<p>The Ira Hill House is a historic house at 2304 Main Streets in Isle La Motte, Vermont. Built in 1822 for a prominent local citizen by James Ritchie, a regionally acclaimed stonemason, it is one of the rural community&#39;s finer stone houses of the period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ira Hill House stands in the village center of Isle La Motte, on the west side of Main Street north of its junction with School Street, and just south of the town hall. It consists of a stone main block, stories in height with a gabled roof, and a long wood-frame and stone ell extending southward from its left. The main block is fashioned out of quarry-cut limestone, some of it exhibiting fossils found in the island community&#39;s limestone outcrops. It is fronted by a two-story shed-roof porch, a late 20th-century recreation of an earlier Victorian porch with turned posts and scrolled brackets. The ell has two parts: the outer end is a stone barn whose first floor was built contemporaneously to the house, and whose second floor was added about 1840. The joining section consists of a rear stone wall and a front wood frame wall.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1822 by James Ritchie, a regionally prominent Scottish immigrant stonemason who is credited with building nine buildings in Isle La Motte, including the Methodist Church which stands a short way to the east. Ritchie built the house for Ira Hill, a prominent local businessman and son of one of the island&#39;s major landowners. Hill engaged in wide variety of businesses, including the operation of a hotel and tavern on these premises.</p><br>
<p>John Augustus Hockaday House, also known as the Hockaday House, is a historic home located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built between 1863 and 1868, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival / Italianate style brick I-house. It has a low hipped roof with denticulated cornice and features a two-story high portico with square piers and projecting bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Robnett-Payne House, also known as Payne Hall and The Country Place, is a historic home located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1857, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a side gable roof and features a one-bay central entrance porch with Gothic style detailing. It was moved to its present location in 1999 and subsequently restored.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Colby Mansion is a historic house on Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury, Vermont. It was built in 1870 by George J. Colby, a proponent of ideas of house construction for healthy living, and exhibits all of the major features of his published works. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Colby Mansion stands in Waterbury&#39;s Colbyville village, a short way south of the junction of VT 100 with Laurel Road and Crossroad Road. It is set on the southeast side of Route 100, roughly opposite a modern hotel. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a shallow-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its Italianate style includes quoined corners, bracketed eaves, molded window surrounds with small brackets and ears, and a front porch with paneled square posts, turned balusters, and bracketed roof line. The center bay on the second floor projects above the porch, with a gabled roof, two windows in front, and narrow windows on each side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1870 to a design by George J. Colby, a prominent local industrialist. Colby was an advocate of healthy living, and published ideas concerning the proper construction and outfitting of residences to that end in a series of articles in 1871. His ideas, all present in this house, included symmetrical composition, balloon-frame construction, forced hot air heat, indoor plumbing (including sinks in each bedroom), and natural woodwork for interior finishes.</p><br>
<p>The Duplex at 22-26 Johnson Street is a historic multiunit residential building in Burlington, Vermont. Built about 1888, it is a good local example of vernacular Queen Anne Victorian architecture, built as worker housing in the growing city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>22-26 Johnson Street is a 2-1/2 story wood frame building, set on the east side of Johnson Street a short way south of its junction with Peru Street. The Old North End neighborhood it stands in is just north of Burlingtons central business district, and is densely built with residential buildings. The building is basically rectangular in shape, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Small porches project from near the rear of either side. The buildings style is vernacular, with simple window surrounds and corner boards, and square columns supporting the hip-roofed porches. The building interiors retain only original floor layouts; the building houses two side-by-side two-story units.</p><br>
<p>Eli Johnson built this house as part of his development of Johnson Street, begun in 1888. Johnson was a prominent local businessman, with a partnership interest in a printing firm and also in a retail pharmacy on College Street. He began the development during a period when the city&#39;s economic growth had led to housing shortages for working-class families. Although some of his buildings exhibit touches of Italianate and Queen Anne styling, this one is devoid of such more elaborate touches. Early residents of Johnson Street were typically of English or Irish extraction.</p><br>
<p>Morgans Grove Park is located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States, and shares a history dating back to the 18th century and Morgans Grove, from which the historic park got its name.</p><br>
<p>The park has a little over twenty acres of trees, meadows, a playground, and spring-fed stream. The park also has a 1500 square foot covered picnic pavilion with a full kitchen and restroom facilities, and is used to host family events and corporate functions. The main features of the park include playground equipment, soccer fields, sand volleyball, horseshoe pits, and a 3/4 mile walking or running trail.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The park itself shares history that can be traced back to Morgans Spring. The park goes back to July 16, 1775 when Captain Hugh Stephenson and his company began the famous "Bee Line March to Cambridge." This march lasted for roughly 24 days to meet up with George Washingtons Continental Army that was roughly 600 miles away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Morgan&#39;s Grove Park was the starting point of the historic journey, is currently listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1989 was officially designated by the Secretary of the Army as the birthplace of the United States Army.</p><br>
<p>The picture of the Springhouse is the only remaining structure of Fountain Rock. This is not by coincidence; the Springhouse is the last remaining artifact of Alexander Boteler&#39;s family mansion, which was destroyed in 1864 by Union forces. Boteler was elected to the Confederate Congress and served as an aide to General Stonewall Jackson.</p><br>
<h2>Panhandle Earth Day Celebration</h2><br>
<p>Annually, on the last Saturday of April, Morgans Grove Park is the home of Panhandles Earth Day Celebration. The celebration is just one of many events Morgan&#39;s Grove Park hosts and has been going strong since 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Sports</h2><br>
<p>Although the site has a baseball field, the majority of the park is dedicated to its soccer fields for the multiple leagues that the field can support. The following youth soccer leagues play organized games on the soccer field:</p><br>
<p>JCYSL - Jefferson County Youth Soccer League</p><br>
<p>TCSC - Tri-County Soccer Club</p><br>
<p>NCSL - National Capital Soccer League</p><br>
<p>Christian Bloedel Wagon Works, also known as The Brick Shop and Bloedel & Son Wagon Works, are two historic buildings located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. The main wagon shop and manufacturing facility sits closest to the street. It was completed in 1862 in the Italianate style. The stepped brick parapet of the main facade masks its gabled roofline. The shop was located on the main floor of the brick structure, and residential space was located on the second floor. The second building, which is set further back, was constructed of brick around 1887. It housed the wagon work&#39;s paint shop on the first floor and residential space on the second floor. Other buildings that were at one time part of this facility are no longer extant. The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Guttenberg Corn Canning Co. is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The facility was built by Waukon, Iowa contractor Nelson Beeler, and completed in 1912 for the Guttenberg Corn Canning Company. It is considered a good example of a three-story brick commercial structure. After World War II the building was occupied by Iowa Food Products, and now by Kann Manufacturing Company. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Ballard Farm is a historic farm property on Ballard Road in Georgia, Vermont. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, it had been under cultivation by members of the Ballard family for more than 200 years, having been established in 1788 by a sale from Ira Allen to Joseph Ballard.