<p>The Broad View Ranch Historic District is a nationally recognized agricultural historic district located northwest of Sheldon, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Charles F. Peters was a native of Prussia who immigrated to the United States in 1868 at 18 years old. He bought his first quarter section of land in Lyon County in 1882, and began a cattle operation. Initially, his cattle grazed freely on unoccupied land, but as the county became more populated he acquired two more sections. Eventually his land holdings grew to 1,200 acre. He constructed buildings for his operation, including the 1889 main barn, the cattle barn, silo barn, and granary all constructed in 1890. He built his Italianatehouse in 1896, which has been significantly altered in subsequent years. Other domestic structures include buildings to store coal, ice, and house laying hens. A grove of hardwoods that was planted on the north and west edges of the farmstead forming a wind break is a contributing site. The ranch remains in the Peters family.</p><br>
<p>The Beaver Meadow School is a historic school building at 246 Chapel Hill Road in Norwich, Vermont. Built in 1922, it is a rare late example of a one-room schoolhouse, made further distinctive by the survival of its original schoolroom interior. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Beaver Meadow School stands in the rural crossroads village of West Norwich, on the east side of Chapel Hill Road, a short way north of its junction with Beaver Meadow Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of stone and concrete. Shed-roof additions extend across the full length of the western side, and part of the northern side. The building faces south, facing a gravel parking lot near the road. The facade has sash windows on either side of its entrance, which is handsomely decorated with flanking engaged Tuscan columns rising to an entablature and gabled pediment. A semicircular window is set in the gable end above. The roof is topped by a square, square open belfry. The interior has a narrow vestibule, which opens into the main chamber. It has a stage at one end, and retains original wood flooring, wainscoting, and a woodstove with an unusual safety enclosure.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1922, a fairly late period for the construction of these types of district school buildings. It was used until 1946 for educational purposes, and has been used since then as a community clubhouse. It is unusual among one-room schoolhouses for retaining most of its original interior, which is often lost when such buildings are converted to other uses. This school, along with the Root School, was among the last of the town&#39;s district schools to close.</p><br>
<p>The Coal Creek Bridge was located southeast of Carlisle, Iowa, United States. The 88 ft span carried traffic on Fillmore Street over Coal Creek. The Warren County Board of Supervisors contracted with the Seevers Manufacturing Company of Oskaloosa, Iowa to build this bridge. The Pratt pony truss was completed in 1889. It was the only example of this type of bridge built by the company left in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Hoosier Row School is a historic building located southwest of Indianola, Iowa, United States. The property for the one-room schoolhouse was acquired by Sub District No. 4, White Oak Township from Alva P. Keeney and Mary J. Keeney on March 10, 1870. They paid $100 for 1 acre. The present building was constructed in 1900, and now serves as a community center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Polled Hereford Breed Origin Site is a historic site located southwest of Indianola, Iowa, United States. The American owners of Hereford cattle in the 19th century knew that the breed occasionally produced calves that did not develop horns. They are known as polled, which means "naturally hornless." As early as 1893 attempts were made in Kansas and Ontario in Canada to produce the hornless variant. Warren Gammon, a Des Moines lawyer, developed his plan after seeing polled Herefords at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1893. With his son Bert, he leased 5 acre of a farm that was owned by the Angus Coal Mining Company. He acquired four bulls and ten cows of purebred Herefords that had failed to develop horns. Two cows were infertile and one bull had to be eliminated. Beside the windmill where the bull "Giant" was tied up the first planned mating with a Polled Hereford cow took place on February 21, 1902. By 1976, the Polled Hereford breed was numerically greater than the horned variety in the United States, and was about three-fourths of Iowa&#39;s Hereford stock. The Iowa Polled Hereford Association erected a historical marker at the site. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Wallace Hall, formerly known as Science Hall, is a historic building located on the campus of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, United States. The 2½-story, brick structure was designed by Wichita, Kansas architect, and Indianola native, William T. Proudfoot. He would become partner in the prominent Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot & Bird. This is the firm&#39;s earliest known extant building in Iowa. The Romanesque Revival style is found in the round arched openings, stone trim, decorative brickwork, prominent gables centered at the front and rear elevations, and slender turrets on the corners. The building was completed in 1888. George Washington Carver studied art in the attic classroom while attending Simpson in 1890–1891. A new science hall was completed in 1956, and named for Carver. This building remained vacant for the most part, and suffered a fire a few years later. It was eventually renovated, and on June 4, 1967, it was rededicated and at that time was renamed. It now honors Henry A. Wallace, a geneticist and former Vice President of the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Kage School is a former one-room schoolhouse in the city limits of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places . While it was in operation it was a part of School District No. 52, then located northwest of the City of Cape Girardeau in unincorporated Cape Girardeau County. The school served eight grade levels .</p><br>
<p>During the district&#39;s history students who matriculated to high school attended Cape Girardeau Central High School and Campus High School.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1849, the school&#39;s first building, made of logs, opened, and a newer brick building opened in 1880.</p><br>
<p>In 1949 the first proposal to consolidate the Kage School District with the Cape Girardeau School District occurred. Voters rejected it and subsequent annual consolidation proposals; at the time there was a national trend of consolidating schools in order to allow students to specialize in mathematics and science courses. The City of Cape Girardeau annexed over 50% of the Kage School District territory in 1967, and the school shut down the following year. It had 16 students in its final year of operation. Elementary students were reassigned to Hawthorn School. The school itself now resides in the city limits.</p><br>
<p>Keith Deimund, a former student, acquired the property and held it for at least 10 years as he wanted to make sure it was preserved. He sold it to Rick Hetzel around 2014, and Hetzel converted the building into a guest house. It now operates as the Historic Kage School Guest Cottage.</p><br>
<h2>Structure and surroundings</h2><br>
