<p>Martinsville Sanitarium is a historic mineral water sanitarium located at Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1925–1926, and is a -story, "oriental brick" and limestone building with an eclectic combination of Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Bungalow/American Craftsman style design elements. The main section measures 160 feet by 55 feet and has two projecting wings. It is topped by a cross-gabled hipped roof and features a sun porch, half-timbered gables, and overhanging eaves. The building faces the Martinsville Vandalia Depot.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Godfrey Ludwig House is a historic house on Maine State Route 32 in Waldoboro, Maine. Built about 1800, it is a well-preserved brick Cape house, built by a descendant of one of the area&#39;s early German immigrants. It is notable for features enabling its use as a church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Godfrey Ludwig House stands on the west side of SR 32 in northern Waldoboro, roughly midway between the town center and that of neighboring Jefferson. The house is a -story brick Cape style house, with a side gable roof, end chimneys, and a granite foundation. The brick walls are painted white. Its street-facing front facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by recessed sidelight windows. A wood-frame ell with cross-gable roof extends from the rear of the main block. The interior of the house follows a center hall plan. The halls side walls are fitted with special hinged panel sections, making it possible to create a single large chamber out of the hall and the flanking parlors.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1800 by Godfrey Ludwig, the nephew of, and heir to, Joseph Ludwig, the first German immigrant from the population that settled Waldoboro to win election to the colonial legislature. Godfrey Ludwig was not as prominent as his uncle, but he was a devout Methodist, and his house became a stop on a circuit traveled by Methodist ministers. About 1820, the interior was modified so that it could accommodate the religious services of these ministers.</p><br>
<p>The Kresge Block is a historic commercial building at 241-249 Water Street in downtown Augusta, Maine. Built in 1932 to house a department store, it is a distinctive and rare local example of commercial Moderne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kresge Block is located on the east side of Water Street, Augustas principal commercial thoroughfare, a bit south of the center of the block between Bridge and Front Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of brick and granite. The ground floor has two storefronts with a building entrance at the far left, sheltered by a decorative bronze hood. The lower half of the ground floor has polished granite below the glass display windows, and rising partway up the outer edge of the facade. The windows are framed by bronze trim, which also surrounds the store label above an awning sheltering the storefronts. The sign reads "Stacys" using Art Deco styling. The second floor has paired sash windows, each with individual awnings, but shared stone sills and brick headers topped by a stone sill. The window pairs are separated by stylized pilasters. A parapet with a multicolor crosshatch brick pattern extends across the building above the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1932, replacing an Italianate building that was a virtual replica of its neighbors. It originally housed S.S. Kresges, a department store, on the ground floor, with professional offices on the second floor. Since its construction, it has been one of downtown Augustas most architecturally unusual buildings.</p><br>
<p>Wilbur School, also known as Wilbur Community Center, is a historic one-room school building located in Gregg Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built about 1876, and is a one-story, gable front, brick building with Italianate style design elements. It features double coursed segmental arched window openings. A concrete block addition was constructed when the building was converted for use as a community centre.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Cross School is a historic one-room school building located in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, brick building with a gable roof. It features segmental arched openings. It operated as a rural school until 1941, then housed a Sunday school for 25 years. It was restored in 1976</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Long Schoolhouse, also known as Washington Township District No. 13 and Nancy Long School, is a historic one-room school building located in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1883, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, brick building with a gable roof. It features segmental arched window openings. It operated as a rural school until 1938. It is maintained by the Jordan Home Economics Club, Inc. As of 2023, the roof has collapsed but the structure still stands.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Mooresville Gymnasium, also known as the Newby Gymnasium, is a historic school gymnasium located at Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, rectangular, Classical Revival style wood-frame building sheathed in "oriental brick". It measures 100 feet by 75 feet with a basketball floor of 70 feet by 45 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Mooresville Friends Academy Building is a historic Quaker school building located at Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1860–1861, and is a two-story, rectangular, Greek Revival style brick building with a low gable roof. It was built as a two-classroom school and later enlarged with an addition in 1867. It remained in use for educational purposes until 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Point Farm is a historic home and farm located in Jackson Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1853, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick I-house with a side gable roof. It features a two-story, full width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing summer house / summer kitchen, woodshed / smokehouse, English barn, cattle / tromp shed, double corn crib, tractor shed, garage, granary with sheds, privy, hen house, dog house, a wind mill pump, and two hand water pumps.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Elm Spring Farm is a historic home and farm located in Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built about 1844, and is a -story, single pen log dwelling with a frame kitchen addition. Also on the property are the contributing single corn crib converted to a garage, second single corn crib, privy, brick outdoor fireplace, spring, and sandstone abutments for two absent foot bridges. The building represents an assemblage of pioneer log buildings. During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps was hired to reforest the farm. The property has also been used as a Girl Scout camp.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Landers–Black and Adams Farm , also known as Mt. Aetna Stock Farm, is a historic home and dairy farm located in Brooklyn and Clay Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1862, and is a two-story, rectangular, Italianate style brick dwelling with a rear ell. It has a cross-gable roof, wraparound porch, and features projecting eaves with decorative brackets. Also on the property are the contributing dairy barn , two garages, calf barn, ice house, and acetylene pit.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Lambs Creek Bridge, also known as Morgan County Bridge No. 146 and Burnetts Creek Bridge, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge located in Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1893 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. It is 85 ft long and 16 ft wide. It is supported by cast-in-place concrete abutments.