<p>The Grand Haven Historic District is a mixed commercial and residential historic district located along Washington Avenue and adjacent Streets from Harbor Drive through the 600 block, in Grand Haven, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A fur trading depot was established at what is now Grand Haven in 1825; actual settlement was initiated in 1835 when Rev. William M. Ferry arrived and a sawmill was established at the site. One building in the district, the Sidney Williams House at 225 Franklin, likely dates from this first era of settlement in the late 1830s. As the lumber trade heated up, the settlement increased in size, and by 1851 was large enough to support a newspaper. The commercial center of the city quickly developed along Washington Avenue, starting from the harbor and working outward. Fires in 1853 and again in 1866 destroyed much of the downtown, and in 1877 the city passed a fire limit ordinance prohibiting buildings of wood construction in the heart of the downtown. A handful of private houses, built along the fringes of the downtown, date from the late 1850s and 1860s. The earliest extant commercial building in the district is the building at 135 Washington, constructed about 1868.</p><br>
<p>By the 1880s, the lumber boom was nearly over, but fruit growing and commercial shipping took its place. More buildings were constructed in the downtown area, primarily in brick. As the end of the century neared, the building boom tapered off, in part due to the loss of local lumbering jobs, and in part due to the depressed national economy. In the early 20th century, the city&#39;s efforts at economic diversification paid off, with more manufacturing jobs coming into the city, and, with the establishment of a car ferry port, an increase in shipping and shipping-related trade. As a result, more buildings were constructed in the district in the first decade of the 20th century than in any other ten-year period.</p><br>
<p>The citys population, and the number of buildings in the district, continued to grow through the 1920s and 1930s. The rise of the automobile, and the associated tourism, also helped boost the citys economy. The Great Depression affected Grand Haven less than most cities in the nation, but still the pace of growth in the historic district slowed. Grand Haven continued its growth after World War II. A number of structures built in this period were infill, replacing older buildings which had been demolished. In more modern times, Grand Haven has established itself as a vacation destination, and its downtown adds to the attraction of the city. The construction of infill buildings has continued, although recent structures have tended to be larger in scale, and not blending in with the earlier buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Haven Historic District extends along six blocks of Washington Street, the city&#39;s primary business district. The district extends along adjacent streets to include the city hall, former police and fire department building, church buildings, and multiple substantial buildings constructed as residences, although many of these have been converted to commercial use. It also includes the large Story & Clark Piano Company complex, as well as early frame commercial buildings along Third Street.</p><br>
<p>The district contains a total of 121 buildings, mostly two stories in height. The buildings date from c. 1840 to about 1965, but most were constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The city&#39;s Central Park is also within the district. Eighty-five of these properties, including the park, contribute to the historic nature of the district. The district contains substantially Late Victorian commercial blocks, but also a Period Revival movie theater, a Neoclassical former bank building, Italianate, Queen Anne houses, and International style and Mid-Century Modern structures. Significant architect-designed buildings within the district include:</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Robbins House (1899) This house at 20 South 5th Street was built by Baltus Pellegrom, a ship&#39;s carpenter, for Nathaniel and Esther Robbins. Robbins was a successful area businessman.</p><br>
<p>Willard C. Shelden House (1893) This imposing house at 321 Washington is the finest Queen Anne house in the city. It was designed by architect William G. Robinson of Grand Rapids for Willard C. Shelden, the proprietor of Sheldon&#39;s Magnetic Mineral Springs spa.</p><br>
<p>First Reformed Church (1913) This church at 301 Washington was designed by architect Pierre Lindbout. It has an eclectic style, combining elements of Neoclassic architecture in a non-traditional way, resulting in an overall effect that reflects an Arts and Crafts influence.</p><br>
<p>Grand Theater lobby (1927) This theatre at 22 Washington was designed by Christian W. Brandt and Harold D. Ilgenfritz. Although the main section of the theatre itself was razed in 2004, the street facade and lobby were retained.</p><br>
<p>Michigan Bell Telephone Building (1928) This building at 501 Washington was designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. It is a three-story Colonial building constructed of concrete block and clad with brick. The roof is flat, and the three bays at street level have broad gauged brick arches with masonry keystones.</p><br>
<p>City Hall (1934) This building at 519 Washington was designed by Robinson and Campau. It is a two-story Colonial building with a cross-gable roof. The main facade is symmetrical and seven bays wide, and contains a projecting front-gabled entry bay with a limestone portico.</p><br>
<p>Police and Fire Department Building (1935) This building at 18-20 North Fifth was also designed by Robinson and Campau. The original portion of the building is a 1-1/2-story rectangular plan gable-roof brick Colonial Revival building with a slate roof. A flat-roofed addition was constructed in 1975.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church (1954) This church at 508 Franklin was designed by Harold H. Fisher & Associates. It is an orange buff-colored brick structure trimmed with limestone with a low gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The Rose Theatre in downtown Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Arts and Crafts-style brick building. Its brickwork on its front facade was painted in a cream color in 1987 when the word "Rose", centered on the facade, was also repainted. Its sides and rear are common bond brick. Its auditorium has an upper gallery area which once served blacks separately.</p><br>
<p>The Old St. Helena Parish Jail, adjacent to the courthouse square in Greensburg in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, was built in about 1855 and is one of the oldest structures in the parish. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building with remains of cells, including bars in windows. It was deemed significant "as a good example of</p><br>
<p>a mid-nineteenth century jail building". In 1980 it was thought there probably were fewer than five such examples in Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The Petroleum Tower is a 16-story high-rise office building located at 425 Edwards Street at the corner of Texas Street and Edwards Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. It stands at a height of 187 feet, making it currently the seventh-tallest building in Shreveport. It was completed in 1959, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was opened in 1959 and was a functioning office building until it was abandoned in the 1980s. It was subsequently unoccupied and was left in disrepair until it was donated to Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal in 2001. In 2006, plans were made public to convert the building into the National Center for Community Renewal, a $62 million project which would have significantly altered the building&#39;s design. Then, in 2014, it was announced that it would be converted into 130 apartments, with the street floor being occupied by retail space.</p><br>
