<p>Archibald M. Kennedy House is a historic home located near Rushville, Indiana in Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana. It was built in 1864 by Archibald M. Kennedy, and is a two-story, five-bay, painted brick Italianate style dwelling. It has a gable roof and pediment and -story rear wing. It features a two-story front porch supported by square columns and arched supports and arched openings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1983, as part of a multiple property submission covering six bridges built by the Kennedy family firm.</p><br>
<p>Second St. Joseph Hotel is a historic hotel building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1868, and is a three-story, Federal style brick building. It is the oldest extant commercial building in the city of South Bend. It was used as a hotel until 1876, after which it housed a variety of commercial enterprises. It is located next to the John G. Kerr Company building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>John G. Kerr Company is a historic commercial building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1891, and is a three-story, Italianate style brick building. It has round arched windows and a cast iron storefront, and is located next to the Second St. Joseph Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Since 1976, it has been the home of Griffon Games and Bookstore. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Berteling Building,  is a historic commercial building located at 228 West Colfax, South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1905, and is a three-story, Commercial style brick building. A small two-story, rear addition was constructed prior to 1917. The building originally housed office space for several doctors. It is located next to the Commercial Building. It is significant as one of the oldest commercial buildings in South Bend.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Commercial Building is a historic commercial building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1921–1922, and is a small two-story, red brick building with terra cotta trim. The building has housed a number of small commercial enterprises. It is located between the Berteling Building and I&M Building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Summers–Longley Building, also known as the Grace Building, is a historic double house located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1910, and is a two-story, Classical Revival red brick building with limestone trim. It features a recessed central entrance. The building was originally built as a double house, but has been converted to commercial uses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Morey House is a historic apartment house located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1909, and is a large -story, building with a brick first story and stuccoed upper stories in an American Craftsman vernacular style. It has an irregular plan and features two small square porches with balconies on the corners of the front facade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Citizens Bank is a historic bank building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1913, and is a six-story, three-bay, Commercial style brick building with a terra cotta front facade. A rear addition was constructed in 1923. At the central entrance bay is a front portico supported by Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>W.R. Hinkle and Co. is a historic automobile showroom located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1922, and is a two-story, rectangular, yellow brick building with terra cotta trim. It is seven bays wide and has a one-story addition. It features narrow terra cotta piers that extend into pointed finials. The building and its owner were featured in the September 23, 1946 edition of Life Magazine.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Hoffman Hotel is a historic hotel building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1930, and is a 12-story, red brick building with limestone trim and terra cotta mosaic tile panels in an eclectic style. It originally housed 21 small apartments and 150 hotel rooms. It is located next to the LaSalle Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>LaSalle Hotel is a historic hotel building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1921, and originally housed 223 hotel rooms. It is a nine-story, Commercial style brick building with terra cotta trim and a wide overhanging cornice. It is located next to the Hoffman Hotel and across the street from where the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad&#39;s original South Bend station were once located. A tunnel connected the station and the hotel.</p><br>
<p>The LaSalle Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>LaSalle Annex is a historic multi-use commercial building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a three to four-story, six bay by eight bay, building constructed of concrete, stone, and brick. It features an Italianate style tower and round arched openings. It was originally built as a multi-use building containing stores, a parking structure, hotel rooms, bachelor apartments, and a variety of large recreational facilities including a roller rink, dance floor, and bowling alley. It was originally built as an annex to the LaSalle Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Blackstone-State Theater is a historic theatre building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1919, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style brick and terra cotta building. The first floor has four storefronts and the theatre entrance. The upper floors form a loggia that rises to the fourth floor and supported by four pairs of fluted columns. The theater originally sat 2,500 patrons.</p><br>
<p>The theater was closed between 1977 and 1994, and it closed again in 2016.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>South Bend Central High School  is a historic high school complex located at 303 West Colfax Avenue in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA. It was built between 1911 and 1913, and is a two- to three-story, eclectic red brick building with limestone trim. It sits on a raised foundation. Located behind the main building is a two-story former Vocational Building, built about 1918, that was incorporated into the main building in 1928. The school closed as a high school in 1970. The building was later used for middle school classes and adult education programs.</p><br>
<p>The school was known for strong academics, top athletic teams and school spirit. The Central Bears basketball team won two Indiana state championships, four semi-state championships, 12 regional championships, and 28 sectional championships. Famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden coached basketball and baseball teams for nine years at Central, before entering the United States Navy. The school&#39;s basketball team was featured in the 1986 film Hoosiers as the fictional team that lost the 1952 Indiana state championship basketball game to the fictional Hickory High School, which in the film had an enrollment of 64 students. The film was based on the 1954 Milan High School basketball team, which did win the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship in 1954. With an enrollment of only 161, Milan was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating a team from the much larger Muncie Central High School in a classic game known as the Milan Miracle.</p><br>
