<p>The New Blaine School is a historic school building at the junction of Arkansas Highway 22 and Spring Road in New Blaine, Arkansas. It is a single story masonry structure, built of coursed stone and covered by a complex gable-on-hip roof with triangular dormers. Its entrances are sheltered by Craftsman-style gabled porticos, supported by tapered square posts set on stone piers. It was built in 1925 by a local contractor to replace an older school.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Town House is the historic former town hall of Jefferson, Maine. It is located at the junction of Maine State Routes 126 and 213. It was built in 1869, and served as the community&#39;s town hall until 1958. It is now maintained by the local historical society as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jefferson Town House is located on the western edge of the dispersed rural village center of Jefferson, on the north side of SR 126 (Gardiner Road) at its junction with SR 213. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a steep gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of original fieldstone and replacement concrete piers. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on the ground floor, three windows in the half-story, and a fourth window near the gable peak. A wooden flagpole is mounted below the topmost window, extending upward in front of it and beyond the gable ridge. The interior of the building has a large meeting space taking up the first floor, and two rooms on the second. Next to the town house stands a small gabled building that once served as a "hearse house", for storage of the town hearse. It is believed to be older than the town house.</p><br>
<p>The town house was built in 1869 at a cost of $895, replacing an 1828 town house that had been located nearby. The upper level of the building is a relative oddity in Maine&#39;s 19th-century town houses, and was apparently rented out to fraternal organizations and used for one season for high school classes. It was leased to the local historical society in 1962, which has taken care of it since.</p><br>
<p>The Guy P. Gannett House is a historic house at 184 State Street in Augusta, Maine. Built in 1911 to a design by Boston architect James Thomas, it is the only significant example of Mediterranean Revival architecture in Kennebec County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Guy P. Gannett House stands on the west side of State Street (United States Route 201) in the city&#39;s Capitol Complex. It stands just north of The Blaine House, the official residence of the governor of Maine, and is owned by the state as part of a buffer around that property. It is a basically square -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that has deep eaves showing exposed rafter ends, stuccoed exterior walls, and a granite foundation. Single-story porches extend to the north and south, and a two-story ell extends to the rear. The front facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged. It is three bays wide, with a single-story porch extending across the center bay. The main entrance is at the center, with flanking sidelight windows. The porch is supported by Tuscan columns, and has a metal balcony railing above. Windows in the side bays are three-part, with narrow side elements flanking larger central ones in a Palladian style.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1911 to a design by Boston architect James Thomas. It was built for Guy P. Gannett, one of the most important figures in Maines newspaper publishing industry. The house was a showcase of modern conveniences of the period, including electric light fixtures, and an elevator for bringing firewood up from the basement. It also has an early example of a whole house vacuum cleaning system. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 1983, it housed the states planning office.</p><br>
<p>The building changed hands in recent years and is now home to the First Amendment Museum, which was founded by Genie Gannett and Terry Hopkins, the granddaughters of Guy Gannett.</p><br>
<p>Historic Quad, also known as the Historic Quadrangle, in Lewiston, Maine, is a grassy area of 22.4 acres  enclosed by fences with five garnet gates. It is the oldest part of the Bates College campus, and serves as its historic center as well as the site of annual commencement exercises and other convocations. The areas is principally surrounded by College Street, Campus Avenue, Central Avenue and Andrews Road. The most center building on the Quad is Hathorn Hall, built in 1856 it was inducted into National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Hathorn is flanked by the oldest residential dorm at the college, Parker Hall , and the second oldest natural science building Dana Chemistry Hall  which is adjacent to Hedge Hall  which is perpendicular to Coram Library  and Carnegie Science Building . Directly across the stairs of Hathorn is Lindholm House, which houses the admissions office.</p><br>
<h2>Features and surroundings</h2><br>
<p>The quad is surrounded by numerous buildings and off campus houses such as: Rand Hall (1905) and the Gomes Chapel (1913), Parker Hall (1856), Hathorn Hall (1856), and Dana Chemistry Hall (1965), Coram Library (1902) and Carnegie Science Hall (1913), Lindholm House, Milliken House) (1902), and Whittier House (1902).</p><br>
<p>The Percy District School House is a former district school at the junction of Parker Head and Cox Head Roads in Phippsburg, Maine. Now adapted for use as a private residence, this 1830s school house is one of a small number of 19th-century district schools in the state to be built out of granite blocks. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Percy District School House stands on the east side of the junction of Parker Head and Cox Head Roads, in a rural part of the middle third of Phippsburg. It is a single-story structure, built out of quarry faced granite blocks and covered by a gable roof. Its main facade faces west, with the entrance at the northwest corner and two sash windows in rectangular openings. The southern gable end has a pair of sash windows. The windows are all 20th-century replacements, designed to reproduce the building&#39;s original windows. A modern single-story wood-frame ell, also with a gable roof, is attached at one corner of the building.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in the mid-1830s, and is one of three surviving 19th-century stone school buildings in the region, and one of three district schools surviving in the town. This one bears some resemblance to the c. 1820 Stone Schoolhouse in Georgetown. It was built in mid-1830s, and used as a school until 1926. Phippsburg closed all of its district schools in 1958. After standing vacant, a project was begun in 1944 to adapt the building for residential use.</p><br>