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ballard Farm stands in a rural area of central southern Georgia, on more than 600 acre of land on Ballard Road near Town Highway 6 (Decker Road). The historic core of the farm is a 100 acre parcel located mostly west of Ballard Road and south of Decker Road. The property has about 15 acre each of pasture and cropland, with the balance, the westernmost portion, in steeply sloped woodlands. The farmstead consists of a cluster of buildings on either side of Ballard Road just south of the junction. The farmhouse is set on the east side of the road facing west, and is a -story brick I-house with Greek Revival features. Doors and windows are set in openings with marble sills and lintels. The main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom window with X-shaped dividers. A wood-frame ell, like the main block topped by a gable roof, extends to the rear. Across the street from the house stand two late 19th-century barns, along with an array of other mostly 20th-century buildings. The oldest outbuilding, now serving as a garage, was built about 1800 as an icehouse.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Ballard was one of the first settlers of Georgia, purchasing the original 100-acre parcel from Ira Allen, the first white owner of the land, in 1788. Ballard purchased a single acre to the east (across what is now Ballard Road) where he built his first house. The wood-frame ell of the present brick house contains within it the elements of a house built about 1800. Now mainly a dairy operation, use of the farm by various generations of Ballards followed common trends in Vermont agriculture, beginning with generalized use, and eventually transitioning to sheep farming before turning to dairy farming. The family&#39;s success is reflective in the regular acquisition of land over time.</p><br>
<p>College Hall is the central building of the campus of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, USA state of Vermont. Located prominently on Ridge Street atop Seminary Hill, this 1872 Second Empire building has been a major visual and architectural landmark in the city since its construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>College Hall is located near the top of a hill east of downtown Montpelier, that was given the name Seminary Hill after the Vermont Methodist Conference established the campus of its seminary there in 1866. The site was chosen because of its proximity to railroad service, and to the state&#39;s center of government; it had previously housed a military hospital during the American Civil War. College Hall was built between 1868 and 1872 at a cost of $50,000, and has been in educational use ever since. It was operated exclusively as the Vermont Seminary until 1936, when Vermont Junior College was given space in the seminary facilities. The seminary closed its doors in 1947. Vermont Junior College was reorganized as Vermont College in 1958 and merged into Norwich University in 1972. The university used the campus to establish a fine arts program, which was later sold to the Union Institute in 2001. The Vermont College of Fine Arts was established in 2008.</p><br>
<p>College Hall is a cruciform masonry building, built out of load-bearing brick walls set on a foundation of rubblestone faced in cut granite. It is four stories in height, covered with a mansard roof. The long street-facing facade is eleven bays wide, with the central three projecting. The projecting section has round-arch windows, including two-story windows in the second and third floors, where the chapel is located. The flanking wings have round-arch windows in the first floor and the mansarded fourth floor, with segmented-arch windows on the second and third levels. The entrance is in the center bay, which projects slightly further, and is topped by a tower rising five stories, also with a mansard roof. The building corners have brick quoining, and there is a beltcourse of brickwork above the first floor. The roof eaves are studded with modillions.</p><br>
<p>The Duplex at 73-75 Sherman Street is a historic multiunit residential building in Burlington, Vermont. Built about 1912 as a livery stable, it was adapted into a residential duplex in 1927. It is a good local example of vernacular Colonial Revival architecture, built as worker housing in the growing city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sherman Street is a short two-block street located on the west side of Burlingtons Old North End neighborhood, a densely built residential area near the citys waterfront. 73-75 Sherman Street is a 2-1/2 story wood frame building on the south side of Sherman Street. Unlike most of the streets buildings, it is set well back from the street, and shares a driveway with its neighbor to the left. The building is basically rectangular in shape, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The right three bays of the front facade are covered by a two-story porch with a shallow-pitch hip roof. The porchs ground floor has an open front, and is supported by square posts, full-length at the center, and mounted on half-walls to the sides. The second-floor porch roof is supported by round columns with Tuscan capitals, mounted on a half wall.</p><br>
<p>Lucius Bostwick was best known in the city as the owner of a drug store, which was located at Sherman and North Champlain Streets, a short way east of this location. About 1912 he constructed this building to serve as a livery stable. Due to rising demand for housing the neighborhood in the 1920s, he converted it into a two-unit apartment house. A later owner, Joseph Veglia, used the property as an income-producing rental for a number of years, living in nearby housing on Sherman Street. In his later years he occupied one of the units.</p><br>
<p>George Washington Carver School, also known as North School, is a historic school building located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1937, and is a two-story, T-shaped, brick building with a partial basement. The building housed Fulton&#39;s only African-American school for 37 years. The school was closed in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Future Renovation Plans</h2><br>
<p>The Board of Directors of the George Washington Carver Cultural Center entered into an option contract during the first of January 2019 with MACO Management Company to restore the building and convert it into affordable housing for senior citizens.</p><br>
<p>Dr. George M. Willing House, also known as the Fleming Home and Joseph Denton Home, is a historic home located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It has a side-gable roof and features six colossal pilasters which divide the front facade and a massive hand carved solid walnut circular stairway in the front-entrance hall.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Richland Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church located at Kingdom City, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1873, and is a one-story, rectangular, three bay, frame building with Italianate style design elements. It has a front gable roof and rests on eight stone piers. Also on the property is a contributing outhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Oakley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at Tebbetts, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1878, and is a one-story, frame gable front church on a concrete foundation. Also on the property are the contributing small cistern  and cemetery. There are approximately 80 known burials in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>White Cloud Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1888, and is a one-story, frame gable front church on a limestone foundation. There are approximately 250 graves in the cemetery dating from about 1840 to the present.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Fulton Historic District is a national historic district located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It encompasses 57 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Fulton. It developed between about 1877 and 1954, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Some of the buildings were designed by noted local architect Morris Frederick Bell. Notable buildings include the Southern Bank of Fulton , Masonic Lodge , Home Savings Bank , Montgomery-Bell Dry Goods , Humphreys-Atkinson-Reid Furniture Company , Fulton Cinema , Kingdom Oil Company , First Christian Church , Adams Building , and USA Post Office .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Court Street Historic Residential District is a national historic district located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It encompasses 84 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Fulton. It developed between about 1844 and 1945, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, American Foursquare, and Bungalow style architecture. Some of the buildings were designed by noted local architect Morris Frederick Bell. Located in the district is the separately listed Brandon-Bell-Collier House. Other notable buildings include the John W. Tucker Residence , Klinginsmith Residence , Synodical College-Seminole Apartments , Synodical College Dormitory-Seminole Apartments , Gish Residence , Dave and Ida McCue House , First Presbyterian Church , Leland Waters Residence , Bauer House , and Martin-Harris House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Urbauer Fishing Lodge Historic District, also known as the Mozark Club and Windsor Estates Mental Health Facility, is a national historic district located at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. It encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure constructed by St. Louis industrialist Hugo Urbauer as a private fishing retreat.</p><br>
