<p>Bridge L7075 is a historic arch bridge in Hartford Township, Minnesota, United States. It was initially built around 1940 by the Works Progress Administration with a modular corrugated iron product called Multi Plate for the arches and a masonry façade. The bridge was expanded with a third arch around 1942. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Bridge No. L7075 in 2016 for having local significance in the theme of engineering. It was nominated for being a distinctive example of the era&#39;s Multi Plate arch bridges and for the fine workmanship embodied in its WPA rustic architecture with Neoclassical detailing.</p><br>
<p>Coral Gables  is a historic restaurant and resort located at 220 Water Street in Saugatuck, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1890s, the Lake Michigan shore was experiencing a tourism boom as summer resorters arrived from Chicago and other communities. The Saugatuck–Douglas area was no exception, and the 1896 construction of an interurban line from Holland provided an easy connection for visitors. In 1898 the current waterfront site of Coral Gables contained a saloon, but in July 1898 the Leiendecker Brothers of Chicago bought the two-lot property for $3750 (equivalent to $ in ). The firm (represented by Edward J. Leiendecker) kept the saloon open, and added a two-story hotel and dock. Business boomed in 1899, and at the end of the tourist season, Leiendecker moved the saloon and began enlarging the hotel even further. However, in early 1900, the entire complex burned down, likely due to the use of salamander heaters during construction.</p><br>
<p>Leiendecker immediately began working on a new structure, engaging architect William K. Johnston of Chicago to design the current structure. The foundation was complete by early May 1900, and the first rooms, located in the south wing of the structure, were ready to be occupied in June. However, construction on the remaining portions of the structure, now dubbed Leiendecker&#39;s Inn, was not started until late 1905. The new inn was formally opened on June 1, 1906.</p><br>
<p>However, in 1907, Saugatuck voters decided to make the town dry, which likely affected profits at Leiendecker&#39;s Inn. In 1911, Leiendecker tried to sell the hotel, but with no buyers, instead leased it to J.F. Hall, who renamed it the Columbia Hotel. However, after the 1915 SS Eastlast disaster, the hotel lost money in the 1916 season, and closed at the end of the year. It remained vacant until 1920, when Francis Horrigan bought the building, renaming it the Hotel Saugatuck. He ran the hotel until 1928, when it was sold to Edson Crow. Crow, a restaurateur, built up the restaurant and lounge in the building, and ran it with his brother Dale until after both had died. In 1958, the property was sold to Thomas A. Johnson, who owned a popular East Lansing restaurant and night club known as Coral Gables. Johnson enlarged and renovated the restaurant, and opened a separate, smaller restaurant in the basement, as well as another bar.</p><br>
<p>Johnson continued to expand the restaurant and performing areas. By the early 1970s, the hotel function of the building was discontinued, with the former hotel rooms then primarily used for storage. Thomas Johnson died in 1979, leaving the establishment to his sons Topper and Michael. Topper Johnson managed the building until his own death in 1985. Michael Johnson then assumed management, and continued to expand and update the dining and entertainment options in the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Coral Gables is a rectangular building standing on a lot which slopes downward to the Kalamazoo River, such that the basement is on ground level at the rear of the building. The central part of the building, the old hotel, has a U plan above the ground floor, with the base of the U at the front of the building. A tall cross-gambrel roof contains the third story in the front of the building and the wings of the U. There are gables at the front and back of each leg of the U, and another gable near the center of each leg. The front roof between the two front gables contains three smaller gabled dormers, with additional dormers on the wings.</p><br>
<p>The hotel front of the hotel on the first floor is clad with vertical boarding and contains large picture windows and some older double-hung units. The widows in the remainder of the building are set in an irregular pattern, and are double-hung one-over-one units in square-head openings. There are three main entrances, one in the center of the front, and one under each front gable. A single-story porch with square wood posts and wrought-iron railing&#39; likely installed c. 1960, runs the full length of the front of the building. Single-story additions are located on each side of the building.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the main floor and a basement level house a main dining room, a bar/dancing/billiard room, a basement-level bar, and a snack bar. The second and third stories contain hotel rooms, which are now primarily used for storage.</p><br>
<p>The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation is a historic church at 77 Franklin Square in New Britain, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1885 and the current church building was constructed 1903-07. The building, a fine local example of Late Gothic Revival architecture, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation stands in downtown New Britain, on the west side of Franklin Square near its northern end. It is a large stone structure, built out of granite and adorned with Gothic features. It is symmetrical, with a pair of square four-stage towers rising to pinnacles on either side of the front facade; the original steeples were removed after one was struck by lightning. The tower corners are buttressed, and the side window bays are articulated by buttresses. Windows are generally lancet-arched in the Gothic style. At the center of the main facade is a large rose window set in a recessed lancet-arched panel.</p><br>
<p>New Britain saw a large influx of immigrants from northern Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Both Germans and Swedes settled in the city in large numbers, bringing their Lutheran faith with them. The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation was formally organized in the 1880s, when its first building was erected. The present building was constructed in 1903-07 to provide space for its rapidly growing congregation. It was designed by William Caldwell, with later additions in the 20th century by Walter Crabtree.</p><br>
<p>The John Fuller House is a historic house at 463 Halladay Avenue in Suffield, Connecticut. Built in 1824, it was the main house for Suffield&#39;s town farm, its facility for supporting the poor and needy, between 1887 and 1952. It is a well-preserved example of Georgian architecture, then long out of fashion. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Fuller House is located in a rural area of central northern Suffield, on the west side of Halladay Avenue north of its junction with Blossom Street. It is a -story brick structure, with a side gable roof oriented perpendicular to the street. The main entrance is in the short street-facing facade, in the center-left bay of four. It is recessed within an opening with a rounded top, which is filled with a fanlight panel. A similar panel is found at the center of the gable above. The interior of the house has two rooms in the front, with a nearly straight-run staircase on the far right. Behind these is a single large chamber, original two that were combined by the removal of an intervening wall. Behind this is a narrow chamber running the width of the building, apparently originally used for storage. The second story roughly follows the downstairs plan. The interior retains original woodwork and some plaster.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1824 by George Fuller. It remained in the family until 1887, when it and the surrounding farmland were purchased by the town as a place to house its indigent population. The town had been incurring expenses since 1868 to care for the needy, and this purchase was apparently seen as a long-term cost reduction measure. Use of the farm declined beginning in the 1920s, and with expenses mounting, the town sold the property back into private ownership in 1952.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Glen Apartments is a historic apartment building located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Designed by prominent local architect Samuel H. Weis and completed in 1927, the building originally contained luxury apartments and served as a gateway to the more exclusive neighborhood of Cleveland Heights, on whose border the building is located. Threatened with demolition in 1992, the building was purchased by new owners and converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Development of Cedar Glen</h2><br>
<h3>Geography of Cedar Glen and the Quarry Railroad</h3><br>
<p>The city of Cleveland lies on the shore of Lake Erie on the Erie Plain. Just a few miles inland is the Portage Escarpment, which separates the Erie Plain from the Appalachian Plateau. The Portage Escarpment also defines the political geography of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, and acts as both the legal and natural boundary between Cleveland and the city of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In part, two ravines provided natural access to the heights atop the escarpment. One was the Doan Brook ravine, which today is encompassed by Ambler Park. Cedar Brook emptied into Doan Brook at the base of the hill. Nearby, a natural mineral spring known as Blue Rock Springs bubbled up from the ground.</p><br>
<p>From the beginning of white settlement of the area until about 1890, the area atop the escarpment (which would later become East Cleveland Township in 1847 and Cleveland Heights in 1901) was only very sparsely settled. Scattered on the edge of the escarpment were dairies, farms, orchards, and vineyards. For much of this period, only a narrow, ill-repaired dirt road ran through Cedar Glen. Beginning in the early 1800s, several Euclid bluestone quarries operated atop the escarpment. In 1834, a narrow-gauge railway, the Quarry Railroad, was built from Public Square to E. 101st Street along Chester Avenue, and then along what is now Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue to Cedar Glen Parkway and up Cedar Hill to the quarries above. The railroad failed in 1849.</p><br>
