<p>Riverview Park is a historic prairie style public park located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. It was established in 1909, and built through 1929 according to plans developed by noted landscape architect Ossian C. Simonds. The park includes the caretakers house , three scenic overlooks with retaining walls, the concrete stairway, the driving path, the logging road, the statue of Mark Twain , and the memorial stone and plaque. The park encircles the 17 acres that form the citys Water Department&#39;s facilities.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>St. Elizabeth Hospital is a historic hospital complex located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. The complex was built in six stages between 1915 and 1973. The original section was built in 1915, and is a three-story with raised basement, Second Renaissance Revival style rectangular red brick building. It features a Palladian style window, large round arched openings on the -story brick portico, and limestone highlights. A sun porch wing was added in 1922 and a chapel wing in 1940.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Iberia Academy and Junior College are historic school buildings located at Iberia, Miller County, Missouri. The four buildings are the dormitory , the administration building , the gymnasium , and "president&#39;s home" . The buildings sit at odd angles within a triangle of approximately 2.66 acres. The school was supported mainly by the Congregational church, the Academy was known early on as the "Ozark Experiment". The buildings were largely built by student labor. The school closed in 1951.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Camp Ripley Bridge, also known as Bridge 4969, is the only remaining unified road–rail bridge over the Mississippi River. It carries both a railroad spur line and Minnesota State Highway 115 at Camp Ripley in Morrison County.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1930 by the Minneapolis Bridge Company to serve as the key transportation connection for Camp Ripley, the states first and most significant Minnesota National Guard reservation. As Minnesotas only unified road–rail bridge, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Troup County Courthouse, Annex, and Jail are three buildings built in 1939 with funding from the Public Works Administration, as a project under the New Deal of USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#39;s administration to invest in infrastructure. They were designed by architect William J.J. Chase in Stripped Classical style.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange was in the news in January 2017 for the public apology of its police chief and mayor for the city&#39;s failure to prevent the 1940 lynching of Austin Callaway, a young black man. Callaway was taken by a gang of white men from the jail, which presumably was this Troup County Jail.</p><br>
<p>The old Troup County Courthouse is used in the 21st century as the Juvenile Courthouse. The jail behind it was torn down in 2001 when the Troup County Government Center was built.</p><br>
<p>P.A. Sanning Store, also known as E.M. Schell & Company and The Corner Market, is a historic general store located at Mary&#39;s Home, Miller County, Missouri. It was built in 1906, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building on a concrete foundation. It has a medium pitched hipped roof and features an elaborate pressed galvanized metal "boomtown" front cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Olean Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Olean, Miller County, Missouri. It was built about 1884 and is a one-story, rectangular frame building with board and batten siding. The building measures 16 feet, 2 inches, by 40 feet, 3 inches. It has a gable roof with a four-foot-wide overhang supported by brackets all around and the gable ends are embellished by decorative truss work. The depot closed in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The railroad depot, which lent its name to the surrounding community, was named after Olean, New York after several other names the town tried to use ran into conflict with other towns on the rail route.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Boeckman Bridge was a historic suspension bridge over Big Tavern Creek near St. Elizabeth, Miller County, Missouri, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1926, and was replaced by a concrete bridge in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Bridge</h2><br>
<p>Boeckman Bridge was a 240-foot, wire cable and timber suspension (swinging) bridge. The deck was 185 feet long and 12 feet wide and was suspended 29 feet above the creek; it consisted of flooring beams nailed to transverse stringer beams that rested on floor beams supported by the cables. All of these and the two portals were untreated locally milled oak. The main cables, anchored in concrete at each end, and the suspender cables were zinc-clad wire; for the main cables, 300 strands of wire were strung across the creek using a suspended bicycle wheel and then bound with an additional strand. A three-foot wire fence safeguarded pedestrians, and originally an additional wire was strung at each side of the floor beams and independently anchored at each end in order to steady the bridge in strong winds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joseph A. Dice, a local engineer trained as a bridge-builder by physician and bridge designer Daniel Marion Eddy, supervised the construction of Boeckman Bridge and of five others in Miller County and several more elsewhere in the Osage River Valley. It was completed in March 1926 and named for Joseph Boeckman, who donated the necessary land; it was built by eight men, including Dice, Boeckman, and their sons. Originally designed to support vehicle traffic up to 4 tons, it was restricted to passage by single vehicles weighing under 2 tons.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1979, In 1988, the portals were replaced with steel; the bridge was delisted by the National Register of Historic Places because of its poor state of preservation.</p><br>
<p>In 2002 the bridge was demolished and replaced with a concrete bridge.</p><br>
