<p>The Bradford Hotel in Sedan, Kansas was built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It is Early Commercial in style. It has also been known as the Huffman Hotel. It was built as a 38-room hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable "for its significance to the development of downtown Sedan. The hotel was constructed during a time of economic boom following the discovery nearby of oil and gas. Businessmen and workers associated with the oil, gas, and cattle industries that have been integral to the local economy frequented the hotel during its seventy years in operation."</p><br>
<p>The former Second Baptist Church is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The First Colored Baptist Church of Mt. Pleasant, later Second Baptist Church, was founded in the summer of 1863 by members of First Baptist Church for the education and worship of the community&#39;s African American population. The congregation is also referred to as the "African Baptist Church". It is possible that this building was the original Methodist Episcopal church building constructed in 1843. It is believed that it was moved here in 1856 or 1857 for a newly established congregation of the Methodist Protestant Church. Either that or the main part of this small frame church was built here at that time. Regardless, the Methodist Protestant congregation did not succeed and the property was sold to First Baptist Church in January 1864 for use by the "Colored Baptist Church."</p><br>
<p>Because the local school district integrated their schools in 1867, this building was no longer used for a school. They had a basement built under the church for social events in 1914. It is less certain when the entry vestibule was built onto the front of the building. It could have been added in 1914 when the basement was built, but it seems to have been in place by 1930. Second Baptist Church continued to worship here until 2009 when they moved to a different building. They donated this building to the Mount Pleasant Historic Preservation Commission in 2013. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Union Bakery is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first section of the building was built along Market Street around 1862, and an addition was built on the north side in 1893. The building reflects the entrepreneurial nature of Iowa City&#39;s German community who founded the bakery and built the original part of the building.</p><br>
<p>The ovens for the bakery were located in the basement and the retail portion of the business was located in the storefront along Linn Street. Other uses for the building have been a hotel, cafe, and a bar. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The three-story brick building is essentially a vernacular structure with elements of the Greek Revival style. Those elements include the raised foundation and stone water table, the pilasters with flat capitals and the belt course on the first-floor, stone lintels, and the "mousetooth" detail at the roofline that possibly references dentils.</p><br>
<p>The Old Eddyville Historic District, located off KY 730 in Eddyville, Kentucky, is an 11 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It included 13 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It includes the surviving portion of the original town of Eddyville, "one of western Kentucky&#39;s earliest and most important settlements", after the majority of the town was flooded by the 1966 damming (flooding) of the Cumberland River at Barkley Dam. It includes the Kentucky State Penitentiary and nine historic buildings at its base.</p><br>
<p>The Dupree-Ratliff House is a historic house in Raymond, Mississippi, USA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1853 for Dr. H.T.T. Dupree and his wife, Margaret Fairchild. It belonged to the Barksdale family in the 1960s, followed by the Thrashes in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed in the Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>The Business Part of Olin Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Olin, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The district takes in the city&#39;s central business district.</p><br>
<p>Olin was surveyed and platted from 1840 to 1842 and called the City of Rome by Norman B. Seeley. It was oriented along Walnut Creek to the south, but the city grew to the north where the St. Paul & Davenport Railroad, later the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, built their depot by 1875. The business district developed along Jackson Street in the original town plat. The town was incorporated as Olin in 1878. It was named for D.A. Olin, the General Superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. The town thrived in Iowa&#39;s Golden Age of Agriculture around the turn of the 20th-century, but it has been static ever since.</p><br>
