<p>Oakwood is a historic farm property west of Warrenton in rural Fauquier County, Virginia. It is bounded on the south by Old Waterloo Road, and on the west by Great Run, a south-flowing tributary of the Rappahannock River. The main house is a rambling two-story masonry building, whose oldest portions date to the 18th century. Its present appearance has significant Greek Revival features, include a gabled temple-front portico added about 1838. The property is also notable in local culture for hosting the very first Virginia Gold Cup race in 1922.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Jim Scott Fishhouse is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, built in 1907 by a family-owned commercial fishing outfit. During the fishing season it served as a place to dress and pack fish, while over the winter it was used for the storage and repair of fishing gear. The Jim Scott Fishhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for having local significance in the theme of commerce. It was nominated for being a representative of the important commercial fishing industry on the upper North Shore of Lake Superior.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jim Scott Fishhouse stands on the waterfront of Grand Marais Harbor. It is a rectangular, wood-frame building with a footprint of about 30 by. A wood-frame shed addition measuring 10 by is attached to the north wall. The south wall is pierced by a wooden door. The main section has a gable roof covered in tar paper, while the shed has tar paper walls and a metal roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Garfield Scott (1881–1947), better known as Jim Scott, was a second-generation commercial fisherman. His father Andrew Jackson Scott had settled in Grand Marais in the 1870s, initially working as a trapper before becoming a commercial fisherman around 1900. Jim Scott, born in Grand Marais in 1881, joined his father in business as soon as he was old enough. The younger Scott purchased this waterfront property in 1907 and built the fishhouse and a dock.</p><br>
<p>The waters of western Lake Superior teemed with schools of lake whitefish and lake trout. Since the initial Euro-American settlement of the North Shore in the 1850s there had been some commercial fishing. However transportation to market was an issue until the mid-1880s, when regular steamboat service to Duluth and rail distribution to Minneapolis–Saint Paul were firmly established, allowing the North Shore fishing industry to achieve commercial significance. Residents all along the North Shore entered the business, many receiving loans from Duluth-based fish wholesalers to acquire boats and gear.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the completion of his fishhouse, Jim Scott entered into a business partnership with Eugene Clark and permitted the unmarried man to live in a loft above the workspace. The two achieved success not only as fishermen but as fishing boat builders before Clark died in 1915. Scott&#39;s son Roger ultimately joined his father in the business when he came of age.</p><br>
<p>The Scotts started their fishing season as early as possible each year, as soon as the ice was gone from Grand Marais Harbor. On a typical day they were out of the harbor by 5 a.m., motoring four hours to cover 35 mi to a location near Outer Island where lake trout were abundant. They would spend six hours playing out over 4 mi of fishing net and reeling it back in. They cleaned the day&#39;s catch on the way back to harbor, where they packed it in ice at the fishhouse. In fall they would fish for herring near Duluth.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-1930s Jim and Roger Scott built a new boat for themselves, a 35 ft fishing tug that could handle their long trips out on the lake and also serve as a workboat in the harbor. They named her the Nee-Gee, an anglicization of the word for "friend" in the Ojibwe language. It had a 110-horsepower engine, a 24 in propeller, a large cabin that opened onto the bow, and was designed so a crew of three could set the fishing nets without leaving the cabin. The Nee-Gee was also used around the harbor to add logs to timber rafts about to be towed to paper mills in Ashland, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>Jim Scott was one of the most successful fishermen in the area. He also became an industry and community leader in Grand Marais. He helped found a fisherman&#39;s cooperative, a trucking company for fish and freight, and a congregational church, plus served as president of the local bank from 1920 to his death in 1947. He collapsed and died while working on the dock near the fishhouse.</p><br>
<p>The Great Lakes commercial fishery nearly collapsed as well, depleted by years of overfishing and the accidental introduction of the parasitic sea lamprey, but the industry survived by shifting to herring and smelt. The fishhouse remained in the Scott family for decades and continued to serve its original purpose into the 1980s. It was still owned by two of Jim Scotts grandchildren in 2004, though they were doing their fish processing in an adjacent building and using the historic structure for boat and gear storage. A 2008 travel guide mentions the fishhouse as having become part of the North House Folk School campus. The Nee-Gee fishing tug remained in service into the 1960s. Eventually taken out of the water, it was donated to the Cook County Historical Society in the late 90s. It is on public view in Grand Marais&#39;s municipal waterfront park and is gradually being restored by volunteers.</p><br>
<p>Jackson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana. The original building was built in 1870, and extensively remodeled by Elmer E. Dunlap in the Classical Revival style in 1911. It is a two-story, brick and limestone building consisting of a rectangular main central section with two flanking wings. The building features a four-sided clock tower. Located on the courthouse grounds are the contributing Sherman M-4 memorial tank, the town water pump and bell, and a cast iron fence .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Carr High School, also known as Weddleville High School, is a historic high school building located at Weddleville in Carr Township, Jackson County, Indiana. It was built in 1857, and is a simple two-story, brick, gable front building. The building exhibits vernacular Federal / Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements. It sits on a limestone foundation and measures 24 by. The building remained in use as a school until 1934.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Governor William King House, also known locally as the Stone House, is a historic house on Whiskeag Road in Bath, Maine. Built in 1812, this stone houses lancet-arch windows are one of the first examples of Gothic Revival architecture in New England. The house was built as a summer retreat for William King, who led the drive for Maine statehood, and served as the states first governor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The King House is located in a rural area of northern Bath, on the south side of Whiskeag Road. It is a -story stone structure, built out of dressed granite blocks and covered by a gabled roof. The main facade faces to the east, and is three bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by tall sash windows with multipane lancet-arch sections rising to the eaves. The roof is topped by a square cupola. The interior of the building retains well-preserved but restrained Federal period woodwork.</p><br>