<p>Union Electric Administration Building-Lakeside, also known as Willmore Lodge and Egan Lodge, is a historic administration building and retreat overlooking Lake of the Ozarks and located near Lakeside, Miller County, Missouri. It was built in 1930 by Union Electric Company during the Bagnell Dam project. It is a one- to two-story, V-shaped Adirondack rustic style log building. It has a stone veneer foundation and an intersecting gable, cedar shake roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, with a boundary increase in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The John C. Coffing House is a historic house on United States Route 44 in Salisbury, Connecticut. Built in 1799 for one of the leading businessmen of the region, it is a good local example of late Colonial architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John C. Coffing House is located on the east side of Route 44, south of the village center of Salisbury, on 2.5 acre overlooking a tributary of Factory Brook just to the south. It is a -story wood-frame structure, oriented facing south toward the brook. It has a five-bay front facade, a side-gable roof with central chimney, a clapboarded exterior, and a locally quarried limestone foundation. The main entrance is at the center of the facade, sheltered by a projecting gabled vestibule added in the early 20th century. The cornices are trimmed with dentil moulding, and there is a half-round fanlight in the street-facing gable end. A wing extends to the right of the main block, apparently incorporating an older ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1799 for John C. Coffing, a native of Southbury, Connecticut. He cofounded the firm of Holley and Coffing, which became of the regions major operators of iron furnaces in the first half of the 19th century. This house was built on land Coffing purchased from Sarah Holley, which she had inherited from her grandfather Benjamin Stiles, one of the areas early settlers. The Holley and Coffing families, which intermarried in subsequent generations, dominated the areas iron production industries for several generations. This house was sold out of the extended Coffing family in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Colebrook Center Historic District encompasses the town center of Colebrook, Connecticut. Located in an isolated valley at the junction of Connecticut Route 183 with Rockwell and Smith Hill Roads, the village was established in 1767, and has seen little change since about 1860. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Colebrook is located in the hills of northwestern Connecticut, just south of the Massachusetts state line. It was surveyed in the mid-18th century and settled 1765 by natives of Windsor and East Windsor. It was incorporate in 1779. The oldest surviving house in Colebrook village, an ell to the Samuel Rockwell House, dates to this time. The location of the town center was a contentious matter, with a site probably near the present village church chosen c. 1790. With little land suitable for agriculture, the town&#39;s economy in the 19th century was dominated by the raising of sheep and cattle, and the operation of associated businesses such as tanneries, some of which were located just north of the main intersection on Center Brook. Since 1860, the village center has seen little change, and its economy is dominated by summer tourism.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered on the triangular common formed by Route 183, Smith Hill Road, and Thompson Road, with the Greek Revival church (built 1842) at the southern end. Extending north from the common are a cluster of residential and civic buildings, including the recently built town hall, one of the districts few late 20th-century intrusions. Opposite the town hall is the 1812 Colebrook Store, one of the districts finest examples of Federal period architecture. North of the store is the Samuel Rockwell House, and beyond that the district descends to Center Brook. Most of the principal buildings of the district were built before 1880, with mainly secondary buildings (garages, barns, and other outbuildings) built afterward.</p><br>
<p>Missouri Pacific Depot is a historic train station located at Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri. It was built in 1916-1917 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building with white, smooth-cut limestone wainscotting. The building measures 24x149 ft. It had a red tile hipped roof with a seven foot wide overhang.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Moore House, also known as the James Handy and Mary Hunter Moore House, is a historic home located at Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri. It was built in 1899–1900, and is a -story, Colonial Revival style red brick dwelling. It measures approximately 65 feet by 47 feet and is topped by a hipped roof with gables. The front facade features a columned and balustraded veranda, with pedimented entry. The building houses the Mississippi County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Swank House is a historic home located near Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri. It was built in 1839, and is a two-story, five-bay, L-plan, Classic Revival style orange-red brick dwelling. It measures approximately 40 feet, 6 inches, by 36 feet, 9 inches, and is topped by a simple ridge roof. The front facade features a three-bay hip roofed front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Maclay Mansion, also known as Rosehill Seminary and Gleim Mansion, is a historic home located at Tipton, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was built between about 1858 and 1860, and is a -story, five-bay, L-plan, orange-red brick dwelling. The main block measures approximately 45 feet by 36 feet and is topped by a gable roof. The house features a three-bay hip roofed front portico, massive end chimneys, a wide, bracketed cornice, and a two-story rear gallery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Finke Opera House in April 2017</p><br>
