<p>The Trailside Museum of Natural History is located in the historic Army Theatre at Fort Robinson State Park, three miles west of Crawford, Nebraska on USA Route 20.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building served as a theater and gymnasium for the Fort Robinson army post. The theater hosted many types of entertainment, including boxing matches, dances, and moving pictures. The theater was exclusively used as a gym by 1917 as automobiles and movie houses became more prevalent, allowing soldiers to seek entertainment elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The building was acquired by the University of Nebraska in 1955 which opened the Trailside Museum at Fort Robinson in 1961. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988,</p><br>
<h2>Exhibition</h2><br>
<p>The most important exhibition is a pair of 14 - foot mammoth skeletons were found nearby. The beasts apparently locked tusks in mortal combat and starved to death as a result.</p><br>
<p>The museum exhibits the fossils of two mammoths which killed each other when the area was in an ice age. They were trapped due to their tusks and died.</p><br>
<p>Also in the museum there is a paleontological exhibition made by Mark Marcusson and Gregory Brownde. There are exhibits of animals that lived in Nebraska millions of years ago like the Daeodon or three-toed horse.</p><br>
<p>The Curry Hill Plantation near Bainbridge, Georgia is a plantation begun in 1842 by Duncan Curry. It was several thousand acres in size, and was a stage coach stop on the stage coach line between Thomasville and Bainbridge. The Curry family lived in a log house at first, then in the 1850s lived in the former stage coach house while the main plantation house which stands today was built. The main house was built in the 1850s and includes Greek Revival elements.</p><br>
<p>The remaining property is 400 acre in size.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Sun Terrace, also known as the Field House, is a historic house on Stub Hollow Road in New Hartford, Connecticut. Commissioned in 1929 for a scion of the Vanderbilt family and completed in 1932, it is the first successful residential commission of William Lescaze, and the first documented example in the United States of an International Style country house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sun Terrace is located in an isolated rural setting near the geographic center of New Hartford. It is set on a wooded ridge southwest of the town center, its east flank traversed by Stub Hollow Road. The house is set at the crest of the ridge, with expansive views to the west and southwest. It is a -story structure, with a frame of steel finished with cement stucco. It is an asymmetrical but roughly rectangular mass, with a flat roof, cantilevered decks, and a prominent curved wall section. It has grouped windows, including at some of its corners, and is generally devoid of exterior ornamentation. A spiral staircase provides access between the rooftop terrace and lower outside spaces. Interior features include a curved soapstone fireplace, and extensive use of fluorescent lighting, a technology in its infancy at the time of the house&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>The house was commissioned from William Lescaze, a Swiss architect, in 1929 by Frederick Vanderbilt Field, a scion of the Vanderbilt family railroad fortune who was disinherited for his political views. Lescaze was at the time also designing the PSFS Building, the nation&#39;s first International style skyscraper. When completed, this house was the first country house of that style, being preceded in residential architecture only by the Lovell House of Richard Neutra.</p><br>
<p>The United Carriage and Baggage Transfer Building is an historic building in Portland, Oregon&#39;s Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, completed in 1886 which was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a Portland Historic Landmark by the citys Historic Landmarks Commission in 1969. It had been the location of The Old Spaghetti Factorys first restaurant and the youth dance club Quest.</p><br>
<p>Midway Barn was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for farming on his Taliesin estate in the town of Wyoming, Wisconsin . The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The barn is actually a T-shaped structure with a total of three levels. The longest portion of the building has two levels, ending on the south in a round stone structure that was originally a milk house. Perpendicular to this was a chicken coop. To the south of the chicken coop are two former silos made out of concrete block. The chicken coop extends over a drive, which ends at an apartment on the north end of the long portion.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Midway Barn was used most actively by Wright and his architectural apprentices in the "Taliesin Fellowship" (now the School of Architecture at Taliesin) from the time that the Fellowship began in 1932 until the end of the architect&#39;s life in 1959. Midway Barns were constructed mostly in 1938 and were named for their location which was midway between Taliesin and Hillside. Dairy and machine sheds were added in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The barn at one time had "he Wrights&#39; personal horses, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, rabbits, an Afghan hound or two", but also had several living spaces, including one for a "sheepherder".</p><br>
<p>Farming was important to Wright because of his own childhood experiences with it: when he was 11 years old, he began working on the farm, located nearby, owned by his uncle James Lloyd Jones. The architect later wrote that the trees in the surrounding hills "stood in it all like various, beautiful buildings, of more different kinds than all the architectures of the world. And the boy was some day to learn that the secret of all the human styles in architecture was the same that gave character to the trees."</p><br>
<p>As a result, when Wright began the Taliesin Fellowship he felt that exposing people to farm work, as former apprentice Curtis Besinger later wrote, was "fundamental to a persons development, particularly his understanding and appreciation of an organic architecture.&#39;" The farming work was most active during the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The animals are no longer on the Taliesin estate, but the farm land is being used for vegetables, as noted in the article quoted from below: When Wright designed Taliesin, which means "shining brow," he intended it to be surrounded by a vibrant foodscape, according to his writings and architectural drawings.</p><br>
<p>Wright believed his sustainably designed buildings should be in harmony with their surroundings. His practical ideas about self-sufficiency, rooted in lean times on the farm, are gaining more attention now that sustainable agriculture is in vogue, said Victor Sidy, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture on the Taliesin estate.</p><br>
<p>Today, architecture students volunteer to tend the original apple orchard and grapevines placed there by Wright. Students also continue Wright&#39;s traditions by growing vegetables in a garden near the school for use in their daily meals. The 33 students are required to help in the school kitchen as part of a collegial tradition.</p><br>
<h2>Taliesin Historic District</h2><br>
<p>Midway Barn is one of five Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings on the Taliesin estate. It is on the east side of a low hill, with the four other buildings on the Taliesin estate to its north, south, and west:</p><br>
<p>His personal residence, Taliesin, is to the north and west</p><br>
<p>The Hillside Home School, is to the south and west</p><br>
<p>And near each other to the west are:</p><br>
<p>the Romeo and Juliet Windmill</p><br>
<p>and Tan-y-Deri, the home Wright designed for Jane and Andrew Porter, his sister and brother-in-law.</p><br>
<p>The buildings and estate are owned by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (centered in Scottsdale, Arizona) with restoration of the buildings and grounds carried out by Taliesin Preservation, Inc., an independent non-profit Wisconsin organization.</p><br>
<p>The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Station is a railway depot located in Pioneer Park on West Lake Street in Petoskey, Michigan. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The building now houses the Little Traverse Historical Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad began service to Petoskey in 1874, and was the only railroad in the area. In 1891, a second railroad, the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, began constructing a line with attendant buildings, between Elk Rapids and Petoskey. The railway purchased this land on the shore of Little Traverse Bay to place their Petoskey Depot. The company hired the Cadillac firm of Mosser and Wilson to construct the depot, and both the rail line and depot were completed in 1892. The town of Petoskey then created a park (now Pioneer Park) surrounding the depot.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, the Chicago and West Michigan Railway and this station was absorbed into the Pere Marquette Railway. The Pere Marquette (PM), in turn, was merged into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947. The PM, and later, the C&O, ran the Resort Special night train from Chicago, along with local trains on the route. The Petoskey station continued to serve passengers until the 1950s, when it was abandoned. The C&O ran passenger trains to Petoskey until some point between 1961 and 1963. In 1970, the Little Traverse Regional Historical Society obtained a lease on the depot and some of the surrounding land. The building was converted into a museum in 1971, and as of 2017 is used as the Little Traverse Historical Museum</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Chesapeake and Ohio Depot is located just on the edge of Little Traverse Bay. It is a distinctly Victorian Shingle style building with a distinct Victorian cast. The long building originally had open platforms at each end, but these were filled in during subsequent renovations. A porte cochere extends in the front of the building, and perching atop the building is a squat conical roof. Next to the conical section is a tall narrow chimney.</p><br>
