<p>Gund Brewery Lofts or the old Gund Brewing Company Bottling Works was a progressive beer-bottling factory built in 1903, designed by Louis Lehle with modern sanitization and pasteurization machines that gave Gund&#39;s beer a reliable shelf life, and electrical power that allowed an efficient plant layout. The factory has now been remodeled as apartments. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Champlain School is a historic former school building at 809 Pine Street in the South End of Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1909, it is a fine local example of vernacular Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, designed by one of the city&#39;s most prominent architects of the period. It was used as a school until the end of 1968, and now houses apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Champlain School building is located in Burlington&#39;s South End neighborhood, on the west side of Pine Street opposite the Champlain Elementary School. It is two stories in height and is built of red brick with sandstone trim. It is capped by a hip roof, and rests on a raised rubblestone foundation. Its front facade is sixteen bays wide, with the center eight set in a slightly projecting hip-roofed projection. The outer four bays on each side have windows set in tall recessed panels, topped by rounded arches; the upper windows are rounded to fit in those arches. The window bays in the center section are narrower, with the upper windows again topped by rounded arches. On the first floor, the main entrance occupies the center four bays, recessed in a large round-arch opening.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1909, and was the first large-scale commission of Frank Lyman Austin, one of Burlington&#39;s leading architects of the early 20th century. It was built to satisfy the then-current ideas about the fireproofing of school buildings, and the need for each classroom to have adequate natural lighting. The neighborhood it served had in the 1890s seen significant growth due to the construction of a textile mill. It served the city through 1968, and has since been converted to apartments, with an addition added onto the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Bristol Downtown Historic District encompasses the historic late 19th-century commercial heart of Bristol, Vermont. At first a rural agricultural market town, it developed in the second half of the 19th century as a small industrial center, producing finished wood products. Its downtown occupies an area of one block on both sides of Main Street, and features a diversity of architectural styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Bristol, Vermont, is located on the west side of Vermonts Green Mountains. It was settled in the 1780s, and was a basically agricultural community until the American Civil War. Its town center provided services to farmers in outlying areas, including a market for their goods and sawmills and gristmills for processing their lumber and grain. In 1862, a factory was established in the New Haven River just southwest of the town center, in which turned wood products were manufactured. Soon converted to manufacture coffins, the factory complex grew by the early 20th century to become one of the nations leading suppliers of that product, along with a diversity of other wood products. These businesses declined after the First World War.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Bristol consists of one long block of Main Street (Vermont Route 116), which runs east-west north of the New Haven River. It runs east from a central four-way junction with North, South, and West Streets (the latter continuing VT 116), and includes Bristols town hall, located at the southwest corner of the junction. East of this junction, both sides of Main Street are lined with more than a dozen late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings. They are typically two or three stories in height, and built of brick. The north side of Main Street in this stretch is mainly taken up by the Union Block, a single building with seven storefronts. Behind the south side buildings is the 1924 Kilburn Mill, one of the towns last surviving factories of the historic period.</p><br>
<p>The Charlotte Center Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century town center of Charlotte, Vermont. Settled c. 1790 and developed mainly in the mid-19th century, the village, stretched along Church Hill Road west of Hinesburg Road, retains a well-preserved 19th-century atmosphere of residential, civic, and commercial buildings. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Charlotte was chartered in 1762, but not settled until c. 1784, after the American Revolutionary War. By tradition, a stake was placed at the towns geographic center, and that is where the village of Charlotte Center arose. It was located on the areas major north–south route (now bypassed by the modern alignment of United States Route 7) running east–west between two hills. It developed as a stop on the stagecoach route between Burlington and Troy, New York when Hezekiah Barnes, the village&#39;s first settler, built a tavern in 1800. The village was the principal civic and commercial area of the town until the construction of the Central Vermont Railroad bypassed it, after which commercial and political activity was largely removed to Charlotte Four Corners, where the railroad station was located.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends westward in a linear fashion along Church Hill Road, the former stagecoach route and one-time alignment of US 7, from its junction with Hinesburg Road. Its dominant features are the 1851 Greek Revival Congregational Church, and the 1850 former Town Hall, now the local museum. Most of the buildings are of wood frame construction, and were built before 1860. The only stone house, a Cape style structure, was built by Hezekiah Barnes about 1790 near his tavern (which no longer stands, but whose site is marked). The dispersed district also includes several barns from the early 20th century, as well as one believed to have been built by Barnes about the same time as the stone house.</p><br>
<p>The Charles E. Conrad Mansion is a historical Victorian era shingle-style Norman mansion located in Kalispell, Montana. It was designed by the noted Spokane, Washington, architect Kirtland Cutter. It was the home of Charles E. Conrad, a late 19th century shipping magnate and early pioneer of Kalispell.</p><br>
<h2>Style and construction</h2><br>
<p>The style of the architecture is a revivalist version of the vernacular farmhouse style of the architecture of Normandy in France, rather than the version of Romanesque architecture called "Norman architecture". Construction of the home began in 1892 and it was completed in November 1895.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Flathead County, Montana.</p><br>