<p>It was developed about 1930, and includes the main lodge, a Bungalow style house, a seven-vehicle garage, pumphouse, a set of 83 concrete stairs leading down to the Niangua River, and a small concrete storage building. The main lodge is a one- to two-story building constructed of sandstone, limestone and cinderblock. It as a gable roof with wide overhanging eaves.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The McGregor Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 60 resources, including 51 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, and seven noncontributing buildings. Unlike most river towns in Iowa the central business district does not follow along the Mississippi River, but moves away from it. It is linear in shape, following Main Street, which runs from the southwest to the northeast in a narrow valley between two 400 ft bluffs. The narrow valley ends at the river.</p><br>
<p>The buildings in the district were constructed between 1849 and 1952, with a significant number built between 1849 and 1860. They are between one and three stories in height, are generally constructed of brick, and follow the commercial Italianate and Greek Revival styles. There are also a few stone, frame and log structures. Local architect E.C.W. Jacobs designed a couple of buildings in the district, notably: First National Bank (1863), Town Hall and Jail (1874), and 128-134 Main Street (1880s). Three buildings are individually listed on the National Register: the American House (1854), the Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds Office Building and House (1885), and the Goedert Meat Market (1890). Market Square, a park, is the contributing site, and the main line storm sewer is the contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The American School of Wild Life Protection Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located on the north side of McGregor, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 30 resources, including 17 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, nine noncontributing buildings, two noncontributing sites. The American School of Wild Life Protection was established in 1919 in a resort area known as McGregor Heights. The purpose of the school was to promote resource conservation values among the public. It grew out legislation in 1918 that established state parks in Iowa. The school also promoted the idea of establishing a national park in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, and after that did not come about, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The school continued in existence until 1941.</p><br>
<p>The site for the school, McGregor Heights, had been established as a Chautauqua site by the McGregor Improvement Company in 1898. The district is made up of 20 cabins that were mostly built between 1898 and the early 1920s. Because they were built at different times they encompass a variety of styles. Those who attended the school stayed in the cabins. The irregular McGregor Heights Road that the cabins are located along is the contributing structure. It was built by the City of McGregor in 1899. That same year the city provided water and electric service to the area. Fourteen concrete piers on which a pavilion was built c. 1926 are also in the district. It was the only permanent structure built for the school. Prior to its construction sessions and meals were held in tents. The pavilion was taken down in 1958 after sitting unused for several years.</p><br>
<p>The Guttenberg National Fish Hatchery and Aquarium Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of four resources, all of which are contributing buildings. This district also contributes to the Front Street  Historic District. The USA Fish and Wildlife Service had a long history of involvement with wildlife conservation in Iowa, especially fisheries. They established fish rescue program along the Mississippi River in 1903 and a research station at Fairport in 1910. The development of the lock and dam system in the 1930s brought the fish rescue operations to an end because they eliminated of the backwaters that trapped them. The fish hatchery was developed at that time.</p><br>
<p>Property for the facility was donated by the City of Guttenberg and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Construction of the hatchery and aquarium building, the superintendent&#39;s residence, and a garage were begun in 1938 and completed in 1939 by the Public Works Administration. The pump house was completed a year later. The fish rearing ponds on Twelve Mile Island were built by the Works Progress Administration from 1939 to 1941. The fish reared in the ponds were distributed to lakes, rivers, and ponds in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, and South Dakota. They also supplied specimen fish to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago; the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. aquariums in Dallas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia; the Fish Control Laboratory in La Crosse, Wisconsin; as well as several university research laboratories. The ponds were closed and transferred to the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge in 1971. The rest of the facility was transferred to the State of Iowa in 1974, and it acquired the titles to the properties from the federal government in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Billado Block is a historic commercial building at 371 Main Street in the Enosburg Falls village of Enosburgh, Vermont. Erected about 1885, it is the town&#39;s oldest surviving brick commercial building, built during a period of growth occasioned by the arrival of the railroad in the village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Billado Block stands in the village of Enosburg Falls, at the northwest corner of Bismarck Street and Main Street (Vermont Route 108N), a short way south of the former Missisquoi Railroad right-of-way. It is a three-story rectangular structure, built out of load-bearing red brick walls and covered by a flat roof. Its Italianate styling includes brick corner quoins brick hoods over segmented-arch windows, and a decorative cornice. The front facade is four bays wide, with the ground floor divided into two storefronts, each with plate glass windows flanking a recessed entrance. A banded brick pilaster, similar to the corner quoins, rises at the center of the facade. The ground floor is used for commercial purposes, while the second floor houses apartments. The third floor is open, and was probably used as a storage area when the building housed a general store.</p><br>
<p>The block was built about 1885 for William Billado, an immigrant from Canada who had established a general store in the village after moving there in 1876. Billado operated the general store on these premises, probably occupying one of the second-floor units as a residence, until his death in 1925. He rented a portion of the ground-floor space to a local bank, and the Enosburg Falls Bank acquired the entire building in 1960. It is now occupied by a successor via merger of that organization.</p><br>
<p>The Currier Park Historic District encompasses a historic late 19th-century affluent residential area of the city of Barre, Vermont. Centered around Currier Park, a rectangular park laid out in 1883 just east of the city&#39;s downtown, are a collection of a high quality predominantly Italianate and Queen Anne Victorian residences. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The city of Barre rose in the last quarter of the 19th century as a major center of the granite quarrying and processing industry. It experienced rapid growth, resulting in the development of its downtown, and the need for workers increased development pressures on adjacent rural areas. To the east of its downtown was a farm property owned by Stedman Chubb, a stonemason who had purchased it from his father-in-law, Richard Carrier, in 1881. First used by Chubb as a dairy farm, he began laying out Currier Park in 1883. Chubb donated the park to the city in 1883; it was first named Chubb Park in his honor, but was later renamed for his father-in-law. The first houses were built facing the park about 1885, and the area was completely developed by 1905.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of Currier Park and all of the buildings facing it on East, North, Park, and Academy Streets. It extends a bit further from the park along Park, East, and Academy, and also includes abutting properties on the adjacent Averill, Cliff, and Mount Streets. The district directly abuts the Barre Downtown Historic District, which lies to the west and south. The majority of main buildings in the district are in a vernacular Italianate style, although a large minority of the 38 buildings are Queen Anne in style. There are four Colonial Revival houses in the district, built in the early 20th century. The park is rectangular in shape, with a star-shaped path layout and grassy areas dotted with trees.</p><br>