<p>The South Central school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, the building was converted into 106 apartments, each with a unique floor plan containing features preserved from the original building, including a part of the old school gym that still bears the original painted floor lines in one apartment; another has a sunken living room which was a part of the school&#39;s indoor pool with depth markings intact. Several other apartments have original classroom chalkboards on the walls. The complex, which is privately owned, is known as.</p><br>
<p>All American Bank Building is a historic bank building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style Indiana limestone building. It was designed by Chicago architects Vitzthum & Burns. The first floor has large round-arched openings, above which are Corinthian order pilasters that separate a continuous series of windows. The All American Bank occupied the building until 1970.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Morey-Lampert House or Rose-Morey-Lamport House is a historic home located at South Bend, Indiana, United States. It is located in the West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The home is designated a national historic landmark on the National Register of Historic Places (since 1985),</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1895, and is a -story, Queen Anne style dwelling. The first story is of sandstone ashlar and the second story is sheathed in wood shingles. It features a wraparound porch and round corner tower topped by a conical roof.</p><br>
<p>The home was built as the residence of Dr. George P. Morey and his wife, Frances Helen Rose Morey, between 1894 and 1896.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Morey was born in Orleans County in western New York in 1844. He served as a Private in the Union Army during the Civil War and remained active in Grand Army of the Republic gatherings in South Bend into the 20th Century.</p><br>
<p>Frances Helen Rose Morey died on July 30, 1896, having lived in the home for only a few months. A daughter, Frances Claire Morey, died as a young girl. Dr. Morey and his other daughter, Helene Rose Morey continued to live in the house until 1908 when Dr. Morey gave it to Helene Rose Morey and her new husband, William Keyes Lamport, as a wedding gift. After William Lamport died in 1948, Helene Rose Morey Lamport continued to live in her childhood home until the mid-1950s.</p><br>
<p>Helene Rose Morey Lamport died August 22, 1963, in Westport, Connecticut where she was living with her daughter Helen Morey Lamport Ogle. William Keyes Lamport was the first managing editor of the South Bend Tribune and later in the 1920s founding partner of Lamport, Fox, Prell and Dolk a notable advertising firm in South Bend and the upper Midwest.</p><br>
<p>Helene Lamport sold the house in the mid-1950s, and the home has since witnessed several uses – as offices, as a bed and breakfast, and currently returning to its original use as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The two generations of family who first lived there – Dr. Morey, Frances Helen Rose Morey, their son-in-law William Lamport, and his wife Helene Rose – each contribute to the name the house is currently known as, the Rose-Morey-Lamport-House.</p><br>
<p>Among the earliest of the larger mansions in South Bend, Indiana, the local historic preservation commission refers to the home an “outstanding example of the Queen Anne style.”</p><br>
<p>The home contains a large stained glass window that was a medal winner at the Chicago World&#39;s Fair in 1893. Dr. Morey purchased the window for $2,800 (approximately $74,000 in 2015 dollars) and had it installed along a west facing wall in order to catch light from the setting sun. Both it and a smaller window, known as “Mignon,” are in the home today.</p><br>
<p>South Bend Remedy Company Building is a historic building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story, transitional Queen Anne / Classical Revival style brick and limestone building. It features a recessed entrance, round turret topped by a conical roof, and a wide frieze band of garlands and torches. It was built to house the offices and laboratory for the South Bend Remedy Company, a mail order patent medicine business. It was moved to 501 W. Colfax Ave. in 1988, and then to 402 W. Washington St. in 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and again in 2001. It is located in the West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The J. M. S. Building is a historic office building located at 108 North Main Street, South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) and built in 1910. It is an eight-story, Commercial style brick and white terra cotta building with Classical Revival style design elements. It features large round arched windows at the eighth floor and a projecting cornice with brackets on the front facade. The J.M.S. Building was built by John Studebaker (1833–1917), co-founder and later executive of what would become the Studebaker Corporation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Third St. Joseph County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was designed by architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1897. It is a -story, Classical Revival style stone and granite building. It features a large dome at the cross-axis of the gable roof, a paired column portico, and center pavilion and clock in the tympanum of the pediment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Farmers Security Bank, also known as the First Bank Building, is a historic bank building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1915, and is a six-story, Commercial style dark brown brick building with terra cotta trim. It has a two-story rectangular plan, which forms an "H" on the four upper stories.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Old Courthouse, also known as the Second St. Joseph County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was designed by architect John M. Van Osdel  and built in 1853. It is a two-story, Greek Revival style stone building. The building measures 61 feet wide and 93 feet deep. It features a projecting front portico supported by Doric order columns and a front gable roof topped by a cupola. It was moved to its present site in 1896. Following construction of the Third St. Joseph County Courthouse, the building housed the local G.A.R. chapter and historical museum. The building now houses office of the Traffic and Misdemeanor Court and Small Claims Court.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is located in the West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Horatio Chapin House, or simply, the Chapin House, is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built between 1855 and 1857 by Horatio Chapin, one of the early settlers of South Bend and the first president of the board of town trustees. The house consists of a -story, cross-plan, Gothic Revival style frame dwelling, a rare example of its kind in the region. It&#39;s considered an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture influenced by architect Andrew Jackson Downing. It is sheathed in board and batten siding and features lancet windows and a steeply pitched cross-gable roof with an elaborately carved bargeboard. The Chapin House is widely recognized as one of the most significant homes in the state of Indiana, and in 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Horatio Chapin was an American pioneer and a pioneer settler of South Bend, Indiana. A native of Massachusetts, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1822. In 1831, Chapin travelled by pony along Native American trails to reach a trading post known then simply as the "south bend" in the St. Joseph River of northern Indiana. He set up the first general store of the region, and also helped establish the first church and Sunday school for residents. With the incorporation of the town of South Bend in 1835, he became the first president of the board of