<p>The Sunny Ridge Historic District encompasses a historic former crossroads village in Washington, Connecticut. It consists of properties abutting the triangular intersection of Sunny Ridge Road, Nettletown Hollow Road, and Old Litchfield Road . This area was in the 18th and 19th centuries a stop on a north-south stagecoach and mail route. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nettleton Hollow area was one of the first places to be settled in the 18th century in Washington. The Nettleton Hollow Road had been cut through the area, serving travelers between Hartford and Cornwall, where connections to the Albany, New York could be made. The presence of local cross roads presented the opportunity to establish taverns. One, the Rising Sun Tavern at 6 Romford Road, was established in 1748 and enlarged in the early 19th century, while a second (at 20 Nettleton Hollow Road) was established c. 1790. The area flourished until the stage routes declined in the later years of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes all of the property immediately surrounding the triangle formed by Nettletown Hollow Road, Sunny Ridge Road, and Old Litchfield Road. It includes ten houses, seven of which are historically significant, as well as a number of 19th-century outbuildings, including barns and sheds. All of the buildings are of wood frame construction, the houses generally 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height. The total area of the district is 175 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Wycamp Creek Site  is an archaeological site located near Levering, Michigan. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Wycamp Creek Site is located in a small dune field near Lake Michigan, on a Nipissing terrace near Wycamp Creek.</p><br>
<p>It is likely this site was occupied more or less continuously throughout the Late Middle and Late Woodland period. It was first identified by archaeologists in a 1927 survey done by Emerson F. Greenman. In 1967, a small section of the site was excavated by a team from Michigan State University led by Charles E. Cleland. Radiocarbon dating from the site brackets the period of occupation from about 1320 to 400 years before the present.</p><br>
<p>The Ponshewaing Point Site  is an archaeological site located on Ponshewaing Point in Crooked Lake in Emmet County, Michigan. It was places on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>This site was in use approximately AD 800 - 1500, covering several Middle and Late Woodland period occupations. "Ponshewaing" (or "Pon-she-waing") is typically translated as "winter home," which may indicate a year-round occupation.</p><br>
<p>Test excavations were completed at the Ponshewaing Point Site in 1966–67. The site was more intensively excavated by researchers from Michigan State University in 1970. Excavations revealed multiple components, including four basic pit types. Post mold shapes indicate two distinct dwellings.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Benton Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the historic waterfront areas of Fort Benton, Montana. Founded as a fur trading post at the head of navigation of the Missouri River, it was one of the nation&#39;s largest inland ports prior to the advent of the railroad, playing a pivotal role in the development of the American and Canadian West. The Front Street and waterfront area of the city preserves elements of this history. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, although its boundaries were not formally determined until 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Fort Benton was founded in 1846–1848 by Alexander Culbertson, a fur trader working for the Chouteau brothers firm. It was named for Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and was originally little more than a palisaded fort, with the facilities of the trading firm within. At first goods were moved up and down the river by keelboats and other human or animal-powered watercraft. In 1859 the Chouteaus acquired a steamboat, and began service from St. Louis, Missouri. At more than 3000 river miles from the sea, it has been described as "the world&#39;s innermost port". From 1860 to 1890 it was one of the principal points of embarkation for supplies and good that drove the development of the American West. Its proximity to Canada meant that goods and supplies also traveled north, helping fuel the growth of cities such as Edmonton, Alberta. Goods were loaded and unloaded on the levee, and merchants managing the trade had their business on Front Street, with homes nearby. The river trade declined in the late 19th century after railroads became a more reliable means of transportation in the region.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Front Street, from the 1200 to 1900 blocks, and includes the levee along the river bank, and the 1888 Fort Benton Bridge, built in an attempt by the local merchants to maintain the city&#39;s influence as the steamboat trade declined. The district includes the site of Fort Benton, which has a surviving element an 1856 blockhouse, the levee, built in 1860, the 1882 Grand Union Hotel, and the Fort Benton Engine House, a fire station that also served as city hall for many years. The 1867 I.G. Baker House is the oldest surviving residence in the district.</p><br>
<p>The Shay Hexagon House is a house located at 396 East Main Street in Harbor Springs, Michigan. It was part of a complex of three buildings  built by Ephraim Shay. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ephraim Shay was born in Ohio in 1839. He moved to Michigan in 1864 and eventually to Harbor Springs in 1888. He was already nationally known as the inventor of the Shay locomotive, typically used in logging applications. On arriving at Harbor Springs, Shay built a hexagonal house for his own use, and a nearby machine shop, where he constructed machines (including some of his eponymous locomotives) and manufacturing tools. About a year after the construction of the machine shop, Shay built a waterworks, which supplied Harbor Springs and Harbor Point with up to 100,000 gallons of water a day. A reservoir was constructed in 1894.</p><br>
<p>Shay lived in his house until his death in 1916. The house was sold in 1924–25, and housed a series of commercial shops. As of 2017, it is privately owned and has been carefully restored.</p><br>
<p>Shay sold the waterworks to the city of Harbor Springs in the late 1890s. The machine shop was later used as a city garage, and then as the city Fire Hall. Both buildings have been subsequently demolished, leaving the Hexagon House as the only remaining structure in the complex.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Shay Complex is composed of three structures: Ephraim Shay&#39;s private residence (known as the "Hexagon House"), his machine shop, and the waterworks.</p><br>
<p>The Hexagon House, located at 396 East Main Street, is sheathed entirely of metal on a foundation of cut stone. The roof, originally of metal sheet, was later covered with asphalt shingles. The sheets of metal used to construct the house were embossed to give the appearance of brick. Interior walls are of pressed steel.</p><br>
<p>The main body of the house is a two-story hexagon shape, and surrounding the center structure are four single-story hexagonal wings, each one a single room with five windows spaced around the perimeter. The room in the center was used as a sitting room, with the upper floor an observatory. Two main entrance halls lead to the front and rear of the house, and the center room opens onto a parlor, a dining / family room, a kitchen with a bath for the maid, and three bedrooms with two main baths. The interior was originally finished with oil paints in contrasting designs.</p><br>
<p>The machine shop is located on Judd Street across from the Hexagon. It is a large single-story brick building with a hip roof covered in shingles. Windows are set in segmental arches.</p><br>
<p>The waterworks is located just east of the machine shop. It has a partial hip roof covered in shingles.</p><br>