<p>The Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4 is a historic former fire and police station at 135 Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Built in 1887 for a private fire company, it is a fine local example of 19th-century commercial architecture. It served the city as a fire and police station until the 1960s, and is now used as a commercial space. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and is a contributing property to the City Hall Park Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4 building is located just north of Burlington City Hall, on the west side of Church Street between Main and College Streets. Its front facade faces Church Street, but it also presents a designed facade to City Hall Park, which is located directly behind it. It is three stories in height, built out of red brick, in a commercial variation of the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The facade facing Church Street has two former equipment bays on the ground floor, now converted to commercial storefronts, which art articulated by pilaster-like brick pillars set on granite block piers with red rusticated stone base and capital. A stone band above these bays identifies the engine company. The upper two floors have windows set in groups in tall round-arch openings, which are in a Palladian style with a large central opening and narrower flanking ones. The building is topped by an 85 ft tower that was originally used to dry hoses.</p><br>
<p>The firehouse was built in 1887 for a private fire company that operated horse-drawn fire engines. It was later folded into the city&#39;s fire department, and the building adapted to house motorized fire equipment. Later in the 20th century it was occupied by the Burlington Police Department, which vacated the premises in the late 1960s. It has since been adapted for commercial uses.</p><br>
<p>The George Washington Grover House is a two-story house located at 1520 Market  in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas. Built in 1859, the house is one of the oldest brick residences in the city.</p><br>
<h2>George Washington Grover</h2><br>
<p>The Grover House is named for its builder, George Washington Grover, a Texan pioneer. After his birth on November 9, 1819, in Sackets Harbor, New York, Grover spent his childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1839, his father Nathan Grover moved the family to a farm seven miles south of Austin, Texas, joining the ranks of other early Texas settlers. On August 11, 1840, Grover fought on behalf of the Republic of Texas against a Comanche-led war party at the Battle of Plum Creek.</p><br>
<h3>The Santa Fe Expedition</h3><br>
<p>The following year, George W. Grover volunteered to serve the Republic of Texas once again, this time as part of the artillery company in a trade expedition to Santa Fe, then a Mexican city claimed by the Republic. Upon the arrival of the expedition in Santa Fe, Grover was among the members selected to meet with the Mexican contingent. The endeavor proved to be disastrous when a Texan officer surrendered all of the men to the Mexican authorities. As prisoners, Grover and his cohorts marched all the way to Mexico City, where they remained until April 1842. While detained, he edited a weekly newspaper called True Blue under the pseudonyms “Simon Pure” and “Snooks.” In a total of six issues written by hand from April and May 1842, the single-page newspaper reported on the expedition and prison life.</p><br>
<h3>Return to the USA and Travels</h3><br>
<p>After his release from Mexico City, Grover returned to Cincinnati, where he married Hepzy Dana Andrews in May 1844. The marriage was tragically brief as Hepzy died of unknown causes the following September. Grover remained in Cincinnati until February 1849, when he and childhood friend Wright Andrews joined a gold expedition to California. After departing from New Orleans, they made stops in Panama and, after their ship was blown off course by a Pacific storm, Hawaii. When they finally reached San Francisco, Grover and Andrews established a supply store and mined for gold. In their return trip, their gold was lost during a boat fire. Grover was later involved in a second boat fire when the steamship Louisiana of Port Lavaca caught fire off the coast of Galveston, killing forty people.</p><br>
<h3>Relocating to Galveston</h3><br>
<p>In 1850 Grover traveled to Galveston, Texas with the intention of settling. By December 1851, Wright Andrews and his brother Henry Andrews had joined him. The trio formed a wholesale and retail grocery and ship chandlery business. After Henry left the partnership in 1852, Grover and Wright Andrews opened their mercantile house in the heart of the citys emerging commercial district at the northwest corner of Strand and 22nd Street. In August 1852, Grover married Eliza Ann Crane, the daughter of Ambrose Byron Crane, Galvestons Deputy Collector of Customs serving under Gail Borden.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the House</h2><br>
<p>In 1858 or 1859, Grover purchased a lot at 1520 Market (then designated 460 East Market) with the intention of building a house for his growing family. Though the architect of the house is unknown, Research has revealed the sources of some of the building materials:</p><br>
<p>The bricks, created on Galveston Island at James M. Brown&#39;s brickyard, match those used by Brown to construct his own house, the 1859 Ashton Villa at 2328 Broadway (Avenue J).</p><br>
<p>Pine flooring came from Pensacola, Florida.</p><br>
<p>Marble window sills came from Vermont.</p><br>
<p>Granite steps to the western entrance came from New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>Nick White, an Irish-born slater and plasterer, applied stucco to the bricks and scored it to simulate masonry units in a technique that was called "rough casting." In 1872, the Galveston Daily News referenced White&#39;s work on the Grover House, saying that “it looks to-day almost as good as new. It certainly improves the appearance of a building most-wonderfully.”</p><br>
<h3>Layout and Design</h3><br>
<p>The house sits on a property covering over three lots between 15th and 16th streets on the north side of Market street inside Galvestons East End Historic District. The brick structure of the house is covered with beige stucco scored to give the visual impression of cut stone. The existing hipped roof was added to the building in 1943. The original roof had a cupola, which was accessible via steps in the houses third story. A 1943 hurricane destroyed two stories on the north (rear) side of the house.</p><br>
<p>The three-bay south façade has a double gallery, which is not original to the house. The gallery was altered or expanded three times during the twentieth century. In the current configuration, the galleries are accessible from the interior of both stories via doors on the western ends of the south facade. The first-story door, with an architrave featuring colored glass, pilasters, sidelights, and a transom, serves as the house&#39;s primary entrance. The lintels of the windows on the south facade have stucco scored to simulate heavy keystones. The sills, original to the house, are made of white Vermont marble.</p><br>
<p>The house is one of the oldest surviving brick residences in Galveston. According to the recollections of Grovers son Walter, the house may have been the second largest dwelling in Galveston (after Ashton Villa) upon its completion. The earliest documented description of the house, published in 1936, provides an overview of the houses interior:</p><br>
<p>ceilings of unusual height, bordered with attractive hand-made friezes, and with hand-made center designs built about the ceiling gas fixtures. Throughout the house are hand-cut stained glass panes, and all window and door sills are of marble. The ′mantel and hearth in the great parlor on the ground floor are of black marble, and the fireplace on the second floor is of white marble. The old kitchen at the rear was built over a large underground cistern which supplied water to firemen when fires broke out nearby. Two other cisterns and a cellar are under the house, and one of the cisterns is still being used, supplying the family with cool water during summer months.</p><br>
<h2>Grover&#39;s Life in Galveston</h2><br>
<p>After its construction, the Grover House “became a social center,” according to Walter Grover, who later recalled that “many gay parties were held there, and, according to the custom of the time, friends and relatives visited there from distant places and enjoyed their hospitality.”</p><br>
<h3>The Battle of Galveston</h3><br>
<p>The firm of Grover and Andrews operated from the Strand until 1861, when the firm dissolved upon the outset of the Civil War. In that year, Grover was elected city alderman. He went on to serve as Galveston Mayor pro tem during the war after other members of the city government retreated to. When the Union Army took control of the city, Grover met their officers. After the deaths of Union leaders Captain Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Lieutenant Commander Edward Lea during the Battle of Galveston on January 1, 1863, Grover offered his own familys plot in the Episcopal section of Galvestons Broadway Cemetery for their burial. Following the war, Grover&#39;s respectful treatment of Union soldiers was a subject of controversy in Galveston. Newspaper accounts of his election reveal a lingering debate over his actions as late as 1869.</p><br>