<h3>Early developments atop Cedar Glen</h3><br>
<p>In 1869, a group of Cleveland businessmen pooled their resources to create the 285 acre Lake View Cemetery straddling the Cleveland-Cleveland Heights border about 0.5 mi northwest of Cedar Glen. In 1873, John D. Rockefeller purchased 103 acre of land (bounded by Euclid Avenue, Lee Road, and Superior Avenue) northeast and adjacent to the cemetery. In June 1874, Rockefeller sold 10 acre on a hill off Forest Hills Blvd. (now Sled Hill in Forest Hill Park) to Marcus and Mary Montgomery. At a mineral spring atop the hill, the Montgomerys constructed a hotel and advertised the spring as a cure for various illnesses. Rockefeller bought back the property in 1877, and turned the hotel into his summer residence.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, Dr. Nathan Hardy Ambler and his adopted son and business partner, Daniel O. Caswell, a water cure resort hotel and sanitarium at the foot of Cedar Glen. The Blue Rock Spring House remained open until 1908. The resort proved so popular that in 1884 the Cleveland Railway Company built an electric streetcar line on Cedar Avenue. Known as the Cedar Avenue Line, this streetcar ran from E. 22nd Street to the foot of Cedar Glen.</p><br>
<h3>Euclid Heights and streetcar lines</h3><br>
<p>In 1890, Patrick Calhoun purchased 300 acre of wooded land atop Cedar Hill north of Cedar Road. He began development of a planned community for the wealthy and upper classes, calling it Euclid Heights. The same year, brothers Edmund and William Walton began laying out another development, Cedar Heights, along Bellfield and Grandview Avenues on the south side of Cedar Road. Calhoun and his business partner, John Hartness Brown, realized that their development would not be a success unless there was a way other than dirt roads to ascend the heights. Walking the heights, the two concluded that an electric streetcar up Cedar Glen was the best option. In 1896, Calhoun donated all his property from Euclid Avenue to the foot of Cedar Hill, and on both sides of the ravine of Cedar Glen, to the city of Cleveland and to Cleveland Metroparks. In exchange, Calhoun was given the authority to construct a double-track streetcar line up Cedar Glen. That same year, the Cleveland Railway Company extended its Euclid Avenue Line along Stearns Road to Cedar Glen, up the hill to Euclid Heights Blvd., and then along the boulevard to Coventry Road to serve Calhoun&#39;s Euclid Heights development. By 1900, the Cedar Avenue Line streetcar had made Euclid Heights a major development.</p><br>
<p>Work began in 1897 to turn the rutted dirt road ascending Cedar Glen into a wide, modern parkway. Named Cedar Glen Parkway for the ravine through which it ran, the road (several hundred feet wide and 0.5 mi long) neared completion at the end of 1898.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, construction began on the Ambler Heights development. Located adjacent to and west of Cedar Heights, the development was named for Dr. Nathan Hardy Ambler (who owned most of the land). Ambler Heights was laid out and promoted by Daniel O. Caswell and Ambler&#39;s nephew, William Eglin Ambler, Sales never took off, and the site was replatted in 1900.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, the Cleveland and Eastern Railway Company gained trackage rights to run its interurban railway through Cedar Glen. The line, which had fully opened in 1899, followed Cedar Glen Parkway to Euclid Heights Blvd. and then to Chardon, Ohio. The following year, the Cleveland Railway Company created a branch line which began at the top of Cedar Glen and ran down Cedar Road and to Fairmount Blvd. to Lee Road.</p><br>
<p>By 1920, Cedar Glen Parkway was clogged with automobile traffic. In 1925, the Cleveland Railway Company created a third branch line at the top of Cedar Glen, building it along Cedar Road to Coventry Road.</p><br>
<p>The parkway and extensive streetcar service made Cedar Glen a major gateway between Cleveland and Cleveland Heights.</p><br>
<h2>Cedar Glen Apartments</h2><br>
<h3>Construction of the building</h3><br>
<p>Despite the extensive development on the east (Cleveland Heights) side of Ambleside Drive, by 1910 no development had occurred in the area west of it (within the city of Cleveland). The first development here, Ambleside Apartments (now the University Manor skilled nursing facility), began construction in 1913 and was completed in 1914. It was an inexpensive, $50,000 ($ in dollars), four-story, 16-unit apartment building designed by local architect Theodore Conner.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, planning began on the Cedar Glen Apartments at 11424-11432 Cedar Glen Parkway. Owned and designed by prominent local architect Samuel E. Weis ( Samuel E. White), it was one of the first apartment buildings to be erected in Cleveland in several years. to 25 ft above the road. With a then-unobstructed view of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology, Severance Hall, and University Circle, It was only a short distance south of Cleveland&#39;s Little Italy. The Plain Dealer newspaper called it one of the "most unusual sites" in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building had a 335 ft frontage on Cedar Glen Parkway, a 200 ft frontage on Ambleside Drive. 40-car garage with internal staircases (so patrons did not have to exit the garage to reach the interior of the building).</p><br>
<p>As originally constructed, the Cedar Glen Apartments had 27 units ranging in size from four to eight rooms, Intended as a luxury apartment,</p><br>
<p>The final cost of the Cedar Glen Apartments was $650,000 ($ in dollars), slightly higher than its projected cost of $600,000 ($ in dollars), and the building was completed in July 1927.</p><br>
<h3>History of the building</h3><br>
<p>A wide range of wealthy and upper-middle class attorneys, businesspeople, civic leaders, educators, elected officials, government officials, physicians, and others took up residence in the Cedar Glen Apartments after they opened, making it one of Cleveland&#39;s most sought-after addresses. It was widely considered a Cleveland landmark due to its location, the notability of its residents, its very spacious apartments, and its architectural design. The Cedar Glen Apartments epitomized apartment living and design for the period 1910 to 1930. Just over 50 percent of all Americans lived in apartments in the 1920s, and apartments were seen as equivalent to homes: Spacious, comfortable, and with numerous amenities. Wealthy Americans expected even more from their apartments, and Cedar Glen was designed to accommodate their desires. By 1960, however, just 38 percent of all Americans lived in apartments, and apartment shifted from 1940 to 1960 by shifting to a "shoebox" design that emphasized inexpensive rent, small spaces, and fewer rooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1931, the cities of Cleveland and Cleveland Heights significantly widened Cedar Glen Parkway, bringing traffic and associated noise much closer to Cedar Glen Apartments. The two cities constructed high stone retaining walls on either side of the parkway to hold the hills in place. The Cedar Glen Apartments were sold in December 1931 to the George M. Forman Realty Trust of Chicago. No sales price was disclosed.</p><br>
<p>The Cleveland Transit System, which operated bus, streetcar, and trackless trolley buses in the city of Cleveland, proposed an RTA Rapid Transit at the foot of Cedar Hill in 1947. Station plans were proposed in January 1952, and approved two months later. Construction on the station began in May 1954, and it opened on March 15, 1955. The new station was a three-minute walk from the Cedar Glen Apartments.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, the Cedar Glen Apartments were acquired by two investors, T.W. Grogan (head of the T.W. Grogan Co., a local construction firm) and R.R. Hollington (of the Marshman, Hollington & Steadman law firm). No purchase price was reported.</p><br>
<p>A major fire struck the building on February 27, 1956. The blaze erupted in the kitchen on the first floor of the empty penthouse at 10 P.M., and spread to the second floor. Although the fire was contained by 1 A.M., it continued to burn until daylight as firefighters had difficulty accessing the walls and ceilings due to the building&#39;s exceptionally strong design. Heavy water and smoke caused $150,000 ($ in dollars) in damages to central tower.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Glen Apartments were sold again in October 1960. Otto and Vilma Psenicka (west side home builders) purchased the structure from Grogan and Hollington for $400,000 ($ in dollars). The Psenickas significantly renovated the building the following year.</p><br>
<h3>Condominium conversion</h3><br>
<p>By the 1980s, the Cedar Glen Apartments had lost much of their social cachet. The building was in disrepair due to wear and tear and years of deferred maintenance.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the Judson Park retirement community (located across Ambleside Drive) purchased the Cedar Glen Apartments with the intent of razing the structure so that it could build a parking garage on the site. Residents of the Cedar Glen Apartments organized to oppose the demolition, proposing to buy the building themselves and renovate it. Financing for that plan did not materialize. In summer 1993, Judson Park agreed to sell the Cedar Glen Apartments to the local law firm of Climaco Seminatore Lefkowitz & Garofoli for $1.2 million ($ in dollars) and title to the Trigve-Hoff Building at E. 107th Street and Chester Avenue. The new owners planned to convert the building to condominiums. Sale of the building required making several emergency repairs to shore it up, which were financed in part by a $200,000 ($ in dollars) grant from the Cleveland Division of Economic Development. City officials estimated, however, that another $1.5 million ($ in dollars) in repairs and renovations would still be needed. To help the new owners secure historic tax credits to pay for the repairs, the city of Cleveland designated Cedar Glen Apartments a Cleveland Landmark, and the building owners sought and won designation of the structure as a National Historic site.</p><br>