<p>The Catamount Outdoor Family Center is the non-profit steward of the Catamount Community Forest, a town owned forest on Governor Chittenden Road in Williston, Vermont. The more than 400 acre property includes trails for a variety of outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. The adjacent property includes Williston&#39;s oldest house, built about 1796 by Governor Thomas Chittenden for his son Giles, which is now a private home and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Giles Chittenden Farmstead in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Catamount Outdoor Family Center is located in a rural area of northeastern Williston, on either side of Governor Chittenden Road east of North Williston Road. The property is a combination of open fields and woodlands, with the open fields generally closer to the road. A small cluster of buildings is located on the south side of the road, from which a network of trails radiate across the landscape.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Catamount Outdoor Family Center was opened in 1978 by Jim and Lucy McCullough, who owned and ran the organization until a large portion of their land was conserved in 2019, creating the Catamount Community Forest. The architectural highlight of the area is the Giles Chittenden House, a Federal style two-story brick house. It was built about 1796 by Thomas Chittenden the first Governor of Vermont and the first settler of Williston. Chittenden built a house for himself (no longer standing) about 1787, and later built houses for each of his four sons. His son Giles was mainly a farmer, but was entangled in family financial issues that forced him to sell off portions of his land, and left his estate insolvent upon his death in 1819. In addition to the house, the property also includes a 19th-century barn, probably built in mid-century by Charles Miller.</p><br>
<p>The Beck and Beck Granite Shed is a historic granite shed at 34 Granite Street in the city of Barre, Vermont. Built in 1933, it is a rare surviving example of a rectangular granite shed, a late style of granite processing facility. The Beck and Beck Company was started by the area&#39;s first German immigrants, and operated until 1960. The building now houses a non-profit and store that repurposes and recycles building materials. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Beck and Beck Granite Shed stands on the southeast side of Granite Street, across the railroad tracks from downtown Barre. The shed consists of a long rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, oriented perpendicular to the street, to which a number of additions and connected structures have been added. The main structure is 130 ft long and 75 ft wide, and is covered by a gabled roof with a band of clerestory windows. Between this structure and the street is an attached office building presenting a saltbox profile to the street, and to its left is a vernacular shed-roof building. Roughly midway down the length of the main structure is a projecting section to the right. In the crook created by this projection is a long gabled building, which is connected to the main shed by a hyphen.</p><br>
<p>The main shed was built in 1933, replacing an older horseshoe-shaped granite shed. The Beck and Beck Company, its builder, was established in 1898 by members of the Beck family, German immigrants who had primarily been ironworkers prior to coming to Vermont. This build was designed to facilitate the movement of granite during its transformation from raw material to finished object, typically cemetery markers. Its design took advantage of the development of the overhead traveling bridge crane, which could be used to move heavy granite blocks within a rectangular facility. (The previous horseshoe-shaped facility was serviced by a centrally-placed derrick crane with a boom, which moved the blocks from arriving railroad cars to areas of the building within range of the boom.) The building continued to be used for granite processing (after 1976 by a succession of different owners) until 2009. It now houses ReSOURCE, a local non-profit that repurposes donated building materials and provides job training and other programs.</p><br>
<p>The New Haven-Weybridge Rattling Bridge is a historic bridge spanning Otter Creek between the Vermont towns of Weybridge and New Haven. It connects Town Highway 7  in New Haven with Town Highway 11  in Weybridge. Built in 1908 by the American Bridge Company, it is a well-preserved example of a rivet-connected lattice truss bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Bridge 26 in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Haven-Weybridge Rattling Bridge is located in southwestern New Haven and northeastern Weybridge, where the town border is defined by Otter Creek. It is oriented north–south, and crosses the river just east of the Huntington Falls dam. It is a single-span metal truss, in a style sometimes called a double-intersection Warren truss, but in a style more similar to that of a Whipple truss. It is 149 ft long and has a roadway width of 16 ft (one lane). Its end portals are 16 ft at the center, and have rounded corners. The structural elements of the trusses are joined by rivets. The bridge derives its name from loosely laid deck boards, which rattled when they were driven on.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1908 by the American Bridge Company, as part of a program begun in 1892 by the state to improve its transport infrastructure. The road which it carries was originally the Waltham Pike, opened in 1808, which was the first road to traverse the town of Weybridge. Construction of the bridge was principally funded by the town of Weybridge; it is now co-owned and maintained by the two towns.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Davis House  is a historic building located at 405 First Street NW in Elkader, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Timothy Davis was a businessman, attorney and town speculator, who along with John Thompson and Chester Sage laid out the town of Elkader in the mid-1840s. They built a saw- and gristmill here before Davis moved back to Dubuque. He returned to Elkader a couple years later and built this home, where he spent his remaining years. The 2½-story brick structure was built in the vernacular Federal style. Its dominate decorative feature is the front porch, which is a recreation of the original.</p><br>
<p>Ground was broken for the house on June 13, 1866.</p><br>