<p>Finke Opera House, also known as the Ritz Theatre, is a historic opera house located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was built in 1885, and is a two-story, eclectic Late Victorian style brick building. The building features decorative brickwork banding and segmental window arches with stone accents. It was built as a multi-use facility and now used as a community theater / meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Gray-Wood Buildings, also known as the Inglish, Kay & Cartwright Office Building and White Residence & Gallery, are four contiguous two-story commercial buildings located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. They were built in 1869, and consist of a complex of four storefronts, constructed of brick with a stone foundation and a flat roof. Each building features differing design details including decorative cast metal columns and brick columns with vermiculated bases and caps.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Old California City Hall and Fire Station is a historic city hall and fire station located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was built about 1892, and is a two-story, Italianate style red brick building. It has two one-story brick additions. It features decorative brickwork at the roof line, arched window and door openings and an ornamental cast iron balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Moniteau County Courthouse Square is a national historic district located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. The district encompasses 21 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district of California. It developed between about 1867 and 1900, and includes representative examples of Classic Revival architecture. Contributing buildings include the Moniteau County Courthouse  and a variety of commercial buildings contemporary with the courthouse, dating from the mid to late-19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>High Point Historic District is a national historic district located at High Point, Moniteau County, Missouri. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings in the central business district of High Point. It developed between about 1874 and 1954, and includes representative examples of commercial architecture. Contributing buildings include the J. F. Tising & Sons Store , East Tisinq Store Building / IOOF Meeting Hall , Post Office , McGill Cafe / Residence , and two frame and one brick privy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District, also known as Rock Enon Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Russellville, Moniteau County, Missouri. The district encompasses six contributing buildings and one contributing structure associated with a late-19th century farmstead. They are the house , a smokehouse / multipurpose building , a privy , a spring house , a granary , a substantial barn , and a stone retaining wall with a swinging iron gate and carriage steps. The house is a -story, five-bay, central hall I-house constructed of limestone blocks. It has a gable roof and a three-bay front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish Historic District, also known as Cedron Church and Assumption Catholic Church, is a historic Roman Catholic church complex and national historic district located at the Cedron settlement near Jamestown, Moniteau County, Missouri. The church was built between 1867 and 1872 and is a brick gable-end church. A three-tiered brick bell tower and sacristy were added in 1903. Also on the property are the contributing school , rectory , privy, and cemetery. The cemetery contains approximately 285 graves with the earliest dating from November 1841.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Merritt Violette House, also known as Merritt "Dad" Violette House, is a historic home located at Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. It was built in 1902–1903, and is a one-story, eclectic vernacular Queen Anne style frame dwelling with attic. It is sheathed in clapboard and fishscale shingles and has a complex hipped and gable roof. The house has a cross-in-square plan. It was the home of Merritt Violette, who saved Mark Twain&#39;s birthplace for the nation and instigated the Mark Twain State Park, and who built two camps for the Camp Fire Girls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Washington School, also known as the Head Start Building, is a historic school building located at Monroe City, Monroe County, Missouri, USA. It was built in 1937 and is a one-story, T-shaped, Colonial Revival style brick building. It housed three classrooms for the education of the African-American students of Monroe City. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are the contributing the flagpole which was erected at the same time as the building, and a merry-go-round from the same period.</p><br>
<p>The Dubuque Millworking Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Made up of large industrial buildings, the district represents the period of transition when Dubuque went from lumber production to millwork production. The buildings are associated with two local millworking firms, Carr, Ryder & Adams and Farley Loetscher. All of the buildings are brick construction, and are between two and five stories in height. Decorative features include pavilions, pilasters, large entry arches, decorative pediments and parapets. Two of the buildings fill an entire block, while three cover a half block. The most substantial buildings were built between 1881 and 1924.</p><br>
<p>Paris Male Academy, also known as the Nimrod Ashcraft House, is a historic school building located at Paris, Monroe County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Paris Male Academy is a Greek Revival style, two-story, three-bay, side passage plan, brick building with a rear addition, built in 1854. It has a front gable roof and four brick pilasters on the front facade. The building housed the Paris Male Academy until 1869, after which it became a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Academy is significant under criterion A, in the area of Education, as it delivered a high level of education to students from the local area; and under criterion C, in the area of Architecture, as a rare surviving example of a building employed for private education in Missouri.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 1990.</p><br>
<p>Farmers and Merchants Bank Building, also known as The Wedge, is a historic bank building located at Monroe City, Monroe County, Missouri. It was erected in 1917, and is a wedge-shaped, flatiron building clad in tapestry brick. It features an impressive canted entrance covered in glazed terra cotta tile with a granite base.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Devereux-Coleman House, also known as the Coleman-Hogan House, in Milledgeville in Baldwin County, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, wood-framed I-House with wings that make a U-shape, all connected by a front porch. It was built in 1834 as a one-story central hallway-plan house, and the second floor was added in 1840. The wings and connecting front porch were built in 1887. It has Folk Victorian details.</p><br>