<h3>Late career</h3><br>
<p>By 1870, Grover had launched his own grocery company at the old Grover and Andrews location at 22nd Street and Strand. An advertisement in the 1872 Galveston City Directory lists the firm as retail dealers in “family supplies, produce and boat stores.” The company was out of business by 1874. Between 1874 and 1881, Grover was an employee of Rice and Baulard, sellers of paints and oils from a store at 213-217 23rd Street. Grover was an artist himself and two of his works survive as important portrayals of mid-nineteenth-century Galveston. The first depicts the capture of the USAR.C Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston. The second famous painting, “Galveston as Seen from the Main Top of Ship at Central Wharf – October, 1855”, was given to the Rosenberg Library by the Galveston Historical Foundation and restored in 1968. In his later years, Grover remained active recounting his early exploits in the Battle of Plum Creek, the Santa Fe Expedition, the Gold Rush, and the Battle of Galveston. He died on December 21, 1901, after a fall. His wife, Eliza died in 1913 as one of the oldest citizens in Galveston.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation Efforts</h2><br>
<p>Thanks to relatively stable ownership and the preservation projects, the Grover House retains a remarkable amount of its original integrity. A substantial rehabilitation project during the 1990s included restoration of some distinctive features of the house, including its scored stucco. Some mid-century alterations, including changes to the east elevation of the house, were replaced with features from the house&#39;s original design.</p><br>
<p>The house incurred flood damage during Hurricane Ike of 2008. An oak tree in the front yard, which had withstood the devastating 1900 Galveston Hurricane, did not survive. All of the damage from Hurricane Ike has been repaired and the historic masonry is subject to ongoing observation.</p><br>
<p>The house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing member of the East End Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Motor Mill Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located southeast of Elkader, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. In 1977 it had been listed as a contributing property in the Motor Townsite.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Thompson, James Crosby, and J.P. Dickinson formed a partnership to establish a town, a mill, and other business ventures along the Turkey River at a place known as Hastings Bottom. The new town was named Motor. They spent $50,000 constructing the mill and $40,000 on equipment and other buildings. Stone for these structures was quarried from the bluff above and it was lowered in cable cars that ran on wooden rails.</p><br>
<p>Skilled German stonemasons from nearby Communia were hired to construct the 90 ft tall, six-story gristmill. Legend has it that there were four of them and each worked on a different wall. Each tried to outdo the others in order to display his own craftsmanship, which is why three walls are composed of rounded stone while the fourth wall was laid with square cut stone. The stone faces on the north side are flat because the investors intended to build a woolen mill there, but they could not find investors to build it.</p><br>
<p>The mill was completed in 1869, and it was operational by the following year. The mill ground barley, oats and rye for livestock feed; wheat and buckwheat into flour; and corn into cornmeal. Barrels were made in the nearby cooperage to ship the flour and corn meal. But the mill couldnt overcome difficulties beyond its control. Chinch bugs destroyed area wheat crops and all the mills in the area competed for fewer raw materials. A narrow-gauge railroad planned to serve the community was washed out, and a flood in 1883 washed out the dam. The mills investors never recouped what they put into it, and the partnership dissolved. The district court auctioned the property in 1891. Louis Klink bought the townsite in 1903. He sold the mill&#39;s machinery and he used the buildings for his farm operation. The property remained in the family for 80 years. The Clayton County Conservation Board acquired the property in 1983 and converted into a park.</p><br>
<p>The Front Street  Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and in 2004 its boundaries increased to include buildings that did not front onto River Park Drive. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 75 resources, including 57 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 17 noncontributing buildings. The boundary increase added 19 resources, including 15 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 3 noncontributing buildings. The 4½ block segment of South River Park Drive, originally called Front Street, that makes up the district is the commercial center of Guttenberg. The buildings line the west side of the street facing a park, a contributing site, and the Mississippi River across the street. The National Fish Hatchery and Aquarium complex , whose buildings contribute to the historic nature of the district, is also located on the east side of the street.</p><br>
<p>There is a large collection of brick and native limestone buildings in the district. They range in height from one to three stories. The oldest buildings date from the early 1850s with a majority of the buildings overall built before 1900. There is a number of buildings constructed in vernacular forms, and many are capped with either side or front gable roofs. The parapet front commercial type is also prominent. Besides the fish hatchery, the other contributing buildings that are also individually listed on the National Register include the Albertus Building (1855), the Fuerste House (1870), and the Guttenberg State Bank (1902).</p><br>
<p>The Sheldon Boright House, also known as the Grey Gables, is a historic house at 122 River Street in Richford, Vermont. Built in 1890 for a prominent local businessman, it is a fine example of a pattern-book design by Palliser, Palliser & Company, and may be the only instance of a house found on the cover of one of that company&#39;s pattern books. Now a bed and breakfast inn, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sheldon Boright House stands on the west side of Richford&#39;s town center, overlooking the Missisquoi River from the north side of River Street. It is a distinctive -story wood-frame structure with elaborate Queen Anne styling. Its asymmetrical massing is covered by a multicolored slate roof that features iron cresting and numerous gables. A central tower rises to a third story, covered by a cross-gabled roof. The walls are finished mainly in clapboards, with pilastered corners and peaked window surrounds. A single-story porch wraps around two sides, with elaborate turned posts, gables and Stick style arched woodwork. The interior retains equally elaborate decorative elements original to its period of construction.</p><br>
<p>The house is the largest and most elaborately decorated in the small community. It was built about 1892 for Sheldon Boright, a Canadian immigrant who was a prominent local businessman. The house is based on a pattern published by Palliser & Palliser of Bridgeport, Connecticut in its 1878 Pallisers American Cottage Homes. It was apparently also the design for George Pallisers own home in Bridgeport, which no longer stands, and appears on the cover of the book. It is one of the only known examples of a Palliser house in Vermont, and it may be the only one that is a close copy of one of the Palliser&#39;s own homes. It was built by M.E. Dode, who successfully adapted local materials (including polychrome slate for the roof) to the design.</p><br>
<p>Elkins Hall is a historic administrative building located on the north side of the campus of Nicholls State University fronting Bayou Lafourche. It was the first building constructed on the campus of what was then known as Francis T. Nicholls State College.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ground was broken for the construction of Elkins Hall in 1947, and was first used during the 1948–1949 school year. Originally, it was called simply the Main Building, and housed the college&#39;s administrative offices, classrooms, laboratories, cafeteria, bookstore, and library. As more buildings were added to the campus, the building was used more exclusively for administrative offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was named for Dr. Charles Calvert Elkins (1900–1963), founding dean of Francis T. Nicholls Junior College. In 1956, the school was separated from Louisiana State University and designated it a four-year institution, renamed Nicholls State College. Elkins served as its first President from 1956 until his retirement in 1963. Following his death later that year, the building was renamed Charles Calvert Elkins Hall in his honor in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Elkins Hall building and a 9 acre area comprising the lawn and circular drive in front of it were added as Francis T. Nicholls Junior College Main Building to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Elkins Hall is a two-story brick building built in the Classical Revival style of architecture. It was designed by the New Orleans–based architectural firm Favrot and Reed (now known as Mathes Brierre). In keeping with the Classical Revival style, the building is two rooms deep and features a rectangular floorplan and gable-fronted roof. The front of the building includes a white two-story portico with a triangular pediment featuring a circular window, supported by four columns on square bases. The central upper window features an ornamental wrought iron balustrade.</p><br>