town trustees. A businessman and later banker in both South Bend and Chicago, Chapin became one of the wealthier members of the town. In 1855, he began to develop an estate just north of the city center, which eventually developed into the Chapin Park National Historic District, where his imposing Gothic Revival mansion, now known as the Horatio Chapin House, is located. In 1867 Chapin served as the founding president of the St Joseph County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>At the time of construction, the Chapin House was located just outside the city on land that became known as Chapins Park or Chapins Grove. The estate extended from present-day Navarre street to the St Joseph River. Chapin had lived in the house only five years when, in 1862, he moved to Chicago to become a manager of the private banking house of Chapin, Wheeler & Company. He retired two years later, then returned to his Gothic residence in South Bend, where he lived until his death in 1871. Following Chapins death, the property was divided between two children along the estates old carriage road, which became Park Avenue. Chapin&#39;s children further divided their respective properties, contributing to the development of a neighborhood along Park Avenue. In 1888, the Chapin House was purchased by a local businessman and building contractor, Christopher Fassnacht. Fassnacht moved the Chapin house a half block to the east and south of its original location, and divided the remaining property of the estate into lots for a neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>When Fassnacht moved the house, he turned it 9O degrees so that the front facade, which originally faced Navarre Street(at that time known as Perry Street), now faced Park Avenue. In addition, he remodeled the house, rebuilt the kitchen wing on the west side, and</p><br>
<p>in 1910, added a glass-enclosed carport. He also added Queen Anne style shingle and clapboard siding on the first level. Fassnacht died in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Today, this neighborhood comprises the core of the Chapin Park Historic District. Several homes in the district are connected to the Chapin House, including three homes built by relatives of Horatio Chapin, as well as two homes built for children of Christopher Fassnacht, all of which are still standing.</p><br>
<p>Chauncey N. Lawton House, also known as the office of Diamond & Diamond Attorneys at Law, is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1872, and is a two-story, asymmetrical plan, Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It features a three-story tower; round arched openings; polygonal bays; and paired, scrolled, and incised brackets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Leeper Jr. House, also known as the Leeper-Kline House, is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1888, and is a two-story, vernacular brick dwelling with rear additions. It has a gable roof and features a wraparound porch supported by nine round Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Dille-Probst House, also known as the Colonel Otto Probst House, is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1888, and is a -story, "T"-plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a brick veneer. It has a steeply pitched hipped roof and features a polygonal tower and Eastlake movement style front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Martin Hoban House is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1896, and is a -story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It has a cross-gable roof and sits on a granite and limestone foundation. It features a two-story projecting bay, round arched windows, and a one-story hip roofed front porch supported by Tuscan order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Sommerer House is a historic home located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built about 1875, and consists of a two-story, rectangular main block with a one-story wing and two-story ell. It is representative of the Upright and Wing vernacular wood-frame house type. It is sheathed in clapboard siding and gable and shed roofs. The house features two ornately decorated porches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Singer Manufacturing–South Bend Lathe Co. Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It encompasses four contributing buildings, one additional contributing structure, and one further contributing site as contributing properties. It developed between about 1868 and 1947, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian style industrial architecture. The buildings are associated with the Singer Manufacturing Company and its successors. They include the original three-story, brick Singer Manufacturing Company building , Singer Manufacturing Company / South Bend Lathe complex , and Singer Manufacturing Company Employees Club Room / Supply Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Fire House No. 3 is a historic fire station located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1892, and is a -story, rectangular, Queen Anne style brick building. It has a gable front and cross-gable roof and features a simple square hose drying tower. It remained in use as a fire station until the 1960s, after which it was adapted for commercial uses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Samuel Quimby House is a historic house on North Road in southern Mount Vernon, Maine. Built about 1800 for the area&#39;s first doctor, it is an unusually elaborate expression of folk Federal period architecture in a rural setting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Quimby House stands on the north side of North Road (also known as Cobbs Hill Road), in southern Mount Vernon, a rural community northwest of Augusta. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, clapboarded exterior, and a modern concrete foundation. The main facade faces south, and is five bays wide, with corner pilasters, and a central entrance with a Palladian window above. The entrance has flanking sidelights and pilasters, with a multilight half-oval transom window topped by a projecting cornice. The side windows of the Palladian trio are also flanked by pilasters with entablatures and cornices above. The cornice below the front roofline is styled in a similar fashion to the Palladian window, and carries around to the sides. The interior follows a typical center-chimney plan, with a narrow entry vestibule containing a winding staircase, and parlors to either side of the chimney. The staircase has a distinctively carved rail, and scalloped ornamentation on the outer string.</p><br>
<p>The exact construction date of the house is not known. The land on which it stands was purchased in 1797, and local tradition holds that it was built about 1800 for him by one of his patients (whose identity is unknown). The house was originally covered by a hip roof, which was blown off by a windstorm in 1950. The house was owned for many years by members of the Currier and Clough families. New owners in 1986 moved the house back from its original site to a new foundation, and undertook its restoration.</p><br>