<p>The entire house was moved about 20 miles to its current location in 1981, from its original rural location in Hancock County.</p><br>
<p>The Fenelon Place Residential Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The residential area that makes up the district is located on a plateau located directly above the Mississippi River Valley. This was the first bluff-top neighborhood in Dubuque that established elevator service. The first Fenelon Place Elevator, listed on the National Register in 1978, was completed in 1894. Early houses on the plateau were small cottages built by lead miners. They were replaced by large houses that were built in two periods. The first period at the end of the 19th century saw houses built in the Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, and Queen Anne styles. House in the second period in the beginning of the 20th century were largely built in the Classical Revival and Tudor Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>The Seminary Hill Residential Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The district is a blufftop residential area that surrounds Madison Park. It takes its name from its proximity to the former German Theological Seminary, now the seminary located at the University of Dubuque. Clarke Drive, the main artery through the district, was also known as Seminary Street at one time. About half of the historic buildings here are brick. The Italianate style is dominate, with several examples of the Italian Villa design. There are also a few examples of the Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Classical Revival styles. This residential area was developed between 1855 and 1919.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Iowa Street Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The district is a single block with commercial and residential buildings on both sides of Iowa Street. It was originally a residential section on the north side of the central business district. The first two commercial buildings were substantial Italianate-style structures constructed on the north side of the block in the mid-1880s. In the 1890s larger and more elaborate Queen Anne commercial buildings were built to the south. The oldest building is an 1872 residence that was used as a doctor&#39;s office and other business purposes. It has subsequently been covered in Permastone. The rest of the buildings are brick with stone ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>Farmers Mercantile Co. Building is a historic commercial building located at High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built in 1904, and is two-story, frame building. It rests on a stone foundation and has a low-pitched gable roof behind a stepped parapet. The building historically served as a social and commercial center for the community.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>High Hill School, also known as High Hill Community Building, is a historic school building located at High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built in 1867, and is two-story, Greek Revival style frame building with a gable roof. It is topped by a six-sided belfry with ogee-arched louvered openings and hexagonal roof. It housed a school until 1954, after which it became a community center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>McKittrick Farmers Mercantile is a historic commercial building located at McKittrick, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built about 1897, and is a two-story, brick building on a concrete foundation. The McKittrick Farmers Mercantile was locally significant in the areas of commerce, entertainment, and recreation. It was the commercial and entertainment center as part of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad line of the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>It served the trade needs of the local farming community housing a general store and post office on the first floor. The second floor with its stage and large assembly area hosted theatrical performances, church gatherings, and community town hall meetings and events.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 2010. The National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions was published on May 10, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The building is situated on the corner of Main and Washington Streets. (Now 500 Walnut Street). The brick building is one of only two commercial brick structures in the town.</p><br>
<p>Nearly all elements of the building are original. The storefront windows and display areas retain their original interior sliding wood sash with glass panels.</p><br>
<p>Next door (south) is now the gravel parking lot, trailhead, and way station for the KATY trail hike and bike path.</p><br>
<p>Today, this landmark is, a boutique hotel with four loft-style guest suites.</p><br>
<p>Heinrich Gloe House is a historic home located near Rhineland, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built between 1852 and 1855, and is 1 to -story, triple-pen dogtrot frontier home constructed of hewn oak logs with full dovetail joints. The building rests on a flagstone basement and foundation and reflects the style and practices of traditional architecture patterns of European immigrants.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Martin Hotel, also known as the Morgan Co. Historical Museum, is a historic hotel building located at Versailles, Morgan County, Missouri. The original two-story frame section was built in 1877, with a two-story brick section added in 1884. The buildings form a modified "U"-plan. The building has housed the Morgan Co. Historical Museum since 1967.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Morgan County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Versailles, Morgan County, Missouri. It was built in 1889 and is a two-story, Second Empire style red brick building on a limestone block foundation. It measures 85 feet by 85 feet. It features an aediculated cupola with decorative details articulated in cast iron, molded tin and wood, with four mansarded corner pavilions of three stories each. It is designed in a French style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Neosho High School, also known as Neosho Intermediate School, is a historic high school building located at Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. It was built in 1916–17, and is a two-story, U-shaped, brick and stone trimmed building with Gothic Revival and Classical Revival style design elements. The building measures approximately 101 feet by 127 feet. Also on the property is the contributing two-story giraffe rock ancillary building, built as a vocational facility for the school in 1940.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>James Bishop</p><br>