<p>William King (1768-1852) was one of Baths leading businessmen and merchants of the early 19th century. He was a leader of the Massachusetts militia (Maine then being a part of that state) during the War of 1812. He was an instrumental figure in promoting Maines statehood, and in the drafting of its constitution, and was elected its first governor in 1820. He acquired a large tract of land in this area in 1809–13, on which he planted an orchard. He had this house built about 1812 as a summer retreat; his principal residence was more centrally located in Bath.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Commercial Historic District encompasses the main late 19th-century historic downtown area of Auburn, Maine. The twelve buildings in the district represent the citys growth between 1855 and 1902, housing businesses, professional offices and social halls, and also the citys municipal offices. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Auburn rose on the banks of the Androscoggin River with the humble beginnings of a log driver&#39;s camp in the late 19th century, and did not benefit in the 19th century industrialization the way neighboring Lewiston did, which had a more suitable siting for textile mills. A bridge across the river in 1822-23 spurred some development, including along the roads which are now Main and Court Streets. The arrival of the railroad in 1848, and the choice of Auburn in 1854 to be the seat of the new Androscoggin County cemented the importance of the area where downtown Auburn is now located.</p><br>
<p>Court Street is the continuation in Auburn of Lewistons Main Street, and is named for the Androscoggin County Courthouse and Jail, located several blocks west of the bridge on the north side of the street. The commercial historic district is on the south side of this part of the road, running from High Street in the west to Main Street in the east. Main Street parallels the river, with the block between Court and Drummond Streets lined with 19th-century buildings. Notable among this are Auburns historic and present city halls; the latter, known as Auburn Hall, was designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant and built in 1865. The current city offices stand just to its north on Court Street, in a 2004 building, sensitively designed to blend in with its neighbor by Harriman Associates.</p><br>
<p>The Proctor-Clement House is a historic house at 85 Field Avenue in Rutland, Vermont. It was built in 1867 for Redfield Proctor, a prominent local lawyer and businessman who came to own the Vermont Marble Company and served as Governor of Vermont. A fine example of Italianate architecture, it now houses the Antique Mansion Bed and Breakfast. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Proctor-Clement House is located in a residential area near the northern city limit of Rutland, opposite the Rutland Country Club at the junction of Field Avenue and Grove Street. It is a roughly square two-story wood-frame structure, with clapboard siding and a shallow hip roof topped by a square belvedere. The building corners are pilastered, and the eaves are studded with paired Italianate brackets. The main entrance is sheltered by a shallow portico with bracketed chamfered posts. The interior has a central hall plan, with a combination of Italianate and Colonial Revival features, dating either to the period of construction or an early 20th-century renovation. The dining room walls have been painted with a series of murals that probably date to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1867 by Redfield Proctor, then a well-off lawyer and businessman, in what was then a fashionable residential area on the city&#39;s outskirts. In 1871 Proctor moved to Sutherland Falls, where he had become involved the Sutherland Falls Marble Company. Proctor was instrumental in the establishment by merger of the Vermont Marble Company, and it was through his efforts that Sutherland Falls was set off from Rutland as the town of Proctor, and that West Rutland, another major marble quarry area, was also separated from the city. Proctor served as Governor of Vermont (as did two of his sons), and as United States Secretary of War under President Benjamin Harrison.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in Proctor&#39;s ownership until his death in 1909, and was then owned by the locally prominent Clement family.</p><br>
<p>The Evans-Neuhart House is a historic house at 320 East 5th Street in Plainview, Arkansas, United States. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers and wooden beams, now covered with brick. It has an L-shaped featuring original turned posts and a tongue-in-groove ceiling. It was built about 1915, and is a prominent local surviving example of Folk Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. John Grace House and Hospital is a historic house and hospital in rural Yell County, Arkansas. Located on the north side of North Road, west of Belleville, it is a two-story L-shaped wood-frame structure. It was built in 1912 for Dr. John Grace, a Yell County native who began practicing medicine in Belleville in 1906, and was until 1937 to sole source of healthcare in the Belleville vicinity.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball House is a historic house at 713 North Front Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a hip roof, with a single-story porch extending across the front, supported by square posts with chamfered corners and moulded capitals. The building corners have brick quoining, and the roof eave has paired brackets in the Italianate style. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings. Built in 1876, it is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Frank Wheeler Hotel, also known as the Brown-Wheeler House, is a historic hotel building located at Freetown in Pershing Township, Jackson County, Indiana. It was built in 1890, and is a modest two-story, Queen Anne style frame building. The building features asymmetrical massing, multiple gables, and a large porch with turned and decorative woodwork. Also on the property are the contributing shed and privy. Built as a private dwelling, it housed a hotel from 1905 to 1938.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Cavanaugh Bridge, also known as Jackson County Bridge #195, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge located in Driftwood Township, Jackson County, Indiana.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built in 1899 by the Lafayette Bridge Co. and spans the Muscatatuck River. The 174 foot long steel bridge rests on native brown sandstone abutments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was demolished in March 2015 and replaced with a new bridge 200 yards upstream.</p><br>
