazebo, barn and granary were built on the estate during the Vermilion&#39;s ownership. The garage (c. 1910), playhouse (c. 1920), and chicken house (1942) were built later. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Porter Hall is a historic residence located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. The 2½-story frame house exhibits aspects of the Picturesque Tudor Revival style, especially in the half-timbering and stucco. The house gained its present appearance during the ownership of Dr. Charles James in the 1910s and 1920s. There is some question as to whether this is an older 1880s house that has been extensively remodeled. It receives its name from Claude R. Porter who owned this property from 1906 to 1909. Porter was a Democrat, who served two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, two terms in the Iowa Senate, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was also a perennial candidate for Governor of Iowa and the USA Senate from Iowa, but lost every election to his Republican opponent. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Stratton House is a historic residence located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. The 1½-story brick house exhibits aspects of the Gothic Revival style, especially in its plan, steeply pitched gables and bargeboard trim. It was built by Jonathan F. Stratton. Stratton was a Pennsylvania native who moved to Michigan in 1820 where he was a surveyor, community leader, commissioner of highways and Justice of the Peace. In 1841 he was the first person to stake a claim in Appanoose County, near present-day Cincinnati, Iowa. After moving to Udell Township two years later his home was the location for the first religious service and the first election in the county. His wife taught several local children in their home making it the first school in the northern part of the county. He opened the first grist mill in the county in 1845. The following year, Stratton surveyed, platted and settled Centerville, which had been named the new county seat. He built this house in 1858, and died here in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Sturdivant-Sawyer House is a historic residence located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. The house was built by Francis M. Drake, a former Governor of Iowa and founder of Drake University in Des Moines, as a wedding gift for his daughter Mary Drake Sturdivant. The Sturdivants owned house until 1908, and then again from 1914 to 1917. J. L. Sawyers, a Drake son-in-law, used the house as a medical clinic from 1908 to 1914 while he resided in the Drake House. Frank S. Payne bought the house in 1917. He was a local attorney who served two terms in the Iowa General Assembly, was president of Iowa Southern Utilities Company, and president of the Centerville National Bank. His wife, Grace, served in the leadership of various local women&#39;s organizations.</p><br>
<p>The house features Colonial Revival stylistic elements on a structure that follows an Italian Villa-type plan. Its most striking features are the two cyrtostyle porches with balconies above on the north and west elevations. The main facade on the west features a Palladian window above the porch. The basement-level garage was added sometime before 1924, and the sun porch above it was added in the mid-1950s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Chambers Ford Bridge is located southeast of Chelsea, Iowa, United States. It spans the Iowa River for 345 ft. The Tama County Board of Supervisors approved a petition to construct a bridge at Chambers Ford under the condition that the local residents to secure the right-of-way for the bridge, build the trestle work and all approaches to the bridge. The Clinton Bridge and Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa built a single-span, pin-connected Pratt truss in 1890. By the turn of the 20th century the north end of the timber trestle approach that the local citizens constructed deteriorated beyond repair. The county contracted with the George King Bridge Company of Des Moines for $3,987 to build a new Pratt through truss. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The bridge has been closed since 2007</p><br>
<p>In 2012 Tama County expressed a desire to replace the bridge. Four years later Tama County let the contract for a replacement span to PCI Construction of Reinbeck, Iowa. After the construction of the new bridge, the historic Chambers Ford Bridge will be removed due to no one bidding on the historic trusses.</p><br>
<p>The Toledo Bridge was located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. It spanned Deer Creek for 124 ft. The Clinton Bridge and Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa built a single-span, pin-connected Pratt truss in 1912. The following year it became part of the Lincoln Highway route. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The historic span was replaced by a concrete span in 2006, and removed from the National Register in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Chapman-Hall House is a historic house museum at 270 Main Street in Damariscotta, Maine. Built in 1754 by one of the area&#39;s first permanent white settlers, it is the oldest standing house in the town, and one of the oldest in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Chapman-Hall House stands at the eastern end of Damariscotta&#39;s downtown area, northwest of the corner of Main, Church, and Vine Streets. It is a single-story wood frame Cape style house, its exterior finished in unpainted wooden shingles. It has a side gable roof with a large central chimney. The main facade is five bays wide, with simple trim surrounding its windows and door, the latter topped by a four-light transom window. The interior features exposed beams, paneled fireplaces, and period plasterwork, and underwent a major restoration in the 1960s, when it first became a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Damariscotta area was first settled in the 17th century, but permanent settlement did not begin until 1748 due to repeated conflicts with Native Americans. This house was built in 1754 by Nathaniel Chapman, a housewright and half-brother of the area&#39;s first permanent settler, Anthony Chapman. Both were natives of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Nathaniel was convinced to come here by his brother to build houses for the early settlers. Nathaniel Chapman at one time owned all of the area that is now downtown Damariscotta.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the house was rescued from demolition by local citizens group, and restored to its 18th-century appearance under the guidance of preservationist Abbott Lowell Cummings. It has served since then as a museum property, since 2008 by the Lincoln County Historical Association.</p><br>
<p>The Wait Block is a historic commercial building on Main Street  in Manchester Center, Vermont. Built in 1884–85, it is a distinctive late example of vernacular Italianate design, executed in brick and marble. It notably survived the 1893 fire that devastated the village&#39;s business district. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wait Block stands in the heart of Manchester Center&#39;s commercial business district, just east of the junction of Main Street (Vermont 7A) and Bonnet Street (Vermont Route 30) on the south side of Main Street. It is a three-story brick structure, three bays wide, with a flat roof and marble trim elements. The facade is divided into three arched panels, articulated by brick pilasters, the center panel narrower than the outer ones. Windows on the upper levels are set in segmented-arch openings, with keystones and ears of marble. The main entrance is set in a paneled recess in the center bay, with large glass display windows in the flanking bays on the ground floor, also set in segmented-arch openings. A line of corbelled brickwork provides a minimal cornice for the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1884-85 for Clark Wait, owner of the local drug store. Its ground floor would house a drug store for the next century, with living quarters for the proprietor above. It notably survived the 1893 fire that destroyed many wood-frame buildings in the business district. It was built during a time of relative prosperity in the village&#39;s industries, which were in decline by the time of the fire and never really recovered. As a result, no other buildings of this scale were built in the village.</p><br>
<p>The Farris and Evelyn Langley House is a historic house at 12 Langley Lane in Republican, Arkansas. It is a rectangular frame house, its exterior finished in stone veneer with cream-colored brick trim. A gabled roof covers the house, extending over a recessed entry porch, its corner supported by a brick post. The ranch-style house was built in 1956 by Silas Owens, Sr., a mason noted regionally for his distinctive style. Hallmarks of his style are evident in this house, including the cream brick, and angled placement of the stones on the building&#39;s larger surfaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2995.</p><br>
