<p>David John House was a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1848, and is a one-story, double-pen plan red brick dwelling with Greek Revival style detailing. It had historic frame additions and featured two frame porches with distinctive cut-out posts and scrollwork railings added in the 1870s-1880s. Also on the property was the contributing privy. It is no longer in existence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Spratt-Allen-Aull House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style red brick dwelling. It features a colossal pedimented tetrastyle portico with a full-facade upper deck. Also on the property is the contributing octagonal, two-story frame ice house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>D. W. B. and Julia Waddell Tevis House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built around 1868 and is a two-story, cruciform plan, and Italianate style brick dwelling. It features a roofline embellished with hefty modillions  and twin Queen Anne porches. Also on the property is the contributing small, frame outbuilding.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Captain Philo Beardsley House is a historic house on Beardsley Road in Kent, Connecticut. Built about 1780, it is a well-preserved example of an 18th-century saltbox, with a remarkably well-preserved interior. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Beardsley House stands in rural southeastern Kent, on the west side of Beardsley Road south of Kent Hollow Road. It is set back from the road, among fields, with an associated barn across the road to the east. The house is stories in height, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The roof extends down to the first floor in the rear, giving the house a classic New England saltbox profile. The rear lean-to section is an integral part of the houses original construction, and not a later addition. However, the lean-tos rear wall is plank-framed, unlike the rest of the house, which is framed in timber. The main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance, with a simply framed surround and a six-light transom window. The interior follows a central chimney plan, and retains many original features, including oak floorboards, paneling in the main parlor, and an unusual folding table in the original kitchen space. Doors retain original hardware latches.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands is part of a 100 acre parcel purchased by Josiah Beardsley in the 1770s and given to his son Philo in 1781, with the house then standing. The Beardsleys were farmers; Philo was also a captain in the local militia, and had sons who served in the state legislature. The main block of the house has generally avoided modernization on the part of its owners; its modern facilities are located in an ell.</p><br>
<p>The Cartecay Methodist Church and Cemetery, in Gilmer County, Georgia, near Ellijay, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Cartecay Methodist Church was organized in 1834. The listed church building was built upon two acres of land that were donated by Barnett Wilson in 1859. The church, built c. 1859, is a frame structure with mortise-and-tenon construction, made of hand-hewn virgin pine. About 60 years later, a local craftsman and congregation member named Frank B. Haigler added an unusual faux bois finish to all interior surfaces other than the floor. The building was expanded by two Sunday school rooms added after World War II.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is "laid out in a fairly regular gridiron pattern with a variety of modest stone grave markers and minimal landscaping."</p><br>
<p>The modern Cartecay United Methodist Church, whose address is 7629 Highway 52 East, in Ellijay, has a new building behind the historic one.</p><br>
<p>The Elmo&#39;s World Historic District is a 130 acre historic district in Chickamauga, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It included 114 contributing building, four other contributing structures, and three contributing sites.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Greek Revival-style Gordon-Lee House, built between 1840 and 1847, which was already separately listed in the National Register. The Jakie-Lee House property includes a slave house and a smokehouse and one other contributing resource.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Junior High School is a historic former school building in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States. The core sections were built in 1932 and extensions were added on in 1954 and 1962. The school closed in 2005. In 2008 the building reopened as the Franklin Arts Center, which leases residential, work, and commercial space to local artists.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 for having local significance in the theme of architecture. It was nominated for reflecting the research-based national standards for middle school design as they evolved through the first half of the 20th century. Novel, early-century features apparent in the original section include large windows for maximum sunlight, an auditorium and gymnasium designed to accommodate large community events, and rooms for specialized instruction in music, science, and vocational training. The later sections show new preferences adopted after World War II, most noticeably smaller classroom windows and a reliance on artificial lighting.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic core of Franklin Junior High School, built in 1932, resembles a stubby arrow. The two classroom wings meet at a right angle with a prominent, angled-off main entry facing southwest. Extending at a 45-degree angle to the northeast is a third wing containing the auditorium and gymnasium. New additions in 1954 extended all three wings, particularly the two classroom wings. A further expansion in 1962 extended the north wing, bringing the school&#39;s total floorspace from 90,000 ft&sup2; in its original configuration to about 150,000 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The building has a brick and reinforced concrete structure. The exterior is dark red-brown brick with trim of smooth limestone quarried near Mankato, Minnesota. A belt course of stone trim extends continuously just under the ground floor windows. The second-floor windows have stone lintels.</p><br>
<p>The buildings primary façade is the southwest corner, which is angled at 45 degrees. The main entrance is set into a stone entryway featuring a segmental arch topped by a parapet and flanked by a pair of tall piers each sporting a bronze lantern. Large windows on the second floor are topped by a series of stone lancet arches supported by stone corbels. The roofline is defined by a brick parapet which sports a medallion of pattened bricks in the very center. Projecting stone bay windows define the façades ground floor corners.</p><br>
<p>The 1954 additions use brick and stone similar to the original section. An entry door in the middle of the west and south façades indicates the corners of the original construction. A recessed bay on the west façade with another entry door defines the start of the 1962 addition.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The front entrance leads into a ground level foyer with administrative offices to the side and stairs to the second floor. Beyond the foyer, where the buildings three wings come together, is the schools 500-seat auditorium. The north and east wings contain classrooms on either side of central halls. The northeast wing extends behind the auditorium stage and contains a gymnasium as well as a basement-level cafeteria and boiler room. Directly over the main entrance, on the second floor, was the school library. The ground floor of one classroom wing housed industrial arts workshops for boys while the other offered home economics classes for girls. The gymnasium was also originally divided in two for sex-segregated instruction.</p><br>
<p>Although the architectural style of the school&#39;s exterior is Collegiate Gothic, the interior has simple details in the Streamline Moderne mode popular in the early 1930s. The foyer is tiled, while there were terrazzo floors in the hallways and maple wood flooring in the classrooms and gym. The terrazzo continues in the hallways of the later additions, but the walls are covered in ceramic tile and the classrooms are floored with vinyl tile.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Education experts began promoting separate middle schools in the early 20th century as they began recognizing seventh and eighth grade as an important transitional period. Previously these grades were included in primary school but tended to be too focused on review of previously taught material and left students ill-prepared for the high school environment, leading to a high drop-out rate. When Brainerd&#39;s high school building was destroyed by fire in 1928, the city took the opportunity to propose building a middle school in addition to a new high school. Voters approved both projects when they appeared on the ballot.</p><br>