<p>Because of the period during which it was constructed, as well as its representation of a commodity that has been the lifeblood of the region for many decades, the building became a contributing property of Shreveport Commercial Historic District at the time of its creation on.</p><br>
<p>On September 17, 2013, the building was also individually enlisted in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Design and construction</h2><br>
<p>The building has a length of 150 feet, and a width of 60 feet. From the 2nd Floor to the 14th Floor, the facade of the building is a curtain wall consisting of glass panels separated by narrow light gray aluminum panels. Floors 15 and 16 are windowless and function as mechanical floors, characterized by the aluminum vents near the top of the building. The north, south and west facades of the building have curtain walls, while the east facade is a windowless masonry wall.</p><br>
<p>The straight angles and boxy appearance of the buildings exterior is a common element of the international-style architecture that defines the Petroleum Tower. One of the most unique characteristics of the building that makes it stand out from the buildings around it is that it was built during the post-war era. Construction began in 1958 and was completed in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the now-liquidated Texas-based architecture firm Hedrick & Stanley, whose principals were Wyatt C. Hedrick and Thomas D. Stanley. It is one of only six listed projects built by this particular firm.</p><br>
<p>Dendinger House, in Madisonville, Louisiana, is a historic house built in 1911. It has also been known as Regent Square. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is significant as one of only two landmark buildings in Madisonville from the 1890–1920 era.</p><br>
<p>It is a central hall plan house which shows influence of both Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. Queen Anne elements include its two hexagonal bays, fishscale shingles in the front gable, and a wraparound gallery. Colonial Revival elements include two elliptical bays and the Tuscan columns of the gallery.</p><br>
<p>A second contributing building in the listing is an outbuilding that served as a laundry, garage, and servants&#39; quarters, which was built at the same time as the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Theodore Dendinger, Sr., a businessman whose New Orleans–based businesses operated boats and schooners between New Orleans and Madisonville and included the Madison Lumber Company. In 1992 the house served as headquarters of an interior design company but was still in Dendinger family ownership.</p><br>
<p>Trudeau House, near Tunica in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, was built in about 1830. It is a two-story brick and frame building with "hesitant touches of the Greek Revival style." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It has been believed to be associated with Oliver Pollock, who was involved in financing the American Revolution, operating out of New Orleans, but that now seems unlikely. Pollock owned the land before 1782 and after 1789. The land with the house was sold in 1813 and Pollock lived in Mississippi from 1819 until his death in 1823, however, so dating of the house to c. 1830 rules out direct association.</p><br>
<p>The Harrisonburg Methodist Church in Harrisonburg in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1853–54, the church is located at 105 Pine Street, a major road through Harrisonburg, just off the east end of a bridge crossing the Ouachita River. After a flood in 1927, the church was modified in 1929 and further expanded in 1957.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story Classical Revival-style church with a covered portico and a "witch&#39;s hat" cupola upon which a crucifix rises.</p><br>
<p>The Clarkston Public Library, in Clarkston in Asotin County, Washington, was built in 1913 as a Carnegie library. Also known as the Asotin County Library, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a square-plan two-story building of yellow-red brick. It was funded by a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, obligating the community to spend $1,000 per year in maintenance. As that level of spending was perceived to be onerous for the small city of Clarkston, it was negotiated that the taxing entity to be designated would be the school district, which presumably had a larger base. Lewiston, Idaho architect James H. Nave was commissioned to prepare the designs for an $8,000 building, with the remainder of the funds going towards interior furnishings. In 1981 the library served as a regional library for southeast Washington.</p><br>
<p>The building now serves as the Career & Technical Education Operations Building for the Clarkston School District.</p><br>
<p>130 Hayden Station Road is an unusual Colonial-era brick cottage in Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1760 next to the Capt. Nathaniel Hayden House, it was probably built as a shoemaker&#39;s shop. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>130 Hayden Station Road is located in northern Windsor, close to the north side of Hayden Station Road, and is separated from Clapp Road South by the Capt. Nathaniel Hayden House, which stands adjacent. It is a -story gambrel-roofed brick structure, with a central chimney, and a shed-roof extension to the rear. The main facade is four bays wide, with the entrance in the center-right bay. Windows are rectangular sash, set in unadorned openings that butt against the eave.</p><br>
<p>The structure was probably built about 1760 by Nathaniel Hayden. Local historians have speculated that it served as a residence of the Hayden family prior to the construction of the larger house next door, but it is more likely that this was built as a shoemaking shop that the family is known to have run. It is an unusual surviving element of the town&#39;s colonial heritage.</p><br>
<p>Kateland is a historic house in unincorporated Grant Parish, Louisiana located about 4.6 mi miles north of the town of Boyce in neighborhing Rapides Parish.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1830, it is a rambling house started as an open dogtrot. It is the only known surviving antebellum structure in Grant Parish.</p><br>
<p>In the 1880s, the dogtrot corridor was enclosed and the house was extended. A rear extension with a side gallery was built in about 1900, and that gallery was enclosed in the 1920s, when the front gallery&#39;s columns were also replaced.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The First Johnson County Asylum is a historic building located on the far west side of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The first facility Johnson County built to care for paupers and the mentally ill was a four-room cabin in 1855. Two wings were added to the original building six years later. All that remains of this structure is this wing that housed the mentally ill. The single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof was used by the county for this purpose until 1886 when a new facility was completed. It was initially thought that it was built in 1859, but later research revealed that it was built in 1861 and that it was moved a short distance to this location in 1888. This building served for many years as a hog building on the Johnson County Poor Farm. It is now part of an education-based farm program called Grow:Johnson County. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 2014 it was included as a contributing property in the Johnson County Poor Farm and Asylum Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Friendship CME Church is a Christian Methodist Episcopal church which is the focal point of a small African-American community of Friendship. It was built in 1933 after the previous church was lost in a tornado.</p><br>