<p>The renovation and repair of the building, which topped $3.5 million ($ in dollars), merged three apartments, leaving the structure with 27 condominium units with one to four bedrooms each. Each condo unit was renovated one at a time, with buyers offered various packages of improvements to choose from. Cleveland Public Power designed and implemented the building&#39;s interior and exterior lighting schemes.</p><br>
<p>In July 1995, the Cleveland Restoration Society honored Cedar Glen residents Michael and Debbie May for their campaign to save the historic structure, and in negotiating its sale to the Climaco law firm.</p><br>
<p>The Garvan-Carroll Historic District encompasses a primarily residential area near the center of East Hartford, Connecticut. Located just southwest of its Main Street downtown on South Prospect and Garvan Streets, and Carroll and Tower Roads, this area retains a high concentration of residential architecture built mainly between 1890 and the 1920s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>East Hartford was for much of the 19th century a largely agricultural community, with some industry powered by the Hockanum River. Improving transportation networks led to its development as a residential suburb of Hartford, located just across the Connecticut River to the west. In 1892 trolley service was inaugurated between to the two communities. Businessman Patrick Garvan sensed a development opportunity, and bought a parcel of farmland, which he subdivided to build housing for local businesspeople and commuters to Hartford. He laid out Garvan Street, which was the first street in the district to be developed. Chapel Street, South Prospect, and Carroll and Tower Roads followed in the early decades of the 20th century, developed in part by Garvan and in part by the Carrolls, builders who were related to his wife.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is broadly bounded on the east by Main Street, the south by Interstate 84, the west by the highway&#39;s Governor Street exit ramps, and the north by Connecticut Boulevard. It includes no buildings on these streets, including only the densely built one and two-family houses contained on the streets within those bounds. The houses are mainly of wood-frame construction, and are in a diversity of styles, ranging from the Queen Anne to the Craftsman and American Foursquare. Houses are generally placed at uniform setbacks on each street, although lot widths and depths sometimes vary. Many houses have early garages or carriage houses, a nod to the increasing importance of the automobile in the years after they were built.</p><br>
<p>The George and Beth Anderson House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-esque style house in Fargo, North Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Ingraham & Ingraham, Architects, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a firm headed by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, Wright&#39;s granddaughter, and her husband Gordon Ingraham. Built in 1958, it has only clerestory windows on some sides of the house, and larger windows facing northeast towards the Red River.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in floodplain of the Red River and was damaged in multiple floods, including in 1997 and 2009. It was targeted for potential demolition in a flood control project. The owners had been offered a buyout price which they declined. In early 2017, the owners were seeking recognition of the house&#39;s historic and architectural merit by seeking National Register of Historic Places recognition.</p><br>
<p>The Montana State Training School Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. It is a complex of buildings set around an oval green and a central administrative building named Griffin Hall. Griffin Hall was built in 1912 and is the oldest building. Many former buildings of the complex were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, as the State School for Deaf, Blind, and Backward Children, as the Boulder River School and Hospital, and as the Montana Developmental Center, and it has been denoted by 24JF1991. It includes 13 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing object, as well as three non-contributing sites.</p><br>
<p>It is associated with architects Link & Haire and Norman J. Hamill.</p><br>
<p>The Gilman-Hayden House is a historic house at 1871 Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1784, it is a good local example of Georgian architecture, and is also notable as the home of Edward Hayden, a diarist of the American Civil War. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gilman-Hayden House is located on a rural-residential stretch of East Hartford&#39;s Main Street, between Gilman and King Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade faces east and is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled portico. A two-story ell extends to the rear, and an enclosed porch projects to the south. The interior of the house follows a typical center-hall plan, with two rooms on either side of the hall on both floors. The interior retains many original period features, including bead-board paneling, built-in cupboards, and wrought iron hardware. The two front parlor spaces feature fine fireplace surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1784 by George Gilman, a descendant of some of the area&#39;s earliest settlers. The Gilmans originally owned land all the way to the Connecticut River, and operated a ferry. In the second quarter of the 19th century the property came into the hands of the Williams family, whose most famous member was William Williams, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1867, the house was purchased by Edward Hayden, whose mother was a Williams. Hayden is most notable for the unique diary he kept of his experiences during and after the American Civil War. One portion of the diary was written on a similar diary Hayden recovered from a Confederate Army soldier, and provides a unique window into the affairs of the war.</p><br>
<p>The Philip A. Wolff House and Carriage House, also known as Belmont Hill, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. An Ohio native, Wolff lived in several states and the West Indies before settling in Maquoketa, Iowa. He moved to Cedar Rapids where he established a brickworks with his son. Wolff had this two-story vernacular Italianate house and accompanying carriage house built in 1883 with bricks made at his business, which was on the same grounds. At the time it was built, the house was located in a suburban area of Cedar Rapids. This was during a period of economic growth for the city. The house features paired brackets under the eaves, the windows have brick arches above and limestone sills, a three-sided, two-story bay, and a projecting center pavilion. The carriage house is architecturally similar to the main house. They were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor–Van Note House, also known as Blairs Ferry Wayside Inn/Vanesther Place, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Charles Taylor had this two-story, wood frame, vernacular Greek Revival house built in 1846. The family owned the house until 1888 when it was sold to Lazarus Van Note, whose family owned it as late as 1985. Oral legend has it that Taylor rented the front rooms to travelers as they passed through the region. It was located close to James Blair&#39;s ferry across the Cedar River, which is why it has long been known as the Blairs Ferry Wayside Inn. The house was built of heavy timbers and exemplifies a traditional I-house. It features two rooms on both floors across its length, and one room deep. The main door is flanked by sidelights and a transom across the top. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Highwater Rock is located in the Cedar River near downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. It is a large granite boulder in the rapids in the eastern half of the river. Its height depends on the river level. It can be 3 ft to 4 ft above the water level in low water, or submerged in high water. It was used to gauge the river depth from the 1840s to the close of river navigation in the mid-1860s. In the early days, people could cross the river at the rapids on horseback, on foot, or by wagon and buggy. They would use the rock to determine if it was safe for them to cross. After David W. King began ferry service in 1848 and a toll bridge was built, people would use the rock to determine if the water was low enough to cross the river and avoid paying the tolls. King would use the rock to determine the amount of cargo he could carry or if he could run the ferry at all. After steam navigation was established on the river the steamer pilots would use the rock to determine if they could continue past the rapids. Railroads severely curtailed the use of steamboats on the Cedar River, and in 1870 the United States Congress declared the river was not navigable above Columbus Junction, which is well below Cedar Rapids. This put an end to water transportation on this part of the river, and the usefulness of the rock. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The William and Julia Lyman House in Parowan, Utah was constructed in c. 1895. Constructed by William and Julia Lyman, the house is common for an eighteenth-century American building construction. It is one of the few remaining houses of its kind in Parowan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed by prominent members of the community, William and Julia Lyman. Both William and Julia played important roles in Parowan. William, a cattle rancher, served three terms as mayor of the city. He also served as the Iron County representative to the Utah State Legislature from 1925 to 1926. William sat on the board of directors for the Bank of Iron County, was a school trustee for three terms, and worked as a state land appraiser and state inspector of livestock. Julia, besides handling the domestic chores, served as Parowan Stake Relief Society President, one of the highest women&#39;s callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was also elected to the school board and actively rallied for woman suffrage and Utah statehood.</p><br>