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Bradford Estate, also known as Bradford Woods, is a historic estate and national historic district located in Clay Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The original house was built about 1850, and is a one-story, double pen vernacular frame dwelling. It features a full-width shed porch. The Campbell House is a -story frame dwelling sheathed in red brick in 1920. It was moved to its present site in 1912 with the building of the manor house. The manor house was built in 1912, and is a -story, Prairie School style brick dwelling. It features a hip roofed porch supported by two piers. Also on the property are the contributing spring house  and carriage house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Grassyfork Fisheries Farm No. 1, also known as Ozark Fisheries Shireman Farm, is a historic goldfish hatchery and national historic district located in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The Grassyfork Office and Display Room building was built in 1936, and is a one-story, rectangular, brick building with a hipped roof. It measures 36 feet by 100 feet. The property includes a variety of buildings, structures, and sites associated with the fish hatchery. Among them are a barn, six wells, two dams, remains of formal landscaping and rock garden, and all goldfish ponds, levees, and associated dirt roads.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Okoboji Bridge is located southwest of Milford, Iowa, United States. The 83 ft span carried traffic on 180th Avenue over a branch of the Little Sioux River. The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors hired a local contractor to build a bridge across the straits between East and West Okoboji Lakes in 1859. The wooden structures had to be rebuilt in 1874–1875. There was a desire for a drawbridge at this point to allow for steamboats to navigate between the lakes. Three different swing spans were built at this location in the 19th century. When the third span deteriorated the board of supervisors contracted with the Clinton Bridge and Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa to build a permanent span here in June 1909. The Pratt/Warren pony truss structure was completed later that year for $1,550. The bridge and the road were incorporated into the USA Highway System, and it was placed under the aegis of the Iowa State Highway</p><br>
<p>Commission. In 1929 it was replaced with a fixed-span concrete girder structure. At that time the 1909 truss span was moved to Okoboji Township to span a branch of the Little Sioux River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Philip Leach House is a historic house on Bog Road in East Vassalboro, Maine. Built about 1805, it is a well-preserved local example of a Federal style Cape house. It is notable for the stencilwork and floor painting in its parlor, which are the work of the itinerant folk art stenciler Moses Eaton Jr. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Philip Leach House stands on the west side of the village of East Vassalboro, on the north side of Bog Road just west of the public library. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows. The parlor, located on the left side of the building, has been extensively adorned with stencilwork. The artwork is painted in green, red, and yellow, and includes abstract and floral designs. The original floorboards were also painted, with leaf patterns executed in freehand.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1805 for Philip Leach, by a lawyer who also served as East Vassalboro&#39;s postmaster. The artwork in the parlor was executed, probably by Moses Eaton Jr., not long before he gave up his itinerant artwork and settled down in New Hampshire as a farmer. It was probably executed around 1825, and was covered by wallpaper not long afterward. It was exposed during restoration in the early 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Professional Plaza Tower, also known as the Hammer and Nail building due to its two iconic illuminated signs , is a high-rise building located at 3800 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Professional Plaza Tower was built as part of the ambitious Detroit Medical Center urban renewal plan carried out in the 1960s. The project, which envisioned a peripheral ring of residential and commercial buildings, including three neighboring twelve-story towers, surrounding the central hospital complex, was never fully realized; however the Professional Plaza Tower, constructed between 1964 and 1966 to house the offices of physicians, surgeons, and dentists, succeeded in bringing medical professionals back into the city, and rapidly established itself as an anchor to the Medical Center.</p><br>
<p>The tower went vacant in 2014, when its last tenants moved out. Slated for demolition, it was bought by Detroit-based Roxbury Group in January 2015, and reopened in October 2017 after a $22 million renovation which turned it into a 72-unit residential apartment with ground floor retail.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The tower stands twelve stories high and has a square footprint. It was designed by architects Gerald Crane and Norbert Gorwic in the International Style. The largely unaltered exterior consists of a glass and aluminum curtain wall, punctuated on each of the four sides with three concrete columns extending from the base to the roof. The first and twelfth floors are recessed, and the penthouse is faced with precast concrete panels. The main feature of the building were two neon signs, each consisting of three hammers and a nail, displayed on the penthouse walls of the north and south façades. The signs were installed in the 1980s, when the Carpenters Union occupied the top two floors of the tower, and taken down in 2016: one was returned to the Union, while the other was restored and is now displayed in the building&#39;s lobby.</p><br>
<p>Scott-Lucas House is a historic home located at Morocco, Newton County, Indiana. It was built in 1912, and is a -story, square, Bungalow / American Craftsman style brick dwelling. It features wood clapboard siding, half-timbering and stucco, and steeply pitched side-gable roof with dormer. It was restored in 2000 and is open as a house museum owned by the Newton County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>McCairn-Turner House, also known as the Gilman-Turner House, is a historic home located at Goodland, Indiana. The original section was built about 1869, received an addition about 1875, and renovated in the Italianate style in 1886–1887. It is a two-story, frame dwelling sheathed in clapboard siding. A kitchen addition was constructed in 1908. It features a two-story, three sided projecting bay and one-story full length porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and was delisted in 2023.</p><br>
<p>George Ade House, also known as Hazelden, is a two-story, fourteen-room, Tudor Revival-style home in Iroquois Township in Newton County, Indiana. Chicago architect Billie Mann designed the frame dwelling, built in 1904, George Ade , a syndicated newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and playwright. Ade named the property Hazelden, after his English grandparents&#39; home.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By the early 1900s, after twelve years of working as a newspaper reporter and columnist in Chicago, Illinois, George Ade (1866–1944) decided to return to Indiana and retire to a life in the country. Ade was born and raised in Kentland, another farming community in Newton County, Indiana. He gained national notoriety as a newspaper columnist writing "Stories of the Streets and of the Town" for the Chicago Daily News (which later became the Chicago Morning News and the Chicago Record) at the turn of the twentieth century. Collections of articles from his columns were also published as books. In addition, Ade wrote a syndicated weekly newspaper column and a book series of fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization. Ade was also a playwright for the Broadway stage whose best-known plays, The County Chairman and The College Widow, and some of his other literary works were adapted into motion pictures. Using the earnings from his writing career, Ade invested in Newton County, Indiana, farmland, eventually owning about 2,400 acre.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, William Ade (Georges brother) purchased on Georges behalf a 417 acre site of wooded land along the Iroquois River near the town of Brook in Newton County, Indiana. Ade named the property Hazelden, after his English grandparents&#39; home, and had a two-story, fourteen-room home built on the site. He moved from Chicago into the newly built residence in 1904 and owned the home for the remainder of his life.</p><br>