<p>The Gardiner Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century commercial heart of the city of Gardiner, Maine. Once a leading port and industrial center on the Kennebec River, Gardiner&#39;s Water Street downtown area retains the feel of its late 19th-century commercial success. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Gardiner was settled in the late 1750s by Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, whose land grant included the entire present city. The city grew around the mouth of Cobbossee Stream where it empties into the Kennebec, with industries powered by a series of waterfalls on the stream, and facilitated by the ease of transport on the river. By 1850 the city was one of the leading ports on the river, with eight dams on the stream powering a variety of manufacturing and milling operations. Both the level of industry and water-based transport declined in the 20th century, leaving the largely late 19th-century downtown nearly intact.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompassing Gardiner&#39;s downtown extends along both sides of Water Street, which runs on the south side of Cobbossee Stream in a roughly northwest-southeast orientation, and then southward along the western river bank. The district begins at Brunswick Avenue, and extends southeast to the Gardiner Public Library building at the eastern end of Mechanic Street. Included in the district are 47 historic buildings, generally of brick construction and two or three stories in height. Most of them are either Greek Revival or Italianate in style, although there are several example of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne architecture. The public library, designed in 1881 by Henry Richards, is a particularly fine example of the latter style.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Grove School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located southwest of Osage in rural Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. It was in operation from 1857 to 1946, and it educated anywhere from five to thirty-three student at a time. The frame structure built on a limestone foundation was constructed in 1873 on the same site as the building it replaced. A bell tower with a cast iron bell is located on the gable roof above the main entrance. Its property is on the edge of a timber along Rock Creek. In 1911 there were 88 one-room school houses in Mitchell County. This is the only one that is unaltered and in its original location. The area was settled by Norwegian pioneers in 1853. They named their small town Meroa, which has been reduced to his old schoolhouse, a Lutheran church, a cemetery, and a few houses. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor Hill Hotel is a historic former hotel building at 409 Alabama Street in Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States. Now a private residence, it is a two-story wood-frame I-house, with a gabled roof and weatherboard siding. A two-story ell extends to the rear, giving the building a T shape. A two-story porch extends across much of the front, supported by square columns. The building has a mixture of simple Greek Revival and Folk Victorian details. It was probably built about 1890, when Coal Hill was the largest city in Johnson County.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson County Courthouse is located at 215 W. Main Street in downtown Clarksville, the county seat of Johnson County, Arkansas. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of brick and rusticated concrete blocks. It has a Classical Revival facade, with a seven-bay projecting section. Windows and entrances on the ground floor are set in round-arch openings, while the upper-level windows are rectangular sash, set in bays articulated by pilasters. It was built in 1934 with funding support from the Federal Emergency Administration, and is the county&#39;s third courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Osage Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Osage, 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.</p><br>
<p>Four settlers claimed four tracts of land that would become the city of Osage: Hiram Hart, 80 acre that is the southwest side; Dr. A.H. Moore, 80 acre for the southeast side; O.E. Tripp, the northwest side; and B.C. Whitaker on the northeast side. They were all pioneers from states to the east and not immigrants. The city was named for Orrin Sage, a banker from Massachusetts who contributed to the Gibbs, Boardman Company of Lyons, Iowa, which represented the speculative land interests of investors such as Sage. Osage initially developed to the east of the historic district. Its development to the west was the result of the location of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks and the Mitchell County Courthouse in the late 1860s.</p><br>
<p>The district contains a mix of retail commercial buildings, movie theaters, fraternal halls, professional offices, a cafe, a library, and auto-related businesses. The buildings range in size from one to three-story commercial blocks, and a majority of them are masonry construction. The period of significance is from 1865 to 1952, and the buildings are constructed during that time frame. Most of the buildings were constructed in the 1870s and the 1880s, which was a period of significant economic expansion for the city. There are also some notable buildings constructed in the 1910s and 1920s. The commercial Italianate and the Queen Anne architectural styles are dominant. The buildings line both sides of Main Street, which is the historic structure.</p><br>
<p>Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside is a historical park in Browns Valley, Minnesota, United States, established in 1929 to honor frontiersman Sam Brown . On April 19, 1866, Brown rode 55 mi to warn other settlers of an impending attack by Native Americans, and when the threat proved false he rode back through a spring blizzard to intercept his dispatch to the USA Army, suffering injuries that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>The park named for Brown includes a log building originally constructed in 1864 at Fort Wadsworth in what is now South Dakota and later moved to Browns Valley by town founder Joseph R. Brown, Sam&#39;s father. The Browns used the building as a residence and place of business. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building for having local significance in the themes of architecture, exploration/settlement, and military history. It was nominated for being the only surviving log building of Fort Wadsworth, for its association with the noted father-and-son frontier figures, and as a rare example of post-and-plank construction.