<p>The Ezekiel Emerson Farm, also known as Apple Hill Farm, is a historic farm property at 936 Brandon Mountain Road  in Rochester, Vermont. Occupying 38 acre , the farm includes a mid-19th century bank barn and a c. 1920-1940 milk barn that are both well-preserved examples of period agricultural buildings. The house includes a fine example of a Late Victorian porch. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ezekiel Emerson Farm is located along Vermont Route 73 (Brandon Mountain Road) in a rural area of western Rochester, on the eastern slope of Vermont&#39;s Green Mountains. Most of the farm property is located north of the road, although there is a strip of land, traditionally used for haying, between the road and the West Branch White River, which it roughly parallels in this area. The farm buildings are clustered on the north side of the road, with open fields to the east, and formerly open hillside sloping up to higher fields. The farmhouse, near the western end of the complex, is a roughly cruciform -story wood-frame structure built about 1840, and modified in the late 1890s. Its most distinctive feature is an elaborately decorated wraparound porch that extends across the front and along one side.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the northwest corner of the house is a former horse and carriage barn, now serving as a garage and shed. To the east of the house stands a large bank barn, with a gabled roof and board-and-batten siding. Near the barn, but facing toward the house, is a small single-story wood frame milking house, covered by a shed roof and now repurposed into a toolshed. The foundations of an old potato storage building are located behind the barn.</p><br>
<p>The farm&#39;s origins appear to be in land speculation by a wealthy Rochester landowner, Ephraim Briggs, who apparently had the house built about 1840 on speculation, and sold a 42 acre parcel in 1842 to Solomon Nott. Nott sold the property to the town in 1856, who rented, and then sold, the property to members of the Emerson family. The Emersons operated a small-scale dairy cow operation on the property, also producing grain crops and potatoes. It is believed that Ezekiel built the barn in the 1870s, after he acquired title to the property from other family members. Emerson later sold water rights along the White River that were used to build a hydroelectric power plant, providing power to Rochester for the first time. The financial rewards that flowed from this arrangement likely made possible a significant enlargement of the house. After being sold by Emerson in 1907, it went through a number of owners, primarily involved in dairying, before eventually being converted to a bed and breakfast in the 1990s. As of 2016, it is in use as a horse farm.</p><br>
<p>Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower is a clock tower located in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a contributing property within the Daytona Beach Bandshell and Oceanfront Park Complex historic district which was entered into the United States National Register of Historic Places  on February 25, 1999 from a multiple property submission under the following areas of significance: Entertainment, Recreation, Community Planning and Development, and Architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Oceanfront Park Complex property was constructed of concrete and coquina rock between 1936 and 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It originally was a large beachfront park that included several small rectangular pavilions, octagonal kiosks, a bathhouse, coquina rock veneered shops and stores, concessions and game rooms, two coquina rock veneered pedestrian underpasses, a coquina rock veneered Bandshell and its spectator seating area, the Edward H. Armstrong Monument, and a coquina rock veneered Clock Tower and Fountain.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, Daytona Beach was in the midst of a severe economic depression (the Great Depression). City officials needed a way to bring tourists to the area despite the economic woes of the time. In 1934, Daytona Beach Mayor Edward H. Armstrong and other city officials began a two-year lobbying effort to the federal government to build a large outdoor amphitheater complex. In January 1936 the project was approved under the jurisdiction of the WPA with the stipulation that the city of Daytona Beach add a large amount of money into the project. A prominent local architect, Alan J. MacDonough, Sr., (who designed several buildings that are now on the United States’ National Register of Historic Places), was hired to design the entire complex. The project started in 1936 as WPA workers excavated and removed more than 48,000 cubic yards of sand to level the construction site area.</p><br>
<p>In the beginning of the project WPA workers used local beach sand to fill the foundation area and salt water to mix the concrete. The base began to crack and crumble due to this poor quality construction technique. Delays occurred when the base had to be broken up and removed and the concrete had to be poured again using the proper construction process by the use of clean fresh water to mix the concrete and gravel was used to fill the foundation area. Questions and concerns were raised by state officials regarding the management of the project as the delays caused financial problems.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Legislature, led by Governor David Sholtz launched a state investigation. The Daytona Beach city charter called for the dismissal, by the governor, of all officials responsible for the exceeding the budget. Assuming that they were going to be removed from office Daytona Beach Mayor Edward Armstrong and two commissioners, George T. Robinson and R.W. Carswell resigned from their offices on December 10, 1936. Both Armstrong and Robinson appointed their wives to fill their office vacancies.</p><br>
<p>On December 30, 1936, Governor Sholtz ordered Mayor Irene Armstrong (Edward Armstrongs wife), three city commissioners, the city clerk and the city manager to resign from their offices, holding them responsible for budget issues and poor judgement related to city affairs. Two hundred National Guardsmen were ordered to Daytona Beach to install new officials that were appointed by Sholtz, and to confiscate the citys financial records (including those associated with the clock tower&#39;s project.) Approximately one hundred local policeman and heavily armed city employees barricaded themselves inside the city hall building to protect Mayor Irene Armstrong and other city officials. Many city records were destroyed by city employees during this time.</p><br>
<p>A crowd of more than two thousand people gathered outside the building. It seemed an armed confrontation was about to occur. Fortunately, a temporary restraining order was issued by Circuit Court Judge Herbert Frederick that prevented the newly appointed officials from entering the building. On January 4, 1937 the Florida Supreme Court ruled to uphold the restraining order, and on a technicality, vacated Governor Sholtz&#39;s orders to remove Daytona Beach city officials.</p><br>
<p>After a 5-day standoff the National Guardsmen and the crowds left the area and the near disastrous incident is now known in local lore as the “Battle of Daytona Beach”. The ruling, in addition to Governor Sholtzs term ending and new Governor Fred P. Cone taking office and having no interest in challenging the courts decision allowed for Edward Armstrong, and the other city officials, to be reinstated into their former offices on March 4, 1937.</p><br>
<p>By the summer of 1937, a majority of the project was completed. The project&#39;s final cost exceeded $300,000 (approximately $84,000 came from the city of Daytona Beach.) The park complex was one of the largest of its kind anywhere in the world at the time. The dedication of the park complex was held on Independence Day, July 4, 1937. But several delays with completing associated facilities in the park caused the official dedication to be held on January 1, 1938. Sadly, Mayor Edward Armstrong was not able to attend the dedication services and the next day he died. Since he was the person most responsible for the building of the park complex WPA workers erected a monument in the park in his honor (to this day the monument does not have any inscriptions).</p><br>
