<p>The Joshua Twing Gristmill is a historic industrial facility at 450 North Main Street in the city of Barre, Vermont. Built in 1844, it is a remarkably high-style example of Greek Revival architecture for an essentially utilitarian industrial structure. Joshua Twing, its builder, was engaged for many years in a variety of industrial pursuits, primarily considered with engineering improvements in water wheels and turbines. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Joshua Twing Gristmill is located north of downtown Barre, in an industrial area on the west side of North Main Street (United States Route 302) south of its junction with Berlin Street. It is set between the road and railroad tracks that parallel it and the Stevens Branch of the Winooski River. It is a 2-3/4 story brick building with a gabled roof. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with stone sills and lintels. Projecting from the center of the main facade is an unusual stair tower, whose ground level is fronted by a brick wall with stone headers, and is open at the sides, allowing a wagon to pass underneath the second level. A large entrance is set in a granite frame on the second level, and was originally accessed by stairs that have been removed. The interior of the stair tower includes trap doors to facilitate the movement of goods to the building&#39;s third level. The interior of the building has a number of high-style Greek Revival features, including a double-spiral staircase and marbleized columns.</p><br>
<p>Joshua Twing purchased this property in 1807, at which time a sawmill and gristmill stood on it. Over a period of decades, he built a series of mills and industrial structures on the property, of which this gristmill is the only one to survive. Twing&#39;s major business was in the production of iron parts, for which he built a foundry in 1818. He produced parts for use in mills, including waterwheels and possibly turbines, but also engaged in other pursuits, including the custom grinding of grains. The facilities continued to be used until the turn of the 20th century for the production of water power technology; most of the complex was demolished in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The Phoenix was a sidewheel paddle steamer operating on Lake Champlain between the United States states of New York and Vermont, and the British province of Lower Canada . Built in 1815, she grounded, burned and sank in 1819 off the shore of Colchester, Vermont. Her surviving wreckage  is the oldest known example of a sidewheel steamer anywhere in the world. The wreck site is a Vermont State Historic Site, which may be visited by registered and qualified divers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Phoenix was a wooden frame steamship, with a total length of 146 ft, a beam of 27 ft, and a hull depth of 9.25 ft. Her keel measured 125 ft, to which a 120 ft keelson was bolted for added stability. There were 66 full frames along the hull length. The area amidships featured additional stringers and timbering to support the heavy steam engine that was located there. She was reported to have a gracefully curved hull that flared out in a manner similar to whaleboats. She was powered by a steeple engine, which was supplemented by windpower provided from sails attached to a single mast.</p><br>
<p>The Phoenix was built in 1815 by the Lake Champlain Steam-boat Company at its shipyard in Vergennes, Vermont, under the direction of Jahaziel Sherman. She was the second steamer to sail on Lake Champlain, after the Vermont (launched in 1808), which was the first regularly operated steamship anywhere. The Phoenix was fitted with a steam engine that had previously been used on another steamship that had sailed on the Hudson River. She was operated for four years on a route between Whitehall, New York and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec. In 1817, she carried President James Monroe from Burlington, Vermont to Plattsburgh, New York, and in 1818 she carried the remains of American Revolutionary War general Richard Montgomery, en route from Quebec City (where he died in the 1775 Battle of Quebec) to his final resting place in New York City.</p><br>
<p>On September 4, 1819, she caught fire after departing from Burlington. Most of the passengers and crew safely made their escape, but six perished due to the flames or drowning. The ship grounded on Colchester Reef and was burned to the waterline. The company salvaged equipment from the wreck, including the steam engine, and the remnant hulk was dragged off the reef the following spring and allowed to sink. There was a great deal of speculation at the time that the fire was deliberately set by individuals unhappy with the advent of steam powered ships.</p><br>
<p>The shipwreck was discovered on September 4, 1978, exactly 159 years after her demise. She lies on the sloping bottom of the lake, between 60 and 110 feet depth. The wreck is about 40% complete, the consequence of post-fire salvage, subsequent salvage work, and the ravages of time.</p><br>
<p>The William Goodale House, also known as the University of Wyoming Alumni House, is a Tudor Revival style residence built in 1931 for William and Ethel Goodale in Laramie, Wyoming. The house was designed by Wyoming architects William DuBois and F.W. Ambrose.</p><br>