<p>T. Harlan and Helen Montgomery House is a historic home located at Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana. It was built between 1922 and 1929, and is a two-story, Dutch Colonial Revival style frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. It consists of a main rectangular block with a small portico, side porch, rear ell, and porte cochere. Also on the property is a contributing garage constructed in 1926.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>George H. Vehslage House is a historic home located at Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana. It was built in 1894, and is a -story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling with a limestone foundation. It features a corner tower with a hexagonal roof, irregular floorplan, and one-story full width front porch with ornate woodwork. Also on the property is a two-story carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Huston House is a historic house at 220 Bristol Road  in Damariscotta, Maine. Built in 1853, it is a rare statewide example of a large Greek Revival house with a longitudinal temple front. It now serves as home to the Down Easter Inn, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Huston House is located south of downtown Damariscotta, on the east side of Bristol Road, just south of Huston Cove Road. It is a large -story timber-frame structure, with a side gable roof that extends beyond the west-facing front facade to form the temple portico. It is supported by large fluted composite order columns, which rise to an entablature with recessed panels extending around the sides. The ground floor windows are topped by cornices with dentil moulding. The interior of the house retains original woodwork and marble fireplace mantels.</p><br>
<p>The oldest section of the house, which extends from the dining room in the front to the second lilac bush along the side, was built in 1790 by Robert Huston, the first Justice of the Peace of Lincoln County. The Hustons has been one of the first families to settle the peninsula along the river from Damariscotta, and several houses along Bristol Road were built by members of that family. In 1853 James Gilmore Huston added the Greek Revival section of the house, and that, together with the older section, is the house that we see today. Gilmore Huston was a prominent local businessman, operating a sawmill, brickyard, and shipping-related businesses, either on his extensive property surrounding this area, or in downtown Damariscotta.</p><br>
<p>The Hustons sold the house in 1876 to the Piper family, who owned it until 1959. The Pipers operated a dairy farm on the property stretching across the street to the Damariscotta River and in the massive barn, and operated a sawmill on their extensive properties to the east and north of the house itself.</p><br>
<p>Design of the house has been ascribed to Peabody Simmons, a native of Union who had studied architecture in Bangor.</p><br>
<p>The Rural Otter Creek Valley Historic District encompasses a rural agricultural area of southern Wallingford, Vermont. It includes nine past and present farmsteads along a stretch of United States Route 7 in the Otter Creek valley, with an agricultural history dating to the early decades of the 19th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Otter Creek valley south of Wallingford center was first settled in the late 18th century, with the first bridge crossing the creek built in 1783. Its most prominent early landowners were Israel and Isaac Munson, the former a wealthy doctor and merchant. Israel Munson first purchased land in the valley in 1814 for his younger brother Isaac, and their sister married Joel Hill, a Wallingford merchant. The surviving brick houses of Isaac Munson and Joel Hill are among the most imposing of the farmhouses in the valley. The wealth of Munsons in particular brought about a high quality of architectural work in the valley. One house, built for Isaac Bradley Munson, was (prior to its destruction by fire in 1980) one of the only known works of Asher Benjamin in the entire state.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends roughly from the crossing of Otter Creek by US 7 in the north, to a point where the road again passes close to the creek several miles to the south. It is bounded on the east by the creek, and the west by a line about 500 ft west of US 7. It covers about 110 acre, mostly of lands that are presently or historically in agricultural use. Included in this area are nine farmsteads, five of which were directly associated with members of the extended Munson family. All have farmhouses built between 1800 and 1850, with a collection of associated farm outbuildings, many of which are also 19th-century in origin. Two of the houses are brick, including that of Isaac Munson; the others are wood frame structures.</p><br>
<p>The Norristown Cemetery is a historic cemetery off Lock and Dam Road, on the south side of Russellville, Arkansas. It is a small community cemetery, with thirty marked grave sites, the oldest of which is dated 1853 and the newest 1934. It is the only surviving remnant of the community of Norristown, which was an early settlement and the first county seat of Pope County.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Old South Restaurant was a historic diner and local restaurant landmark at 1330 East Main Street in Russellville, Arkansas. It was a modular single-story structure, with streamlined Art Moderne styling consisting of exterior porcelain-coated aluminum paneling, bands of fixed windows, and a protruding aluminum entrance, above which a neon-lighted sign rose. The diner was built in 1947 out of manufactured parts produced by the National Glass and Manufacturing Company of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Construction time was six days.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and was delisted in 2024.</p><br>
<p>In the early hours of June 6, 2023, smoke was reported coming from the restaurant. Fire crews from Russellville Fire Department battled the blaze for several hours. While the exterior walls were still standing, the building was a total loss.</p><br>
<p>The restaurant was reopened at 105 E Harrell Dr, Russellville, AR 72802, in a building that was formerly occupied by Dixie cafe.</p><br>
<p>The former Physical Education Building of the Arkansas Tech University is a historic academic building at 1502 North El Paso Avenue in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick Classical Revival structure, built in 1937 with funding from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Now known as the Techionery Building, the building currently houses the Arkansas Tech Museum with displays about the history of the university.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Lowney Chocolate Factory is a historic industrial complex at 150 Oakland Street in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Developed beginning in 1903, the complex was used until 2010 by a variety of primarily corporate owners for the manufacture and processing of chocolate products, most recently Archer Daniels Midland. The complex, vacant in 2016, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 as an important local employer, and a good local example of Late Victorian industrial architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Lowney Chocolate Company plant stands on the north side of Mansfield Center, between Oakland Street and the Providence/Stoughton Line railroad tracks. The complex contains seven buildings on 14 acre, ranging in construction date from 1903 to 1995. The centerpiece of the complex is Building 1, a five-story brick building with centrally placed seven-story tower. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings separated by brick piers, with granite sills, and some openings now filled in with panels. The tower, three bays wide and one deep, has round-arch windows at the top level, and elaborate brick corbelling below the eave of the flared hip roof.</p><br>