<p>The building uses elements of Missouri-German architecture. This building has a 13 ft ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Warren County Administration Building, formerly Indianola High School, is located in Indianola, Iowa, United States. The first high school in town was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot & Bird. It was completed in 1904 and an annex was added in 1917 because of increased enrollment. Irving School , housed grades 1-8 and was condemned by the city council in 1924. The Independent School District of Indianola decided to build a new building to house the high school and elementary grades. The Minneapolis architectural firm of Grahn & Rathurst was chosen the design the $180,000 building. Completed in 1925, the first floor housed grades 1-6 and the second floor housed grades 10–12. The old high school building, no longer extant, became the junior high school building. The interior of the brick, Late Gothic Revival structure has a U-shaped hallway with a gymnasium/auditorium in the middle and classrooms on the outer perimeter. After a new middle school was built in Indianola, this building was renovated between 1997 and 1999 for the Warren County Administration Building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Virginia Avenue Colored School is a historic school building at 3628 Virginia Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1923 to address overcrowding of a 1915 building, the school was the city&#39;s first purpose-built segregated school for African-Americans. It was built by Samuel M. Plato, a prolific local African-American building contractor, and is Renaissance Revival in style. It was enlarged in 1954 and again in 1969 in an attempt to stave off forced integration. It was renamed Jessie R. Carter Elementary School in 1970, and was finally integrated in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It presently houses the West End School, a private boarding school for boys up to 8th grade.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins House in Dekalb, Mississippi is a historic structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 for its architectural significance as a mid-nineteenth century example of a vernacular middle-class farmhouse as well as the artistic significance of the ornamental painting displayed throughout the interior of the house. The Perkins House was originally built around 1870, and the artwork was added in the 1890s. The house was originally located on Murphy Hardy Rd, northwest of its junction with Mississippi Highway 493 but was moved to its current location on Townsend Road in 2012 after being purchased by new owners.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The exact construction date of the Perkins House is unknown, but the house probably dates from around 1870. The house&#39;s architecture is similar in style to many of the I-houses common in eastern Mississippi but is smaller than other more extravagant structures. As such, the house is reminiscent of the life of a typical modest-income late-nineteenth-century farmer in this region. The house was owned by a family known as the Dees before being purchased some time around the turn of the century by Burel Wilson (Wilse) and Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) Darnel Perkins. Wilse and Sally Perkins lived in the house until their deaths, upon which their son Sheldon Perkins and his wife Beatrice Perkins Koostra inherited the property, remaining there until the 1940s. The house was inhabited by George Cole from 1955 until 1991, after which time the house was abandoned. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 and was later sold and moved from its original location in 2012 to its current location at 2709 Townsend Road. After the move, the Perkins House was relisted on the National Register in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>The Perkins House is significant as an example of a mid-nineteenth century vernacular farmhouse associated with a middle-class family in the rural area of eastern Mississippi during this period. Though very similar in style to an I-house, a popular style in the region during this era, the floor plan deviates from the I-house standard in several features, most obviously the absence of an inhabitable second floor. The first floor layout consists of two 15 ft by 17 ft rooms divided by a central passageway. Shed style porches run the entire length of the front and rear facades and contain cabinet rooms in each corner. The centers of each of the porches are loggias; the rear one was originally open, but was closed in some time after 1994. The southwest cabinet room has an entrance from the front loggia but no entrance into the interior of the house while the northwest cabinet room opens into the northern main room but has no entrance from the loggia. The southeast cabinet room is a kitchen, and the northeast cabinet room is a bathroom which was originally open only to the northern main room but a second door was added into the rear loggia some time after 1994, possibly when the rear loggia was enclosed. Atop the first floor lies a small attic which was originally inaccessible, but a ship&#39;s ladder was installed after 2012 to provide access.</p><br>
<p>Each of the main rooms has two nine over six double-hung sash windows flanking a central chimney stack (each of which were rebuilt using original material after the move in 2012), and each of the cabinet rooms has a single double-hung nine over six window. Original hardware for shutters is still present on the exterior of the windows. The northern and southern sides of the building also each feature two fixed six-pane windows in the attic. Before the rear loggia was enclosed, both external doors were flanked by sidelights; when the rear was enclosed, the door was moved to the new rear entrance, but the sidelights were left intact. The exterior wall of the enclosed loggia contains 4 four over four double-hung sash windows which break the original symmetry of the facade. The front door and most of the interior doors contain four recessed panels, the door between the northern main room and the bathroom has five panels, and the door from the bathroom to the enclosed rear loggia is a modern six-panel door. The rear door present at the back of the central passageway when the house was listed on the National Register in 1994 did not include any panels and was likely not original. The current rear door of the enclosed loggia has four panels.</p><br>
<h3>Interior artwork</h3><br>
<p>The flooring and interior walls and ceilings are all constructed out of plain pine wood. Each of the fireplaces in the main rooms is topped by a wooden mantel adorned with ogee curves and flanked by wooden pilasters. A defining feature of the interior is the decorative paintings on many walls and ceilings of the two main rooms of the house. The southern room includes a twisted rope pattern as an artificial picture rail and a wainscot along the lower portion of the walls. The ceiling features a large square with a central circle of a different color. A rosette design surrounds a central lighting fixture, and tendrils emanate from the rosette about halfway to the edge of the circle. Tendrils also appear at each of the four corners of the square. A similar design is found in the northern room, with a central rosette and wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The interior artwork is similar to that found in several other houses in the original location of the Perkins House, most notably the Oliver House in Moscow, Mississippi, also listed on the National Register in 1985. Other houses in that area which feature artwork similar to the Perkins House are the Shotts House and the now non-extant Cole House, the artwork of which is preserved in the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. The close proximity and similar design of all of these pieces suggests they were the work of a single artist, and local wisdom attributes them all to a "Mr. Mayer", a German artist that passed through the area in the 1890s. No evidence is present of a larger collection of interior artwork anywhere in the state of Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>Kendallville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana. The district encompasses 45 contributing buildings in the central business district of Kendallville. It developed between about 1863 and 1940, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block. Other notable buildings include the City Hall , Diggins Building , Masonic Hall Building , and Bernhalter Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Ligonier Historic District is a national historic district located in Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. The district encompasses 253 contributing buildings and two contributing objects in Ligonier. It was developed between about 1835 and 1937, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple and Jacob Straus House. Other notable buildings include the Dr. Enos Fenton Residence , Silas Shobe Residence , Eli Gerber Residence , Oscar Parks Residence , Solomon Mier Residence , Simon Schloss Residence , Gentry Hotel , Straus Brothers Block , Zimmerman Block , former Universalist Church , First Presbyterian Church , Ligonier Public Library , Ligonier City Building , USA Post Office , Lyon and Greenleaf Flour Mill , and former Mier Carriage Factory .