<p>The Allen Parish Courthouse in Oberlin, Louisiana is the courthouse of Allen Parish, Louisiana which was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>It is a tall two-story brick building set on "an English basement", with architecture in "a robust style which was inspired by the Classical Baroque". Its second floor has four sets of double Ionic columns setting off three arch windows that illuminate the courtroom inside. The courthouse dominates Oberlin, commanding it from its position at the end of an avenue and from its tall height relative to one-story commercial buildings of the town. It has been the seat of parish government since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Lemoine House, also known as Mayfield, is a historic house on Louisiana Highway 451 in Hamburg, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story wood frame Italianate cottage built in 1885 by Thomas A. Lemoine. It has a five-bay Italianate-style front gallery. The house was moved about 100 yd in 1912 and then lost its hip roof and cupola, besides losing some elevation off the ground. It was moved again in 1978, by 2 mi from Moreauville to Hamburg, when facing demolition.</p><br>
<p>One reason for its notability is its interior which includes a painted ceiling, which is a generally rare feature in Louisiana, although there were in fact three other houses with them in the parish surviving in 1985. The ceiling was said by tradition to have been painted by an Ursuline nun.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Lemoine House in Moreauville, Louisiana is an Arts and Crafts-style house designed by New Orleans architects Favrot & Livaudais and built by builder Thomas A. Lemoine in 1916.</p><br>
<p>It is located on the outskirts of the small town of Moreauville. It was deemed significant as a rare work in urban high style by an important architectural firm in rural Avoyelles Parish. Only one other building in the parish was designed by the firm. It "has a distinctive Arts and Crafts design which sets it apart from virtually all other period residences in the parish and which bespeaks its high style origin."</p><br>
<p>As of 1985, the only modification to the house was enclosure of a screened loggia, which was felt did not detract from the historic character of the site.</p><br>
<p>The house, along with a contemporaneous cistern which is deemed to be a contributing structure, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Paper Company Mill Historic District, also known as the Plainwell Paper Company Complex, is a complex of industrial buildings located at 200 Allegan Street in Plainwell, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first paper mill established in the southwest Michigan region was the Kalamazoo Paper Company, which was constructed on Portage Creek in Kalamazoo in 1867 by Benjamin F. Lyon, an experienced paper mill operator from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Although this business was ultimately unsuccessful, Lyon persevered, and in 1872 formed a partnership with Hale W. Page, another Fitchburg paper mill operator. The two constructed another mill near downtown Plainwell, which had just recently been connected to the Michigan Central Railroad. In 1887, Page formed another partnership with local Plainwell businessmen, and founded the Michigan Paper Company. They constructed a paper mill on this site, next to Lyon&#39;s 1872 mill.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Paper Company was an immediate success, and in 1890 they purchased the B. F. Lyon & Co. Mill, which had ceased production only three years earlier. In 1906, the company massively expanded their factory complex, engaging architect Daniel J. Albertson to design a complete new mill. Albertson designed eight new buildings for the site, allowing the paper making process to operate much like the assembly line in an auto factory. The company continued to thrive, and in 1910 expanded again, constructing a new office building and another set of buildings which mirrored the 1906 expansion, giving the company two separate production lines.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, Michigan Paper purchased a paper coating company in Kalamazoo, and in 1940 moved the coating machinery to the Plainwell plant. In 1954, W.C. Hamilton and Sons purchased the outstanding stocks, and the business became a wholly owned subsidiary of the national corporation of Hamilton Paper. Michigan Paper began to compete as a niche paper manufacturer, and at the same time demolished its office building and constructed a new one. In 1961, Weyerhaeuser purchased the company, and in 1970 it was sold to Philip Morris, who renamed it the Plainwell Paper Company and continued to remodel the complex.</p><br>
<p>The company was sold multiple times in the 1980s, and was eventually included as an EPA superfund site. The mill was eventually decommissioned in 2000, and in 2006 sold to the city of Plainwell. Preliminary environmental cleanup took place in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Michigan Paper Company Mill Historic District over a dozen two- and three-story industrial brick buildings, along with a brick and terra cotta block power house, some corrugated steel warehouses and metal structures, water towers, storage tanks, and rail spurs. The structures in the complex structures date from 1887 to 1995.</p><br>
<p>The original 1887 mill was an L-shaped building, consisting of a one-story machine room measuring 32 feet by 130 feet and a two-story main building measuring 46 feet by 98 feet. The machine room was demolished in 1906, but the main building remains. It was converted into offices in 1975, and is now designated as building 19 and 20.</p><br>
<p>Most of the 1906 and 1910 buildings remain on the site. These include the first machine room (building 10), the beater room (building 11), finishing room (building 16), stock house (building 17) chemical and duster room (building 18), and the finishing room (building 15), all constructed in 1906. The finishing room was substantially modified in 1953. 1910 buildings include the second stock house (building 1), second cooker room (building 2), second beater room (building 3), second boiler house (building 6), and the second machine room (building 9). A handful of other buildings were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Laura Musser McColm Historic District, also known as the Muscatine Art Center, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Contributing properties include the 1908 residence, the carriage house from the 1920s, and the Japanese garden that was installed in 1929. The house was built for Laura Musser and her husband Edwin McColm by Lauras father Peter. It was designed by Muscatine architect Henry W. Zeidler. It contains 12 rooms that flank large corridors on both floors. After Edwins death in 1933 Laura married William T. Atkins in 1938 and resided at his home in Kansas City, Missouri. She retained ownership of this house, and visited frequently, until her death in 1964. The following year her heirs donated the estate to the art museum along with a $100,000 endowment to maintain the house. A $1.5 million renovation of the facility was completed in 2017.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural affairs to restore the historic Japanese-style garden was announced.</p><br>
<h2>Photographs</h2><br>
<p>The Gridley-Parson-Staples House is a historic house museum at 1554 Farmington Avenue in Farmington, Connecticut. Probably built about 1760, it is the oldest surviving house in northwestern Farmington, and a fine example of 18th century Georgian architecture. It is now home to the Farmington Historical Society, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gridley-Parson-Staples House is located on the east side of Farmington Avenue (Connecticut Route 4) amid a cluster of municipal buildings, including the town hall, public library, and high school. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior brick chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a Colonial Revival flat-roof portico supported by Doric columns. Above the entrance is a three-part Palladian style window with narrow side windows; the other windows on the facade are standard 6-over-6 sash. A -story ell, possibly of older construction, extends to the rear. The interior of the house follows a center-hall plan, with an unusually wide central hall, and an enclosed stair. The downstairs fireplace surrounds exhibit particularly fine 18th-century carving.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of the house and the rear ell are uncertain, owing to a lack of documentary record and conflicting architectural evidence. Construction of the rear ell is traditionally given as 1732, when Thomas Hurlburt owned this property, but it appears to have been extensively altered around 1760, when the main house was probably built by Elnathan Gridley. A house is documented as appearing here on a 1759 map, and the house was likely near its present form in 1781, when Elnathan Gridley&#39;s estate was inventoried. The property associated with the house originally extended all the way down to the Farmington River (across Farmington Avenue). The house underwent a major restoration in 1976, and now houses museum displays and offices of the historical society.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hall is a historic residential estate located on Louisiana Highway 29, about 4.5 mi south of Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. The historic property comprises five Arts and Crafts-style buildings: a main house, a "Delco house", a servant&#39;s house, a gazebo with arbor, and a garage. It also includes a bridge.</p><br>
<p>New Orleans architect E. Burke Mason is credited with design for 1923 renovations.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Lattner Auditorium Building is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Paul Lattner, who owned Cedar Rapids Auto & Supply Company, had this building constructed for his business in 1910. The first floor was an automobile showroom, the second floor was used for auto storage, and the third floor housed a neighborhood dance hall. Because this is an early example of an automobile related business, the dance hall/auditorium may have been included to ensure the building&#39;s economic viability given the nature of the automobile business at that time. Various auto-related businesses continued to occupy the building until 1935.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by architect Charles A. Dieman and built by contractor Theodore Stark, both of Cedar Rapids.</p><br>