<p>The Walter M. Lowney Company was a chocolate and candy business founded in Boston in the early 1880s by Walter M. Lowney, a native of Bangor, Maine. Lowneys business was a great success, and experienced rapid growth over the next fifteen years, repeatedly expanding its presence in Bostons Commercial Street area. The availability of ready railroad access to this property in Mansfield prompted its selection for a major expansion, and the Lowney Chocolate Company was formed as a subsidiary to manage all of the chocolate production for both the Walter M. Lowney Company and wholesale customers. Lowney himself moved to Mansfield, where he was a prominent citizen until his death 1921. The company went through a series of corporate owners, who continued to use and develop the facility. It was closed in 2010 by Archer Daniels Midland.</p><br>
<p>Central Wharf is a historic pier in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1815–1816 between Long Wharf and India Wharf, it originally extended from India Street nearly a quarter-mile into Boston Harbor. Today, the much-shortened wharf  serves as the home of the New England Aquarium.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Central Wharf was conceived in the aftermath of the War of 1812, when the restoration and expansion of trade created a need to renovate the Boston waterfront and expand the town&#39;s shipping capacity. The project was organized by Ebenezer Francis and was primarily financed by several of the same men who had previously built or invested in India Wharf, namely Uriah Cotting, Harrison Gray Otis, James Lloyd Jr. and Francis Cabot Lowell. Construction of the wharf began on around April 17, 1815, with the store roofs being covered before the end of the following year, and full occupancy was achieved by the beginning of April 1817.</p><br>
<p>Upon its completion, Central Wharf featured a row of fifty-four warehouses built in the Federal style, with each one measuring four stories in height and three window bays in width. In total, the wharf was one of the towns largest at 1,240 feet long and 150 feet wide, and one contemporary observer noted that "the completion of this undertaking, unparalleled in commercial History, is a proof of the enterprize, the wealth, and persevering industry of Bostonians." Over the next several decades it assumed a prominent position in the towns seaport, becoming the place of business for several eminent merchants and serving as the center of Boston&#39;s large Mediterranean trade.</p><br>
<p>Only a small portion of Central Wharf still exists today, as the majority of the site was demolished in stages over the course of the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. The length of the pier was considerably reduced in ca. 1868 due to land reclamation undertaken for the construction of Atlantic Avenue, which ran through the middle of the wharf, and most of the warehouses were torn down in the 1950s-1970s to make way for several projects, including the building of the Central Artery and the New England Aquarium. The aquarium has since become a major feature on the remaining area of the wharf, having operated there since its opening in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Of the original warehouses built on Central Wharf, the westernmost eight (at 146-176 Milk Street) have survived into the 21st century, although their facades have undergone varying degrees of alteration from their original appearance. These buildings, which form the last surviving Federal-style wharf complex in the city, were added as part of the Custom House District to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The K. J. Taralseth Company was a prominent retail business in Warren, Minnesota, United States, in operation 1888–1959. The original building it occupied burned down in 1910, so the owners commissioned a new building the following year which is still standing. Both facilities contained the department store as well as space for other tenants—including a Masonic temple—and hosted numerous community events. The 1911 building in which the K. J. Taralseth Company was housed for almost half a century was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 for having local significance in the theme of commerce. It was nominated for representing a business and a venue that served a central role in the life of the community.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On May 31, 1882, Knud J. Taralseth opened a general store in a false-front frame building on Main Street in Warren. Taralseth, a Norwegian immigrant, had spent ten years in the United States before arriving in Warren. He worked as a carpenter for railroads in Red Wing and Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>Taralseth entered business by purchasing a half interest in a small store in Osakis, Minnesota, in 1878. He moved with his family to Warren in 1882 and began a mercantile business. In 1888 Warren&#39;s growing population prompted Taralseth to move the business to another location in town. He purchased property on the corner of Main Street and Johnson Avenue and erected the first two-story building in the city. The new brick-veneered building not only accommodated merchandise but also housed the Warren Masonic Lodge and the post office.</p><br>
<p>In the late nineteenth century the Taralseth Store offered items such as dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes, and groceries, and was organized as a department store. People regarded it as the finest general store on the Great Northern road between Crookston and Winnipeg. By 1904, Taralseths store had been incorporated as the K. J. Taralseth Company. Taralseths sons, Ralph and Olaf, served on the board and as managers. One year later, K.J. Taralseth died at the age of fifty-six. It was then that Ralph came forward to lead the family business.</p><br>
<p>Disaster struck the store on October 24, 1910, when a fire swept through the Taralseth Building. The fire, which began in the basement, destroyed the building and most of the merchandise inside. The financial loss was estimated at $125,000. It was the biggest loss in the history of Warren. Immediately after the fire, the Taralseth family decided to rebuild the store. During the interim, they sold merchandise in several locations throughout town.</p><br>
<p>On October 12, 1911, the new two-story brick Taralseth building opened its doors. The establishment employed a sales team of about fifteen people and offered a variety of adult and children&#39;s clothing, groceries, and hardware. In an effort to attract customers and challenge the competition, store managers changed the display windows weekly. Furthermore, the Taralseths relied heavily on advertising through mailings and advertisements in newspapers. The local newspaper Warren Sheaf boasted that the store was the equal of any in the Twin Cities.</p><br>
<p>The Taralseths&#39; store was not the only entity the building was known for. As one of the largest, most significant buildings of the town, it housed several other businesses and offices. Local officials and businessmen had offices in the building. The Warren Commercial Club and the local Masonic lodge held suites as well. The building hosted many social events. The Masonic lodge upstairs held dances for the young people of the area. The holiday season provided special events for children. The basement of the building was converted into a toy emporium during Christmas time. Store employees were known to dress as Santa Claus and distribute treats to the youngsters.</p><br>
<p>In addition to owning the premier mercantile establishment in Warren, the Taralseths were also active civically. Knud helped establish school districts and served on a board of education. Ralph served as both mayor and fire chief for many years.</p><br>