<p>By the time the two contracts went up for bid, the Great Depression had set in and construction work was scarce (federal New Deal funding for building projects would not appear for another few years). 14 architectural firms competed for Brainerd&#39;s two school bids, and the commission went to Croft & Boerner of Minneapolis. Concerned about losing jobs to outsiders, a delegation of local craftsmen lobbied the Board of Education for the construction labor to be drawn from Brainerd residents.</p><br>
<p>Croft and Boerners design drew on the established best practices for American junior high schools. These favored H-, I-, or L-shaped layouts and flat roofs, fireproofing, large windows for natural light in classrooms, good air circulation, a well-stocked library, science laboratories, and specialized rooms for music, industrial, and vocational training. Auditoriums and gyms were often planned to serve the larger community as public event spaces. Croft and Boerners design included an auditorium stage that could be opened up to the gymnasium behind it for additional seating.</p><br>
<p>A growing student population led to expansion of the school in 1954. The design, by Minneapolis architect Hubert Swanson, once again reflected the latest standards, which had evolved since the 1930s. Most notable is a reversal in opinions about windows, driven in part by improvements in artificial lighting. Where maximum sunlight and air circulation had once been deemed essential, fluorescent lighting was now considered preferable and large windows a distraction. An increased emphasis on physical education prompted an expansion of the gymnasium and improvements to the sports field northeast of the school.</p><br>
<p>A further addition to the north wing was designed by the Brainerd-based firm of Stengen, Hendrickson, and McNutt in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>Adaptive reuse</h2><br>
<p>By the 2000s Franklin Junior High School was getting too small again for its student body, but the state funds that had previously helped the city expand the existing building had been eliminated. Brainerd was obliged to build a new junior high, and Franklin closed in 2005. Hoping to find an adaptive reuse for Franklin, the school district contacted Artspace Projects, Inc, a national non-profit organization specializing in converting older buildings into art centers. Artspace formally purchased the building in 2008 and completed renovations later that year.</p><br>
<p>Now known as the Franklin Arts Center, the building leases space to arts organizations and rents out residential and work studios to artists. The school district retains access to the auditorium, gymnasium, and athletic field for sports programs and community events. To preserve the building&#39;s historic feel, state rules forbid major alterations to the exterior or the hallways with their rows of lockers and built-in cabinets.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district roughly bounded by Mosher, Franklin, Illinois and Washington Streets in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1860, Mount Pleasant was founded as the county seat of Isabella County. It began as a tiny settlement, and the first store was not opened until 1864. However, it rapidly developed, and within a year had a church, a school, and a newspaper. Over the next ten years, a number of other commercial businesses were opened in what is now the downtown area. In 1875, the community incorporated as a village, and also suffered a devastating fire that destroyed almost the entire downtown. However, new buildings were quickly erected, with brick becoming the material of choice rather than frame construction. Another fire swept the village in 1882, prompting the construction of a fire station.</p><br>
<p>By this time, the commercial district in the city had spread to encompass the block on Broadway between Court and Main (in the heart of current district) and along Main Street between Michigan and the courthouse to the north. Public utilities - water and electricity - were installed in the 1880s, and a number of churches were established. In the downtown area, the Bennett Hotel and Upton Opera House were constructed in the early 1880s. By 1884, there were 2000 residents in Mt. Pleasant, and in 1889 it was incorporated as a city. In 1891, a second hotel with 45 rooms was constructed. More significant commercial buildings were constructed in the downtown area into the 20th century, now almost exclusively of brick.</p><br>
<p>After the turn of the century, the streetscape began to change, as concrete sidewalks and brick-paved streets were installed. Regular lightposts also appeared. When the Great Depression slowed the nation&#39;s economy, the economy of Mt. Pleasant was cushioned considerably due to the discovery of oil fields nearby. The oil boom brought an influx of money into the city in the 1930s, and the prosperity continued through the post-World War II period. In the 1950s, many of the older buildings in the district received mid-century facelifts. Through the rest of the century, the streets and streetscapes were altered, first by paving the streets in asphalt, and later by redirecting traffic flow and redesigning the sidewalk areas. Planters, benches, and historic light posts were also installed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Main in Mount Pleasant, and encompasses the surrounding eight blocks. The district contains 70 buildings dating from the 1870s to the 1950s. The building are set close to each other and the sidewalk, and are primarily brick commercial structures of one or two stories (with a few three-story buildings). As buildings were demolished due to fire damage or other reasons, newer structures were built to replace them, resulting in a mingling of various styles throughout the district. Buildings are primarily Italianate and Commercial brick, with some other Late Victorian, Art Deco, and International Style structures mixed in.</p><br>
<p>The earliest buildings in the district are Italianate structures constructed immediately after the 1875 fire. However, many of these which are still extant, such as the Doughty and Carr and Granger Blocks (100-108 East Broadway), and the Upton Opera House/Isabella County State Bank (200 East Broadway) have had their architectural features obscured by later additions or refurbishments of the facade. However, the oldest building in the district, the 1877 Fancher Block (101-103 E. Broadway) is still architecturally significant, as are the 1879 building at 130 S. Main and the stretch of buildings from 205 to 217 South Main.</p><br>
<p>Other significant Late Victorian structures, built near the turn of the century, are the Chatterton Block at 118 East Broadway, the Thompson and Dusenbury blocks at 111-119 East Broadway, and the Foster Furniture Company at 102-106 South Main. These structures tend to be more Classical in detail, and include larger plate glass windows on the first floor. As the 1910s and 1920s approached, buildings were constructed more in the Commercial Brick style, and a number of buildings throughout the district are built in this style. Mt. Pleasant also has two significant Art Deco buildings, both of which are theaters: the 1920 Broadway Theater on East Broadway, which features a 1930s era projecting Art Deco marquee, and the 1937 Ward Theater on South Main, with a porcelain enamel façade finished in an Art Deco theme.</p><br>
<p>Linwood Lawn is a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built between 1850 and 1854, and is a two-story, rectangular, Italianate style brick dwelling. It measures 71 feet by 110 feet and features a heavy cornice, detailed balustrades, bay windows, and detailed columns. Also on the property is a contributing brick, octagonal ice house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Minatree Catron House, also known as Minatree Acres, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1843, and is a two-story, central passage plan, Greek Revival style brick I-house. It has a one-story rear ell. The front facade features a two-story pedimented portico supported by square brick columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Theodore Gosewisch House, also known as Fuenfhausen Residence, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, central passage plan, Greek Revival style brick I-house. It has a two-story rear ell with open shed-roofed porch. The front facade features a one-story Victorian front porch installed in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>James M. Dinwiddie House, also known as Maple Grove Stock Farm, is a historic home located near Dover, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, central passage plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick I-house. It has a one-story rear ell. The front facade features a classic one-story portico.