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ligonier Historic District is one of the most intact groups of historic and architectural buildings in Ligonier. The district developed during 1835 to 1937. It was first called Perrys Prairie, a natural clearing settled by white inhabitants in 1833. Ligonier was platted in 1835. The town was overshadowed by Rochester, another settlement on the Elkhart River, 2 mi to the southeast in 1836. Ligonier was located on a state road and north of another, which allowed it to soon outpace the town of Rochester. In 1854 the construction of a railroad, completed in 1857, through the town, led to five additions to the citys street plan, which more than doubled the population by start of the American Civil War. Greater growth came after the war, spurred by the direct rail connections to Chicago and Toledo.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the nineteenth century the Jewish community had become a significant influence in the town. The itinerant peddlers Frederick William Straus and Solomon Mier arrived in 1854 following the construction of the railroad. Each became local merchants and then founded the two major banks. The Banking House of Solomon Mier (1862) later became the Mier Bank. Frederick Straus opened the Citizens Bank (1868) with his brothers Jacob and Mathias.</p><br>
<p>The community grew as more settlers arrived in northern Indiana from Germany via the Pennsylvania and Ohio German communities of Jews, Mennonites and Amish. The Jewish community of Noble and Dekalb counties was a dispersed community amongst the other German Mennonite settlers by 1858. The community was large enough that they organized the Congregation Ahavas Shalom (Lovers of Peace). Initially they met in Auburn, the seat of DeKalb County. Ligonier was more tolerant of the communitys presence and participation in social and political life. Congregation Ahavas Shalom soon began holding its meetings in the Jewish homes of Ligonier. The first permanent building was a wooden structure, in 1871. By 1889, the Ahavas Shalom Temple was dedicated with a membership of some 60 Jewish families, or a quarter (27%) of the towns population (some 600 persons of approximately 2,200) Ligoniers Jews were among all of the citys merchants, bankers, and professionals.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Miers banking interests expanded to Fort Wayne, as the Citizens Trust Company. He also financed the construction of trolley lines across Noble County. The Straus brothers (Straus Quality Farms) brokerage business, begun in 1860, became the largest in the United States, with offices in thirteen Midwestern states. The Straus brothers also established banks in six states and Ontario, Canada.</p><br>
<p>The Jewish community ssuccesses saw later generations move to larger cities, like Chicago, South Bend, Fort Wayne, and Toledo. By 1904, the community was so small that the temple was supported by a rabbi who traveled there weekly from South Bend. By 1920, the number of Jewish families in Ligonier had dwindled to 24. The Jewish Social Club closed in 1915; the Bnai B&#39;rith Lodge (1878) closed in (1936). After 1932, services were held in the temple only on High Holy Days.</p><br>
<p>Cromwell Historic District is a national historic district located at Cromwell, Noble County, Indiana. The district encompasses 33 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Cromwell. It developed between about 1875 and 1953, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Edwin Kline-DeMotte House , Forrest Henney/Henney Funeral Home , Hussey House , Kline Building-Maccabee Hall , Sparta State Bank , Smiths Hall/Knights of Pythias Hall , Pret Lung Meat Market , Calvary Lutheran  Church , and Biddles Bakery .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Rising Sun Historic District is a national historic district located at Rising Sun, Ohio County, Indiana. The district encompasses 322 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing objects in Rising Sun. It developed between about 1810 and 1955, and includes notable examples of Federal, Italianate, and Classical Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company buildings. Other notable contributing resources include the First Presbyterian Church , Ohio County Courthouse , Alexander C. Downey House , Rising Sun Cemetery , and Robert E. Covington House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company are two historic industrial buildings located at Rising Sun, Ohio County, Indiana. The main building consists of six interconnected buildings: the Whitlock Office , Whitlock Garage , Clore Wood Shop , Clore Machine Shop , the Forge , and the Engine Room . Also on the property is the Paint Shed . The Ohio County Historical Society has occupied the buildings since 1969.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The buildings are located in the Rising Sun Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Alvin O. Lombard House is a historic house at 65 Elm Street in Waterville, Maine. Built in 1908, it is a distinctive local example of late Shingle style architecture. It is further notable as the home of inventor Alvin O. Lombard, who developed the Lombard Steam Log Hauler, an early commercial use of track-propelled vehicles. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Alvin O. Lombard House is in downtown Waterville, on the east side of Elm Street just south of the public library, in an increasingly commercial area. It is a rambling -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof, shingled exterior, and stone foundation. Its front facade, facing west, is dominated by a projecting gabled section, which features a recessed porch flanked by polygonal windows bays, and a three-window recess in the upper part of the gable. A single-story porch extends across the front, and sweeps around to the side without a covering roof. A two-story carriage house of similar styling is attached to the northeastern corner; it has a square cupola at the top of its gambrel roof. The interior retains significant original decorative elements, despite its 1940s alteration into a multiunit residence.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908; its architect is not known. It was built for Alvin O. Lombard, a Waterville native, who lived there for the last third of his life. Lombard is credited with developing an early version of caterpillar tracks, a vehicular propulsion mechanism that eventually saw broad application in a variety of application, most notably in military vehicles and earthmoving equipment. The Lombard Steam Log Hauler was Lombard&#39;s effort to capitalize on this invention. He also patented a turbine water wheel control mechanism.</p><br>