<p>In 1938 larger stores began competing with the Taralseth store and sales steadily declined for two decades. In 1959 the Taralseths sold their business. Afterward the building housed apartments and small businesses until it was abandoned in the mid 1970s. In 2001 a rehabilitation project began, and the building was once again converted to apartments with business suites on the lower level.</p><br>
<p>The Megunticook Golf Club is a private recreational club at 212 Calderwood Lane in Rockport, Maine. Its principal features are a Craftsman-style clubhouse and a nine-hole golf course, designed in 1912 by Warren H. Manning. The club was organized in 1899, and is one of the states oldest recreational clubs, and is home to the states oldest surviving private golf course. Its facilities were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 .</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Megunticook Golf Club is located on the east side of the Beachamp Point peninsula, which separates Rockport Harbor from Penobscot Bay. The 66 acre property consists of undulating terrain, with views of the harbor and bay, particularly from the clubhouse, which is set on one of its high points. The clubhouse is a roughly rectangular single-story building with a broad wraparound porch, rubblestone foundation, and stained shingled exterior. Its interior includes a reading room, main club hall, and ladies&#39; parlor. It is located near the center of the nine-hole golf course, which extends west beyond Beachamp Street.</p><br>
<p>The club was organized in 1899 and formally incorporated in 1901. The clubhouse was designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham, and opened in 1902, along with the golf course. Early design work on the golf course was done by George Ingraham, a local landscape contractor. The course&#39;s present configuration is largely influenced by additional design work performed in 1912 by Warren Manning and in 1915 by Albert Davis Taylor, who had worked with Manning until 1914.</p><br>
<p>The Colburn School is a historic schoolhouse on Arnold Road in Pittston, Maine. With an estimated construction date of 1815, this brick schoolhouse is the best-preserved of the town&#39;s 19th-century district schools, and served for a time as the town hall. Now a local historical society museum, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Colburn School is located in southern Pittston, just south of Riverview Cemetery on Arnold Road, an old alignment of nearby Maine State Route 27. It is a single-story brick building, with a gabled roof and a short wood-frame ell extending to its rear. A short gable end faces the street, with a single sash window, while the south facade has the entrance on the left and three sash windows to its right, with rough-cut granite sills and lintels. The ell houses two pit toilets and a wood storage area.</p><br>
<p>The school is believed to have been built in 1815, the year in which the town established ten school districts. The school was built on land donated by Samuel Oakman as his contribution to the construction costs. The building was used as a school until 1964, and between 1973 and 1985 it was used to house town offices. It has been owned since then by the local historical society, which uses it for meetings and other events. Events are sometimes coordinated with the Arnold Expedition Historical Society, which cares for the nearby Colburn House State Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>The Rutland Courthouse Historic District encompasses an architecturally cohesive area of civic and residential buildings in Rutland, Vermont. Roughly bounded by Court, Washington, South Main, and West Streets, the district was principally developed between 1850 and 1875, and includes a number of prominent municipal and county buildings, including the Rutland County courthouse, the Rutland Free Library, and the Grace Congregational United Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rutland Courthouse district is a residential and civic area that contains a number of important local civic and governmental functions, as well as a small neighborhood of fashionable 19th-century housing. The district&#39;s eastern bound is South Main Street (United States Routes 7 and 4), between West and Washington Streets, an area which includes two parks and the Chaffee Art Center, set in an 1892 Queen Anne Victorian. The southern boundary is Washington Street, extending from South Main to Prospect Street. This area includes a number of handsomely landscaped Italianate houses, built during a construction boom between 1850 and 1875, occasioned by the arrival of railroads and an expansion in the important marble processing industry.</p><br>
<p>The western boundary is Court Street between Washington and West Streets. The junction of Court and Center Streets is home to the Rutland County Courthouse, an elaborate Italianate brick building constructed in 1869, after the countys first courthouse burned down. Across Court Street stands the Rutland Free Library, which was built in 1856-58 as a federal building and post office, and was the first major building constructed in the district. It is also an elaborate Italianate design, credited to Ammi B. Young. The districts northern boundary is West Street, the main westbound thoroughfare from Rutland&#39;s downtown area, between Main and Elm Streets.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of Northborough is a historic former church building at 52 Main Street. It is presently home to the Northborough Historical Society offices and museum. Built in 1860, it is a good local example of religious Italianate architecture, despite having lost its tower in the New England Hurricane of 1938. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former First Baptist Church stands in Northboroughs town center, at the southeast corner of Main and School Streets. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. The buildings corners are quoined, and an entablature encircles the building below the gables. Its front facade is three bays wide, the center one projecting forward and upward into the pedimented gable. The flanking bays have narrow round-arch windows, with a similar one above the recessed entry in the projecting central section. The sides are also three bays, with long rectangular sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1860 for a Baptist congregation formed in 1827. It was their second sanctuary, the congregation having outgrown the first, this building was constructed on the site of the first one. A series of horse sheds were added at the rear in 1837, and were later adapted to house automobiles. The church&#39;s original steeple was blown off by the New England Hurricane of 1938, and was not rebuilt. The congregation having declined in size, it merged in 1948 with an Evangelical congregation to form Trinity Chapel. This building was put up for sale by the congregation in 1959, and was acquired by the historical society the following year.</p><br>
<p>The Smith–Johnson House, also known as The Old Brick, is a historic residence located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It was built for William T. Smith in 1853, the same year he was elected as the first mayor of Oskaloosa. A lawyer, Smith was a native of Pennsylvania who settled in the town in 1848 and became county attorney the same year. In addition to his political and legal responsibilities he founded the first bank in town, and he was involved with other profitable financial ventures. He lived in the house until 1865 when Abijah Johnson, a Quaker merchant who moved to Oskaloosa to be a part of the flourishing Quaker communities here and in the surrounding areas. John Kelly Johnson, an attorney who served in the Iowa Senate, took over the house after his father&#39;s death in 1894.</p><br>