<p>The Terryville Waterwheel is a historic industrial water wheel at the Pequabuck River and Main Street in the Terryville section of Plymouth, Connecticut. Probably built in 1851 for a local clockmaker, it is one of three surviving 19th-century water wheels in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Terryville Waterwheel is located in Terryville, a historic 19th-century manufacturing district of eastern Plymouth, and now the towns main commercial center. It is located on the north side of Main Street (United States Route 6) on a tributary of the Pequabuck River. The wheel is built out of wood and iron, and is mounted in its original wheel well formed out of rubblestone capped in concrete. It is 22 ft in diameter and 7 ft wide, and is sheltered by a form-fit shelter erected in 1951. Most of the wheels parts are pressure-treated wood, replacing original materials in a 1990-91 restoration. The axle of the wheel is cast iron, with a cast iron hub providing attachment mortises for the wheel&#39;s arms. The arms are fastened to the hub with metal bolts, and are cross braced with iron tie rods.</p><br>
<p>The wheel was traditionally thought to date to the construction of Eli Terrys clock factory, which was built on this site in 1824. However, that factory was destroyed by fire in 1851, and was rebuilt by its then-owner, the Lewis Lock Company. It is believed that the present wheel fittings date to that period. The wheel was powered by water delivered from a dam upriver (no longer extant) via a wooden head race (also not extant, although it survived until 1951). This wheel provided power to lockmaking concerns until about 1940, when the factory was demolished. Of Connecticuts three surviving 19th-century water wheels it is the best preserved.</p><br>
<p>The Albert W. Henn Mansion is a residence in Euclid, Ohio on the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed in 1923 at a price tag of $150,000, it was originally the residence of Albert W. Henn, who had made a fortune in the machine tool industry.</p><br>
<p>The structure is built in the Tudor Revival style, with Bungalow and Craftsman influences.</p><br>
<p>Henn lost his fortune during the great depression and, unable to pay his municipal taxes, he turned his house and his property over to the City of Euclid on stipulation that he be allowed to reside on the premises until his death, which occurred in 1947. The adjoining land became Sims Park, and the mansion was used as classrooms, the Euclid Board of Educations offices, and then as the location of Euclids Recreation Department. The structure was allowed to deteriorate in the 1990s, and the city proposed to demolish it in 1996, upon which the Friends of the Henn Mansion was founded.</p><br>
<p>The Albert W. Henn Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is currently used as a rental place for gatherings such as parties, baby showers, weddings, and flea markets.</p><br>
<p>The Tom Thumb House is a historic summer cottage on Windrow Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1929, it is an unusual medieval-styled construction designed by New York architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tom Thumb House is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the south side of Windrow Road. It is set on a hillside above the road, from which it and an adjacent later house are screened by trees. It is a single-story structure, consisting of two roughly square sections joined at a corner. The walls of each section are made of large boulders, and are up to 2.5 ft thick. The pyramidal roofs of each section, framed with hand-hewn timbers recycled from old barns, are covered in thick slate. One of the squares has the main living space, while the other houses a sleeping and kitchen area. Exposed framing and rough paneling, also recycled, are the principal exposed woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1929 to a design by New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor. Taylor spent many summers in Norfolk, and is credited with more than thirty commissions in the community. A number of them share the medieval features used in this building: the rough rustic stone and wood finishes, and heavy slate roof. Details of the building were published in American Architect and Building News after its construction. Taylor&#39;s work for the Childs family also included the Starling Childs Camp on Doolittle Lake, and the Childs Sports Building; the latter in particular, located north of Windrow Road, has similar style and construction methods to this building, but on a larger scale. This house was referred to by the family as the "Teahouse&quot its "Tom Thumb" name was applied in the American Architect and Building News article.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was an old soldiers&#39; home opened in 1904 in Mountain Home, Johnson City, Tennessee. Its site has since been taken over by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is home to the Mountain Home National Cemetery and the James H. Quillen VA Center. Also known as the Mountain Home, its campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2011, as a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century veterans care facility.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was created by the United States federal government in the waning days of the American Civil War, as a means to provide needed support for Union Army veterans of the war. Between 1865 and 1930 a total of eleven branches of this service were founded. The Mountain Branch was established in 1901 by the NHDVS through the efforts of Congressman Walter P. Brownlow. Land for the campus was purchased soon after the enabling legislation was signed, and major development took place between then and 1903, when the unfinished facility opened its doors. The campus was designed by New York City architect Joseph H. Freelander, a proponent of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, and landscape designer Carl Andersen. The many surviving buildings that make up the core of the present VA campus are in the Beaux Arts style. The complex received notice in architectural publications, including criticism that it was overly exotic for its comparatively rural location.</p><br>
<p>The NHDVS was absorbed in the Veterans Administration (now the United States Department of Veterans Affairs) in 1930, at which time another round of construction took place. A third major round of building occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, after the VA developed a master plan for the site.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain Home National Cemetery was established in 1903, in a manner similar to other national cemeteries located adjacent to NHDVS facilities.</p><br>
<p>Most of the surviving campus continues to be used by the Department of Veterans of Affairs as the James H. Quillen VA Center.</p><br>
<p>Birdsong Nature Center, formerly the Dickey-Birdsong Plantation, is a 565 acre historic district property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It includes four contributing buildings, five contributing structures, and a contributing site. It is a wildlife preserve.</p><br>
<p>It has a 1912 dwelling, the "Dickey-Komarek House", which includes Classical Revival architectural details, and is a frame one-and-a-half-story building built in 1912 by expanding upon a mid-1800s dogtrot house. It has an 1858 barn and outbuildings built in the 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased from the Dickey family in 1938. It became a site of ecological research and fire experimentation.</p><br>
<p>The property is now the Birdsong Nature Center on Birdsong Road. Birdsong Nature Center was created as a 501c3 corporation in 1986. Its mission is "to foster awareness, understanding, and appreciation of nature and its interrelationships."</p><br>
<p>The Cairo Commercial Historic District is a 12 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It had 31 contributing buildings, mostly on North and South Broad Street, but also on Railroad Avenue and on Second Avenue and one on First Street.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>Citizens Bank (c. 1908), 128 South Broad Street, a Neoclassical Revival building with a vault design</p><br>
<p>115 South Broad Street, a three-story building with paired stone pilasters</p><br>
<p>Zebulon Theater (1936), 207 North Broad Street, a two-story, brick building with Art Deco influence</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office (1935), 203 North Broad Street, a Stripped Classical building built with funds from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (FEAPW, a Public Works Administration forerunner). It has a New Deal mural, "Products of Grady County", by Paul Ludwig Gill.</p><br>
<p>Three, one-story brick warehouses (1909) on Railroad Avenue</p><br>
<p>Cairo Depot (c.1880), formerly the Atlantic Coastline Depot, which in 1994 was the Cairo Police Station, a stucco-over-masonry building with overhanging eaves, brackets, and a large hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>W. B. Roddenbery Building where cane syrup was produced for Walter Blair Roddenbery&#39;s business originated by his father, Dr. Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery. Seaborn Roddenbery was the son and grandson, respectively.</p><br>
<p>The Emanuel County Courthouse in Swainsboro, Georgia serves Emanuel County. The current building is the county&#39;s seventh courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Former courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The former courthouse in Swainsboro, built in 1940 and since demolished, and a sheriff department building, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as Emanuel County Courthouse and Sheriff Department. The Sheriff Department building, built in 1912, is a one-story Classical Revival building with a pedimented entrance portico. It was designed by Augusta, Georgia, architect L.F. Goodrich.</p><br>