<p>Jenkins Place are two historic homes and, together, a national historic district located at Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. The Rock and Lucie Jenkins House was built in 1908, and is a -story, American Foursquare brick dwelling., with Prairie School influences. The Ralph and Margaret Jenkins House was built in 1912, and is a -story, Bungalow / American Craftsman style frame dwelling. It has a steeply pitched roof covered in green tile. Other contributing resources include a garage, concrete corner posts, fencing, former goldfish pond, and two cisterns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Newby Braxtan House, also known as the Braxtan Inn, is a historic home located at Paoli, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1893, and is a -story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It sits on a sandstone foundation and has a semi-octagonal gabled projection. It features wooden ornamentation including fishscale shingles, fan-shaped corner braces, and turned posts on the rear porch. The house was first used as a hotel / boarding house in 1924, and continues as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1818, and the earliest marked burials date to the 1840s. The congregation played a significant role in the settlement of African Americans in Orange County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Lynd School, also known as the Stamper&#39;s Creek Township School #2, is a historic one-room school located in Stampers Creek Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built about 1900, and is a one-story, rectangular, frame building. It has a gable front facade topped by a small belfry and measures 24 feet wide and 36 feet long. It was renovated in 1925, and a kitchen / bathroom addition was built about 1970. The building remained in use as a school until 1964.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Dixie Garage, also known as the Nash Garage, is a historic automobile repair shop located at West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana. It was built between 1918 and 1920, and is a large one-story, brick building with a barrel vaulted roof. It is square in plan and features curved parapets and corner piers. Inside the building is a two-story, concrete block structure. The building housed an automobile repair shop until the late 1930s, after which it housed a skating rink, bottling plant, and wood manufacturer.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>West Baden National Bank, also known as Springs Valley Bank & Trust Company, is a historic bank building located at West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1917, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style reinforced concrete building sheathed in yellow brick with limestone detailing. It features a recessed entry with unfluted Ionic order columns in antis, large round-arched transom window, and a central parapet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Homestead Hotel, also known as the West Baden Springs Hotel, is a historic hotel building located at West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1913, and is a three-story, L-shaped, Classical Revival style brick building. It consists of a 22-bay main block connected to a two-story rear wing by a one-story solarium with a -story cubicle pavilion.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Homestead was built in 1913 as a hotel with shops on the first floor and hotel rooms on the upper floors. It was one of over two dozen hotels, inns, and rooming houses that came into existence in the early 20th century near Orange County. Prior to its opening, and other similar hotels around it, the high rates at both the French Lick Springs Hotel and the West Baden Springs Hotel had made the area only accessible to the wealthy. The hotel was purchased by the future owner of the West Baden Springs Hotel, Ed Ballard, in 1919 for $1. In 1934, the hotel was bought by Ballard&#39;s cousins and renamed to the West Baden Springs Hotel. During this time, the main entrance was redesigned to include a revolving door and Art Deco canopy. Until 1976, the building functioned as a hotel until it was bought by Northwood University and converted into a dormitory. The hotel was purchased again in 1984 by Eugene McDonald, who intended to return the building to its original function as a hotel. However, his effort was unsuccessful and the property was turned over to the county. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 2001, the Homestead Hotel underwent a successful restoration effort and was converted into senior housing.</p><br>
<p>The Oxford Hotel, also known as the West Baden Springs Hotel, is a historic hotel building located at West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana. It was built about 1910, and is a large three-story, rectangular, brick building. It features cast iron storefronts and a pitched roof with straight and stepped parapets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Orleans Historic District is a national historic district located at Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. The district encompasses 163 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 10 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Orleans. It developed between about 1837 and 1958, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Cornelius-Osborn Building , Magner-Lindsey Hotel , Roberts Building / Herle&#39;s Restaurant , Presbyterian Church , Methodist Episcopal Church , Bowles Building , Hollowell Brothers Building , Orleans Public Library , and Ashland Service Station .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Paoli Historic District is a national historic district located at Paoli, Orange County, Indiana. The district encompasses 144 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 4 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Paoli. It developed between about 1840 and 1940, and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Thomas Newby Braxtan House and Orange County Courthouse. Other notable contributing resources include Lithia Springs Park, Dr. J.H. Sherrod House , Gabbert House , Lithia Water Bottling Plant , Orange County Jail , USA Post Office , Presbyterian Church , Methodist Episcopal Church , Braxtan Store , Riley Building , Paoli State Bank , and Thomas Volney Thornton House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Gosport Historic District is a national historic district located at Gosport, Owen County, Indiana. The district encompasses 40 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 4 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Gosport. It developed between about 1835 and 1952, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Dr. H.G. Osgood House. Other notable contributing resources include the Bank of Gosport , Gosport Banking Company , Graham Building , Knights of Pythias Building / Opera House , Gosport Town Park , Gosport Tavern , Gosport Masonic Lodge No. 92 , and the Nazarene Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Harlan Courthouse Square Commercial District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Harlan, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 54 resources, including 38 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing object, 13 noncontributing buildings, and one noncontributing object. Cross-shaped in plan, the historic district covers most of the citys central business district in the original town plat. Most of the buildings are two-story, brick, commercial buildings. Commercial Italianate and Queen Anne styles are dominant. The Shelby County Courthouse  is a stone Richardsonian Romanesque structure. The courthouse square block and the four surrounding half blocks and rear alleys constitute the contributing site. The Soldiers Monument on the square is the contributing object, and the POW/MIA Monument is the noncontributing object because of its more recent construction.</p><br>