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Napoleon Buck House was a historic home located near Waverly, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1873, and was a two-story, central passage plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick I-house. It had a two-story rear ell supporting a double-gallery porch. It featured segmental arched openings. The house is no longer in existence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Houx–Hoefer–Rehkop House is a historic home located at Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1882, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, Italianate style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. It features a front porch with four round columns and two pilasters all with Corinthian order capitals.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Talbot and Rebecca Walton Smithers Stramcke House, also known as The Cedars, is a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1887, and is a -story, asymmetrical, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features a round three-story tower with a conical roof, a wraparound verandah with Eastlake movement supports and spindlework, and gable ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>House at 1413 Lafayette St. is a historic home located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a -story, side passage plan, Greek Revival style brick I-house. It has a one-story rear ell. It features an impressive entry with transom and sidelights, a parapet gable roof, and segmental arched windows on the rear wing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot at Higginsville, also known as the C & A Depot, is a historic train station located at Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built in 1888-1889 by the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and is a 1 1/2-story, Stick style frame building. It features projecting eaves supported by large brackets and exterior walls faced with vertical boards, battens and horizontal clapboards.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Odessa Ice Cream Company Building is a historic commercial building and ice cream factory located at Odessa, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built in 1929, and is a two-story, three bay by five bay, clay block and brick building. The rear section was raised to two stories about 1946. Odessa Ice Cream was the official ice cream at the Missouri State Fair in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Commercial Community Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. The district encompasses 106 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Lexington. It developed between about 1830 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian and Gothic Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Lafayette County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Lexington Racquetball Club , Missouri Public Service Storage Building , Franklin Diner , Wright House , Goehners Marbleworks , First Presbyterian Church , Municipal Auditorium , Leiter Apartments , Lafayette County Sheriffs Office and Jail , Morrison Wentworth Bank Building , and Winkler Theatre .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Highland Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. The district encompasses 64 contributing buildings, 6 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Lexington. It developed between about 1830 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian and Greek Revival style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the William H. Russell House , William H. Russell House , Frick House , Arnold House , Madonna of the Trail Monument , Hinesley House , O&#39;Malley-Kelly House , and Old Winkler House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Missouri statue for the Madonna of the Trail is located there.</p><br>
<p>Old Neighborhoods Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. The district encompasses 267 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Lexington. It developed between about 1830 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian and Greek Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Waddell House. Other notable contributing resources include the McGrew House , Schacklett House , Waddell-Pomercy House , Waddell-Young House , First Christian Church , Walter B. Waddell House , Eggleston House , Lafayette Arms , United Methodist Church , Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , Marquis W. Withers House , John Eggleston House , Christ Church Episcopal , Trinity United Church of Christ , Old German Catholic Church , and Lexington Middle School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Benedict Jr. House, or Benedict–Smith House, is a historic house at 85 North Colebrook Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Erected sometime between about 1795 and 1811, it is a high-quality example of late Colonial and early Federal architecture, and a well-preserved surviving example of the town&#39;s early architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francis Benedict Jr. House stands in a rural area of northeastern Norfolk, on the north side of North Colebrook Road just east of its junction with South Sandisfield Road. It has a west-facing main block, to which ells have been added to the east side. The house is on a ridge overlooking Benedict Pond to the west. The main block is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The front facade is five bays wide, with sash windows topped by shallow cornices, and the centered entrance framed by wide sidelight windows and topped by a less shallow cornice. There is a three-part window above the entrance. The first ell is a -story Cape style structure which was probably built first. The interior of these spaces follow typical period arrangements, except that the ell and main block were apparently designed to each house a separate family.</p><br>
<p>The land in this area of Norfolk was granted to members of the Benedict family in 1759, in one of the towns early divisions of land amongst its proprietors. The ell of this house was built about 1795 by Francis Benedict Jr., and stood south of his fathers house (no longer extant except for a cellar hole). He built a dam and sawmill on Benedict Pond in 1795, which was a likely event associated with its construction. The main house was probably built around 1811, the year his daughter Wealthea married Erastus Smith. The house was used for some time as a multigenerational home for members of the Smith and Benedict families. The area&#39;s agriculture declined in the late 19th century, with many farms abandoned; this house was by the late 1890s in the hands of summer residents. The house is a distinctive stylistically conservative blend of late Colonial and Federal styles.</p><br>
<p>Science Hill School, originally known as the Science Hill Female Academy was founded on March 25, 1825, by Julia A. Tevis as a female preparatory school. In 1975 the school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1978, it was opened as a restaurant known as the Science Hill Inn by Donna Gill and Tim Barnes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On March 25, 1825, Julia A. Tevis founded the Science Hill Female Academy as a preparatory school for women. It was one of the first schools founded for girls west of the Allegheny Mountains and utilized the Lancastrian system, in which older or more advanced students taught the younger pupils. The school name derived from Tevis&#39; belief that girls were as able to master</p><br>
<p>the sciences as young men. Though she attracted students from throughout the country, the majority of her students were from wealthy Southern families. These aristocrats wanted their daughters to have social polishing and learn French, music and art. Tevis taught these traditional courses, but also taught her students history, math, rhetoric, science, and Latin.</p><br>
<p>In its early days, the school was funded by the Methodist Church, with which Tevis&#39; husband, John, served as a missionary. The initial class had thirty-five pupils, of which six were boarders. Within twenty-five years, the class had grown to two hundred students with half of them boarding at the school. Its reputation was widely known and it had students from throughout the country as well as students who attended as a day school from the local community. A reunion of alumni was held in 1875 with three generations of the thousands of students who had been educated at the school in attendance.</p><br>