<p>The house has subsequently been used as a funeral home, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Rialto Price House is a historic building located in Elkader, Iowa, United States. Price was a local attorney. His Victorian-style brick house was built in 1876 on the property where the first brick house in town is said to have been located. The two-story red brick structure features buff brick decoration, and a gable-roofed front entry that protrudes from the main facade. The front porch is not original to the house. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The J.C. Stemmer House is a historic building located in Elkader, Iowa, United States. This two-story brick structure was built in 1889 in the Victorian style. Its elaborate and extensive woodwork is its primary feature. While it is primarily capped with a hip roof the wings feature gable ends that allow for bargeboards and stone decoration. A single story wrap-around wooden porch with latticework covers the main facade and follows to the south. The house also features stained glass windows above the main entrance and at various other locations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Schmidt House, also known as the Bandow Apartments, is a historic building located in Elkader, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built in 1867 by Wolfgang and John Blasius Schmidt, who were immigrants from Bavaria. They built their brewery next to the house, no longer extant, and it remained in operation until 1884 when prohibition passed in Iowa. The duplex is a vernacular form of the Federal style. At one time it had a common kitchen and dining room, with a summer kitchen, no longer extant, in the rear. The building was converted into apartments in the late 19th- or early 20th-century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Cornwall Parsonage is a historic house at 18 Vermont Route 74 in the center of Cornwall, Vermont. Built in 1839, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, and served as a parsonage until 1994. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former First Congregational Church parsonage stands in the village center of Cornwall, at the northwest corner of Vermont Routes 74 and 30. It is separated from the church, further north on Route 30, by another house. The parsonage is a -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboarded exterior, and slate foundation. The front facade is three bays wide, with a triangular window in the gable and a side entry on the ground floor, sheltered by a late 19th-century Victorian porch. A cross-gabled ell extends to the left from the rear corner, and the present main entrance is set on the north side of the main block. The interior follows a central hall plan, with an original curved staircase. One of the downstairs chambers features a distinctive Rumford fireplace with beehive oven.</p><br>
<p>Cornwall&#39;s congregational church was organized in 1785, but did not build its first church until 1805. Its first permanent minister was granted land, but it was not until 1839 that the congregation agreed to build a parsonage for its fifth minister, Jacob Scales. Scales was locally controversial for his perceived weak position on the abolition of slavery, and was involved in disputes concerning the construction of the parsonage. He left a few years later, and the property was purchased by a group of congregants and deeded to the church. It remained in church ownership until 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Winooski Street Bridge is a historic bridge carrying Winooski Street across the Winooski River between Duxbury and Waterbury, Vermont. Built in 1928, it is a Parker through truss, one of only two of this type on the Winooski River and an increasingly rare bridge type in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 as Bridge 31.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Winooski Street Bridge is located in southern Waterbury and northern Duxbury, where the west-flowing Winooski River forms the border between the two communities. It is located a short way south of downtown Waterbury and west of the rural center of Duxbury, and is one of two bridges joining the two communities (the other carries United States Route 2 further to the east). Winooski Street runs south from downtown Waterbury to the bridge, at whose southern end River Street in Duxbury parallels the river. The bridge is a single-span Parker through truss, 202 ft long, set on concrete abutments which are themselves set partially on remnants of older stone abutments. It has a width of 25.5 ft, and has a sidewalk cantilevered onto the downstream (western) side. The bridge deck is concrete laid on steel stringers and floor beams.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1928 after Vermont&#39;s devastating 1927 floods, which destroyed more than 1,200 bridges. The state embarked on a massive construction program, in which largely standardized designs and construction methods were used to build replacement bridges. This bridge was designed by H.L. Shoemaker, and its truss elements were fabricated by the Bethlehem Steel. Its abutments were rebuilt in the 1970s, and the bridge itself underwent rehabilitation in the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The first bridge on the site was probably a covered bridge, built c. 1890. By 1924, it had been replaced by a steel truss bridge, which was washed away by the 1927 flood.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Chittenden House is a historic house on Vermont Route 117 in Jericho, Vermont. Built in the 1790s, it is one of the highest-style Federal period houses in Chittenden County, with a distinctive brickwork exterior and numerous unusual interior features. It was built by Thomas Chittenden for his son Martin, both of whom served as Governor of Vermont. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Martin Chittenden House stands in a rural area of southwestern Jericho, on the west side of River Road (VT 117) overlooking the Winooski River. It is a -story brick building, five bays wide and three deep, with a side gable roof and end chimneys. The brick of the front is laid in Flemish bond, while the sides are laid in Flemish cross bond, giving a diamond cross pattern to those surfaces. The main entrance is at the center of the north-facing front facade, recessed with sidelight windows. The opening is framed by pilasters and a broken pediment, and there is a Palladian window in the second floor above. The interior follows a central hall plan, with two chambers on either side of the central hall. The front left parlor has a distinctive carved fireplace overmantel surround, which surrounds a period wall painting with patriotic themes. The interior of the attic spaces preserves the framework of a hip roof.</p><br>
<p>The houses construction date is uncertain; it was probably built about 1796, when Martin Chittenden married, and was most likely a wedding present from Martins father Thomas. Thomas Chittenden was Vermont&#39;s first governor, and Martin continued the political activities of his father, serving as governor during the War of 1812. This house, along with others built by Thomas Chittenden for his other sons, rank among the most imposing houses of the period in the area. The artwork over the parlor fireplace mantel is one of the most distinctive and well-preserved examples of patriotic folk art of the period.</p><br>
