<p>The Fort Peck Original Houses Historic District, is an 11 acre historic district consisting of 12 one-story cottages along E. Kansas Avenue in Fort Peck, Montana. Some or all was built in 1934, and they served as housing for the administrative personnel from the Army Corps of Engineers during the Fort Peck Dam project. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, when all the houses were more than 50 years old.</p><br>
<p>Ten of the cottages were built by Johnson, Drake, & Piper and two were built by Madsen Const. Co.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Rapids Pump Company Factory and Warehouse are two historic buildings located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The company began in 1881. They manufactured and distributed water pumps and windmills throughout the Midwest from this facility from 1884 to 1929. They completed the first floor of the factory building along the Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks in 1884. The second floor was added to the building around 1894, and in 1901 the warehouse building was completed. The Cedar Rapids Community School District used both buildings for storage from 1974 to about 2008. The buildings were affected by the 2008 flood. The two-story brick factory building features a monitor roof, and is otherwise "purely utilitarian in appearance with no particular stylistic or decorative tendency." The warehouse is also two-stories, constructed in brick, and lacking in ornamentation. The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph and Clara Amanda H. Moorhead House is a historic building located east of Ely, Iowa, United States. Joseph was a native of Holmes County, Ohio and Clara was from Chemung County, New York. They settled in Putnam Township in 1855 with their two sons. The Moorhead daughters were born in Iowa. The family initially lived in a log house before the original part of this house was built in 1859. The house is the only known residential example of heavy timber-frame construction that remains in Linn County from its settlement period. This construction method was more common in barn construction. The house was originally a rectangular two-story structure with side gables. Additions and a wrap-around porch were added in later years. Two barns associated with the farm, no longer extant, were located across the road.</p><br>
<p>The Moorheads lived here until 1881 when Joseph was elected the county auditor, and they moved into Marion. They retained ownership of the property until 1900. Clara died in Marion in 1901 and Joseph died two years later in Wichita, Kansas, where he lived with one of their daughters. They are buried nearby in the Rogers Grove Cemetery. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison Stuckslager House is a historic building located in Lisbon, Iowa, United States. A Pennsylvania native, Stuckslager permanately settled in Linn County in 1866 where he became a prominent farmer and banker. He had this two-story, brick vernacular Italianate house built in 1876. It features bracketed eaves, decorative window hoods, projecting bays, and elaborate porches. The house remains on a full block north of Lisbon&#39;s central business district that includes the former carriage barn and storage shed, a small horse pasture, the remains of an orchard, and gardens. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Torrance House is a historic building located south of Lisbon, Iowa, United States. Cunningham and Margaret Torrance were natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who settled in Franklin Township in 1847. The inscription stone in the east gable gives the date of this house as 1856. It was one of a few limestone buildings in Linn County even though the region has significant deposits of the stone. The settlement-era dwelling incorporates both vernacular and classical influences in its construction. The vernacular elements include the asymmetry of the facades, and the coursed ashlar and random coursed ashlar stonework. The classical is primarily found in the stone belt courses above the second floor and gable windows on the east elevation, and above both rows of windows on the main facade. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Howard Longley House is a historic house in South Pasadena, California, USA In 1897, Greene and Greene recorded job no. 23 as a residence for Howard and Etta Longley at 1005 Buena Vista Street, with a valuation of $3,876. Mr. Longley was "the brother-in-law of Dr. Greenes sister, Alice." The house is significant as one of the earliest surviving residences designed by Greene & Greene. On 6 August 1897, the Los Angeles Journal reported that plans for the house were being prepared. The Longley house stands next to the Lucretia Garfield House . The Longley House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Braska House is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. This is a vernacular house form that utilizes elements from the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. Similar houses from the same period are found in Muscatine, Iowa, and the Joseph Smith Mansion House in Nauvoo, Illinois is a more elaborate example. The Greek Revival elements are found in the symmetrical main facade, the straight forward lines, and the lack of embellishments. The Italianate is found in the low-pitched hipped roof and the wide eaves. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Granger House, also known as the Granger House Victorian Museum, is a historic heritage tourism site located in Marion, Iowa, United States. This Victorian Italianate house was built around 1860 by Charles Myers. Earl Granger bought the house in 1876 and it remained in his family until 1973. Granger built the carriage house in 1879, and built an addition onto the main house the following year, reflecting his growing wealth in livestock production and local banking investments. The two-story brick building features a -story ell, a gable roof, bracketed eaves, and arched stone lintels over the symmetrically arranged windows. The front porch is not the original. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The James W. and Ida G. Bowman House is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. The Bowmans hired the Cedar Rapids architectural firm of Dieman & Fiske, and specifically partner Charles Dieman, to design this two-story wood-frame house that combines American Craftsman and Prairie School influences. Local contractor Charles I. Wilson completed construction in 1910 in a neighborhood populated by prominent citizens. The wide overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends reflects the Craftsman style, while the square massing and horizontal emphasis of the siding and roofline of the porch are typical of the Prairie School style.</p><br>
<p>The Worcester State Hospital Farmhouse is a historic psychiatric hospital building at 361 Plantation Street, on the former grounds of the Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1895, it is a well-preserved local example of Georgian Revival architecture, and is notable as a prototype for similar buildings in the Massachusetts state hospital network. It served as an outbuilding of Worcester State Hospital until 1969, housing select residents who worked in its fields. It now houses state mental health offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Worcester State Hospital Farmhouse is located near the eastern edge of the former Worcester State Hospital complex, a property of more than 200 acre that has in part been redeveloped for commercial purposes. It is located just west of Plantation Street and south of Research Drive. It is a -story brick building that is L-shaped and covered by a hip roof with two cupolas. The building was historically divided functionally into a residence for the farm overseer and his family, with a dormitory and residence wing for hospital staff and inmates. The long dormitory wing is fronted on the Plantation Street side by a long shed-roof porch with a tall latticework skirt obscuring the basement and Tuscan columns for support.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built in 1895 to a design by the Worcester architects Fuller & Delano. The Worcester State Hospital, founded in 1833 as the Worcester Lunatic Asylum, had been experiencing increased demand for its services, and in 1870 the state purchased land for the campus on Worcesters east side. The main building, a large Kirkbride Plan was built soon afterward (and was largely demolished in the 1990s). At the time of the 1870 land purchase, one of the extant farmhouses was adapted for use to house patients and staff involved in the hospitals agricultural activities. This building was built as a replacement for that house, and is a particularly elegant example of Georgian Revival architecture. Its design was used as a model for similar buildings at Danvers State Hospital (since demolished), Medfield State Hospital, and Westborough State Hospital.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel M. Lane House is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. This two-story Italianate style dwelling was built in 1868 using locally produced brick. It is in a neighborhood where the community&#39;s more prominent citizens built their homes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It features a low-pitched hip roof, a limestone foundation, a two-story rear ell, and wide eaves that had brackets that were removed in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Architect</p><br>
<p>The Michael Jacobs House, at 4 W. First Avenue North in Columbus in Stillwater County, Montana, also known as the Jacobi House, is a Renaissance Revival-style house built of locally quarried sandstone during 1900–1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was built by, and home of, Michael Jacobs, an immigrant who later became mayor of Columbus. Michael Jacobs was born in Vinchia Turo, Italy in 1862 as Michael Angelo Jacobucci . Serving originally as a stone cutter and mason, he apprenticed in the granite and marble quarries of the mountains near his home.</p><br>
<p>Jacobs originally migrated to Chicago where he began work with a construction firm while studying architecture in night school. He served as an assistant in the design and construction of the Art Institute of Chicago, doing finishing work and carving the lions that grace the entrance of the Institute today. Michael Jacobs was a talented and successful stonemason who used his skills to craft several masonry structures and decorative gravestones in Columbus. He arrived in Columbus with three other expert stone cutters in 1901 to manage the Montana Sandstone Co., a quarry located along the bluffs immediately north of Columbus. His quarrying and carving skills were widely recognized in the state and region. In addition, he was responsible for utilizing vast amounts of sandstone from the quarry he managed for public and private buildings in Wyoming and Montana, including the original State Capitol in Helena, federal buildings in Billings, Butte and Helena, hotels in Forsyth and Havre, high schools in Missoula and Havre and the Missoula Masonic Temple. Known locally as "Daddy Mike," he was, by his death in 1927, recognized as a patriarch, politician and entrepreneur.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, Jacobs advertised with the company as a cut stone contractor, with work executed according to Plans and Details and Delivered to destination Crated and Numbered ready to go in the wall." By 1914, he had expanded his interests to become the owner of the Stillwater Monumental Works Co., with an "Artistic line of monuments manufactured exclusively of Columbus Sand Stone." Jacobs built, owned and managed (with his son) the Atlas Building in Columbus, a combination bowling alley, billiard room, restaurant and saloon. Jacobs was also a successful politician, being elected as an alderman for the 2nd Ward in 1907 and then mayor of Columbus.</p><br>
<p>Architecture</p><br>
<p>The Jacobs House or Jacobi House, is built of locally quarried hard sandstone during 1900–1907. The overall size and massing, and outstanding craftsmanship exhibited in the masonry work and stone carving of the Jacobs House contribute to its distinctive, stylistic appearance. The ornate stone Corinthian columns and carved decorations of the Jacobs House provide a sharp contrast to the rustication of the stone blocks. In an effort to present the most attractive facade to the public, the south and east walls of the Jacobs House—those clearly visible from 1st Ave. North and Quarry St.—were finished with finely cut, rock-faced ashlar stone that exhibits thin, precise mortar joints. The builder-architect&#39;s Renaissance Revival influence can also be noted in the tall pavilion and carved stone decorations placed along the facade, as well as the hipped roof and rectangular shape, molded stringcourse dividing the first and second floors, and the windows and doors framed with sandstone.</p><br>