<p>Tevis operated the school until 1879, when she sold it to Wiley Taul Poynter, who operated the school as a secondary academy to prepare young women for further education at institutions such as Vassar, Wellesley and other well-known women&#39;s colleges. He and his descendants operated the school until 1939, when it closed due to financial constraints caused by the Great Depression. When it closed, Science Hill Academy had the distinction of being the oldest Protestant female academy in continuous operation in country, as well as in Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>When the school closed, the daughters of Dr. Poynter lived in the home and rented out the dorm rooms as apartments. The buildings were sold in the early 1950s to Mark J. Scearce, who renovated the former chapel as the Wakefield-Scearce Antique Gallery and continued utilizing the dormitories as apartments for let. In 1978, the former dining room was converted to a restaurant by Louisville restaurateur Tim Barnes, who opened it with chef, Donna Gill. Ellen Gill McCarty later became the chef of the restaurant which has become a focal point in Kentucky&#39;s culinary history.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Tevises bought the two-story brick home, laid in Flemish bond, in 1825. Initially there were eight-rooms, which included a parlor, library, bedroom, central hallway on the ground floor, with a stairway leading to additional bedrooms on the upper floor. The school was begun in the library and in 1826, the Tevises added a wing extending east toward the back of the house as a dormitory. Teachers and students resided in the dormitory, which had a chapel on the ground floor and an outside stairway. The original style was of the Federalist period and featured wide ash floors with reeded doors and window treatments. The only room retaining these original features in the downstairs bedroom.</p><br>
<p>In the 1840s, during the Greek Revival Period the house was remodeled to reflect the tastes of the era and many of the mouldings were changed. The doors and windows featured crossest, or double-mitered ears, at the top of the lintel which was supported by side columns. A second wing was added in 1860 which housed a second dormitory and a northern extension between the house and dormitories adding a dining room, kitchen and pantries.</p><br>
<p>In 1861, the courtyard was enclosed by erecting an interior balcony supported by chamfered posts with dentilated moldings. Identical stairways, flanking the arched double-door leading to the chapel, ascended from the east end of the courtyard and connected to the second-story rooms. Light was provided by an octagonal windowed cupola centered in the roof of the courtyard.</p><br>
<p>In the 1880s, when the Poynters took over occupancy of the house, they remodeled the north side, adding a hall and two rooms. The relocated the stairway from the right side of the hall to the opposite side and opened the entrance hall to extend into a back hall. At the same time, the original entrance was replaced with a door featuring side-lights and a leaded-glass transom.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>The papers of the school are housed at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky and contain letters, papers and records of the school from its founding through 1975. In 1975 the school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, because of its significance as both a school and a historical building. Kentucky Educational Television featured the school in a 2007 broadcast for the program Kentucky Life. Since 1978, the facility has been operated as a restaurant known as the Science Hill Inn, which was opened by Donna Gill and Tim Barnes. It also houses the Wakefield-Scearce Galleries, an antique furniture and collectibles gallery.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, a Tudor-style, English pub named The Red Lion opened on the backside of the near 200 year-old Science Hill and Wakefield Scearce Galleries building. When the beloved, half-century-old iconic Science Hill Inn restaurant permanently closed during the pandemic, it was rebranded to The Red Lion at Science Hill. The Red Lion at Science Hill is owned by Brian and Kristin Grubb and managed by General Manager Hayden Cabbage.</p><br>
<h2>Noted alumni</h2><br>
<p>Priscilla Baird</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham (1831–1911), missionary and church worker</p><br>
<p>Jeannette Howard Foster</p><br>
<p>The Marsh-Warthen House in Lafayette, Georgia is a historic Greek Revival house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is open as a historic house museum and events venue, and is owned by the government of Walker County, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c.1836 and expanded c. 1895–1910. Colonial Revival modifications were done c.1935.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the House</h2><br>
<p>The Marsh-Warthen House was built in 1836, by Spencer Stewart Marsh and his wife, Ruth Terrell Brantley Marsh.</p><br>
<p>The original house consisted of four rooms over four rooms with wide hallways running through the center of the building on both the upper and lower levels. A large porch with square columns was constructed on the south side of the house; a second-story balcony with a door from the upstairs hall was built over this porch. The original kitchen was in the basement, and food was brought up to the main level by a dumb waiter. The kitchen remained in the basement until about 1900, when the grandson of Spencer Marsh, Spencer Marsh Warthen, built a two-story wing on the northeast side of the house. The lower level of the new wing contained the kitchen and a large pantry, while the upper level was used as servants&#39; quarters.</p><br>
<p>The Marsh-Warthen House is an early Greek Revival-style home and is significant as an example of a Georgian-type house with original Greek Revival-style and later Colonial Revival-style details. According to Georgias Living Places: Historic Houses in their Landscaped Settings, a statewide context, the Georgian house was popular in Georgias towns and cities from the early years of the 19th century well into the 20th century. The Greek Revival style, which was found more often in towns and cities, was popular from the 1840s through the 1860s. The Marsh-Warthen house is thus an early example of the Greek Revival style of architecture on the Georgia frontier. It retains many of its original stylistic features including overall symmetrical massing, low hipped roof, central-hall plan, and architectural details including prominent square Doric columns and a front door surrounded by narrow sidelights and a rectangular line of transom lights above. Due to the presence of African-American slaves on the property, the early construction date of the house, and the tradition of using slave labor in the antebellum period in Georgia, it is likely that Mr. Marsh&#39;s slaves were involved in the construction of the house.</p><br>
<p>Spencer Marshs youngest daughter, Sarah Adaline, married Nathaniel Green Warthen in 1859. After living on a plantation in McLemores Cove (northwest of La Fayette) and retreating to the old Warthen home place in Warthen, Washington County, Georgia, during the Civil War, the Warthens and their children moved into the Marsh-Warthen House, probably about 1875, after the death of Mr. Spencer Marsh. Their son, Spencer Marsh Warthen, was responsible for the Colonial Revival elements including the roof dormers added to the house in the early 20th century and for the two additions to the house. According to Georgia&#39;s Living Places, the Colonial Revival-style elements were often simply added onto buildings of other styles. The Colonial Revival style was very popular in Georgia from the 1890s through the 1940s.</p><br>
<h2>Marsh Family Business</h2><br>
<p>After settling in Northwest Georgia, Mr. Marsh established a mercantile business on the town square and acquired large tracts of farm and timber lands</p><br>
<p>In 1845, Spencer Marsh, Andrew Perry Allgood, and W.K. Briers organized the Trion Factory Company, the first cotton mill in Northwest Georgia. The mill was built on the Chattooga River about twelve miles south of La Fayette. Andrew P. Allgood, who married the eldest Marsh daughter, Mary Ann, and Spencer Marsh were some of the wealthiest men in northwest Georgia. By 1857, they each had equal interest in Trion Factory. The factory operated under the name of Marsh & Allgood by the eve of the Civil War. Today the Trion Mill operates under the name of Mount Vernon Mills.</p><br>
<h2>The Marsh Family</h2><br>
<p>Mr. Marsh was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, on November 25, 1799, and was the son of William Marsh, a soldier in the American Revolution for whom the William Marsh chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (in La Fayette, Georgia) is named. About 1835, Marsh moved his family to "Chattooga," Georgia. Soon after his arrival, the name of the small settlement was changed to La Fayette. In 1835, Northwest Georgia was still Cherokee territory and remained so until 1838, when the Native Americans of the area were removed and settled west of the Mississippi River. By 1835, the Cherokees were a friendly, peaceful people, and the Marsh family befriended many of them.</p><br>
<p>Ruth and Spencer Marsh reared their six children in this large, imposing house, and sometimes rented rooms to boys who wished to live in La Fayette during the week and attend Chattooga Academy, the brick school just south of the Marsh House. One of the boys who lived with the Marsh family was John B. Gordon. Years later, Gordon became a well-known and respected person in Georgia and throughout the South. During the American Civil War, Gordon served as one of Robert E. Lee&#39;s officers and was the officer Lee chose to surrender what was left of the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, Gordon served the people of Georgia as governor and USA Senator.</p><br>