<p>The 1940 courthouse served as Emanuel County&#39;s justice building, replacing the 1920 courthouse that was destroyed in a 1938 fire. It was designed in Stripped Classical style by architects Dennis and Dennis. The courthouse was demolished in 2000, but a historical marker remains.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School, in Whigham, Georgia, in Grady County, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in the 1860s. It obtained the Martin Avenue property in 1878. The first church built there, a log building, was destroyed by fire in 1920, and the present church was then built that same year.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse on the property was built around 1930, and was the only school for black children of Whigham and the area until segregation was ended in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Regular worship at the church ceased in the 1980s; in 2008 the church was being rehabilitated.</p><br>
<p>The Sasser Farm in Grady County, Georgia, near Cairo, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It included nine contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, it was deemed significant in part as "a good example of the type of small, family-owned farmstead that once abounded in southwest Georgia. From the simple log house and later the "new" house, a farm was maintained where cotton, corn, and livestock were raised. Several county innovations are said to have occurred here including the first dipping vats for cattle, one of the first large, raised concrete silos, and construction of an ice house before ice came into general use. The Sasser Farm truly represents the American frontier dream."</p><br>
<p>The "new" house was built in 1887. It is a one-story double pen, central hall plan house with a metal roof. An overhanging portion of the roof is supported by four columns.</p><br>
<p>The old was a log house built in c.1839.</p><br>
<p>Besides the houses buildings on the site include a wash house, a smokehouse, a cold storage (ice) building, a garage, a corn crib, a mule barn, and a silo.</p><br>
<p>The First Thurston County Courthouse, in Pender, Nebraska, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It consists of two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The older building, at 222 Main Street, was built by 1889 and after purchase by the county for $1500 served as courthouse for Thurston County. It is a two-story wood frame commercial building about 20 ft by 50 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>The second building, adjacent, was built in 1892 as a U-shaped hotel building known as Peebles House. It is a 100 ft by 95 ft three-story brick-faced U-shaped building which has aspects of the Second Renaissance Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jail is a historic building in Georgetown, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes the Old Quitman County Jail that was built in 1891 and was separately listed on the National Register in 1981. The old jail is a two-story brick structure that served until c.1965. It was renovated in 1994. It replaced the original wooden jail, built in 1859, that first served Quitman County, founded in 1858. The original jail was a wooden structure built in 1859. It was replaced in 1891 with the current brick structure.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is a one-story brick courthouse built in 1939 by the Public Works Administration using federal relief funds. It was designed by T. Firth Lockwood, Jr. in Stripped Classical style.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hall and District School No. 6 are a pair of historic government buildings at 12 South Street in Morris, Connecticut. The school, built about 1772, and the town hall, built 1861, are well-preserved examples of vernacular civic architecture. They presently house the local historical society museum, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former town hall and district school stand in the village center of Morris, on the west side of South Street (Connecticut Route 61) opposite the village fire station. The town hall is a single-story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. A square belfry with pilastered corners, louvered openings, and pyramidal roof graces the roof ridge. The main facade has a pair of symmetrically placed entrances, each topped by a simple cornice. The school building is smaller, with a similarly clapboarded and gable-roofed exterior. It has original windows and plaster walls, but other interior features are replacements.</p><br>
<p>The school building is the older of the two, built about 1772 and originally located some 3.5 mi away, near King&#39;s Gristmill. It was moved a short distance in 1910 to make way for a reservoir, and continued use as a school until 1915. It was moved several times before landing here in 1981 for restoration. The town hall was built in 1861, and served the town until 1932, when the Morris Community Building, the present town hall, was built.</p><br>
<p>The James Price McRee House in Camilla, Georgia, also known as McRee Hall, is a Classical Revival-style house built in 1907. It was designed by architect T. Firth Lockwood and it has a two-story portico at its front entrance. It is regarded as one of the finest of several Classical Revival residences in Camilla. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was built for James Price McRee as a wedding present for his bride, Jeanette Wade, who was daughter of the Brooks County sheriff.</p><br>
<p>The listing is for a 5 acre property with three contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Noble Monument is a commemorative sculpture located at the parkway median of Quintard Avenue and 11th Street in the city of Anniston, Alabama, United States, and was erected in 1895 to honor the town&#39;s founder, Samuel Noble.</p><br>
<p>Noble immigrated with his family to the United States from England. The family owned a weaponry foundry in Georgia during the American Civil War, supplying armaments to the Confederate States Army. Their foundry was subsequently destroyed by the USA Army in 1864. At the wars end, they began rebuilding their business in Georgia, and purchased land in Calhoun County, Alabama, as an expansion. They went into partnership with former Union general Daniel Tyler and formed the Woodstock Iron Company in 1872, with the budding community being referred to by the same name as the company. The small town was renamed Anniston, after Tylers daughter-in-law, to avoid confusion over another Woodstock located between Bibb and Tuscaloosa counties. Noble and Tyler personally designed the layout of their town that housed only company employees. The Woodstock Company constructed the buildings and installed the infrastructure.</p><br>
<p>Several years after Nobles 1888 death, $5,400 was raised for a memorial, and Anniston accepted a design of a granite and white marble statue from Durham and Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. The actual sculpting was done by unknown persons in Italy under contract to Morris Brothers in Memphis, Tennessee. The public unveiling of the statue by Nobles granddaughter Elizabeth Roberts, was preceded by a parade through Anniston.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as an example of sculpture used to commemorate historical events or persons. Although the Encyclopedia of Alabama credits all concerned in the establishment and development of Anniston, the townspeople who commissioned the statue and the National Park Service give recognition only to Noble as the actual founder.</p><br>
<p>The East Charlemont District School is a historic district school building at 1811 Massachusetts Route 2 in Charlemont, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1828, it is one of a small number of surviving brick district schoolhouses in the state of Massachusetts. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The East Charlemont District School stands in a rural setting in eastern Charlemont, on the north side of MA 2 west of its junction with East Oxbow Road and crossing of Oxbow Brook. It is a single-story brick structure, with a gabled slate roof. A wood-frame ell extends to one side. The main facade is four bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, topped by a four-light transom window. The other bays are unevenly spaced sash windows set in rectangular openings. There is a chimney at the left of the structure.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1828, at a time when there was a small village surrounding the property. It was built largely by the efforts of East Charlemont villagers, its bricks manufactured at a nearby brickyard. The school remained in active use as a school until 1944, by which time a significant number of the village buildings had been demolished, and it served only a small number of students. Its interior has remained remarkably unchanged since its closure, in part due to a decision by the town to preserve the building, using it only for local meetings and educational tours for children.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson County Courthouse in Wrightsville, Georgia was built in 1895 and work was done on it in 1940 under the Works Projects Administration. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It stands on the town square in Wrightsville. It was designed by architects Golucke & Stewart and is similar to their Pike County Courthouse. It is brick and stone trim in composition. It has entrances on all four sides, with no one prominent enough to be clearly a "front" entrance. It has four corner pavilions, each with a bracketed gable. A later addition is the pedimented clock tower that is topped by a small dome.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson County Courthouse in Tecumseh, Nebraska was built during 1888–89. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included the building and four contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story 91 ft by 68 ft red brick and limestone building that was designed by William Gray with Romanesque Revival architecture stylings. It has corner towers and a central dome with a weathervane up to height of 110 ft.</p><br>