<p>The church was one of two regular meeting places for the local civil rights organization, the Claiborne Parish Civic League, which met there during 1965 to 1973. It was the home church of Frederick Douglass Lewis, the league&#39;s president. The NRHP nomination document notes that "plans affecting growth and change in Claiborne Parish were envisioned, created, and put forth during the sessions held at the church."</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Schepis Building, on Main Street in Columbia, Louisiana, was built in about 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story cast concrete commercial building in the Italian Renaissance style. According to its NRHP nomination, the builder, Nicholas John Schepis, was reportedly "a patriotic Italian immigrant who wanted to exemplify both his Italian roots as well as his new-found Americanism. Judging by the design, this could well be true. The facade is very specifically Italian, resembling Renaissance style palazzos of</p><br>
<p>the mid-fifteenth century."</p><br>
<p>The building is now hosting the Schepis Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Bowery Street Grocery Store, also known as Helmers Grocery and as the New Pioneer Food Cooperative, is a historic building located on the east side of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The buildings construction is consistent with those built in the mid-19th century. The single-story wood-frame structure with the false front was a popular commercial style building that was built in Iowa from that time period. Although the exterior structure has not changed significantly since it was first built, the interior has been renovated heavily. The only original interior feature that remains is the shelving against the building&#39;s west wall.</p><br>
<p>Beginning about 1897 the city directory lists this location as a meat market and grocery store. It would continue to house that type of business, under a variety of owners or renters until 1975. The New Pioneer Food Co-op was the last grocery to occupy the space, beginning in 1971, until it relocated to a larger facility. At some point it was illegally converted into student housing, which was not permitted due to the building&#39;s small square footage. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. As of August, 2023, a coffee shop operates out of the Bowery Street Grocery Store.</p><br>
<p>The Hawthorne Glove and Novelty Company–Shrader Drug Company Building is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1906, this utilitarian three-story brick structure is located in the city&#39;s original railroad and industrial corridor south of the central business district. This was an industrial area from the 1870s to the 1940s. It replaced a recently built building on the same site by the Hawthorne Glove and Novelty Company that had been destroyed in a fire. The back of the building opened upon the rail sidings of a branch line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. By the start of World War I the Shrader Drug Company occupied the building. It was one of three drug related factories that were located along the South Gilbert Street corridor at that time. The company name changed to the Hewell-Shrader Drug Company in 1930 and then the Hewell-Shrader Company in 1945 after farm fertilizer was added to its product line. The company closed in 1956, and the building was sold to the Thompson Transfer and Storage Company who used it for a warehouse. Whipple House Furniture Store took over the building three years later, and remained until 1975. In the intervening years a variety of businesses occupied the building until the 1980s when it was vacant for a period of time. In the mid-1980s The Vine Tavern occupied the basement level and the upper floors were used for artist studios. In 2012 the upper floors were converted into apartments. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Old Settlers Association of Johnson County Cabins, also known as City Park Cabins, are historic buildings located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. These are two log structures built by the Old Settlers Association of Johnson County. The single-room log cabin was built in 1889 for Johnson Countys semicentennial. It had been located at two different county fairground sites until it was moved to City Park in 1918. The second cabin was built here by the association in 1913. It is a dogtrot house that is meant to be a replica of an early trading post in this area. These are typical log house forms from Iowas pioneer era whose existence are now rare. They also represent an effort by a social organization to commemorate the community&#39;s common pioneer heritage. A third element that is part of the historical designation is a bronze plaque affixed to a granite boulder. Located southwest of the cabins, it was installed in 1929 to mark a "Grand Army Tree" that was planted nearby. It is not known if the tree survives. The buildings and plaque were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Funk House, located at 523 North Cary Avenue in Jennings, Louisiana, is a historic house with elements of Queen Anne and Eastlake architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Built in about 1895, it is notable for reflecting the Midwest origins of the people of the town, in its relative verticality and minimal porches, and for "some of the very finest Eastlake ornamentation to survive in Jennings" in its porches and front window. The porches and front window "feature richly three dimensional ornamentation, including scroll and curved brackets, ball drops, cut out designs, and scallops. Although small elements, these make quite an architectural statement."</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Arkoma School in Arkoma in Le Flore County, Oklahoma was a Works Progress Administration-funded project completed in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a four-room 74 x building built of cut and coursed local sandstone, with a hipped roof. It was still in use as a school in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination asserts that in its design there is an allusion to Richardsonian Romanesque style, but it is a straightforward construction. Its design was taken from a pattern book of the Oklahoma State Department of Education.</p><br>
<p>The Fullerton Post Office, better known as the Commonwealth Station, was built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration, in Fullerton, Orange County, Southern California. Construction costs were $56,000 and took less than seven months to complete. The building was dedicated on November 1, 1938. It is a one-story, rectangular structure at the south east corner of the intersection of S. Pomona Ave. and E. Commonwealth Ave. Built on a raised platform, the post office has six steps at the public entrance. Inside, over the door of the superintendent&#39;s office, is a mural of Fullerton High School students picking oranges, by Paul Julian. In the back, there is a loading dock for mail trucks. The building has been a post office since it first opened and has been serving the residents and businesses in the downtown area of Fullerton. Its proximity to the Fullerton Transportation Center makes it readily accessible.</p><br>
<p>The S. A. Pennington House, located at 1003 2nd Street in Elton in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story wood-frame house mainly Queen Anne in style, though with aspects of Colonial Revival and Stick/Eastlake. Queen Anne features include its two-story polygonal turret, a band of stained glass windows on the turret just below the roofline, and projecting bays and rooms.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Dr. S. A. Pennington, Elton&#39;s first resident physician, who got his M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee at Nashville in 1900, and who also studied at the New York Graduate School of Medicine. He practiced in Jacoby, Louisiana before coming to Elton in about 1907, where he stayed for 11 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the house served as the parsonage of the First Baptist Church of Elton.</p><br>