<p>Renovations over the years have added an elevator (1983) and two additional wings known as Candies Hall (1986) and Picciola Hall (1978), which connect to Elkins Hall via covered walkways.</p><br>
<p>The Woodbine Lincoln Highway and Brick Street Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Woodbine, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The eleven block section through Woodbine follows what is now called Lincoln Way, the towns main thoroughfare. This section of the Lincoln Highway was paved with bricks in 1921. The street features a canopy of shade trees lined with houses from the turn of the 20th century. Siebels Department Store-Boyer Valley Bank, Woodbine Savings Bank, and the Woodbine Public Library are contributing properties in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The Parley Davis House is a historic house on Center Road in East Montpelier, Vermont. Built in stages between 1795 and about 1805, it is one of the oldest buildings in the community, built by one of the first settlers of Montpelier, and served as the site of town government until 1828. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parley Davis House stands in the village of East Montpelier Center, on the north side of Center Road. The main block is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior, to which an older Cape-style frame house is attached to the rear as an ell. The main block exhibits quality Federal woodwork, including an elaborate front entry with pilasters and sidelight windows beneath a half-round transom and gabled pediment. A Palladian window is above the entry. The interior of the main block retains original Federal period woodwork, while the rear ell reflects late 19th-century alterations.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is the rear ell. In 1791, Parley Davis built a log cabin. About 1795, he built a wood-frame cabin on this site, which was enlarged c. 1799 to the Cape frame seen as the ell today. About 1805, he built the Federal period main block of the house. Parley Davis was one of the first white settlers in the area, establishing mills that enabled further development of the area to take place. His home was also where early town meetings (of what was then Montpelier) took place until 1828, when they were moved to the nearby Methodist church. His house now stands as an important example of the evolution of architecture in early Vermont.</p><br>
<p>Woodbine Public Library, also known as Carnegie Public Library, is located in Woodbine, Iowa, United States. The library was organized in 1907, and it was initially housed in the jail section of city hall. If there was inmate in the jail the public had no access to the library. The city council appointed a board of trustees in 1908 and they applied to the Andrew Carnegie for a grant to build a library building. They received a grant on April 28, 1909, for $7,500. The Eisentraut Company, a Sioux City architectural firm designed the Prairie School building. F. X. White of Eldora, Iowa was the contractor. The building was completed in February 1909, and it was dedicated on March 9 of the same year. This was the first library built in Harrison County.</p><br>
<p>The single-story brick structure is capped with a hipped roof. The Prairie School influences are found in the building&#39;s low, horizontal orientation, and its wide overhanging eaves with modillion blocks. The Mission Revival influence is found in the original clay tile roof, the curvilinear forms on the parapet and the hood of the entry porch hood, and the round-arched windows. The original tile roof was replaced with asphalt shingles after a hailstorm in 1980. An addition was added to the west side of the building in 2001. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 2013 it was included as a contributing property in the Woodbine Lincoln Highway and Brick Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Siebels Department Store-Boyer Valley Bank, also known as I.0.0.F. Hall, Nicely Building, Whitmores, and the Rena Barry Building, is a historic building located in Woodbine, Iowa, United States. Siebels&#39; was one of the largest, longest-lasting and</p><br>
<p>most well-known stores in Woodbine. Adolph Siebels moved here from Minden, Iowa in 1904 and bought a grocery store. He expanded the store&#39;s offerings to include clothing, housewares and other items. Siebels expanded the store in 1907 and again in 1908. He sold shares in the store to some of his employees in the 1920s, and the store remained in business under three owners until 1954.</p><br>
<p>The store originally operated out of the corner building that was owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which had their clubhouse on the second floor. The front corner of the building was built in 1878 by the Boyer Valley Bank. It features a clipped corner with a metal cornice across the top. In 1902 an L-shaped addition was built to the west and north of the building. Siebels built the addition to the north in 1907, and its architecture was integrated into the original building. The 1908 addition to the north of the 1907 addition is slightly different, and is not part of the historic designation. The store only occupied it for three years, while it occupied the other buildings until 1954. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. In 2013 it was included as a contributing property in the Woodbine Lincoln Highway and Brick Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bridge 9 is a historic Parker through truss bridge, carrying Shawville Road across the Missisquoi River in Sheldon, Vermont. Built in 1928 after Vermont&#39;s devastating 1927 floods, it is one of the few surviving Parker truss bridges on the Missisquoi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bridge 9 is located just northeast of the village of Sheldon Springs, carrying Shawville Road over the Missisquoi River between that village and the rural hamlet of Shawville. It is a single-span Parker through truss structure, 250 ft in length, resting on stone and concrete abutments. The bridge has nine truss panels, those at the center reaching a total height of 38 ft. The bridge is 18 ft wide, with a roadway width of 16 ft. The bridge deck is concrete laid on steel floor beams supported by steel stringers.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1928 to plans by the Lackawanna Steel Construction Company of Buffalo, New York, replacing an 1888 wrought iron suspension bridge. The site, just above Bancroft Falls on the river, has had a bridge of some type since the late 18th century. The bridge is of a type standardized by state engineers for bridges longer than 250 ft, during the post-flood construction period, in which more than 1,200 bridges were built.</p><br>
<p>Bridge 12 is a historic Parker through truss bridge, carrying Boston Post Road across the Missisquoi River in Enosburg, Vermont. Built in 1929 in the wake of Vermont&#39;s devastating 1927 floods, it is one a shrinking number of surviving truss bridges on the river. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bridge 12 is located in a rural area of northern Enosburg, northeast of the village of Enosburgh Falls. It carries Boston Post Road (Town Highway 2) across the Missisquoi River, just south of its junction with Vermont Route 105, a major regional east-west road. The bridge is 204 ft long, and rests on concrete abutments. It has an overall width of 18 ft, and a roadway width of 16 ft. Each truss has eight triangular panels, the central ones stiffened by counter-diagonal struts, and reaching a maximum depth of 32 ft. The trusses are joined together by a network of sway bracing. The bridge deck is concrete resting on a network of steel stringers and floor beams.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1929 to a state-approved design by L.H. Shoemaker, and the truss elements were fabricated by the Lackawanna Steel Construction Company of Buffalo, New York. The crossing site probably had a number of timber-frame bridges, the earliest definitively dated to the 1870s. The bridge was built in the wake of floods that washed away more than 1,200 bridges in Vermont, and accelerated the standardization of bridge construction in the state. This is one of a small number of surviving truss bridges on the Missisquoi River.</p><br>