<p>Dr. H. G. Osgood House, also known as the Mina Jane Ahlemeyer Property, is a historic home located at Gosport, Owen County, Indiana. The main section of the house was built between about 1860 and 1880, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, Italianate style frame residence. It has the original two-story rear wing, built about 1850, and one-story wing. Also on the property are the contributing English barn / carriage barn and privy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is located in the Gosport Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Allison-Robinson House, also known as the John C. Robinson House, is a historic home located at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. It was built between about 1855 and 1860, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, frame vernacular Greek Revival style I-house. It has a central passage plan and medium pitched roof. The front facade features a central two-story, one-bay entrance portico with fluted Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing section of retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Bowers Covered Bridge  is a historic covered bridge, carrying Bible Hill Road across Mill Brook in the Brownsville section of West Windsor, Vermont. Built in 1919, it has a laminated-arch deck covered by a post-and-beam superstructure, similar to Bests Covered Bridge, Windsors other historic covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was rebuilt after being swept off its foundation in 2011 by Hurricane Irene, but has been damaged by vehicle strikes several times since then, and is being considered for closure.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bowers Covered Bridge is located in southern West Windsor, carrying Bible Hill Road across Mill Brook between Vermont Route 44 and Harrington and Westgate Roads. The bridge is 45 ft long and 15 ft wide, with a roadway width of 12.5 ft (one lane). The bridge is a single span laminated arch structure resting on unmortared stone abutments, and covered by a post-and-beam shed. Its sides are finished in vertical board siding, and its roof is corrugated metal. Wooden floor stringers are supported by iron rods and wooden posts attached to the arches.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1919. It is one of two bridges in the town, and only one of three known in the state to use this type of laminated arch construction. The bridge was swept off its abutments by Hurricane Irene 2011, but rebuilt and reopened in 2012. It has since been struck several times by larger vehicles, resulting in structural damage. As of April 2016, the town is considering closing the bridge to traffic.</p><br>
<p>David Enoch Beem House, also known as the "Beem Mansion," is a historic home located in Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. Built in 1874, the large, two-story, Italianate-style residence is named after its original owner, David Enoch Beem, a local lawyer and banker, and his family. The T-plan, brick dwelling rests on a rusticated Indiana limestone foundation and arched openings framed in limestone. It features a three-story, central tower at the entrance with a steeply pitched mansard roof. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Shelby Consolidated School, also known as Shelby-Tenant Community School, is a historic building located in Shelby, Iowa, United States. The first school in Shelby was organized in 1870. In 1919 the Consolidated Independent School District of Shelby was created from eight school districts. This building replaced an 1899 structure on the same site. It was designed by the Omaha architectural firm of John Latenser & Sons. The brick, three-story, U-shaped Neoclassical-inspired structure is typical of the many "school buildings that made Latenser a highly respected name in school architecture in the early twentieth century." It is also the only known extant building designed by the firm in Western Iowa. The facility is a fine example of consolidated school design that state officials, prominent school architects, and education professionals advocated for at the time it was built. A new gymnasium was added in 1975. The Shelby-Tenant Community School District was discontinued in 2004, and this building was left vacant. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, and converted into an apartment building called the Cardinal Lofts.</p><br>
<p>Moffett-Ralston House, also known as the John C. Robinson House, is a historic home located in Lafayette Township, Owen County, Indiana. It was built in 1864, and expanded and modified about 1870. It is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival / Italian Villa style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof with brackets and a rebuilt ornate porch with balustrade. It was renovated in the early-1970s. It was a boyhood home of Governor and Senator Samuel M. Ralston.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Maine Industrial School for Girls, also once known as the Stevens School and the State School for Girls in Hallowell, is a former juvenile detention and education facility on Winthrop Street in Hallowell, Maine. The school operated from its founding in 1874 until the mid-1970s. Its campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, housed a variety of state offices, and a state Department of Corrections pre-release center until 2003 when the state put the complex up for sale and began moving offices off campus. The site remained unsold until 2016, when it was purchased by Mastway Development, LLC of Winthrop, Maine. Since then the main building has been completely renovated to serve as a 36-bed student dormitory for the University of Maine at Augusta which opened in August 2019.</p><br>
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<p>The former Maine Industrial School for Girls campus is located just northwest of downtown Hallowell, on the north side of Winthrop Street. It occupies about 6 acre, set on an east-facing hillside overlooking the downtown and the Kennebec River beyond. The campus buildings are generally rectangular brick structures, aligned with the long axis running north–south. They are organized around a central grassy area. The oldest surviving building, located near the southeastern edge of the campus, dates to 1898. The most prominent buildings are the former Central Building (1917–19) on the east side of the green, and Stevens Hall (1936–38) on the west side. Most of the buildings have some measure of Colonial Revival styling, although the 1898 Baker Building has an Italianate corbelled cornice. The 1905-06 Administration was designed by Lewiston architect William R. Miller.</p><br>
<p>The school was established by an act of the state legislature in 1874, as a place where "wayward girls" could be given a proper moral education, in a facility similar to one that had previously been established for boys. It was roughly modeled on the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls in Massachusetts. The school was at first considered to be a nominally secure educational facility or reform school, and not a correctional facility. This view evolved over time, and by the time of its closure in the 1970s it was viewed more as a penal institution.</p><br>
<p>The schools earliest buildings were either destroyed by fire or torn down. Following the schools closure, its buildings were repurposed by the state to house offices of some of its departments. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Following closure of the Stevens School in the mid-1970s, the buildings were repurposed for state offices until 2003 when state put the complex up for sale and began moving offices off campus. The site remained unsold until 2016, when it was purchased by Mastway Development, LLC. By this time, most of the long vacant buildings, considered an eyesore by the community, has suffered from neglect and considerable deferred maintenance. The Administration Building was the first rehabilitation project to be completed at the Stevens School campus in 2018 using state and federal historic tax credits. The building is now professional office space on the first floor with four apartments filling the upper stories. In 2018 Mastway Development also collaborated with the city to site and build a new Hallowell Fire Station on the campus. The City of Hallowell has contributed to the rehabilitation of the campus with more than a half million dollars in infrastructure improvements funded by a citizen-supported bond issue.</p><br>
<p>Erskine Hall, sitting at the head of the common green will house the second student housing building for University of Maine at Augusta with accommodations for 47 more students in the Fall of 2020. The former dormitory building is being converted into new apartments with classic finishes and modern amenities, porches, patios and student lounges. This building abuts Stevens Hall which currently houses 36 students from the University of Maine at Augusta. Next door to Erskine Hall is the Central Commons building which will boast 29 new apartments through CHOM, Community Housing of Maine&#39;s affordable senior housing project opening in 2020. Behind Erskine Hall is the Flagg Dummer building, which is under development for housing.</p><br>