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Grant House is a historic house at 10 Grant Street in Farmingdale, Maine. Built in 1830, it is one Maine&#39;s oldest surviving examples of Greek Revival architecture, with a temple front overlooking the Kennebec River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house sits just south of the modest village center of Farmingdale, on the south side of Grant Street, and residential spur extending west from Maine State Route 27, which parallels the west bank of the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The east-facing gable front is fully pedimented, extending beyond the main block to form a Greek temple portico with four two-story paneled square columns. There are paneled pilasters at the corners of this facade, which is three bays wide, with elongated sash windows flanking the entrance on the ground floor, and smaller sashes above. A small sash window fills the gable of the portico.</p><br>
<p>Peter Grant was a native of Berwick, Maine who moved to Gardiner in 1790. Finding financial success in land speculation and the merchant trade, he purchased 200 acre between Gardiner and Hallowell in 1800, and built a house there. His first house was destroyed by fire, and he had this house built in 1830 as its replacement. The house remained in the hands of the Grant family until 1865, and was owned by members of the Skehan family for a significant portion of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church, originally the Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church building at 205 North Elm Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with Late Gothic Revival styling, built between 1917 and 1928 for a congregation founded in the early 1870s. It is the congregation&#39;s fourth sanctuary, its first three having succumbed to fire. It has a gabled roof with corner sections and a tower topped by crenellated parapets.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Bridge carries Sellers Street across a portion of the Silver Smith Branch in New Blaine, Arkansas. Built in 1922, it is a closed-spandrel masonry arch bridge, built out of locally quarried stone. It has a total length of 19 ft and is about 20 ft wide. It is named "Main Street Bridge" because Sellers Street was known as Main Street at the time of its construction, and was the principal route from the railroad depot to New Blaine&#39;s commercial and industrial area.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Magazine City Hall-Jail is a historic government building at the northwest corner of Garland and Priddy Streets in Magazine, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of rusticated concrete blocks and covered by a gable roof. The gable ends are framed in wood. The rear portion of the building, housing the jail cells, has a flat roof. It was built in 1934, with the concrete blocks formed by a local mason to resemble ashlar stone. It is the only local municipal building built out these materials, and was used for its original purposes into the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Fred and Rosa Fulton Barn is a historic building located north of Selma, Iowa, United States in rural Jefferson County. The barn was built by Rosa from plans prepared by the Louden Machinery Company of Fairfield, Iowa. It is a good example of the companys Gothic laminated roof design. The barn also includes other Louden-manufactured devices, including "Master-Made" ventilator windows, metal roof aerators, hay carrier and fork, and door tracks and trolleys. This equipment is original to the barns construction in 1947. Built for a dairy operation, the structure has subsequently been used for general farm purposes. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It sports a hay hood.</p><br>
<p>The August and Vera Luedtke Barn is a historic building located north of Fairfield, Iowa, United States in rural Jefferson County. The barn was built by Luedtke from plans prepared by the Louden Machinery Company of Fairfield. He had previously built other barns using the same companys designs in the area. This barn features a gambrel roof, concrete walls, and eleven intact Louden dairy stanchions and a hay carrier system that are original to the buildings construction in 1947. Built for a dairy operation, the structure has subsequently been used for storage. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It has a hay hood.</p><br>
<p>New Sweden Chapel is a historic Lutheran Church building located east of Fairfield, Iowa, United States in rural Jefferson County. The Swedish immigrant community that settled here was organized in 1845 under the leadership of Peter Cassel, a native of Kisa, Östergötland, Sweden. This was the first Swedish settlement in Iowa, as well as the first west of the Mississippi River. They established a Lutheran congregation in 1848, and built a log church in 1851. This church replaced it in 1860. Local builder Henri Jagle was responsible for building the 50 by frame structure. It is four bays in length and features a 16 ft tower with a spire over the main entrance. The interior features a painting by Olaf Grafström, who was an art instructor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1948 the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church named the New Sweden Chapel as a National Synodial Shrine in recognition of its being the oldest congregation in the synod. Prince Bertil of Sweden and the Archbishop of Uppsala participated in a ceremony that drew 3,000 people. The chapel no longer houses a regular congregation, but is used for special occasions. A cemetery is located on the church grounds. The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The W.C. Ball House  is a historic house located in Fairfield, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built on the edge of town in about 1876 for W. C. and Mary Ball, the house is a transitional structure between the Italianate vernacular and that of the later Victorian picturesque styles. The 2½-story frame house features bracketed eaves, a full-height bay section on the south elevation, cornice returns, a high-pitched roof, facade gable, crenellations and finials on the ridges. A prominent feature of the house are its three porches: a kitchen porch on west side, a dining room porch on south, and wrap-around porch on southeast.