<p>The United Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 19–21 Main Street in downtown New Milford, Connecticut. Designed by Wilson Potter and built 1902–04, it is a prominent local example of Classical Revival architecture, built to house two banks whose previous buildings had been destroyed in a fire. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and is a contributing element of the New Milford Center Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The United Bank Building occupies a prominent location in downtown New Milford, at the top end of Bank Street, one of its main commercial streets, where it meets the town common. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of buff-colored brick with brownstone trim. Its main facade, facing main street and the common, is three bays wide, articulated by broad piers which rise to a multilevel cornice and parapeted roof. The main entrance is in the central bay, recessed in a tall round-arch opening. Above the arch is a recessed panel incised with the building name, with a decorative cartouche above that, flanked by sash windows. The flanking bays each have three-part window groups in both the first and second levels. The interior has a central vestibule and hall, which separate the spaces historically allotted to the two banks that were its initial occupants.</p><br>
<p>On May 5, 1902, a fire struck the New England House, a locally well known tavern and inn located at the corner of Bank and Main Streets. The conflagration also consumed the adjacent buildings of the New Milford Savings Bank and the New Milford First National Bank, located down Bank Street. The two banks immediately organized to rebuild, quickly agreeing in principle to build a joint facility on the site of the tavern. Their committee accepted a design from Wilson Potter, an architect then based in New York City. The large-scale features of the building and its prominent setting on the town common make it an imposing feature of the town&#39;s commercial district.</p><br>
<p>The Cheshire Town Hall Complex is a three-building set of municipal structures at the junction of Church and Depot Streets in Cheshire, Massachusetts. Built in 1898, the town hall is a prominent local example of Colonial Revival architecture, and the assemblage form an imposing civic statement in the village center. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Cheshire is a small rural community in central Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Its main village is located near the western bank of the Hoosic River, just north of the Cheshire Reservoir. Its municipal complex is located on a triangular parcel bounded on the north by Church Street and the south by Depot Street. Prominently facing the intersection is the town hall and library, a cruciform two-story brick building with a hip roof and Colonial Revival features. Just behind it is a small single-story building housing the building department offices, whose originally function was as a ticket office and waiting room for the local street car. Across the parking lot, at the eastern end of the property, is a two-story brick building, which formerly housed the trolley power station but now houses the town police and fire offices. The parking area is where the Berkshire Street Railway originally turned around. In the triangular grassy area at the front of the town hall is a memorial fountain to the towns Revolutionary War participation, and there is also a monument honoring the towns World War I soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The towns 19th-century town hall, a wood-frame building, was located on State Road near the Baptist church; it is no longer standing. This town hall was built in 1898, after the state mandated town records be stored in fireproof vaults. At the same time, the Cheshire Library Association, a private library founded in 1866, was seeking a larger space for its collection. The new building was designed by Emory A. Ellsworth, a Holyoke architect. The two former trolley buildings were built sometime after 1904, for service that had been inaugurated in 1902. Service on that line was discontinued in 1932, and the town purchased the two buildings in 1935. The ticket office became the town post office in 1937, and served that role until 1971. The power building was occupied by the towns fire and police functions in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home in Camilla, Georgia was the only facility where African-American women could deliver babies in Mitchell County, for many years prior to the Civil Rights Movement. It was owned by Beatrice  Borders , a midwife who delivered over 6,000 babies at the home between 1941 and 1971.</p><br>
<p>The building is a bungalow residence at 176 Dyer St.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home operated until Borders&#39; death in 1971.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the National Trust for Historic Preservation&#39;s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund issued a grant for the purpose of rehabilitating the home and creating a Southern African-American Midwife Museum and center.</p><br>
<p>The Gordon–Van Tine Company Historic District, also known as the U.N. Roberts and Company Buildings, is a nationally recognized historic district located east of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. The Gordon–Van Tine Company manufactured pre-cut, mail-order homes in this facility, beginning around 1916.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gordon–Van Tine was incorporated as a subsidiary of the U.N. Roberts lumber company in 1907. Originally, they were located in several buildings in the 300 block</p><br>
<p>of Harrison Street. The customer could choose from a variety of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The lumber for the houses came from company mills in Davenport; Chehalis, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; and from one of two southern lumber yards, first in Louisiana, and then in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>The company sold an estimated 54,000 homes under the Gordon–Van Tine name, and provided the lumber for another 20,000 to Montgomery Ward company, who contracted with Gordon-Van Tine to supply materials for their identical line of Wardway homes, beginning in 1917. While better known for their houses, Gordon-Van Tine also provided the plans and materials for pre-cut barns and other farm structures. Gordon-Van Tine remained in operation until 1946, when it was sold to a Cincinnati salvage firm that liquidated it just as the post–World War II housing boom was beginning.</p><br>
<h2>Historic District</h2><br>
<p>Building #1 is a four-story, rectangular, brick structure. It is the more ornate of the four buildings and the only one that has a defining architectural style, Neoclassical. The building features a limestone foundation, a main entrance with a stone surround and a simple limestone cornice, a stone water table across the top of the first floor windows, a stone string course between the second and third floor windows, and a simple classical brick entablature with a brick and stone cornice. The first three floors were built between 1908 and 1909. The fourth floor was added sometime before 1923. The building served as an office building for the U.N. Roberts Company and Gordon–Van Tine.</p><br>
<p>Building #2 is a five-story, rectangular, reinforced concrete structure with brick curtain walls. Completed in 1910, it features brick pilasters between the bays on the third through fifth floors. It is capped with a simple brick classical cornice. A large two-story addition was added to the east side of the building in 1965. A differentiation in color of the bricks marks the two sections. Because it was built after Gordon–Van Tine was liquidated it has no ties to the company. Building #1 and Building #2 were linked by two skywalks at one time.</p><br>
<p>Building #3 is linked to the east side of Building #1 by a hyphen. Originally the two buildings were separate. It is not known when this building was completed, but a photograph taken sometime between 1915 and 1920 shows it already in place. This single-story brick structure originally served as a four-car garage.</p><br>
<p>Building #4 is a long, narrow, single-story, brick structure on the north side of the property. It originally served as a lumber shed. It features large doors on the street side to load lumber onto trucks and loading docks on the opposite side of the building that served the railroad tracks between it and the factory. The building was completed in sections. The two middle sections are the oldest and are believed to have been completed before 1920. The two sections on the west side of the building were completed by 1932 and the two section on the east side of the building sometime before 1967. The four older sections bear a resemblance to each other while the two newest sections do not.</p><br>