<p>Three major fires affected the commercial district. In 1876 and 1881 fires destroyed buildings on the east side of Jackson Street, and in 1892 a fire destroyed the buildings on the west side of the street. The way the two sides of the street were rebuilt are different. The east side of the street was developed in a laissez-faire fashion where individuals constructed buildings according to their needs and desires. This is how much of Victorian commercial development occurred in Iowa. A large part of the west side of Jackson Street was developed after the 1892 fire. Those whose businesses were affected by the fire banded together and redeveloped the affected properties with a unified commercial block. These are the oldest buildings in the district.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur Lakes Log House, located at 401 Lakes Creek Rd. in McKee, Kentucky, United States, was built in about 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It is a saddlebag house with two rooms, a log house about 30 ft long and 14 ft deep. It was built of oak logs on the bottom, tulip poplar in the middle, and pine logs at the top, with half-dove tail notching.</p><br>
<p>The Cloverport Historic District in Cloverport, Kentucky is a 77 acre historic district which is roughly bounded by 3rd, Main, Chestnut, and Lynn Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It included 115 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The boundaries of the district were drawn to "encompass all of Cloverport&#39;s nineteenth century and early twentieth century commercial, residential and religious buildings which comprise a historic entity and an architectural unity."</p><br>
<p>The Morgan County Courthouse in West Liberty, Kentucky was built in 1907 and is the county courthouse of Morgan County, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is built of large precast concrete blocks and its design includes octagonal corner towers.</p><br>
<p>It is the fourth Morgan County courthouse. The first is believed to have been built of logs or possibly frame. The second was a two-story brick building which was destroyed by fire in 1862 during the American Civil War. The third was also brick, and served until the fourth was built in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Van Kitchen House, located south of Grayson, Kentucky, off Kentucky Route 7, is a saddlebag log house built in about 1838. It has also been known as the Elijah Horton House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story two-unit dwelling built of hewn logs and frame lapsiding, upon stone piers, built by or for Elijah Horton. The house was moved to its current location overlooking Grayson Lake in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The Northrup House in Iola, Kansas is a historic Queen Anne-style house built in about 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was originally built as a one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne cottage in 1895 and has been added onto since then. It is now a two-and-one-half-story frame building upon a rusticated limestone and concrete block foundation.</p><br>
<p>A second contributing building is included in the listing: a single-story, gable-roofed concrete block garage.</p><br>
<p>The Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House is a historic house located at 404 S. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora, Illinois. The house was built in 1949–50 for painter and art teacher Ruth Van Sickle Ford and her husband, civil engineer Sam Ford. Architect Bruce Goff, an influential figure in the organic movement, designed the house. The house is dome-shaped, with Quonset hut ribs forming the frame of the dome. Most of the dome is covered in shingles; however, the southeast side of the dome was left open to give the house outdoor rooms. Two smaller domes containing the home&#39;s bedrooms abut the south and northeast sides of the main dome.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 2016, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2023 for its architecture. It remains privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The Signourney Square Historic District encompasses a neighborhood in the Asylum Hill area of Hartford, Connecticut, United States, that was almost entirely built out in a single decade at the end of the 19th century as a middle-class residential area. It is roughly bounded by Garden, Ashley, and Woodland Streets on the east, south, and west, and by railroad tracks north of Sargeant Street to the north. The area retains much of its late 19th-century character, with relatively few modern intrusions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with small additions in 1983 and 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-19th century, the area surrounding Hartfords Sigourney Square was occupied by the citys "town farm", which provided housing, work, and support for its indigent population. This area was hemmed in by road development in the second half of the 19th century, and the farm was reduced in size, and finally shut down in 1896. Only three buildings, modest brick Italianate structures on Ashley Street built about 1850, survive from the town farm period of land use. When the town farm was closed, a portion of it was set aside by the city for use as a public park, which is now known as Sigourney Square Park. Landscaping for the park was developed by J. Alex McClunie, a local landscape architect. Development of pieces of the farm began in 1891, when developer Frederick Mahl built ten Queen Anne houses on Ashley Street. Development was largely complete in the area by 1900.</p><br>