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 4, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The James A. Beck House, also known as the Sloca House, is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. Beck was a Fairfield native who owned a grocery business, before starting a profitable career as a hotelier. He had this Queen Anne house built in 1896. It is based on a pattern designed by the George F. Barber & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee. It is similar to the Linsay House in Iowa City, which was built closer to the original pattern. The 2½-story frame house follows an irregular plan and it is built on a stone foundation. It features a polygonal turret that rises from the second floor over the wrap-around porch. The porch itself features a circular pavilion that is capped by a flattened conical roof. A two-story carriage house is located behind the main house. It dates from 1875 when the previous house on this property was built, and was renovated to reflect the Queen Anne house. The Beck House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Burnett–Montgomery House  is a historic house located at 605 North Third Street in Fairfield, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Burnett was a lumber merchant who had the house built in 1888. James H. Montgomery was a partner in Joel Turney & Co., which manufactured farm wagons and was largest private-sector employer in Jefferson County before World War I. The factory closed in 1932 as a result of the Great Depression and the decline in the use of horse-drawn wagons. This two-story brick house was designed in the Italianate style. It features a wrap-around porch and a two-story frame carriage house behind it. The house&#39;s historical significance is derived from its architecture and its association with the development of industry in Fairfield.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The James F. Clarke House is a historic building located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. This Prairie School house was built for Dr. Clarke in 1916. It was designed by Francis Barry Byrne, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Byrne was a part of the Prairie School until its demise, and this house shows his movement away from its formal expression, but not its ideals. The two-story brick structure is capped with a low-pitched gable roof. It follows the idiom&#39;s use of open and flowing plans, but deviates in its use of simpler decorative forms and De Stijl-like colors. The windows, doors and baseboards are all plain and flat. Clarke was one of the first people in Jefferson County to own an automobile, and the house has one of the first attached garages. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The O.F. and Lulu E. Fryer House is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. Ode Franklin Fryer was a local banker. This Prairie School house was built for him and his wife Lulu in 1920. It was designed by Guy A. Carpenter, a local freelance architect. The historic designation includes the house and the detached garage. The two-story brick rectangular structure features a flat roof, a single-story solarium, a full-width porch, and a porte cochere. A prominent feature of the house is its wide eaves. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Henn Mansion, also known as Ewing Hall, is a historic building located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. A native of New York, Bernhart Henn served two terms in the United States House of Representatives representing Iowa&#39;s 1st congressional district as a Democratic. Previously he had served as the Registrar of the USA Land Office. He had this two-story, brick, Greek Revival house built in 1858. However, the financial panic of 1857 almost wiped out his fortune. When he died in 1865, the house and the 40 acre of land that surrounded it had to be sold. The house is representative of the financial success one had in the public sector in the pioneer economy. It was also the birthplace of Parsons College in 1875. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Rankin Block is a historic commercial building at 600–610 Main Street in Rockland, Maine. Built in 1853, it is a fine example of a late Greek Revival commercial block. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It currently houses a senior living facility.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rankin Block is located on the northern edge of Rockland&#39;s central downtown area, at the northwest corner of Main and Rankin Streets (both signed United States Route 1). The original portion of the building is a three-story masonry structure, built out of brick with granite trim. It has a gabled roof, which is pierced by four irregularly spaced gabled dormers. The ground floor has four retail storefronts, articulated by granite piers and topped by a granite stringcourse, with two building entrances set symmetrically outside the center two storefronts. Windows on the upper levels are sash, set in rectangular openings with granite lintels and sills. There is a modest brickwork cornice, laid to resemble dentil moulding, below the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1853 by Samuel Rankin, a descendant of one of the areas first European settlers. Its location was near the center of the citys shipbuilding industries, and replaced an earlier commercial building destroyed by fire. Its early tenants included a ship chandlery, shipping offices, and a sail loft on the top floor. The building has been converted for residential use.</p><br>
<p>The William F. Grant House is a historic house at 869 Main Street in North Vassalboro, Maine. Built in 1850 by a Scottish immigrant, it is a distinctive local example of Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Grant House stands near the southern end of the village of North Vassalboro, on the east side of Main Street (Maine State Route 32). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof. A lower ell extends the main block to the rear. The building is sided in flushboarding scored to resemble ashlar stone. The main gable and a cross gable on the long south facade are both decorated with carved vergeboard trim with drop pendants at the ends, and there are finial protrusions at the peak of each gable. Windows on the west-facing front facade are framed by drip moulding, and the entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and decorative wood panels. The interior retains many of its original decorative elements, including wall paneling and distinctively cut doors.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1850 by William F. Grant, a Scottish immigrant. A house painter, he was known to paint his house with distinctive colors, effectively as an advertisement of his skills. The house was also stylistically distinctive, apparently the only Gothic Revival house to be built in the village. Grant&#39;s sons began in business as carriage painters, but eventually branched out into the manufacture of carriages and wheels.</p><br>