<p>Ethel Miller Goodale was a sister of Leslie A. Miller, Wyoming governor from 1933 to 1939. Her father A.E. Miller had been mayor of Laramie. William Goodale owned a Hudson automobile dealership and was involved in the First State Bank of Laramie. The Goodales lived in the house until 1942, when Mr. and Mrs. George Forbes bought the house. The surrounding neighborhood became more commercial over time and many of the neighboring houses were torn down. In 1990 the University of Wyoming Alumni Association bought the house for its headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The two-story house was constructed by the Speigelberg Lumber Company of Wyoming sandstone with brick decorative accents with a sandstone wall partially surrounding the property. The roof is covered by terra-cotta tiles. Windows include leaded panels and opal glass in a variety of configurations. Masonry is rustic and the roof tiles wrap over the eaves. The brick accents in the attic gables resemble half-timbering.</p><br>
<p>The William Goodale House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Jelm-Frank Smith Ranch Historic District, also known as Old Jelm and Cummins City, comprises an area of bottomland on the Laramie River near Woods Landing, Wyoming where the mining boomtown of Cummins City, Wyoming was established in 1880. Gold had been discovered in the nearby mountains and the town was established by W.S. "Buck" Bramel and John Cummins. In 1881 Cummins City was described as having about 100 houses and a hotel. By this time the camp was already declining, and by 1886 mining in the district was largely inactive. However, in the 1890s copper was discovered in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow ranges. Cummins City was revived as Jelm in 1900. This boom also declined and in 1930 Jelm&#39;s population was 50.</p><br>
<p>Frank Smith worked in Cummins City and Jelm during the mining booms and remained afterwards, establishing a homestead. Smith died in 1945having expanded his holdings to 10,000 acre. The ranch buildings comprise the principle remnants of Jelm. Nineteen buildings comprise the historic district. Most are of log construction on stone foundations. Buildings include a combination school/chutrch, several sheds, houses, cabins, barns and dugouts, a bar, an oculist&#39;s shop and the ranch headquarters.</p><br>
<p>Jelm was the setting for location shooting for the Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. movie The Man from Painted Post in 1917 after the crew was asked to leave Rock River by a disapproving mayor.</p><br>
<p>The Jelm-Frank Smith Ranch Historic District was established on August 31, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Marine Reservation Historic District is in the northwestern area of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, just west of the Hospital Reservation Historic District. Beginning in 1911 it reached its maximum development, prior to World War II. The district included four standing buildings and a barracks, which has been demolished. The barracks was a -story brick building similar in design to the other buildings. All of the buildings face the Marine parade ground, which is used as a playfield.</p><br>
<p>The four two-story quarters of brick have Colonial Revival influences in the Georgian Colonial details. Quarters M-l, M-2 and M-3 were designed by Washington, D.C. architect J.H. DeDibour in 1910. The district is a man-made bench cut into the hillside. Each building has a front, side and rear lawn, native plantings and garden areas. The garages were built in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>One year after the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established its founding commandant, Lieutenant Ambrose B. Wyckoff, requested a Marine detachment to provide yard security. It was not until 1896, however, that First Sergeant George Carter, along with twenty Marines, were sent to Bremerton. The Marine Reservation was established on what is now the corner of the yard bounded by Chester Avenue and the alley south of Burwell Street. By 1899, an officers quarters and barracks building had been constructed. Constructed between 1911 and 1914, the buildings in this district symbolize the role which the Marine Corps played as a security and training arm of the United States Navy, a function which began at the shipyard in 1896 and continued until 1977, when the function was moved to Subase Bangor.</p><br>
<h2>Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic Districts</h2><br>
<p>The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard contains five historic districts:</p><br>
<p>Officers&#39; Row Historic District</p><br>
<p>Puget Sound Radio Station Historic District</p><br>
<p>Hospital Reservation Historic District</p><br>
<p>Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District; and</p><br>
<p>Marine Reservation Historic District.</p><br>
<p>These five units are a comprehensive representation of the historic features of the naval shipyard.</p><br>
<p>The Laramie Downtown Historic District comprises the historic core of Laramie, Wyoming. Established in 1868, Laramie owes its existence to the Union Pacific Railway, which chose the site and began selling property. By 1871 Laramie was the county seat of Albany County. The historic district includes many buildings dating to the earliest days of Laramie as well as railroad-related structures built between 1870 and 1938. 59 buildings are considered to be contributing structures in the 10-1/2 square block area.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Laramie was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Lehman-Tunnell Mansion, also known as the Tunnell House, is a Queen Anne style residence located in Laramie, Wyoming. Constructed in 1891, this house reflects the popularity of Queen Anne architecture during the late 19th century and is characterized by its asymmetrical design, conical roof, bowed windows, and corbeled chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Frank Cook who was a local builder and architect in the Laramie area. The house was originally built for merchant Edward Lehman and his wife Pauline who eventually sold the house in 1919 to Edward&#39;s business partner Frank J. Terry. After the house was sold, Frank eventually defaulted on his loan. During a period of bank ownership, the house served for a time as the Kappa Delta sorority house for the University of Wyoming. In 1940 the house was sold to Dr. H.E. Tunnell, a chiropractor, and his wife Ida. Dr. Tunnell died in 1966 and his widow sold the house in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular brick house is 2-1/2 stories high with a prominent chimney. The stair landing features a stained glass window with Interior wood work built by Frank Spiegelberg. The house also features a foundation made of rock-faced stone laid in courses, curved arches emphasizing the front windows, a projecting front porch, and a side bay that follows a similar curving line.</p><br>