<p>The John E.L. Huse Memorial School is a historic former school building at 39 Andrews Street in Bath, Maine. Built in 1942, it is one of a small number of schools built in Maine with federal funding provided under the World War II-era Community Facilities Act. It was closed in 2006, and has been converted to residential use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Huse Memorial School building stands in a residential area west of downtown Bath known as Hyde Park Terrace, which was also part of the federal construction program to provide facilities for defense industry workers during World War II. It is basically a long two-story rectangle, with an enlarged auditorium wing at the left (southern) end. The exterior is unadorned brick, with windows that are mainly late 20th-century replacements of original double-hung wood frame windows. The northern end of the building is a 1949 addition, whose features included more distinctive Modern touches, including the use of glass blocks.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1942 to a design by Alonzo J. Harriman, an architect who was a native of Bath and a graduate of Harvard University. It was built by the federal government under the terms of the Community Facilities Act of 1940 (also known as the "Lanham Act"), which provided for the construction of housing and other facilities for workers in defense industries critical to the war effort. The demand for workers at the Bath Iron Works overtaxed the areas housing supply, and the Hyde Terrace subdivision was one of several built by the government to address the housing shortage. The Huse school, named for Bath native John Huse, the citys first casualty of the war, was built to provide schooling to the children of the new development. It was turned over to the city in 1948, and used as a school until 2006. The building has been adapted to contain residential units, with a new wing added.</p><br>
<p>The Eckert House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built in 1860 by Henry Eckert. It is a combination commercial and residential building that features an off-square layout, metal "S" beam hardware on the north wall that was used to accommodate its unique shape, and metal numbers on the exterior that date the structure, which is not the norm in Guttenberg. Ida Eckert operated a millinery shop in first floor commercial space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Fuerste House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built about 1870 in the vernacular Greek Revival style. The screened-in porch on the west side was enclosed at some point. Mrs. L. Fuerst operated a millinery shop on the first floor of the family residence by at least 1891. The Fuerst family operated a machine shop across the street. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Kolker House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built about 1859 in what is known as the "Wide Gable Style," with the roof&#39;s ridge parallel to the street. Its significance is derived from its early construction, its brick rather than stone construction, a "Flying Buttress" eavespout at the houses right corner, and its excellent condition. The kitchen wing is on the east, and the garage dates from the late 20th-century. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Matt-Bahls House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story vernacular stone structure was built sometime before 1858. It features a full-length, two-story, frame porch on its south side. The single-story frame addition on the northeast side blends into the older structure. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Bottum Farm is a historic farm property at 1423 North Street in New Haven, Vermont. With a history dating back to the early 1770s, it is one of the communitys oldest farm properties, and is also significant for its association with Justus Sherwood, a major in Vermonts Revolutionary War-era history. The property, which now includes buildings dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bottum Farm is located in a rural area of northern New Haven, and now consists of 50 acre bounded on the east by North Street and the south by Quarry Road. The farm complex stands on the west side of North Street, and includes a house, dairy barn, carriage barn, garage, smithy, and granary. The house is a Greek Revival -story wood-frame building, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its corners are pilastered, and its entries are framed by pilasters. The interior, although somewhat altered, retains a number of original Greek Revival finishes, and many of the windows are also original, with period storm windows.</p><br>
<p>The land that became Bottum Farm was first acquire by Justus Sherwood in 1774, who purchased the land from the Onion River Company of Ira and Ethan Allen. Sherwood was a Loyalist during the American Revolution, and transferred title to the land to his in-laws, the Bottums, to avoid its confiscation after he joined the British Army. Sherwood was instrumental in organizing the town of New Haven during his relatively brief residency (two years) on the farm, and played a significant role in British conduct of the war from Quebec. The New Haven lands were the only holdings of his not confiscated by the state. The Bottums continued to farm the land until 1958.</p><br>
<p>The Lover&#39;s Lane Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the Dog River in Berlin, Vermont. Built in 1915, it is a rare early 20th-century example of a Warren pony truss bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 as Bridge No. 27.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lover&#39;s Lane is a short east-west road located in southern Berlin, joining Chandler Road to the west and Vermont Route 12 to the east, each of which run roughly parallel to the north-flowing Dog River. The bridge across the river is oriented roughly northeast-southwest, at a point where the river briefly bends to the west. It is a single-span Warren pony truss structure, 85 ft in length, resting on modern concrete abutments. The truss elements are made of rolled steel joined by bolts, a replacement for original rivets. The bridge floor is also a modern replacement, consisting of rolled steel flange beams supporting a wooden deck.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built about 1918, replacing an earlier wooden structure (probably an open wooden truss bridge). It was built at a time when Vermonts bridge construction, including local bridges such as this one, was becoming increasingly influenced by professional engineers hired by the states Department of Transportation. This bridge is one of a shrinking number of structures to survive from that period.</p><br>