<p>The Wilton Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Wilton, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Wilton got its start when the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, was surveyed through this area in 1853. It was named for Wilton, Maine, the hometown of one of the founders.</p><br>
<p>This historic district covers the town&#39;s central business district. The buildings were built between 1856 and 1966. Most are attached, two stories tall, a single storefront wide, with exteriors composed of brick. There are a few wood-frame buildings. The buildings on the edges of the district are generally detached. Architecturally, the buildings tend to favor the vernacular forms with influences from the Victorian and revival styles. For the most part, first floors are still occupied with retail establishments and second floors with professional offices or apartments. Civic buildings include the WPA-funded city hall (1939), and the mid-century modern post office (1960). The Wilton Candy Kitchen (1856), the oldest building in the district, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Depot (1898) are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Thurmond House, on Louisiana Highway 154  near Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, was built in the 1850s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-bay hewn frame house with a central hall plan. It has a rear "L" wing. Its sides are covered with clapboarding which was replaced around 1900. The house has simple Greek Revival details evident in its front gallery, front door with transom and sidelights, and its one original surviving mantel. Two of its original four chimneys survive. It was built by the Thurmond family, early settlers of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana and was still owned by descendants in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Sylvan Retreat, also known as the J. H. Pumphrey Home, is a historic raised former plantation house at 610 N. 3rd Street in Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was built in 1848 by William George Walker in another location, and was moved into Giblsland in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a five-bay Greek Revival raised plantation house, with wood frame built of virgin cypress joined by mortises and pinned with wooden pegs. It had a front gallery and a hip roof. All doors and window sashes were cut on site and assembled with wooden pegs. It included five 17 x rooms and a 12 x central hall, with 15 ft ceilings. It had front and rear galleries plus a separated kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was altered in 1884 by moving it to Gibsland, by combining four exterior fireplaces, and by reducing the front gallery to a four-column portico.</p><br>
<p>The Fuller House, at 220 W. Union in Minden in Webster Parish, Louisiana, is a Queen Anne-style house which was built in about 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It has also been known as the Fuller-White House.</p><br>
<p>While Queen Anne houses of its era would often have Eastlake detailing, this house is unusual for having ornament which is almost all Colonial Revival in style. These elements include a Palladian window, the simple Tuscan columns on the house&#39;s wraparound gallery, and denticular molding under the eaves of the main block and on the turret and dormer.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "locally significant as a superior example of the Queen Anne Revival style within the context of the several parish region of North Louisiana. It achieves this distinction because of its complex massing, culminating in a turret. The house is also important for its well-detailed and well-preserved interiors."</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Minden, at 605 Main St. in Minden in Webster Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1901. Also known as the Holland—Crawford Insurance Building, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The bank has a particularly rich facade. The bank&#39;s original street clock was restored and, in 1988, was functioning.</p><br>
<p>Its National Register nomination reports that a survey of historic buildings in Webster Parish identified 432 older than fifty years, of which only seventeen were masonry commercial buildings dating from c.1900 to c.1935. Of these, most are quite plain; only the Bank of Minden and the Bank of Webster (NRHP-listed) were determined to have "sufficient architectural distinction to merit individual listing in the National Register. The Bank of Minden, with its grand Romanesque Revival arched entrance and elaborate detailing, is in sharp contrast to the rest of the parish&#39;s fairly typical historic commercial buildings. In addition, it is the only one to feature such exceptionally fine materials as glazed brick, terra-cotta, and ornamentally cut sheets of plate glass."</p><br>
<p>The IANR Railroad Underpass is a historic structure located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. It carried railroad tracks for 24 ft over Ely Road. The railroad probably built this stone arch bridge, which was completed in 1887. This kind of structure became more popular in the late 19th century as a railroad bridge because it was more durable than metal truss bridges, and they "projected a refined and sophisticated image." It features a semi-circular arch, a beltcourse, coursed-ashlar masonry, stepped wing walls that are flared, a parapet with projecting coping, and an elongated keystone with the date "1887" carved on it. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It now carries the Cedar River Recreation Trail over the street.</p><br>
<p>The Matsell Bridge is a historic structure located northeast of Springville, Iowa, United States. It carries Matsell Park Road for 303 ft over the Wapsipinicon River. This bridge replaced a bowstring truss bridge that had been built in stages between 1870 and 1906. E.W.</p><br>
<p>Blumenschein, bridge design engineer for the Iowa State Highway Commission, recommended a plate girder bridge as a replacement. Clifford Shoemaker, District Engineer of the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, approved the plans as the new span was built by the Works Progress Administration. It was constructed by Amos Melberg for about $22,300. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Chain Lakes Bridge is a historic structure located southeast of Palo, Iowa, United States. It carries a pedestrian trail for 370 ft over the Cedar River. The Linn County Board of Supervisors began planning for this span in the early 1880s. They appropriated $20,000 for this two-span Pratt through truss The Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, which built bridges in the county since 1879, completed this structure in 1884. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. While it was built to carry vehicular traffic, it is now in a nature preserve maintained by the Linn County Conservation Board.</p><br>
<p>The Abita Springs Pavilion, at the northwestern end of Main Street in Abita Springs in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1888. Thomas Sully designed it. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is a Victorian-style bandstand pavilion which is 52.6 ft in diameter and 46 ft tall and was built by Poitivent and Farve in 1888. The 1975 National Register nomination noted that "At one time there was a long wooden foot bridge that went to the upper level. Railings that went around the upper level are now missing and should be replaced." and "The Springs themselves were cemented over by the State and should be opened. (The Pavilion is built over the Springs.)"</p><br>