<p>History</p><br>
<p>The home was built in 1904. After Michael Jacobs death, the home was owned by several local prominent businessmen including bankers, doctors, mayors and mining superintendents.</p><br>
<p>Historic Registry</p><br>
<p>This historic building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service on January 28, 1987, OMB Approval Number #. 1024-0018.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination states: "Through its ornamental facade and finely crafted ashlar walls, the Renaissance style residence illustrates the outstanding masonry skills and business and political prominence of its builder and original owner, Michael Jacobs. The Michael Jacobs House recently went through a complete restoration. The following is a brief summary of work completed: Brazilian cherry floors, trim, doors, stairs and cabinets, except the kitchen which is solid hickory, radiant heat flooring, Heartland Classic Series appliances with Bosch 42 dBA dishwasher, Renaissance lighting fixtures and door knobs, copper penny roof, upgraded insulation in house and garage and other modernization upgrades."</p><br>
<p>The Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex, also known as the History Center at Courthouse Square, is a historic district located in Berrien Springs, Michigan. The complex is 1.6 acres and is home to five structures, two of which are the oldest of their kind in the state of Michigan. While the property and its buildings are owned by Berrien County and stewarded by the Berrien County Historical Association. While the historic 1839 Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, the BCHA resubmitted the application to include the remaining property added during the 1970s. The application was approve and the entire complex was added to the register 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Berrien County was officially established in 1831, but failed to secure a county seat until 1837. County offices and courts bounced between Niles and St. Joseph before Berrien Springs was chosen for its central location. That same year, the county accepted the donation of property along Union Street and commissioned the construction of the first permanent county building - a two-story wooden jail. After requesting bids in 1838, the county commissioners chose Gilbert B. Avery to construct the County Courthouse. Completed in 1839, the building served as both a site of government and as a community center for Berrien Springs residents.</p><br>
<p>Over the next several decades, the county&#39;s growth impacted its operations, and the Commissioners were faced with the need for additional space. In 1860, the county once again turned to Gilbert Avery who designed the Records Building. Built by George Murdock, the one-story building also proved to be to small and a two-story addition was added in 1973. The county records were housed here along with the Registrar and the Probate Judge offices. With this addition, the complex stretched from Union Street to Madison Street and was now hemmed in on all four sides by roads.</p><br>
<p>Two more building was constructed by the County - the 1870 Sheriff&#39;s Office and the County Jail. As before, Avery was hired to design the building, although he ended up overseeing the construction after issues with the builder. The buildings were completed at the end of 1869, with the sheriff and his family moving into the building in January 1870. Once the prisoners being held at the old jail were moved to the new one, that building was then torn down. With a small road passing through the property, visitors to the complex had easy access to each building on foot or by buggy.</p><br>
<h3>Fight for the County Seat</h3><br>
<p>In the early 1870s, discontent with the Courthouses location began and over the next two decades, the complaints grew louder. Despite being located in the middle of the county, Berrien Springs lacked any direct transportation line, like a railroad. While attempts were made, they repeatedly failed. By 1894, the calls for the county seat to be moved were too large to ignore and in April of that year, a vote was held to determine if it should be moved or not. The weeks leading up to election day were contentious as Berrien Springs, St. Joseph, and Niles vied for the county seat, with newspapers being a spirited part of the process. After Benton Harbor threw its votes behind its sister city, St. Joseph won the election. The loss was a bitter one for Berrien Springs and The Berrien Springs Era didnt hold back as the county began its move, "The motive power used in the removal was mostly furnished by horses, but the direction of affairs was left to the jackasses, of which St. Joe has an abundance." For their part, St. Joseph was quite humble in their victory, tipping their hat to their neighbors after a contentious battle.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, the county began construction on the new courthouse, but while some operations made the move seamless to St. Joseph, some remained in Berrien Springs for at least another year. This included the Sheriff, whose new residence and jail were completed in the early fall of 1895.</p><br>
<h3>A New Era</h3><br>
<p>Despite no longer needing the complex in Berrien Springs, the county was hesitant to sell at first. Residents of Berrien Springs continued to use the Courthouse for meetings, community events, and even established a dance hall and armory. In 1900, Battle Creek College, a Seventh-day Adventist school, made the decision to move to a new location, opting for Berrien Springs. While their new campus was being constructed, the college, which had renamed itself Emmanuel Missionary College approached the county, seeking to rent the old complex buildings. The county agreed and the 1901–1902 school year was held, with administrative offices in the Records building, classes in the Sheriff&#39;s Residence and Courthouse, and the courtroom itself serving as the college chapel. After the college moved to its new campus, the buildings were once again left abandoned, with minimal use.</p><br>
<p>By the 1910s, the county split the complex apart and sold off portions to private owners, including the Records Building and the Sheriffs Office. The jail, now in terrible condition, was torn down in 1916. With only the courthouse remaining under county ownership, the old Courthouse Complex was no more. The Seventh-day Adventist community had grown considerably, thanks in part to EMC (now Andrews University), and they approached the county to rent the Courthouse as a church. The agreement would remain in place until 1922, when the church elders opted to purchase the building. After purchasing land to the west of the courthouse, the church built an auxiliary building to host meetings for their various groups. By the 1950s, a second building at the corner of M-139 and Madison Streets was constructed, serving as a doctors office.</p><br>
<p>The complex would remain under private ownership until the latter half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation and Additions</h3><br>
<p>In 1965, the SDA Church realized their congregation had outgrown their space and built a new building on Niles Street, less than a mile from the Courthouse. The church officially moved into the new building in 1966 and two of the three buildings it owned on the grounds were shuttered. The sheriff&#39;s Residence remained under private ownership during this time and had been converted into apartments, while the Records Building had been turned into a mixed-use building.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the Berrien County Historical Commission and Berrien County joined forces to purchase the portion of the complex owned by the SDA church, with the goal of saving the Courthouse. For the next eight years, the BCHC raised the funds needed to complete the restoration and completed it in 1975. As the commission decided to rebrand that same year, they also began to focus on securing the remaining two buildings - Records and Sheriffs Residence. By the late 1970s, the latter had been purchased and the former wouldnt be re-added to the property until the 1990s, although the building wouldn&#39;t be available for restoration until 2000.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the Murdoch Log Cabin was uncovered during a routine demolition. For the next five years, it was debated what would happen to the structure. Extensive research by local historians, aided by Western Michigan University, established the cabin as having been built in approximately 1830 and was the original home for Berrien Springs co-founder Francis Murdoch. In 1973, the BCHC agreed to have the building moved to the Courthouse property and it was placed just behind the courthouse. Two years later, the BCHC rebranded and became the Berrien County Historical Association to better reflect the growth of its mission and properties.</p><br>
<p>As the BCHC was looking towards other projects, the old auxiliary building and doctors office had been earmarked for demolition. However, in 1977, the family of local resident George Bennett approached the organization with a substantial donation in their fathers name. It was decided that the best way to honor this history lover was to turn the auxiliary building into an exhibit space. The newly minted Bennetts Forge and Buggy Shop was opened to the public in 1978. The doctors office was torn down in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Sheriffs Residence was finally available for renovation in the early 1980s and all phases were completed by 1985. The upper levels were set aside as work space for staff, while the lower level included space for permanent and temporary exhibits. The addition on the back of the house was converted into vaults for the BCHAs growing collections. By 1995, the Jail Plaza, designed to mimic the floor and walls of the old jail, was completed. This would remain the last major renovation project until 2019.</p><br>
<p>Although the county and the BCHA owned the Records Building since the 1990s, it wasnt until the 2000s before the last of the tenants vacated the property. Plans for the building had been around since the early 1990s, but the cost of the buildings rehabilitation meant the BCHA had to raise millions to make their exhibit designs a reality. However, the 2006 recession hampered a planned capital campaign and in 2007, the building caught fire. After repairs to the structure had been made, both the County and the BCHA shifted their priorities to other projects. The building remains closed to the public and serves as storage for oversized collection pieces and for various items belonging to both organizations.</p><br>
<h3>The Future</h3><br>
<p>In 2019, a series of renovations to the properties began in an effort to modernize existing exhibits and to bring much needed repairs to the buildings. The Courthouse received new windows in 2019 and in 2020, the buildings wood rot was repair before the entire building was repainted. These were paid for by Berrien County. Interior renovations of permanent exhibit spaces have taken place each year since late 2019 and include the permanent exhibits of the 1839 Courthouse and the Sheriffs Residence. Temporary exhibit space was updated in 2019 and 2021.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, the BCHA will focus on much needed upgrade to the existing collection and archival storage spaces, including new storage to allow space for the existing collection to grow.</p><br>
<p>Over the next few years, the cabin will be restored and receive exhibit upgrades for both levels while the adjacent garden will be gutted and restructures to be more historical accurate. Bennett&#39;s Forge will also be upgraded with new exhibits about early industries in Berrien County, a restructured blacksmith forge, and a new area dedicated to traditional arts education. This will allow for demonstrations and workshops to be safely hosted on the property. The Records Building will be the new home for programming and temporary exhibits as well as the future home for the every growing collections.</p><br>
<p>The reimagining of these spaces will allow for continued use by audiences of ages and abilities while ensure the buildings remain preserved for years to come.</p><br>
<h2>The Buildings of the History Center at Courthouse Square</h2><br>
<p>The Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex was renamed the History Center at Courthouse Square to better encompass the narrative the BCHA and Berrien County tell within its buildings. While five buildings are located on the property, only four are available to the public for current exhibits and events.</p><br>
<h3>1839 County Courthouse</h3><br>