<p>The Lee Service Station is a historic commercial building at 28 South Broadway in Damascus, Arkansas. It is a single-story frame structure with a cross-gable roof configuration, its exterior finished in stone veneer with brick trim. It has a single former garage bay on the right side, the bay opening now enclosed with a pedestrian door at its center. To its left is an office space, with a center entrance flanked by a large multi-pane windows. Door and window openings are trimmed in brick laid in a three-in, three-out pattern, and the stone veneer is in a herringbone pattern. These design elements are all signatures of the builder, Silas Owens, Sr., the master mason who finished the exterior about 1940. The building served as an automobile filling and service station through the 1950s, and has since seen a variety of other commercial uses.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Lasleys College Apartments are a historic apartment complex at 1916 and 1922 Bruce Street in Conway, Arkansas, adjacent to the campus of the University of Central Arkansas. It consists of two two-story brick buildings flanking a central courtyard. Each building has a flat roof with parapet, and houses eight residential units, four one-bedroom and four two-bedroom units in each. They were built in 1947 in response to the universitys increasing demand for housing, and are a well-preserved example of period multiunit residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company Historic District encompasses a collection of former industrial buildings on the north side of the Nashua River in Nashua, New Hampshire. Located on Franklin and Front Streets west of Main Street, the complex was developed by the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company, later the Nashua Corporation, beginning in the late 19th century. It was a major manufacturing and employment center for the city until mid-1990s, when the company&#39;s business declined. One of its former storehouses was converted to residences in the 2000s, and the main complex is, in 2015-16, undergoing the same process. The complex of surviving buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company complex is located on the northwest side of downtown Nashua, on the north side of the Nashua River opposite the former Nashua Manufacturing Company plant. It is sandwiched between Front Street and a bend in the river, which is roughly paralleled by Front Street. The complex has six buildings, of which the main one is a large Romanesque four-story brick building with a 550 ft facade on Front Street. Its core section was built in 1889 as a three-story structure, and it underwent a series of enlargements between then and 1940. A second major mill building is located just to its southwest, with a much more utilitarian appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company had its origins in a small company founded by three men in 1849 intending to manufacture playing cards for gold miners. The company instead made cardboard and glazed paper products, and operated under a variety of names in Nashua until 1889 when it was incorporated as the Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company. It was by the 1870s the largest non-textile manufacturer in the city. Under the leadership of Harry Bixby, a local investor, the main plant was built to a design by W.B. Page of Clinton, Massachusetts. The firm was heavily in debt by the early 20th century, and was acquired in 1904 by the Carter Rice Company of Boston, Massachusetts, which established the Nashua Gummed & Coated Paper Company as a subsidiary to manage this and other assets related to coated paper products. Over the 20th century the company expanded its products and operations, but contracted in the 1990s, eventually closing its presence in Nashua in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway are located in Traer, Iowa, United States. The staircase is thought to be one of a kind in the country, and it was featured on a USA commemorative stamp. The exterior winding staircase was designed by E.E. Taylor of Burlington, Iowa, and built by the Burlington Iron Works. The staircase was built outside because there was no room for one inside of the buildings. The Canfield Building, to which it is attached, was built the same year. The Star-Clipper Building was completed in 1888. The complex served as a newspaper office until 1953 when it was converted into commercial use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Conants Cabin and Park, also known as the Rural Wayside Rest and Recreation Site, is a private park located east of Gladbrook, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1920 by local resident George Conant on 15 acre of farmland that he owned. The American Craftsman-style cabin was inspired by his father, J.W. Conant, who wanted to see a cabin like he constructed in 1855 built in the grove of bur oak trees. The two-room log structure is possibly the oldest park shelter in Iowa. In addition to the cabin the park features two outhouses, outdoor and indoor picnic tables, grills, a swing, merry-go-round and horseshoe pit. The park was meant for public use even though it has remained under private ownership throughout its existence. It is rumored that author Robert Waller began his notes for The Bridges of Madison County during a stop at the park. The parks existence is an expression of one man&#39;s civic pride, and sense of community responsibility. Numerous community service groups have helped to maintain it over the years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Hope Fire Company Engine House, also known as the Toledo Fire Station, is located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. The Hope Fire Company was established as the volunteer fire company in Toledo in 1876. Prior to moving here they were located in a simple two-story frame structure across the street that was built in 1883. The present two-story brick structure was completed four years later by Andrew A. Jones, a Toledo contractor. It was designed in the Moorish Revival by an unidentified Mr. Gruppe. The firefighters had to raise funds to complete the interior, and it was not finished until 1891. Toledo city hall was located in part of the second floor until 1928. The first floor had to be altered in 1959 to accommodate modern fire fighting equipment. The fire house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Moorish architectural style was an unusual choice for a small town in Iowa. Originally, centered double doors with Moorish panels were located in the center of the first floor. They had to be removed because they were inadequate given the larger size of modern fire equipment. The style is still found on the pressed tin pediment with a sunburst motif and the central finial above, as well as the decorative work on the corner tower.</p><br>
<p>The former Tama County Jail, now known as the Tama County Historical Museum, is located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. Tama County was established in 1853 but did not have a jail. It sent its convicted criminals to neighboring counties. courthouse was completed in 1865, and discussions turned toward providing a jail. The county Board of Supervisors decided in January 1869 to proceed with plans, and in June 1870 they contracted with Toledo builder David Stoner to design and build the new building. It was completed by the end of the year. The sheriff and his family lived on the second floor and acted as the jailers. A two-story addition was built onto the rear of the building in the late 19th century to provide more space.</p><br>
<p>By the 1960s the building was inadequate, and was condemned by a grand jury. It closed in 1970, and the county once again started to send its convicted criminals to neighboring counties. The county Historical Society has leased the building to use as a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Wieting Theater is located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. Ella W. Wieting had three opera houses built as memorials to her husband,</p><br>
<p>C.W. Wieting. The Wietings came to Toledo in 1867 from Worcester, New York. He was trained as a dentist, and was involved in other business ventures. They moved to Syracuse, New York around 1900, and he died there in 1906. She had the opera houses built in the three communities where they lived. The theater in Toledo housed productions from travelling road shows, local school productions, political meetings, movies, and lyceum courses. The theater closed in 1958, and reopened two years later by the Wieting Theatre Guild. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1912, the two-story brick structure measures 50 by. The Colonial Revival style facade features a brick parapet, columned porch, and a Palladian window. The interior contains an auditorium, balcony, stage, dressing rooms, and an orchestra pit.</p><br>
<p>Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, also known as Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church is a historic church complex and national historic district located in the Lovejoy neighborhood of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The complex was built between 1912 and 1965 and consists of the yellow brick Byzantine Revival style, roughly 2-story church , a 1-story parish hall , a 2-story frame house that serves as a rectory , and a frame garage . The church has a cross-in-square type plan, and the front facade features two 3-story towers. It is the oldest Orthodox church in Buffalo and oldest in use in the Orthodox Diocese of New York and New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Camden Yacht Club is a yacht club serving the boating community of Penobscot Bay located at 68 Bay View Street in Camden, Maine, United States. Founded in 1906, it offers a variety of programs seasonally , as well as mooring facilities  to its members and the general public. Its clubhouse, designed by John Calvin Stevens and built in 1912, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In season the club serves lunch to its members and their guests, and its facilities are available for event rental.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities and history</h2><br>