<p>The original mid-1930s clockworks were a Seth Thomas Clock Company 8-day timepiece, Model #4 - 1912 tower clock movement with serial number 3180. This movement had a 4 foot long pendulum with a 28 lb. pendulum ball. It featured a power wind mechanism with a mercury switch that included a power reserve of 2 to 3 hours. When the weights dropped to a fixed distance the mercury switch was triggered which then activated the power wind mechanism to automatically rewind the weights. The movement was eventually converted to a full electric motor driven mechanism (electrified) in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>1986-87 redevelopment project</h2><br>
<p>A redevelopment project that took place between 1986 and 1987 featured the construction of the Marriott Convention Hotel which caused the removal of several original structures in Oceanfront Park. The original structures that were demolished included the small rectangular pavilions, octagonal kiosks, bathhouse, coquina rock veneered shops and stores, and the concessions and game rooms. (The original underpasses were closed in 1974 and completely filled in with gravel and dirt to prevent vagrancy.) The surviving parts of the original park are the Daytona Beach Bandshell and its spectator seating area, the Edward H. Armstrong Monument, and the Daytona Beach Clock Tower and Fountain.</p><br>
<h2>52nd Anniversary Ceremony</h2><br>
<p>The Clock Tower&#39;s 52nd Anniversary rededication ceremony was a big success thanks to NAWCC member, the late Jack Smith. Due to a lack of maintenance and routine service, in addition to severe encrusted bird droppings contamination the clockworks had stopped working and Daytona Beach officials thought that it might never work again. Smith volunteered his time and clock repairing skills and was able to get the clock movement cleaned up, serviced and back into running order in time for the rededication ceremony. During the July 4, 1989 rededication ceremony Daytona Beach Mayor Larry Kelly, said to Jack, "You helped us do it. Thanks a billion."</p><br>
<h2>Clock Tower renamed</h2><br>
<p>The city of Daytona Beachs Historic Preservation Advisory Board renamed the Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower in honor of Sir Malcolm Campbell (the famous automobile speedster who set numerous world land speed records on city beaches.) This name change was prompted in 1989 when Campbell Street was renamed in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The city was in search of permanent recognition of Campbells achievements so the renaming of the beachside Clock Tower was an excellent and obvious choice. A commemorative bronze plaque is mounted on a large piece of coquina rock in the east side fountain area and it reads, “Sir Malcolm Campbell, Honoring his land speed record of 276.82 mph achieved on these sands in 1935. Daytona Beach City Commission, Mayor Baron ‘Bud’ Asher, Historic Preservation Board, Rededicated Sept. 27, 2002.”</p><br>
<h2>Assessment report and rehabilitation project</h2><br>
<p>The Renker-Eich-Parks Architects firm was hired by the city of Daytona Beach to inspect the Daytona Beach Clock Tower and write a Condition Assessment Report. This report includes sections on the Physical Condition Assessment and Preservation/Restoration Recommendations. A summary of the condition states that the four French style buttresses have some eroded coquina rock, there are several areas that require new mortar and the entire structure requires new electrical wiring that is up-to-date with current codes.</p><br>
<p>Recommended Priority Work includes: Repoint Deteriorated Mortar Joints, Reset Grotto Coquina Stone where missing, Repair Cast Concrete Sconce Base, Re-mortar Joints at Clock Room Roof, Repair Concrete at Clock Room Roof, Replace damaged/missing wood structure, Treat Algae inside Cupola and Clock Room, Replace Rusting Clock Bracket Fasteners, Patch Coat at Clock Openings, Restore Spire and Weather Vane, Clean Bird Nests/General Cleaning, Structural – Concrete Repair at Hatch Floor, Electrical (remove all existing electrical items from the structure and replace them with new electrical lights, wiring, panels, receptacles and controls.)</p><br>
<p>Recommended Non-Priority Work includes: Replace Coquina Veneer Stone on Buttress Arch Tops, Remove Stainless Steel Rods and Hooks (patch holes), and Paint Stone Checker Pattern Infills (Red and Yellow).</p><br>
<p>Clockworks: Replace clock operating mechanisms and hands: Provide new master clock controller, new timepieces with new hands (hands shall match historic originals from photographs and with review and approval from architect), replace clock dials and exterior wood trim (ensure weather tight installation.)</p><br>
<p>Although there is obviously numerous interior and exterior maintenance issues with the Daytona Beach Clock Tower the conclusion of this report found it to be in overall fair condition.</p><br>
<p>Based on the Condition Assessment Report and recognizing that the historic Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower has been in deteriorating condition for many years a Historic Preservation Small Matching Grant for the rehabilitation of the Daytona Beach Clock Tower was submitted to the state of Florida&#39;s Division of Historic Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation on May 30, 2014 for a Clock Tower Rehabilitation Project.</p><br>
<p>A total of $231,000 was awarded ($50,000 from a Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation grant and $181,000 from the city of Daytona Beach) for the project. The project will not modify or change the accessibility to the landmark site. Additionally, it will preserve the historic landmark and enhance public awareness of the Clock Tower structure.</p><br>
<p>The 2015/16 project was successfully completed ahead of schedule. Various new items have been installed and the structural restoration has been completed. New custom dials and hands were made by the Verdin Company in their Cincinnati, Ohio plant. The dials are made from 3/8” translucent acrylic sheet and the letters are made from 1/8” black acrylic. The hands are made from an aluminum composite material and finished with automotive-grade acrylic urethane. The clock movements were replaced so all four dials now display the same accurate time.</p><br>
<p>The mortar joints have been repointed throughout the structure and the coquina rock pieces that were missing have been replaced. The blind oculus opening and the decorative inset grids on the cupola have been repainted. The entire structure has been rewired and new exterior and interior lighting has been installed. Lightning protective rods have been installed on the top of the tower. The fountain has been upgraded with a new motor and pump and it has been resurfaced as well.</p><br>
<h2>Hurricane Matthew Damage</h2><br>
<p>In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew caused minor damage to one of the clock towers dials and weather vane. The north facing dial was broken, most likely from a projectile from hurricane debris, and the eagle was blown off the top of the weather vane. A new replacement dial was made by the Verdin Company and installed in November 2016. The eagle was located, but was not re-installed due to considerable damage. A new replacement weather vane was made by American Bronze Foundry, Inc. and installed in April 2017. The electric movements and electrical wiring in the tower were inspected and the clock towers four dials are displaying accurate time.</p><br>