<p>The district covers about 45 acre, and includes 169 primary buildings. The vast majority of them are wood-frame structures two stories in height, housing either one or two units. Exteriors are generally of wood, brick, or some combination of the two, with Queen Anne Victorian features. There are ten larger apartment blocks, typically housing at least six units, as well as a church and two small commercial buildings. The district has been enlarged twice: the first addition in 1983 added houses on the east side of Garden Street that have been subsequently demolished, and the 2011 addition added 207 Garden Street, a mixed commercial-residential brick block.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Frank T. Simpson House is a historic house at 27 Keney Terrace in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1913, it is a good local example of Tudor Revival, and was the home of Frank T. Simpson, a leading figure in Connecticut&#39;s civil right movement of the mid-20th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and is a contributing property in the Upper Albany Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Frank T. Simpson House is located in Hartford&#39;s north-side Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, on the south side of Keney Terrace, about 1/2 block east of Keney Park. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof configuration and stuccoed exterior. The ground floor of the front facade is defined by a projecting gable entry on the left, and a less projecting gabled window bay aligned under the main gable. Both gables have decorative brackets, and the window gable and main gable are half-timbered. The main entrance is recessed in an arched openings. The window bay has three sash windows, and there are three larger sash windows in a band on the second floor above the projecting bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1913 by W. Foster Wright, a builder from Waterbury. It was purchased in 1952 by Dr. Frank T. and Marie A. Simpson. Simpson, an Alabama native, moved to Hartford in 1929. In 1944, he was made the first paid employee of the states civil rights commission, one of the nations first such organizations. Under his guidance, the commission highlighted inequities in educational and employment opportunities, and helped break down race barriers in these and other areas.</p><br>
<p>The Port and Helen McWhorter House, located at 426 N. Broadway in Miller in Hand County, South Dakota, was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, wood-frame, Queen Anne style house which was built for Dr. Port and Helen McWhorter. The first floor was used for medical offices and the upper floor as a residence. It was used as a public school dormitory around 1938, and it became a museum in 1989. It was deemed notable "for its association with the health/medical history of Miller" and "as an excellent local example of early twentieth century Queen Anne (cross gable, free classic) architecture. "</p><br>
<p>It is a museum of the Hand County Historic Society.</p><br>
<p>For a time, during the 1950s and 1960s,it was the home of a notable district Science teacher, Donald Henrickson, his wife Inez, and his daughters Beverly, Marlys, and Sharon. Beverly has recently donated a high chair that was part of the girls&#39; childhood in that home.</p><br>
<p>The Sisson-South Whitney Historic District encompasses a neighborhood in the West End area of Hartford, Connecticut, that was built out between 1890 and 1930 as a streetcar suburb. It is roughly bounded by Farmington Avenue, South Whitney Street, West Boulevard, and Sisson Avenue, and includes a diversity of residential and commercial architecture, reflective of its initial development and subsequent growth. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hartfords West End, roughly from the Park River to the western city line, was primarily farmland until about 1870. By the early 1890s, the citys streetcar network had extended into the area, and the farmland was purchased by developers, platted, subdivided, and developed. Farmington Avenue developed as a commercial service area for the neighborhood, with residential areas to the north and south. South Whitney Street was laid out in 1897, and Sisson Avenue in 1900. Nearly 1/3 of the district&#39;s buildings were erected between 1890 and 1909, and development continued at a similar pace for the next two decades.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Farmington Avenue between South Whitney and Sisson Avenue, with only a few buildings on streets just north of Farmington. It extends along South Whitney, Sisson Avenue, and Evergreen Avenue, all the way to West Boulevard, and along the latter two nearly to Capitol Avenue. Most of its buildings are residential two-story structures, of which the majority are wood frame construction. Stylistically they are diverse, using the architectural vocabulary of revival styles popular at the time. Residences are typically set on small lots with uniform setbacks and scale, giving those areas a unified streetscape.</p><br>
<p>Collegiate Neighborhood Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Pella, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. The neighborhood contains architecture that was popular from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. Most of the houses are single-family dwellings that are uniformly set back from the street. It also features buildings that were constructed according to traditional Dutch building practices that were brought to Pella in the 19th century by people who settled here from the Netherlands. Independence and West First Streets are paved with brick.</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Courthouse in Springfield in Washington County, Kentucky is located on Springfield&#39;s Public Square, at Main at Lincoln Park Rd. It was built during 1814–15. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick courthouse, with brick laid in Flemish bond. Among other changes designed by architect Frank Brewer, it has an octagonal cupola added in 1840.</p><br>