<p>The Abita Springs Historic District, in Abita Springs in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, is a 162 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It included 180 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly bounded by North, Cypress, Laurell, Highway 36, Eighth, Sixth, Seventh, St. Mary and Third Streets and the Abita River.</p><br>
<p>It includes Colonial Revival, Stick/eastlake, Queen Anne architecture.</p><br>
<p>The town was developed as a vacation refuge for middle class residents of New Orleans. Most residences are in walking distance to the Abita River and the springs which were the original attraction of the town, churches, the commercial district and train depot.</p><br>
<p>It includes a large number of turn-of-the-20th-century shotguns and North Shore type houses, many with Eastlake or Colonial Revival-style porches. There are some more substantial Queen Anne and Colonial Revival buildings, which are "few in number and are in no way extravagant", and which feature porches as well.</p><br>
<p>The Clarkston Main Post Office in Clarkston in Asotin County, Washington in southeast Washington is a historic post office building built in 1941. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as USA Post Office – Clarkston Main in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Its design was credited to Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, buff-colored brick building on a raised concrete basement. It has a five-bay front facade. It has an "ornate painted aluminum grille, in which a low-relief sculpted eagle is centered, is set in</p><br>
<p>front of the transom window" above the front door.</p><br>
<h2>Physical Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The front facade (west) is divided into five flat-arched bays, with the main entry bay positioned at the center. This entry bay is slightly set back from the brick-faced facade and surrounded by a wooden frame. It features double metal doors with six-light glass panels and a nine-light transom window above, which is supported by a simple wooden door header. In front of the transom window, there is an ornate painted aluminum grille with a low-relief sculpted eagle at its center. Each of the entry buttresses is adorned with a single free-standing lantern designed in a torch motif.</p><br>
<p>The window bays on either side of the entry bay mirror each other in design and size. They feature triple-hung, six-light wood sash windows positioned above plain sandstone panels. These panels are slightly recessed and rest on the limestone facing the raised basement wall. A plain limestone frieze runs horizontally across the facade, extending from the tops of the bays to a slightly projecting sandstone cornice. The frieze bears the inscription "United States Post Office" and "Clarkston, Washington."</p><br>
<p>The hipped roof, covered in tiles, is crowned by a square cupola. The cupola consists of a copper base with centered copper louvers, flanked by four-light glass panels, and a flat copper cap. Atop the cap, there is a weather vane.</p><br>
<p>Moving to the north facade, it is flat and divided into two sections, with the front section slightly projecting compared to the rear. Each section contains two window bays that are identical in design and detail to those on the front facade. Sandstone is used for the exposed basement wall, frieze above the window bays, and cornice. The remaining portion of the facade is constructed from brick. The hipped roof covers the front section, while the rear section has a flat built-up tar composition roof.</p><br>
<p>The south facade closely resembles the north facade, with the exception that one window bay is filled with brick from the original construction. On each side of the bricked-in window, there are one-over-one-light, double-hung, wood sash windows.</p><br>
<p>Turning to the rear facade, it shares a similar design and material choices with the front facade. However, instead of an entry, there is a brick-enclosed concrete loading platform. This platform extends rearward and is slightly offset from the building&#39;s center. It opens to the north with a single metal overhead loading door and a single metal pedestrian door. The west and south sides of the loading platform are constructed with solid brick walls. A flat roof with a metal marquee extends over the loading area. On each side of the platform, there are two window bays, which are identical to those found on the front and sides of the main building. Additionally, in the northern corner, there is a smaller vertically-aligned window featuring one-over-one-light, double-hung, wood sash.</p><br>
<p>The Parker County Courthouse is an historic building located at Courthouse Square in Weatherford, Texas, the seat of Parker County. Built in 1884–1886, it was the countys fourth courthouse; the first was a wooden building, and the second and third both burned down. Architect Wesley Clark Dodson, who designed at least six courthouses in Texas, designed the Second Empire building. The three-story limestone building is visually divided into five bays; the end and central bays are projecting and feature stone pilasters at their corners. The second-story windows are tall and arched, and the roof line features bracketing around the eaves. The red shingled roof has two mansards atop the ends and a three-story tower in the center; each piece features dormers and a widows walk, while the tower has louvers and a clock on its upper stories.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Morehouse Parish Courthouse, at 100 East Madison Avenue in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, is a Beaux Arts-style building which was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story monumental building on a half-story-high basement, with beige brick veneer walls and a four-stage dome.</p><br>
<p>The building was expanded with small side wings in 1935 and expanded much further in 1966 with larger side wings that doubled the building&#39;s size, but the central block remains prominent.</p><br>
<p>Bastrop High School, at 715 S. Washington St. in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in north Louisiana, was built in two stages in 1927 and 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 2002.</p><br>
<p>It served as Bastrop&#39;s high school until partway through the 1955–56 school year, when students moved to a new school, and it became a junior high school until the late 1980s. It was used for other educational purposes for some more years, then was vacant, and was vacant in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is a "sprawling" two-story brick building near the downtown of Bastrop. The building is two stories tall, raised on a basement story. Its original 1927 portion faced west, with a gymnasium in the center of an E shape. It was nearly doubled in size in 1930, with design by the same architect in the same style, adding a C-shaped extension which enclosed the gymnasium in a rectangle of classrooms, offices and other spaces, leaving narrow light courts next to the gymnasium. It has two entrance pavilions on both the east and west sides, and one each on the north and south sides.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination the building is "sparingly though convincingly articulated in the Jacobean style with red brick walls and detailing set off in contrasting white cast concrete. Each entrance pavilion has a great round vestibule arch with impost blocks resting on panels and quoins. Crowning the composition is an angular rooftop gable parapet with upward thrusting finials. Flanking the arched entrances are Baroque-style cartouches. Although these are not, in and of themselves, Jacobean features, they mark the place where figure sculpture would be in a real English Jacobean great house."</p><br>