<p>The Courthouse was built in 1839 and is a traditional Greek Revival style. The lower level once housed county offices prior to the construction of the Records Building and remained the location of court-related needs until the county seat moved in 1984. In addition to serving as a courthouse, it has been an armory, a dance hall, and a community center. It was also used by the Christian Brethren, the Shakers, and the Seventh-day Adventists as a house of workshop. At the time of its construction, the building cost $2,500. In addition to being on the state and national Register of Historic Places, the Courthouse was named a Michigan Bar Association legal milestone in 2013.</p><br>
<h3>County Records Building</h3><br>
<p>By 1859, the county was facing a serious issue – its size and needs had grown so much in twenty years that the offices in the lower level of the Courthouse were no longer functional space. That year, the commissioners approved the construction of a new office building with the requirement that it be fireproof.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert Avery was once again hired to design the one story brick structure and George H. Murdock was granted the construction contract to the tune of $3,000. However, Murdock had difficulty completing the project and at the behest of the county, Avery stepped in as the contractor and was able to complete the building in less than a year. In February 1860, the County Clerk, Treasurer, and Register of Deeds occupied their new space.</p><br>
<p>The building continued to serve the county well and it was expanded in 1873. The two story Italianate addition allowed for expansion of the offices for the county Clerk and Register of Deeds and it also housed the offices for the Judge of Probate. The building remained in use by the county until April 1894 when an election was held to move the town seat. The bitter event eventually ended in the favor of St. Joseph and that summer, everything was moved to a temporary location until the 1896 Courthouse was completed.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of the Courthouse Square (the courthouse, the Sheriffs residence, the jail, and the records building), faced a series of tenants and alterations to their structures for several years after the move. For a period of time in 1901 and 1902, the entire grounds was used as the temporary campus for Emmanuel Missionary College (the future Andrews University). This site was used for the administrations offices during the school year.</p><br>
<p>Eventually the land was broken up, with different buildings purchased by private individuals. The building was modified over the years, including two non-brick additions in the 20th century. While the building served as apartments for most of its post-county existence, until the 2000s, a laundromat and a local soft water company occupied the two story section. By the time the County looked into repurchasing the property in the 1960s, the building was in terrible condition despite its occupation.</p><br>
<p>The County committed itself to uniting the entirety of the Courthouse Square and by 1990, the building was under its ownership. While the BCHA debated on what to do with the building, tenants remained as occupants until at least 2000. Plans over the years had included offices, storage, and exhibit space in various styles, however, continued costs associated with the renovation of the building and the new updates proved to be prohibitive.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the BCHA embarked on a capital campaign to raise 2.3 million dollars to finally renovate the building, however a one-two punch derailed it. The first was the Great Recession, which saw available funding sources evaporate. The second was a fire in October 2007, which destroyed the interior and the roof, but did not compromise the structural integrity of the building. By 2009, a new roof and point tucking repair had been completed, but the damaged windows remain boarded up.</p><br>
<h3>Sheriff&#39;s Residence</h3><br>
<p>This building, completed in 1870, is two-stories tall and was designed with living space and the sheriff&#39;s office on the lower levels and bedrooms on the second floor. A rear wing housed the kitchen, the space is connected with a staircase and it was noted that kitchen was on both levels. The exterior porch as it is seen today was added to the building much later and was not part of the original design of the house. The office and at least on room upstairs had a pass-through door to the jail, allowing the sheriff to quickly access the space from inside the house. Nine sheriffs called this building home while the county seat was in Berrien Springs and like other structures on the ground, was essentially abandoned after the seat was moved to St. Joseph.</p><br>
<p>As with the Courthouse and Records building, the Sheriffs Residence was home to Emmanuel Missionary College (the future Andrews University) in 1901-1902 as classroom space. And after they moved to their new campus, the building remained empty for several years. Eventually the county sold the building to a private party and it was converted into apartments. Unlike the Records Building, however, no additions were added to the Sheriffs Residence and when the building was purchased by the Berrien County Historical Commission in 1975, the exterior updates went smoothly. Before interior restoration could begin, a fire swept through the upper levels, forcing a full renovation.</p><br>
<p>Under the original restoration project, only the office was designed as it had been in 1870 while the rest of the lower levels were converted to temporary exhibit space, allowing for the BCHA to host numerous exhibits throughout the year. The Office underwent renovation in 2021 and the time period of interpretation is now 1885. Additional permanent displays were added to the lower level at this time. The upper levels were converted to office spaces and the research library while the rear wing was modified to house the archives and collections. For a brief period of time in the 2000s, the lower level was home to the gift shop, but has since reverted to exhibit space.</p><br>
<h3>Jail Plaza</h3><br>
<p>The jail was completed at the same time as the residence and was also two-stories tall, but it was topped off with a skylight that illuminated the space and provided much needed ventilation. The skylight was almost whimsical, shaped like an upside down cone topped with a glass globe and gave the rectangular building a distinctive silhouette.</p><br>
<p>The interior was just as unique, with Avery employing a circular pattern to the jail cells layout, with the center rising the full two stories. The upper level contained eight larger cells designed to house women and children along with “less desperate characters.” The lower level cells were much smaller, with sixteen in total available to house male prisoners. The small size of these cells is often commented on by visitors, but the county jail wasn&#39;t meant for long-term housing of criminals and because of the design of the building, prisoners had a chance to take walks around the cells while remaining confined to the building.</p><br>
<p>The lower cells also had two doorways – the outer being traditional cell bars while the interior was a solid door (likely made of metal) that allowed for prisoners to use the washtub located in the core. The pump was connected to a 700 barrel rainwater cistern, which was located beneath the building. Those housed on the upper levels were led in through an empty cell to use the space before being escorted back to their cell.</p><br>
<p>The design worked sometimes too well and in July 1883, eight prisoners took advantage of the layout to launch a daring escape. After removing the tub, they pumped the cistern until the levels were low enough for them to drop inside. They dropped into the now open hole and began to dig a tunnel under the north wall of the jail, but the soft ground caused it to collapse and the prisoners were forced to tunnel upwards. They were successful and soon were on the lam. The sheriff was joined by the county clerk and several townspeople and within days most of them were recaptured. The story was quite thrilling and people from around the county turned the site into a short-lived tourist attraction. Reports indicate a Niles woman took samples of the earth from their excavation site home with her.</p><br>
<p>After the county moved to St. Joseph, the building was left to fall in disrepair. By 1916, time and vandalism forced the county to tear down the building. Nothing was done with the former site until the BCHA created the Jail Plaza in the early 1990s. Funded by several organizations, the plaza includes a layout of the lower level cells and two of them were fully reconstructed.</p><br>
<h3>Murdock log house</h3><br>
<p>The cabin was dated to 1830, the year Francis Murdoch and his family arrived in Berrien County, although it is possible that the home was built prior to their arrival and may have been started in 1829. Most first time log cabin structures were simple in nature – something to get the family started in their new home. Research indicated that the house had been two story since the very beginning and its likely given the Kimmels’ standing in Berrien County along with Francis’ career as a lawyer, a quality home would have been important to the family.</p><br>
<p>It is believed that the precursor to the buildings modern exterior was added around the time of the Civil War, with portions of the back wall removed for a new extension. As families came and went, the house continued to be modernize, but the cabin remained hidden to the public. In fact, upon its discovery, several individuals who had lived in the home in the past expressed shock and surprise that the cabin had been there all along, although the residents at the time of the homes presumed demolition knew it was a log cabin, but had not know its historical significance.</p><br>
<p>Originally the Historical Commission had hoped to leave the house in its location and build a park around it. However, that did not come to fruition and for five years the house stood on Kephart Lane, the victim of time, weather, and vandals. Eventually, recognition from the state pushed the preservation plans forward. Funds from various donors and municipalities made the move possible. The building was moved intact to the Courthouse Square in 1973 and area experts created new wall sections to match the original in order to close the holes. In the early years, the house was outfitted in period artifacts, but currently the home is semi-empty when not in use by re-enactors and the upper level is off limits to the public until repairs can be made.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1990s, a historically accurate garden was added by the Michigan State University extension master gardener group as part of their course completion project. Plans to renovate and expand the garden in addition to updating the cabin is on the books for the Historical Association.</p><br>
<p>The Murdoch Cabin is one of the oldest surviving residential structures in the state of Michigan, with only a handful of other buildings surpassing it in age. There is debate if it is the oldest two-story log cabin as the Davenport House on Mackinac Island, which is older, is believed to be a two-story structure. However, with the modernization of the Davenport House, Murdoch remains the oldest two-story cabin in its original state.</p><br>
<h3>Bennett&#39;s Forge</h3><br>
<p>Not long after the Seventh-day Adventist Church purchased the majority of available land around the courthouse, they began to expand with the addition of two buildings along Madison Street. The first was a small cinder block building in the 1930s that became the home of the Women&#39;s Auxiliary group and the second, was a medical building that eventually became part of Andrews University.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1970s, these two buildings and their land were purchased by the County in an effort to unite the original Courthouse Square. The Historical Association and the County agreed to demolish them both as they had no historic value at the time. Other plans for the use of the space were floated by both groups over the next few years until 1977 when a donation changed everything.</p><br>
<p>George H. Bennett, a long-time resident of Berrien County, had passed away and a memorial fund had been created. The family knew of Bennett&#39;s love of history and his support of the on-going project in Berrien Springs. The family approached the Historical Association, suggesting that the Auxiliary Building become home to a forge and buggy shop, allowing for the grounds to have yet another building that interpreted early county history.</p><br>