<p>It is included as a contributing building in the Springfield Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Courthouse located at 214 C St. in Washington, Kansas is an Art Deco-style courthouse built during c.1932-1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It replaced a previous courthouse which was damaged in a tornado on July 4, 1932. The new courthouse was designed by Wichita architects Overend and Boucher.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building built of Bedford limestone. It has two-story square towers projecting from each corner.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Hospital, also known as the Floyd Valley Apartments, is a historic building located in Le Mars, Iowa, United States. Construction of the building began in 1921. It was designed by Sioux City architect William Steele and Riesche & Sanborn was the contractor. The five-story brick structure was completed two years later for $350,000. The Sisters of St. Francis from Dubuque operated the hospital for the next 43 years. In addition to the hospital, the building also housed Sacred Heart Nursing School from 1923 to 1938. On December 1, 1966, the City of Le Mars took over the operation of the hospital, which was renamed Floyd Valley Hospital at that time. They continued to use the Sacred Heart building. A capital campaign to build a new facility was begun in 1972, and the present hospital on Iowa Highway 3 was completed in 1976. This building has subsequently been converted into apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Sanders Bridge is a steel truss bridge straddling the Puerco River, near Sanders, Arizona. It was constructed in 1923 and gained National Historic status in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Arizona Highway Department (AHD) began a major improvement in what was then known as the Holbrook-Lupton Highway, running between the state line with New Mexico to Adamana. The Sanders Bridge was one of two bridges included in the proposed upgrade, the other being the Allentown Bridge. Based upon engineering drawings by AHD, the Monarch Engineering Company, based in Denver, Colorado, was awarded the contract for the Sanders Bridge. Construction began on May 22, 1923, and was completed by September 10, at a cost of $15,005. This section of highway would later become part of US Route 66. However, in 1931, after another realignment of the highway system, the Sanders Bridge, along with the one at Allentown, were no longer included on Route 66. Currently, it carries local traffic on the Navajo NationNavajo Indian Reservation. It is currently owned by the USA Bureau of Indian Affairs.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The substructure consists of concrete abutments and piers, on which sit timber stringers, supporting a timber deck which is covered with asphalt. The superstructure consists of a riveted steel, 6-panel Pratt pony truss. There are two spans, 75 feet in length and 14 feet 8 inches in width, with a total length of 190 feet, when the on and off ramps are taken into account.</p><br>
<p>The Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead House is a historic house located at 42W814 Rohrson Road northeast of Plato Center, Illinois. Built in 1951–53, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style. Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead, the homes owners, had met Wright in 1948 while touring Taliesin, and the meeting inspired them to commission Wright to design their own home. The one-story house is horizontally oriented to match its flat surroundings, in keeping with Wrights design principles. Rows of casement windows and a wooden parapet along the roof add to the houses horizontal emphasis. The houses interior also includes several typical elements of Wright&#39;s work, including a deemphasized front entrance, floor-to-ceiling windows used to bring in additional light, and a sense of contrast and connection between rooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Potter and Barker Grain Elevator is a historic grain elevator located at 1N298 La Fox Road in La Fox, Illinois. It is situated next to the La Fox station. The elevator was built in 1868 by former whaling ship captain Lemuel Potter and his brother-in-law Henry Barker. Part of a wave of industrial development in the Fox Valley, it served as a transfer point for grain being shipped along the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad . The elevator represents an intermediate point in the transition from one-story rural elevators to taller, mechanized second stage elevators. Its small capacity is typical of the older one-story elevators, but it includes mechanized systems of unloading and raising grain common to later structures.</p><br>