<p>Following Ades death in 1944, ownership of Hazelden was transferred to Purdue University (Ades alma mater). The university relinquished the property to the State of Indiana when it could no longer afford its upkeep. The state government, also unable to maintain the home, turned it over to Newton County, Indiana, officials. In 1962, the George Ade Memorial Association raised funds to acquire, renovate, and restore the home, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Ade initially planned to build a summer cottage, but Chicago architect Billie Mann, one of Ades Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, designed a country manor for the site. Ades two-story, fourteen-room, Tudor Revival-style home was constructed in 1904 at an estimated cost of US$25,000. The frame dwelling features half-timbering and stucco on the upper floor, leaded glass windows, and beamed and vaulted ceilings. Ade made additional improvements to property that included landscaped grounds, a swimming pool, greenhouse, barn, and caretaker&#39;s cottage, among other outbuildings. He also added an adjacent golf course and country club in 1910.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>Ade frequently entertained at Hazelden, where he usually spent the summers, and vacationed during the winter months at a rented home in Miami, Florida. He was also a world traveler. In addition to serving as his summer home, and his permanent residence beginning in 1905, Hazelden was used for political gatherings and community events. In 1908, William Howard Taft announced his candidacy for president of the United States at Hazelden. In 1912, Hazelden was the site of a political rally for Theodore Roosevelt&#39;s Bull Moose Party, and, in 1924, it served as a venue for an address from vice presidential candidate Charles W. Dawes. Ade also hosted a homecoming party for soldiers and sailors on July 4, 1919, as well as parties and gatherings for the community, local children, alumni of Purdue University, his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, members of the Indiana Society of Chicago, and golf tournaments.</p><br>
<p>The George Ade Memorial Association, the group that raised funds to acquire and renovate the home, disbanded in 2018. As of 2019, Newton county officials are assessing the home&#39;s condition and plans for restoring it for use as a historic site open to the public and an events venue.</p><br>
<p>Goodland-Grant Township Public Library, also known as the Mitten Memorial Building, is a historic library building located at Goodland, Newton County, Indiana. It was built in 1931, and is a one-story, rectangular, Colonial Revival style steel frame building on a raised basement. It has hollow tile walls, is sheathed in limestone, and has a slate gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Seller&#39;s Standard Station and Pullman Diner is a historic service station and diner complex located in Morocco, Newton County, Indiana. The Pullman diner was built in 1930, and expanded about 1935 with the service station addition. A two-story service bay was added in 1940, a large room about 1955, and a large drive-in garage in 1966. The original buildings are representative of two vernacular structures with Bungalow / American Craftsman style design elements. The complex provided essential services along the former route of USA Route 41.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Gerome Clark House is located east of Milford, Iowa, United States.</p><br>
<p>New York native Gerome Clark settled in Dickinson County about 1867. As he and his sons cleared the land of glacial rock for plantings they collected the multi-colored rocks and boulders of various sizes. The house was built in two sections, and it was not completed until 1888. The older section is two stories high, and the second section is a single story. Because the second section was built on higher ground it appears taller. It is a typical example of Iowan pioneer architecture. Its significance is derived from the adaptive use of unusual materials in its construction. The Clark family owned the house until 1905, when it was sold to Jacob L. Williams, whose family continued to own it at least into the late 20th century. However, it has not been lived in since 1967. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Antlers Hotel is located in downtown Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. From the 1880s to the early 1920s an alliance of railroad companies, entrepreneurs, and sportsmen made Spirit Lake and the Iowa Great Lakes region into an upscale tourist destination based on boating, hunting and gun tournaments. Completed in 1902, this hotel was built at the height of that development. A significant addition to the hotel was completed in 1930. Starting in the 1920s tourism started to change with the increasing usage of the automobile compared to the railroads. This is one of the few railroad-era tourism related buildings remaining in the area. It was designed in the Neoclassical style by Austin, Minnesota architect Frank W. Kinney. The three-story brick structure is built on a raised basement. It features brick columns, arched windows, ornamental cornices and a wrap-around veranda. Antlers Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It has been renovated into a 14-unit apartment complex.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Straus House, also known as the Louis Levy House, is a historic home located at Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. It was built in 1898–1899, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with Neoclassical and Colonial Revival style design elements. It has a truncated hipped roof with dormers. The front facade features a two-story pedimented portico with Ionic order columns and pilasters. Also on the property is a contributing complementary garage. It is open to visitors by the Ligonier Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Ligonier Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Richmond Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Richmond, Maine. Established in the 17th century, the town reached its height of prosperity in the 19th century as a major shipbuilding center on the Kennebec River. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Richmond&#39;s history dates to 1649, when land in the area was purchased from Native Americans by Christopher Lawson. A fort was built here in 1719 as a defense against Native American attacks, which was abandoned after the construction of forts further up the Kennebec River. Richmond was incorporated as part of Bowdoinham in 1762, and separated from that town in 1823. During the 19th century, it was a major local shipbuilding center, producing more than 200 ships between 1815 and 1890, the height of its economic success. One of the results of this economic success are a well-preserved collection of residential and commercial architecture in its village center; none of its shipbuilding yards have survived.