<p>Jacqueline Scott</p><br>
<p>Mathew H. Ritchey House, also known as Mansion House and Belle Starr House, is a historic home located in Newtonia, Newton County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with a two-story rear wing built using slave labor. The house rests on a sandstone block foundation and has a side-gabled roof. It features a one-story front portico and interior end chimneys. Also on the property is the contributing Ritchey family cemetery, outbuildings, and a well. During the American Civil War, the site saw fighting during both the First and Second Battles of Newtonia, which required its use as a hospital after the battles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is a contributing property in the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District. The building was damaged by a tornado in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mathew H. Ritchey, the original builder of the house, is credited with the founding of Newtonia, Missouri. Ritchey owned slaves, but was also described as a "staunch Union man." These bloodstains are believed to be the reason the woodwork in one of the home&#39;s rooms was later painted black. Additionally, reports from the time of the battle suggest that the house was damaged by cannon and small arms fire during the fighting. Female outlaw Belle Starr is claimed to have been briefly captured and held at the Ritchey House by Union soldiers in 1862, the story has Starr escaping from the soldiers and reaching the safety of the town of Carthage. The house also survived a fire which took place in Newtonia in 1868.</p><br>
<p>The house has undergone several changes since the 1860s and remained in the Ritchey family until 1948. The upper story, accessed from a staircase in the kitchen, was added in the 1880s. Some of the house&#39;s woodwork was removed during the 1940s to be burned for heat. The most substantial changes to the structure occurred after 1961. The shingles on the roof were replaced and new electrical and plumbing systems were added. Some of the wallpaper in the house was replaced, and the floor of the east first-story parlor was replaced as a result of termite damage. An opening in the second floor of the center hall was added, creating an access to the attic. In 1963, part of the extension was remodeled, replacing a bedroom with a hallway and bathroom. Some of the ceilings and flooring were replaced in that same year, and a portion of the exterior wall was stabilized. After repairs from the tornado, the house was again determined to be in need of repair in 2018 due to old age and water leaks.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is L-shaped and has two stories. The main portion of the houses floor approximately 50 ft by 20 ft, and about 2,000 ft&sup2; of living space is in the structure. Sandstone forms the houses foundation and the walls are made of layers of brick. The inner bricks were produced through sun-drying, while the outer bricks were produced in a kiln. Six openings for windows are found on each story of the house, and the windows are decorated with lintels. Entrances are found on both the north and south sides of the first floor. Both entrances contain pine doors, and screen doors are also present at the north entrance. The north entrance is decorated with a lintel, while a transom is above the south entrance. The door present at the south entrance was originally part of the Newton County Jail.</p><br>
<p>The north entrance is sheltered by a portico (added in the 1950s), which in turn is supported by four columns and two pilasters. On top of the portico is a small balcony, which is accessed by a second-story door. The house is roofed with a gable roof, which is covered with asphalt shingles. Chimneys are present on the exterior of the east and west sides of the house, these chimneys are aligned with the center of the roof.</p><br>
<p>A main wing and an extension towards the east compose the main portion of the house. Two rooms and a central hallway are found on the first story of the northern portion of the main wing of the house. These rooms have wood floors and the walls are decorated with plaster and wainscot; the hall has wallpaper. The east fireplace has a stone hearth original to the house, as well as a mantel that is not original. A bookcase is located on either side of the fireplace, although only one of them is original. The west fireplace has a wooden mantel that is original to the home. The ceilings of the first story rooms are made of lath and plaster; a staircase in the hall provides access to the second story.</p><br>
<p>The floor plan of the second story of the main wing is similar to that of the first story. Two rooms used as bedrooms are present on either end, with a hall in between. Both of the rooms and the hallway are wallpapered. The floors are also made of wood. Fireplaces similar to those on the first story and also present on the second story. The woodwork in the east bedroom has been painted black.</p><br>
<p>The southern portion of the main wing contains a dining room that has been converted to a kitchen. The kitchen is floored with wood covered with carpet, and a fireplace is also present. A stairway leads to a bedroom on the second story. The lower portion of walls in this bedroom are covered with wainscot; three of the walls have wallpaper above the wainscot, but the north wall has painted plaster in place of the wallpaper. There is no fireplace in this room and the floor is wooden. The floor of this bedroom is set slightly lower than that of the bedrooms on the north portion of the wing. The east extension contains a hall and a bathroom, the floor surface is made of linoleum.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1978. In addition to the house itself, the site contains a well, some outbuildings which were constructed later than the house, and two cemeteries: one for the Ritchey family and another for the slaves owned by the Ritchey family. The house is privately owned, and changes to the structure, including the addition of a porch, have occurred since the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District was also added to the NRHP. The district contains parts of the First Battle of Newtonia battlefield, as well as other historic features in the area, including the barnyard associated with the Ritchey House at the time of the battle. While the Ritchey House is located within the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District and is a contributing property to the district, it retains its separate listing on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The Ritchey House and 25 acres of the battlefields including the Old Newtonia Cemetery were added to Wilson&#39;s Creek National Battlefield in 2022 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, despite National Park Service opposition due to the lack of connection, need for protection, or enhancement of public enjoyment.</p><br>