<p>The Theron Boyd Homestead is a historic farm property on Hillside Road in Hartford, Vermont. The centerpieces of the 30 acre property are a house and barn, each built in 1786. The house, little altered since its construction, is one of the finest early Federal period houses in the state. The property is owned by the state, which has formulated plans to open it has a historic site. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
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<p>The Theron Boyd Homestead is located in western Hartford, about 1 mi of the village of Quechee. The property is bounded on the east by Quechee Main Street, the north by Wheelock Road, and Hillside Road runs east-west through the southern portion of the property. The property includes a combination of open fields and woodlands, with the main cluster of buildings found on either side of Hillside Road. The barn is set close the south side of the street; it is a five-bay gable-roofed wooden structure, finished in vertical board siding. The house stands a short way northwest of the barn; it is a two-story structure, with a hip roof, large central chimney, clapboard siding, and a rubblestone foundation capped by dressed fieldstones. The street-facing front facade is five bays wide, with an enlarged center bay flanked by sash windows in the more closely spaced bays on the sides. The center entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and cornice. The building corners have narrow Federal style beaded molding. The interior has many well-preserved period features, including doors with original hardware, wooden panels, early 19th-century wallpaper, and even instances of marbleized paint on some surfaces. Differences in construction material (principally nails) suggest that the interior was not completely finished until the early 19th century. A brick ell, dating to the early 1800s extends to the north of the main block. The house has never been fitted with modern utilities such as plumbing or electricity.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1786 for William Burtch, a prominent Hartford businessman whose father, Benjamin Burtch, first settled the land in 1766. From the early 1920s to about 1981, the 30-acre parcel now associated with the house was owned by Theron Boyd, who steadfastly resisted efforts to either subdivide the property or to modernize the house. In the 1980s, the property was transferred in portions to the Vermont Land Trust, which turned it over to the state in 1990. The state is in 2016 working to rehabilitate the house and prepare the property as a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Riggs-Zorach House is a historic house in the Robinhood area of Georgetown, Maine. Built in the early 19th century for a local state legislator, it is an excellent local example of Federal/Greek Revival period architecture. It is most prominent as the home of artists Marguerite Thompson Zorach and William Zorach in the mid-20th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The Riggs-Zorach House stands near the end of Stone Bridge Lane in Robinhood, a hamlet in northeastern Georgetown on the banks of the Sasanoa River. The house is set on 22 acre and oriented with a view toward the water. It consists of a -story main block, to which a series of additional structures (ell, carriage barn, and barn) are connected, giving the entire structure a W shape. The main block has a combination of Federal and Greek Revival features, with narrow Federal period molding around its windows, and a Greek Revival entrance surround. The building is covered by gabled roofs, with clapboard siding and a granite foundation. The interior has Federal period wood paneling and detailing on its main staircase.</p><br>
<p>The house was built sometime in the first three decades of the 19th century by James Riggs, the son of Benjamin Riggs, who came to the area in the 1770s. The younger Riggs was a merchant who also served one term as a state legislator. The house remained in the Riggs family roughly through the end of the 19th century, and was abandoned for about 20 years. In 1923, it was purchased by William and Marguerite Zorach. William was a Lithuanian immigrant and sculptor, whose works, as well as those of his wife, a prominent Fauve and post-modernist painter and textiles artist, have been displayed in major American museums. The house served as the Zorachs&#39; summer studio until his death in 1966.</p><br>
<p>The Maine Insane Hospital, later the Augusta Mental Health Institute , was a psychiatric hospital in Augusta, Maine. It was the principal facility for the care and treatment of Maines mentally ill from 1840 to 2004, and its surviving buildings represent the oldest surviving complex of mental care facilities in the United States. The complex is located on the east bank of the Kennebec River, immediately south of the former Kennebec Arsenal, and now primarily houses state offices. In 2004, the hospital was replaced by the Riverview Psychiatric Center, located just to the south. The hospitals core complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with the listing enlarged to encompass the entire campus in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>The Maine Insane Hospital is located on Augustas east side bounded on the east by Hospital Street and the west by the Kennebec River, which separates the hospital from the state capitol complex. The National Historic Landmark Kennebec Arsenal, a former federal military facility, lies just to the north, and the modern complex of the Riverview Psychiatric Center is located just to the south. The hospital complex is a sprawling collection of buildings, most built of brick or stone, dating from the hospitals founding in 1840 to the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>On March 8, 1834, the legislature passed resolve to establish the Maine Insane Hospital by the appropriation of $20,000 upon condition that a like sum be raised by individual subscription within one year. Before the expiration of the time limit, Hon. Reuel Williams of Augusta and Hon. Benjamin Brown of Vassalboro contributed $10,000 each for the purpose. Subsequently Mr. Brown offered as a site 200 acres of land on the Kennebec in the town of Vassalboro which the legislature accepted, but which was not considered a suitable location, and the land with Mr. Brown&#39;s consent was sold by the state for $4,000, and the more suitable site in Augusta was purchased with $3,000 of this money. Mental health advocate Dorothea Dix was a consultant on the project, believing fresh air and removal from the stresses of society were important for patient care. Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC), Riverview’s sister hospital, is named after this early advocate for Maine’s mental health services in Maine.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Cyrus Knapp was the first Superintendent of the Hospital (12/28/1840 Report on the Warrant in Favor of Dr. Cyrus Knapp, Superintendent of the Insane Hospital; Maine State Archives File – Box 86, Folder 25). From 1841 to 1845, psychiatrist Dr. Isaac Ray served as the hospital&#39;s superintendent. In that role Ray was one of the original thirteen founding members of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane.</p><br>
<p>Names: Maine Insane Hospital (1840); Augusta Insane Asylum (date of this change, unknown); Augusta State Hospital (1913); Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) 1973; Riverview Psychiatric Center (2004)</p><br>
<p>Numerous buildings and new wings were added over the years to the Hospital campus. By 1920, the total area of the hospital property, including the farm and grounds, was approximately 600 acres, of which 450 acres were under cultivation. Patients worked on the farm and in the laundry. The buildings are reflective of changing trends in the treatment of the mentally ill over that period of time. The oldest portions of the complex are known as the Administration and Stone Buildings. Now at the center of a series of connected buildings, they were built in 1836–40 to a design by Hallowell architect John Lord. To these were added stepped wings (in keeping with the then fashionable Kirkbride Plan) in the 1850s and 1860s; these were designed by Francis H. Fassett, with later alterations designed by George M. Coombs. In the 1880s, when "pavilion housing" prevailed as the preferred method for housing the mentally ill, a number of smaller outlying buildings were added, based on a master plan developed by Francis Fassett in the 1870s. The pavilion housing plan proved uneconomical for the large numbers of patients, and dormitory-style buildings were built, combining patient wings, housing for workers, and an administrative hub. The campus also includes a number of utilititarian service buildings, and was landscaped to provide an attractive environment to the patients.</p><br>