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the north by Kimball Street, the west by High Street, the south by South Street, and the east by the Kennebec River. This area includes a stretch of modest commercial development on Main Street, which runs perpendicular to the river, with a few fine brick commercial buildings on River Street as well. Prominent buildings include the four-story Greek Revival Hathorn Block, built in 1850 by Jefferson Hathorn, a prominent local shipbuilder and captain. The 1882 Southard Block, also on River Street, was built by T.J. Southard, the towns leading shipbuilder of that period. Southards house was built in 1855, and is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Judson Record House is a historic house at 22 Church Street in Livermore Falls, Maine. Built in 1907 for a prominent local industrialist, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. It presently houses Maine&#39;s Paper and Heritage Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Judson Record House stands in the town center of Livermore Falls, on the northwest side of Church Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, wooden shingle siding, and a granite foundation. The roof is pierced by gabled dormers, with the pair facing front featuring broken scrolled pediments. The front facade is symmetrical, with a single-story enclosed porch extending across its width. Both the porch and the main building have corner pilasters, with pilasters also present between pairs of windows on the porch. They rise to an entablature and modillioned cornice. The main entrance is at the center of the porch, flanked by wide sidelight windows, and a transom window above with ten small lights. The building interior retains high quality original workmanship.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1907 for Judson A. Record, a businessman who operated locally important pulp and papermaking businesses. The house was designed by the prominent Maine architecture firm of George M. Coombs and Eugene Gibbs. From 1917 until the 1970s, it was used as housing for managers of the local papermaking businesses, and then as office space. Since 2007 it has housed Maine&#39;s Paper and Heritage Museum.</p><br>
<p>Bests Covered Bridge  is a historic covered bridge in West Windsor, Vermont, that carries Churchill Road over Mill Creek, just south of Vermont Route 44. Built in 1889, it is an architecturally distinctive laminated arch structure with a post-and-beam superstructure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bests Covered Bridge is located about 8 mi west of Windsors village center, just south of VT 44 on Churchill Road. It is a single-span laminated arch structure, with a total length of 37 ft and a roadway width of 12.5 ft (one lane). It rests on stone abutments. The arch is formed out of five layers of planking that have been laminated and bolted together. The floor stringers are supported by iron suspension rods descending from the arches, which are complemented by wooden posts rising above the arches. The arches are protected by a post-and-beam frame structure, its exterior clad in vertical boarding, with a metal roof overhead.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1889 by Stephen F. Hammond (1836–1913), a local wheelwright from Brownsville. Some sources state that Amasa W. Swallow (1829–1894) built the bridge, an error that may have originated in a misreading of the 1889 town report. Documentary evidence suggests that the notation, "new covered bridge by Amasa W. Swallow," is actually a reference to the bridge&#39;s location.</p><br>
<p>The bridges names come from Amasa W. Swallow, who owned the adjacent farm in the 1880s, and William Edgar Best (1869–1971), who in 1896, two years after Swallows death, purchased the property.</p><br>
<p>The laminated arch construction is unusual for 19th-century bridges in Vermont, but is well suited for use on a short crossing on a lightly traveled road.</p><br>
<p>The Libby-Hill Block is a historic commercial building at 227-233 Water Street in downtown Augusta, Maine. Built in 1866 by two prominent businessmen after a fire destroyed part of the downtown, it is one of the city&#39;s oldest granite commercial buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Libby-Hill Block is located on the east side of Water Street, Augusta&#39;s principal commercial business district, roughly midway between Bridge and Winthrop Streets. It is a three-story masonry structure, built mainly out of rusticated granite blocks. It has a flat roof with a slightly projecting granite cornice, supported by granite brackets. The ground floor houses three storefronts, all of which have modernized facades of polished granite. The upper floors have sash windows set in unadorned rectangular openings.</p><br>
<p>Augustas Water Street commercial district was devastated in 1865 by a massive fire. This building was built the following year, built by B. Libby and Dr. H.H. Hill, two of the citys wealthiest residents. Its granite construction is relatively rare for commercial buildings in the state. Its early tenants included a book store, barber, and dry goods store on the ground floor, and a dance studio and school in the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The Poland Springs Historic District encompasses the area that was once Maine&#39;s premier inland summer resort, renowned for the supposed curative powers of its spring waters. Located on the north side of Maine Street  in South Poland, Maine, United States, it includes surviving resort buildings in a landscaped environment that includes a golf course, as well as the earliest bottling facilities of water distributor Poland Spring. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Most of the district is now occupied by the Poland Springs Resort complex.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The historic Poland Springs resort complex is set east of Maine Street in South Poland. Its principal feature is the golf course (developed in the 1890s), with buildings clusted in two different areas near its southern end. Most of the buildings date between 1890 and 1915, although the largest, the Executive Inn, is a Classical Revival structure built in 1963. Near the inn stand the All Souls Chapel, built in 1912 as a place to hold religious services for guests and employees, and the 1893 Maine State Building, moved here from the World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and now housing a museum. One element now separated from the surviving resort complex is its former 1919 beach house, now a private residence on the south side of Maine Street.</p><br>
<p>East of the resort complex, at the end of Preservation Way, stand the bottling plant and spring house. The former bottling plant is a rectangular building, with a hip roof that has overhanging bracketed eaves. It is dominated by a tall square tower at its southwest corner with an open top level whose openings are flanked by Tuscan columns. The tower is topped by a tiled shallow-slope pyramidal roof. Its base is of rusticated stone, with arched openings leading to the building entrance. The building windows are set in round-arch openings, and the corners have brick quoining. The building is shaped as a cross, with a copper dome at the center, and there is a secondary entrance sheltered by a copper hood. The bottling house is a smaller structure located just south of the spring house, its entrance featuring Tuscan columns and pilasters supporting an entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Poland Spring resort achieved renown for its waters in the mid-19th century, and in 1876 the great Poland Spring House (destroyed by fire a century later) was built to cater to resort visitors taking its waters. Run by generations of the Ricker family, Edward P. Ricker in 1903 conceived of the idea of bottling the spring waters. He worked with Harry Wilkerson, a Poland native working as an architect in Washington, DC to draft the plans for the bottling plant and spring house, which were completed in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel Village Historic District encompasses the historic core of the village of Bethel in the town of Bethel, Vermont, USA. The L-shaped district extends along Main and Church Streets, including many of the village&#39;s commercial and civic buildings, as well as a significant number of 19th and early 20th-century residences. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was slightly enlarged in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The small town of Bethel is located roughly midway between White River Junction and Montpelier in the White River valley of central southern Vermont. Its main village is located near the confluence of the Third Branch White River with its main branch, and has historically been focused on the water power provided by a set of falls on the Third Branch. The town was chartered in 1779, and a sawmill and gristmill were built at the falls soon afterward. The community soon grew as a small industrial center, and as a stop on the stage road that ran along the river (now roughly Vermont Routes 12 and 107 in this area). It was further enhanced in importance by the arrival of the railroad in 1849. A major fire destroyed a portion of its downtown in 1877, resulting in the construction of new, more fire-resistant buildings. In the late 19th century, the village benefited from the nearby granite extraction industry, which supplied stone for some major buildings in the eastern United States. The village declined during the Great Depression, with fires again destroying portions of the downtown in 1938 and 1945.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Main and Church Streets (both marked VT 12) in an L-shaped configuration extending from River Street (where VT 107 bends west across the river) to Pleasant Street (where VT 12 continues north). The district extends for short distances along North Main Street (beyond the Church/Main intersection) and along River Street, where it extends to the bridge carrying that road across the White River. The Main Street portion of the district is characterized by commercial buildings, with a focused cluster of 19th-century two and three-story commercial buildings shortly before the Church Street intersection. Municipal buildings are found on the east side of Main Street near that junction, and several churches line Church Street across the river along with a number of residences. The district is architecturally diverse, reflecting styles from the early 19th century to the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The former Spirit Lake Public Library is located in downtown Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. The Civic Improvement Association started a library in a rented commercial building downtown in 1901. The initial collections were acquired through Iowas traveling library system. A referendum to support a public library was passed in 1904, which made a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York possible. Spirit Lakes application was accepted for a grant for $8,000 on February 1, 1905. The search for a lot for the building delayed construction. The library was dedicated on September 24, 1912. The single-story brick structure was built on a raised basement, and features vaguely Tudor Revival elements. The center frontispiece and the tall windows give it a sense of verticality. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The public library has subsequently been relocated into a new building, and the historic building has been converted into commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The Spirit Lake Massacre Log Cabin, also known as the Gardner Log Cabin, is located in Arnolds Park, Iowa, United States. Rowland Gardner had led a group of settlers into the region in 1856, and he built this cabin in July of that year. On March 8, 1857, a band of renegade Wahpekuta Sioux who had been alienated from the tribal structure attacked the Gardner family and other settlers in the immediate area in an incident known as the Spirit Lake Massacre. Led by Inkpaduta, the band of outlaws raided both Indians and white settlers for a period of about 30 years.</p><br>
<p>The massacre accelerated the US governments removal of the remaining Sioux from Iowa and Minnesota, and it slowed the rate of settlement in the region for a period of time. The raid actually began in another cabin, but this cabin gained notoriety because Gardners 13-year-old daughter Abagail survived the attack, was taken captive, and was later ransomed by the Yankton Sioux. Abbie Gardner-Sharp published an account of the massacre, and was able to gain possession of the cabin that she ran as a museum. The state erected a monument to the victims near the cabin in 1895. After Gardner-Sharp died in 1921 the state of Iowa acquired the property and the state historical society continues to operate the cabin as a museum. The cabin was a setting of MacKinlay Kantor&#39;s novel Spirit Lake (1961). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located north of Milford, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The historic district is part of a campus that provides science classes and research opportunities for university students.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory was established in 1909 by three professors from the University of Iowa: Thomas Macbride, Bohumil Shimek, and Samuel Calvin. Their plan was to provide to all students "&#39;competent to enjoy the laboratory</p><br>
<p>method of instruction&#39;; to instruct teachers in both academies of higher learning and in high schools so that they were better prepared to educate children in schools; and to provide a laboratory where graduate students and scholars could pursue advanced research." The facility is the "earliest and one of the most important research and educational institutions associated with the conservation movement."</p><br>
<p>The first 5 acre on West Okoboji Lake was purchased by the University of Iowa Alumni Association who set up a private stock company, the Lakeside Laboratory Association, because the university itself was legally prevented from establishing "branch" campuses. In addition to the buildings the district includes about 60 acre of open land to the north and northeast of the building complexes. It is a combination of meadows, marshes, and bogs that have been used in experiments and research projects over the years, and it is considered integral to the historic field laboratory setting.</p><br>
<p>Iowa Lakeside Laboratory continues to function under the direction of the Iowa Board of Regents. The facility is located on a campus that has grown to 147 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Contributing buildings include five stone laboratories, a bathhouse, four stone cottages, and the main cottage. The entrance portals are the historic structure. They were built between 1936 and 1937 in the Rustic style by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The historic buildings are distributed across the facilitys three areas: the main laboratory complex, the main living/dining quarters, and the lakeshore area. The noncontributing buildings include a classroom building, a modern laboratory building, a storage building, a library, ten wood-frame cottages, the managers residence, a garage/shop, the dining hall, a converted boathouse, Dodd Cottage, faculty housing, and a modern bathhouse. They were built from the 1960s to the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Spiritual Israel Church and Its Army Temple, originally known as the Amity Lodge No. 335 Temple, is a historic building located at 9375 Amity Street in Detroit, Michigan, on the city&#39;s east side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Amity Lodge No. 335 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Detroit in 1880. The Lodge met on the east side near the corner of Chene and Croghan Streets, then moved to a location on East Jefferson near Belle Isle. In 1910, the Amity Lodge formed an association with the Island View Temple Odd Fellows Lodge for the purpose of building a permanent temple for the two organizations. The association purchased land in 1910, and in 1911 began construction of what is now the northeast (right-hand) section of the current building. In 1920, an addition was constructed to the building which expanded it to roughly twice the original size. The building was used concurrently by both the Amity and Island View lodges, as well as other Odd Fellows organizations.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1930s, the Amity Lodge shared the building with other fraternal orders, including other Odd Fellows organizations, the Order of Scottish Clans, and the Pere Richard Council 2463 of the Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus made use of the building until 1960, when it was purchased by the Spiritual Israel Church and Its Army.</p><br>