<p>The First Battle of Newtonia Historic District, near Newtonia, Missouri, is a National Register of Historic Places  site that preserves the location of the First Battle of Newtonia, an 1862 battle during the American Civil War. The battle saw Confederate troops under Colonels Douglas H. Cooper and Joseph O. Shelby defeat a Union force commanded by Brigadier General Frederick Salomon. The historic district contains some Civil War-period structures, as well as the Mathew H. Ritchey House, which is listed separately on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>Battle</h2><br>
<p>In September 1862, a Union column commanded by Brigadier General James G. Blunt advanced south into southwestern Missouri. The town of Newtonia was occupied by Confederate troops composed of Confederate-sympathizing Native Americans commanded by Colonel Douglas H. Cooper and cavalry commanded by Colonel Joseph O. Shelby. Cooper had seniority over Shelby, giving him overall command of the Confederate force. Blunts advance guard, commanded by Brigadier General Frederick Salomon, learned of the Confederate presence of Newtonia. A Union scouting force skirmished with some of Shelbys cavalry near Granby on September 29. The next day, Salomons main force moved towards Newtonia, encountering the main Confederate force. The battle opened with an artillery duel, which continued until the Confederate artillery began to run low on ammunition. Salomon then ordered the 9th Wisconsin Infantry around the flank of the Confederate front line. The Confederate front line gave way, but a counterattack by some of Shelbys cavalry stopped the Union advance. A combined charge by Shelbys brigade and Coopers Native Americans broke a secondary line the Union forces had formed after their initial repulse. The Union forces retreated over ten miles to Sarcoxie. The Confederates suffered an estimated 78 casualties during the fighting, while Union casualties are estimated at 245. Despite winning the battle, the Confederate position was still not secure, as Salomon&#39;s force had only been the advance guard of a much larger Union army, leading the Confederates to decide to retreat from Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Historic district</h2><br>
<p>The First Battle of Newtonia Historic District was created in 2004 to preserve the site of the battle and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The central areas of the site are five contributing resources, as well as the Mathew H. Ritchey House, which is listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places. The five contributing resources are the battlefield itself, a stream named Newtonia branch, the Newtonia road, a barnyard associated with the Ritchey House, and a cemetery from the American Civil War period. The district covers. While most of the buildings on the battlefield postdate the battle and several stone walls present during the fighting have since been removed, the nature of the battlefield has undergone no major changes since 1862. Besides the five contributing resources, 29 post-battle structures are contained within the historic district. These structures are mostly residential buildings and mobile homes dating to the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery within the district contains more than 600 burials, dating back to at least 1858. Nine of the burials can be directly connected to the American Civil War. While the Ritchey barn was destroyed in the late 1800s, the site of the barnyard is preserved within the historic district. Archaeology has confirmed that fighting took place in the barnyard area. While no longer extant, several fences on the barnyard site were used as makeshift breastworks during the battle. A portion of Newtonia Branch, a historic stream, is preserved within the district, as is a stretch of roadway known historically as the Neosho Road (now named Mill Street). Additionally, the Mathew H. Ritchey House, a home built in the 1840s by the founder of Newtonia, is within the district. The Ritchey House, as well as an associated family cemetery, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places separately in 1978.</p><br>
<p>A special resource study conducted by the National Park Service in 2013 determined that the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District did not meet the criteria for becoming a unit of the National Park Service as the historical and cultural features of the site were deemed too similar to those preserved at already-existing National Park Service units. The Ritchey House and 25 acres of the battlefields including the Old Newtonia Cemetery were recommended to potentially be added to Wilson&#39;s Creek National Battlefield in 2022 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, despite National Park Service opposition due to the lack of connection, need for protection, or enhancement of public enjoyment.</p><br>