<p>The dance hall was listed in city directories until 1925. After that the entire building was devoted to commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The Lesinger Block, also known as Little Bohemia, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. This building was constructed at a time of economic expansion in the city. It is a contemporary of several Italianate commercial blocks that were built downtown. Because of subsequent development in that commercial district those buildings have been replaced with newer structures leaving this building as the best extant example of commercial Italianate in Cedar Rapids. It was constructed by Vaclav Lesinger, an immigrant from Kozlov, Bohemia. He was a tailor by trade and he had this structure built in 1883 to house his tailor shop and a dry goods store. Since 1907 the building has housed a tavern that has served as a social center for the local Bohemian community. Architecturally, the two-story brick structure still retains a good deal of its original wood ornamentation, including the sawtooth frieze above the storefronts and the geometric design in the bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Hart&#39;s Corner Historic District encompasses a microcosm of 19th-century agricultural history in southeastern Burlington, Connecticut. Set at the corner of Stafford and Monce Roads are three farmsteads, dating in age from the 1790s to 1874, all of which are well-preserved specimens of their style. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Land in the Harts Corner area was first allocated in the 18th-century colonial period to the Reverend Samuel Newell (father to same-named American missionary). Newells daughters inherited that land, and sold it in the 1790s to Israel Barnes. Barnes built the oldest house at the corner before 1795, when he sold it to David Norton. Norton divided his land, selling the half across Stafford Street to his son Franklin, who built the Greek Revival house at 102 Stafford Street around 1850. Sylvester Hart married David Norton&#39;s daughter, and acquired the original farmstead in 1852. His son George Washington Hart built the Italianate farmhouse at 105 Stafford Street. Although modern suburban residential development has encroached on the cluster from the east, and the road intersection was straightened in 1980, the 19th-century character of this corner is still discernible.</p><br>
<p>The old farmstead built by Israel Barnes is a 1-1/2 story Cape style structure located on the west side of the Stafford-Monce Road junction. It is accompanied by a small collection of mainly 19th-century outbuildings, including at least one barn. Sixty acres of former farmland behind the house are also included in the district; these have been donated to a land conservation group. The Franklin Norton House is located at the northeast corner of the junction; it is 2-1/2 stories in height, with aluminum siding, but still exhibits a number of Greek Revival features from its original period of construction. The George Washington Hart House is at the southeast corner.</p><br>
<p>The Hastings Hill Historic District encompasses a rural crossroads settlement of the early 19th century at the junction of Spruce Street, Hill Street, and Russell Avenue in Suffield, Connecticut. The area includes well-preserved examples of 18th and 18th-century domestic architecture, as well as the 1842 First Baptist Church and a district schoolhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>What is now Hill Street in rural central northern Suffield was laid out in 1726 along a north–south ridge, and was historically part of one of the main routes between Windsor, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts. The area developed in part over religious differences: Joseph Hastings began opposing Congregationalist teachings and practices as early as 1740, and was ordained a Baptist minister. Their church, built at Hill and Russell where the present 1842 Greek Revival church now stands, was one of the first Baptist congregations to be established in Connecticut. This became the nexus for a small village, in which the Hastings house (still standing next to the church) served as a tavern for travelers, and a blacksmith and shop were located across the triangular green at the street corner. In the early 20th century a local barn was adapted for use as a summer theater venue, lasting until World War II.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered at the junction of Hill Street and Russell Avenue, and extends north and south along Hill Street. The oldest house in the district, 1061 Hill Street, is estimated to date to 1740, and was an early conservation project of Delphina Clark, the first woman admitted to the Yale School of Architecture. That property also includes the tobacco barn that housed the theater, retaining the stage and proscenium arch in its interior. The district&#39;s dominant feature is the 1842 Baptist Church, a fine example Greek Revival architecture. Adjacent to it is the much-altered house of the Hastingses, believed to have been built in the 18th century either by Rev. Joseph Hastings or his son.</p><br>
<p>The Berrien Springs Courthouse  is a former government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan and today is part of the History Center at Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Berrien County was first organized in 1831 after initially being part of Cass County. The location of the county seat was in flux for the first few years, with court and county business being held in Niles and St. Joseph. After some discussion, it was decided in 1837 to move to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Among the first order of business, the county commissioners established the need for a courthouse and a jail. While they chose to build a two-story wooden jail first, the commissioners sought bids for the courthouse. Local architect Gilbert B. Avery, won the bid with his Greek Revival design and builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in by early April 1839 and Circuit Court Judge Epaphroditus Ransom convene the building&#39;s first session on April 11.</p><br>
<p>In 1963, it was discovered the buildings foundation was facing serious rot issues and the county approved the repairs. However, instead of merely replacing the wood of the existing foundation, the building was raised three feet and all wood was replaced with brick. Because the Courthouses height was raised just enough, the county agreed, the former wooden steps leading to the second story of the building were unsafe. Instead an internal stairwell was installed. The front columns were given new bases, which can still be seen today. The height was certainly appreciated by workers on the first floor, who handled the law library, records office, and additional office space for court personnel.</p><br>
<p>After the county seat was moved from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph in 1894, the Courthouse and the remaining Courthouse Square buildings remained under the ownership of the County for the next few years. Residents of Berrien Springs and the surrounding areas continued to use the Courthouse as a de facto community center, hosting a dance hall, community events, lectures, and relocated the armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard to the location. Briefly, the Courthouse, along with the other county buildings, served as the campus of Andrews University, then known as Emmanuel Missionary College, for their first school year in Berrien Springs (1901-1902)</p><br>
<p>While attempts to purchase the building and use for various purposes, the County retained ownership even as they sold off the rest of the Courthouse Square&#39;s. In 1916, the Seventh-day Adventists approached the county to rent the Courthouse to serve as their new village church. The county agreed and by 1917, regular worship was underway. After much discussion among church leaders, the SDA community opted to purchased the building outright and the sale was completed in 1922. The Courthouse would remain the Village SDA church until 1966, when the congregation moved to a new, much larger building down the road.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the Berrien County Historical Commission (later Association) partnered with Berrien County to purchase the Courthouse and the BCHC worked to raise the funds to oversee the renovation. Restoration of the building and the installation of the permanent exhibits in the lower level were completed by 1976. Although it should be noted, while restoration was on-going, programming and tours were still hosted by the museum in an attempt to raise awareness of the project. In 1989, the building was struck by lightning and caught fire. While the southeast corner was damaged, the remaining structure was untouched. The BCHA took this opportunity to do additional renovations inside the courtroom and made minor changes still seen today.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building remains open to the public as a museum and in 2021, the renovation of the permanent exhibits of the Courthouse were completed. The Courthouse continues to host the BCHA&#39;s events and programs while serving as a unique wedding venue.</p><br>
<h2>Honors and recognition</h2><br>
<p>The 1839 Courthouse is added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>In 1974 it was recognized by the State of Michigan as the oldest county courthouse in the state.</p><br>
<p>In 1982 it was relisted on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Berrien County Court Complex.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 it was listed as the 37th Legal Milestone by the Michigan Bar Association.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 1839 County Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building, measuring 41 feet long and over 60 feet high (including the basement/lower level). The foundation was originally wood, but replaced with brick in 1863 and the brick was covered with a layer of concrete. The exterior walls are clad with wooden lapped siding with wide cornice tops and pilasters at each corner, while the interior walls are plaster over wood framing traditional to the time period. The building is topped by a gabled roof that is home to the building&#39;s square cupola, which houses a working bell.</p><br>
<p>The portico runs the width of the building and is framed with four Doric columns that extend to the roof. After the building was raised in 1863, square bases were added to each column to match the new height of the building. These were building in brick and are covered with wood. The original door to the courtroom foyer was originally accessed via wooden staircase prior to 1863 but was replaced with a small balcony after it was deemed too hazardous to replace the staircase at the new height.</p><br>