<p>The Spiritual Israel Church and Its Army, a predominantly African American denomination, was founded in Alabama around 1912. The church moved to Detroit around 1923, coinciding with the wave of southern African Americans who came north in the Great Migration. The Detroit congregation was incorporated in 1938, and in the 1940s purchased a building on Hastings Street in Detroit&#39;s Black Bottom. The Hastings Street neighborhood was razed to build I-75 in the late 1950s, and in 1960 the church moved into this building, where they have remained until the current day.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Amity Temple is a massive rectangular four-story building of limestone-trimmed red brick. The front facade has six bays, containing paired door and window openings at ground level. This facade reflects the two stages of construction, with the right-hand half (containing three bays) constructed in 1911 and the left-hand half in 1920. The central bay of the right-hand portion contains the main entry doors, and the section is topped by a classical limestone cornice and limestone-trimmed parapet.</p><br>
<p>Each of the window bays on the lower three stories once contained two large double-hung windows; the upper story bays contained single large three-section windows. All window openings have since been infilled with a stucco-like material, and narrow windows inset into the larger openings.</p><br>
<p>The rear and side walls of the building are plain brick, and like the front facade contains large window openings, later infilled with narrow windows inserted. The fourth story only extends over a portion of the footprint.</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Residential Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area west of the downtown of Rockland, Maine. With a history dating to the early 18th century, this area includes high quality examples of residential architecture, most dating to the period 1870-1920, and including several fine examples of municipal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Rockland was settled as part of Thomaston in the late 18th century. The citys harbor proved a good shipbuilding location, and the areas limestone were developed as a locally significant lime-burning industry, with kilns lining parts of the shore. The area was incorporated as East Thomaston in 1848, and reincorporated as the city of Rockport in 1854. The city&#39;s commercial heart is located near its waterfront, and the area immediately to the west developed as a prime residential area.</p><br>
<p>The residential historic district is bounded on the east by Union Street, which forms the western boundary of the commercial Main Street Historic District. It is bounded on the north by Talbot Avenue, the south by Masonic, Broad, and Limerock Streets, and the west by Broadway. The area includes a number of fine pre-Civil War houses (typically Greek Revival in style), but its largest building boom began in the mid-1870s, resulting in a significant number of high-quality Second Empire and Italianate houses in the area, which were followed by a wave of Queen Anne style buildings. Notable public architecture includes the Knox County Courthouse, and the Rockland Public Library.</p><br>
<p>The I.O.O.F. Centennial Building is an historic building located at 150 East Chisholm Street in Alpena, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. It dates back to 1876 and is “an excellent example of late Victorian commercial architecture.”</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was formerly occupied by the first Alpena County Courthouse, destroyed by a fire on December 12, 1870, and is a designated state historic site. Originally known as the Centennial Block or the Hitchcock Block, the building was constructed in 1876 for Samuel E. Hitchcock and his wife, Samantha Hitchcock, two of the first settlers and most prominent citizens of the city of Alpena. The building changed hands multiple times over the next decades, and is now owned by Mike and Kate Phillips. Following their recent acquisition, they launched their successful effort to have the structure included on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1901 it was sold to the local chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F. Alpena Lodge No. 170) of which Samuel Hitchcock himself was a member. It adopted its designation of the I.O.O.F. Centennial Building from the society. The Odd Fellows has been headquartered in the buildings third story since late 1876 and occupied it until 1969, when the fraternity was forced to sell its seat due to declining membership and finances. The building was occupied by several I.O.O.F. lodges: Alpena Lodge No. 170, Myrtle Lodge No. 432 (founded in 1893, and merged with the Alpena Lodge in 1926), Canton Alpena No. 31, Thunder Bay Encampment No. 87, and two Rebekah lodges, Primrose No. 364 and Beulah No. 91 (combined in 1936). The Odd Fellows remained there for 93 years. The building has also housed a variety of professionals, businesses and organizations over the course of its history, including book and music stores, the city library, the Red Ribbon Society (a forerunner of the Womans Christian Temperance Union), and a restaurant. Elizabeth C. Nasons Centennial Book Store occupied the structures first floor from 1881 to 1899.</p><br>
<p>The building has been known by at least seven names: "Hitchcock block" or "Hitchcocks block&quot "Centennial building" or "Centennial block;" "Odd Fellows Hall;" "I.O.O.F. Hall;" and "Odd Fellows Temple."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The I.O.O.F. Centennial Building stands at three floors, with a basement level, and occupies a triangular lot at the intersection of Chisholm Street, West Washington Avenue and First Avenue, within the city&#39;s central commercial district. Designed by architect William Mirre and built by Fred Ludwig, a local bricklayer, it is one of the oldest existing buildings in downtown Alpena, and a good example of Italianate architecture. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the phrase "Flatiron" derives from its contour, and specifically its exterior resemblance to a cast iron clothes iron.</p><br>
<p>The structure stands on a "coursed ashlar dressed masonry foundation" and is entirely made of brick, as required by the Alpena fire limit ordinance enacted after the blaze of July 12, 1872 (the largest fire in Alpenas history, which destroyed 15 acres of homes and businesses). The original north and south elevations (respectively seven and five bays wide) are divided into three vertical sections, and feature rusticated piers, quoins, and ornamental hood moldings. The north façade, facing Washington Avenue, contains two ground floor storefronts and is crowned by an elaborate frieze, consisting of two long rectangular panels separated by a projecting pediment. The raised brickwork within the panels spell out CENTENNIAL and 4 JULY 1876 that celebrates Americas century of independence and the year the building was constructed.</p><br>