<p>The F. M. Jordan House is a historic house at 18 Laurel Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1881, it is one of the finest examples of Second Empire style in the state. It was built by Charles Jordan, a local master builder and distant relative of Francis Jordan, for whom it was built. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. It is now subdivided into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The F.M. Jordan House stands in a residential area south of Auburn&#39;s downtown, on the east side of Laurel Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor. A three-story tower, also topped by a mansard roof, projects from the center of the west-facing front facade. The roof eaves are studded with brackets and dentil moulding, and the transition between the roof faces has a shallow cornice. Dormers project from the roof, with fully pedimented dormers and flanking decorative woodwork. An ornate single-story porch extends across the front facade, with rounded projecting sections flanking the main stairs. The interior retains significant original plaster and woodwork, despite its conversion into apartments. A period carriage house, set behind the house, has also been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1881 for Francis M. Jordan, a principal owner of the Auburn Aqueduct Company, whose facilities greatly improved the city&#39;s firefighting infrastructure. He afterward expanded into banking, and funded early electric companies in the city. His house is the first known commission of Charles Sumner Frost, a Maine native whose first professional position was as a draftsman for the Boston architectural firm Peabody and Stearns, and who later achieved national notice for his work in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>The McElhinny House is a historic building located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. Built about 1850, the house is a dwelling from the citys early years. The two-story frame structure follows an L-shaped plan. Its prominent feature is the two-story porch that covers three of the five bays on the main facade. It was built for Robert McElhinny, a Pennsylvania native. He was elected the first president of the Jefferson County Library Association, one of the first groups of this type in Iowa. He also served on the board of Fairfield University when it was established in 1854, and contributed to its successor, Parsons College, at its founding. The house went on to become the home of the Fairfield Womens Club. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Wells-Stubbs House is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. This house was built for George and Priscilla Wells in 1874. Its notoriety is derived from the residency of Daniel P. Stubbs, who lived here from 1877 to 1905. Stubbs was a leader in the Greenback Party in Iowa, and he served as their candidate for state and national offices. Early in his law career he was a partner with future congressman and Senator from Iowa, James F. Wilson. Stubbs was a successful defense attorney, as well as an attorney for the railroads. While still a Republican, he was elected mayor of Fairfield and to the Iowa Senate. He did not hold office as a Greenbacker.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, frame house was built in a vernacular form of the Italianate style. Stubbs added the Neoclassical details in a 1900 renovation. The bracketed eaves and the main entry in the center of the facade are original to the house, but the central location is an unusual feature for the vernacular forms in Fairfield where the entry is off-center. The prominent entry tower and porch were added in the 1900 renovation. The significance of the additions are increased by their association with Stubbs who wanted his house to have a stature equal to his own. In addition to the house the historic designation includes two outbuildings: a shed/summer kitchen near the rear porch and a barn near the rear property line. Both date from Stubb&#39;s time, and may predate his living here. They were all listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>US Senator James F. Wilson House, also known as the Hamilton House and the Fulton House, is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. This house was built for attorney William L. Hamilton in 1854. Its notoriety is derived from the residency of James F. Wilson, who lived here from 1863 to 1895.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>Wilson was instrumental in establishing the Republican Party in Iowa, and he served in the Iowa Senate, as a USA Congressman from Iowa&#39;s 1st congressional district during the American Civil War and as a two-term USA senator. He lived in this house during his political career and died here in 1895. His wife Mary continued to live here until she died in 1916. Charles Fulton bought the house sometime after that. He was a local historian whose two-volume work, History of Jefferson County. Iowa, was published in 1912. He was also the Secretary-Treasurer of the Louden Machinery Company.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in three parts. The original part of the two-story, frame house is in the center of the present structure. This I-house was built by Hamilton and contains the dining room and study on the main floor. The second unit is the front of the house, and it was built by either Hamilton or Wilson. The entry hall and living room are located here. The third unit is the back of the house, and it contains and kitchen and other service areas of the house. It may have been built by Wilson. The bedrooms are located on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The house sits on 1.93 acre, but in Wilson&#39;s time it sat on a 41 acre estate that his sons farmed with the assistance on a farmhand. It also contained two ponds. One was stocked with ornamental fish, and the second had an island with a frame hut used for reflection.</p><br>
<p>The house sits 100 ft off the street, which is further back than other houses on the street.</p><br>
<p>It calls attention to the Wilson House predating them, and it gives the house a more suburban feel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Barnesville Depot is a historic site in Barnesville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986. It is located at Plaza Way and Main Street. The station was constructed in 1912 for the Central of Georgia Railway. It is located at the junction of the Central&#39;s former Macon-Atlanta mainline and its branch to Thomaston, Georgia. The building includes Spanish or Mission architecture  and replaced an earlier stone depot constructed in 1852 by the Macon & Western Railroad. It is now used as an arts center.</p><br>