<p>The Lehman-Tunnell Mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1982, for its architectural significance and its representation of Queen Anne architecture in Laramie, Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The Jim Baker Cabin was built in 1873 by frontiersman Jim Baker as a fortified house on the Little Snake River at Savery Creek near present-day Savery, Wyoming. The two-story log building measures 31 ft by 16 ft with two rooms on the lower level and a single smaller room on the upper level. The outer walls are made of logs 12 in to 15 in thick.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jim Baker was recruited by the American Fur Company in 1839 for an 18-month expedition with Jim Bridger to Wyoming. Baker returned briefly to his home in Illinois in 1841 but returned to the Rocky Mountains with the Bidwell-Bartleson party, where he joined a trapping party on the Little Snake River. The party of 23 fought with about 500 Arapahos, Cheyenne and Sioux on August 21, 1841, losing three of their party and claiming 100 Native American casualties. Following the fight the trapping party retreated to Bridgers camp on the Green River. Baker stayed in the west as a trapper until 1852, when he went on a trip with Kit Carson. He also served as an interpreter and scout. He was one of the first permanent residents in the area of Denver, Colorado, nominally living there from 1859 to 1871, although the residence was primarily inhabited by Bakers wife and family while he traveled. In 1873 Baker and his family moved to the Little Snake valley in Wyoming, where he remained until his death on May 15, 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1917 interest in preserving the cabin resulted in its purchase by the state of Wyoming, in part to prevent its removal to Denver for display. It was dismantled and moved to Frontier Park in Cheyenne. In 1973 the cabin was moved again to a location close to its original site in Savery.</p><br>
<p>The Baker Cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Richwood Estate is a historic house on United States Route 7 in southern Swanton, Vermont. It was built in 1871 for C.W. Rich, owner of a local lime processing company, and is a distinctive example of Second Empire architecture using native materials. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Richwood Estate is located in southern Swanton, on the east side of US 7 about 1 mi north of the border with St. Albans. It is set on 9 acre of primarily woodland, between Sugarmaple Drive and Maple Garden Estates. The main house is a -story stone and frame structure, covered by a mansarded hip roof. Its foundation and ground floor are composed of stone from Isle La Motte, with locally quarried redstone trim. The steep edges of the mansard roof are composed of purple slate from Fair Haven, and is pierced by shed-roof dormers. The south-side porch features a round corner pavilion and a porte-cochere. The building&#39;s interior features rich woodwork, and an entrance hall inlaid with three colors of native Vermont marble. Northeast of the house stands a carriage house that continues the rich exterior features of the house.</p><br>
<p>The estate was built in 1871 for C.W. Rich, then Swantons leading businessman. He had since 1847 operated lime processing kilns in the town, and it was then the towns most economically important business. Richwood was sold out of the family in 1947; the towns lime businesses remained in the family until 1976. The primary alterations to the house are the removal of the original cupola (said to be disliked by Richs wife), the addition of the porch to the south side in the 1880s, and the introduction of electricity and plumbing to the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Union Co-operative Store Bakery is a historic commercial building at 46 1/2 Granite Street in the city of Barre, Vermont, USA.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Union Co-operative Store Bakery building stands at the back of the parking lot of the Socialist Labor Party Hall on the east side of Granite Street, a short way off Barre&#39;s Main Street business district. It is a vernacular single-story brick building, with a gabled roof. The front (west-facing) facade has a pair of window openings (now boarded over) flanking a doorway, with the door and right window sheltered by a shed-roof hood supported by large knee brackets. The south facade has an asymmetrically placed grouping of window openings flanking a large opening with a garage door. A small flat-roofed brick addition extends north, with a further wood-frame shed-roofed addition beyond that.</p><br>
<p>The main portion of the building was built in 1913, and was an extension of the cooperative grocery store operated out of the Labor Party hall. The bakery was established to meet a growing demand among the citys Italian immigrants for traditional bakery products. Both the bakery and the Labor Party were significant institutions of this community. The bakery building was flooded during Vermonts devastating 1927 floods, and the bakery only operated for two years after that. It served as a training ground for an entire generation of the city&#39;s bakers. It was briefly used by a private bakery between 1936 and 1940, and has largely been used for storage since then. None of its baking equipment has survived.</p><br>