<p>The building was heavily remodeled by the Odd Fellows in the first decade of the twentieth century. The easternmost bay facing Chisholm Street was added circa 1903 and contains a recessed corner entrance on the first floor, surmounted by an open balcony and by an enclosed brick third story. The protruding addition resembles a prow, and gives the building a distinctive look. The limestone portal that leads to the recessed door features a lintel displaying IOOF in raised letters; the same acronym is displayed in brickwork above the third-story windows, together with a rectangular masonry plaque containing the primary symbol of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (a three-link chain with the letters F, L and T, referring to the motto "Friendship, Love and Truth"). The third story was designed to blend with the 1876 exterior, but is faced with a darker tint brick.</p><br>
<p>The I.O.O.F. Centennial Building features unusual architectural highlights, icons and peculiarities that are specially tied to its purpose as home for the lodge and its secret eleemosynary mission: the third-story temple, for instance, can only be reached via an antechamber, so that people who were in need could enter and exit the room without being exposed. Both doors were always guarded, never opened simultaneously, and access was only by secret code twice recognized and acknowledged. Artifacts and furnishings are still present.</p><br>
<p>The building was not the first constructed using its triangular ground-plan: aside from a possibly unique triangular Roman temple built on a similarly constricted site in the city of Verulamium, Britannia, the Maryland Inn in Annapolis (1782) predates it.</p><br>
<p>The Melan Bridge is located in Emma Sater Park on the east side of Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States. The 30 by structure is believed to be the third reinforced concrete arch span built in the country. Austrian engineer Josef Melan developed a new system of concrete reinforcement for bridge construction in the early 1890s. A fellow Austrian, Fritz von Emperger, introduced the system in the United States, and obtained a patent for it in 1893.</p><br>
<p>Von Emperger designed this bridge the same year to span a crossing over Dry Creek south of Rock Rapids. John Olsen, a builder from Rock Rapids, was contracted to build the structure. W. S. Hewett of Minnesota was the construction supervisor. The cement for the bridge was imported from Germany for $3.25 per barrel. It was mixed with sand and crushed jasper. The reinforcing is composed of five 4 in beams that are embedded in a concrete rib that narrows to 6 in at the crown. The spandrels are faced with Sioux Falls Jasper. The total cost for the project was $830. The narrow roadway made the bridge unfit for automobile traffic, and it was removed in the early 1960s. Due to local public sentiment, the county and the state highway commission moved the historic structure to the park in 1964. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Melan Bridge has been featured in the Cornell Civil Engineer, Modern Concrete Magazine, Concrete Industry News, and The Central Contractor. Because of its significance and authenticity, a model of the bridge has been on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>The Klondike Bridge is located southwest of Larchwood, Iowa, United States. The 260 ft span carried traffic on 180th Street over the Big Sioux River. The bridge was first constructed at this point in 1901, but it proved inadequate to handle the traffic that followed, so in 1913 Lyon County hired the Western Bridge and Omaha Construction Company to create the Klondike. The Iowa Legislature passed the Brockway Act that required counties to use Iowa State Highway Commission  standards for bridge construction rather than the counties acting on their own in 1913. The ISHC spent the next year standardizing plans. It is in this transition period that the Lyon County Board of Supervisors decided to replace an outdated 1901 span at this location. They contracted with the Western Bridge and Construction Company of Omaha, Nebraska to build this bridge. They used a Pratt through truss of their own design for the main span. It was flanked by two Warren pony trusses from the ISHC. In 1914, the structure was completed for $11,586.11. The historical nature of this bridge is derived from its construction in the transition period, and its use of standard and non-standard bridge designs.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Riggs House is a historic house on Robinhood Road in Georgetown, Maine. Built about 1790, it is the oldest house in Georgetown, and is a well-preserved example of transitional Georgian-Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Riggs House stands on the east side of Robinhood Road, near the Robinhood Marine Center in northern Georgetown. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its main facade faces south, with an ell extending north to join the house to a barn. The front is three bays wide, symmetrically arranged, with its entrance framed by pilasters and topped by a half-round fanlight window and cornice. The interior retains many period features, including paneled fireplace surrounds, beaded wainscoting, and a front stair with turned newel posts and balusters.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1790 by Benjamin Riggs, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts who supposedly settled here in 1776 at age seventeen. Successful in the shipping business, Riggs had this house built, along with storehouses at a nearby wharf. He served in the Massachusetts legislature, and also in the Maine legislature after it achieved statehood in 1820. It is the most architecturally distinctive house in Georgetown&#39;s Robinhood area.</p><br>
<p>Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block is a row of five connected historic commercial buildings located at Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana. The block was built between 1891 and 1895, and is a two-story, red brick building with pressed metal facades in the Queen Anne style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is located in the Kendallville Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Stones Trace is a historic site located in Sparta Township, Noble County, Indiana. The site includes four contributing buildings. Stones Tavern was built in 1839, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style heavy timber frame dwelling. It is sheathed in clapboard and has a side-gable roof. It was moved to its present site about 1860, and restored in 1964–1966. The Cyrus Kimmel house was built in 1875, and is a two-story, L-shaped, Italianate style brick dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing granary and barn. The property is operated by the Stones Trace Historical Society and Stones Trace Regulators.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Luckey Hospital is a historic hospital building located in Noble Township, Noble County, Indiana. It was built in 1929, and is a three-story, tall brick building with an attached two-story section. It has a tall parapet and rests on a full basement. The building housed a private medical facility until 1961 and now houses a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Augusta College Historic Buildings are two former dormitory buildings built for Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Echo Hall, located on the east side of Frankfort Street, is a two-story brick building with a front-facing central gable and flanking side-gable wings. West Hall, located on the west side of Bracken Street, is a simpler two-story brick building with a side gable roof and five-bay facade. Both were built in the 1820s to house students at the recently established Augusta College, one of the first Methodist higher education establishments in the United States. The school was closed in 1849.</p><br>