<p>The last train was the Central of Georgias Nancy Hanks. The Louisville and Nashville Railroads Dixie Limited also made a stop there.</p><br>
<p>The George A. Wells House, also known as the Wells-Booker-Taylor House, is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. Wells was a drugest and later a banker who settled in Fairfield in 1856. Because of financial difficulties he built the house over a period of four years, completing it in 1883. He was also a local promoter who sat on the Parsons College board of trustees. A Republican, he served as an alderman and mayor of Fairfield. Samuel F. Booker, another community promoter and a farmer, was the second owner retired and died here. The two-story house is a combination of brick and frame construction. It is a late example of Vernacular Greek Revival style. The back wing, which is the frame portion of the structure, is original to the house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The R.R. and Antoinette Louden House, also known as the Thomas A. and Dorothy C. Louden House, is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. R.R.  Louden was the highly successful manager of the Louden Machinery Company advertising department in the 1920s, and he served as the corporation&#39;s secretary from 1931 until his death in 1951. He and his wife Antoinette had this house built in 1925. He lived here until his death in 1951. Their son Thomas and his wife Dorothy lived in the house after his parents. Thomas became general legal counsel for the company in the 1940s. The house is 2½-story, brick Colonial Revival with a side gable roof. It features a wall chimney on the east elevation, a single-story solarium, and a single-story porch on the main facade. An addition was added to the rear of the house in 1956. A two-car attached garage was built onto the addition in the 1980s. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Taylor McConnell House is a historic house at 302 South Fulton Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1869 for use as a school and Masonic lodge. It was enlarged in 1876 for conversion to a private residence, and given Folk Victorian style, notably in the delicate spindlework of its front porch. The latter work was done for Edward Taylor McConnell, a prominent local businessman and figure in the Brooks-Baxter War.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The McKennon House is a historic house at 115 Grandview in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame American Foursquare house, with weatherboard siding and a hip roof flared at the edges. The front face of the roof is pierced by a gabled dormer housing a small Palladian window, its elements separated by narrow pilasters. A single-story porch wraps around three sides, supported by Tuscan columns, with a gabled projection at the main entrance. The house was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was built about 1907.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Archibald S. McKennon House is a historic house at 215 North Central Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built of brick laid in common bond and covered by a flat roof. A two-story portico extends across its front, supported by slender tapered square columns. It was built in 1868 for a Confederate Army veteran and prominent local businessman and lawyer.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Heald House is a historic house at 19 West Street in Waterville, Maine. Built in 1916 to a design by Herbert E. Knapp, it is the city&#39;s only substantial example of Prairie School architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Heald House stands in a residential area west of downtown Waterville, at the southeast corner of West and Carroll Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, stuccoed walls, and a concrete foundation, and is scaled to fit in with the surrounding Colonial Revival and Queen Anne houses. It exhibits a mix of Craftsman and Prairie School features, the latter including extended eaves, and the former its exposed rafters. To the left of the main block a single-story enclosed porch projects, its openings consisting of rounded arches. The arches are repeated in the main entry porch, located on the right side of the front facade. The interior of the building retains original decorative materials, including mahogany French doors, parquet flooring, and marble thresholds.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1916 for Arthur and Helen Heald, who were Massachusetts natives. The house was designed by Herbert E. Knapp, a Waterville native who worked in the area, primarily as a building contractor, only until 1918. It is his only known architectural commission in the state, and is one of the state&#39;s few examples of Prairie School architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Booneville Commercial Historic District encompasses the early 20th-century commercial heart of Booneville, Arkansas. Located on the east side of the 100 and 200 blocks of North Broadway Avenue are line with commercial buildings, most of which were built between about 1900 and 1920. The city had originally been located south of this location, but was relocated beginning in 1899 due to the arrival of the railroad joining Little Rock, Arkansas and McAlester, Oklahoma. Most of the buildings are in typical early 20th century vernacular commercial styling.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Burnett Springs is the site of a former resort community in rural Logan County, Arkansas. It is located at the end of County Road 704, about 1 mi west of the community of Corley. The area was developed as a spring-based spa resort by Captain John Burnette in the 1870s. A small town sprang around a three-story spa hotel, which fell into decline after 1915. The hotel burned in 1930, and all of the other buildings have succumbed to the elements. The only surviving above-ground feature is one of the spring sites, which is set in a stone reservoir box shelter from erosion by stone walls.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church, originally the Booneville Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a historic church building at 355 North Broadway Avenue in Booneville, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with Late Gothic Revival styling, built between 1910 and 1911 for a congregation founded in 1868. It has a gabled roof with a crenellated parapet and a buttressed tower topped by crenellated parapets.