<p>The Topsham Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Topsham, Maine. Extending along parts of Elm, Green, and Pleasant Streets, the area has a fine collection of 19th and early 20th-century architecture, with the majority built before 1850. It is almost entirely residential, with only a few non-residential uses, including a church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Topsham is located on the north bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite the town of Brunswick in the western part of Maines Mid Coast region. Area for a town center was set aside in the 1639, but the town was abandoned during conflicts with local indigenous persons of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was resettled beginning in 1714 under the auspices of the Pejepscot Proprietors, a Boston-based consortium of businessmen, but permanent occupation did not take place until the 1730s. It continued to be subjected to native attacks in King Georges War and the French and Indian War, hampering growth until the 1760s. Sawmills and gristmills were built on the river, beginning significant growth in both Topsham and Brunswick. A bridge was built across the river in 1796.</p><br>
<p>The historic section of Topsham Village is roughly centered on the junction of Elm, Pleasant, and Green Streets. It extends south on Green Street and north on Pleasant Street, as far as Perkins Street. Its western extent is Main Street (United States Route 201), where a few houses on the east side are included, and extends east on the north side of Elm Street as far as the railroad right-of-way just west of Maine State Route 196. The district has 58 historic buildings, most of which are residences built before 1850. Fully half the buildings are Federal in style, with Greek Revival architecture also well represented. The only buildings not originally built as a residence are the 1835 Federal-style Baptist church, and the town offices, which are housed in a c. 1840 academy, restyled about 1900 in the Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Surprise is a two-masted former racing schooner berthed in Camden, Maine. Built in 1917–18 in Rockport, Massachusetts, she is one of a small number of surviving schooners designed by noted naval architect Thomas F. McManus. She currently serves as a "windjammer", providing daily cruises in Penobscot Bay. She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Surprise is a two-masted wooden sailing schooner. She has a total length of 44 ft, with a length at the waterline of 34 ft. She has a beam of 12 ft and a draft of 6 ft. Her framing is of oak and locust, with planking of yellow pine, some of it replaced by mahogany during restoration. The deck is fir. The area below decks has been fitted to carry passengers on day trips, and there is a motor chamber in the rear. She normally carries four sails: main and staysails, with club sails that can be set above those two.</p><br>
<p>Surprise was built in 1917–18 at Worrell Shipyard in Rockport, Maine. She was one of seven schooner yachts designed by Thomas F. McManus, then a prominent naval architect, and is the only one of those still afloat. Her design represents an important transition between schooners designed as working craft and those designed for pleasure and racing. She was built for M.S. Kattenhorn, a merchandise broker living in New Rochelle, New York. She remained in the Kattenhorn family as a racing and pleasure craft into the 1960s. Although her original plans called for a motor, it was not added until after the Kattenhorn&#39;s sold it. It was converted for use in the tourist trade in the late 1980s, and now provides short tours of Penobscot Bay from her base in Camden, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Sprucewold Lodge is a historic summer tourist accommodation at 4-9 Nahanada Road in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Its main lodge built in 1927, it was the centerpiece of an extensive rustic retreat on the Spruce Point peninsula southeast of downtown Boothbay Harbor. The lodge is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of rustic Adirondack architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. In 2016, the lodge was listed for sale.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sprucewold Lodge is located in a wooded area near the center of the Spruce Point peninsula, southeast of downtown Boothbay Harbor. The main lodge is set on the north side of Nahanada Road, near its junction with Crest Avenue. The property also includes a series of log and frame cabins on the south side of Nahanada Road, which are now used as employee housing. It is a two-story log structure, with a gabled roof and exposed log exterior. There are recessed porches below the front- and rear-facing gables, each supported by rustic log posts, with log rail balustrades and stair handrails. The main doorway consists of vertically arranged log sections on the outside, and rough board-and-batten on the inside. Window bays on the sides are articulated by vertically placed logs, and a fieldstone chimney rises on the outside of the left wall. The interior public spaces include similar Adirondack-style log decoration, including builtin benches.</p><br>
<p>Plans for a resort area on Spruce Point were first drafted in the 1880s, but were hampered by a lack of water supply. Town water was laid into the area in 1919, and the Boothbay Land Company then proceeded to develop the eastern side of the peninsular, building about 60 cabins by 1930. The central hotel and lodge was built in 1926 to a design by Portland architect John P. Thomas, and was billed as the world&#39;s largest log cabin. The present lodge was built as an annex to the original, which was destroyed by fire in 1931. It is one of the few surviving hotels on the Maine coast from the 1920s, representing the final stage of large scale resort hotel development in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Fessenden House is a historic house at 58 Bridge Street in Royalton, Vermont. Built about 1802, it is a high quality local example of transitional Georgian-Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fessenden House is located in Royalton village, at the corner of Bridge Street and Vermont Route 14. It fronts on a former alignment of Route 14, which provides access to the bridge and is separated from the current alignment by an elongated triangular green. The house is stories in height, with a gabled roof, interior brick chimneys, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. It has typical Georgian style massing, with a five-bay front facade. Sash windows occupy most of the bays, with the center entrance framed by a Federal period surround consisting of flanking pilasters rising to a gabled partial pediment that surmounts a half-round leaded transom window. First-floor windows are topped by simple projecting cornices. The interior has many high-quality period finishes, including elements of basement kitchens, working dumbwaiters, and Federal and Georgian style fireplace mantels. Near the house stands a 19th-century barn, moved to the site in the 20th century after the original barn was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1802, and exhibits an unusually high quality of detail for a small-town rural setting. Many of the buildings exterior and interior designs are derived from plates in Asher Benjamins 1797 The Country Builders Assistant, which helped popularize Federal architectural styles. Joseph Fessenden, for whom it was built, was a prosperous local merchant. The house was owned by a succession of well-to-do businessmen, and many of its interior features date from a c. 1830 remodeling.</p><br>