<p>The Camden Yacht Club is located south of downtown Camden, on the southern bank of the Megunticook River, at its mouth where it empties into outer Camden Harbor. It clubhouse is located near the shore, with a lawn area on two outer sides with water views, and parking areas between the building and Bay View Street. The clubhouse is a large Shingle style building, its tall hip roof overhanging the structure on three sides, creating porches on those sides. There is a port-cochere on the northwest side with Oriental trim features. The building was designed by John Calvin Stevens, the Portland architect known as a major proponent of the Shingle style, and was completed in 1912.</p><br>
<p>The club was founded in 1906 by George B. Phelps, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, and Chauncey Borland, among others. The clubhouse was built by Curtis, for the then-large sum of $60,000, and rented it to the club for a nominal fee. In 1926 he gave the property to the town, stipulating its continued use as a yacht club facility as part of the gift.</p><br>
<p>The Parson Smith House is a historic house on River Road in southern Windham, Maine. Built in 1764 and virtually unaltered since, it is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Colonial Georgian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Now a private residence, it was for 40 years a historic house museum owned and operated by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parson Smith House is located on the east side of River Road in southernmost Windham, just north of its junction with Anderson Road. It is set at the top of a rise, overlooking former farmlands (now partly wooded) of the old Maplewood Farm property. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, two end chimneys, and clapboard siding. The main entrance is framed by sidelight windows and molded trim, the latter also surrounding the buildings sash windows. Nearly all of the buildings interior features are of 18th century origin, excepting some 19th-century fireplace mantels. There are wall sections that have fragments of early wallpaper. An ell, probably of mid-19th century origin, extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1764 by Parson Peter Thatcher Smith, the son of Rev. Thomas Smith, Windham&#39;s first settled Congregational minister. It was built on the "ministerial lot", set aside by the town founders for the benefit of the minister. The house remained in the hands of Smith descendants (often descending through the female line with changes of last name), until 1952, when it was bequeathed to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, known as Historic New England).</p><br>
<p>The Cora B. Whitney School is a historic former school building at 814 Gage Street in Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1897, it served as one of the town&#39;s primary schools until 1994, and was converted into senior housing in 1999. It is architecturally an important early local example of Colonial Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cora B. Whitney School stands in a residential area northeast of downtown Bennington, on the north side of Gage Street, between Bradford and Branch Streets. It is a two-story brick building, set on a high marble foundation, with marble trim and a tall hip roof. The foundation is made of rough-cut coursed marble, and rises to the base of the first floor windows. The main entrance, set at the center of the south-facing front facade in a projecting section, is set midway on the height of the basement, and is accessed by a flight of stairs. Marble stringcourses join the lintels of the first-floor windows, and also the sills and lintels of the second-floor windows. The cornice of the deeply overhanging roof features exposed rafter ends and brick courses painted to resemble fascia boards.</p><br>
<p>The town of Bennington was the third in the state to consolidate its district schools, doing so in 1870. Classes for all grades were originally held in a single school building near downtown (no longer standing). This school was built in 1897 in order handle increasing enrollments, and was originally called the Seventh Ward School. It was later named for Cora Belle Whitney (1866-1918), one of its first teachers and a long-time principal. The school was doubled in size in 1957 with an addition to the rear, and was closed in 1994 after it was determined it would be too expensive to upgrade the building to current state standards. In 1999 it was converted into an independent senior living facility.</p><br>
<p>The Rogers House is a historic house at 400 West 18th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a large two story brick building, with an eclectic combination of Georgian Revival and American Craftsman features. It was designed by Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and completed in 1914. It has a green tile hip roof with extended eaves that show Craftsman style rafter ends, and is pierced by gabled dormers, which also have extended eaves, with large brackets for support. A half-round entry portico projects from the front, supported by monumental fluted Ionic columns. The house is one of Thompson&#39;s more imposing designs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The U.M. Rose School is a historic school building at the corner of Izard and West 13th Streets, on the campus of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. A two-story U-shaped Colonial Revival brick building, it was built in 1915 to a design by Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was called "by far the best constructed" of any building in Little Rock.</p><br>
<p>It served the city as a primary school for many years. It is now known as the James M. Cox Administration Building, and houses the college&#39;s administrative offices.</p><br>
<p>The school is named after U. M. Rose, a prominent lawyer and judge.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Roselawn Memorial Park Gatehouse is a historic cemetery office building in Roselawn Memorial Park, a large public cemetery at 2801 Asher Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas. It stands just inside and to the left of the main gate. It is a single story building, with a gable-on-hip roof, stuccoed walls, and a foundation whose exterior is finished in rough cobblestone. At either end of its main facade are two arches, lined with red brick, providing access to the recessed building entrances. Similar arches on the side walls give the recess a porch-like feel. The building was designed by Thompson and Harding, and built in 1924. It is the only known gatehouse design of firms associated with Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of El Paso was founded in the late nineteenth century, and during that time was the only womans organization in El Paso, Texas. The Woman&#39;s Club also allowed women in El Paso to become involved in community service and activism. The building which is the home for the club is located on 1400 N. Mesa Drive, and was erected in 1916. The club, now a non-profit organization, traces its official origins back to 1894, and continues to provide an "educational and cultural center for its members." The building is registered in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mary Hamilton Mills arrived in El Paso with her husband, William Wallace Mills on March 8, 1869. Mills began to create a social circle, which started to meet in 1881 and included Flora Hague, Octavia Magoffin, Olga Kohlberg, Eugenia Schuster, Carrie Fewel, Lemire Morehead, Elizabeth Irvin, Margaret Beall, Eliza Berrien, Laura Loomis, Carrie Race, Maude Austin, Harriet Shelton, Frances McCutcheon, Rebecca Falvey, Mary Voss, Carrie Sutherland and other important women in El Paso. Members of the group met at various locations in El Paso.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club decided to create a permanent building for the club in 1915, raising club dues and appealing to local businesses for donations in order to get funding. The clubhouse was designed by the architect, Otto H. Thorman and construction began in 1916. The building was the first free-standing womans clubhouse in the state of Texas. The clubhouse was officially opened on November 8, 1916.</p><br>
<h3>Community service</h3><br>
<p>Members of the Womans Club were involved in the establishment of Texass first public school kindergarten. The club, led by one of the Womans Club presidents, Olga Kohlberg, worked to get a kindergarten established in the first school building in El Paso, Central School, in 1893. Kohlberg also helped establish the first hospital in El Paso, by creating the Ladies Benevolent Association. Members of the club were also heavily involved in establishing the El Paso Public Library. Mary Irene Stanton, who was the first president of the El Paso Library Association in 1895, was elected the Womans Club vice-president that same year. Stanton created the first childrens library in the United States. By 1913, El Paso had "over thirty womens organizations," though most were social in nature, and contrasted with the "civic and humanitarian objectives" of the Womans Club. Another president of the club, Eugenia Schuster, helped refugees from the Mexican Revolution in 1916, working with Amigos Listos. The club worked to get safe food and public sanitation laws passed and also worked to protect San Jacinto Plaza.</p><br>
<h2>Services</h2><br>