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The William and Mary Jane Louden House is a historic residence located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. It historical significance is derived from its association with William Louden, a co-founder of Louden Machinery Company with his brother R.B. Previously, he secured his first two patents by 1867: one was for hay-stacking, and another was for hay-carrying. He would go on to obtain over 100 more patents. Being the inventive genius of the firm, William brought it to a national reputation in barn construction and farm equipment. The house is a 2½-story, frame, single family dwelling. It was built for the Louden&#39;s by C.E. Ward from 1896 to 1897 in the Queen Anne style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Downtown LaPorte Historic District is a national historic district located at LaPorte, LaPorte County, Indiana. The district encompasses 70 contributing buildings in the central business district of LaPorte. It developed between about 1860 and 1930, and includes examples of Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Neoclassical style architecture. Notable buildings include the Zahrt Blocks , Ridgway Hotel , Higday and Collins Blocks , LaPorte County Courthouse , Odd Fellows Building , Lonns Block , Peoples Bank , USA Post Office , New York Central Depot , Masonic Temple , and Hotel Rumely .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Downtown LaPorte Historic District reflects the development of LaPorte from a small town into a major manufacturing center</p><br>
<p>La Porte was settled in 1830 and platted in 1833. With the arrival of the railroad in the 1850s, which first spurred the development of the business district. Among the earliest extant buildings in the district are the Zahrt Blocks built in 1874 and 1868, and the Ridgway Hotel built in 1863. These Italianate buildings are examples of the two-and three-story brick commercial buildings, which lined La Porte&#39;s downtown area. Common arch architectural details if the Italianate include: pressed metal cornices and window hoods, and storefronts with cast-iron columns.</p><br>
<p>The downtown area occupies the location where two pre-European trails met. The number of lakes and wetlands to the north forced the town to firmer ground. The railroads arrived in the 1850s reinforcing development south of the lakes. Industrial growth was the main source of jobs until after World War I. The downtown reflects the legacy of commercial and civic history. Many of the structures have three stories: ground floor commercial with upper floors a combination of professional and residential use.</p><br>
<p>The earliest buildings were constructed between the Civil War and the Panic of 1873. The Zahrt blocks (607–609 Michigan Avenue), constructed in 1868 and 1874, respectively, were purchased on speculation and resold to the developer. The tin brackets at the cornice and tin window hoods suggest a showiness that belies the buildings&#39; otherwise severe and simple lines. The interiors are simple and lack any extravagance, indicating that the worth of the land was perceived to be rapidly escalating. In fact, other buildings like these were demolished and replaced with taller buildings as early as 1890. Another example of this type of development is the former Ridgway Hotel (401 Michigan), which was constructed in 1863. Its boxy mass is relieved with the use of window hoods, an elaborate cornice, and oriel windows. The structures along the 800 block of Lincolnway (810-20 Lincolnway) and those of the 700 block of Lincolnway follow this same design—consistent cornice lines, sparse Italianate detailing with window hoods, and boxy massing. This was the norm throughout the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>Many of these early commercial buildings were replaced during the late nineteenth century. The focal point of the district, the La Porte County Courthouse, was constructed between 1890 and 1894. This Richardsonian Romanesque building was designed by Brentwood Tolan, who also designed other Indiana county courthouses. Many of the commercial buildings constructed during this period-exhibited ornate facades reflecting the owners prospering businesses. The Lonn Block, the Ridgway Block, the Frederickson Building and the Guggenheim-Weil Building all prominently displayed the businessmens names and the construction dates on their facades. Major buildings such as the citys post office, the train depot, and the Masonic Temple reflected a thriving economy. Commercial buildings such as the Hotel Rumely, the Peoples Trust Savings Bank, the commercial building at 711 Indiana Avenue, and the Rumely Company Showroom were also built during this era.</p><br>
<h2>Significant buildings</h2><br>
<p>Washington Street.</p><br>
<p>713–715 Industrial Building; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1910 (N)</p><br>
<p>801 New York Central Depot; Prairie, 1909 (O)</p><br>
<p>State Street.</p><br>
<p>801 La Porte Journal Building; Italianate c. 1855/c. 1895 (N)</p><br>
<p>Lincolnway.</p><br>
<p>509 Everly Building; Neo-Classical, c. 1910 (C)</p><br>
<p>604 Commercial Building; Nineteenth Century Functional, c. 1895 (N)</p><br>
<p>606 Simon Building; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1910 (N)</p><br>
<p>610 Commercial Building; Italianate, c. 1885 (N)</p><br>
<p>703–707 Ridgway Block; Queen Anne, 1889 (N)</p><br>
<p>715- Commercial Building; Italianate, 719 c. 1880 (N)</p><br>
<p>716 Guggenheim-Weil Building; Nineteenth Century Functional, 1871 (N)</p><br>
<p>721 Commercial Building; Italianate, c. 1885 (N)</p><br>
<p>801 La Porte County Courthouse; Richardsonian Romanesque, 1890–1894; Architect: Brentwood Tolan (O) HABS</p><br>
<p>810 Commercial Building; Queen Anne, c. 1885 (N)</p><br>
<p>910 Frederickson Building; Romanesque Revival, c. 1895 (N)</p><br>
<p>912 Peoples Trust Savings Bank; Neo-Classical, 1912 In the commercial district, Alien redesigned the facade of a former typical storefront and created the Peoples Bank. The band is a typical "Greek temple bank" of limestone. What makes it special is that Alien imposed the facade on an otherwise flat surface. The combination of a projecting pediment and a receding arch make the entrance imposing and seemingly larger than its neighbors. Despite the addition of nonconforming display cases in the front, this facade is one of the best of its kind anywhere in the area. With the maturing of land values at the turn of the century, owners of existing structures improved them with new facades. LaPorte architect George Alien designed a number of homes for wealthy clients and was facile in a number of different styles. His major commissions included the Methodist Church (neo-Gothic), LaPorte High School (eclectic) and several large homes along Indiana and Michigan Avenues (Classic Revival and Prairie School).</p><br>
<p>915–921 Lonn Block; Queen Anne, 1889 (N) Demolished Fall 1988</p><br>