<p>The Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center, formerly the Snyder House, at 1620 East Madison Avenue in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish in northern Louisiana, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1996. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1929 as a one-story brown and beige brick residence for Charles and Esther Snyder, with a tiled roof. According to its NRHP nomination, "The house is difficult to pigeonhole stylistically because it represents the eclecticism which characterized early twentieth architecture. It borrows from the "English cottage" style in its massing, but certain features give it an Italian or Mediterranean flavor. Although the Snyder Houses many gables are not as steeply pitched as is typical of the "English cottage" style, its massing is perhaps best viewed within that traditions penchant for a picturesque look. There are no less than eight gabled projections: two on the facade, one of which is an entrance porch, three on the eastern side elevation, two on the western side elevation, and a small one on the rear. Add to this a prominent front chimney (a favorite of the "English cottage" style). This "busy" massing and complex footprint belies the house&#39;s conventional central hall plan."</p><br>
<p>The Grande Ronde River Bridge, near Asotin in Asotin County in southeast Washington, is a riveted steel girder bridge which was built in 1941. It is notable as the first, or one of the first, steel girder bridges in the Washington State highway system, and was a prototype for later ones. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It brings Washington State Route 129 over the Grande Ronde River, about 13 mi south of Anatone, Washington and 23 mile southwest of Asotin. It is 283 ft long in total, with a center suspended span 55 ft long between two 30 ft cantilever spans. On each side is a 24 ft reinforced concrete T-beam approach span and a steel anchor arm span 60 ft long.</p><br>
<p>It was built for the Washington State Highway Department by contractor Henry Hagman using steel fabricated by the Clinton Bridge Company of Clinton, Iowa. R. W. Finke was the bridge engineer.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination states:</p><br>
<p>Although the bridge is lacking overt artistic features, its design is particularly appropriate to the unique character of the location. The simple horizontal lines of the bridge complement the basalt outcrops rising abruptly in layered formations from the valley floor. The bridge&#39;s configuration and type of construction appear to have been an excellent engineering solution for this particular river crossing.</p><br>
<p>The Rupert Town Square Historic District in Rupert in Minidoka County, Idaho is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>It is centered around the Rupert City Park. It includes a post office, a city hall, a fire station.</p><br>
<p>In the original 2001 listing it was a 14.2 acre area roughly bounded by 7th St., E St., 5th St., and F St. It was enlarged in 2010 by about 1 acre to add 702 E St. and 405 6th St. It includes a total of 34 contributing buildings, 11 non-contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and one contributing site.</p><br>
<p>The Egbert H. Gold Estate, also known as the Marigold Lodge, is a summer estate located at 1116 Marigold Lane in Holland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Egbert H. Gold was born in 1868 in Cornwall, Connecticut. His family had been designers and manufacturers of steam heating systems; Gold&#39;s father invented the first cast-iron radiator. Gold went into the family business, but in 1901 struck out on his own and established a company based in Chicago. In 1913, while yachting with his wife Margaret, Gold anchored in Lake Macatawa and went ashore to explore this peninsula. Seeing potential in the land, he purchased the property in December of that year. He had the land built up, and in 1913 began construction of a lodge on the property. Gold hired architect Thomas Eddy Tallmadge to design the lodge, and H. D. Deam to build it. He named the property "Marigold" after his wife Margaret and daughter Mary Jayne.</p><br>
<p>Gold was an avid horticulturist, and imported plantings to landscape the grounds and built greenhouses on the property. During the 1920s, Gold expanded and remodeled the lodge, and he continued to visit until his death in 1928. Margaret Gold later met and married opera singer Mischa Thorgevsky, and the family continued to use the estate until her death in 1968. In 1969, Mary Jane Gold, Egbert and Margaret&#39;s only surviving child, donated the lodge and grounds to Hope College. However, the high cost of maintenance caused the college to eventually sell the estate to manufacturer Herman Miller in 1978. Herman Miller refurbished and updated the buildings and furnishings, and uses the estate as a training center and private hotel for its customers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Marigold Lodge is located on a -acre peninsula which projects into Lake Macatawa. The main house is a two-story Prairie School structure with dark wood and stucco facades. The property also includes a guest house, as gazebo, and other modern structures. The main house has been converted into a visitor&#39;s center and hotel by Herman Miller. Other earlier structures have been replaced or reconstructed by Herman Miller.</p><br>
<p>The main lodge has a low pitched hipped roof covered with brown shingles, penetrated by red brick chimneys and pointed dormers. The facades are faced with stucco, and have horizontal bands of dark wood. The south facade has a one-story enclosed sun porch, now used as a dining room. The east and west facades have smaller enclosed porches. A service and guest wing is attached to the north facade.</p><br>
<p>Inside the lodge, the first story contains a living room, two dining rooms, a library, and sun porch. The service wing contains a modern kitchen, and office, and an employee lounge. The second story has eight bedrooms, each with attached bathrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Fruitport Road–Pettys Bayou Bridge, also known as the Bowen Bridge, is a multiple span bridge carrying Fruitport Road over Petty&#39;s Bayou  in Spring Lake Township, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ottawa County Road Commission undertook a county-wide road and bridge improvement project, starting in the 1910s. In 1921, the commission hired Carl Bowen, a former civil engineer at the Michigan State Highway Department. Bowen supervised the construction of numerous projects during his 30+ year tenure with the commission, including the construction of this bridge in 1948. The design of the bridge was completed by the Michigan State Highway Department in 1947, and L.W. Lamb of Holland was contracted to construct the bridge. Construction started in February 1948, and the bridge was opened to traffic in December. The bridge was dedicated to Carl Bowen at the request of the local Chamber of Commerce. It has continued to carry traffic since its construction. The superstructure was reconstructed, and the bridge repaved, in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Fruitport Road–Pettys Bayou Bridge is a multiple-span concrete-and-steel bridge, consisting of nine spans stretching 418 feet. Five spans are 55 feet in length, two are 53 feet, and two are 18 feet. Each span contains eight lines of rolled I-beams, braced laterally. The foundations of the bridge are unusually deep, due to the marshy soil below and the substructure units are of a lightweight cellular construction to reduce the load on the soil, and spread it out over a large area. The superstructure is of standard Michigan State Highway Department design, with corbeled steps on the bulkheads and concrete piers, ornamental steel guardrails, and a concrete deck.</p><br>