<p>The house follows no particular architectural style, but is an unusual expression of vernacular architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Mitchell House is a historic house in rural Yell County, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 80, east of the Waltreak Methodist Church, in a northeastern finger of the Ouachita National Forest. The house is a single-story dogtrot structure, with a gable roof and a cross-gabled rear kitchen ell. The central breezeway has been enclosed, and houses the building entrance, which is sheltered by a shed-roof porch artfully decorated with vernacular woodwork. Built in 1891, it is one of the few 19th-century buildings surviving in the area, and is a well-preserved and unusual example of the dogtrot form.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>North Skunk River Bridge is located northeast of New Sharon, Iowa, United States. It carries traffic on County Road G13 over the North Skunk River for 202 ft. The Mahaska and the Poweshiek County Boards of Supervisors met in New Sharon in February 1919 to discuss building a new bridge to be built along the county line. The two counties split $40,000 in costs, with the citizens of New Sharon and vicinity paying the remaining $10,000. The truss bridge was designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, and constructed by the Iowa Bridge Company. It was completed in 1920, and was moved to its present location sometime later. Even though it is no longer in its historic location, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as the longest pinned connected truss bridge in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Bellefountain Bridge is located east of Tracy, Iowa, United States. It carried traffic of Ashland Avenue over the Des Moines River for 600 ft. In 1898 the Mahaska Board of Supervisors contracted with the Clinton Bridge Company of Clinton, Iowa to design and build a new bridge for $9,750. It replaced a ferry service that operated in the small town of Bellefountain. The Pratt through truss span was completed in 1898. Its deck has subsequently deteriorated and the bridge has been closed to traffic. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Eveland Bridge is located southwest of Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It carried traffic of Fulton Avenue over the Des Moines River, spanning 647 ft. After receiving multiple petitions, the Mahaska County Board of Supervisors decided in April 1875 to build a bridge, replacing a ferry service that operated at this point along the river beginning in 1854. They contracted with the Fort Wayne Bridge Works of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to build the new bridge for $25,200. It was designed by C. W. Tracy, a civil engineer. The Whipple through truss span was completed in the summer of 1877. This style was rarely chosen for wagon trusses in Iowa, which means few were built and fewer remain standing. Its deck has subsequently deteriorated and the bridge has been closed to traffic. The Eveland Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Oskaloosa Public Library is a facility located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. Construction of the library was launched in 1902 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Establishment</h3><br>
<p>The community of Oskaloosa, county seat of the county seat of Mahaska County, Iowa, established a public library board shortly after the turn of the 20th Century and passed a local tax for operation of such a facility. Application was made to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation for funds for building construction. The application for a grant for $22,000 was accepted on March 14, 1902. A centrally located site on South Market Street, measuring 120 feet square, was acquired for the facility in May.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Des Moines architect Frank E. Wetherell, an Oskaloosa native. It was the first major public commission he received. John Gier was the contractor.</p><br>
<p>The building is a two-story brick structure in the Neoclassical style built on a raised basement. The main entrance is surrounded by a classical portico. It was dedicated on September 7, 1903. The library was established with a collection of 5,000 volumes and its operation funded by a tax of one-tenth cent per dollar on all property in the city.</p><br>
<p>An additional grant of $2,000 was made by Carnegie in 1905, with proceeds used to finish the second story of the building. As a condition of this additional grant, the Oskaloosa City Council pledged to support the facility with a sum of at least $2,200 per year, ten percent of the two Carnegie capital grants. This pledge through city ordinance did not increase the cost to the town&#39;s taxpayers as more than $2,200 per year was already being spent on operation of the facility.</p><br>
<h3>Historical registry</h3><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. A 1997 addition enlarged the facility.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
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<p>The Joseph and Susan Manley Summer Cottage is a historic house on Club Road in the Small Point area of Phippsburg, Maine. Built in 1887, it is one of the largest and most elaborate summer houses in the community, and is a fine Queen Anne structure designed by a prominent Maine architect. It was built for Joseph Homan Manley, a prominent Maine political operative, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Manley Summer Cottage is located on the east side of Club Road, a spur road leading to the shore on the Small Point peninsula, the southernmost tip of Phippsburg. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of brick and stone. It is T-shaped, with the leg of the T surrounded by a wraparound porch. The porchs supporting posts and balustrade are clad in wooden shingles, and there is a small second-story porch on the main facades central bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Lewiston architect George M. Coombs, one of the states most prolific and successful architects of the late 19th century. It was built in 1887 for Joseph Homan Manley and his wife Susan, who was the daughter of former Maine Governor Samuel Cony. It was built next to the summer house of Joseph Bodwell, then the Governor of Maine. Manley was a successful businessman, and an active member of the states Republican Party inner circle. He served from 1894 to 1896 as chairman of the Republican National Committee. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 1998, the house was still in the hands of Manley&#39;s descendants.</p><br>
<p>The Pottsville Commercial Historic District encompasses a small cluster of turn-of-the-20th century commercial buildings on East Ash Street in Pottsville, Arkansas. It includes the 1887 former Falls and Sinclair store, and a block of three connected smaller brick buildings: the Pottsville Citizen&#39;s Bank , and the Shue and Pryor stores, both built in the 1920s. Pottsville has historically served as a commercial supply and business district for the surrounding agricultural areas.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Potts Inn is a historic former stagecoach inn at Main and Center Streets in Pottsville, Arkansas that is now a museum. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof and weatherboard siding. A two-story gabled portico projects at the center of the front, supported by square posts. Entrances on both levels have overhead transom windows. The inn was built in 1858 by Kirkbride Potts, a Pennsylvania native, and is one of the finest antebellum houses in the region.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Pottsville Dipping Vat is a historic cattle processing structure in Rankin Park, on East Ash Street, in Pottsville, Arkansas. It consists of a U-shaped concrete structure, with an extended base at one end. The structure has a total length of 42 ft, and the vat is 2 ft wide and 7 ft deep. It was probably built about 1915, not long after the state began a program to eradicate Texas cattle fever from its livestock.</p><br>