<p>Fritz Chapel is a historic religious structure located northwest of Bellevue, Iowa, United States. The small roadside chapel was built by Mathias Fritz  in 1852. Fritz immigrated with his family to the United States from Luxembourg that same year. He built this chapel as an act of thanksgiving for the safe journey. The roughly 8 by structure has limestone walls on three sides and is open on the front. It is capped with a gable roof. The walls inside the chapel are plastered, and it houses a small stone altar and a hand-carved crucifix. Located on the north side of a gravel road, it is surrounded by a picket fence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Bellevue Herald Building is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The lower two floors were built around 1855 with limestone, and the third floor was a frame addition from 1905. The stone blocks that were used in its construction vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. The lintels and watertable are dressed stone. The second floor is three bays wide with a door in the center bay that opens onto an iron balcony. There is an oriel window on the third floor, and an Italianate metal cornice with brackets caps the main facade. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 126 South Riverview Street is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The two-floor structure was built around 1855 to house a retail establishment, but its original use has not been determined. The stone blocks that were used in its construction vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. The rectangular plan structure features three narrow bays, a recessed entrance in the right bay, dressed stone lintels, and a stone storefront. The window openings have been altered. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 101 North Riverview Street is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The two-floor structure was built around 1850 along the levee. Because the property slopes toward the Mississippi River, it appears to be a four-story building on the riverside. It was built to house a retail establishment, but its original use has not been determined. By 1885 it housed a dry goods store, and by 1894 it housed a hardware store and implement dealership, which was located here for decades. The rectangular plan structure is three bays wide, and it has a stone storefront. It was given a light coating of stucco and scored giving it an ashlar appearance. The second-floor windows have simple hoodmolds above them, while the rest of the windows have stone lintels. What differentiates this building from the others is that it is a freestanding commercial structure, capped with a hip roof. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 130–132 North Riverview Street is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The 2½-story structure was built around 1855 to house retail establishments, which have included dry goods, a grocery, clothing and footwear stores, and a tavern. The double storefront building features three bays on both sides. The stone blocks used in its construction vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. It also features dressed stone lintels. The storefronts were altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but they retain their original limestone piers. What differentiates this building from the others is the gable roof. The second floor balcony on the south half of the building is a recent addition. It storefront has also been altered again in more recent years. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 306 South Second Street is a historic industrial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial/industrial buildings. The two-story structure was built in 1859 as an industrial facility. It is believed it was initially used as a pork processing plant that produced salt pork, which was then shipped down the Mississippi River. Subsequently, it has housed Haney & Campbell Creamery and Dairy Supplies, a saloon, a pool hall, and by 1928, a residence. The stone blocks that were used in the construction of this square structure vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. The window sills, lintels and watertable are dressed stone. Its two main elevations on Second and Chestnut streets are symmetrical, with three bays. Both have a door in the central bay. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>St. Maurice Plantation was a historic mansion on a plantation off the banks of the Red River of the South in Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built for the Prothro family, and it was completed in 1845. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style. By 1850, members of the Prothro family and their African slaves died of the yellow fever. A decade later, during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the plantation was taken over by the Union Army.</p><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 3, 1979. It was destroyed by fire on June 5, 1981. It was removed from the National Register in January 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Kucheman Building is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The two-story structure was built in 1868 to house Kucheman & Son, a dry goods and clothing store. The second floor has housed an Opera Hall and City Hall. An addition was built onto the rear of the building sometime between 1902 and 1914. The building features four bays on its main facade, which is capped by a stone cornice with arched metal pediment. The stone blocks used in its construction vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. It also features dressed stone window sills and lintels. What differentiates this building from the others is its segmental arched windows. The second floor windows on the front have simple stone hoodmolds. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Paradise Farm are historic agricultural and domestic buildings located west of Bellevue, Iowa, United States. Massachusetts native Elbridge Gerry Potter settled near Big Mill Creek in 1842 from Illinois. He arrived here with 500 head of cattle, 40 teams of mules, and money. In addition to this farm he operated a flour mill and sawmill in Bellevue, and established steamboat lines on the Mississippi River at Bellevue, on the Yazoo River in Louisiana and the Red River in Texas.</p><br>
<p>This was Potters home, and it included 1,400 acre. His book collection included subjects such as medicine, poetry, religion, and womens suffrage. He kept track of the books with a system of numbers and color codes for the books and the shelves. The three-story dormitory is a rectangular structure that housed the buttery, the farms main kitchens and bunk quarters for workers. The carriage barn is a two-story, rectangular structure. One side of the ground level housed the carriages and wagons, and the second level housed the loft. It featured segmental arched windows with heavy stone sills. Paradise Farms has been home to generations of Potters descendants. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Trufant Historic District encompasses a concentration of 19th-century middle-class residential housing on the south side of Bath, Maine. This area was most heavily developed during Bath&#39;s heyday as a major shipbuilding center, and includes numerous examples of Greek Revival and Italianate styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The city of Bath, located on the west bank of the Kennebec River on the coast of southern Maine, was incorporated as a town in 1781. It grew in the 19th century to become a major center for the construction of wooden sailing ships, with the river bank lined with shipyards. Residential areas developed on the hillsides above the yards. Part of the area south of the downtown was originally a farm owned by the Trufant family, whose progenitor moved to the area in 1745. The family holdings had been divided and in part sold off by the late 1820s, but had not yet been significantly developed. With the city&#39;s economy booming in the 1840s, development began to take place in the area bounded by Pine, Middle, Corliss, and Washington Streets, a portion of the former Trufant farm. Middle and Highland Streets were laid out in the early 1850s, and rapidly developed with a series of modest Greek Revival houses. Infill construction, and the development of vacant lots resulted in the addition of Italianate houses in the 1860s and 1870s. By the early 20th century, the area had substantially achieved its present appearance.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the east by Washington Street, between Pine and Corliss Streets, and includes only buildings on the road&#39;s west side. It extends up Pine to Clifton Street, and up Corliss to Middle Street, and includes buildings on both sides of those streets, as well as Highland Street, which runs parallel between Washington and Middle. There are 60 buildings in the district, about half of which are Greek Revival, and 13 that are Italianate. There are only two 20th-century houses in the area, and most of the buildings have retained original decorative features, in some cases despite the application of modern siding.</p><br>