<p>The Womans Club of El Paso hosts annually a Fall Festival to raise money for the preservation of the clubhouse, a holiday Wassail party and also a Spring Celebration. Auxiliary groups to the Womans Club are the Arts and Crafts Study Club, the Book Club and the Junior Womans Club of El Paso. The Junior Womans Club was founded 1934 and works with local charities to help improve the community of El Paso. The club&#39;s building can be used as a venue for local events. The club also "regularly features and supports local artists."</p><br>
<h2>Notable members</h2><br>
<p>Kate Moore Brown, served as president.</p><br>
<p>Olga Kohlberg, served as president.</p><br>
<p>Eugenia Schuster, served as president.</p><br>
<p>Waterford Village is an historic community in Waterford Township, Michigan. First settled in 1819, the village is located in the northernmost part of the township along Dixie Highway, on the southeast shore of Van Norman Lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1818, Alpheus Williams and his brother-in-law, Captain Archibald Phillips, entered the first land purchase for $2.00 an acre. Archibald Phillips and Alpheus Williams purchased 161.4 acres in what would become Waterford Village, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Williams, their four daughters and two sons, along with Captain Archibald Phillips and Major and Mrs. Oliver Williams, with their eight children, set out to settle Oakland County.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, the Oliver Williams family established the first farm settlement in the county on the banks of Silver Lake.</p><br>
<p>Archibald Phillips and Alpheus Williams continued on northward about nine miles to where the Clinton River crossed the old Saginaw Trail. This area would become Waterford Village. Here the first house of the village was built by Alpheus Williams on the north bank of the river across from the south corner where Grand River Street met the Saginaw Trail. Williams and Phillips also built the first dam where the Clinton River crossed over the Saginaw Trail and erected the first saw mill there.</p><br>
<p>In 1844, Dr. George W. Williams (b.1793-d.1845) built the first gristmill in Waterford on what later became Mill Street. George was no relation to Alpheus or Oliver.</p><br>
<p>Early pioneers owning land tracts in the village in 1872 include:</p><br>
<p>Franklin Bradley (b.1845-d.1916)</p><br>
<p>Frederick Bradley (b.1808-d.1873)</p><br>
<p>Richard Brownson (b.1804-d.1891)</p><br>
<p>Orson E. Clark (d.1891)</p><br>
<p>Frank W. Fifield (b.1821-d.1893)</p><br>
<p>James M. Ganong (b.1828-d.1906)</p><br>
<p>Nelson R. Ganong (b.1833-d.1892)</p><br>
<p>Waterman P. Grow (b. 1824-d.1897)</p><br>
<p>Elias K. Gustin (b.1844-d.1920)</p><br>
<p>Leonard Hopkins (b.1799-d.1885)</p><br>
<p>Lewis J. Keeler (d.1882)</p><br>
<p>William Ladson (b.1843-d.1912)</p><br>
<p>Daniel R. Lord (b.1814-d.1883)</p><br>
<p>John G. Owen (b.1824-d.1901)</p><br>
<p>Manuel R. Phillips (b.1833-d.1912)</p><br>
<p>Phebe Stevens (d.1872)</p><br>
<p>Lorenzo Streeter (b.1838-d.1921)</p><br>
<p>Alfred W. Windiate (b.1845-d.1875)</p><br>
<p>John Windiate (b.1808-d.1880)</p><br>
<p>James Young (b.1809-d.1892)</p><br>
<p>Business owners in the village in 1872 include:</p><br>
<p>William Bradt (b.1827-d.1888), proprietor of Waterford Exchange Hotel</p><br>
<p>Richard Brownson, merchant, post master, dealer in drugs, patent medicines and groceries</p><br>
<p>N.E. Clark, merchant, produce dealer</p><br>
<p>R.H. Cooper, miller</p><br>
<p>Frank W. Fifield & Son, merchant and dealer in general merchandise</p><br>
<p>Graham Brothers, merchants and dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, groceries</p><br>
<p>W.H. Graham, physician and surgeon</p><br>
<p>Gustin & Johns, Elias K. Gustin (b.1844-d.1920) and John C. Johns (b.1849-d.1906), proprietors, manufacturers of carriages and lumber wagons, sleighs, carriage and wagon ironing and horse shoeing</p><br>
<p>Hixson, Lord & Co, Marshall Hixson (b.1842-d.1915) and Daniel R. Lord, proprietors, manufacturers of doors, sashes and blinds</p><br>
<p>R.L. King (d.1913), farmer and manufacturer</p><br>
<p>Norman Lee (b.1830-d.1897), shoemaker</p><br>
<p>Daniel R. Lord & Co., foundry, manufacturers of plows and cultivators.</p><br>
<p>Manuel R. Phillips, builder</p><br>
<p>Lorenzo Streeter, manufacturer carriages, wagons and sleighs, carriage repairing, painting and ornamental glass staining</p><br>
<p>L.A. Trudell, blacksmith</p><br>
<p>A.B. Watson, builder</p><br>
<p>Albert Wiser (b.1852-d.1830), livery</p><br>
<p>Osmund Wigg, merchant and dealer in dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes</p><br>
<h2>Historic district</h2><br>
<p>Waterford Village was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on June 18, 1976, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Geographically, the historic district includes Dixie Highway, a block north and south of Andersonville Road, then Andersonville Road between Dixie Highway and Airport Road, then south on Airport Road to the railroad tracks.</p><br>
<p>Included in the historic district are also the original houses and buildings on Dubay Street, Pontiff Street (originally Pond Street), and Steffens Street.</p><br>
<h2>Main streets</h2><br>
<p>The Saginaw Trail ran north from Detroit, through Pontiac and Waterford, on up through Flint and to Saginaw. In 1829, construction began on a road north from Detroit along the Saginaw Trail. That road became Saginaw Street and later Dixie Highway.</p><br>
<p>Grand River Street began at Saginaw Trail in Waterford Village and headed west for four miles to the town of Andersonville, Michigan. The street was initially called Grand River Street, but then was changed to Maple Street before becoming Andersonville Road.</p><br>
<p>Depot Street ran from Grand River Street south to the Waterford train depot. The street was renamed Airport Road after the Pontiac Municipal Airport opened in 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>In 1826, Waterford Village&#39;s first cemetery was deeded by Captain Archibald Phillips to Governor Lewis Cass for burial purposes.</p><br>
<p>The first burial there was Olivere Williams (son of Alpheus Williams) who died at the age of 17 on June 9, 1820.</p><br>
<p>Alpheus Williams died July 9, 1828, at age 62 and his wife, Abigail, died September 5, 1826, at age 58. Both Alpheus and Abigail are buried there.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery today is called the Waterford Village Cemetery. It is located at the end of Clippert Street off Dixie Highway.</p><br>
<p>There are fifty-two graves in the cemetery. Two graves are unknown and one gravestone is unreadable.</p><br>
<h2>General store</h2><br>
<p>The first store in the village was the home of Alpheus Williams where he kept a few shelves of staples. After his death, the land exchanged hands many times. In 1837, Merrick and Bruce purchased it and built the first established store next to the original home of Alpheus Williams on the north bank of the Clinton River on Dixie Highway. The store remained in operation for many years.</p><br>
<p>Circa 1857, Horace Huntoon (b.1837-d.1897) and a young handyman named John A. Griffen (b.1841-d.1917) built a general store in Waterford Village on the southwest corner of Andersonville Road and Dixie Highway (now 5799 Dixie Highway).</p><br>
<p>The general store had nine different proprietors between 1857 and 1927:</p><br>
<p>1857 to 1860, proprietor Horace Huntoon (b.1831-d.1897)</p><br>
<p>1860 to 1863, proprietor Phineas Huntoon (b.1827-d.1903)</p><br>
<p>1863 to 1865, proprietor John G. Owen (b.1824-d.1901)</p><br>
<p>1865 to c.1870, proprietor unknown.</p><br>
<p>c.1870 to 1882, proprietor Osmond Wigg (b.1840-d.1920)</p><br>
<p>1882 to 1888, proprietor James R. Jones (b.1858-d.1933)</p><br>
<p>1888 to 1917, proprietors unknown.</p><br>
<p>1917 to 1927, proprietor August V. Jacober (b.1882-d.1966), the last proprietor of the store.</p><br>
<p>The general store housed everything needed for the village and surrounding community. From dry goods and tools to certain foods, patent medicines, household utensils, fancy jewelry, material for clothing, shoes, hats, cracker barrels, and even hard candy and a small selection of toys.</p><br>
<p>James R. Jones had the first telephone in the village installed in his store.</p><br>
<p>The Waterford General Store also had attractions for the local residents and the summer vacationers as well. The second floor of the store had a roller skating rink for a time and also was used as a theater for a period. James R. Jones and his wife Isabelle actually lived above the store for a while.</p><br>
<p>The general store was the heart of the community. The store served as a meeting place for friends, who swapped stories and debated politics</p><br>
<p>The storekeeper knew the latest news and often served as the Justice of the peace, and the village Postmaster. In 1865, John G. Owen became the first postmaster in Waterford Village. When zip codes were introduced in 1963, Waterford&#39;s zip code became 48095.</p><br>
<p>The store was idle for a few years in the early 1900s, but the second floor was used as a justice court, and a dance hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, Henry Ford purchased the store from August V. Jacober for $700. The store was moved and currently stands in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. August Jacober built another store in the same location in Waterford Village and ran it until 1957.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel</h2><br>