<p>In 1863, when the Civil War moved into Northwest Georgia, the Marsh family moved south to Cassville, Georgia, in what is today Bartow County, Georgia. General Braxton Bragg plotted his strategy September 17–19, 1863, for the Battle of Chickamauga under an old oak tree which stood just to the south of the Marsh House in front of the Chattooga Academy. While the family was away, the house was occupied by Union troops and was a focal point during The Battle of La Fayette in June 1864. After the war, the family returned home to find that all of their furniture and household items had been taken. The floors were blood-soaked and marked with hoof prints. Many bullets were found in the outer walls of the house and there were bullet holes in the glass around the south upstairs outer door.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the same family for more than one hundred fifty years. The last member of the family to occupy the home was Miss Addie Augusta Wert, great-granddaughter of Spencer and Ruth Marsh.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Patrick R. Clements family owned the house from 1992 to 2002 when it was purchased by the Walker County, Georgia, Historical Society. In the summer of 2003, the house was purchased by Walker County from the Walker County Historical Society. Under an agreement with the county, the Walker County Historical Society manages the building, and through the Marsh House Community Task Force (Board of Trustees), raises funds for the operation and maintenance of the building and surrounding grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Marsh House is open to the public from 1:30 until 3:30 on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons. The Marsh House aims to serve as a major educational and cultural institution in Northwest Georgia and the greater Chattanooga area by providing in-depth tours led by trained interpreters, by offering historically accurate reenactments, by working with local schools to offer curriculum-targeted instructional experiences, and by hosting exhibits and events which promote understanding of Northwest Georgia&#39;s diverse peoples and history. More than 10,000 persons visit the house and grounds each year, many as a continuation of their visit to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parkwhich is only 12 miles away.</p><br>
<p>The Marsh House Museum Board also manages the Chattooga Academy for educational programs across the lawn which Spencer Marsh helped to found and which is the oldest brick school house in Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Significance of the Marsh-Warthen House</h2><br>
<p>The house is significant in the area of European settlement of North America. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Cherokee Nation included the area that would become Walker County. The Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 followed by the removal of the Cherokee by the federal government opened the area to white settlement. Spencer Marsh moved his family to La Fayette c.1835 from Newton County, Georgia, and became one of the pioneers of the county. During the early years of his life on the frontier, Mr. Marsh had many dealings with his Cherokee neighbors and was given the name Estachee by the Cherokee Indians. Marsh House history notes that one of his servants at the Marsh House, Ninatoya, was a Cherokee woman who was forced west on the Trail of Tears in the late 1830s. The home he built c. 1836-1837 is one of the few surviving houses from that period of early white settlement.</p><br>
<p>The Marsh-Warthen House is important to an understanding of social and cultural history due to Spencer Marshs efforts to promote the welfare of the La Fayette area. As a community and business leader in La Fayette and Walker County, Marsh encouraged progress in the economic, educational, and religious life of the community. In addition to his influence as a local merchant Mr. Marsh helped organize the Trion Factory (in Chattooga County, south of La Fayette) in 1845, the first cotton mill in northwest Georgia. He served as an Inferior Court justice and as a state senator. He also donated the land for the Chattooga Academy (located just south of the Marsh-Warthen House and listed in the National Register on February 15, 1980) and served as a trustee for the academy and for the La Fayette Female Academy established soon thereafter. Mr. Marsh was an active member and major funder of the First Baptist Church of La Fayette, where his family and slaves attended. The Marsh household was a typical wealthy Southern household during the mid-19th century. The family coexisted and interacted closely with the African-American slaves who lived on the property and later with the African-American servants who lived in the main house. Spencer Marsh was thus a prominent local example of the kind of enterprising pioneer who helped settle Georgias westward-moving frontier during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries through his contributions to the developing community&#39;s social, economic, and cultural life.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Shaw Coleman House is a historic house located at 227 East College Street in Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis Shaw Coleman House, built in 1914, is the first private residence in Lawrence County to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was added to the register in 2016 for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, U-shaped American Craftsman style "airplane" bungalow sits on a limestone rubble foundation and the first floor walls are brick. It features exposed rafters in open eaves, low-pitched gable roofs with wide overhangs, decorative gable beams, and a prominent front porch with tapered stone columns. Also on the property are the contributing carriage house (c. 1927) and garage (c. 1955).</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>Lewis Shaw Coleman and his wife Mary Kate Miller Coleman, children of two prominent Lawrence County families, built the Coleman House in 1914 on a corner lot overlooking Oak Park in Aurora.</p><br>
<p>Established in 1870, Aurora saw sudden population growth due in large part to a mining boom in 1885 which spiked the population over 3,400 by 1890. Auroras population peaked in 1900 at 6,191 a gain of more than 77%. As the mining industry faded by 1910, the population had fallen 33% to 4,148. However Auroras business infrastructure remained strong with three banks, three flour mills, a shoe factory, a daily and weekly newspaper, and three lumber yards including the M.L. Coleman Lumber Company and the T.A. Miller Lumber Company.</p><br>
<p>McCord Lafayette (M.L.) Coleman, born 1859, was one of the business giants of Aurora operating six lumber yards in the region as well as a hardware and implement business. He founded the largest milling company in the county and served as president of a local bank. He was successful in mining, owned a 120-acre apple orchard, and a large herd of Jersey milk cows. Lewis Shaw Coleman was his only son.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Alexander (T.A.) Miller, born 1858, was another Aurora business giant. "In 1897, Mr. Miller returned to the lumber business in Aurora, to which he had moved in 1892. He expanded until he owned ten yards and several sawmills in Arkansas. He built a brick block in Greenfield while a resident there, the first brick building in Miller, a town which bears his name, the courthouse at Mount Vernon and the Franklin school here." In 1915, Mr. Miller would be elected mayor of Aurora. Mary Kate Miller was his eldest daughter.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, Lewis Shaw Coleman and Mary Kate Miller, a high-profile couple in the community, were married with two young sons. They were well positioned to build a remarkable home when a prime building lot unexpectedly became available within three blocks of the center of Aurora. A grand Victorian home built in 1906 by Mrs. Jeanette Seburn on a prominent lot at the northwest corner of Park and College Streets had burned to the ground. Lewis Shaw Coleman purchased the newly vacant building site in 1913 planning "to have a fine residence erected."</p><br>
<p>As construction neared completion in 1914, The Aurora Advertiser pronounced the significance of the Coleman bungalow writing "Louis (sic) Coleman is completing a beautiful bungalow on East College", adding that such homes "...show the progressive spirit of the city. Builders here see the beautiful possibilities in these creations in the architectural lines." Contemporary accounts of the construction did not note the architect of the Coleman House and the architect currently remains unknown.</p><br>