<p>Two of the buildings in the historic district have been transformed into an apartment complex. The former office building houses 15 apartments, and the former factory/warehouse houses 98.</p><br>
<h2>Gordon-Van Tine in St. Louis, Missouri</h2><br>
<p>The Gordon-Van Tine company advertised that one of their major lumberyards was in St. Louis, Missouri. According to articles in old Lumberman journals and newsletters, that lumber yard did not use the Gordon-Van Tine moniker, but rather operated, first, under the name Funck Lumber. A 1915 issue of Mississippi Valley Lumberman newsletter references the use of the Funk (sic) Lumber yard by Gordon-Van Tine, and the January 18, 1919 issue of The Southern Lumberman, discussing the retirement of George W. Funck, discusses the ownership of the Funck Lumberyard by Davenports U.N. Roberts lumber company (parent company to Gordon-Van Tine). Gordon-Van Tine offered its first "Ready-Cut" catalog in 1916, and that year coincides with the year that the St. Louis Funck Lumber Company re-tooled their business to add a wood-working plant for the manufacture of "ready cut" houses, as mentioned in the March 13, 1916 Iron Age lumberman journal. According to the above-referenced 1919 newsletter article about the retirement of president George W. Funck, that lumber yard was re-named Goodfellow Lumber, upon Funcks retirement. The Funck / Goodfellow Lumberyard was located near the corner of Goodfellow and Natural Bridge Roads, at 5700 Natural Bridge Road, in the city of St. Louis, in what is now the 63120 zip code. St. Louis City directories and St. Louis newspapers of the era, include advertisements for the company, giving this location. The addition of the "ready-cut" manufacturing section of the lumberyard was a boon for business at Funck Lumberyard, which saw its business revenues triple in 1918 and 1919, according to a January 1920 Southern Lumberman journal article that mentions the change of the company&#39;s name to Goodfellow Lumber.</p><br>
<p>51 South Second Street is a residential and commercial property located in Newport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Built around 1890, this two story side gabled brick on stone foundation has five bays, modern storefront on the north side of the first story, elaborate incising on window pediments and frieze board, eave brackets, a one-story 2/3 front porch with gingerbread and turned wooden columns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Was Charles Welfley Clothing, Bernie Carl Clothing, Charles Brandt Clothing, Newport One Price Store and Peter Schlomer Clothing and Saddlery. In the alley behind was the Kough Warehouse Commission.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a contributing property to the Newport Historic District in 1999.</p><br>
<p>This property can also be found on the Newport Sesquicentennial Self-Guided Walking Tour.</p><br>
<p>It is also identified as #70 in the</p><br>
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<p>The Saugatuck Pump House, now the Saugatuck-Douglas History Museum, is a historic building located at 735 Park Street in Saugatuck, Michigan. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the beginning of the 1900s, Saugatuck was becoming more popular as a resort town. The municipal water system at the time consisted of a series of cisterns coupled with private wells. Several fires destroyed wooden buildings in town, and the system was proving inadequate. After yet another fire in November 1903, a special election was called to approve the issuance of $8500 in bonds to pay for design and construction of a system of water works. The measure passed, and in early 1904, the village hired John W. Alvord to prepare plans for and superintend the construction of a 100,000-gallon reservoir located at a high point west of the Kalamazoo River, along with pumps to feed the reservoir and a main running back into the town. Work began in May, and what is now the south section of this pump house was completed by mid-August. The entire system was operational by October 1904.</p><br>
<p>When the system was completed, this pump house contained two 25-horsepower gasoline-powered pumps that drew water from seven wells and pumped it to a nearby reservoir. In 1912, the pump house was enlarged with another section to house an electric power generating station. The pump house continued to be used for both water and electric generation until approximately 1930.</p><br>
<p>After the pumping and electric generation facilities had been moved to another location, the pump house was abandoned. By 1970, the building was in complete disrepair, and a portion of one wall had fallen in. The building was slated for demolition. However, in 1972, Dr. and Mrs. William Shorey of Chicago offered to lease the property from the village for twenty years to serve as their cottage, in exchange for restoring the building. The village agreed, and the couple removed the old equipment, redid brickwork, installed a new roof and new floor, and converted the building into a cottage.</p><br>
<p>By 1992 the lease had expired and William Shorey had died. The city leased the pump house to the Saugatuck-Douglas History Center, who refurbished the interior and opened it as the Pump House Museum. In 2001, the Society added an entrance pavilion. Inside the Museum, volunteers design and construct a new exhibit every year, focusing on local history.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Saugatuck Pump House is a single story red brick structure with a hipped roof on a concrete and block foundation. The building was constructed in two parts, and measures 58 feet in length along the river sides by 27 feet wide (in the 1912 north section) or 22 feet wide (in the 1904 south section). It is located on the west bank of the Kalamazoo River, across from downtown Saugatuck. The hipped roof ends in flaring eaves with wide overhangs and exposed rafter ends. Four sets of triple windows topped by white-painted colonial caps are located on the river side. Two triple windows and two double windows are in the low road side. The roof, originally clad with slate, is covered with asphalt shingles.</p><br>
<p>The interior is divided into two connected rooms and a small bathroom. It still contains the original wood-finished ceilings, along with some original exposed brick walls. Other sections of the interior are finished with sheetrock. A paved entry trail and small garden are outside the building.</p><br>
<p>The Winslow School and Littlefield Library are a pair of historic municipal buildings at 250 and 252 Middlesex Road in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. Built in 1890 and 1904, both are architect-designed buildings of high quality, funded by local benefactors. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Winslow School and Littlefield Library occupy a shared lot on the north side of Tyngsborough&#39;s town center, on the west side of Middlesex Road just north of its junction with Winslow and Farwell Roads. The school is a -story wood-frame structure, covered by a hip roof and finished in wooden clapboards. Its central portion is flanked on both sides by single-story wings. Bands of windows flank the central entrance, which is sheltered by a gabled portico. The library stands just north of the school; it is a single-story brick building of smaller scale, with a gabled roof and gabled entrance portico. It is the only brick building in the town center.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1890 with funding provided by Sara Tyng Winslow, two years after the town embarked on a consolidation of its district schools. Originally located nearer the Congregational church, it was designed by F.H. Bacon after a more expensive design by Frederick Stickney was rejected. The school was enlarged in 1915, at which time it was given a more Bungalow-style appearance, and was moved to its present site about 1940.</p><br>
<p>The library, founded in 1831, was at first housed in the town hall, and was placed in the Winslow School between 1893 and 1901. It then moved back to Town Hall, awaiting construction of the present building, which was completed in 1905 to a design by Stickney & Austin. Funds for the building, as well as an endowment for further acquisitions, were donated by Mrs. Lucy Littlefield on the stipulation that the library be named in honor of her daughter.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 2002, and the library was relocated to more modern facilities in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>Bartlett-Rockhill House, also known as the Sea Captains House, is located in the village of Tuckerton Seaport on Main Street in Tuckerton in Ocean County, New Jersey near Baymens Museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed circa 1855 for Edmund Bartlett and was later owned by the sea captain, Capt. Zebedee W. Rockhill. It was purchased by Bartletts nephew, J. Henry Bartletts, in 1910, who lived there until 1945. The house combines of late Federal and early Victorian styles, with additions and alterations made to the house up until the 1930s. Now owned by the museum, the house is used for temporary storage, occasional events Victorian-era interpretation.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed as Bartlett-Rockhill-Bartlett House the on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2012 and the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Hacklander Site, also designated 20AE78, is an archaeological site located on the south shore of the Kalamazoo River east of Douglas, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hacklander Site is along the south shore of the Kalamazoo River next to a small stream. The site extends to the base of a nearby bluff paralleling the river.</p><br>