<p>The Aloys Bilz House is a private house located at 107 South Division Street in Spring Lake, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The house is remarkably unaltered from its original look in 1872.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aloys Bilz was born in 1841 in Dupplesgrun, Bohemia to Joseph and Margaret Bilz of Bavaria. In 1850, the family emigrated to Buffalo, New York. In 1854, Aloys apprenticed himself to a tinsmith, and spent the next few years learning the trade. Starting in 1857, he supervised a tin shop in New Baltimore, Michigan, where he worked until 1863. In 1864, Bilz married Mary Alice Thompson, then moved to various communities until settling in Spring Lake in 1866 and opening a tin shop and hardware business. The business was quickly profitable, and in six months, Bilz purchased this plot of land on which he built a shop and house.</p><br>
<p>However, in 1871, fire destroyed the community, including Bilz&#39;s shop and house. Following the fire, Bilz rebuilt his business, and constructed this new house on the site of his previous one. Bilz also rebuilt his business, and went on to invest in other business interests in the Spring Lake area, as well as serve as village president for ten years. He lived in the house until his death in 1934.</p><br>
<p>Bilzs son, William A. Bilz (born 1880), was also active in the community, operated his fathers hardware store, and lived in the same house. He lived in the house until his death in 1940. After this, his W. Preston Bilz inherited the house and lived here until his own death in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Aloys Bilz House is an L-shapes, two-story Italianate house with a gabled roof and brick foundation. It is clad with clapboard. The roofline gables have classical cornices with returns, echoing a Greek Revival style, but it has mainly Italianate details, including paired brackets under the eaves and arched window and door openings. The main entrance to the house is through a porch on the inside of the L.</p><br>
<p>On the inside, the first floor contains an entry hall with stairway, and a sitting/dining room, parlor, and master bedroom off the entry hall. A kitchen, pantry, and day room are in the rear, within a single-story extension. The second floor is smaller than the first, and contains three bedrooms and a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>The Dog Creek School, near Shady Point, Oklahoma, is a one-room school built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story 24 x built of roughly coursed sandstone, with a roof covered by tin sheets. It was built from an Oklahoma State Department of Education pattern book design.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination notes:As a WPA school building, the Dog Creek facility is significant in that it is one of very few one-room structures remaining in relative good condition. It also suggests the crude workmanship on early WPA projects. Within the community itself, it is notable architecturally in terms of type, style, materials and workmanship. Construction of it also provided work opportunities for destitute laborers who had long been on relief rolls and faced the possibility of starvation, rekindling some self respect. The building also improved the quality of instruction in the Dog Creek area, a very remote region.</p><br>
<p>It was one of 48 buildings and 11 structures reviewed in a 1985 study of WPA works in southeastern Oklahoma, which led to almost all of them being listed on the National Register in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Excelsior, at 317 North Oak Street , Oak Ridge, Louisiana in Morehouse Parish in northern Louisiana, was built in 1869. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1989. The listing included five contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a wood frame five bay Italianate cottage in the hamlet of Oak Ridge, in an open rural setting among delta cotton fields. It was expanded by gable-fronted flanking sections joined by extension of the front gallery floor, each with an Italianate facade. The enlarged building was advertised as the Excelsior Hotel in 1880.</p><br>
<p>The Valley County Courthouse, on 16th St. between L and M Sts. in Ord, Nebraska, United States, is a Beaux Arts-style courthouse designed by architect William F. Gernandt and built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building upon a full raised basement and has a prominent, ornamented entry pavilion on its west facade. It is decorated with elaborate cream-colored terra cotta trim which contrasts with the grey-tan brick. It has Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>The Scotia Chalk Building, located off Nebraska Highway 22 in Scotia in Greeley County, Nebraska, was built in 1887. Also known as the Ed Wright Building, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The building was a general store built by Ed Wright in 1887 using chalk taken from Happy Jack Peak, a chalk bluff on the North Loup River near Scotia. Ed Wright, an early settler of Scotia, had begun mining chalk from the bluff in 1878.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, only about half of the building which was in place in 1978 remained, based on photographs.</p><br>
<p>The Greeley County Courthouse in Greeley, Nebraska was built in 1913–14. It was designed by architects Berlinghof & Davis in Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story building on a basement, with foundation and trim of gold-hued limestone, and walls of greyish-tan brick. It has been described as "a good example of the work of Nebraska architect George A. Berlinghof (here as Berlinghof & Davis), representing the evolution of his designs. The courthouse is a less elaborate version of the Howard County Courthouse built in 1912-15 in the next county south of Greeley."</p><br>
<p>A former pumphouse is a second contributing building on the property.</p><br>
<p>Germania Hall is a historic community hall in Germania Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1917 as a practice and performing space for a community band. Later it served as a general event venue for its rural township. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 for having local significance in the themes of performing arts and social history. It was nominated for being a rare surviving example of a community band hall, and for its long service as the township&#39;s social and political center.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Germania Hall is a simple one-story, wood-frame building with a gable roof. Its footprint measures 28 by. It stands on a poured concrete foundation and has shiplap siding.</p><br>
<p>The main entry is a single door centered on the western façade. The interior is a single room with a stage at the eastern end raised about 3 ft above the hardwood floor.</p><br>
<h2>The Germania Cornet Band</h2><br>
<p>Around 1915, 20 area residents formed a brass band. This was a common hobby in the United States from the mid-19th century through about 1920. The instruments were easy to learn and demand for performances was high, as virtually any public gathering from fairs to grand opening ceremonies to funerals was considered incomplete without a brass band. The majority of the members of the newly formed Germania Cornet Band lived and worked on farms within three miles of each other. They were mostly young, American-born sons of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants who had come to the United States in the 1880s. However the oldest band member, 43-year-old Gustaf Peterson, had himself left Sweden in 1892 and settled in Germania Township in 1903. Several band members were siblings, and at least two were just 13 years old.</p><br>
<p>As founding member Carl Peterson later recalled, "none of us had ever played an instrument—we didnt even know how to read notes, but we thought it would be fun to have a band." The group hired "Professor" George Mundy of nearby Eagle Bend, Minnesota, to be their band director, paying him $5 per practice session. Mundy helped them order their instruments—brass bands were so common that package deals of all necessary instruments plus sheet music were available by mail-order from several companies. Peterson went on: "It was a great day when our instruments arrived—everyone tried to blow the horns, beat the drums, etc." An early photograph of the Germania Cornet Band shows members wielding five types of horn, three types of trumpet, three clarinets, one trombone, a snare drum, and a bass drum. Almost as important as instruments were a bands uniforms—the Germania Band&#39;s outfits were black with gold braid and the initials "G.B." stitched on the collar.</p><br>