<p>They agreed and by August 1978, the renovation was completed. The interior and exterior walls were covered in cedar boards, giving a historic look to the structure and the interior was split in half – one side serving as the buggy shop and the other as the forge. Originally, a wall separated the forge from the public, but it was eventually removed to open the space more when it wasn&#39;t in use.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the building has been the site of blacksmithing demonstrations for various events and programs, including a festival dedicated to the art in 2016. The buggy shop eventually became storage for the BCHA&#39;s over-sized collections, including a wagon and a large boat discovered in the St. Joseph River in the 1970s. This section is off-limits to the public as it is currently unsafe to enter.</p><br>
<p>The Boston Fish Pier is the central site for the fishing industry based in Boston, Massachusetts. Located on Northern Avenue in South Boston in Boston&#39;s Inner Harbor, the pier has played this role since its establishment in 1910. In the 1920s, it was home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the eastern United States, processing 250 million pounds of fish. The pier and its associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>This building is currently under consideration for Boston Landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Boston Fish Pier is located on the south side of the main channel of Boston Harbor, with Logan Airport across the channel to the north. It is bounded on the south by Northern Avenue, which runs east-west on the South Boston peninsula. The pier is 300 ft wide and 1,200 ft long. Two virtually identical long buildings extend for much of its length, with a small administration building at the very end. They are built out of steel and concrete, and are trimmed in terra cotta. The two main buildings feature high arched hallways and 44 storefronts for the dealers, handlers, and other businesses engaged in fishery-related activities.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to construction of this facility, Bostons fishing industry was based at facilities leased on T Wharf, an appendage to the Long Wharf that was a central feature of the citys working waterfront for decades. Overall management of the industry was overseen by the Boston Fish Market Association. With its lease expiring in 1909, an agreement was made between the association, city, and state for the construction of a dedicated pier on the South Boston waterfront. Initially dubbed Pier Six, it was built 1910, with the buildings following in 1912. The buildings were designed by Henry F. Keyes, who also designed the adjacent Commonwealth Pier which had been considered as a site for the fish market. At the time of its completion, its facilities included an eight-story cold storage facility with a capacity of 15 million pounds of fish, which was claimed to be the largest in the world.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, the pier handled 250 million pounds of fish, provided berth space for 40 vessels, and unloading dock space for 80. The pier&#39;s business peaked in 1969, when 339 million pounds of fish were landed. The facility was taken over by the Massachusetts Port Authority in 1972, which oversaw a major rehabilitation and upgrade of its facilities in 1979. The exchange building at the end of the pier, where fish auctions were historically held, is now a conference center, but the pier is still dominated by fishery activities.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Featherbone Company Office Building is an office building located at 3 North Elm Street in Three Oaks, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edward K. Warren arrived in Three Oaks in 1858 and opened a dry goods store. As a dry goods proprietor, he was familiar with complaints about the fragility of the then-common whalebone stays used in women&#39;s dresses. He also frequented the Chicago Feather Duster Company to purchase goods. It was there that he found out that the company disposed of turkey wing feathers as being too stiff to use in a feather duster. Warren eventually realized that stiff feather quills might make a suitable replacement for whalebone stays, and after some experimentation perfected a product which he christened the "featherbone." He opened the Warren Featherbone Company in 1883 to manufacture his new stays, and the product was an immediate success.</p><br>
<p>Warren&#39;s company continued to grow and expand, opening offices in Chicago and other cities. By 1905, the company needed a new office building, and Warren engaged architect George Allen to design this building as the headquarters for the Warren Featherbone Company and for the Warren Bank. Edward K. Warren died in 1919, but his companies survived, and in 1928 the Warren Featherbone Company and the Warren Bank moved to a new building. The Warren Featherstone Company diversified over the years, and now works in the healthcare and education fields. After it was vacated, this building was sold to the Edward K. Warren Foundation, a philanthropic organization established by E. K. Warren in 1917. The Foundation was responsible for donating land for both the Warren Dunes State Park and the Warren Woods State Park to the state of Michigan. The Foundation used this building to house its museum collection.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, the museum donated its entire collection to Michigan State University. After this, a number of commercial enterprises occupied the building, until 1983, when the Bank of Three Oaks, the successor to the E. K. Warren Bank, purchased the building. The bank rehabilitated the structure to house company offices. Various banks used the building until 1999, when Fifth Third Bank sold the structure to the Three Oaks Township Public Library. The library moved into the building in 2000 and continues to occupy it.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Warren Featherbone Company Office Building is a three-story rectangular brick Renaissance Revival structure. Located on a street corner, the two principal facades are faced in orange brick and have limestone trim. The main facade is symmetrical, with broad, arched openings on the first floor, square-head windows on the second floor, and round-head windows flanked by piers on the third. A metal cornice tops the facade.</p><br>
<p>The central entrance leads to the interior lobby, with a stair to the second floor, and entrances to what were originally the banking room and the E. K. Warren office. The rear of the building contains a large room that was once manufacturing or storage space for the Warren Featherbone Company. The second floor contains offices across the front and an upper public banking room across the entire back. The third floor was originally used for storage.</p><br>
<p>The Atlas Block, at 523 & 528 E. Pike Ave. in Columbus in Stillwater County, Montana, is a historic commercial block building which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The building has housed the "New Atlas Bar" for more than a century. It was built in 1915–16.</p><br>
<p>There is another Atlas Block building in the Helena Historic District in Helena, Montana, which is also notable.</p><br>
<p>Patio del Moro is an historic apartment complex in West Hollywood, California, USA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The apartment complex was built by Arthur and Nina Zwebell in 1925, and it was designed in the Moorish architectural style. It includes seven maisonette apartments: Villa del Key Moro; La Casita; Casita para una Estrellita; Casa del Sol; Patio del Fuente; Casa del Orienta; and Casa del Alegria.</p><br>
<p>Past residents include Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Humphrey Bogart, Suzanne Pleshette and Joyce Van Patten.</p><br>
<p>The complex has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 11, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Merritt Building is a historic building located at 761 S. Broadway and 301 W. Eighth Street in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Merritt Building was built by Reid & Reid in 1915 and was named after its owner Hulett C. Merritt. Merritt originally wanted the building to contain 23 stories at a height of 233 feet, but Los Angeles City Council refused to waive the city&#39;s 180-foot building height ordinance, and so Merritt built a 9-story (plus one below-ground story), 144-foot building instead. Upon completion, the building contained ground-floor retail with offices above, with the top floor reserved for Merritt himself.</p><br>
<p>In December 1956, Home Savings and Loan Association purchased the building, after which they modernized the lower floors and added a Millard Sheets-designed entrance on Broadway.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Merritt Building listed as a contributing property in the district.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the building was purchased by Bonnis Properties for $24 million.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>Merritt Building is made of concrete and steel with a Yule Marble facade. It was designed in the Neoclassical/Italian Renaissance/Beaux Arts style and features ionic columns and heavy cornice that create a rendition of the Temple of Minerva on a three story plinth. Each floor is separated by a prominent belt course, and the building&#39;s second story originally featured prominent rustication, however this was covered by smooth masonry when the building was modernized following its purchase by the Home Savings and Loan Association.</p><br>
<p>The Blagen Block is an historic building in Portland, Oregons Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, in the United States. The four-story building was designed by Warren H. Williams and completed in 1888. In 1970, the citys Historic Landmarks Commission designated the Blagen Block as a Portland Historic Landmark. Since 2014, Airbnb has had offices in the building, opening its office in December of that year.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth District Lighthouse Depot is a collection of historic structures located at 1 Lighthouse Lane in St. Joseph, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It now houses the Saint Joseph River Yacht Club.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first two lighthouses constructed on Lake Michigan were built in 1832. By 1852, there were 27 lighthouses on Lake Michigan, and 76 on all of the Great Lakes. That year, Congress reorganized the Lighthouse Establishment into districts, with much of the Great Lakes falling into the eleventh district, headquartered in Detroit. In 1866, the Lighthouse Establishment was reorganized again, this time establishing a ninth district which covered Lake Michigan. At first, the ninth district at first shared the eleventh district supply depot, but the number of lights on Lake Michigan continued to grow, to 81 in 1890. Due to the number of lights covered by the ninth district, and to the difficulty of accessing the Detroit-based supply depot in the winter months, sharing a supply depot proved unsatisfactory.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, Congress appropriated $35,000 for the construction of a supply depot at St. Josephs harbor. Plans for the depot were prepared by the ninth district engineer, Major William Ludlow of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Construction of the depot began in 1891, and work was eventually completed in early 1893 on the storehouse, keepers house, and carpenter-lampist shop. A storehouse/shop building on the grounds was likely built in 1909/10. The depot was used for receiving, overhauling, and storing buoys and their appendages, and was charged with delivering supplies to the lighthouse keepers in the district.</p><br>
<p>However, the depot located in St. Joseph was deemed to be too far removed from Milwaukee, where the ninth district was headquartered. In 1904, additional money was appropriated to construct a second depot in Milwaukee. The St. Joseph depot remained the primary one for the district until 1916, when the Milwaukee depot was designated as the principal depot. The St. Joseph depot was closed in 1917, and in 1918 was transferred to the Navy for use as a naval station.</p><br>
<p>It is likely that the depot served as headquarters for the Michigan Naval Militia&#39;s Benton Harbor unit until 1927, when the Benton Harbor Naval Armory was constructed. The depot was transferred to the state of Michigan in 1936, and it continued to serve as a naval militia and naval reserve station until about 1950. In 1952, it was used to house army reserves, and starting in 1956, it was used to house a unit of the Michigan Army National Guard.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ninth District Lighthouse Depot contains four primary buildings: the keepers dwelling, the storehouse, the carpenter and lampist shop (later converted to the assistants dwelling), and the storehouse/shop.</p><br>
<h3>Keeper&#39;s dwelling</h3><br>
<p>The keeper&#39;s dwelling is a two-story, cross-gable-roof building with brick walls on the first story and a shingled second story.</p><br>
<h3>Storehouse</h3><br>