<p>The complex remained in continuous use until 2004, when the Riverview Psychiatric Center went into operation. As the patient population declined in the 20th century, spurred in part by changing trends in treatment methods, elements of the complex were repurposed to other uses, primarily state offices.</p><br>
<p>The Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House is a historic house at 517 Depot Street in Chester, Vermont. Built in 1868 for a local businessman, it is a fine local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture. It has historically served both commercial and residential functions, and now contains apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
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<p>The Blaisdell House stands in the village of Chester Depot, at the southwest corner of Depot Street and Railroad Avenue. It is prominently sited on a rise overlooking the village. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of stone and concrete blocks. The main facade faces east, and is five bays wide, with three bays in the attic level. A single-story porch extends across the front, its posts set on pedestals and joined at the top by a valence. Windows on the front and sides are sash, topped by distinctive low gabled caps. Near the peak of the gable is a round-arch opening that has been enclosed. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block. The interior of the building, now divided into multiple residential units, still retains a significant amount of period styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1868 for Augustus and Laura Blaisdell, natives of New Hampshire who moved here in 1860. The Blaisdells operated a company that manufactured fireproof roofing and paint at their home base in New Hampshire, and built this building on a prominent site in the village to promote sales, which were conducted from a storefront on its ground floor. The land and building were both owned by Laura Blaisdell, and were willed to Augustus upon her death in 1888. He closed the company store and sold the property in 1891. The building saw a variety of uses, at times exclusively residential, but often with a business component, for most of the 20th century. The house is architecturally distinctive in the village for its unique combination of Italianate and Greek Revival features.</p><br>
<p>Nantmeal Village Historic District is an American unincorporated community and historic district located in East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, in the USA state of Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 740 acres with 69 contributing buildings and 9 other contributing sites and structures, all privately owned. The structures span from 1735 to 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
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<p>This rural district consists of Nantmeal Village and surrounding agricultural and wooded land in the vicinity of Nantmeal, Fairview, Coventryville, and Horseshoe Trail Roads in East Nantmeal Township, extending less than a mile in any direction from the district center. The population of the entire township was only 1,800 in 2014, making East Nantmeal one of the least populated municipalities in fast-growing Chester County. With only 48 noncontributing structures in the historic district, the village has retained much of its rural character.</p><br>
<p>European colonists settled the area circa 1735, when David Stephens built the surviving log section of the Abraham Prizer House, the oldest historic resource in the district. The district includes a mix of residential, commercial, agricultural, and cultural sites, including a smithy and cabinetry shop from 1760, a general store from 1820, a former schoolhouse from 1861, a Quaker meetinghouse (demolished circa 1885) and cemetery, and dozens of historic homes, barns, springhouses, privies, and other structures, along with stone ruins. The most salient feature is the Nantmeal United Methodist Church, constructed in 1852 and renovated in 1902 in the Gothic Revival style. The buildings reflect a range of vernacular architectural styles, notably Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian, plus a handful of Italianate structures, notably the parsonage.</p><br>
<p>A post office called Nantmeal Village was established in 1876 and remained in operation until 1918.</p><br>
<p>Bridge 15, also known locally as the River Bridge, spans the White River in Sharon, Vermont. Built in 1928, this multi-span Parker truss bridge is one of a shrinking number of White River crossings of this type. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
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<p>Bridge 15 is located in central Sharon, west of the village center. It spans the White River at a point upstream from a southward bend in the river, with the river flowing roughly north of east at the crossing point. The bridge connects Vermont Route 14 on the north side to River Road and Station Road on the south side. It has three spans, the central one a Parker truss 220 ft in length. The outer spans are of steel girder construction, and give the structure a total length of 324 ft. The bridge has a width of 22 ft, with a roadway width of 20 ft (two lanes). The Parker truss has a central depth of 37 ft, and a portal depth of 14 ft.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1928, following devastating 1927 floods that destroyed more than 1,200 bridges in the state. The Parker truss was one of the standardized designs adopted by the state for spans of this length. The bridge was built on the site where bridges have stood since 1869, providing the only access within Sharon between parts separated by the river. The bridge that was washed away in 1927 was probably also a metal truss span, documented in a 1909 photograph. At one time there were five Parker truss bridges spanning the river in Sharon and its neighboring communities; at the time of this bridge&#39;s listing on the National Register, only three survived. One of those, the National Register-listed West Hartford Bridge, was replaced by a modern structure in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Fairview City Jail is a former jail building located in Handy Park at 120 1st Street in Fairview, Oregon, in the United States. It was built in 1915, next to the old Fairview City Hall at 60 Main Street. It is a simple, rectangular, concrete building, 10 feet by 20 feet, with 8 foot high walls painted grey. It has a low-pitched concrete slab roof with shallow gable ends. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Rockport Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Rockport, Maine. Arrayed around the head of its harbor, the town&#39;s most significant period of development was in the mid 19th century, because of lime processing and other industries. The town has a well-preserved collection of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture from that period. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>The area that is now Rockport was originally part of Megunticook Plantation, which was settled in the 1760s and incorporated as Camden in 1791. The Rockport area was called Goose River, but was renamed Rockport in 1852 and separated from Camden in 1891. Its small harbor was an early shipbuilding center, and in the 19th century became an important center of ice harvesting and the extraction of lime. Its fortunes declined late in the 19th century, but were boosted by the start of the summer tourist trade.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is arrayed along a series of roads that curve around the head of Rockport&#39;s harbor. Its principal roads are Pascal Avenue, from School Street in the west to Main Street, Main Street from Summer to Central Streets, and Central Street and Russell Avenues to Winter Street. The district further extends a short distance along streets that cross these, and include clusters of residential streets north of Pascal and east of Main Street. It covers 70 acre and includes 127 buildings. The majority of them are wood frame residences, in some combination of Greek Revival and Italianate styling. Prominent commercial buildings include the 1835 Granite Block on Main Street, and the Romanesque brick Carleton-Shepherd Block, built in 1891.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall is a historic civic building at Church and West School Streets in Oakland, Maine. It was built in 1870 as a memorial to the community&#39;s American Civil War dead. It is a remarkably sophisticated example of Italian-Gothic architecture for a rural community, expensive to build, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