<p>Lentz–Carter Merchandise Store, also known as Lentz–Carter Building, is a historic general store located at Stella, Newton County, Missouri. It was built in 1890, and is a two-story, frame building sheathed in clapboard. It measures approximately 60 feet by 22 feet, sits on a limestone foundation, and has a gable roof. It features an intact original storefront. It is the oldest building standing in Stella.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Neosho Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings in the central business district of Neosho. It developed between about 1868 and 1943, and includes representative examples of Victorian and Modern Movement architecture. Notable buildings include the Newton County Courthouse , Newton County Jail , Haas Building , First National Bank , Auditorium and City Hall , Masonic Lodge , and Newton County Bank .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with a boundary increase in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Neosho Wholesale Grocery Company, also known as North Transfer and Storage, is a historic warehouse building located at Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. The north section was built in 1908, and the south section added about 1922. The two- to three-story brick building features large storefronts, a corbelled brick cornice, and a painted wall sign.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Cream Hill Agricultural School is believed to be the first school in the United States devoted to education in agricultural practices. Founded in 1845 on a farmstead on Cream Hill Road in northern Cornwall, Connecticut, it operated until 1869. The property, still in agricultural use, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The Cream Hill Agricultural School property is located on 400 acre in northern Cornwall, a rural community in the northwestern hills of Connecticut. The main farmstead is found on the west side of Cream Hill Road, north of its junction with Wadsworth Road. In additions to more modern farm trappings, much of its historic educational complex survives. This includes a c. 1770 -story farmhouse, to which a -story ell was added about 1840. A second wing was added in 1845, specifically for use as classroom space. This two-story flat-roofed structure was enlarged in 1850 with a similar section topped by a square turret. Standing west of this complex are sheds and barns of 19th-century vintage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was founded in 1845 by T. S. Gold and his father Samuel, on land they owned and farmed. The younger Gold, educated in agricultural practices at Yale, was a leading force in the promotion of agricultural education in Connecticut, serving as the first secretary of the states agricultural board and leading the founding of the University of Connecticut. Cream Hills curriculum was focused on agriculture, teaching soil types, agricultural practices, horticulture, and surveying, but also taught arts and other subjects conventionally taught at secondary schools. It attracted students mainly from New England, but it had a nationwide reputation, and attracted students from Europe and South America. The school closed in 1869.</p><br>
<p>Stone&#39;s Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge in Framingham and Wayland, Massachusetts. It is located just north of Stonebridge Road, and partially crosses the Sudbury River. Built in 1858, it is a well-preserved example of mid-19th century stone bridge construction, despite its truncation in 1955 due to a shift in the river channel. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is closed to all access.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Stone&#39;s Bridge (named for a historic local resident, not for its construction material) is a four-arch stone bridge located on the Sudbury River, the border between Framingam (to the west) and Wayland (to the east). The bridge footings and arches are built out of dry laid split granite stone, topped with a grassy surface. The bridge ends on the west side of the current main channel of the river, but before reaching the Framingham shore. That end is terminated by a stone-faced concrete pier built against the former western abutment.</p><br>
<p>This location has had a crossing of some sort since early colonial days. A bridge is mentioned at this location in 1674, as a "horse bridge" near the home of Daniel Stone. It is believed that this bridge was crossed by the guns of Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War; a marker has been placed on the Wayland end, indicating it is part of the Henry Knox Trail, commemorating this action. This bridge was built in 1857-58 by William Simonds, according to Framingham town records, and was mentioned by Henry David Thoreau in diary entries dated 1859. The bridge was damaged by flooding from Hurricane Diane in 1955, at which time Stonebridge Road was rerouted to a new bridge to the south. At that time, the western end was stabilized, and new wingwalls were built on the Wayland shore.</p><br>
<p>The Cream Hill Shelter is a rustic log shelter in Housatonic State Forest in Cornwall, Connecticut. Built in 1988, it replaced what was at the time one of three surviving log shelters constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut. The historic shelter it replaced, built in 1935, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cream Hill Shelter is located deep in the woods of northern Cornwall, off Wickwire Road, a forest road (closed to traffic due to a washed-out stream crossing) that runs easterly from Cream Hill Road, roughly paralleling Reed Brook to the south. It is set on a Blue-Blazed Trail a short way south of that road, about 0.75 mi east of Cream Hill Road. It is a small log structure, with a gabled roof and dry-laid fieldstone foundation. The rectangular structure, open on one side, is built out of saddle-notched logs, with a sill across the base of the open side to add stability.</p><br>
<p>The first shelter on this site was built in 1935 by a crew of the CCC based at Camp Cross, which was located elsewhere in Housatonic State Forest. Crews from the same camp also built the Red Mountain Shelter in Mohawk State Forest. These two shelters were both located along what was then the route of the Appalachian Trail, which has since been rerouted further west. The Trail had been laid through the area by the state in 1930-33, and the CCC crews (active from 1933 to 1941) were responsible for opening this area of the forest to further recreational use. This shelter was one of two the CCC built in the immediate vicinity; the other, located about one mile to the north, had been demolished at the time this one was listed on the National Register. The 1935 shelter was replaced in 1988 by one constructed by the Appalachian Mountain Club that differs in form if not in its basic log construction.</p><br>