<p>The Porter Screen Company is a historic former industrial facility at 110 East Spring Street in Winooski, Vermont. Developed beginning 1910–11, this mill complex was an important secondary industrial employer in the city, shipping window screens and other housing parts nationwide. The facility, now converted to senior housing, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Porter Screen Company mill is located northeast of downtown Winooski, on a triangular parcel of land bounded on the northeast by East Spring Street, and on the south by a railroad right-of-way. The complex consists of a series of interconnected brick and timber-frame buildings, the largest of which are set perpendicular to the railroad and at an angle to the street. The larger elements are either two or three stories in height, with vernacular industrial style, and the largest is clad in novelty siding.</p><br>
<p>The Porter Screen Company was founded in 1881 by E.N. Porter of Hardwick, Vermont, and at first established operations in Burlington. In 1893 the company relocated to Winooski, in facilities on Barlow Street that burned in 1900. The present complex of buildings was built by the company, mostly between 1901 and 1910, to house its operations. The company at first produced a variety of architectural parts, including doors, windows, and adjustable window screens with wooden frames. The latter product came to dominate its production, but fell out of favor with respect to the more popular aluminum-framed screens, and the business was closed in 1952. The building complex served for many years as a warehouse, until its conversion into senior housing.</p><br>
<p>Colonial Hotel, also known as Colonial Apartments, is a historic hotel located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It was built in 1924, and is a three-story, red brick building. It features a three-tiered porch supported by four nearly full-height square brick columns. The Colonial provided residential space for those visiting Excelsior Springs for an extended period of time in order to "take the waters" at the town&#39;s multiple mineral springs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Ligon Apartments, also known as Udell Apartments, is a historic apartment building located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It was built in 1917, and is a 2 1/2-story, red brick colonnade apartment building. It features a two-story porch with a low pitched hipped roof supported by four square brick columns. The Ligon Apartments provided residential space for those visiting Excelsior Springs for an extended period of time in order to "take the waters" at the town&#39;s multiple mineral springs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Hall of Waters, also known as Siloam Park and Springs, is a historic building located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It is currently the City Hall of Exceisor Springs. It is the site of the first spring of many discovered in Excelsior Springs in the 1880s and 1890s. It was built as a mineral water health resort, with mineral baths and water bottling plant, capturing water from the springs.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by the architectural firm Keene & Simpson and built in 1936-37 as Public Works Administration Project #5252. It is a five-level, reinforced concrete T-shaped building with strong Art Deco and Depression Modern features. It features a decorative boiler stack tower with cast stone and an aluminum cap 30 feet high.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic District. In 2020, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of America&#39;s most endangered historic places. It is currently used as city offices and has a visitor center.</p><br>
<p>Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic District is a national historic district located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 24 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Excelsior Springs. The district developed between about 1894 and 1948 and includes representative examples of Victorian architecture. The central feature of the district, the separately listed Hall of Waters, is a five level, Art Deco / Depression Modern style reinforced concrete building. Other notable buildings include the Flanders Dry Goods Store , A.M. Howard Drug Store , Clay County State Bank , The Huey Building , Oriental Bazaar Gift Store , The Excelsior Baths and Broadway Rooms , Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge Hall , The Kennedy Building , First National Bank Building , The Francis Hotel (c.</p><br>
<p>1905–1909, c. 1917-1922), and The Auditorium (c. 1905-1909).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial West Historic District is a national historic district located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Excelsior Springs. The district developed between about 1894 and 1948, and includes representative examples of Victorian, Classical Revival, and Art Deco style architecture. Notable buildings include the Excelsior Springs Post Office , McCleary Thornton-Minor Hospital , Montgomery Ward Building , J.J. Newberry Company Building , J.C. Penney Company Building , Elks Lodge No. 1001 , Washington Hotel and Orpheus Theatre , I.O.O.F. Building , Arlington Hotel , and Ideal Hotel .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Wyman School, also known as Excelsior Springs High School , is a historic school building located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built in 1912. The building is a three-story, rectangular brick building with Classical Revival design elements. It has a flat roof and sits in a limestone foundation. Also on the property is the contributing power plant (1913) and a classroom annex (a non-historic prefabricated building that sits west of the power plant).</p><br>