<p>The storehouse is a three-story brick structure with additional attic space within the hip roof. It measures 40 × 40 feet, plus centrally located projections, the front one of which is a tower. The building has square head entrances and limestone trim, including a second-story beltcourse. The tower has a hip-roof and corbelled brickwork below a frieze.</p><br>
<h3>Carpenter and lampist shop</h3><br>
<p>The carpenter/lampist shop is a single-story brick hip-roof building measuring 50 × 20 feet. It has arched door and window openings, and an enclosed hip-roof porch across the front.</p><br>
<h3>Storehouse/shop</h3><br>
<p>The storehouse/shop is a single-story brick hip-roof building measuring 62 × 26 feet.</p><br>
<p>The Laurel and Marshall Streets District is a historic district encompassing a late-19th and early-20th century residential area in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Extending along Laurel and Marshall Streets between Niles and Case Streets, its housing stock represents a significant concentration of middle-class Queen Anne architecture in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Most of the area that became Laurel and Marshall Streets on Hartford&#39;s west side, was farmland until the mid-19th century, belonging to Marshall Jewell and James Niles. After the death of Marshall Jewell in 1883, the lands south of Niles Street and west of Imlay Street were developed. The area north of Farmington Avenue was developed first, with a series of primarily wood-frame houses built along Laurel and Marshall Streets. The area between Farmington Avenue and Case Street was developed last, around the turn of the 20th century. Subsequent redevelopment has resulted in the loss of a number of these early houses, replaced by more modern apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the north by Niles Street and the south roughly by Case Street, including most of the historic buildings on Laurel and Marshall Streets in between. It also includes a few rowhouses of the period on Imlay Street to the east. Most of the period housing is of wood-frame construction, with typical Queen Anne styling that includes turrets, decorative cut shingles, and latticework and turned porch elements. There are a few brick houses, and several multi-family residences of the period. The west side of Marshall Street has seen to largest losses, with multiple houses demolished and replaced by more modern apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Street Block is a historic district encompassing the southern half of Lewis Street and some adjacent buildings in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. The streetscape is reminiscent of a mid-19th century city street, with architecture extending from that period into the early 20th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lewis Street historically marked the western edge of Hartfords developed city center, extending north-south between Pearl and Trumbull Streets. It was deeded to the city in 1798, and was little more than an alley until 1841, when it was widened and named Wells Street. It was renamed Lewis Street in 1883, in honor of Lewis Rowell, its principal landowner. The streetscape is divided, with the northern end near Pearl Street now taken over by modern development. The southern half of the block includes five buildings dating to the 1850s, and modestly scaled late 19th and early 20th-century commercial buildings. It is downtown Hartfords only surviving example of this type of mid-to-late 19th-century streetscape.</p><br>
<p>The west side of the southern half of Lewis Street is lined by three 1850s houses, now adapted as commercial office space, with two low-rise office buildings built in the 1920s. The latter two are modest in scale and styled in the Classical Revival. The three houses were built in the 1950s by Lewis Rowell, one of them as his personal residence. The east side of the street has three more 1850s brick houses, possibly built by Austin Daniels, and a substantial Georgian Revival building erected in 1908 to house the church offices of the adjacent First Church of Christ. These buildings are all owned by either the church, or by Hartford&#39;s University Club.</p><br>
<p>The Glenn O. and Lucy O. Pyle House is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. Pyle, who was involved in his familys lumberyard, built this 1½-story bungalow in 1924 for his family home. They moved here from a house on 14th Street that he also built. Both houses are located in a neighborhood where the communitys more prominent citizens built their homes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They sold this property in 1933 after they had relocated to Hollywood, Florida. The house features decorative elements from both of the Craftsman and Colonial Revival styles. While it is thought that this is a patternbook or catalog house, there appear to be several custom details that suggests Pyle may have designed elements of this house himself.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph P. Mentzer House is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. An Ohio native, Mentzer made his fortune as a merchant and as a banker in Marion. After his business partnership dissolved in 1865, he turned his attention to a 170 acre farm he bought on the edge of town. He built this 2½-story Second Empire house in 1868. It features a mansard roof with bracketed eaves and a single-story rear wing. The house remained in the Mentzer family into the 1930s. At one point it had been converted into three apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Abner Phelps House is one of the oldest private residences in San Francisco, constructed in approximately 1850 by Abner Phelps and his wife Augusta Roussell with pre-constructed house parts. It is located at 1111 Oak Street just west of Divisadero Street in San Francisco&#39;s Haight Ashbury district. The house is not open to the public, and as of 2019 is the location of a private business.</p><br>
<p>The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 23, 1979; and is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark (number 32), since May 31, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Abner Phelps served in the Mexican–American War as a colonel from 1846 to 1848 and later worked as a lawyer on Montgomery Street. He rode a horse to his office, which stood where the Transamerica Pyramid currently is located. By 1854, the San Francisco city borders extended to the property. The architecture style of the house is a reference to Gothic Revival with Colonial features.</p><br>
<p>The building has moved three times; once in 1890 for the road grading on Divisadero Street and then repositioned in the same place, secondly in 1904 to reposition the house so that stores could be built along Divisadero and in the 1970s it was repositioned on the lot to allow for a front yard. It previously had the address 329 Divisadero Street.</p><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>The origins of the house has two contradicting stories. The oldest published story of the origins is from 1934, "built in 1850 by John Middleton & Sons, one of the first real estate concerns in the city...(and) constructed of lumber into sections brought round the Horn from Maine, there being no sawmills here at the time." The second story is from 1961, Phelps&#39; great-granddaughter stated the house was built in New Orleans and brought in sections and rebuilt in San Francisco between 1850 and 1851, this was because his wife Roussell was homesick for Louisiana. The home sat on a 160-acre homestead outside of San Francisco and included the area that is now the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.</p><br>
<p>The Rock S. Edwards Farmstead is a collection of farm buildings located at 3503 Edwards Road  in Sodus Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rock Savage Edwards was born in 1829 in Shropshire, England. He emigrated to the United States when he was 28, and worked on farms in Ohio and Michigan to save money to purchase his own farm. In 1860, he purchased this farm for $420, likely raising grain for market in nearby Benton Harbor, and soon after planting fruit trees. In 1862, he enlisted to fight in the Civil War, and was wounded and left for dead in the Battle of Antietam. He returned home for a short time, then rejoined the fight, and was discharged in 1865. He married Miss Lydia E. Fox of Ravenna, Ohio and returned to his farm.</p><br>
<p>Edwards quickly put much of his farm into cultivation, and soon was able to raise enough money from agriculture to build the substantial house and barn on the property. By the early 1870s, the farm had producing orchards, as well as a dairy operation, sheep, chickens, and fields of wheat, oats, and rye. Rock Edwards farmed the property until 1904, when he deeded it to his nephew, Edward C. Edwards, who farmed until his death in 1923. The farm passed to his son, Charles Edwards, but fruit production went into decline in the 1940s. Major agricultural work on the farm ceased after that, and the farm was eventually passed to Edward&#39;s daughters Virginia Handy and Eleanor Handy Blankenship. Much of the acreage was deeded to the state on the construction of the nearby freeway, but the collection of farm buildings remains intact.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rock S. Edwards Farmstead is sited on approximately 5.5 acres of sandy, rolling land, and contains an 1870s farmhouse and barn along with thirteen other outbuildings and structures, and the remains of other structures which have been demolished. The farmhouse is a two-story gabled structure with a row of windows across the front where an open porch originally existed. It has a fieldstone foundation. The first floor contains a living room, parlor, kitchen, pantry, and two bedrooms. Two more bedrooms are on the second story. The barn, sited nearby, has been enlarged multiple times from its original c. 1870 configuration. A silo, constructed in 1945, is built alongside the barn.</p><br>
<p>The farmstead also contains a packing shed, a garage and corncrib, a blockhouse/tractor shed, two small wood-frame houses used by handymen or migrant workers, a granary, pigpen, and several chicken coops.</p><br>
<p>The Little Hollywood Historic District encompasses a concentrated collection of apartment buildings built mainly between the world wars in the West End neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Located on Farmington Avenue and Owen, Frederick, and Denison Streets, they were built primarily to attract single tenants seeking small apartments, a trend that developed after World War I and ended after World War II. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hartfords Asylum Hill neighborhood, located west of the city center, was for many years a fashionable address, where handsome houses and small estates were built for the citys business, political, and cultural elite. By the early 20th century, increased mobility pushed desirable addresses further out of the city, and the Asylum Hill area began to be redeveloped to attract a more middle-class populace. The Little Hollywood area, located in the West End just west of the Nook Farm area, began to be developed in this way before World War I, with a series of apartment houses on Farmington Avenue. Owen, Frederick, and Denison Streets were developed between 1919 and 1923. Most of the buildings were designed by local architects, with the single largest number (16 of the 39 buildings) the work of George H. Matthews.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes a row of brick apartment houses, three and four stories in height, on the north side of Farmington Avenue, just east of Loraine Street. Two prominent buildings are on the south side, on either side of Owen Street. These are the most architecturally sophisticated of the district&#39;s buildings, showing a diversity of styles including the Renaissance Revival, Chicago School, and the Jacobethan. Owen, Frederick, and Denison Streets include a mix of pre-World War II and post-World War II buildings; the latter are excluded from the district. These, while still showing some architectural style, are generally simpler than those facing Farmington Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Marion Carnegie Public Library is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. The Marion Federation of Womens Clubs was established in 1901 with the purpose of organizing a public library. Adeliza Daniels was the primary force behind the organization, and she contacted Andrew Carnegie to donate funds for the building. After he agreed to a grant of $11,500, the Cedar Rapids architectural firm of Dieman and Fiske designed the brick Neoclassical building. Cedar Rapids contractor A.H. Conner was responsible for construction. It is a single-story structure built over a raised basement and a proment pedimented main entrance. The new library was dedicated on March 16, 1905, and served the community in that form until 1957. In that year the auditorium in the basement was remodeled into a childrens reading room. A three-story addition, which doubled the size of the building, was completed in 1961. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Wesley West House is a historic building located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. West and his wife Polly settled here in 1859. He had local builders Marsden Keyes and Charles H. Davis build this two-story, brick, Italianate residence on his 170 acre farm in 1877. After Wesley West died in 1894, his son David acquired the house and did an extensive renovation in 1897. The house remained in the family until 1982. It features a square plan with a single story off-centered kitchen wing, a symmetrical facade, and a hipped roof with bracketed eaves. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Beach School is a historic building located northwest of Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. Because school district lines had been redrawn, students in this area were forced to attend classes in a building some distance away. Given the condition of rural roads in the late 19th century, that created a hardship for many families. From 1889 to 1891 the school district set aside funds for a new building, and Benjamin Beach donated land on his farm for the new school. Not only was his farmhouse nearby, but Beach also operated a sawmill along the creek east of the school and a gristmill across the road. The one-room schoolhouse was completed in 1892, and a bell was purchased for the building around 1901. Early drawings of the building show a small bell tower. The building was used for educational and social use until 1946, and it has subsequently been converted into a rental home. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Coggon Public School, also known as the Coggon Center, is a historic building located in Coggon, Iowa, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chosen terminus for the community&#39;s Main Street in 1884 was its schoolhouse. A school building has remained on this property ever since. The 1890 school building was replaced by the first section of this building in 1909. Cedar Rapids architect R.R. Mayberry designed the two-story brick structure with Neoclassical styling, and A.J. Bruce was the contractor who built it. Cedar Rapids architect W. Jay Brown designed a 1936 addition in an industrial style and Des Moines architect N. Clifford Prall designed a 1957 addition in the Modern style.</p><br>
<h2>North Linn Community School District</h2><br>
<p>The school districts in Coggon, Troy Mills, and Walker were combined in 1965 to form the North Linn Community School District. Prior to the merger the Coggon School had housed all grade levels, and after the merger it served as an elementary school. In 2011 a bond issue passed that consolidated the district&#39;s elementary program in the existing middle and high school building in Troy Mills. School operations in this building ceased that year. The building was acquired by the Coggon Area Betterment Association.</p><br>
<h2>Modern day</h2><br>
<p>It now houses retail and community service organizations in part of the building that is known as the Coggon Center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Lundring Service Station is a historic former gas station in Canby, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1926 in the style of an English cottage. The service station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for having local significance in the theme of architecture. It was nominated for being a good example of the small, period revival gas stations built in the United States in the 1920s and 30s, and a distinctive use of English Cottage Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Flake Motel was a motel located at 3822 Red Arrow Highway in Lincoln Township, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and removed from the Register in 2021.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In approximately 1958, Sahag Sarkisian approached Taliesin Associated Architects, a design firm headed by Frank Lloyd Wright, about designing a luxury motel at this location. One of Sarkisians personal friends had recently moved into a house designed by Wright, and Sarkisian had decided to consult with Wright about the project. Although it is reported that Wright himself had some involvement in the initial plans for the motel, it is not clear to what extent, and the final contract between Sarkisian and Taliesin was signed in June 1960, after Wrights death. Wright&#39;s son-in-law and protege, William Wesley Peters, completed the plans for the hotel and delivered them in August of that year.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the motel began in 1961, and it opened in 1962. The motel, with its luxury amenities, was initially highly successful. However, Sarkisian was inexperienced in the hospitality business, and a series of personal tragedies caused him to lose interest in the property. The motel declined during the 1970s, and in 1979 Sarkisian sold it to William and Carlene Lymburner. They rehabilitated the hotel, selling it in 1986. The motel went through a number of subsequent owners, and by 1996 had morphed into the St. Joseph Inn which was intended to serve long-term residents. The motel was demolished on March 27, 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Snow Flake Motel was a concrete block structure with a deeply corrugated metal roof, constructed in six V-shaped sections arranged like a six-pointed star around a central courtyard. The sections were connected with an open canopy trellis made of metal tubing arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Underneath the trellis was a paved surface that visually united the buildings. The motel contained 57 rooms, all facing the inner courtyard, with sliding glass doors opening onto patio spaces. Parking was along the outer perimeter. Each trapezoidal room had a small foyer entered from the outer perimeter, with a bath alongside. Beyond the foyer, the unit opened out into the bedroom, with a large open glass area facing the interior courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The central courtyard contained an axial series of pools, the swimming pool being at one end within one of the motel sections. The office extended outward from the same section (effectively turning it into a "Y" section rather than a "V" section). This section contained a lobby, manager&#39;s quarters, and a guest lounge, as well as a coffee shop, cocktail lounge, and banquet room.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman House is a historic house at 22 Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. It was built in 1895 for Theodore Lyman, a prominent local lawyer and corporate director. Since 1925 it has been home to the Town and County Club, a private women&#39;s club. A well-preserved example of Classical Revival architecture, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lyman House is located in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, west of downtown. It is on the east side of Woodland Street, north of its junction with Farmington Avenue. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of yellow brick with stone trim. Its corners have stone quoining, and it is covered by a hip roof from which six chimneys project. The main facade is three bays wide, with the center one projecting. Its corners are also quoined, and it is topped by a gable. A semicircular portico with Doric columns projects further, sheltering the main entrance; above it is a three-part window on the second floor, and a Palladian window with half-round top above that.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1895 for Theodore Lyman, a prominent local lawyer. Lyman died in 1920, and the house was bought by the Town and County Club in 1925, after his widow died. The house was designed by the Hartford firm of Hapgood & Hapgood, cousins who executed a number of prominent regional landmarks and the Connecticut State Building at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. The principal alteration to the building has been the addition of a large meeting space to the rear in 1929–30. The house is one of the few high-profile mansions to survive in Asylum Hill, a fashionable address for the city elite in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Grant Vocational High School, also known as the Board of Education and the Cedar Rapids School District Central Office, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1915, this is a rare example of a vocational high school in Iowa as only a handful were ever built. While it offered various student activities in athletics and the arts, its curriculum was based on the manual arts instead of humanities or college preparatory courses. A Progressive Era idea, vocational education began in Cedar Rapids in 1904. Within a year there was a call for a dedicated vocational high school. There was much debate as the local school district&#39;s regular high school was beyond capacity and there was a need for new elementary schools. Efforts to build the school began with the passage of a bond referendum in 1911. Cedar Rapids architect William J. Brown designed the three-story, brick Prairie School structure and it was built by the F.P. Gould Company of Omaha.</p><br>
<p>While the school started strong, it soon failed to live up to expectations as vocational education was expensive to operate and enrollment was voluntary. Because the building is not unlike a regular high school, it was converted to that purpose in 1924. In 1936 Cedar Rapids experienced another round of school construction and Grant was converted into an office building for the school district. It served that purpose until 2008. The building now houses commercial enterprises. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Rapids Central Fire Station, also known as Cedar Rapids Hose Company No. 1 and the Cedar Rapids Science Station, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. It served as the citys fire department headquarters and downtown fire station from 1918 to 1985. It replaced a frame structure in the northeast quadrant, and was part of a larger program of building new facilities for the local fire department. The building program was a response to a series of disastrous fires, changing technology, and the citys growth. This fire station served from the era of horse-drawn pumper wagons to the modern era of fire engines, pumpers, and hook and ladder trucks. The two-story, brick Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival structure was designed by local architect Charles A. Dieman. In the mid-20th century a two-story kitchen addition was built onto the back of the building.</p><br>
<p>After its use as a fire station the building was incorporated into a new science center in 2000. The interior of the building was damaged during flooding in 2008. The 1918 fire station was acquired by a downtown development corporation who plan to convert it into office space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Zinc Collar Pad Company Building is an industrial building located at 304 S. Oak Street in Buchanan, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1870, Dexter Curtis invented a unique Zinc lined collar pad for horse harnesses, which prevented chafing of the horses neck and shoulders. That year, Curtis formed a partnership with George H. Richards and Henry Gilman to manufacture and market the pads under the name of ""Curtis, Gilman and Richards." The first pad was introduced in April 1870, and was an immediate success. The location of the companys original manufacturing facility is not recorded, but by 1871 what was now the "Zinc Collar Pad Company" was located in a space in a foundry on Red Bud Trail. The business continued to grow, and it was reported that in 1871-73, the company consumed over 400,000 of zinc. However, in September 1874 the building they were located in burned down.</p><br>
<p>The next month, the company responded by drawing up plans for this building, and in 1875 they constructed it in the heart of what was then Buchanans booming industrial center. The company operated out of this building for many years; however, in about 1884 Dexter Curtis set up the Dexter Curtis Company in Madison, Wisconsin to manufacture more pads. George Richards and his son Joseph also founded firms making other products (carpet stretchers and bicycle seats) and operated them out of this building. George Richards died in 1888, passing his share of the company to his son. In 1898, Curtis and Richards split, and Joseph Richards became sole owner of the firm in Buchanan. Joseph Richards died in 1906, and the firm passed to his sons, and by 1913 the firm outgrew the building, moving to a larger one on Buchanans Main Street. Production peaked in 1917-18 due to the demand for horse collars in World War I. However, after the war, business declined sharply, and the firm was defunct by 1927.</p><br>