<p>The City Hall Park Historic District encompasses one of the central economic, civic, and public spaces of the city of Burlington, Vermont. Centered on City Hall Park, the areas architecture encapsulates the citys development from a frontier town to an urban commercial center. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>City Hall Park is located at the southern end of the Church Street Marketplace in downtown Burlington. The park occupies most of a city block, with the eastern side of the block lined by buildings separating it from Church Street. It has a network of paths radiating out from a central fountain, and otherwise consists of grassy areas dotted with trees. The three buildings on the east side are formally oriented to Church Street, but present proper facades to the park. The southernmost building is Burlington City Hall, a large neo-Classical and Georgian Revival building constructed in 1928 to a design by W.M. Kendall of McKim, Mead, and White. The park is bounded on the other three sides by Main Street, St. Paul Street, and College Street, each of which is lined with commercial buildings. These are almost uniformly three stories in height and built of brick, and most were built between about 1880 and 1930. The most architecturally sophisticated of these is the Burlington Savings Bank Building at the corner of College and St. Paul, built in 1900 in a high interpretation of the Renaissance Revival. The historic district excludes the buildings on the west side of the park, which are included in the abutting Wells-Richardson Complex historic district, and includes buildings on the west side of Church Street south of Main. The latter buildings are of a more diverse architecture, including some that date to the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Burlington&#39;s City Hall Park was originally known as Court House Square, and was laid out in the late 18th century, roughly midway between its waterfront and its early inland commercial area on College Hill to the north. This site may have been chosen as a compromise between competing business interests, and it provided a level area for a public park. It saw its most rapid growth in the second quarter of the 19th century, after the opening of the Champlain Canal brought a mercantile economic boom to the city. Most of the buildings now lining the square were built as larger replacements for the wood-frame buildings of this early boom, with most of the construction taking place in between 1890 and 1915, and in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Evergreen Conference District is a music conference center in Jefferson County, Colorado, near Evergreen. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1979. The district is located at Highway 74 along Bear Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The seven-acre conference center is owned by the Evergreen Music Conference, the Sisters of St. Marys, and the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. The oldest continuing music center in the United States, in operation since 1907, has 23 buildings that include the Stone Library, Meeting House, St. Raphaels, and the Bell Tower.</p><br>
<p>According to History Colorado it is significant for its:</p><br>
<p>appearance of early 20th century Evergreen and architectural features,</p><br>
<p>connection with Canon Charles Winfield Douglas, an expert on the plainsong mass, and</p><br>
<p>association with music, education, religion, and social/humanitarian activity</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the district resides had been Ute, Arapaho, and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Traders and fur trappers passed through the land by 1821 and prospectors entered the area during the gold rush beginning in 1858. Bergen Park was established in 1859 when Thomas Cunningham Bergen built a log cabin and named his property. In 1877 Evergreen became its own place, unique from Bergen Park, in 1877 when Amos Post opened a trading post, followed by a general store, on what is now Evergreens main street. He married Sarah Bergan, Thomas daughter. The area was first called Evergreen when D.P. Wilmot expressed his admiration of the firs, spruce, and pines on the land he acquired about 1875 in Buffalo Park. Ranchers, loggers and farmers established themselves along Bear Creek. City dwellers established summer retreats in the mountainous region. Denver Mountain Parks between Morrison and Golden was established in 1991, which brought more people to the area during the summer.</p><br>
<p>In the 1880s a log bunkhouse was constructed for the use of lumbermen. Robert H. Stewart converted it into a hotel by 1872. He added eight guest cottages and called his property Sprucedale Resort. The first church meetings were held in the area in 1872.</p><br>
<p>Mary Neosho Williams, widow of Civil War General Thomas Williams, created a retreat center beginning in 1893 that ultimately evolved into the Evergreen Conference Center when she began holding Episcopal church services in tents. She purchased Stewart Hotel, which was transformed into St. Marks in the Wilderness church, later Mission of the Transfiguration. Her daughter, Dr. Josepha Williams, also purchased land around the Evergreen area and received the former Stewart Hotel through her mothers will. She donated land and buildings for the creation of the center.</p><br>
<p>For recuperative reasons, Canon Charles Winfred Douglas, who was married to Josepha Williams, came to Evergreen for its summer retreats and music camps beginning in 1897. He led musical events, which increased the popularity of the center. He was priest of the retreat&#39;s church for more than 40 years.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal church bought the resort upon Stewart&#39;s death and had John "Jock" Spence build some additional buildings and remodeled some of the existing buildings. The family of</p><br>
<p>Canon Charles Winfield Douglas, an expert on the Plain-Song Mass, and Mary Neosho Williams (wife of General Thomas Williams) donated land and buildings for the district. Buildings from Frederick J. Bancroft&#39;s 2,500-acre ranch were also donated to the Evergreen Conference District in 1923.</p><br>
<p>Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse Building, also known as Missouri Poster and Sign Company, Inc. and Bellas Hess Antique Mall, is a historic warehouse building located at North Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1912–1923, and is a nine-story building built as a merchandise warehouse for Sears. The building features Late Gothic Revival and Chicago school style design elements. It has since been adaptively reused as apartments and is now known as.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The McClaine House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. This two-story brick structure has historically been a combination residence and commercial building. Sanborn maps list the commercial space as housing: a barber shop , cigar factory , and swelling . The second floor is four bays wide, while the main floor is three bays. The middle two windows on the top floor each have a small window located above. Across the top of the structure there is a plain cornice that is enhanced by modillion blocks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Moser Stone House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. This two-story limestone structure is a side gable house whose construction dates from before 1858. It is located along an alley at the rear of the property, and features an enclosed porch that is typical of many early residences in town. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Nieland House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. This two-story brick structure&#39;s construction dates from before 1886. It is local version of the New England Saltbox. The second floor has only three windows on the northern ⅔ of the facade. The main floor is a symmetrical five bays wide. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Essex Junction Commercial Historic District encompasses the historically railroad-dominated portion of downtown Essex Junction, Vermont. Aligned along the south side of Railroad Avenue and adjacent portions of Main Street, the area underwent most of its development between 1900 and 1940, when Essex Junction served as a major regional railroad hub. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Essex Junction originally developed in the early 19th century as a mill village, based on the water power of the adjacent Winooski River. With the advent of the railroads, the village, benefiting from its proximity to Burlington, Vermonts largest city, became a major regional railroad hub, with six different railroad lines meeting in the area. The downtown area was almost completely destroyed by a fire in 1893, but was rebuilt in the following decades. Although the railroads declined in use after World War II, the village continues to serve freight traffic, and has a passenger station on Amtraks Vermonter service.</p><br>
<p>The central focal point of the historic district is the Brownell Block, a two-story brick commercial building (pictured) at the western corner of Main Street and Railroad Avenue. It extends on the southwest side of Railroad Avenue to Central Street, and along Main Street from the "Five Corners" junction (Main, Pearl, Maple, Park, and Lincoln Streets) to Railroad Street, just across the Amtrak railroad tracks. The twelve buildings in this area are typically two stories in height. Most are of wood frame construction, but many have been faced in brick; only two buildings are of entirely masonry construction. Half the buildings were built before 1900, with only one (3 Main Street) predating the 1893 fire. Only one building (a former grocery store at 26 Railroad Avenue) was built after 1920.</p><br>
<p>The Weber House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. It was built by Dr. Weber, a German immigrant surgeon, sometime before 1858. It is also possible his name was George Wehmer. Subsequently, the house was associated with the Freidlein and Zimmerman families who owned a nearby saw mill and lumber yard. Initially, the 1½-story brick structure was in a "T" shape with a full size porch across the front. The house has been added onto on the rear. A two-frame kitchen wing had been added to the north side around 1900, and is no longer extant. There was also a summer kitchen on the property at one time. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Wehmer House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. This 1½-story brick building was constructed by George Wehmer between 1856 and 1862. The adjacent lumber yard owned the house by 1900, but it returned to being a private residence by mid-century. Initially it was designed as a duplex with a unit on both side of a shared entrance. The chimneys on each side are connected to fireplaces. The dormers on the front of the side gable roof were added later and are not original. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Stauer House is a historic building located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1882, it is a two-story brick structure that features stone details, an attached frame wing on the back, a cross gable roof, and a wooden porch. Local architect Elias White Hale Jacobs designed the house in the Queen Anne style. Two prominent McGregor businessmen, Peter Stauer and J. A. Ramage, owned it consecutively. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds Office Building and House is a historic building located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. Joseph "Diamond Joe" Reynolds was a New York native who started working in a gristmill in the 1840s. As the grain belt moved to the west, he moved with it, settling in Chicago in the 1850s and McGregor around 1860. Because of difficulties accessing steamboats to ship grain down the Mississippi River, he established the Diamond Jo line in 1866. It grew to become a major player in the transportation industry. He had its headquarters moved from Fulton, Illinois to Dubuque, Iowa in 1874. By the late 1870s railroads had taken over as the primary means of shipping grain, and Reynolds turned his attention to passenger boats. He had this combination office and residential building constructed in 1885. Reynolds died in 1891 and his widow sold the building before her death in 1895. It has subsequently housed grain trader offices, a billiard parlor, the post office, a winery, shops, and apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building is a two-story brick Romanesque Revival structure. It features round arch windows and doorways, a terra cotta and a triangular pediment above the main entrance. A second-story projecting bay window above the entrance was added about 1900, after the Reynolds&#39; ownership.</p><br>
<p>The American House, also known as the American Hotel, Evans Hotel, and Ryan House, is a historic building located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. Ohio native William H. Harding had the three-story structure built in 1854. It is a stone building that is covered with a brick veneer on the upper two floors. McGregor was a river port that immigrants used to get to western Iowa, southern Minnesota and points west. In the early years most people came to town via ferry or packet boats on the Mississippi River. They would leave by horse, stagecoach, wagon or train. The stagecoach departed from in front of the hotel. The ticket office for the railroad, which was located across Main Street, was established in the hotel lobby. An addition was constructed on the southwest side of the original building. The sunrooms were built above it in the 1970s and 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Goedert Meat Market, also known as the Main Street Mall, is a historic building located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. The two-story, single-unit, brick building was completed in 1890 in the Italianate style. It maintains the only complete cast-iron storefront in town. The storefront was manufactured by Mesker Bros. Front Builders of St. Louis, Missouri. The facility dates from the time when all aspects of the meat business from slaughter, to processing, to sales were housed in one building. The New York–style meat market was built for John Goedert, who maintained his residence upstairs. By the turn of the 20th-century it housed Bergman&#39;s deli/butcher shop, and remained a butcher shop until 1944. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The building was hit by an EF-1 tornado and collapsed on the evening of July 19, 2017. It was removed from the NRHP in 2022.</p><br>