<p>Fortune did not smile on the young Coleman family and in 1916, their youngest son Lewis Shaw Coleman Jr died at the age of five and in 1918, Mary Kate died at the age of 32, just six days after Lewis registered for the World War I draft. In February 1929, Lewis and his second wife Irene Madry Coleman signed a Promissory Note to the Bank of Aurora with their home as collateral. Following the stock market crash in October 1929, O.E. and Linda Moore purchased the Coleman House at a sheriff&#39;s auction on the Lawrence County courthouse steps for $2,500 in October 1930.</p><br>
<p>The grandson of Ossye Coleman, the sister of Lewis Shaw Coleman, is Don S. Davis, an actor born and raised in Aurora, MO best known for his role in the television series Stargate SG-1.</p><br>
<p>The Moore family, the second owners of the Coleman House, went on to be the longest inhabitants - raising their family and living at the same address for more than 50 years. "O.E. Moore came to Aurora in 1926 and purchased the Summit City Creamery located in a small building in the west part of the present plant. It grew into a large butter plant, later shifting to the manufacture of cheese, with trucks fanning out for miles picking up milk at the farms. Mr. Moore was for many years president of the Aurora board of education."</p><br>
<p>Following the Colemans and the Moores, three other families have owned the home: Bill and Terry Duncan, Wayne and Mary Lou Holmes, Kelly and Mary Jo Johnston. All of these families cared for the architectural treasure envisioned by Lewis and Mary Kate.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>In contrast to the Victorian homes occupying the 200 block of East College Street, the young Colemans, still in their 20s, opted for the American Craftsman style incorporating originality, a visible sturdy structure of clean lines, prominence of handicraft, and local natural materials.</p><br>
<p>The Coleman house is built with definitive Craftsman features including exposed rafters in open eaves, low-pitched gable roofs with wide overhangs, decorative gable beams, large windows to connect the house with nature, and a prominent front porch with tapered stone columns matching the battered stone foundation. Matching stonework is found both in the tapered limestone piers supporting the oversized open-timbered end-gabled front porch and in two full-height limestone chimney stacks at the rear of the home. The second floor ‘airplane’ level covers a smaller footprint than the main level below and is clad in wood shake shingles. It is a significant example of Craftsman Airplane Bungalow architecture in the Southwest Missouri Ozarks.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The Coleman House joins four NRHP listings in Lawrence County: the Lawrence County Courthouse (Missouri) in Mount Vernon, the Pierce City Fire Station, Courthouse and Jail, the Lawrence County Bank Building in Pierce City, Missouri and the Old Spanish Fort Archeological Site near Mount Vernon. The Coleman House is the only residential property listed in the county. And it is interesting to note that the T.A. Miller family was responsible for two of the four county buildings: T.A. Miller was awarded the construction contract for the Lawrence County Courthouse in 1900; and his daughter Mary Kate Miller, along with her husband Lewis, built the Coleman House fourteen years later.</p><br>
<p>Inclusion on the NRHP, the official list of historic places worthy of preservation in the United States, recognizes the architectural significance of the Coleman House and helps to raise awareness of the importance of historic preservation in Southwest Missouri. It does not place restrictions or limitations on the use, transfer, or maintenance of the property.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was built in 1900, and is a rectangular, 2 1/2-story, Romanesque Revival style limestone building. It measures 101 feet, 8 inches, by 81 feet, 2 inches. It features a central clock and bell tower surmounted with a statue of Lady Justice.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence County Bank Building is a historic bank building located at 100 West Commercial Street in Pierce City, Lawrence County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1892, and is a rectangular, two-story, Romanesque Revival style buff brick building. It measures 25 feet by 100 feet. It features pairs of round arched windows and a prominent round arched, rusticated stone corner entrance surround. The building was heavily damaged during a tornado in May 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Pierce City Fire Station, Courthouse and Jail is a historic multipurpose fire station, courthouse, and jail building located at Pierce City, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was built in 1886, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick building. It measures 25 feet by 75 feet. It features a distinctive square, hipped roof bell tower and tall vertically oriented windows topped by rectangular topped hoods. The building was the focal point of a race riot August 18–20, 1901, which received national attention and, in part, inspired Mark Twains essay "The United States of Lyncherdom".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>A.C. Waltman House, also known as Carl Adams House, is a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1853, and is a -story, three-bay, massed plan, brick dwelling with Greek Revival / Italianate style design elements. It has a one-story frame rear ell. It features a flattened gable roof and a full-width front porch supported by tapered, fluted Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>John McKoon House, also known as Johnson House, was a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1857, and was a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It had a -story brick rear ell enlarged about 1876. It featured an original two story portico with square wood columns and a simple wide cornice with delicately scaled dentil molding. It has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The William Gray House  is a historic house located at 407 Washington Street in La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1860, and is a two-story, three bay wide, side hall plan, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a long one-story brick rear ell and a one-story front porch that surrounds the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1999.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Hipkins House, also known as Jas. T. Howland House, is a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1856, and is a two-story, three-bay, side hall plan, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a one-story brick rear ell. The house has a low hipped roof with a wide overhang and a deep wooden cornice and features a full-width front porch and wide formal entranceways.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built in 1848, and is a one-story, temple front, Greek Revival style, red brick building on a raised basement. It has a gabled roof with an unadorned wood raked cornice and a pediment on the symmetrical façade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Linn County Jail and Sheriffs Residence is a historic jail and sheriffs residence located in Linneus, Linn County, Missouri. It was built in 1871 and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style I-house constructed of concrete, wood, and brick. A one-story brick addition with basement, built as a Works Progress Administration project, was added in 1937. The building was converted to a museum in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Chillicothe. It developed between about 1877 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian and Beaux Arts style architecture. Notable buildings include the Livingston County Courthouse , Wallbrunn Building , First National Bank Building #2 , Peoples Trust Building , Nick J. Rensch Building , Davis/Milbank Building , Leeper Hotel , Chillicothe City Hall , First National Bank Building #1 , and Sipple Clothing Co/Broyles Land Co Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Chillicothe Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Chillicothe. It developed between about 1889 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne, Italianate, Beaux Arts, Mission Revival, and Art Deco style architecture. Notable buildings include the Scruby Brothers Building , S. A. Stone Building , Dairy Creme Building , Strand Coffee Shop Building , Strand Hotel and Garage , Norman & Jarvis Funeral Home Building , Empire Theatre , Chillicothe Post Office/Federal Building , Grace & Simpson Apartments , and Loomis Building/Chillicothe Post Office .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Chillicothe Industrial Home for Girls, also known as Chillicothe Correctional Center, is a national historic district located at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 7 contributing structures, at a former industrial home. It developed between about 1889 and 1970, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival and Streamline Moderne style architecture. Notable buildings include the McReynolds Cottage  by Morris Frederick Bell, who also designed the original campus; Blair Cottage ; Hearnes Office Building and Clinic ; Donnelly Cottage ; Stark Cottage ; Hyde School ; Park Cottage ; Food Service Building ; Laundry ; Power House . The home officially closed as a juvenile facility in 1980 and re-opened as an adult correctional center in 1981. The new Chillicothe Correctional Center opened in 2008, and the former Industrial Home site was declared surplus.