<p>The two buildings, now used as private residences, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lockwood Mill Historic District encompasses the only major 19th-century mill complex in Waterville, Maine. Located south of the city&#39;s downtown, it was designed by  Amos D. Lockwood, a nationally known industrial designer of the period. Its #2 building was for 45 years home to the Hathaway Shirt Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Lockwood Mill complex is located on the western bank of the Kennebec River, just south of downtown Waterville and the bridge connecting it to Winslow. The mill complex includes three large brick buildings, and adjacent water control facilities for providing power to them. The mills are long rectangular buildings, ranging in height from two to five stories, with a shared commercial Italianate styling. The #1 mill was built in 1875, and the #2 and #3 mills in 1882 and 1883, each sporting a number of alterations and/or additions. Power facilities include a 1918-19 hydroelectric plant and dam, built to replace an older wooden crib dam.</p><br>
<p>Waterville&#39;s industrial textile development was relatively late in comparison to other area communities. In 1866, local businessmen made an organized effort to provide a large-scale power plant, planning for industrial development on the site of older grist and sawmills. Pursuant to these development efforts, the #1 mill was built in 1875 through the efforts of financier Reuben Dunn and mill engineer Amos Lockwood. Lockwood had prior involvement with a number of mill development efforts in northern New England, including at Saco and Lisbon Falls. The mills built here used state-of-the-art "slow burning" construction techniques designed to minimize the spread of fire, including large-dimension timbers and no concealed spaces or attics. The mills were used in cotton textile manufacturing until 1956, and the #2 mill was used from 1957 to 1992 by the Hathaway Shirt Company, an internationally known manufacturer who was one of the last shirt makers in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Stanley School-District No. 2 is a historic one-room school building located at Chain O&#39;Lakes State Park in Green Township, Noble County, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1915, and is a one-story, "T"-plan, vernacular brick building. The front facade features a large central projecting gable topped by a belfry. The building operated as a school until 1954 and housed a nature center until 2013, when it was restored to a one-room school house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Albion Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located in Albion, Noble County, Indiana. The district encompasses 61 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Albion. It developed between about 1855 and 1964, and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, and Art Deco style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Noble County Courthouse and Noble County Sheriffs House and Jail. Other notable buildings include the USA Post Office , Police Booth , Albion Town Hall , St. Marks Lutheran Church , United Brethren Church / Masonic Lodge , Presbyterian Church , and Clapp Block / Bank Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Brittingham Boathouse is a historic boathouse along a bay of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin. Built in 1909–10, it is the city&#39;s oldest extant public park building. In 1982 the boathouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Despite its beautiful setting, the City of the Four Lakes had virtually no public parklands up to the 1890s. In 1894, a group of Madisons civic leaders formed the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, aiming to open up and preserve scenic areas around Madison for the public to enjoy. This was a local manifestation of the progressive City Beautiful movement that emerged in many parts of the USA starting in the 1890s. More general goals were to improve the quality of life around Madison and promote the citys development. The Association played a large part in the creation of Tenney, Vilas and Brittingham Parks.</p><br>
<p>Brittingham Park has roots in 1903 when the city bought a small parcel along Monona Bay. Instead of a beautiful park, it was marshy and "weedy, littered with kitchen garbage and dead fish, and a breeding ground for mosquitoes." At a 1904 meeting of the Pleasure Drive Association, a speaker pointed out that 90% of visitors to Madison traveled past the bay on the railroad, and proposed improving the "disease breeding hole" into a park. In 1905 lumber baron and philanthropist Thomas E. Brittingham donated an initial $8,000 to buy another 27 acres along the bay. Work proceeded to dredge sand from Lake Monona and use it to fill in the marshy areas, then cover that with soil and plantings. T.E. Brittingham funded a bathhouse and the new park was a success. In the 1910 season, Brittingham Park&#39;s bathhouse served 50,000 swimmers. It rented 300 bathing suits and on hot afternoons there was often a long line waiting to get a suit, still wet, as swimmers emerged from the water.</p><br>
<p>The boathouse was built that same year - 1910. T.E. Brittingham had donated $7500 for the bathhouse on condition that the city contribute $5000 for a boathouse. John M. Olin, the President of the Pleasure Drive Association, also wanted to build a public boathouse to replace some private boathouses that were sacrificed to make way for the park, and for the surrounding working-class neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association served as the city&#39;s de facto parks department until 1931. In 1938 in transferred its properties to the city.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the buildings have needed maintenance. The bathhouse was razed in the 1960s. In 1979 the city re-roofed, sanded, and painted the boathouse. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006 it was significantly rehabilitated - moving the whole building a bit to where the ground was more stable. This was a joint effort by the City of Madison, the Madison Parks Foundation, and the Camp Randall Rowing Club.</p><br>
<p>The Duncan–Duitsman Farm Historic District is a nationally recognized agricultural historic district located northeast of George, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>John and Marion Duncan were the first settlers on this land and built the 1½-story frame house on the farmstead to the east around 1878. It is the only structure left from his era. Duncan farmed his 80 acre for 16 years, and his father-in-law, John Watkins, farmed the 80 acre immediately to the west. John Duitsman bought the Duncan farm in 1894 and built farm buildings from 1904 to 1909. Duitsman later acquired what was the Watkins farm, and he farmed the entire 160 acre. He also built the buildings on that farmstead, where he made his home. The present house (non-contributing) was completed in 1949, replacing a house similar to the Duncan house. There are three depressions north of the Duncan house where buildings once stood. They could be all that remains of structures Duncan built that were destroyed in a 1938 tornado. A stand of trees was planted on the north side of both farmsteads, forming a wind break. There is only a small remnant left on the Duncan farmstead. The Argo Slough is on the north side of the property. This land has never been plowed and is a vestige of the native prairie.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge at 13th Street, also known as the Wooden Bridge, is a historic bridge in St. Francisville, Illinois that carries 13th Street across a former railroad right-of way. The bridge was built in 1909 as a safer crossing of the railroad; at the time, the railroad was operated by the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway, a division of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway . The railroad paid for the bridge according to its contract with the city, which had passed a city council resolution compelling the railroad to fulfill this portion of the contract two years earlier. The bridge is a beam bridge built partly of timber and partly of steel, though it is possible that its steel beam was added after its completion. At 181 ft long with a 54 ft main span, the bridge is relatively long compared to other surviving timber bridges in Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 2016.</p><br>