<p>The Wyman School was named after Anson Wyman, founder of Excelsior Springs.</p><br>
<p>The school was eventually converted to an elementary school.</p><br>
<p>After classes ended in the mid-1990s, the building was used as a community theatre before becoming vacant.</p><br>
<p>The Wyman School was purchased by the city of Excelsior Springs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>On July 5, 2022, the power plant on the south end of the school was demolished. This structure was built in 1913 to provide heat via a coal-burning furnace. Due to a partial roof collapse noted in 2008 and the extent of damage discovered during a 2021 environmental study, the city decided to demolish the power plant structure.</p><br>
<p>Major Hotel, also known as Colonial Hotel and Franklin House Apartments, is a historic hotel located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Keene & Simpson and built in 1912. It is a three-story, rectangular brick building with Colonial Revival and Prairie School style design elements. It features a low-pitched, hipped roof with wide, overhanging eaves and shed-roof dormers and one-story/ full-length verandah porch. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1934 and converted to a 21-unit apartment building in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Miller Building is a historic commercial building located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story, rectangular brick building with Late Victorian style design elements. It has a flat roof and features a decorative brick cornice, hooded window surrounds, and an intact storefront with cast-iron columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Frank Hughes Memorial Library is a historic library building located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Wight and Wight and built in 1940. It is a one-story, rectangular Classical Revival style brick building. It has a gable roof with a wide elaborate cornice. It features a flat-roofed portico feature a wide, simple wood entablature topped with a rooftop balustrade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Jewell-Lightburne Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Jewell Hall is a historic building located on the campus of William Jewell College at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was built between 1850 and 1853, and is a three-story, modified "H"-plan, Classical Revival style brick and Missouri limestone building. The building measures 120 feet in length and 66 feet in width. It features a colonnade of square columns which spans a recessed, central portico. The interior of Jewell Hall was completely remodelled in 1946–1948.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton House is a historic home located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri at 404 S. Leonard Street. It was built in 1875 in the Italianate Asymmetrical style.</p><br>
<p>The house consists of a two-story polygonal wing attached to a rectangular wing. The two-story veranda with railed porch and entrances for cross ventilation reflects a Southern influence. Interesting features include the stone-incised fluer-de-lis keystones.</p><br>
<p>Source: Liberty&#39;s Living Legacy – 19th Century Houses and Buildings 1820 – 1899</p><br>
<p>Written by: Christopher Harris c. 2004</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Preston–Lafreniere Farm is a historic farm property at Duxbury and Honey Hollow Roads in Bolton, Vermont. Established in the early 19th century, it was operated by five generations of the Preston family through the 1990s. The property includes both a house and barn that date to the early 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and is subject to a conservation easement held by the state.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Preston–Lafreniere Farm is set in a rural area of southwestern Bolton, on 60 acre bounded on the north by the Winooski River and the east by Preston Brook, which descends from the northern slope of Camels Hump to the south. Most of the current property is open fields, the upland woodlots historically associated with the property have been acquired by the state and folded into Camels Hump State Park. The farmstead includes a house and several barns, some of which are connected to each other. The house is set facing north at the southwest corner of Duxbury Road (which roughly parallels the river) and Honey Hollow Road (which parallels the brook), while the barns are across Duxbury Road to the north. The house is a vernacular 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A saltbox-shaped single-story addition extends to the left side. The interior is relatively little-altered since the turn of the 20th century, the principal change being the introduction of a bathroom about 1940. Across the street stand three barns, two of which are English barns dating to the early decades of the farm&#39;s development. The third is a c. 1940 dairy barn.</p><br>