<p>The elevator was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Des Moines Fire Department Headquarters Fire Station No. 1 and Shop Building are historic buildings located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1937, the facility provided a unified campus for the fire departments administration, citywide dispatch, training, maintenance, as well as the increased need for fire protective services in the commercial and warehouse districts in which the complex is located. It was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Rawson, Brooks and Borg, and built by local contractor F.B. Dickinson & Co. The project provided jobs for local residents during the Great Depression, and 45% of its funding was provided by the Public Works Administration . The City of Des Moines provided the rest of the funds. The radio tower, which shares the historic designation with the building, was used to dispatch fire personnel from 1958 to 1978. The buildings were used by the local fire department from 1937 to 2013. It was replaced by two different facilities. The old fire station and shop building was acquired by the Des Moines Social Club, a nonprofit arts organization.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were designed in the Streamline Moderne style with Art Deco elements. The two-story brick fire station features stone pilasters that divide the fire apparatus bay openings. A seventh bay was added in 1967 as part of the building&#39;s renovation when a new viaduct blocked the east elevation of the building. The corner of the building at Mulberry and Ninth Streets is rounded, and there is a ribbon of windows on the second floor. The shop building sits behind the station building, facing Ninth Street. It features two garage door bays that are connected to the roofline by large stone panels. A zigzag motif in brick functions as a cornice. A courtyard brick wall connects the station to the shop building. The facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Richards Commercial Block, also known as the Lederer-Strauss Building, is a historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Its construction represents the transition of Court Avenue from a retail center to the city&#39;s wholesale district.</p><br>
<p>Seth Richards had acquired the property that had been the location of several business houses. One of the lots had been owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The four-story brick Romanesque Revival building was constructed in two parts. The commercial blocks at 300-302 and 304-306 were completed and occupied in 1890, and 308-310 was completed and occupied by 1897.</p><br>
<p>Various wholesale clothing firms occupied the various blocks, but by 1920 Lederer, Strauss & Co., Inc., a millinery fabricator and wholesaler, occupied the entire building. The family-run business was sold in 1944 to the Hiersteiners, who incorporated the business as the Landsco Millinery Co. The business was scaled back, and they occupied less of the block, which was filled with other wholesalers by the mid-1950s. In 1957 the Landsco Millinery Co. was liquidated.</p><br>
<p>The building has been converted for other retail uses in the Court Avenue Entertainment District after this area ceased being a wholesale center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Elgin Downtown Commercial District is a historic district encompassing the commercial core of downtown Elgin, Illinois. The district includes 94 buildings, 76 of which are considered contributing buildings to its historic character. While development in downtown Elgin began in the 1830s, the oldest buildings in the district were built in the 1870s; most of the district&#39;s buildings were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but its development continued through the 20th century. The majority of the buildings in the district are two- and three-story commercial buildings, but it also includes several taller commercial buildings, churches, a public library, and a power station. Most of the 19th-century buildings in the district have Italianate or Queen Anne designs, while the 20th-century buildings features styles such as Colonial Revival and Renaissance Revival.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Middle Avenue Historic District is an industrial historic district located on two square blocks in downtown Aurora, Illinois. The district includes eleven buildings, eight of which are contributing buildings to its historic nature. The district formed in the early 20th century along a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad branch known as the Alley Job, and its buildings fall into three main categories: factories, distribution buildings, and warehouses. The district&#39;s factories include facilities operated by the Pictorial Printing Company and the typewriter ribbon company Miller-Bryant-Pierce. Distribution and office buildings in the district include multiple buildings owned by International Harvester and the McCredie Building, which was used by various coal businesses. The district also includes three warehouses and a filling station.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The William and Helen Coffeen House is a historic house located at 306 S. Garfield Street in Hinsdale, Illinois. Built in 1899–1900, the house is an early example of architect George W. Mahers Prairie School work. The house has a stucco exterior, a building material that ultimately became a distinctive element of Mahers work. The decorative wooden frame around the houses entrance and the extensive use of stained glass windows highlight how Maher developed a distinctive personal style of ornamentation in his designs. The houses original owners were real estate agent William Coffeen and his wife Helen, both of whom were active members of Hinsdale&#39;s civic and social life.