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Lester and Norma Dent House, also known as the House of Gadgets, is a historic home located at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri. It was built in 1941, and is a one-and-a-half-story, Modern Movement style dwelling sheathed in brick and asbestos siding. The house has a gable roof and is of the Cape Cod cottage type. It was the home of American pulp-fiction author Lester Dent .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>John T. and Mary M. Doneghy House, also known as the Doneghy-Surbeck-Green House, is a historic home located at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri. It was built about 1895, and is a -story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has an irregular plan, steep hipped roof with lower cross gables, and a one-story wraparound porch with centered turret and second story balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Gilbreath-McLorn House, also known as the McLorn House and Gilbreath Homestead, is a historic home located at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri. It was built in 1896, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with full attic and basement. It has a multi-gabled roof and octagonal tower, wraparound porch with Eastlake movement scrolled brackets, and two additional hip-roofed porches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>La Plata Square Historic District is a national historic district located at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri. The district encompasses 36 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential area of La Plata. It developed between about 1855 and 1958, and includes representative examples of commercial architecture. Notable contributing resources include the La Plata Public Square , Home Press Building , Farmer&#39;s and Merchants Bank , Myron Sears Variety , Masonic Hall/La Plata State Bank , Tonkinson and Harris Ford Dealership , The Famous , Wheatcraft Motor Company , La Plata Fire Department , and Post Office .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The J. J. Donovan House, also known as Donovan House, at 1201 Garden Street in Bellingham, Washington is a two-and-a-half-story historic house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1890 for Edward Fischer and was finished with fine details by its second owner, industrialist John Joseph Donovan. Its architecture is Stick style with Tudor Revival details plus other elements from other Victorian era architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Early in his career J. J. Donovan worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad as a construction engineer. Later he was a significant player in the lumber industry.</p><br>
<p>It was used as a women&#39;s dormitory by Western Washington University for roughly 25 years.</p><br>
<p>The Henry B. Bissell House is a historic house at 202 Maple Street in Litchfield, Connecticut. Built in 1850, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of stone Greek Revival architecture. It was built by Henry Bissell, from a locally prominent family with extensive landholdings in the Bantam area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Henry Bissell House stands in a rural-residential area of northwestern Litchfield, north of the borough of Bantam on the east side of Maple Street. It is a -story gable-roofed stone structure, with a rear wood-frame ell. It is built from locally quarried granite, with lighter stones chosen for corner quoining and window sills and lintels. Darker stones were used mainly as narrow horizontal elements, giving the house a distinctive appearance. The main entrance is in the rightmost bay, framed by sidelight and transom windows, and topped by a peaked lintel stone. The mortar in the walls appears to be original. The interior of the house follows a typical side-hall plan, and retains much original woodwork, which is typically Greek Revival or vernacular.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1850 for Henry B. Bissell. The Bissell had been a major landowner in northwestern Litchfield since the 1720s, and this house was built using stone from a family-owned quarry. The Bissells were mainly farmers, but also owned a local gristmill in Bantam village in addition to the stone quarry. The house remained in the family until 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Old Boardman Bridge, formerly Boardman Bridge, is a historic lenticular truss bridge, which used to carry Boardman Road across the Housatonic River in New Milford, Connecticut. Built from 1887 to 1888 out of wrought iron, it is one of the states three surviving examples of this bridge type, and along with Lovers Leap Bridge, one of two in New Milford. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Old Boardman Bridge is located in north central western New Milford, northeast of the junction of United States Route 7 and Boardman Road. It spans the Housatonic River a few feet north (upriver) of the current Boardman Bridge that carries Boardman Road over the water. There are small public parks at each end of the bridge, which is closed to all access. It is a lenticular truss structure built out of wrought iron, and is 188 ft long, with a roadway width of 15 ft. It passes about 20 ft over the typical water level of the river. The trusses are set on abutments of rough-cut stone, with box girder columns supporting the ends of the trusses. Truss joints are pinned together. and there are numerous diagonal and cross-bracing elements of narrower gauge than the main chords. The deck is supported by I-bars descending from the trusses at 12 points, originally consisting of corrugated metal sheets laid on I-beams.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A wooden toll bridge, built in 1840, had been swept away in the flood of 1854. The iron bridge was rebuilt in 1887-1888 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, during a period when iron was supplanting wood as a preferred bridge-building material, but had not yet itself been replaced by steel.</p><br>
<p>It carried pedestrians, horses and buggies, and vehicles over the Housatonic River for almost a century before a new two-lane steel bridge, also called Boardman Bridge, replaced it in 1984. The Old Boardman Bridge was closed to vehicles, but was still open to foot traffic for another year before the deck was deemed to be unsafe, and the bridge was permanently closed with a chain-link fence.</p><br>
<p>Efforts were made to restore the bridge in the early 2000s; however, the funds went to restoring Lover&#39;s Leap Bridge, the other lenticular truss bridge in town at Lovers Leap State Park.</p><br>
<h2>Future and Possible Restoration</h2><br>
<p>On July 26, 2017, with the suggestion of Mayor David R. Gronbach, the New Milford Town Council voted to establish the Old Boardman Bridge Committee to determine how to best rehabilitate and reopen the bridge to foot and bicycle traffic. As the current Boardman Bridge does not have sidewalks or shoulders, this would allow for safe pedestrian crossing between Route 7 and the Sega Meadows Trail and future New Milford River Trail.</p><br>
<p>Plans for reopening the bridge will include removing the vegetation that is growing on and around it, masonry repair of the abutments and wing walls, replacing the unsafe deck with a timber decking, repairing and replacing the structural components, and repainting it.</p><br>
<p>The North Grove School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 26745 Brickville Road northwest of Sycamore, Illinois. Swedish immigrants built the school in 1878; while it was originally a Lutheran school, it became part of the DeKalb County public school system two years later. The school served area students in the first through eighth grades until 1952, when it closed during a wave of school consolidations. After its closure, the school building was briefly used by the local Community Club. It is the only one-room schoolhouse in DeKalb County that is at its original site and has not been significantly altered.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 15, 2012. A modern elementary school in Sycamore, which opened in 2010, is named for the school.</p><br>
<p>The Colter Ranch Historic District consists of twelve buildings in a rural setting near Eagar, Arizona. The site is located in the Amity Valley, which itself is part of Round Valley ; the Little Colorado River runs along the one side of the district. Most of the buildings date from between 1904 and 1930, the period during which Fred Colter resided on the residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Colter Ranch is situated in the portion of Round Valley known as Amity Valley, the valley&#39;s name being derived from the Mormon ward which was located here in the 1800s. Eagar and Springerville are the nearest towns. The area is mostly farmland, made possible by irrigation water from the Little Colorado River.</p><br>