<p>The William Fitzgerald Block is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building at 57-63 North Champlain Street in Burlington, Vermont. Built about 1887, it is a well-preserved example of a period neighborhood store with residences above. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Fitzgerald Block stands in Burlingtons&#39; Old North End neighborhood, at the northwest corner of North Champlain Street and Sherman Street. It faces North Champlain Street, a major north-bound thoroughfare through the neighborhood. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a flat roof and clapboarded exterior. Its Italianate features include a projecting cornice decorated with elaborate paired brackets, a simpler bracketed cornice over the first-floor storefronts, and peaked sills above the second-story windows. The front facade is six bays wide, housing a storefront in southern four bays. There are four doors, one recessed into the storefront, and two of other three providing access to the upper floors; the fourth provides access to a ground-floor apartment built out of former retail space at the north end.</p><br>
<p>The block was built about 1887, by William and Mary Fitzgerald, who operated a neighborhood store and lived in the northernmost residential unit. The area had seen an influx of workers for Burlington&#39;s wood products industries, and the area in the immediate vicinity developed as an enclave of Irish immigrants. The store went through a number of changes in ownership and size, sometimes only occupying the corner section of the commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The Hudspeth County Courthouse is located in the town of Sierra Blanca, the seat of Hudspeth County in the USA state of Texas. The courthouse was constructed in 1919 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The Texas Historical Commission  has also designated the building as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 1962 and as a State Antiquities Landmark since 1981. The county is named for Claude Benton Hudspeth who served as a USA representative from El Paso and previously in both houses of the Texas Legislature where, as a member of the Texas Senate, he was influential in the county&#39;s creation.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is located in Sierra Blanca&#39;s central commercial district and holds the distinction of being the only remaining Texas courthouse of adobe construction. The one-story building features a mixture of Spanish Eclectic and Mediterranean Classic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse has received renovations over the years supported by federal and THC funding, and has served as a meeting place for local clubs and organizations.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is situated in central Sierra Blanca in the center of a block bounded by West Brown Street to the north, North Archie Avenue (Farm to Market Road 1111) to the east, West Millican Street to the south, and North Williams Avenue to the west. The buildings facade and main entrance face southward toward Millican St. The buildings official address is 201 West Millican Street. The single-story building is constructed from adobe made from local materials with 18 in walls and is the only remaining adobe courthouse in the state. The building features Spanish Eclectice and Classic Revival styles with Mediterranean influences including Italian and Spanish Colonial Revival design elements. The exterior holds side and central arcades with arched windows but otherwise is of simple design with minimal decorative ornamentation enhancing the native construction material.</p><br>
<p>The T-shaped structure holds 14,000 ft2 of floor space including a small basement. The interior has wooden flooring above the basement but otherwise concrete slab floors resting directly upon the ground. In addition to county offices, the building includes a courtroom and other related court spaces.</p><br>
<p>The block upon which the courthouse is located is a two-block compound within the town&#39;s street grid, although the would-be dividing street terminates to the north. The courthouse square, comprising the courthouse itself, surrounding lawn, and supporting infrastructure, makes up the middle half of the courthouse block minus parking areas on all sides. Two half-block areas, one on each side of the square and each separated from the square by a drive, hold newer buildings containing additional county offices. the square holds an historical marker recounting the Confederate occupation of Fort Quitman in the southern portion of the county along the Rio Grande during the Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hudspeth County was created by the Legislature in 1917 from adjacent El Paso County. The legislation appointed a temporary county Commissioners Court charged with organizing the county government including the performance of the tedious and time-consuming requirements to do so such as performing a census estimate, defining election precinct and district boundaries for office holders, conducting elections for county offices, reconciling tax rolls with El Paso County, and settling the new county&#39;s pro rata share of debt previously incurred by El Paso County.</p><br>
<p>Despite these challenges, the county was sufficiently organized to construct the courthouse in 1919 hiring architect Bradford Hardie of the architectural firm Beutell & Hardie from El Paso to design the building. Hardie began living in El Paso in 1906 at the age of six and graduated from El Paso High School before pursuing an architectural degree from Cornell University. His design of the courthouse was influenced by his architectural education and the works of other contemporary El Paso architects including Henry Trost. The building was damaged by an earthquake in 1924 likely becoming the only state courthouse to have ever required earthquake-related repair.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in August 1962. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1975</p><br>
<p>The foundation and adobe structure, including new plaster and paint, were repaired in 1983 with funding from a federal grant while the roof was replaced in 1991. a major renovation was conducted between 2002 and 2004 as part of the THCs Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. This renovation included new piers structurally reinforcing the foundation in order to support the buildings thick adobe walls, a new metal shingle roof, and the removal and replacement of exterior stucco. Interior enhancements incorporated electrical, mechanical, and plumbing upgrades along with the installation of an elevator and fully accessible restrooms.</p><br>
<p>Brigham Academy is a historic school in Bakersfield, Vermont, United States. It was established in 1878 by the town after receiving a gift from philanthropist and native son Peter Bent Brigham, and served as a major regional secondary school until 1966. Its original building, a fine work of Second Empire architecture, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Brigham Academy building stands in the village of Bakersfield, adjacent to the town&#39;s modern primary school on the north side of Academy Lane. It is set well back from Vermont Route 108, which runs north-south to its east. It is a two-story brick building, thirteen bays wide and four deep, covered by a hip roof. The end bays project slightly, as does the central bay, from which a tower rises 3-1/2 stories to a mansard-roofed peak. Clock faces are set in the front and sides of the square tower, and its mansard roof has gabled louvers in each face. Windows are set in rectangular openings with granite sills and lintels, and the entrances are located in the three projecting portions. The interior is largely reflective of a 1901 addition and renovation.</p><br>
<p>Peter Bent Brigham was a Bakersfield native who made a fortune in the Boston area in real estate and restaurants, bequested his home town with $30,000 for educational purposes upon his death in 1877. Brigham is best known for founding one of the institutions later merged to form Bostons Brigham and Womens Hospital. The town spent over $7,000 to build the academy, saving the rest of his bequest as an endowment. The school became a regional magnet, drawing students from across northern Vermont. It served as a high school until 1966, and reopened after two years of major repairs in 1968 as a middle school. It served the town in that capacity until 1986, when the adjacent elementary/middle school was opened.</p><br>
<p>The Gale-Bancroft House is a historic house on Brook Road in Plainfield, Vermont. Built about 1840, it is one of a significant number of period brick houses in the town, unusual given the region&#39;s typical dependence on wood products for residential construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gale-Bancroft House stands to the southeast of the village center of Plainfield, on the north side of Brook Road just east of its crossing of Great Brook and west of Creamery Road. It is a modest single-story brick Cape style house, with a gabled roof. It is basically vernacular in style, with a hint of the Greek Revival in its gable returns. A single-story wood-frame ell extends to the east, set back from the front of the main block. The main block has a centered entrance, topped by a four-light transom window, and has a slightly off-center chimney. The interior of the house is relatively little altered since its construction, and has relatively plain vernacular molding. The main parlor has a tin roof that is a later addition. Standing east of the house is a mid-19th century barn of post-and-beam construction.</p><br>