<p>The Squire Tarbox House is a historic house at 1181 Main Road in Westport, Maine. Built in 1763 and enlarged in 1820, it is a fine local example of Georgian and Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and is presently home to the Squire Tarbox Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Squire Tarbox House stands on the west side of Main Road (Maine State Route 144), near the geographic center of the rural island community of Westport. It is a long connected farmstead, with the two story main house at the northern end, connected via single-story ells to a carriage barn, with a further ell just to the barn&#39;s south. The main house has a rectangular wood frame, with a hip roof pierced by interior chimneys. The main facade is five bays wide, with the center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and cornice. The interior retains original Federal period woodwork, especially in the main parlor.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is the single-story ell extending behind the present main block. Built in 1763, it originally stood on a hill north of this location, and was moved here in 1819 by Samuel Tarbox, who had bought it from John Parsons in 1806. Dubbed "squire" due to his importance in the town, Tarbox was instrumental in securing the separation of Westport from Edgecomb, and was probably its wealthiest resident. He served on Westport&#39;s inaugural board of selectmen in 1828.</p><br>
<p>The Laura E. Richards House was a historic house located in Gardiner, Maine. Built 1810, it was a fine local example of Federal period architecture. It was primarily known as the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laura E. Richards during the majority of her writing career. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The house was damaged and demolished as a result of a fire in December 2022, and was subsequently removed from the National Register in 2024.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Laura E. Richards House stood in a residential area just south of downtown Gardiner. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, interior end chimneys, and clapboard exterior with denticulated cornice. The main facade faced northeast toward Dennis Street, and was five bays wide, with the center entrance framed by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a half-round transom with entablature above. The interior had a typical Federal period central hall layout. Attached to the rear was a -story ell with a monitor roof, which joined it to a carriage barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was built 1810 by Ebenezer Byram, who had purchased the land from Robert Hallowell Gardiner. In 1878, it was purchased by Henry and Laura E. Richards. Laura Richards was the daughter of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, the latter known for being the writer of the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic". The couple moved to Gardiner in 1876 after suffering financial reverses, and it was about that time that Laura Richards began her writing career. She was best known for a series of children&#39;s books, and was a corecipient of the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for a biography of her mother.</p><br>
<p>On December 24, 2022, the house was severely damaged by a fire, and was consequently demolished for safety reasons.</p><br>
<p>Top Acres Farm, known historically as the Fletcher–Fullerton Farm, is a farm property at 1390 Fletcher Schoolhouse Road in Woodstock, Vermont. Developed as a farm in the early 19th century, it was in continuous agricultural use by just two families for nearly two centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Top Acres Farm consists of nearly 56 acre of rolling pasture and woods in a rural area of southern Woodstock. Most of its land is located north of Fletcher Schoolhouse Road (formerly Fletcher Hill Road Extension), with the farmstead complex straddling the road near the southern part of the property. The main house is a rambling 1-1/2 story Greek Revival structure, built about 1850, and set on the north side of the road. Just across the road is a small sugar house. North of (behind) the house are a corn house, barn, and dairy barn, all of which date to no later than 1830, and a 20th-century chicken house. Rolling meadows and wood lots extend north from this complex.</p><br>
<p>The farm was established in the first decade of the 19th century by Russell Fletcher, the son of one of South Woodstock&#39;s early settlers, who acquired several parcels of land. Although the current farmhouse dates to the mid-19th century, it is possible that one of its ells constitutes the original farmhouse. It was owned by Fletcher family members, growing in size to 400 acre, until 1902, when it was sold to Erwin Fullerton. The farm property was used by its various owners for a variety of purposes including the raising of grain and other crops, the raising of sheep, and as a dairy operation. When the property was listed on the National Register in 2004, it was still owned by a Fullerton, but agricultural activity had ceased and the farmhouse was used as a tourist accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Street–Fenwood Road Historic District encompasses a small but cohesive early 20th-century residential area and streetcar suburb in the Longwood area of Boston, Massachusetts. Bounded by Huntington Avenue, Francis Street, Vining Avenue, Fenwood Road, and St. Albans Road, it includes a collection of two and three-family houses, as well as two apartment houses, a school, and one commercial building, all of which predate the large medical complexes that dominate the Longwood area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Longwood area was opened for development in the late 19th century by the extension of Huntington Avenue to the area in 1882, the filling and grading of the marshes lining the Muddy River, and by the extension of the streetcar line (now the MBTA Green Line E branch) in 1889. Huntington Avenue was lined by suburban estates, but the area west of Francis Street was undeveloped until 1897. Within ten years, it had been almost completely built out.</p><br>
<p>The buildings lining Huntington Avenue are the largest of the district. They include two Classical Revival three-story brick apartment houses at 777-779 Huntington, built in 1916, the L-shaped Classical Revival Farragut School building (1903), and the mixed commercial-residential block between Fenwood and Francis Streets. Between Huntington and Vining Avenue, Francis and Fenwood are lined by two and three-family houses, mostly in a combination of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. Scale, massing, and setback are consistent, and many exterior features have either been preserved or restored. Most of these are of wood frame construction; only a few are built of brick.</p><br>