<p>The band performed at concerts and barn dances in the area. Their repertoire consisted of locally popular music: a mix of polkas, waltzes, two-steps, and some Nordic folk music. The bandmembers took no money individually, pooling their earnings to pay their instructor Mundy. In the summer of 1916 they performed twice in the barn of member Sigvard Bjerkens family. That December they gave a concert at the opera house in nearby Clarissa, Minnesota. Initially the band had been practicing in a vacant building, but by March 1917 they had earned enough to commission their own band hall. Bjerkens parents gave them a free 20-year lease on an acre at the edge of their farm. The band paid Clarissa resident John Johnson $150 to design and build a suitable space, and they assisted him in the labor.</p><br>
<p>The band hall was dedicated on September 23, 1917, in a ceremony that included orators, a picnic dinner, performances by the Germania Cornet Band and a few other bands, and a "loyalty demonstration" intended to counteract growing discrimination against immigrant communities as the United States entered World War I. The following month, band director George Mundy—who had also helped found the Clarissa High School Band—moved away to Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, to start a new musical group there. The Germania Cornet Band was able to continue without him, holding practices, concerts, and dances at their new hall and performing at numerous community events. They also opened up the hall to others. In September 1918 it was the site of a dance benefitting the Red Cross and a locally produced play. Other area bands performed there and dances were scheduled regularly. The township board began using the hall for meetings and elections. During Prohibition, the organizer of the regular Saturday night dances alerted the county sheriff to troublemakers getting drunk on moonshine, resulting in a January 1925 raid that landed seven young men in jail. The Clarissa Independent proudly reported that all but two of them were "outsiders" from Bartlett Township and Aldrich, Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>Community use</h2><br>
<p>The Germania Cornet Band folded in the early 1920s. Around the nation, the heyday of the community brass band was drawing to a close as phonographs, movies, and radio provided new ways to hear music, and the advent of cars, telephones, and better roads reduced the isolation of rural communities. However these same factors eased the creation of rural community clubs, and the newly formed Germania Community Club took on a key role in local social life. Throughout the 1930s the club sponsored educational lectures, talent shows, and spelling bees at the hall. They also organized a popular annual picnic that typically included music, dancing, speeches, food concessions, and sporting contests such as races, horseshoes, wrestling, boxing, tug-of-war, and baseball.</p><br>
<p>In 1950 the hall was donated to the Germania Community Club and they purchased its 1 acre lot for $50. A 1968 newspaper article noted that the hall was still regularly used by 4-H and other groups for athletic practices and events, school programs, talent shows, township meetings, and elections. At the time of the hall&#39;s National Register nomination in the mid-1990s, the Germania Community Club continued to hold monthly meetings and dances there. The township government has since relocated to a building that originated as a 1941 school, but the old hall is "still used for occasional dances, parties, and even as a large family’s hunting headquarters".</p><br>
<p>The Max and Esther De Pree House is a private house located at 279 South Division Street in Zeeland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Max De Pree is a son of D. J. De Pree, founder of Herman Miller office furniture company. The company had close ties with Charles and Ray Eames, beginning in 1946. In 1953, Max De Pree saw a model house design in the Eames Office in Los Angeles, and asked Eames if he could build it in Michigan. Charles suggested instead he design another house for Max. He designed this house for the De Prees, sited on a small lot next to the house they were living in at the time.</p><br>
<p>The De Prees lived in the house until 1975, when they sold it to Bob Rynbrandt, a Herman Miller employee. The Rynbrandts lived in the house until 2010, when it was purchased by Herman Miller, Inc., who planned to restore and preserve it.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Max and Esther De Pree House is a two-story flat-roofed Modern house. The front facade of the house has two symmetrical structures: a single-car garage on one side, a study on the other. A covered walkway between the two leads to the house. The main body of the house is a rectangular structure containing two thousand square feet of space. The exterior has windows arranged to maximize airflow. The house is located on a sloping lot, which looks out into a wooded area leading down to a stream.</p><br>
<p>The North Loup Bridge brings a county road over the North Loup River, about 1.5 miles northeast of the village of North Loup in Valley County, Nebraska. It was built in 1912-1913 by Empire Bridge Company of Omaha, Nebraska, at cost of $13,089, using steel parts fabricated by Cambria Steel Company and Lackawanna Steel Company. It is a Pratt through truss bridge and includes three 100 ft through truss spans upon steel cylinder piers. There is also a 40 ft pony truss approach span on the south side.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Josef and Anna Beran Bruha House, located west of Elyria, near Burwell in Valley County, Nebraska, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It is one of only two examples in Valley County of the traditional Czech house type known as Dvoutrakt dum. It is a one-story house with brick walls and a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>According to the NRHP nomination, Josef Bruha immigrated to Valley County in 1884 with his wife Anna Beran and six children from Kamýk, Klatovy and Plzeň in Bohemia. They came directly to Valley County, where members of the Beran family were already located, and Josef had partway built the house and had tilled 55 acre of land by 1885.</p><br>
<p>The Mer Rouge High School, at 500 South 14th Street in Mer Rouge, Morehouse Parish in northern Louisiana, was built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 2004.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, brick veneer building. It was designed by J.W. Smith Architects of Monroe, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "as a milestone in the history of public education in the community, and perhaps even more importantly, its auditorium was Mer Rouge&#39;s community center. As one longtime citizen explained, in rural areas, schools are much more than</p><br>
<p>just schools; they were the "heart of the community," where all manner of large events took place."</p><br>
<p>Until 1970, white students in the area attended Mer Rouge High School, while all rural black pupils in Morehouse Parish were enrolled in Union High School, approximately two miles south of Mer Rouge. The Class of 1970 was the last to graduate from Mer Rouge High School, when white public high schools, located in each of the smaller towns in the parish (Mer Rouge, Collinston, Oak Ridge and Bonita), were combined with Union High School, forming Delta High School, thus ending racially segregated education in the parish. In 2019, the building had stood vacant since 1997.</p><br>