<p>Poplar Bluff Municipal Library  is a historic library building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a full basement and has a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Poplar Bluff Municipal Library District can trace its beginnings back to Mrs. M. C. Horton, president of the Poplar Bluff Bay View Reading Club, who held a meeting in her home in 1915 to discuss the possibility of a free public library to serve Poplar Bluff and its citizens. A year later, on April 25, 1916, a membership library opened in the basement of the Criterion Theater staffed with 14 volunteers. Members paid $1 per year for access to this collection. The hours at first were from two to five p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.</p><br>
<p>This library proved so popular that in 1917, a library mill tax was passed and Poplar Bluff had its first public library. After beginning in the basement of the Criterion Theater, the library moved locations several times before landing in its permanent home on Main Street. The building at was constructed in 1936 at a cost of $50,000 using a combination of federal and local monies for the purpose of housing a free public library. The Missouri Library Association held its annual statewide conference at the Poplar Bluff Library when it opened its doors in Oct.1936. At the time, the library was touted as being state of the art with electric lights and a three hundred seat auditorium.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 and 2008, the library’s home was expanded and renovated, respectively, doubling the size of the original 1936 building and more than tripling the size of the 1967 Children’s Library. The building now sits at 21,000 square feet and offers a collection of more than 70,000 volumes, access to public computers, and free and unlimited Wi-Fi.</p><br>
<p>In June 2012, ninety-five years after the community first dedicated funding for the purpose of a library, Poplar Bluff made its voice heard once again on the value it places on a democratic society that has access to free and open information when they passed a quarter-cent sales tax to ensure the future of the Poplar Bluff Library. This revenue tripled the library’s budget and provides greater access to the library’s services and collections for today’s and future generations.</p><br>
<p>In November 2019, the library purchased a 4,000 square foot building at to serve as a branch library. In November 2020, the library named this branch The Dr. Gus T. Ridgel Branch Library in honor of a prominent Poplar Bluff native, Dr. Gus T. Ridgel.</p><br>
<h2>A History of Library Locations:</h2><br>
<p>April 25, 1916 - July 1919: Basement of the Criterion Theater (northwest corner of Pine Blvd and Main Street)</p><br>
<p>July 1919 - April 1930: Corner of Pine & Broadway (currently the site of Rodgers Theater)</p><br>
<p>April 1930 - December 1935 - The Elk&#39;s Home on the corner of Poplar and 2nd Streets (210 Poplar - currently the site of the Daily American Republic newspaper)</p><br>
<p>December 1935 - August 1936: The Fraternal Opera Building (northwest corner of Broadway and Poplar streets across from the Downtown Free Parking Garage)</p><br>
<p>September 11, 1936 - Present Day: 318 North Main Street</p><br>
<p>November 2019 - Present - Dr. Gus T. Ridgel Branch at 3398 Kanell Blvd</p><br>
<h2>Librarians</h2><br>
<p>Miss Lucy Horton (1916-1918)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. J. L. Lindsay (1918-1935)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Agnes Maske (1935-1936)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Helen Cain (1936-1964)</p><br>
<p>Mr. Dewayne Beckemeir (1976-1998)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Jackie Thomas (1998-2012)</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Sue Crites Szostak (2013-Present)</p><br>
<p>Rodgers Theatre Building is a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1949, and is a three-story, brick and concrete commercial building with Art Deco and Art Moderne stylistic elements. The building contains a drama stage and one commercial space and consists of three main sections; the facade and theatre marquee, the theatre, and the office block. The theatre marquee features a prominent ziggurat tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Poplar Bluff Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 14 contributing commercial buildings in the central business district of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1930s, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Fraternal Building  and Begley Building .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>South Sixth Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1917, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Luke F. Quinn House , the Warren S. Randall House , and John C. Corrigan House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1954, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne, Neo-Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Moore-Dalton House. Other notable buildings include the Holy Cross Episcopal Church  and the Zion Lutheran Church .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Isle County Courthouse is located at 3677 United States Route 2 in the center of North Hero, the county seat of Grand Isle County, Vermont. Built in 1824, it is one of the oldest surviving courthouses in the state, and the only surviving one built out of stone. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Isle County Courthouse is prominently sited in the linear town center of North Hero, placed on a rise on the west side of US 2 overlooking City Bay. Its main block is a two-story stone structure, built out of locally quarried limestone and covered by a hip roof. An octagonal belfry rises from the center of the roof, and is covered by a gold octagonal onion dome. The main facade is five bays wide, with the entrance at the center, sheltered by a gabled portico with Tuscan columns. Above the entrance is a round-arched sash window; the other windows are rectangular sash, set in openings with granite sills and lintels. A shed-roof addition extends to the rear, and a second ell connects the main block to a two-story wood-frame house (formerly a jailer&#39;s residence) to the left.</p><br>
<p>Grand Isle County was organized in 1802, with North Hero named its county seat in 1804. Its early court sessions were held in private facilities such as the hotel and tavern of Jed Ladd, built in North Hero in 1803. With the county rising in population and prosperity, the matter of a permanent courthouse arose in 1823, resulting in the construction of this courthouses main block the following year. Although there is no documentary support, it may have been designed by Scottish mason James Ritchie, who is credited with building most of the areas few surviving stone buildings of the period. The courthouse initially served as a court, jail, town hall, and church. In 1865 the town hall and church functions were removed to the newly built meeting house next door. In the early 20th century the building underwent further alteration, including construction of the adjacent jailer&#39;s house.</p><br>