<p>The vat was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Seymour Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana. It encompasses 79 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures in the central business district of Seymour. The district developed between about 1876 and 1945, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Farmers Club. Other notable buildings include the Masonic Temple , Richart Block , Steinker Meat Market , Seymour National Bank , Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Building , Jonas Hotel , and Kidd Saloon .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Beatty–Trimpe Farm, also known as the Beatty–Kasting–Trimpe Farm, is a historic home and farm located in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built about 1874, and is a two-story, brick Italianate style I-house with a one-story rear ell. A one-story addition was constructed in 1970. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse , ice house, scale shed , round roof barn , granary / corn crib , garage / workshop , and English barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchins House is a historic house at 949 Main Street in Waldoboro, Maine. Built in 1879 for the widow of a successful ship&#39;s captain and shipbuilder, it is an elaborately decorated example of Second Empire architecture with Stick style features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; it presently houses a funeral home.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hutchins House is prominently situated in the village center of Waldoboro, on the north side of Main Street (Maine State Route 220) between the post office and the Broad Bay Congregational United Church. It is a -story wood-frame building, with a roughly rectangular footprint augmented by several projecting sections and a three-story tower. It is covered by a flared hip roof pierced by hipped dormers, and the tower is capped by a hipped roof with iron cresting at the peak. Eaves are decorated with Stick style brackets, and there is applied stick style woodwork on many exterior surfaces. Windows have shallow shed-roof hoods above them, and some have wooden panels below. Projecting bays have windows set in pointed-arch openings, again decorated with Stick style elements.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1879 for "Aunt Mary Hutchins", the widow of Captain Joseph Clark, who built shipping schooners in the town. The architect is not known.</p><br>
<p>Independence Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at the junction of N500E and E375N southeast of Wheatfield in Gillam Township, Jasper County, Indiana. It was built in 1872, and is a one-story, simple rectangular frame building originally built in the Greek Revival style. It was later modified with Gothic Revival style lancet windows and Italianate style trim on the central belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Rensselaer Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. It encompasses 37 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects in the central business district of Rensselaer. The district developed between about 1868 and 1955, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, and Modern style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Jasper County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Mobil Service Station , Murray Building , A. Leopold Building , First National Bank Building , IOOF Lodge , Eigelsbach Building , Eger Grocery , and Worden Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Oren F. and Adelia Parker House is a historic home located at Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a two-story, Bungalow / American Craftsman style brick dwelling with some Tudor Revival style design elements. The roof is sheathed in green tile and it features a large porte cochere and enclosed porch. The interior features original woodwork, fixtures, and murals.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Sanderson Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, which carries Pearl Street over Otter Creek in Brandon, Vermont. Built about 1840, it is one of Vermont&#39;s oldest covered bridges, and is the only remaining 19th century bridge in Brandon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sanderson Covered Bridge is located about 1.3 mi west of Brandons village center, on Pearl Street, a secondary road providing access to Brandons west side and neighboring Sudbury. The bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss, with a truss length of 123 ft and a total structure length of 131.5 ft. The bridge rests on abutments built out of marble slabs reinforced with concrete. It has a roadway width of 18 ft and a total width of 21.5 ft. The exterior is finished in vertical board siding, and its portals are framed by crude pilasters. The road deck is wooden, and laminated beams have been attached to the underside of the structure for added strength.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built about 1840, and was one of two surviving covered bridges in Brandon when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Dean Covered Bridge, Brandon&#39;s other 19th-century covered bridge, was destroyed by an arsonist in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Redkey Historic District is a national historic district located at Redkey, Jay County, Indiana. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings in the central business district of Redkey. The district developed between about 1888 and 1935, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the City Building , Appenseller&#39;s Department Store , K of P Building , Farmers and Merchants First National Bank Building , Masonic Lodge , IOOF Building , Brown-Ellis Block , and Cultice-Mann Block .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Coney Island of the West is an island in Lake Waconia in the USA state of Minnesota that was developed into a summer resort with its heyday from the 1880s to the 1920s. It continued operating up to 1960. The 31 acre island is part of Waconia Township just.5 mi off the shore from the city of Waconia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its local significance in the themes of commerce and entertainment/recreation. The island site, with its ruins of hotels, cottages, and parks, was nominated for being one of Minnesotas most popular early resorts, and an early expression of the trend of urban dwellers journeying to Minnesotas lakes and parks for recreation. Lambert Naegele , Reinhold Zeglin , and Emile Amblard  developed resort buildings and attractions on the island. The best preserved building from this era, however, is the Emile Amblard Guest House on the mainland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island has received human visitors for over 1,500 years. It is located in a region that was the first home to the Dakota people. Euro-American settlers colonized the area in the mid-19th century, with settlers going to the island during the Dakota War of 1862 in fear of battles in Carver County. The island was sought as a refuge because of its clear distant views, but the war resolved before reaching the county. The St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad purchased the land in 1866. They sold it to private buyers in 1874. The buyers eventually sold the 31.85 acre island to Lambert Naegele in March 1884 for $5,200. While Waconia already had several hotels such as the North Star, Lake House, and the Sherman House, the Coney Island Hotel and its resort became the most popular of all of Waconias hotels and contributed to the towns status as a favorite summer resort.</p><br>