<p>The Hacklander Site is a large multi-component Middle Woodland period site, likely representing an ongoing seasonal occupation of the site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Components at the site indicate that it was occupied during the Late Woodland period, possibly as early as 600 CE. The site was likely used as a seasonal camp through approximately 1000 to 1100 CE. The site was sporadically used later with evidence of occupation in approximately 1200-1300 CE, some time after 1300, and around 1760-1820. These later occupations were likely unrelated to each other and to the site&#39;s earlier use as a seasonal camp.</p><br>
<p>The Hacklander Site was discovered in the 1960s by a local collector, who notified archaeologists of the site in 1971. Initial excavations were carried out in 1971 and extended into the next year. Over two years of excavations, researchers discovered more than 20,000 ceramic potsherds, as well as 80,000 stone artifacts (including Woodland points) and debitage.</p><br>
<p>The site takes its name from George Hacklander. He purchased the property in 1928 and his estate sold it in 1973. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) bought part of the land in 1941 and their construction of a river access point for boating has had a major impact on the site.</p><br>
<p>The Watertown Center Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Watertown, Connecticut. It exhibits architectural and historic changes from the early 1700s into the 20th century. It is roughly bounded by Main, Warren, North, Woodbury, Woodruff, and Academy Hill Roads, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Watertown was settled in the early 18th century, but was not incorporated as a separate town until 1780. Its town green, extending north–south between United States Route 6 and Woodbury Road, was laid out in 1772, and a colonial meetinghouse built at its edge (where the present town hall now stands), the area began to take shape as a village center. Steele Brooke, which flows east of the village, was developed as a modest industrial area in the 19th century, and the village was eventually populated with shops and several churches. The houses and institutional buildings built in the village before about 1930 represent an unusually high level of quality and diversity of style, and include a significant number of architect-designed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers about 45 acre, and is roughly centered on the town green and a stretch of US 6 between Woodbury Road and Main Street. At its eastern edge, Main Street, it abuts part of the town&#39;s modern central business district. Its southern boundary is Woodbury Road and Academy Hill Road, extending further south on Woodruff Road almost to Scott Avenue. It extends northward along Main and North Streets to include Warren Street. The green includes several small war memorials and a gazebo. The typical streetscape in the district is residential, with stylistically diverse buildings of high quality. Important non-residential buildings including the 1839 Greek Revival Congregational Church, and the Richardsonian Romanesque former library, built in 1883. The present town hall, built in 1894 in brick, is a fine example of Colonial Revival architecture. The United Methodist Church is an architect-designed Shingle Style structure built in 1898, and the Episcopal church is a fine example of an English country church designed by Allen & Collens of Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Edison Commercial Historic District is a 5 acre historic district in Edison, Georgia, United States that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It included 22 contributing buildings and a contributing structure, plus three buildings not deemed to contribute to the historic character of the district.</p><br>
<p>Most of the buildings are brick commercial buildings, and either one- or two-story. The majority front on Hartford Street, the main east–west street through the town.</p><br>
<p>Selected buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Farmers Trading Company building (1912)</p><br>
<p>Theatre building (1951)</p><br>
<p>a former Bank of Edison building built in 1904 which is currently the city hall; this building is deemed non-contributing due to non-historic brick veneer which has been added to its facades.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington United Methodist Church is the only Methodist church in Arlington, Georgia. The church congregation was founded in 1873 and met in a small schoolhouse, then built a white wooden church in 1876. The present church was built in 1908 and was known as Arlington Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It is Romanesque Revival in style and was designed by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. It is built of red brick and has two towers of different heights.</p><br>
<p>The church changed its name in 1939 by dropping the word "Episcopal" and in 1969 by adding the word "United".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as "Arlington Methodist Episcopal Church, South".</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr.</p><br>
<p>The Wilcox County Courthouse in Abbeville, Georgia was built in 1903. It was designed by architect Frank P. Milburn, who also designed several other Georgia courthouses.</p><br>
<p>Its facade features cream-colored brick and stone trim. It has two Ionic tetrastyle porches.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the courthouse building stood out as impressive relative to the surrounding crossroads community of Abbeville, and it could be seen for miles.</p><br>
<p>The Rochelle Historic District is a 260 acre historic district in Rochelle, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is centered on 1st Avenue and Ashley Street. The district included 180 buildings deemed to be contributing resources, two other contributing structures, and two contributing sites. It also included 90 non-contributing buildings and structures.</p><br>
<p>One building included is the First Baptist Church of Rochelle (1918), at the corner of Gordon Street and 3rd Avenue, designed by architect James J. Baldwin.</p><br>
<p>The Pace House in Hazlehurst, Georgia is a "gabled ell cottage" that was originally built c. 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>It has a cross-gabled roof, two interior brick chimneys and sits on a brick pier foundation. Its interior has a central hallway with two rooms on each side and a kitchen to the rear.</p><br>
<p>Since 1996 the house has served as the Hazlehurst-Jeff Davis Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>The original 1900 house burned in 2011, but the house was rebuilt with attention to historical accuracy.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Metallic Surfboat is a boat, currently housed at 130 West Center Street in Douglas, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. It is one of two known surviving examples of its kind, one of the first type of coastal rescue craft used.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Francis Metallic Surfboat was designed by Joseph Francis, an inventor who specialized in inventing and constructing maritime lifesaving equipment. Francis constructed 137 of these vessels from about 1849 to 1857, of which 48 were used on the Great Lakes. This particular boat dates from approximately 1854, and was in use from 1854 until at least 1863. It was originally stationed near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River.</p><br>
<p>The vessel gradually deteriorated until the 1930s, after which its remains were put into storage. In about 2006, volunteers from the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society (SDHS) restored the boat. In 2011, the Society constructed a dedicated building in Douglas to display the vessel. The boat remains on display in the building in Douglas.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Francis Metallic Surfboat is a 26-foot vessel with a six-foot beam. The hull is made of iron. The boat was built using an innovative metal fabricating technique invented by Joseph Francis. The boat is an example of a distinctly American type of rescue craft known as the "pulling" surfboat, which is designed to be pulled through the water by oars, rather than propelled by a sail or motor.</p><br>