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<p>Oaklands Memorial Hall stands in the towns main village, at the southeast corner of Church and West School Streets. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of stone with brick trim, and covered by a hip roof. A gabled entry projects from its western facade, flanked by tall sash windows in segmented-arch openings, with mini-gables in the roofline above. The entry section has a steeply pitched gable, with a rounded-arch recess housing a stained glass rose window at its top, and a further recessed wide entry below. The corners of the entry projection are buttressed, and the building corners exhibit brick quoining. The interior is divided into an entry foyer and meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built through the efforts of a local Soldiers Memorial Association, and was designed by the noted ecclesiastical architect Thomas Silloway. Construction was begun in 1870, but was not completed until 1873, due to the repeated need to raise funds to continue and then complete construction. (The population of the town was just 1,500 at the time.) The hall was transferred by the Association to the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1887, and is now owned by the town. It is an impressive example of Italian-Gothic architecture, unusual for such a small community.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgewater Corners Bridge carries Vermont Route 100A across the Ottauquechee River in the Bridgewater Corners village of Bridgewater, Vermont. It was built in 1928 by the American Bridge Company, following devastating flooding. It is a single-span Pratt through truss structure, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
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<p>The Bridgewater Corners Bridge stands just south of United States Route 4 on Route 100A, and just east of the Long Trail Brewing Company plant. It is a single-span Pratt through truss, 111 ft in length and 21.6 ft in width, resting on rusticated poured concrete abutments. It carries the road about 15 ft above the river, and has a portal clearance of 15.1 ft. The truss elements are of lighter weight than other bridges of the period, and its trusses are fastened by rivets. The deck is corrugated metal, supported by rolled I-beams.</p><br>
<p>The state of Vermont was devastated by flooding in 1927, which destroyed a large number of bridges. This bridge was built the following year by the American Bridge Company, and is based on a standardized design used for many of the bridges built in the period. It deviates from these in being shorter than typical for Pratt through trusses, and in its use of lighter-weight materials.</p><br>
<p>Secrest-Wampler House, also known as the James Secrest House, is a historic home located in Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana. It was built in 1859, and is a two-story, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a one-story rear ell, and the front facade features a two-story portico. The house was restored in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The old Spencer Public Library is a former public library and historic Carnegie library located at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. It was built in 1912, and is a one-story, three-bay, American Craftsman style brick building on a raised basement. It has a low-pitched hipped roof and projecting entry bay. It was constructed with a $10,000 grant provided by the Carnegie Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The building ceased its function as a public library in 1997. The Owen County Heritage & Culture Center occupies the space today. Currently, Owen County Public Library operates the only library branch in Owen County at 10 S. Montgomery St. in Spencer</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Spencer Town Hall and Fire Station is a historic town hall and fire station located at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. It was built in 1897–1898, and is a two-story, rectangular, Romanesque Revival style limestone building with a corner bell tower. It measures 24 feet wide and 61 feet long and has a hipped roof. The building was used for municipal purposes until 1975. In 2005, the building housed law offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Ropes End is a historic summer house at 36 Hyde Road in Phippsburg, Maine. Built c. 1898, it is a fine local example of Shingle style architecture, built as part of a small summer colony developed by Joseph R. Bodwell. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>Ropes End stands on the east side of Hyde Road, near its end, in the Small Point area of far southern Phippsburg. It is a rambling three-story wood-frame structure, with a shingled exterior and a fieldstone foundation. It has a central rectangular mass, covered by a gabled roof, from which there are several projections. The most prominent of these is a polygonal tower at the southeast corner, which is topped by a pyramidal turret. From this, a shed-roof porch wraps around the east side, joining to a set of ells on the north side that include a garage at the northwest corner.</p><br>
<p>The area on the east side of Cape Small Point was owned by members of the Lowell family as farmland for much of the 19th century. In 1885 Abner Lowell sold his farm to Joseph R. Bodwell, who proceeded to subdivide the area for development as a summer colony, hoping to replicate the success of similar development at Bar Harbor. Lots were primarily purchased by people from Bath; this house was built for William and Mary Reed of Boston, Massachusetts. Reed was a founding member of the Small Point Club, the social center of the colony. The property name derives from one of its 20th century owners, the Ropes family of Minneapolis, Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The Mill Agents House is a historic house at Maine State Route 32 and Priest Hill Road in North Vassalboro, Maine. Built in 1851 for the manager overseeing the villages textile mill, it is a large and distinctive example of Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Mill Agent&#39;s House stands in the center of the village of North Vassalboro, on a large landscaped lot at the southeast corner of SR 32 and Priest Hill Road, and diametrically opposite the intersection from the mill complex. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. Its main facade faces west, and is dominated by an off-center projecting gabled portico, with Doric columns supporting an entablature and pedimented gable. There are two window bays to the left of the portico, and three to the right. A single-story porch extends across the other portions of the front and around to the north side, where there is a secondary facade facing Priest Hill Road. The right side of the porch on the main facade has been enclosed, and the supports on the left portion are replacement Colonial Revival columns.</p><br>
<p>The North Vassalboro Manufacturing Woolen Company was founded in 1836, and built this house in 1851 for Thomas Lang, son of the founder and the overseeing agent for the operation. The house was sold by the mill ownership in 1955, and served for a time as a nursing home before becoming a private residence.</p><br>