<p>The boundaries of the historic district are the Little Colorado River to the north, 4th Street to the south, and School Bus Road to the west. The boundary on the east is less distinct, lying along a section line on a USGS map (T8N, R29E). The Milligan Ditch, bringing irrigation water from the Little Colorado to the historic ranch bisects the district, running east to west.</p><br>
<p>Most of the buildings in the district lie on the southern bank of the ditch, towards the western end of the district. These include three sheds (two wooden, and one corrugated metal); a stuccoed log bunkhouse; a log cabin; a corrugated metal shed; a larger wood storage building, which at one point served as the ranch&#39;s commissary; and a wooden machine shop. On the northern side of the ditch can be found a barn, a granary, and a work shed (which is also known as the "little barn").</p><br>
<p>The oldest structure still standing is the log cabin, built ca. 1890. It is a ten by fifteen foot rectangle, the exterior of the building is covered with finished planks, fitted at the corners. The single entrance faces south, away from the Milligan ditch. Its wood-shingled roof is side-gabled with a medium pitch. There is a fireplace on its east side, with a small window on the corresponding west end of the building.</p><br>
<p>The next oldest buildings are the barn, the bunkhouse, the smaller of the wooden sheds, and the storage building (commissary), all of which were constructed circa 1910. The barn is the largest building in the district, measuring 60 feet long by 35 feet wide. Two stories tall, the walls are covered with board-and-batt siding, and has a corrugated metal roof of medium pitch. It has two single-story additions. The northern addition is 60 feet long with a shed roof, while the eastern addition runs the length of the original structure, widening the footprint of the barn by 15 feet. It has a lean-to structure. The entire barn complex is enclosed by a corral, which has a split rail fence approximately 5 feet high. Also within the corral is a 15 by 15 foot granary. Built circa 1940, it is constructed with the same materials as the barn, and has a shed roof.</p><br>
<p>The bunkhouse has an eastern entrance, and was originally constructed of exposed logs, in the hall-and-parlor style. Two additions were made in the 1930s, giving it its current irregular appearance. The first addition was made to the east side, and consists of a stucco-on-wood-frame construction, while the second was made of concrete to the western side. To the west of the bunkhouse, and the most westernmost of all the structures, is the smallest of the sheds. Approximately 10 feet by 10 feet, it is a single story with an outside surface is covered in vertical wood planking, and it has a corrugated metal roof, with a low-slope.</p><br>
<p>The commissary measures about 30 feet by 16 feet, and has wood board-and-batten siding. The front of the building has a door centered on the building, flanked by two square windows. The other exterior walls have no openings to the outside. It has a corrugated metal gable roof. There is a false commercial "boomtown roof" on the south side, which hides the corrugated roof from view.</p><br>
<p>The next buildings were all built in the 1940s. These include the other two sheds. The wooden shed is about ten by fifteen feet, with a gable roof of medium pitch, sheathed in corrugated metal. Its exterior walls are covered in shiplap wood siding. Its single entrance is off centered on the southern side, and has two small windows. Next to this wooden shed is a small corrugated metal shed. Its walls and roof are of corrugated metal, with the roof being shed-style sloping towards the ditch.</p><br>
<p>The machine shop is a wooden structure with an exterior board-and-batt siding. Approximately 35 by 25 feet, it has a gable roof, facing south, with a corrugated metal surface. The south facing front features a pair of large wooden doors. Across the ditch, on the north side is the "little barn", a small work shed measuring 18 feet by 12 feet. It has a shed roof of corrugated metal, and its walls are unfinished board-and-batt.</p><br>
<p>There are also two modern homes within the district, built in the 1980s, which do not contribute to the historicity of the site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1881, Micajah Harris Phelps settled a 160-acre parcel of land straddling the just completed Milligan Ditch. His cattle operation was one of the first large herding operations in Round Valley. When the Amity Ward of the LDS church was created in 1882, Phelps homestead was located therein. On his death in 1892, his property (which included other ranches in Texas and New Mexico) was split between his three children: Bill Phelps, Sarah Dugan Phelps (known as Duge) and Elizabeth Phelps. Duge maintained the family home in Amity Valley, running a large portion of her fathers original herd of 350 cattle.</p><br>
<p>Bill Phelps enlarged his holdings, and his herd, which had grown to over 1000 head of cattle by the time of his death in 1903. When he died at the age of 51, his one-third share of the Amity Valley property was left to Duge, who then controlled two-thirds of the original homestead. In addition, in order to settle the values of the property distribution of their brothers will, Elizabeth, who had received more valuable property in New Mexico, gave the remaining third of the Amity homestead to Duge. Duge was considered very accomplished and liberated for a woman of that time. She has successfully run her own cattle operation for over ten years by the time she re-consolidated her fathers entire homestead. On November 11, 1904, the 40 year-old Duge married the 25 year-old Fred Colter, who had been Bill Phelps straw boss on Phelps&#39; Apache County operation.</p><br>
<p>Colter, by the time he was 21 had created his own brand, the "Cross Bar". With his marriage to Duge in 1904, the homestead became known as the Colter Ranch. He brought an unknown number of his own cattle to the ranch, in addition to taking control of the 1100 head which were in Duges herd, as well as over 800 he also managed for Elizabeth. By 1906 he had increased the herd to over 12,000 animals. Two years later, he had developed four reservoirs in the area: Colter, Mexican Hay Lake, Pool Corral, and Hog Wallow. He had also purchased another 3,500 acres extending the homesteads range, as well as up on the mesa to grow alfalfa feed.</p><br>
<p>It was during this timeframe that he built the large barn on the property, to store approximately 40 tons of alfalfa to use as feed for his livestock during the winter. He also built a bunkhouse for his growing number of ranch hands, as well as a commissary where they could purchase any necessities. The commissary was also open for any residents of the nearby ranches. In May 1913, Colter applied for and was granted a post office to be run out of his homestead, which would serve also the local ranches. Named the Colter Post Office, Duge became its first only postmistress, and remained open until 1922.</p><br>
<p>By the end of the 1910s, the ranch operation had reached its peak, containing over 43,000 acres of deeded land, and leased acreage surpassing 200,000. It was one of the largest cattle operations in northern Arizona, and it was the largest combined cattle operation and irrigated farming venture in the state.</p><br>
<p>After the end of World War I, grain and beef prices fell precipitously. In order to stave off creditors, Colter formed the Northern Arizona Land Company, which issued $450,000 in bonds, using all of the deeded acres as collateral. However, this proved to be only a stopgap measure, and by 1924 creditors began to foreclose on different parcels of property to satisfy the notes. By the early 1930s every piece of land had been foreclosed on. In 1935 the ranch was sold to William A. Spence. The new owner moved the commissary from what is now the intersection of 4th Street and School Bus Road, to its current position. With the wave of mechanized farming taking hold, Spence also constructed the machine shed.</p><br>
<p>Spence sold 1430 acres of the ranch in 1951 to two partners, Victor L. Udall and Gunnar Thude, which included the Colter Ranch. When Udall died later that year, Thude retained about 900 acres, with Udalls heirs taking the other 500, which included the Colter Ranch District. Thude eventually sold his acreage to Louis Johnson and John Wayne, who added additional territory and created the 26 Bar Hereford Ranch. Johnson and Wayne sold the ranch to Tom Chauncey, who currently owns the property. Sam Udall, Victors son, continues to own the 500 acres which include the historic district.</p><br>
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<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
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