<p>In 1841, Stephen Besley (d.1869) began construction on a hotel at 5805 Saginaw Trail (Dixie Highway). Besley sold the hotel to Daniel R. Lord (d.1883) who sold it to William Bradt (b.1827-d.1888) by 1872, who named the hotel Bradt&#39;s Exchange. The hotel was also named the Waterford Exchange, and the Waterford Hotel. It served as a stagecoach stop for over 60 years.</p><br>
<p>On December 31, 1890, the Waterford Exchange Hotel caught fire, causing the death of local resident Jeremiah G. Ganong (b.1802) on March 20, 1891, from smoke inhalation. The hotel was repaired and re-opened for business.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, the hotel was demolished after having been closed for several years.</p><br>
<h2>Railroad</h2><br>
<p>In 1851, the railroad was completed through Waterford. The original Waterford train depot was opened shortly after the railroad was completed. Built by the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway, a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railroad, the depot stood on the northwest corner of the tracks on Depot Street (later called Airport Road).</p><br>
<p>The Waterford depot was 33.29 miles from Detroit and 155.02 miles from Grand Haven, Michigan. Two miles to the south of the Waterford depot was the Drayton Plains depot. Two miles north of the Waterford depot was the Clarkston depot, and just one mile north of the Waterford depot was the Windiate Park depot.</p><br>
<p>Because of the railroad, the Waterford area, with its many lakes, quickly became a summer resort community and drew large numbers of vacationers from Detroit and other cities along the railway line.</p><br>
<p>The original Waterford depot was built in the late 1850s. It was replaced in the early 1900s with a second depot on the same location. That depot was abandoned in 1959 and burned down due to an electrical fire in November, 1979. It was never rebuilt.</p><br>
<h2>Church</h2><br>
<p>In 1869, a Baptist church became the first church built in Waterford Village. It later became a Methodist church.</p><br>
<p>The church is still standing at 5860 Andersonville Road near Dixie Highway. It was renovated in 1976 after being purchased by Waterford Township.</p><br>
<h2>Baseball</h2><br>
<p>Michigan was one of the leading suppliers of men during the Civil War and many of those men went on to fight in battles in the East and South. While they were in service, they learned the east coast game of baseball (then spelled Base Ball) and brought it home with them.</p><br>
<p>Around 1887, Waterford Village started a baseball team. The team was named the Lah-De-Dahs. They played other teams from Detroit, Dearborn, Mount Clemens and beyond. They would travel by the train to play their away games.</p><br>
<p>The Lah-De-Dahs were reincarnated in the late 1900s as the Greenfield Village Lah-De-Dahs and play vintage base ball, wearing vintage uniforms, throughout the country today.</p><br>
<h2>School</h2><br>
<p>In 1901, the first school was established in Waterford Village on Steffens Street and Andersonville Road. In 1910, the wooden school burned down but was rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, a two-story brick building was built at 4241 Steffens Street. The elementary school was renamed Waterford Village School.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, Waterford Village School, the oldest in Waterford Township, was closed. The Waterford School District briefly turned the school into four preschool classrooms and a Michigan Works department, before demolishing it in December 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Tavern</h2><br>
<p>In 1922, the Old Mill Tavern was built by Louis Dorman (b.1895-d.1976) in Waterford Village. It was located at 5828 Dixie Highway where the road crosses of the Clinton River. It was the most popular restaurant in Waterford Village for over a half century.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was destroyed by fire in 1982 and was never rebuilt.</p><br>
<h2>Newspapers</h2><br>
<p>The first newspaper to serve Waterford was The Oakland Chronicle, which began publishing May 31, 1830, by Thomas Simpson. It was the fourth newspaper to be established in Michigan. It ceased on April 22, 1831. The equipment was sold to John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, who moved it to Detroit to start the Democratic Free Press, which became the Detroit Free Press.</p><br>
<p>Since then, several local area newspapers have served Waterford residents.</p><br>
<p>In 1834, The Oakland Patriot began publishing by Egbert J. Van Buren & Brother but ceased operations in 1836.</p><br>
<p>In 1835, The Oakland Whig began publishing by Arthur G. Sparhawk. It became The Pontiac Courier the following year and was in operation until 1839 when it became The Jeffersonian.</p><br>
<p>In 1838, The Jacksonian began publishing on July 10, 1838, by Eldrege & Denton. It was continued by The Pontiac Weekly Jacksonian and later The Pontiac Jacksonian.</p><br>
<p>In 1839, The Jeffersonian, and Oakland, Lapeer, & Shiawassee Advertiser began publishing by J. Dowd Coleman. It ceased later that year and was continued by The Jefferson. It began publishing by William M. Thompson. In 1840, it changed its title to The Pontiac Jeffersonian. It ceased operations in 1841 and was continued by The Pontiac Courier.</p><br>
<p>In 1841, the Pontiac Courier began publishing by William B. Sherwood. It ceased operations in 1842.</p><br>
<p>In 1842, the Pontiac Jacksonian began publishing by Augustus W. Hovey & Co. and later by Cyrus Peabody, and then by W.B. Cole & T.S. Sheridan. It ceased operations in 1873.</p><br>
<p>In 1844, the Oakland Gazette began publishing by J. Dowd Coleman. It ceased operations in 1851 and was continued by Pontiac Gazette. It began publishing 1851 by W.M. Thompson. It ceased operations in 1860 and was continued by Pontiac Weekly Gazette which published until 1866 before reverting to the earlier title published by W.I. Beardsley & C.B. Turner. In 1869, it added "Weekly" to the title once again and dropped it yet again in 1877</p><br>
<p>In 1868, the Bill Poster and Monthly Visitor began publishing William Paul Nisbett. It was a monthly publication and later changed title to The Bill Poster and then to The Bill Poster and General Intelligencer. It changed title and publishers in 1869 to Pontiac Bill Poster. Its new publishers were William B. Nisbett and J.C. Viall. In 1871, its title changed to Pontiac Weekly Bill Poster and in 1882 back to Pontiac Bill Poster. It published a three-issue daily edition in 1877 during the Oakland County Fair. In 1890, it formed the Oakland County Post, which began publishing by Ferris S. Fitch. Its title was shortened to Post. It ceased operations in 1907 when it was absorbed by the Pontiac Gazette.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the Clarkston Enterprise began publishing by Rev. J.R. Cordon. This semi-monthly was "Devoted to Religion, Morality, Prohibition, Literature, and Home News."</p><br>
<p>In 1892, The Living Issues began publishing by Lulu V. Reynolds. It ceased in 1897.</p><br>
<p>In 1893, the Pontiac Republican began publishing with Jay Clark as editor. It ceased operations in 1895 and was absorbed by the Pontiac Gazette.</p><br>
<p>In 1900, The Evening Press began publishing by a company of the same name. It ceased the following year and was continued by Pontiac Daily Press. The Pontiac Daily Press became Daily Press in 1902, then the Pontiac Daily Press in 1903. In 1906, it merged with the Pontiac Gazette to form The Pontiac Daily Press, the Pontiac Gazette, and began publishing by Harry Coleman. Later that year the title was shortened to The Pontiac Press Gazette. In 1919, the title was lengthened again to The Pontiac Daily Press and Gazette and one month later it was changed to The Pontiac Daily Press. It was published by Howard H. Fitzgerald.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, the Community Newsbegan publishing as a bi-weekly by Clarkston State Bank.</p><br>
<p>In 1932, the Clarkston News began publishing by Eveleth Hancher and P.O. Pederson.</p><br>
<p>In 1953, The Pontiac Daily Press changed its name to The Pontiac Press. It remained that until its name was changed to The Oakland Press in 1972. That same year, The Pontiac-Waterford Times began publishing by a company of the same name with C. Don Davidson as editor. Its title was later shortened to The Times.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Bob Seger, singer, songwriter, musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, lived on Airport Road in the village.</p><br>
<p>Jem Targal, member of the rock band Third Power, lived on Airport Road at Andersonville Road in the village.</p><br>
<p>The Old Wadena Historic District is a concentration of historical archaeology sites now largely contained within Old Wadena County Park in Thomastown Township, Minnesota, United States. Features include the sites of four successive trading posts established in 1782, 1792, 1825, and 1856; the original townsite of Wadena on the Red River Trails; and the county&#39;s first farm. The town was later moved 3.5 mi south to its present location. The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for having state-level significance in the themes of agriculture, non-aboriginal archaeology, and transportation.</p><br>
<h2>Little Round Hill Trading Post</h2><br>