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The William and Jennette Sloane House is a historic house located at 248 S. Arlington Avenue in Elmhurst, Illinois. Built in 1909, the Prairie School house was designed by prominent architect Walter Burley Griffin. The house is representative of Griffins early work and is a well-preserved example of a smaller Prairie School work. The main section of the house is two stories tall, with one-story wings projecting on either side. The houses exterior is white stucco broken up by dark wooden boards. A row of casement windows runs along the house on both floors; the windows are decorated with muntins, one of the house&#39;s only ornamental features.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 2016.</p><br>
<p>Lisbon United Methodist Church is located in Lisbon, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Methodism in Lisbon can be traced to a sermon preached in the spring of 1840 by Dr. Nelson Rathbun, a circuit preacher and physician, from Pioneer Grove (present-day Mechanicsville). The small congregation was served by circuit preachers until 1858 when the Lisbon Circuit was established with a resident preacher in Lisbon. The following year the Methodists assisted the Lutherans in building their new church. The two congregations shared the building until 1868 when the Methodists built their own church at the same location as the present church. A parsonage was built for $1,375.69 in 1887</p><br>
<p>In the year of 1898 the old edifice religious was torn down. The present edifice religious was built at a cost of $14,000, and completed 1899. Carpenter Daniel C. Hartung supervised the construction, which was carried out by locals.</p><br>
<p>The church building was dedicated on April 9, 1899, with about 900 people in attendance. The congregation bought a Steinway piano at that time for $450. It is still in use here. The pipe organ was installed in 1915. The church&#39;s spire was struck by lightning in 1956 and it was destroyed in a fire. Before 1979 the congregation here had shared a minister with another congregation. That year, the Rev. Kalen Fristad became the first minister to serve this congregation alone. In 1989 the front entrance area of the church was enclosed. The parsonage was torn down and an addition was built onto the church in 1995. A parking lot was created across the street from the church in 1996, and a new spire was placed on the tower in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building was designed by the prominent Cedar Rapids architectural firm of Josselyn & Taylor. It was designed in a combination of Queen Anne and Shingle Styles. The building reflects the effects of the Social Gospel movement, which was prominent at the time it was built. It advocated for a larger social and educational role for evangelical religious institutions. In order to carry out these roles, church buildings were being built with libraries, large Sunday school classrooms, and social halls that served community gatherings as well as missionary and charitable work. Lisbon United Methodist Church was one of the first Methodist churches in Iowa that was designed according to the Akron Plan. It featured a large classroom that opened onto the main sanctuary, which had the pews in a semi-circular arrangement. Social rooms and kitchen were built on the lower level.</p><br>
<p>Iowa Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon is a historic building in Ames, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Iowa Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon was chartered at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University) on April 20, 1916. It was the fraternity&#39;s fortieth chapter. The chapter built its chapter house in 1931 at 228 Gray Avenue in Ames, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, part of the building was rented to female students as many male students left to join the military. A fire damaged the third floor in 1943. Journalist Robert L. Bartley resided here until he graduated from Iowa State in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This large four-story brick structure was built in 1931 for the Iowa Beta chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. The Tudor Revival style building features ornamental half-timbering and stucco veneered walls, a steeply pitched roof with two separate cross-gabled sections, and a two-story wing that is oriented diagonally from the main body of the house. Three of the four floors are above grade and one is exposed on the back side via the sloping lot.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Des Moines architect Amos B. Emery. It is the only Tudor Revival style building designed by Emory, and only one of two fraternity houses that he designed.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the kitchen and the house mother&#39;s quarters were expanded.</p><br>