<p>When the Zinc Collar Pad Company moved in 1913, the 1875 building was sold to a local partnership, Pears and Fuller. They converted the building into four apartments, adding large verandas to the south facade. It served as apartments for over 80 years, but in approximately 1998 became vacant.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Zinc Collar Pad Company Building is a two-story red brick building which has been substantially covered with stucco. It measures approximately 26 feet by 55 feet, with a single story extension to the south, measuring 16 feet by 18 feet. Large porches extend from the north and south sides. When constructed, the east facade was the primary facade, but the entrance was filled in when the building was converted in to apartments in 1914 and the north side became the primary facade. This side has a large veranda sheltering the entrances to apartments.</p><br>
<h2>2014 Gallery</h2><br>
<p>Villa Montezuma is a Queen Anne style mansion in the Sherman Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Jesse Shepard residence</h2><br>
<p>The home was built in 1887 for Jesse Shepard, who lived there for about a year before relocating to Paris, then sold it in late 1889. John Mallon&#39;s Pacific American Decorative Company made windows for the mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Friends of Villa Montezuma</h2><br>
<p>In 1969, five members of what is now known as the San Diego History Center began work to arrange for the citys purchase of the house for use as a museum and cultural center. After opening for such purpose on November 12, 1972, a volunteer organization known as the Friends of Villa Montezuma (FOVZ) continued for the next four decades to maintain the property as a house museum. Hundreds of weddings were held at the museum over that time, providing a steady source of revenue for the historical society. An accidental fire in March 1986 went through the second floor and destroyed over half of the roof, though a restored museum opened again in late June 1987 in time for the houses 100th anniversary. Amid an economic downturn and building foundation safety concerns, the museum closed to the public in 2006 and the FOVZ centered on raising funds for a much needed restoration, incorporating that year as an independent 501(c)(3) organization.</p><br>
<h2>Tours</h2><br>
<p>From 2015 through 2020, to satisfy requirements of a federal CDBG grant that was used to restore the foundation, roof, and chimneys, the museum was open four mornings a year for free interior tours, approximately quarterly, with visitor registration via the San Diego Parks and Recreation Department.</p><br>
<p>As of October 2021, the museum reopened for regular paid tours.</p><br>
<p>The Union Block, also known as Kinyons Block, Roes Block, or Pear&#39;s Block, is a commercial building located at 114 East Front Street in Buchanan, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Buchanan became the commercial center of the surrounding area in the 1840s, and the business district developed rapidly in the 1850s. In 1848, business partners Lorenzo Alexander and John Ross built a two-story stone commercial building in Buchanan, and in 1850 the pair established a general store. By 1860, the business partners had constructed a three-story brick commercial block, the Excelsior Block, in downtown Buchanan near this location. In 1862 Ross and Alexander started a second project, the Union block. However, in 1862 a devastating fire swept through the area, destroying a number of commercial buildings including the Excelsior Block, but fortunately sparing the partially built Union Block. The building was completed the next year.</p><br>
<p>The building was used for commercial businesses on the first floor and professional tenants on the second floor. The first commercial tenants were likely J.D. Ross&#39;s dry goods store and a second dry goods store owned by Ross and Alexander. Subsequent tenants included businesses selling dry goods, groceries, hardware and other items. One of the storefronts housed a succession of hardware stores for almost 100 years, from at least 1896 through 1994. Professional tenants on the second floor included doctors, barbers, lawyers, and others, but the last tenant departed in the 1940s. The third floor was originally a large hall, but at some point (perhaps as early as 1870) was divided into two spaces. These spaces were used for public events, including dances, socials, performances, and religious services.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Union Block is a three-story, brick Italianate commercial building containing two storefronts. The building measures 58 feet by 56 feet, and the roof gradually slopes from front to rear. The front facade has its original arched windows on the upper floors, and a cornice tops the facade. It is divided into two unequal storefronts - one three bays wide and one four bays wide - separated by a slightly projecting bay that originally had an open entryway leading to a stair accessing the upper floors. The storefronts were modernized in the 1950s, replacing the open entryway with a display window and combining the two storefronts into one, with a single recessed entrance.</p><br>
<p>The interior originally housed two separate stores with a wall and stair between them. The stores have been combined into one, the interior wall removed, and the stair repositioned to the rear. The second floor historically housed multiple offices, but the interior partitions have been reconfigured. The third floor was originally a single large, open space, but a center wall now separates the space into two portions, each of which contains a large open space at the front and smaller rooms at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Mansuy and Smith Automobile Showroom Building is a historic commercial building at 38-42 Elm Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1900, it is an early example of an automobile showroom, used by a local carriage manufacturer seeking to transition to the new technology. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mansuy and Smith Automobile Showroom Building is located on the north side of Elm Street, in a block of commercial buildings between Pulaski Circle and Main Street on the west side of downtown Hartford. It is a two-story brick building, joined via party walls to adjacent buildings. Its main facade is divided into three sections: on the ground floor, the right section has a garage bay opening, the left section has a large display window, and the center section has a window and pedestrian entrance. On the second floor, each section has two sash windows with cast stone sills and lintels. A stepped parapet rises above the center section.</p><br>
<p>The history of Mansuy and Smith begins in 1841, when Louis Mansuy began building carriages, and was by the third quarter of the 19th century one of Connecticuts most successful carriage makers. The company first produced a phaeton in 1896 for the Pope Manufacturing Company as a body for an electric car. Mansuys grandson, also named Louis, partnered in the early 20th century with Thomas Hammond Smith, an early car dealer to engage in the construction and sale of automobiles, and was engaged in the painting of automobiles on these premises as early as 1902. The business venture eventually failed in 1913. The present building appears to be a surviving remnant of a larger manufacturing premises, but with specific alterations to present the merchandise in a more attractive setting.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel America is a historic former hotel building at 5 Constitution Ave. on Constitution Plaza in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1964, it is believed to be the first building erected in the state as part of an urban redevelopment project, and is an important local early example of Modern architecture. Now the Spectra Boutique Apartments, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hotel America building marks the eastern end of Constitution Plaza, a major 1960s development on the east side of Hartford&#39;s downtown. It is a twelve-story structure, built out of steel, concrete, and glass. Its main axis is oriented north–south, with the building passing over Kinsey Street on large steel I-beam trusses.</p><br>
<p>The Hartford Redevelopment Agency was founded in 1950, and Constitution Plaza was its first major project, designed to revitalize an urban slum area on Hartfords east side. The Hotel America building was designed by Curtis & Davis, a firm noted for its Modernist architecture, and was completed in 1964. The trusses carrying the building over Kinsey Street were the largest made to date in the state. The hotels branding changed several times over the years, named as a Sonesta, and in its later years, as a Clarion Hotel. The vacant building was acquired by developers in 2011 and converted into luxury apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Mather Homestead is a historic house at 2 Mahl Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835, it is a rare surviving example of a 19th-century farmstead in the city. Its adaptive reuse over time is also indicative of the transformation of its surrounds by increasing urbanization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now home to a chapter of Masons.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mather Homestead is located in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood on Hartford&#39;s north side, on the north side of Mahl Avenue just west of Main Street, the historic main road between downtown Hartford and Windsor. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a low-pitch hip roof. Its main facade faces south, and is asymmetrically arranged, with three closely spaced windows at the center of the second floor and one at the left end. The first floor is sheltered by a full-width porch with six Doric columns, and has a center entrance. An ell extends to the left side at a recess.</p><br>
<p>The house was built sometime between 1835 and 1843 by William Mather. It remained an agricultural property until 1893, when the farm was subdivided for residential development. The house originally had a Main Street address, which changed when Mahl Avenue was opened in that year. After a period of domestic use, it was converted into a synagogue in 1926, and was acquired by what is now known as the Esp Masonic Lodge in 1954. The lodge, chartered in 1859, is one of the oldest African-American civic organizations in the city.</p><br>
<p>San Gregorio House is a building that sits on 7495-7587 Old Stage Road near San Gregorio Road  in San Gregorio, San Mateo County, California. The building is listed as a National Register of Historic Places in San Mateo County since 1977. The building still stands, but is no longer a functioning hotel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By the 1850s San Gregorio was a booming town, when wealthy San Franciscans would travel to the San Gregorio House by stagecoach to enjoy activities such as fishing, hunting, sea bathing, and boat races. All of the original structures still stand with the exception of the cookhouse and livery stable.</p><br>
<p>George Washington Tully Carter purchased an existing house in 1865 and added a second floor in order to open a hotel. In 1875, John Evans purchased the building and added seven bays to the three-bay house. From 1888 until the 1930s, Jesse Palmer and Frank Bell ran the hotel. It&#39;s previously known as the Palmer Hotel and the Bell Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Myers and Gross Building is a historic apartment building at 2 Fraser Place in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1917, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Myers and Gross Building is located in Hartford&#39;s west side Asylum Hill neighborhood, at the junction Myrtle Street and Fraser Place. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of yellow brick with stone trim. It has a curved facade, with one entrance at the street corner and a second further along Fraser Place. The bays housing the entrances are wide, with single-leaf doors flanked by panels inside an opening trimmed with stone pilasters and entablature. Above the entrances are a three-part window on the second floor, and a three-part Palladian window in the third floor. Windows in the other bays are set in groups of one to three, topped by splayed lintels with keystones. The cornice is dentillated and decorated with egg-and-dart moulding.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1917, a time when the Asylum Hill neighborhood had ceased to be the city&#39;s fashionable upper-class area, and was becoming more middle class and commercial. The building is located close to what were at the time the headquarters of several major insurance companies.</p><br>