<p>The property was acquired by John Preston from the towns original proprietors in 1790, and he became one of the towns first permanent settlers. The house and two barns were built by him between 1810 and 1830 (dates of construction are uncertain due to difficulties with the documentary record. The property was farmed by five generations of Prestons, and it was only under the last generation (married into the Lafreniere family) that any significant modernization took place. Even then, the c. 1940 dairy barn was hand-built by Leo Lafreniere, albeit using modern balloon frame construction. The Lafrenieres granted the state a conservation easement on these 60 acres in 1991, and sold the state over 400 acre of uplands for inclusion in Camels Hump State Park, whose conservation Bertha Preston Lafreniere had championed.</p><br>
<p>Dr. James Compton House, also known as the Sandy&#39;s Oak Ridge Manor Tea House, is a historic home located at Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri. The original section was built about 1829, as a log dwelling. It was later enlarged and expanded through 1952 during its ownership by the Compton family. Also on the property are the contributing frame blacksmith shop and frame guest house. It is one of the oldest surviving residential structures in the city.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Divide Sheep Camp, also known as Niland&#39;s Cabins, is a ranch site on the Little Snake River in Carbon County, Wyoming, near Baggs. The camp was established in 1909 for summer use by sheepmen of the Niland-Tierney Sheep Company and others in the Little Snake valley. Eventually becoming the Divide Sheep Company the company operated until 1974, leaving the structures intact. The principal elements are a one-story log cabin with a finished attic, measuring about 25 ft by 40 ft built in the early 1920s, a log bunkhouse dating to about 1914, a spring house and a generator shed. The site represents a moderately-well-preserved turn-of-the-century sheep camp.</p><br>
<p>The Divide Sheep Camp was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Rawlins Historic District comprises the historic center of Rawlins, Wyoming. It comprises the area between Second and Sixth Streets and Front to Buffalo Streets and along 5th Street between West Spruce and West Cedar. The town owes much of its living to the Union Pacific Railway, which took advantage of spring in the Rawlins area to establish services there.</p><br>
<p>Contributing structures on Cedar Street include the H. Larson Hardware Store, the Fox Theatre, the Moose Hall, the Blake House, France Memorial Presbyterian Church and several commercial buildings. Other significant contributing structures include the Daley Building, the Osborne Block, the Miller Block, the Post Office, City Hall and other structures. Most of these buildings were built during a boom time between 1920 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Rawlins Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Elk Mountain Hotel, also known as the John S. Evans Hotel, Mountain View Hotel and Grandview Hotel was built in 1905 in Elk Mountain, Wyoming on the bank of the Medicine Bow River. The two-story wood-frame building was built next to the 1880 Garden Spot Pavilion, a dance hall that was a social center in an otherwise isolated portion of Wyoming. The hotel was built by John Evans, the owner of the Elk Mountain Saloon, who in 1903 had acquired the Pavilion. Evans catered to the mining trade through the 1930s. By that time better roads allowed tourism to increase, and the hotel provided accommodation to hunters and tourists. Evans sold the property in 1947 to Mark and Lucille Jackson, who remodeled the hotel and the pavilion.</p><br>
<p>The hotel features a two-story porch on the narrow front facade. Guest rooms are primarily on the second floor, with public rooms below.</p><br>
<p>The Garden Spot Pavilion was built in 1880 by John S. Jones and expanded in 1920 by Evans. The pavilion attracted major bands during the Big Band Era as well as country and western musicians. Despite the town&#39;s isolation patrons would travel up to 200 mi and bands would play to a packed house. The pavilion featured a sprung dance floor, accomplished by laying the finish floor over widely spaced pine logs, encircled by seating areas. The exterior featured a stepped false front that concealed the gabled roof. Performers playing at the Garden Spot included Lawrence Welk, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Hank Thompson and Jim Reeves.</p><br>
<p>The Elk Mountain Hotel and the now-demolished Garden Spot Pavilion were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Carstens Farmstead is a collection of historic buildings located south of Shelby, Iowa, United States. Johan Carstens was a German immigrant who spent eight years living and working in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Davenport, Iowa before settling in Pottawattamie County in 1871, where he established this farm. He bought 160 acre of land from the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and continued to farm it until he and his wife retired in 1905. The farm remained in the Carstens family until 1977, when the last of the 80 acre was donated to the Pottawattamie County Historical Society. The farm buildings include: the original farmhouse , the 1888 farmhouse with the summer kitchen, an outhouse, garage , granary , horse and dairy barn , beef cattle barn , beef cattle barn , forge and workshop , windmill , feed shed , hog house , poultry house, machine shed , the cob house , and a corn crib . The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property, also known as the Alkins Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Gladstone, Clay County, Missouri. The original log section of the farmhouse was built about 1826; it was enlarged to the present I-house about 1853. Also on the property are the contributing root cellar and entrance structure, a milk house, a well and pump structure, and a vehicular and equipment garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>James Brothers House and Farm, also known as the Birthplace of Jesse James, is a historic home and