<p>The Walker County Courthouse in LaFayette, Georgia was built in 1917 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed with Beaux-Arts architecture by architect Charles E. Bearden. It is a three-story, rectangular courthouse built of cream brick. It has multiple pairs of "colossal" Tuscan order columns running up the second and third stories, alternating with triple windows. Its entablature has triglyphs and metopes. It is described in its National Register nomination as having a Beaux Arts/Renaissance Revival design: "It is not a pure design but is adapted and is Renaissance Revival more in massing and long horizontal lines rather than specific details."</p><br>
<p>Its interior features oak millwork that is especially noteworthy. Its courtroom is "unusually spacious; the woodwork, the deeply recessed ceiling squares, the retention of early light fixtures blend to create a sophisticated statement."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Bearden, an architect based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, also designed the NRHP-listed Richard Hardy Memorial School in South Pittsburg, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Four Mounds Estate Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The estate is named for the four conical burial mounds that are located on the property. They are one of the historic sites, and they are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Four Mounds was a gentlemans farm developed by George and Viola Burden in the early 20th century. They lived and raised their children in the country, while George Burden was able to easily commute to work downtown. The district includes 17 buildings that were used for residential, farm, recreational and support purposes. The farm buildings were generally constructed between 1908 and 1911. The Chauffeurs House was built in 1907, and it is the oldest structure in the historic district. The buildings are located on a 60 acre estate located above a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Chicago landscape architect A. Phelps Wyman designed the cultured grounds, which include historic gardens, woodlands, prairie, and a rare oak savanna. Chicago architect Lawrence Buck designed the family&#39;s Craftsman house, known as the Grey House (1908). Their son Bill and his wife Elizabeth took over the farm for his parents and they built the Colonial Revival White House in 1924. Its architect is unknown. The farm stayed in the family until 1982 when it was given to the City of Dubuque when Elizabeth died. At the time of her death, there was still a full-time staff that lived on the estate.</p><br>
<p>A non-profit organization began running Four Mounds in 1987. Three of the houses are used as bed and breakfast inns, and the Grey house also functions as a small conference center. Visitors may hike the trails on the grounds, and view the refurbished buildings. The estate is a part of the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area.</p><br>
<p>Esperanza is a historic country estate at 511 Town Hill Road in New Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835 and extensively enlarged and restyled in 1893, it is a high-quality example of Colonial Revival architecture on an original Greek Revival frame. Julie Palmer Smith , one of its original owners, was a noted author of Victorian romance novels. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, at which time it remained in the hands of Smith descendants.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Esperanza is located in a rural but geographically central part of New Hartford, at the northwest corner of Town Hill Road and Beeney Road. The 18 acre property is wooded in its eastern part, where its buildings are located, and is a tree-fringed cleared field to the west. The estate includes a main house and two small guest houses, a carriage house, and a summer kitchen. The main house is a somewhat rambling multigabled -story wood-frame structure, with porches to the east (where the main entrance is) and the west (where the fields provide a view to the hills further west). It is now predominantly Colonial Revival in style, with aspects of the Shingle style evident in some of its details. The two guest houses are vernacular single-story buildings with Colonial Revival porches.</p><br>
<p>Morris and Julie Palmer Smith, residents of Hartford, first bought a prospective summer estate in New Hartford in 1871, but it burned down in November of that year. The following year they purchased the 85 acre farm of Frederick Lyman, which included the c. 1835 Greek Revival farmstead. This house was enlarged and restyled by Julie Smith, using the proceeds of her successful line of Victorian romance novels. In 1893 it underwent a major facelift, designed by Hartford architect Melvin H. Hapgood, at which time most of its Colonial Revival features were added. The Smiths played host to literary and artistic figures including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Gillette, and George Inness.</p><br>
<p>The Farnum House is a historic house on Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1908 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, it is a distinctive local example of a Tudor Revival English country house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, for its association with the architect.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farnum House is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the west side of Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 272). It is set on a 2 acre lot that slopes down from the road, with a semicircular front drive providing access. A fringe of mature plantings lines the street between the two drive entrances. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, its exterior finished in stucco. Its main roof ridge is oriented parallel to the road, but its facade is dominated by large front-facing cross-gabled sections at either end, with an eyebrow dormer in between. The roof below the eyebrow extends over a broad porte-cochere, whose ends extend in front of the flanking gables. The interior finishes are also reflective of the Tudor Revival, and some of its original interior furnishings were also designed by the architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 to a design by Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who summered in Norfolk. It is one of three stucco houses designed by Taylor in the years 1906-08 that are set on the west side of Litchfield Road. This house in particular bears a strong resemblance to Moor Crag, a house near Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria, England designed in 1898 by the English architect Charles Voysey, but presents its own distinctive interpretation of an English country house of the period.</p><br>