<p>The exact date of construction of the house is not known. Based on analysis of its architecture, it was probably built after 1840 by S.B. Gale, one of a number of owners of the property between then and 1859. It is one of about a dozen brick houses in the town, that were clearly the work of a relatively small number of builders, but who are poorly documented. The house was used as an undertaker&#39;s facility for some years in the 19th century, at which time it was joined to the barn by an ell which has since been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Follett House is a historic house at 63 College Street in Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1840 for a prominent local businessman, it is the last surviving grand 19th-century lakeside mansion in the city, and one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It has seen commercial and institutional uses since 1885.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Follett House stands prominently overlooking Burlington&#39;s waterfront, at the southwest corner of college and South Champlain Streets. The house is oriented facing west toward Lake Champlain, with a terraced lawn extending westward to Battery Street. It is a -story brick structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. The main facade is five bays wide, with a projecting Greek temple front with five fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature and gabled pediment. Ground floor windows are long behind the temple front, and the second floor has a balcony stretching across its width. A secondary entrance on the north side (facing College Street) is sheltered by a portico. The roof is adorned by a square cupola which was added in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1840 for Timothy Follett (1793-1857), a real estate developer and later a railroad executive. It was designed by Ammi B. Young, whose other credits include the Vermont State House. Follett lost his fortune in the 1850s when the Rutland Railroad went bankrupt, and the house was owned by a series of executives, ending with Dr. B.S. Nichols, a local industrialist. Since 1885 the house has had a variety of institutional owners, including the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Greek Revival architecture, and is that last surviving mansion of a series that once stood facing the waterfront.</p><br>
<p>Woodbine Normal and Grade School are historic buildings located in Woodbine, Iowa, United States. The buildings are part of a complex that provides space for kindergarten to senior high school grades. Two sections of the building were originally separate buildings that are a part of this historical designation.</p><br>
<p>Woodbine Normal and High School was built in 1910. It is a two-story brick structure built on a raised basement and capped by a hipped roof. It has a limestone belt course between the basement and the first floor, and simple corbel panels between the second and third floors. The main entrance located on the south facade is set within a 1½-story projecting pavilion. The building was designed by the Kansas City, Missouri, architect John P. Eisentraut. The grade school building is a two-story brick building. Built in 1931, it was designed in the Art Deco style by the Des Moines architectural firm Dougher, Rich and Woodburn. It has a large limestone tablet over the main entrance with decorative floral motifs and the inscription, "Woodbine Grade School". A two-story brick structure from 1992 connects the two buildings. It replaced the original single story connector from 1931. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Modale School and Masonic Hall is a historic building located in Modale, Iowa, United States. Built in 1880, the two-story frame vernacular form structure served as the community&#39;s school building. In general, 19th century school buildings resembled churches, and the Modale School was no different. The rectangular, front gabled building originally had a prominent bell tower that projected from the main facade. In 1911 the local Masonic lodge converted the building into a theater on the main floor and their lodge hall on the second floor. At that time they added a rear addition, Colonial Revival details on the main facade and on the porches, and Masonic symbols on the front gable end. The Modale lodge dissolved their membership in 2004 and merged with the lodge in Missouri Valley, Iowa as both had lost membership over the years. They donated the building to Town and Country Arts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Abraham Byrd House is a historic home located at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was built in 1827, and is a two-story, vernacular I-house constructed with rough-cut limestone blocks. It has a one-story addition and a two-story service wing. It sits on a rough-cut limestone foundation. Located at the rear of the house is the foundation remains of the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Frizel-Welling House, also known as the Charles Welling House and Joseph Frizel House, is a historic home located at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was built in 1838, and is a -story, three-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a -story wing constructed in 1818. It has a front gable roof with pedimented front gable.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters is a complex of railroad-related buildings and infrastructure in the city of St. Albans, Vermont. Developed between the 1860s and 1920s by the Central Vermont Railroad , the complex is the largest assemblage of railroad-related buildings in Vermont. Located between Catherine and Pine Streets on either side of Lake Street, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Many of the buildings are no longer used for railroad functions, but the former Central Vermont Railway Office now houses the offices of the New England Central Railroad, and the present Amtrak station uses a former CVR building.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters complex is located just west of St. Albans central business district, and is roughly bisected by Lake Street. It is bounded north of Lake Street by Pine and Federal Streets, and south of Lake by Houghton, Market, and Allen Streets. It includes buildings originally used as maintenance sheds, a freight depot, roundhouse, and the main office building that served as the Central Vermonts headquarters. The latter structure, built in the 1870s and located on the north side of Lake Street, is the dominant feature of the complex, distinguished by its Second Empire architecture and pair of 3-1/2 story mansard-roofed towers. North of that building stands a c. 1900 switch house which now serves as the depot for the Amtrak station, and north of that is a large roundhouse. On the south side of Lake Street is a large complex of maintenance facilities, which have mostly been repurposed to other commercial and industrial uses.</p><br>
<p>The Central Vermont Railroad was formed in 1860 by consolidating a number of shorter lines, some of which had been bankrupted, into a single entity providing service from Montreal across Vermont and southern New England to the port cities of Boston, Massachusetts, New London, Connecticut, and later New York City. St. Albans was supposedly chosen as the headquarters site of the new railroad by J. Gregory Smith, a St. Albans native who became the railroads first president. The property where its facilities are located had previously been developed on a smaller scale by the predecessor Vermont and Canada Railroad. Many of the former maintenance buildings, used for the construction and maintenance of the companys rolling stock, were built in the 1860s, along with the surviving headquarters building. By the turn of the 20th century, the CVR was Vermont&#39;s largest railroad operator. During the 20th century, its passenger business declined, and the four-track passenger depot, set just west of the headquarters, was demolished in 1963.</p><br>
<p>Jackson Uptown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The district encompasses 23 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jackson. It developed between about 1880 and 1953, and includes representative examples of Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Cape Girardeau County Savings Bank , Kertsners&#39;s Drug Store , Cape Girardeau County Courthouse  designed by P.H. Weathers, and Jones Drug Store .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Big Hill Farmstead Historic District is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The farmhouse was built about 1855, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements. It has a hipped roof and features a gallery porch. Other contributing elements are the a timber frame barn , a cabin/workshop , a wagon shed , and the surrounding farmland.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Warehouse Row Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The district encompasses three contributing buildings built between 1864 and 1874 alongside the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Cape Girardeau. The buildings are all constructed of brick.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>South Middle Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The district encompasses 15 contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Cape Girardeau. It developed between about 1890 and 1931, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The houses were constructed for working and middle class residents.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