<p>The woods and rivers of what became Wadena County offered ample food resources, habitable areas, and well-situated water transportation routes. However, as the first Euro-Americans entered the region it was on the hotly contested border between the Ojibwe and Dakota people. Métis historian William Whipple Warren recorded Ojibwe stories of a French-Canadian fur trader, known to them only as Ah-wish-to-yah ("Blacksmith"), who led a party of 20 into the area in 1782. They selected a site for a trading post at the confluence of the Crow Wing and Partridge Rivers which they dubbed Wadena ("Little Round Hill" in the Ojibwe language). Knowing they were in hostile territory they erected a wooden palisade or fence around the post, within which the Ojibwe party members erected their wigwams.</p><br>
<p>The Dakota did not look kindly on this incursion, and a force of 200 warriors attacked the post. According to Warrens sources, the Dakotas bows and arrows were no match for the traders&#39; firearms and were easily repulsed in the Battle of Partridge River. However the traders immediately abandoned the post and Euro-Americans avoided the area for nearly a decade.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological excavations on the site have discovered a potsherd, a rosehead nail, an axe, a fire striker, and fragments of a kettle.</p><br>
<h2>Cadotte&#39;s Trading Post</h2><br>
<p>In 1792 fur trader Jean Baptiste Cadotte, Jr. led a new expedition into Central Minnesota. The group split into smaller parties, and one led by Cadottes brother Michel Cadotte journeyed up the Crow Wing River. As winter set in they established their post on the bank, while another party pressed on and established Réaumes Trading Post on the Leaf River. Cadotte&#39;s post consisted of log huts surrounded by a palisade. He was an effective trader who forged a positive relationship with the Dakota, thus opening this region to the fur trade.</p><br>
<p>Vestiges of Cadotte&#39;s post were first documented in 1868, though the six visible depressions were assumed to be rifle pits. In 1972 the site received a modern archaeological field survey in an area measuring 160 by. This survey noted seven depressions: four rectangular (the largest being 30 x), two circular, and one irregular in shape. The surveyors could also discern an eroded path dropping 25 ft down to the river.</p><br>
<h2>Prescott&#39;s Trading Post</h2><br>
<p>Three decades later, in 1825, Philander Prescott led another fur trading party into the area. That year the First Treaty of Prairie du Chien had specified a border between Ojibwe and Dakota territory. However Prescott and his party initially established their camp on Leaf Lake, right in the contested zone. Hostilities with the Dakota left two Ojibwe members of the party dead, prompting the survivors to retreat to the mouth of the Leaf River where they were firmly within Ojibwe territory.</p><br>
<p>The trading post consisted of a house for Prescott, a storehouse, and a lodge for the rest of the men. It was a severe winter that brought starvation to many in the area, but the trading was lucrative and in spring Prescott returned to Fort Snelling with thirty packs of furs. Meanwhile, the Ojibwe members continued on to Leech Lake for the annual maple sugar harvest.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the district&#39;s nomination to the National Register in 1973, the exact location of this post had not been rediscovered.</p><br>
<h2>Old Wadena</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-19th century the Red River Trails were forged between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the Red River Colony in present-day Manitoba. A route blazed in 1844, known as the Woods Trail, forded the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the Partridge and Leaf Rivers. In the 1850s the USA government began improving the Woods Trail but ultimately only progressed as far as the Crow Wing crossing.</p><br>
<p>At this crossing in 1856, a land speculator named Augustus Aspinwall platted a townsite which he named Wadena. He established a trading post, a post office, and a ferry, and it became a regular stop for travelers on the Woods Trail. Wadena was named county seat and Aspinwall anticipated a flood of settlers as soon as railroad track could be built through the area. However the Panic of 1857 suppressed railroad construction for years, and when the Northern Pacific Railway finally laid track through the area in 1871 they chose a route 3.5 mi to the south. What little population had collected in Aspinwall&#39;s town abandoned the site and established a new town of Wadena along the railway.</p><br>
<p>Around this time, though, Peter and Angeline Roy established Wadena County&#39;s first farm in the vicinity of what soon became known as Old Wadena. They cultivated fields and kept dairy cattle.</p><br>
<p>The C.H. Whitehead House is a historic residence located in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. Whitehead was a Boone County, Iowa native who came to Marshalltown in 1898, where he established a womens and childrens clothing store that is thought to be the first of its kind in Iowa. He had this home built around the turn of the 20th century. The house does not exemplify any one style, but is a compilation of several styles. The Queen Anne style is found in overall asymmetry of the main facade, especially the projecting bay and the porch&#39;s pediment, as both are off-centered. The Georgian Revival style is found in the rectangular form of the structure, the horizontal proportions, and the Adamesque details. The 17th century colonial architecture of New England is found in the way the second floor overhangs the first floor on the side elevations. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Minerva Creek Bridge is located in Liberty Township north of Clemons, Iowa, United States. It spans Minerva Creek for 68 ft. The Marshall County Board of Supervisors awarded a $14,090 contract to the N.M. Stark and Company of Des Moines to build six concrete bridges. They were all designed by W.W. Morehouse, the Marshall County Engineer. This single-span concrete Luten arch bridge was completed the same year for $2,550. It was the longest of the six bridges in the contract. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Robert P. Carr House is a historic house at 35 Main Street in Bowdoinham, Maine. It is a high quality area example of Italianate architecture, built about 1870 for one of the town&#39;s most prominent citizens of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Robert P. Carr House stands on the north side of Main Street (Maine State Route 125), a short way east of its junction with Center Street and Back Hill Road. It is an L-shaped -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its street-facing front facade is two bays wide, with polygonal bays on the first floor topped by bracketed hip roofs. The building corners have paneled pilasters, rising to an eave studded with paired brackets. The front gable has a deep eave, also with paired brackets and modillions. A round window is at the center of the gable, sheltered by a bracketed hood. The main entrance is on the right side, near the crook of the L, sheltered by a porch. The interior of the house features high quality period woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1870 for Robert Potter Carr, a prominent local businessman and politician, and is a remarkably high-style Italianate structure for a relative modest rural village setting. Carr was the owner of the local country store, which was established by his father. He is believed to be one of the first people in the town to engage in the business of ice harvesting on a commercial scale. Carr served for many years in the state legislature, and in county-level positions.</p><br>
<p>Songo Lock is the last surviving lock of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, a 19th-century canal in southern Maine, United States. The lock is located on the Songo River, just above its confluence with the Crooked River at the northern end of Sebago Lake State Park in the town of Naples. The lock, built in 1830, is now used primarily during the summer months by pleasure craft. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated as a Maine Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cumberland and Oxford Canal was conceived in the early 19th century as a means to transports raw materials and goods between the harbor of Portland, Maine and the upland interior as far north as Bridgton and Harrison on Long Lake. The canal was completed in 1830, the year Songo Lock was finished, and operated as a commercial transport enterprise until 1870. Songo Lock was one of the 28 locks built for the canal, and provides a major transit point between Sebago Lake and Brandy Pond, the southernmost portion of Long Lake. The lock underwent enlargement and some modernization in 1911 by the Sebago Lake Improvement Company, which was developing the area as a summer resort destination. It is now maintained by the state as part of Sebago Lake State Park.</p><br>
<p>When built in 1830, the lock was 90 ft long and 26 ft wide, and was built to one side of an artificial rubblestone island, part of a scheme to divert the slow-flowing river around the construction site. The sides of the lock are granite, and its original control gates were wooden. When the lock was rebuilt in 1911, it was enlarged to be 110 ft long and 28 ft wide, it was given iron gates, and the walls were faced in concrete.</p><br>