<p>916 Commercial Building; Contemporary, c. 1980 (NC)</p><br>
<p>920 Commercial Building; Contemporary, c. 1955 (NC)</p><br>
<p>1001 Historical Marker; Marks the site of the Meinrad Rumsley Blacksmith Shop, 1853 (N)</p><br>
<p>1002 Commercial Building; Romanesque Revival, 1906 (N)</p><br>
<p>1006 Commercial Building; Neo-Classical, c. 1905 (N)</p><br>
<p>1008 Commercial Building; Italianate, c. 1880 (N)</p><br>
<p>1010 Commercial Building; Twentieth Century Functional, 1914 (N)</p><br>
<p>1114–1116 Commercial Building; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1915 (N)</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Avenue.</p><br>
<p>820 Masonic Temple; Neo-Classical, 1913 (O) The Masonic Lodge has exquisite stained glass.</p><br>
<p>Maple Avenue.</p><br>
<p>805 La Porte Library; Romanesque Revival/Tudor Revival, 1876/c. 1925 (O)</p><br>
<p>Indiana Avenue.</p><br>
<p>612–614 Commercial Building; Italianate, c. 1880 (N)</p><br>
<p>711 Commercial Building; Neo-Classical, 1905 (N)</p><br>
<p>807 Commercial Building; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1910 (N)</p><br>
<p>809 House/Commercial Building; Italianate, c. 1890 (N)</p><br>
<p>Michigan Avenue.</p><br>
<p>401 Ridgway Hotel; Italianate, 1863 (O)</p><br>
<p>519 Rumely Company Showroom; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1910 (N)</p><br>
<p>601 Commercial Building; Queen Anne, c. 1885 (N)</p><br>
<p>605 Mayes Building; Neo-Classical, c. 1905 (N)</p><br>
<p>607 Zahrt Block; Italianate, 1868 (N)</p><br>
<p>609 Zahrt Block; Italianate, 1874 (N)</p><br>
<p>617 Commercial Building; Queen Anne, 1893 (N)</p><br>
<p>717 Odd Fellows Hall – Odd Fellows ballroom features Second Empire details</p><br>
<p>800 Hotel Rumely; Renaissance Revival, 1912 (O)</p><br>
<p>Monroe Avenue.</p><br>
<p>601–607 Commercial Building; Twentieth Century Functional, c. 1915 (N)</p><br>
<p>612 Commercial Building; Queen Anne, c. 1895 (N)</p><br>
<p>809 Commercial Building; Indeterminate, c. 1885 (N)</p><br>
<p>Washington Park is a historic public park and national historic district located on Lake Michigan at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana. The park encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 21 contributing objects, and includes the Michigan City Zoo. It was established in 1891 and later developed by the Works Progress Administration and its predecessors during the 1930s. Notable features include the Soldiers and Sailors Monument , former park headquarters building , bandstand , World War I doughboy monument , tennis court , log picnic shelter , and four-story observation tower .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Bedford Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. The district encompasses 64 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Bedford. It developed between about 1850 and 1945, and includes examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Neoclassical style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the Soldiers, Sailors and Pioneers Monument ; Michael A. Malott House ; Moses Fell Building ; Stone City Bank Building ; Dunn Memorial Masonic Temple ; Lawrence County Courthouse ; Bedford Fire Department Building ; Citizens&#39; Bank Building ; Elks Club ; Hamer Building ; and Bedford Municipal Garage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Mitchell Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The district encompasses 75 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Mitchell. It developed between about 1853 and 1946, and includes examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Mitchell Opera House. Other notable buildings include the First National Bank Building (1927), Odd Fellows Hall (c. 1925), Jacob Finger Methodist Church (1874, 1925), Dr. William Dings House (c. 1885), Edward Moore House (1894), Bank of Mitchell Building (1897), Fannie Moore Richardson House (1910), Mitchell Public (Carnegie) Library (1917) and Theatorium (c. 1910).</p><br>
<p>It also includes a marker for the birthplace of astronaut Virgil Grissom on Eighth Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Zahn Historic District is a national historic district located at Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in a predominantly residential section of Bedford. It developed between about 1847 and 1947, and includes examples of Late Gothic Revival, Second Empire, and Queen Anne style architecture. Notable buildings include the St. Vincent DePaul Church , Gaussin House , John Zahn House , George Gratzer House , Asa Bridwell House , and Horace Casada House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Otis Park and Golf Course is a historic park, golf course, and national historic district located at Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, four contributing sites, eights contributing structures, and five contributing objects in a park originally established in 1923 and donated to city of Bedford in 1935. It was largely developed as a Works Progress Administration project between 1937 and 1941, and includes examples of Classical Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the band shell , rock garden, bathhouse, clubhouse, four picnic shelters , shelter house, and gazebo.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Helton–Mayo Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana. The house was built about 1837, and is a -story Federal style, hall and parlor plan brick dwelling. It has a side-gabled roof and rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing Midwest triple portal barn , wellhouse, corn crib, buggy shed, garage , and round roofed barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Indiana Limestone Company Building, also known as Bedford College Center Building, is a historic building located at Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. It was built in 1927, and is a two-story, L-shaped, Classical Revival style limestone building on a raised basement. It was built to house the offices and showroom of the Indiana Limestone Company, supplier of Indiana Limestone, founded in 1926. The building presently houses the Bedford branch of Oakland City University.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Madden School, also known as North Lawrence Community Schools Administration Building, is a historic school building located at Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story, rectangular, Classical Revival style limestone and brick building on a raised basement. A three-room addition was built in 1925–1926. It has dual front entrances and a parapet surrounding the roof. The building housed a school until 1976, after which it was used as an administration center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