<p>The Wendell P. and Harriet Rounds Robbins House is a private house located at 680 Pipestone Street in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wendell Phillips Robbins was born in 1849 in Harwich, Massachusetts. He worked as a clerk in a dry goods store for two years; then moved to Benton Harbor in 1869, only three years after the village had been established. There, he worked for his older brother Nathaniel as a shipping clerk for a few years. In the early 1870s, Wendell purchased an interest in the Robbins & Eldredge lumber yard, which had been established by Nathaniel Robbins and a brother-in-law, Barzilla B. Eldredge. The firm was later reorganized as Eldredge & Robbins, but in 1894, Wendell Robbins assumed full ownership of the lumber yard.</p><br>
<p>In 1873, Wendell Robbins married Harriet Rounds. Harriet Rounds was born in Stoney Point, Jefferson County, New York in 1854, and had arrived in Benton Harbor in about 1866. The couple had this house constructed in 1897. Wendell Robbins continued in the lumber business and lived in this house until his retirement in 1920. He died the next year; Harriet Rounds Robbins died in 1924. The house stayed in the family until 1941, when the Robbins&#39; daughter Grace died. It was restored in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Robbins House is a two-and-one-half-story wooden Queen Anne/Shingle style building with a combination of hip and gable roofs. The exterior is covered primarily in clapboard, with shingling on the gable ends and portions of the front facade. The broad front facade is asymmetrical, with an octagonal tower at one end and a hip roof round-ended extension at the other. The entrance is in the center, sheltered with a single story veranda. A porte cochere is attached to the house near the extension. Fluted Tuscan columns support both the veranda and the porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains extensive stained wood trim, with art glass or leaded glass transoms over the windows. The first floor contains an entry foyer that leads to a larger central foyer. The central foyer provides access to the upstairs, as well as a living room and den. The dining room, kitchen, and pantry are located behind the living room, and a library is located near the den. The second floor contains a master suite with office and bathroom, two additional bedrooms, a bath, and a play area. The third floor contains a family room, bar area, poker room, bathroom and storage rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Niles Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located in Niles, Michigan along Sycamore, Main and Cedar Streets between Front and 5th. The districts was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This location served as the commercial center of Niles since the 1820s, when the area was ceded by the Odawa to the United States. A few settlers soon arrived, and in 1828 Obed P. Lacey and Samuel B. Walling opened the first store at this location. The first portion of Niles was platted the following year, including the downtown area. The Chicago Road between Detroit and Chicago was completed through the area in 1832–33, and its location only a few miles south of Niles served to bring settlers into the area. By 1835, Niles had several hundred residents and a village government was established; by 1840, the population was 1200. The earliest buildings in Niles were of log construction, but these soon gave way to frame buildings. These buildings were subsequently replaced, and the only surviving early frame building from the downtown area is the 1843 Paine Bank, which was originally located at the corner of Main and Third, but was later moved outside the district.</p><br>
<p>Railroad service to Niles began in 1850, causing a surge in population and commerce in the village. The village became a city in 1859, and by 1860 the population was over 2700. In the commercial district, solid rows of buildings extended along Main from the river nearly to Third Street, with more buildings along Front and Second near Main. Brick buildings in the 100 and 200 block of Main, constructed before 1860, still stand in the district. Niles grew only slowly through the 1870s, 80s, and 90s, and the extent of the commercial section in 1895 was little larger than it was in 1870. Only in the late 1890s did new development extend all the way to Third.</p><br>
<p>Although a new Carnegie library and post office were constructed in the first decade of the 20th, century, almost no commercial buildings were constructed until after World War I. During the 1920s, a number of old buildings were replaced, and nearly every other older building underwent a storefront modernization. At the same time, the commercial district in Niles expanded, with newer buildings farther up Main Street. However, the Great Depression intervened, and almost nothing was done in the area until after World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s, a number of new buildings were constructed, and other storefronts were modernized with aluminum and porcelain enamel metal finishes.</p><br>
<p>However, by the 1950s, new business development was taking place on the outskirts of the city, and the city turned to an urban renewal agenda for the downtown. A number of plans were proposed, and eventually, in 1971, a section along Front Street was razed to make way for a new shopping center. After some false starts, the center was built in 1984. However, by this time, the newly established Downtown Development Authority was advocating for renovation, and by the 2000s, facade renovations projects were underway in the district, resulting in a stretch of historically appropriate facades along Main Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Niles Downtown Historic District extends along a four-block section of Main Street, and generally includes the first block of the side streets to either side of Main. The district contains 86 buildings. The buildings are predominantly two- and three-story commercial structures, with some one- and four-story buildings. Seven buildings at the edges of the district were built as private houses; most of these have been converted to commercial purposes. Buildings date from the 1850s to the 1960s, in styles ranging from Greek Revival and Italianate to 1950s and 60s modern. The oldest buildings in the district, dating from the 1850s and early 1860s, are of brick construction and are located along Main between Front and Third as well as on adjacent portions of Front and Second.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeside Inn is a historic hotel located at 15251 Lakeshore Road in Lakeside, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This area was first settled in 1844 by Vermont natives Alfred and Mary Ames, who purchased property that included the present site of the Lakeside Inn. A small settlement was established nearby in 1846; when the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad was constructed in the late 1870s, a station was built at the site, then called Lakeside. By the end of the 19th century, the location around what is now the inn was a popular recreational spot. The site across the road, Ames Grove, was owned by Alfred and Mary Ames&#39;s son Fisher Ames, and was used for picnics and other local gatherings. At the same time, the area began to attract summer vacationers, and local families began taking boarders and building small resorts.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, John J. and Nancy E. Aylsworth purchased several tracts of land at Lakeside, including the property on which this inn now stands. The construction date of the inn is not documented, but was probably in the early 1910s for the Aylsworths. Along with the inn, several cottages were constructed. John Aylsworth died in December 1917; two years later Nancy Aylsworth transferred the inn to their son Arthur and his wife Grace. At about that time, a substantial addition was constructed on the inn. In 1922, the inn was turned over to the Lakeside Property Owners Trust, a local developer trust tasked with fostering appropriate development and keep out undesirables. The inn remained under Arthur Aylsworth&#39;s management, and in 1930 golf, tennis, and swimming facilities were added, and the inn was renamed the Lakeside Park Country Club, and membership was required. Although not explicitly stated, it is likely that these changes were instituted to prohibit Jews from patronizing the inn.</p><br>
<p>Arthur and Grace Aylsworth divorced in 1930, and Arthur re-purchased the inn from the trust. He continued to operate with his second wife Virginia until Virginia&#39;s death in 1953 and his in 1955. The inn declined over the next decade, until 1968 when it was purchased by John and Kay Wilson. Wilson converted the inn into the "Lakeside Center for the Arts," running his print business in part of the downstairs and taking in artists from across the country. In 1994, Devereux Bowly purchased the inn and completely refurbished it, reopening it as a hotel in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lakeside Inn is a 2-1/2 story, broad fronted, side gabled wood frame structure sited on a low rise overlooking Lake Michigan. It is covered with clapboard. A pair of cross gables face the lake, as does an open shed-roof veranda which extends across the entire facade. Shed roof dormers penetrate the roof. The exterior possesses a simple Arts-and-Crafts finish, including exposed rafter ends on the eaves.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains a lobby on the first floor, with a large cobblestone fireplace. Off the lobby are a dining room/ballroom, lounge, and bar area. Two guest rooms are on the first floor, with the remainder on the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>The Fidelity Building is an office building located at 162 Pipestone Street in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. As of 2017, the building contains apartments known as the Meetinghouse at Fidelity.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Benton Harbor Development Company was organized in 1905 to entice business to establish in the city. The efforts of the organization brought a number of small manufacturers to Benton Harbor, and coupled with the upswing in tourism and the local fruit orchards, helped the city to prosperity in the first decades of the twentieth century. In 1926, the eight-story Hotel Vincent was constructed in downtown Benton Harbor. The next year, the Bradford-Bowlby Real Estate Company constructed a companion office building, the Fidelity Building.</p><br>
<p>Both the Vincent and the Fidelity Building were designed by architect Charles W. Nichol. The Fidelity was constructed by M.W. Stock & Sons Construction Company at a cost of $256,000. The adjacent streets were widened to accommodate the increased traffic, and other buildings were constructed nearby over the next few years. Early occupants of the building included the Fidelity Health & Accident Insurance Company (the namesake of the building) the Michigan Fruit Growers&#39; Association, and the Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<p>However, beginning in the 1960s, downtown Benton Harbor languished, and businesses began closing or moving. The Fidelity Building was shuttered in 1976,</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Fidelity Building is a six-story Renaissance Revival reinforced concrete building with a brick veneer. It is roughly triangular in footprint, and has seven-bay-wide facades on both Pipestone and Michigan Streets. The facades merge in a curved corner portion at the intersection. The primary entrance to the upper floors is through a center entrance on Michigan Street; a secondary entrance is along Pipestone. The remainder of the street level facade contains a series of glass storefronts. Above, the second floor contains Chicago windows, with a large central pane flanked by narrow double hung windows. The upper floors have one-over-one double-hung windows. The facade is topped with a metal cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Halfway House at 3951 Montana Highway 78 near Columbus, Montana is an American Four-Square house built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The property included three contributing buildings and one other contributing element, an irrigation ditch.</p><br>
<p>Its name is derived from the fact that it is midway between Columbus and Absarokee, Montana.</p><br>
<p>The Garage and Fire Station in Fort Peck, Montana, on Gasconade St., was built in 1934. It is also known as Security Center  and Vehicle Storage. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Like many other Fort Peck buildings, it was designed by architects Johnson, Drake & Piper. It is an L-shaped one-story wood-frame building which is Swiss Chalet in style. It was originally stained brown or gray, like the other Swiss Chalet buildings, and its trim was painted blue, green, red, or maroon. It has some timber bracketing.</p><br>
<p>The building served as Fort Peck&#39;s fire station and police station, and also stored vehicles.</p><br>