<p>The David Welch House is a historic house at Potash and Milton Streets in Milton village of Litchfield, Connecticut. Built in 1756 by one of the first colonial settlers of the area, it is one of the village&#39;s oldest buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The David Welch House stands near the easternmost end of the village of Milton, on the north side of the junction of Milton and Potash Roads. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Many of the clapboards and windows in the building are original. The house is eight bays wide, consisting of an original five-bay section and a later three-bay addition to the right, and has a saltbox profile with an integral leanto to the rear. Both the main section and the addition have entrances at their respective centers. That of the main house is elaborate, with sidelight windows, pilasters, transom window, and entablature. A large brick chimney rises at the center behind that entrance. The interior retains many original 18th-century features, including wainscoting on the walls and paneled fireplace surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1756 by John Marsh Jr., one of the early proprietors of Litchfield, for his daughter Irene and son-in-law David Welch. Local lore has it that Irene dubbed the village "Milton" that arose after the mills that lined the branches of the Shepaug River that flowed nearby. Welch owned and operated several iron foundries in the area, and was a prominent figure in local politics, serving in the state legislature. Both Welch and his son John were active participants in the American Revolutionary War. The three-bay addition was built before the war, from which the Welches ran a store. The house remained in the Welch family until 1860.</p><br>
<p>The West End Commercial District encompasses a single city block of commercial buildings in Winsted, Connecticut. The block, consisting of the north side of Main Street between Union and Elm Streets, is the city&#39;s largest grouping of late-19th and early-20th century commercial buildings to survive flooding and redevelopment. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Winsted&#39;s West End commercial block consists of eight buildings lining the north side of Main Street (United States Route 44) between Union and Elm Streets. All have primarily brick facades and are between two and four stories in height. Architectural elements are generally of commercial Italianate or Romanesque style, and all of the buildings have projecting decorative cornices. The ground floor storefronts have generally been modernized, although some original details are still visible. There is only one non-contributing building, a small single-story structure built as infill into one of the two alleys on the block.</p><br>
<p>Winsted&#39;s commercial and industrial buildings of the late 19th century once lined both sides of Main Street. The buildings on the south side of the road were swept away during devastating flooding in 1955, and the city decided to widen the road rather rebuild. The city had developed beginning with the arrival of the railroad in 1849, and rapidly grew as an urban industrial center, gaining a measure of independence as an independent borough of Winchester in 1858. The largest building in the West End, the Winchester Hotel, was built in 1898 to replace an older hotel.</p><br>
<p>The George W. Jackson House, in Baconton, Georgia, is a historic house built in 1898 that now serves as Baconton&#39;s city hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The main house was built in 1898 in Late Victorian style. It is a two-story frame house on a brick pier foundation.</p><br>
<p>The house was occupied by George Washington Jackson (1845-1914) then Eulelia Peacock Jackson (1854-1932).</p><br>
<p>The east side of the town of Baconton was developed from land owned by G.W. Jackson, and centered around the Methodist Church to which Jackson belonged.</p><br>
<p>It was one of a number of Baconton area historic properties and districts that were evaluated for NRHP listing in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The 1983 listing included five contributing buildings and one contributing site on 19 acre.</p><br>
<p>By 2017, development has changed the general area somewhat since the house was listed in 1983. Back then, there were pecan groves stretch on the east, south, and northeast of the house; in 2017 there are baseball fields northeast of the Walton St. & Jackson St. intersection that seem not to have been present in 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 1983 there were several dilapidated one-story outbuildings: a barn, a wagon shed, and a crib. And there was a one-story cook&#39;s house with two exterior brick chimneys, located on Jackson Street south of the main house. By 2013, the outbuildings are not apparent in Google satellite or street view, suggesting they are gone.</p><br>
<p>The Walton Street–Church Street Historic District in Baconton, Georgia is a 66 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 17 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It includes 15 houses constructed between 1900 and the 1930s, in styles including late Victorian Eclectic, Neo-classical, and Georgian styles, plus some influence of the Prairie School and the Craftsman movements. Most are wood-frame buildings; some have brick veneer. Thomas Jefferson Glausier, a builder, may be associated with some of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>It includes a turn-of-the-20th-century historic Methodist church, prominent on the corner of Walton Street and Church Street, and a brick school.</p><br>
<p>The east side of Baconton was developed on land formerly owned by George W. Jackson. The George W. Jackson House stands at the former end of Walton Street, outside the district, and is separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The district was one of three in Baconton listed on the National Register at the same time as the Jackson house, as part of a review of all historic resources in Baconton.</p><br>
<p>The Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor consist of two piers flanking the mouth of the Kalamazoo River on the shore of Lake Michigan in Saugatuck Township, Michigan. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>The nearby city of Saugatuck began its history as a lumber and shipping town, with shipments operating out of the city as early as the 1830s. In 1838, the Federal government erected a lighthouse to serve the port. Some time in the mid-1800s, private parties dredged the Kalamazoo River channel north of the city and constructed two slab piers at the mouth of the river. In 1869, the United States Army Corps of Engineers began work improving the Saugatuck harbor, and by 1883, the piers had been extended to a total length of 1,907 feet on the north and 3,863 feet on the south side. The channel, however, required constant dredging, and would quickly silt up.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, to solve the maintenance problem, the Corps proposed abandoning the existing river mouth channel and cutting a new channel from the Kalamazoo River to Lake Michigan north of the existing river entrance. The proposed location cut through gravel, and was less prone to silting. In 1903, the firm of Burke, Smith & Nelson was contracted to construct the piers, and in 1904 land was obtained and construction began. Cribs for the piers were constructed in Muskegon and towed to Saugatuck for placement, and the balance of the work was done in place. Construction was completed in 1906 at a total cost of $273,783.23. In 1936-38, repairs were made to the structure and the piers capped with concrete. Further repairs and upgrades were made in 1974 and again in 1981/82.</p><br>
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<p>The Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor consist of two piers, 200 feet apart and parallel, flanking the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. The North Pier is 2,778 feet long and the South Pier is 2,514 feet long. Lights are located on the end of each pier. The extreme outer portions of the piers are stone filled timber cribs, each 24 feet wide and 100 feet long Riprap is placed on both sides of the crib. Inland of the cribs, the remaining pier sections are constructed of wood piling spaced 13 feet apart and filled with stone. The shoreward sections are 13–14 feet wide and built with wood pilings and filled with stone. The piers were capped with concrete in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The E.A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse is a historic commercial/industrial building at 34 Bridge Street  in New Milford, Connecticut. Built in 1870, it is the oldest of the surviving tobacco warehouses in the town, which was a major tobacco processing center in the region. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The building has most recently served as a hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wildman Tobacco Warehouse is a 2-1/2 story frame structure standing on the south side of Bridge Street in central New Milford, between Middle Street and the tracks of the Housatonic Railroad. It is long (167 ft), with three sections. The front two, a total of sixteen bays long, were built on site, while the rear four bays are an originally separate warehouse that was moved to the site in 1901. This rear section is an extremely rare example of a rural packing barn. The building has a five-bay facade, with a single-story shed-roof porch across its width, and the entrance at the center.</p><br>
<p>The warehouses front section was built in 1870, the early period in the regions development as a tobacco growing area. By World War I, New Milford was a major producer of cigar wrapping tobacco leaf, and supported twelve packing and warehousing operations. The Wildman Warehouse was one of the first to be built by a commercial packer, where earlier leaf packing operations had typically been run by farmers. Edward Wildman was a native of Brookfield, who served as agent to a major tobacco firm based in New York City. His warehouse was expanded in 1874, and again in 1901 after a surge in production. The building remained in use for tobacco production until about 1950.</p><br>