<p>Instead, an internal staircase was built and still used to access the second story today. The floor on the first floor is mostly concrete, with sections covered with carpet or tile, but the entry way is made of poplar wood planks, which are also used throughout the courtroom and its entryway. The flooring in the old jury room (now the Green Room) is made of narrow oak panels more common to the mid-20th century. The courtroom derives most of its light from the ten 15 foot windows on the east, west, and south walls. An additional 10 windows are located on the lower level, but only three remain uncovered. These windows were replaced in 2019. The courthouse does have an interior balcony that remains closed off to the public for safety reasons.</p><br>
<p>The Coram Hotel, located on California Ave. in Libby in Lincoln County, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It was built as The Coram in 1899 but was left unfinished for 12 years, after the mining industry collapsed. Per a 2012 news article, it was later used to shield cattle during bad weather "and as a town meeting hall when they could shoo the cows out." It was opened as a hotel in 1910 as Hotel Libby.</p><br>
<p>The St. Joseph Historic District in St. Joseph in Tensas Parish, Louisiana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It included 99 buildings, 71 of them being contributing buildings, in an 80 acre area roughly bounded by Panola Ave. and Front, Hickory, 4th, and Pauline Streets in downtown St. Joseph.</p><br>
<p>The district essentially included the entire town as far as it extended in 1930, with exception of seven lots east of Second Street which had been redeveloped incompatibly in the 1970s, so was excluded.</p><br>
<p>It includes Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne architecture. It includes the Tensas Parish Courthouse which was separately listed on the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Stockmen&#39;s Bank of Martinsdale, at 9 Main St. in Martinsdale in Meagher County, Montana, was built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>It was built for the State Bank of Martinsdale, which had been founded in 1909. It operated as State Bank of Martinsdale from 1919 to 1923, when it closed in the post-World War I agricultural depression and banking crisis. Its successor, the Stockmen&#39;s Bank of Martinsdale, survived for 26 years including the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression, only to be felled in 1949 upon discovery that its cashier, its single employee, had stolen funds over several years. The fraud began in 1936 and was only discovered when the cashier was out due to an illness in 1949.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story, approximately 30 x commercial brick and structural clay tile building on a concrete foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Cat Creek Oil Field Sign, located about 5 mi west of the town of Mosby at about mile 150 on Highway 200, in Petroleum County, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>It is "an isolated and lonely reminder of the once booming oil industry presence in central Montana during the infancy of commercial oil development" in Montana. It commemorates the Cat Creek Oil Field which boomed during 1920-1925 and again in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Hatheway House, also known as the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden is a historic house museum at 55 South Main Street in Suffield, Connecticut. The sprawling house has sections built as early as 1732, with significant alterations made in 1795 to a design by Asher Benjamin for Oliver Phelps, a major land speculator. The house provides a window into a wide variety of 18th-century home construction methods. It is now maintained by Connecticut Landmarks, and is open seasonally between May and October. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hatheway House is located in the village center of Suffield, on the west side of South Main Street, south of its junction with Bridge Street. It is a sprawling multi-section wood-frame structure, with a -story five-bay central block flanked on the north by a -story three-bay section and on the left by a -story ell. Each section is covered by gambrel roof and is sheathed in wooden clapboards. The center block, built in 1762, has a large central chimney, and its interior is finished with high-quality Georgian woodwork. The southern ell is an older structure with simple finishes, and may date as far back as 1732. The northern addition was added in 1795. The main entrance is at the center of the main block, sheltered by a Doric portico designed by Asher Benjamin and added in 1795. Outbuildings on the property include a carriage house and barn, both 19th-century structures.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house was built about 1762, probably by Abraham Burbank, and was originally more plainly decorated with a gable roof. Burbanks son Shem sold the house to Oliver Phelps in 1788. Phelps, then already a man of some wealth and sophistication, transformed the house into the mansion it is now. Phelps was a principal in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of six million acres of land in upstate New York, making him one of the nations largest landowners. Phelps lived here until 1802, when he moved to Canandaigua, New York, to more closely oversee the development and sale of his holdings.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Hayes II House is a historic house at 67 Barndoor Hill Road in Granby, Connecticut. Probably built in 1769, it is an extremely rare example in the Connecticut River valley of a middle-class colonial house with a hip roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Hayes II House stands in a rural-residential area southwest of Granby&#39;s village center, set well back on the west side of Barndoor Hill Road a short way north of Reed Hill Road. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched hip roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance in the central bay but off-center. The interior of the house has many original features, including wide floorboards, strap hinges on doors, and trim elements. The chimney stack is unusually for the region set at a 45° angle, with a large cooking fireplace in the basement (with arched oven), and fireplace openings facing each of the principal chambers in the main and second floors.</p><br>
<p>The houses exact construction date is not known, but is conjectured to be about 1769. It was built by Samuel Hayes II, a prominent local leader who led militia forces during the French and Indian War. The house bears some similarity of style to another house (extensively altered in the 19th century) built in what is now East Granby in 1769 for one of Hayes officers. These two houses and one other in Windsor are the only known examples of period housing that have steeply pitched hip roofs on what are basically middle-class residences.</p><br>
<p>The Aage and Kirstine Larsen Homestead was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was deemed significant as a well-preserved example of an early twentieth-century Sheridan County homestead which achieved a measure of success and permanence. The Larsens were among the thousands of settlers who arrived in Sheridan County during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the homestead they established was initially typical of hundreds of such farms operated during the countys early years of settlement. Most of these early homesteads were either abandoned or merged into larger farm operations, in either case leaving relatively few physical remains. The relative economic success achieved by the Larsens, however, allowed them to expand their farm holdings and increase the number and size of the farms buildings, resulting in the building complex which survives today.</p><br>
<p>The farm was started in 1908 by Aage T. Larsen (1885-1948), who immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1905. He first built a 12 x shack made of lumber carried by hand from the railroad at Culbertson. Kirstine Kleis married Aage in 1910. They grew wheat, owned and operated a steam-powered custom threshing unit, and they raised cattle. Aage "was a civic leader in the Dagmar community and served in the Montana state legislature from 1921 to 1923."</p><br>
<p>It was the farming homestead of the Larsen family from 1908 to 1924. The listing included six contributing buildings:</p><br>
<p>a one-and-a-half-story, wood-frame house</p><br>
<p>a one-and-a-half-story gabled barn located about 130 ft away,</p><br>
<p>a shed wing addition to the barn with a further shed-roofed chicken coop off the addition</p><br>
<p>a granary with cupola that appears to have originally been built as a small barn and then was later enlarged</p><br>
<p>a wood-frame garage with two garage door openings (without doors, as of 1992)</p><br>
<p>a livestock shed</p><br>
<p>The property also had two round metal grain bins which are modern and were deemed to be non-contributing.</p><br>
<p>As of 1992 the property was abandoned, as seen in photos taken then and included in its NRHP nomination.</p><br>
<p>The Meeks-Green Farmstead in Parowan, Utah was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included four contributing buildings and one contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>Constructed around 1853, the Meeks cabin was constructed after the move of a contingent from Salt Lake City to the newly founded Parowan. Priddy Meeks was one of the towns only two physicians and a member of Parowans first city council. The Meeks cabin served as both an office and storehouse for the physician until a dispute with the other towns doctor led to Meeks departure from Parowan in 1861.</p><br>
<p>The cabin remained in the Meeks family until it was deeded by one of Meeks&#39; children or grandchildren to James Green in June 1904. The farmstead, including the Meeks cabin and other outbuildings, was purchased by the city of Parowan 1990. The focus of the city is to restore and maintain the farm as a preservation of early agricultural life in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel R. and Sophia G. Page House is one of a number of outbuildings on the Page Ranch property in Iron County, Utah. Built in 1900, this two-story house is the primary house on the property and the only building on the property that is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on Pinto Road , east of Pinto, Hamblin, and State Route 18.</p><br>