<p>The J.P. Runyan House is a historic house at 1514 South Schiller Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a dormered and flared hip roof and weatherboard siding. The roof extends in front over a full-width porch, with Classical Revival columns supporting and matching pilasters at the corners. The roof dormers have gable roofs, and have paired sash windows, with fish-scale cut wooden shingles in the gables and side walls. It was built in 1901 for Joseph P. Runyan, a local doctor, and was later briefly home to Governor of Arkansas John Sebastian Little.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the house began in 1900 and when the home was completed, it was occupied by Dr. Joseph P. Runyan and his family, and also where Dr. Runyon operated his medical office. Dr. Runyon was President of the Arkansas State Board of Health during this time, as well as Vice President of Crystal Ice Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased from the Runyon family in 1920 and sold to another local doctor, who lived in the home with his family.</p><br>
<p>Ownership of the house changed over the next several decades, with the house eventually being converted from a single family home to housing several apartments by 1941, most of which were occupied by military personnel. This conversion also altered the floorpan of the house, with workers adding a sky light and moving the staircase.</p><br>
<p>Between 1941 and 2024, the house changed owners roughly 5 times; the most recent owners, Frederic and Ethel Ambrose, bought the house in 1982 and lived in it until their deaths, and the house has remained in the family. The Ambrose&#39;s significantly remodeled the house, which had fallen into disrepair, reverting the house from multiple kitchens and apartment units to a single family home. The house now contains 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, one kitchen, two family rooms, a formal dining room, and an upstairs loft area.</p><br>
<p>The property also contains a carriage house in back of the main house that was used for the Dr. Runyon&#39;s horses and staff. The carriage house has since been converted to a 3 car garage and a 2 bedroom apartment unit.</p><br>
<p>The Safferstone House is a historic house at 2205 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story stuccoed building, with a gabled terra cotta roof. A single-story gabled porch extends to the front across the left half, with a rounded archway in the front. A recessed ell extends to the right of the main block, and a shed-roof bay projects to the left. The house was built in 1925 and designed by Sanders and Ginocchio , and is an example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Schaer House is a historic house at 1862 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is an asymmetrical two story brick house in the Tudor Revival style, designed by Thompson and Harding and built in 1923. Its main roof extends from side to side, with a hip at one end and a gable at the other. On the right side of the front facade, the roof descends to the first floor, with a large half-timbered cross gable section projecting. It also has an irregular window arrangement, with bands of three casement windows in the front cross gable, and on the first floor left side, with two sash windows in the center and the main entrance on the right.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House are historic buildings located in Haverhill, Iowa, United States. The complex includes the blacksmith shop from the early 1880s, a garage addition from 1915, a house from the early 1890s, and a summer kitchen . It is a state historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Stuttgart, Germany, Matthew emigrated with his family to the United States in 1873, settling in Effingham, Illinois. While living there, he invented and patented a wire-binder grain harvester. He received financial backing from his neighbors and others in town, however the Deering Harvester Company successfully marketed a similar machine about the same time and his machine failed. He moved to Iowa, settling near Iowa City where he met Maria Hoffman. Matthew moved to Haverhill in 1883, and he opened a blacksmith shop. He married Maria the same year, and they lived on the second floor above the shop. Together they raised eight children. As the business prospered, Matthew expanded the shop and in the early 1890s built the two-story Late Victorian frame house. The summer kitchen may have been on the property when Matthew bought it, but it cannot be determined when it was built. It is from the same era as the shop and the house.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the normal blacksmith tasks, Matthew received patents on several of his inventions. In addition to the wire grain-binder, he also received patents for the Perfection De-Horning Clipper (1895), fence stretcher (1899), Perfection Wedge Cutter (1901), a type of nut pliers (date unknown), and Edel&#39;s Garden Weeding and Cultivating Hoe (1924). Based on the testimonials on his brochures, he sold his products to customers in the Midwest and Northeast. He also made metal grave markers similar to those found in Germany. Outside of the German-Russian immigrants of North Dakota, this type of grave marker is rare in the United States.</p><br>
<p>While Matthew operated the blacksmith shop into the late 1930s, he realized he needed to adapt in order to stay in business. He expanded the shop in 1915 to include automobile repairs. His son Louis went Des Moines to study auto repair, and joined his father in business. Matthew died in 1940. Louis moved to Waterloo, Iowa in 1952, but continued to maintain his fathers blacksmith shop basically as he had left it. He returned to Haverhill in 1964, and re-opened the automobile repair shop on a part-time basis. Louis auctioned off his tools in April 1978, and moved to Arizona where he died the following month. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and Louis Edels heirs donated it to the State Historical Society of Iowa in 1986, which operates it as a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Marshalltown Downtown Historic District is a historic district located in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The historic district covers most of the city&#39;s central business district. All of it is within the original town of Marshalltown, which was laid out and recorded on August 15, 1853, as the village of Marshall. Confusion with a town with the same name in Henry County led this village to be renamed Marshalltown in 1862. It was incorporated the following year.</p><br>
<p>The district contains a mix of commercial buildings, an opera house, a movie theater, a fraternal hall, and warehouses. The civic buildings include the Marshall County Courthouse, sheriff&#39;s residence, municipal building, civic auditorium and public library. The buildings range in size from narrow, two-story commercial blocks to three-story corner blocks, and the seven-story Hotel Tallcorn. The period of significance is from 1862 to 1950, and the buildings are constructed during that time frame. The commercial Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and especially vernacular architecture are dominant. Prominent architects who have buildings in the district include John C. Cochrane (courthouse; 1886), Patton and Miller (public library; 1902), Harry E. Reimer (Marshalltown Municipal Building; 1921), and Josselyn and Todd (Marshalltown Memorial Coliseum; 1929).</p><br>
<p>A tornado struck Marshalltown on July 19, 2018. It did significant damage to many buildings in the historic district, including the courthouse, city hall, and the civic auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The State Center Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in State Center, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The historic district covers the towns central business district. State Center is located at the highest point in Marshall County, midway between Marshalltown and Nevada. The town was established by the Cedar Rapids & Missouri Railroad on 80 acre of land in 1863. It was initially named "Centre Station," but William Barnes, the first railroad agent, changed the towns name to "State Centre."</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Highway was originally routed on Fourth and Fifth Streets through town. The route was changed around 1924 bringing it down Main Street, which was paved in 1930. Unlike many other towns along the route, the street was paved with concrete rather than brick pavers. Main Street is one of the contributing structures in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The district contains a mix of commercial buildings, an opera house, a medical facility, residential and industrial structures. Civic buildings include the fire station, city hall, post office, and former high school (now a middle school). Watsons Grocery was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The buildings range in size from small-scale and modest size structures, which reflect the impact of destructive fires in 1895 and 1917 and State Centers modest commercial economy. The period of significance is from 1869 to 1952, and the buildings are constructed during that time frame. Late 19th and early 20th-century revival styles and the Prairie School style are dominant.</p><br>