farm complex located near Kearney, Clay County, Missouri. The original log section of the farmhouse was built about 1822; it was later enlarged with a wood-frame addition to form a "T"-plan dwelling. The James Brothers House is significant as the birthplace of Jesse James and Frank James and has been selected as the most important site related to the James Brothers in Missouri. In 1974 Clay County, Missouri, bought it. The county operates the site as a house museum and historic site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, with a boundary increase in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Arthur–Leonard Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 36 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Liberty. The district developed between about 1868 and 1946, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Prairie School, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Dougherty–Prospect Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 139 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Liberty. The district developed between about 1850 and 1946, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Prairie School, American Foursquare / Shirtwaist and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Jewell-Lightburne Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 236 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Liberty. The district developed between about 1852 and 1946, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Prairie School, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Frank Hughes Memorial Library.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>South Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in the central business district of Liberty. The district developed between about 1875 and 1942, and includes representative examples of Classical Revival, Late Victorian, and Modern Movement style architecture. Notable buildings include the Clay County Courthouse  by Wight and Wight and First National Bank .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>West Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses three contributing buildings in the central business district of Liberty. The adjoining buildings were built between 1877 and 1885, and are representative examples of Italianate style commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Garrison School Historic District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with the African-American community of Liberty. The district developed between about 1900 and 1942, and contains a variety of National Folk housing types, as well as the brick Garrison School and the limestone African Methodist Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Garrison School had various principals. A gymnasoum was added in 1938. It went up to 10th grade and students had to take a bus to Kansas City to attend Lincoln High School to complete their secondary education.</p><br>
<p>Odd Fellows Home District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses three contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures associated with an institutional home and hospital. The district developed between about 1900 and 1935, and representative examples of Tudor Revival and Jacobethan Revival architecture. The contributing buildings are the Administration Building, the Old Folks Building , and the Old Hospital . Also on the property is the historic Odd Fellows Home Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Travel Channel&#39;s television show Destination Fear filmed at the haunted Odd Fellows Home for the sixth episode of their third season.</p><br>
<p>15 South Second Street is a historic home located in Newport, Pennsylvania. It served as home to many Newsstands as well as a grocer and clothier over the years.</p><br>
<p>This is a two-story home with a hipped roof, resting on a stone foundation. Its original clapboards are now clad in aluminum siding. The home has two bay windows, with a storefront on first story. It has a pair of double windows on the 2nd floor along with hipped-roof dormers with triple panes in the upper sashes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This was home to the William Witmer Newsstand, Jess Thomas Newsstand, Russel Zeiders Newsstand, Charles Fleck Grocer, Joseph Frish Clothing and Watches as well as the Margaret Bell Millinery.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a contributing property to the Newport Historic District in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It is also identified as #70 in the</p><br>
<p>Wheeling Corrugating Company Building, also known as Cook Composites and Polymers , is a historic factory building located at North Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1920, and is a five-story, six-bay, rectangular reinforced concrete building faced in brick with cut stone trim. A one-story, concrete block addition was built about 1950. It produced corrugated galvanised iron for roofing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Armour Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at North Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Keene & Simpson and built in 1928. It is a two-story, polychromatic brick building with Spanish Eclectic style design elements. It features a Mission tile roof, arched fenestration and decorative tiles, and glazed terra cotta detailing. The building houses the theater, community rooms, and offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Missouri City Savings Bank Building and Meeting Hall, also known as the Nowlin Store Building, is a historic commercial building located in Missouri City, Clay County, Missouri. Built circa 1858, it is the oldest and largest remaining commercial structure in Missouri City, featuring shops on the first level and private spaces on the second. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Memorial Cemetery, also known as The Old Gravevard, is a historic cemetery located on the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It was established about 1828, and contains 554 documented burials. The cemetery is rectangular in plan and measures approximately 140 feet by 435 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Smithville Historic District is a national historic district located at Smithville, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses 30 contributing buildings in the central business district of Smithville. The district developed between about 1868 and 1964, and includes representative examples of Gothic Revival and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the IOOF Lodge Hall / Smithville City Hall , C.C. Kindred Motor Company , The State Theater , Masonic Hall , First Christian Church , Bank of Smithville / Citizens Bank and Trust , Post Office , Methodist Episcopal Church , Smithville Community Hospital , and Standard Service Station .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Elms Historic District is a national historic district located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri, United States. It encompasses 31 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 7 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Excelsior Springs. The district developed between about 1887 and 1963, and includes representative examples of Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow style architecture. It is anchored by the separately listed Elms Hotel and consists of two historic residential plats: the Central Park and the Elms Addition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>20 South Second Street is a historic home located in Newport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>This is a two-story home with a hipped roof, resting on a stone foundation. The all brick structure is 4 pays wide with a storefront at the corner. Clapboard siding was added around the storefront along with a wraparound porch with modern wood columns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Now home of Newport Natural Foods, I was home to the following businesses: The William "Bill" Welfley Drug Store, Earl Gower Drug Store, Charles E. Bosserman Drug Store & Soda Fountain, State Liquor Store, the Post Office from 1922 to 1932, Fleck and Hyman Clothing, D. H. Spots Clothing, Marx Dukes Clothing. Originally known as the Dr James B. Eby building</p><br>
<p>It was designated a contributing property of the Newport Historic District in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It is also identified as #71 in the</p><br>
<p>The Willow–Bluff–3rd Street Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The district is primarily a residential area that is adjacent to the central business district to the west. Part of the district is in Jackson&#39;s Addition, which is the first addition to the original town of Council Bluffs. It also sits along the base of the loess bluffs to the east.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood generally developed between 1855 and 1930. The houses that populate the district were built in the revival styles and architectural movements that were popular during this time period. In addition to residential architecture there are two churches and a former high gymnasium that are contributing properties: the Seventh Day Adventist Church (c. 1920), Our Savior Lutheran Church (1926), and the Lincoln High School Gymnasium (1926). Three buildings that were individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places are also contributing properties in the district. They include: the Grenville M. Dodge House (1869), the Wickham-De Vol House (1878), and the August Beresheim House (1899). The streets and retaining walls make up the contributing and non-contributing structures. The non-contributing buildings are largely garages.</p><br>
<p>David L. and Sallie Ann Stoutimore House, also known as the Jenkins House, is a historic home located at Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri. It was built in 1892, and is a -story, L-shaped, Second Empire style frame dwelling on a brick basement. It has a mansard roof and -story tower nook that projects above the roof. It features wood quoins, bracketed cornices, and a highly ornamented wraparound porch. Not to be confused with the Sallie House situated in Atchison, Kansas</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Lewis and Elizabeth Bolton House, also known as the Herman and Johanna Winkelmann House and Belleview Farm, is a historic home located south of Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built about 1833, and is a two-story Greek Revival style stone I-house. It has a 1 1/2 to two-story rear ell. It is five bays wide, with a two-story central portico.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson C. and Gertrude A. Burch House,  is a historic house located at 115 West Atchison Street in Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1869, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick dwelling on a stone foundation. It has a front gable roof and segmentally arched windows. Also on the property is a contributing garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2003.</p><br>
<p>Oscar G. and Mary H. Burch House, also known as the Smith House and Sandy House, is a historic home located in Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1869, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick dwelling on a stone foundation. It has a front gable roof and segmentally arched windows. Also on the property is a contributing garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