<p>Page Ranch was owned by the Page family since 1858, having been settled by Daniel Pages grandfather, Robert Richey. The house was designed by then-owners of the Page Ranch property, Daniel Richey Page and Sophia Geary Page. Construction began in 1898 by the builders, Jack and Harvey Fabian, using bricks made on site. The bricks used in construction were made from clay found immediately west of the buildings location. The finished house served as a stopping place for travelers and boarded miners who worked nearby. The Richey and Page families owned the ranch until 1934.</p><br>
<p>The house remains standing as of 2023, but resides unoccupied, with windows and doors having been boarded up.</p><br>
<p>The Jesse N. Smith House, located in Parowan, Utah, is a two-story home that was constructed from June 1856 to March 1858. Jesse N. Smith was asked by church leadership to assist in the settling of Parowan in 1851, where he constructed and lived in the house. The house is constructed from quarried rock, baked adobe, and hewed timber. Originally consisting of four rooms - two upstairs and two downstairs - an addition was later added to the rear of the house that consisted of four additional rooms. It is the oldest adobe structure in the state of Utah.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975,</p><br>
<p>The house was sold to William Bentley in 1879. The building remained unoccupied for a number of years until it was purchased by the Jesse N. Smith Family Association in 1962. Restoration of the home took place between 1967 and 1969. In 2017, the renovated house exists as a museum for visitors, showcasing the history of Jesse N. Smith and his wives.</p><br>
<p>The Raymond Grain Elevators Historic District is a 6 acre historic district near Raymond, Montana with six contributing buildings which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It includes two surviving grain elevators located within the railway right-of-way. Elevator The railway was built in 1913 by the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (the "Soo Line") and was operated by that company until 1990.</p><br>
<p>The McCone Residence in Glendive in Dawson County, Montana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a small one-story L-shaped house built during 1893 to 1903, probably by carpenter John A. Morton, and was expanded during 1903-1905 and again during 1905–1910. It was home in 1909 to George McCone (b.1854), a pioneer settler in this area. He had been mail carrier between (Oklahoma&#39;s?) Fort Reno and Fort Sill in 1877, was mail carrier between Bismarck, North Dakota and Fort Keogh in 1881, and was mail carrier between Glendive and Fort Buford and Wolf Point in 1882. He was on the first board of county commissioners for Dawson County, and he is the namesake of McCone County (created in 1919).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register as a result of a study of multiple historic resources in Glendive which also listed several others.</p><br>
<p>Bad Route Creek Bridge is a historic bridge which carries County Road 261 across the Bad Route Creek in Dawson County, Montana. The Security Bridge Company built the bridge on behalf of the Montana Highway Department in 1921–22. The reinforced concrete bridge has six spans and is 98 ft long, making it the longest concrete bridge built by the highway department. Neither the bridge company nor the highway department used concrete extensively, and most concrete bridges in the state only had one or two spans; as a result, the bridge is an unusual and well-preserved example of its type. The bridge was part of a route linking Glendive to Terry, which became part of USA Route 10 in 1926. US 10 bypassed the bridge when it was rebuilt in 1950.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Hilltop Farm is a historic country estate and gentlemans farm on Mapleton Avenue in northern Suffield, Connecticut. It was established in 1913 by George M. Hendee, one of the founders of the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company, one of the nations first motorcycle makers. Although its manor house was demolished in 1961, the estate retains many buildings built for Hendee, as well as a cluster of older farm buildings that he retained. The farm was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hilltop Farm complex occupies over 230 acre of land in the northeast corner of Suffield, most of which lies between Mapleton Avenue (Connecticut Route 159) and the Connecticut River. The southern portions of the property include three clusters of farm buildings, each with a house. The main cluster, roughly east of Hickory Street, includes a large dairy barn and chicken house, as well as a tobacco barn and numerous smaller buildings, with two small period residences, and a later house built on the site of the original manor house. To the south of this cluster lie two smaller groups, originally the farmsteads of the Stroh and Sikes families from whom George Hendee purchased the land. North of the main cluster is a mid-20th century institutional campus that (as of 2017) stands vacant.</p><br>
<p>George Hendee was a native of nearby Springfield, Massachusetts, who was initially engaged in the manufacture of bicycles. In 1898 he began producing motorcycles under the "Indian" nameplate, which met with great success and made him extremely wealthy. In 1913 he began purchasing farmland in northeastern Suffield, on which he established a gentleman&#39;s farm that was primarily focused on dairy operations. Hendee remained involved in this pursuit, withdrawing from Indian Motorcycle in 1915, until ill health prompted him to leave the estate in 1938 and sell it in 1940. It was then subdivided, portions of the estate repurposed, and his main house demolished in 1961. The estate retains many original features, including landscaping by Carl Rust Parker. The surviving farm-related portion of the estate is now owned by the town and maintained by a local nonprofit group.</p><br>
<p>The Thornwood School, located on a county road about 17 mi west of Reserve, Montana, within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>In 1993 the one-room schoolhouse had been abandoned for a number of years. It was operated as a school from 1932 to 1946.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Thornwood School was established in the mid 1920s by Sheridan County School District No. 69. At the time, District 69 operated the Wanso School in the next township to the west; presumably a second school was required because new settlement had caused overcrowding of the Wanso School. Designated as District 69A, the Thornwood School was probably also intended for children living just across the county line, as it took on the name of the "Thornwood" ranch located nearby in Roosevelt County. The existing Thornwood School building was apparently constructed in 1932. In October of that year, School District 69 acquired from local Paul and Antinina Andrilenas. The deed recording the transfer noted that the acre was intended for the "...location and operation of a school house and yard..." Additionally, it stipulated that the land was to revert to the Andrilenas family,"... if the schoolhouse is removed there from." The schoolhouse held terms for the next 14 years except for 1941. During this time, it also served as a gathering place for community events such as socials, carnivals, and dances. Its doors were finally shut in 1946, as the region&#39;s declining population reduced the rural schools which were necessary. Eventually, School Districts 69 and 69A were consolidated with District 7 in Medicine Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson House, also known as the Reynolds House, is a historic house located in Latham, Alabama, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Its 1988 NRHP nomination asserted it is locally significant as the "purest example" of the Creole Cottage style of architecture in Baldwin County.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1912, the Nelson House is a one-story frame, four bay house resting on a brick wall foundation. There are two interior chimneys on its gabled roof, one on the front slope and one on the rear slope, each with back-to-back fireplaces. A recessed front porch covers the full facade. The expansive gable ends are a clue to the original builder providing room for a half story which was never added.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, Edward G. Nelson and his Maryland-native wife left their home in Bay Minette in order to escape yellow fever. They settled in Latham and Nelson ran a sawmill, gristmill, blacksmith shop and bakery in order to support his family, as well as farming and raising a multitude of animals. Nelson’s plot contained five tenant houses and a commissary. His second son, Earl, built a house on a separate plot with lumber from his father’s mill- his mother, Nelson’s wife, requested a second story to the house, which was included in the blueprints but never executed. Earl and his wife moved out of the main house in 1925 and handed it down to his sister, Mary Elizabeth, and her husband Maynard Coghlan. The couple rented the house out for 12 years before moving themselves into the house in 1937. Mary was appointed postmistress of Latham in 1942 and had a small post office erected on her property, while Maynard worked in the Mobile shipyards during World War II. The property was passed down to their daughter Ruth and her husband Forrest J. Reynolds in 1972 and was still owned by Ruth (under "Mrs. F.J. Reynolds") as of 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Sandburg House is a private home located on Lake Michigan near Harbert, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1926, poet Carl Sandburg published the first volume of his biography of Abraham Lincoln entitled Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Exhausted from this and other writings, Sandburg and his family left Chicago for the summer to vacation in a cottage overlooking Lake Michigan near Harbert. Charmed by the location, the family stayed in Harbert through the fall. A few years later, they built this house along the shore of the lake. The house was designed by Lilian Sandburg, Carl&#39;s wife.</p><br>