<p>The Hugh L. King House is a historic house at 110 West Spring Street in Heber Springs, Arkansas. It is a -story L-shaped wood-frame house, with an eclectic combination of Queen Anne and Italianate features. It has a two-story polygonal turreted projection at one corner, and a wraparound porch with delicate turned posts. Although most of the exterior is finished in weatherboard, portions are finished in decorative cut shingles. The oldest portion of the house was built about 1882; it achieved its present form and style c. 1893–4 with a major addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Old Highway 16 Bridge is a historic closed-spandrel arch bridge near Edgemont, Arkansas. It carries an unused old alignment of Arkansas Highway 16 across the manmade "Edgemont Cut", an excavation made in 1908 during construction of the now-abandoned Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad. The bridge was built in 1936 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and remained in regular service until 1963, when Highway 16 was realigned. In that year, the United States Army Corps of Engineers moved the road north to its present alignment, filling in part of the old railway cut. The bridge is subject to flooding during exceptionally high water events in Greers Ferry Lake.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander-Schaer House is a historic house at 13219 United States Route 70, a short way east of Galloway, Arkansas. It is a two-story frame structure, with a gabled tile roof and brick veneer exterior. Built in 1920, it is a fine example of Mission/Spanish Revival architecture, with the tile roof, brick exterior, and decorative ironwork elements all hallmarks of the style. The house is shaded by ancient oaks and a pecan grove overlooking the cypress waters of Hill Lake. The houses design has been attributed to both John Parks Almand  or Charles L. Thompson, who did work for other members of the Schaer family.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Schaer House has effectively been an event space since 1920 by the original owners, Fred and Lucy Alexander-Schaer, a Little Rock socialite. The Schaer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Shady Brook Farm is a historic home located at Marlboro, Ulster County, New York. The house was originally built about 1850 in the Greek Revival style, and substantially enlarged and remodeled about 1917. It consists of two two-story, gable-roofed blocks. The front facade features a picturesque front porch with Gothic Revival style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing -story "South Cottage"  and a carriage barn . After 1917, the main house was used as a summer boarding house until 1954.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Judge Jonathan Hasbrouck House, also known as the Sherman-Elwyn-Jonathan Hasbrouck House, is a historic home located at Woodstock, Ulster County, New York. It was built circa 1800, and is a two-story, three bay by four bay, Federal style, bluestone dwelling constructed with load-bearing walls upon a raised basement. It has a gable roof and front porch that was added around 1900. Adjoining the eastern elevation of the house is a wooden frame addition also on a bluestone foundation that was built about 1875. The addition exhibits modern construction techniques since its renovation after a fire that had damaged both sections of the house. The original roof pitch of the addition has since been reconfigured.</p><br>
<p>The main house was built on a 500-acre parcel for Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763-1846), a large landowner and Ulster County judge. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>The house currently stands on an approximate one-acre parcel with a contributing timber-frame shed on the west side. Included within the NRHP nomination boundary of the site is a historically relevant barn complex (built circa 1875) that is located on the abutting property to the east, along with a non-contributing small-frame dwelling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Appeldoorn Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Accord, Ulster County, New York. The farmstead was established in 1722, and restored and redeveloped as a Colonial Revival country retreat in 1930–1937. It includes a 1 1/2-story, Dutch Colonial period stone house built about 1758, and expanded in the 19th century and restored in 1930. It has a side gable roof and interior gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing barn , poultry house, farm worker cottage , garage and workhouse , game house , 1 1/2-story tenant house , gate posts , Henry DeWitt cellar hole, and an airport . Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Joachim Schoonmaker Farm, also known as Saunderskill Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Accord, Ulster County, New York. The farmstead was established about 300 years ago and has been owned by the same family since then. It includes a two-story, five-bay, brick-fronted stone house built in 1787 with two rear frame wings. It has a side gable roof and interior gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing stone smokehouse, -story wagon house, wood frame smokehouse, granary, barn , powerhouse , two poultry houses, a section of the Delaware and Hudson Canal , a two-story wood-frame house , and a -story tenant house. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Brown–Ellis House, also known as the Amos Brown House and Baker House, is a historic home located at Highland, Ulster County, New York. The house was originally built about 1800, and expanded and renovated in the Greek Revival style about 1835. It consists of a -story main block with a wing. It is of timber-frame construction and has gable roofs on both sections. A full width Colonial Revival style front porch was added about 1910. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Alligerville Historic District is a national historic district located at Alligerville, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 81 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 8 contributing structures in the hamlet of Alligerville. It developed after 1828 around Lock 21  on the Delaware and Hudson Canal and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italian Villa architecture. Notable contributing resources include the John & Catrina Alliger House , Reformed Dutch Church of the Clove Chapel , Ira Brodhead House , John Forbes Hotel , Alligerville Post Office , Thomas S. Schoonmaker Farm , Union Free District No. 1 School , Canal Outbuilding , Hall-Latinville Summer Cottages , and Hall-Barrett Summer Cottage .</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Ellenville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 52 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the central business district of Ellenville. It developed after 1823, with the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Late Victorian, and Art Deco architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage, George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building, and United States Post Office. Other notable contributing resources include the Ellenville United Methodist Church , First National Bank Building , Wawarsing Town Hall , Norbury Hall, Scoresby Hook and Ladder, Cohen&#39;s Bakery, Ellenville Electric Co. Building , Home National Bank , H. Rosenstock and Sons clothing factory , the Miller Building , and the Village Motel .</p><br>
<p>Includes 17 accompanying photographs from 2010.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Pine Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 125 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the hamlet of Pine Hill. It developed between about 1800 and 1962 and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Carpenter Gothic , Italianate, Stick Style, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed District School No. 14, Elm Street Stone Arch Bridge, Mill Street Stone Arch Bridge, Morton Memorial Library, and Ulster House Hotel. Other notable contributing resources include the John C. Loomis House , Methodist Episcopal Church , Benjamin Franklin Cornish House , Elizabeth Smith House , Orchard Park House , and "The Zepher" . Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Chimney Farm is a historic farm property at 617 East Neck Road in Nobleboro, Maine. The heart of the farm is an early 19th-century farmhouse, which was from 1931 to their respective deaths home to the writers Henry Beston  and Elizabeth Coatsworth . Both were prominent regional award-winning writers, and the farm property played a prominent role on some of their writings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Chimney Farm stands on a peninsula called East Neck, one of two that separate two lobes of Damariscotta Lake. Between the two peninsulas is a cove of the lake; the Chimney Farm property originally extended entirely across East Neck between the eastern lobe of the lake and the cove, but is now reduced to 20 acre fronting the lake. The property includes a farmhouse and barn, a small writing cabin, and a small family cemetery that includes the graves of both Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth. The farmhouse is a rambling 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a Cape style main block, a tall ell to the east, and a long single-story ell running north from the north west corner of the main block. The original portion of the house dates to the early 19th century, but has a later 19th-century turret-like projection built above its front door. The west-facing side door is sheltered by an elaborately carved hood, exhibiting floral motifs and intricate carvings of animals.</p><br>
<p>The farm was purchased in 1931 by Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth, who had married in 1929. Coatsworth was noted for her childrens books, winning the Newbery Medal in 1931 for The Cat Who Went to Heaven, and Beston was also known as a writer of childrens books. His most famous book, The Outermost House, was a work of nature writing said to have had a major influence on Rachel Carson. Aspects of Chimney Farm are discernable in the writings of both authors.</p><br>