<p>Lambert Naegele developed the island and named it "Coney Island of the West". The origin of this name is unclear. Some claim it is named after the Coney Island entertainment center on the East Coast. Others think that it comes from the large numbers of "coneys", or rabbits that lived on the island. Finally, one group claims "Coney" is just a shortened version of "Waconia". There is not enough evidence to definitively support one of these claims over the others, however.</p><br>
<p>As part of his initial development, Lambert Naegele divided the island into lots, parks, and streets. He named the streets for famous German authors, such as Goethe, Uhland, Schiller, and Lessing. He sold plots to private owners. Naegele also built a large hotel and private cabins, for either rent or sale. In 1886 a new hotel later known as the boarding house or dormitory, several more cottages, and a boathouse were added. Naegele suffered poor health, forcing a move to better climates in Montana. In 1889 Naegele sold the hotel complex to Reinhold Zeglin, whose family had taken possession of it at the end of the summer season in August 1888.</p><br>
<p>Zeglin, a German immigrant like Naegele, made plans for a third hotel, designed to sleep one to two hundred guests. With this added space, numbers of hotel guests began to rise. Part of the draw was Zeglin&#39;s addition of a bowling alley and Sunday concerts to amuse his guests. He also built a laundry, dining room, kitchen, and pavilion as part of his new hotel. In 1895 Zeglin rented Coney Island Hotel and resort to Emil Krueger of Stillwater, Minnesota, but he returned to run it again in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The resorts reputation was growing. Guests came to stay for periods of weeks or months, with many remaining all summer. Some, like Emile Amblard, the "Duke of Clearwater Lake", stayed permanently. Amblard, a French winemaker and businessman, came to visit and loved the island and town so well that he never left. Guests came from nearby Minneapolis–Saint Paul and elsewhere in Minnesota. Others came from New York, Ohio, and Illinois, or as far away as Europe and South Africa. There were even some famous guests. The guest register from June 20, 1896 shows movie star Sarah Bernhardt staying at the hotel. Between 1903 and 1905, the University of Minnesota Gophers held pre-season practices on the islands football field.</p><br>
<p>Zeglin&#39;s sons took over the resort in 1909. However business was beginning to slow by 1919 due to outside factors. The car allowed people to travel farther with more ease than trains. With this new flexibility, vacationers chose to spend summers in other states rather than locally. In 1927 the name was changed from Coney to Paradise Island, to encourage more guest visits. The name would not last. The Zeglin family sold the resort in 1939 to Frank Dvorak.</p><br>
<p>Frank "Shorty" Dvorak bought land on the island in 1939, soon adding a dance hall, a restaurant, and more cabins. The island became a weekend dinner and dancing spot, rather than a resort. Dvorak sold the complex to the Day Camp Company in 1959. The island deteriorated due to lack of proper maintenance, and their contract defaulted back to Dvorak in 1960. He was the last owner who operated the island as a place for entertainment.</p><br>
<p>Since 1960, the island has had many private owners. Vandalism and time took their toll on the island. In 1975 efforts were started to rehabilitate it, led by the Waconia Bicentennial Committees Island Committee. In 1976, Coney Island of the West was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Beginning in 2016, the island was placed under development by Carver County to be open to the public as part of Lake Waconia Regional Park. A master plan for the islands development was approved in December 2016. The approved master plan for the island includes trails, camping, a garden, beaches, picnic areas, and a boat ramp.</p><br>
<p>Portland Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Portland, Jay County, Indiana. It encompasses 58 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Portland. The district developed between about 1870 and 1945, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, and Early Commercial style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Jay County Courthouse. Other notable contributing resources include the USA Post Office  designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Oscar Wenderoth, Portland Fire Station #1 , Citizens Bank , FOE Eagles Lodge , Johnson Building , Stevens Building , Walnut Street Church of Christ , and South Meridian Street Bridge .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Jay County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Portland, Jay County, Indiana. It was built between 1915 and 1919, and is a three-story, Renaissance Revival style limestone building with a low roof behind a parapet. It is five bays by eleven bays with a rusticated exterior base and smooth upper floors and paired Ionic order engaged columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It is located in the Portland Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Jonas Votaw House, also known as the Votaw-Jacqua House, is a historic home located at Portland, Jay County, Indiana. It was built in 1875, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick dwelling, with additions built in 1925 and 1978. It sits on a stone foundation and has a cross-gable roof. It features an overhanging eaves with cornice, pedimented entrance, and segmental arched windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>James Haines Farm is a historic home and farm located in Pike Township, Jay County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1884, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick dwelling. It sits on a limestone block foundation, has a low pitched hipped roof, and features a five-sided projecting bay. Also on the property are the contributing summer kitchen, utility shed, large stock barn, long poultry house, privy, small stock barn, and a brooder house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Catholic Church, also known as the Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity, is a historic Roman Catholic religious complex located in Wabash Township, Jay County, Indiana. The complex includes the St. Marys of the Woods Convent  was built in 1855, and is a two-story building with a large porch located at the corner of Hwy 67 and CR 850 E. Holy Trinity Catholic Church was built in 1885, and is a Gothic Revival style brick and stone church with a central bell tower with flying buttresses. The two-story brick rectory and two-story brick school were constructed in 1909.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