<p>The Sandburgs lived in this house year-round for nearly two decades. Carl Sandburg continued to write, and it was here that he wrote the second volume of his Lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in history.</p><br>
<p>However, in 1945, the Sandburgs decided that the winters were too harsh, and moved to another house in North Carolina, which is now the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. In 1947, they sold the house to Theodore Yntema, then a University of Chicago professor. It changed hands multiple times since then.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Sandburg House is a multi-storied house designed by Lilian Sandburg with mixed Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival elements. It is located high on a steeply sloping bank overlooking the beach of Lake Michigan. The house rises three stories on the Lake Michigan side, and five stories on the land side, and contains multiple windows overlooking the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Ring Lardner House is a private house located at 519 Bond Street in Niles, Michigan where American author Ring Lardner was born in 1885. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was constructed in about 1850 by R.C. Paine, a local banker and for some time the mayor of Niles. Paine died in 1875 and the house was purchased by Henry Lardner, Ring Lardner&#39;s father. Ring Lardner was born here in 1885 and lived here until his graduation from high school in 1901, when he moved to Chicago. He returned to Niles soon after, and began his career writing articles on sporting events for the Niles Sun, and then moved on again.</p><br>
<p>The house was lived in for many years by Ring&#39;s sister Lena, who taught music. She eventually sold it, and in 1940 it was converted into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ring Lardner House is a -story Gothic Revival house with a gabled roof and dormers. It is clad with stucco. The dormers and roof have ornamental vergeboards</p><br>
<p>Driers Meat Market, also known as Driers Butcher Shop or the Union Meat Market, is a commercial meat market located at 14 South Elm Street in Three Oaks, Michigan. The building has been in continuous use as a butcher shop since the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Drier&#39;s Meat Market was originally constructed as a wagon repair shop. In about 1875 it was converted to a butcher shop by a butcher whose name is uncertain. In 1887, Alec Watson arrived in Three Oaks from Chicago and took over what was then known as the Union Meat Market.</p><br>
<p>Watson hired a 10-year-old boy, Edward T. Drier, as a delivery boy, and in 1913 sold Drier the business. Drier eventually passed it along to his son, Edward Drier Jr. In 1994, he passed it to his daughter Carolyn Drier.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Drier&#39;s Meat Market is a single-story commercial building with a gable roof and rounded false front. The front facade is decorated with scalloped wood trim. The interior has original wood floors and many fixtures dating to the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Customers</h2><br>
<p>Over the years, Drier&#39;s has attracted a number of famous customers. These include poet Carl Sandburg (who lived nearby), meat mogul James Hormel and film critic Roger Ebert (both of whom vacationed in the area), Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, Bill Blass, Larry Hagman, and cartoonist Bill Mauldin.</p><br>
<p>The Evans Manufacturing Company Building, also known as Metropolitan Supply Company Building, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The Brown-Evans Manufacturing Company, which made men&#39;s work clothing, was relocated from Sedalia, Missouri to Cedar Rapids when this building was completed in 1919. It was built in the 4th Street Railroad Corridor, which had attracted various industrial enterprises in the years before and after World War I. The Modern Movement building was designed according to the principles of industrial design of the time in light of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Its fireproof masonry construction was intended to lessen the risk of fires. Storage of raw stock was located in the basement, cutting and storage of finished stock was located on the first floor, and sewing was done on the second floor and balcony. Its open floor plan allowed for assembly line production.</p><br>
<p>The company reorganized in 1933 as the Evans Garment Company, and it expanded to producing women&#39;s house dresses the following year. As the Great Depression wore on, their market declined and the plant closed three years later. It was replaced by the Metropolitan Supply Company, who moved their printing and school supply operation here in 1936. They moved to a different facility in 1995, and closed a short time later. This building then housed an architectural office, a dance studio, and a warehouse operation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Charles C. Sargent House in Nashua, Montana was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is an Arts and Crafts-style home which is significant for association with Charles C. Sargent, the</p><br>
<p>first settler of Nashua. Sargent was a scout for General George Custer who "narrowly missed being with Custers troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn. A trader and merchant, he was serving as an Indian agent near Poplar, Montana, when the Great Northern Railway was being constructed through eastern Montana. Hearing that there would be a division point at the place which later became Nashua, Sargent moved his family there in 1886 and built the first house on the bank of Porcupine Creek. He started a school, a bank, helped in the formation of School District 13 in Valley County, and established a post office and store in 1888." His original log cabin and the public buildings associated with him have not survived, but this house was built by him in 1917, before the town was incorporated in 1918, and was one of Nashuas "first real homes".</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Brothers Building, also known as Warfield-Pratt & Howell Co. Wholesale Grocers, and the Hach Brothers Company, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. This is the only extant building associated with local businessman and politician John Taylor Hamilton. He was a representative of Cyrus McCormick at the time his company was opening new markets for his mechanical reaper and other implements. Hamilton expanded his business to other implement manufactures and included product lines for urban dwellers as well. His business grew beyond the local area to include the entire state. Built as a warehouse in 1899, it is the only building of this type left near the central business district. It is also the largest building of this type in the city. The four-story, brick, Romanesque Revival structure features large round arch openings on the main floor and smaller windows on the upper floors. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company Office and Warehouse, also known as Iowa Pipe and Supply Company, Cedar Rapids Presort, and the Mott Building, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. This is the only extant building of a complex of buildings along the Cedar River used by the Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company. The three-story structure is a simplified version of Victorian architecture. The thick brick walls were a form of fire protection and insulation, while the heavy timber for the interior support structure created large open space that was required to house industrial equipment, production activities, and warehouse storage. The tall windows allowed for interior lighting and ventilation. The first floor provided finished space used for offices. Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company began as a branch of the Kendallville, Indiana based Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company around 1890. They began building their complex of buildings along the Cedar River and the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railroad the following year. This building was completed in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Paine Bank is a historic bank building located at 1008 Oak Street in Niles, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rodney C. Paine grew up in New York state, and worked as a clerk in a canal office, post office, and bank. In 1836, his brother-in-law John A. Welles, who was a cashier at the Farmers & Mechanics Bank in Detroit, asked Paine to open a branch in western Michigan, which was rapidly expanding at the time. Paine opened an office in St. Joseph, and quickly gained the trust of the community and was elected county treasurer. In fact, during the Panic of 1837, Paine issued notes without security, but (it was said) were accepted on the basis of his endorsement alone. These notes were known as "Paine&#39;s Money."</p><br>
<p>In 1840, Paine moved to Niles and opened an agency there. In 1843, he constructed this small Greek Revival bank building on the corner of Third and Main Streets. He also constructed a home nearby (now the Ring Lardner House). Paines bank operated as an agency of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank until 1852, after which if became a private bank, known as Paines Bank, owned and operated by Rodney C. Paine. Paine worked at promoting the development of Niles, investing in local industry, serving as the director of the public schools, and being elected to the state senate in 1855. Paine died in 1875.</p><br>
<p>The bank building has been moved twice; once in 1883 to South Third Street, and again in 1961 to its current location. It is currently used for storage.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Paine&#39;s Bank is a small, white, single story, frame Greek Revival building. It has a pedimented tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with fluted columns and antae at the corners of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Rundle Building in Glasgow in Valley County, Montana was built in 1916. It was designed by architects Link and Haire. It has also been known as Glasgow Hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-part three-story fireproof brick Western Commercial 90x130 ft building with "colorful detailed terra cotta tile work, raised brick arches, and coped, shaped parapet walls reminiscent of Spanish Mission Revival architecture." It originally had a billiards room and a bowling alley.</p><br>