<p>The Coburn Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Coburn Road over the Winooski River in eastern East Montpelier, Vermont. Built in 1851, it is the town&#39;s only surviving 19th-century covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Coburn Covered Bridge stands in far eastern East Montpelier, about 2.7 mi east of the town center. Coburn Road runs north from United States Route 2, roughly paralleling the south-flowing Winooski River and eventually crossing it. The bridge is oriented east-west, and is a single-span queenpost truss structure with embedded iron rods. It is 69.5 ft long and 16.5 ft wide, with a roadway width of 13.5 ft (one lane), and rests on abutments of concrete and stone faced with concrete. The exterior side walls are sheathed in vertical board siding to a height of about 7 ft. The portals are sheathed to their full height in vertical siding, and have segmented-arch tops. The bridge roof is metal. The roadway deck consists of three steel beams carrying a concrete floor; this is the result of work done in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built about 1851, and is the town&#39;s only covered bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Dumas Tenements are a pair of four-unit apartment buildings, set back-to-back at 114 West Allen and 114 West Canal Streets in Winooski, Vermont. Built about 1907 by a French Canadian immigrant, they are among the only buildings of their type to survive the city&#39;s urban redevelopment efforts of the late 20th century. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dumas Tenements are located west of downtown Winooski and its historic mill complex. West Allen and West Canal Streets both run east–west from the downtown area, between the Winooski River to the south and railroad tracks to the north. The two buildings are identical in basic structure, and are set back-to-back, the northern one (on West Allen Street) facing West Allen Park and the southern one facing a former industrial site that is now residential. Both are two-story wood-frame structures with flat roofs that have extended eaves with paired Italianate brackets. The walls of one are finished in wooden clapboards, while the other has been resided in vinyl. Each houses four residential units, two on each floor, which are accessed through entrances at the center of the street-facing facade. The entrances are sheltered by two-story porches, and provide access to central stairwells that retain some original features.</p><br>
<p>The two buildings were constructed about 1907 by John Dumas, a French Canadian immigrant who purchased a single lot from the Burlington Flour Company in that year, conditioned on his construction of multi-unit housing. Four-unit wood-frame buildings of this type were not unusual in the districts of Winooski where worker housing was constructed. Many such buildings were demolished by the city during urban renewal projects of the 1970s and 2000s, and these are among the few that have survived.</p><br>
<p>The Albertus Building, also known as the Gutenberg Haus, is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-and three-story structure of locally quarried limestone was completed around 1855 by C. Albertus. A unique feature of the building are the pointed arch doorways and windows, which have not been found on similar commercial buildings in Iowa. The building was initially used for a combination of commercial and residential use. Clothing and grocery stores were located on the first floor of the southern three-story block. By 1886 the northern two-story block was all residential, and by 1894 the whole building had gone residential.</p><br>
<p>The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Guttenberg State Bank, also known as the People&#39;s Bank, is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The bank was incorporated in May 1900 with John P. Eckart was its president. The bank was also referred to as "Eckart Bank". They built this building two years later. It is a two-story brick structure that features a round tower with a conical roof on the corner. The second floor windows are topped with inlaid brick arches that combines with a brick stringcourse. Above is a brick cornice.</p><br>
<p>Guttenberg had two banks, the other was Clayton County State Bank, and neither failed during the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeside Ballroom, also known as the Lakeside Pavilion, is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. It is located next to the Mississippi River near a backwater known as Bussey Lake. The first part of the building was completed in 1927 by local contractor Louis Schroeder for $17,000. William  Kann Sr. had the facility built as the Lakeside Pavilion, and it was operated by two of his sons, Edmund and William Jr. They sold the building in 1935 and it was expanded and converted into a ballroom. Many local and national music acts performed at Lakeside, including: Jesse Stone, Jimmy Wade, Wayne King and their orchestras.</p><br>
<p>The building is a 173 by rectangle, except for entrances on the east and north sides and a small room to the southwest corner that was reportedly used to store alcohol during Prohibition. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Cynthia–Kinzer Historic District is a national historic district located around Cynthia and Kinzer Streets, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. It encompasses 55 contributing buildings 1 contributing site, and 17 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1907 and 1961, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and International style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Alfred W. Greer House and J. Herbert Moore House. Other notable buildings include the Fred Anderson House , Hubert C. Roland House , Lyle Kutchback House , Lawrence and Alma Tedrick House , C.P. Schultz House , J. Truman and Lena Carter House , Carl Capps House , and James and Nelda McPheeters House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Hargrove Pivot Bridge, also known as Old Hargrove Bridge is a historic swing bridge located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It crosses the Black River. It was built in 1917, and is 220 ft long with a turning span of 100 ft. This bridge has a modified Wichert truss as its center span and a modified Warren pony truss extending on each side of the center truss. The bridge has not been turned since 1942 due to the lack of river traffic in the area.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>M. Fred Bell Rental Cottage is a historic home located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built between about 1893 and 1894, with additions designed by Fulton architect Morris Frederick Bell built about 1904. It is a one-story, Queen Anne / Shingle Style frame cottage with a central hip roof with pinwheel projecting gables. It was restored in the late-1990s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>M. Fred Bell Speculative Cottage is a historic home located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was designed by Fulton architect Morris Frederick Bell and built in 1893, with additions by Bell built in 1907. It is a one-story, Queen Anne frame cottage with a Bungalow style front porch and rear addition. It was restored in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