<p>The South Green Historic District encompasses a predominantly 19th-century residential area near the South Green of Hartford, Connecticut. This area features a variety of residences in both high and common styles, from the elaborate home of armsmaker Samuel Colt to multi-unit apartment houses, many of which were built between about 1860 and 1900. The district is roughly triangular, extending from South Green along Main Street and Wethersfield Avenue to include Morris, Dean, and Alden Streets. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>What is now the South Green, south of downtown Hartford at Main Street and Maple Avenue, was allocated as common pasture land by the city in 1642. The home of early political leader George Wyllys stood nearby, and that family&#39;s prominence in the area gave Wyllys Street (the southern boundary of the green) its name. In 1850, Solomon Porter led a push to increase development in this area, and in 1854 the city boundary (originally at Wyllys Street) was moved south. Wethersfield Avenue was built with large Italianate homes, mainly in brick, for wealthier buyers, while the side streets were built out with more modest single and multifamily residences. Most of the construction in the early 20th century was apartment blocks; one of these was designed by George Dunkelberger, the designer of the bridges on the Merritt Parkway, and exhibits a similar flair for the whimsical. Non-residential buildings in the district include three churches, a small number of commercial buildings, and a modest number of small light industrial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district is bordered by three other historic districts: the Colt Industrial District to the east, Charter Oak Place to the north, and Congress Street to the west. Previously listed properties within the district include Armsmear, the National Historic Landmark home of armsmaker Samuel Colt, the Henry Barnard House, home to 19th-century educator Henry Barnard and also a National Historic Landmark, and the Day-Taylor House.</p><br>
<p>The Big Woods School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 3033 N. Eola Road in Aurora, Illinois. The school was built in 1917–18 to replace the original Big Woods School, which was built in the mid-19th century and had fallen into disrepair. The red brick school building has a Craftsman design. It was one of the first schoolhouses in DuPage County built after Illinois Sanitation Law of 1915, which created a set of modern safety and sanitation standards for the states public schools. The school&#39;s plan is essentially the same as that recommended by the state, with considerations for playground space, lighting, ventilation, and indoor plumbing. In 1963, the school closed due to consolidation with two nearby schools, and the building was sold to a private owner; it is now owned by a not-for-profit preservation group.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple, also known as the A.F. & A.M. Hall, Masonic Building, Greeley Building, and the Octagon Center for the Arts, is a historic building located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Built between 1916 and 1917, the three-story, brick, Neoclassical building was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Liebbe, Nourse & Rasmussen. It was commissioned by Wallace M. Greeley, an Ames banker and civic leader. The building was built at the high point of Progressive era construction in the central business district, and with several other noteworthy public and semi-public buildings, marked Ames&#39; transition from a rural town to a modern city. Arcadia Lodge #249 occupied the third floor of the building from its completion in 1917 to 1997, when they built a new building on Alexander Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The building features multi-colored brick, symmetrical facades, pilasters for storefronts, cast stone columns that flank the main entrance, and a projecting band of cast stone above the third-floor windows. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>First United Brethren Church, also known as Otterbein Methodist Church, is a historic building located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. Built in 1946, this building replaced an 1886 sanctuary that was destroyed in a fire in 1943. The original church had been associated with Leander Clark College, which had been operated by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, until its merger with Coe College in 1919. The church became United Methodist after the Evangelical United Brethren Church and Methodist Churches merged in 1968. This congregation and First United Methodist Church in Toledo merged in 1993, and they formed Christ United Methodist Church. The congregation consolidated into the church buildings on South Broadway in August 2015. Hobart Historic Restoration of Cedar Rapids bought this building and plans to converting it into 15 apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>Spencer High School and Auditorium, also known as Spencer Middle School and Auditorium, is a historic building in Spencer, Iowa, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Spencer High School</h3><br>
<p>The school building was completed in 1914. Designed by Chicago architect John D. Chubb, it is a three-story Neoclassical structure with a flat roof. It features slightly projecting bays and prominent belt courses that encircle the building. The belt course that runs below the second-floor windows divides the different brick that was used for the first floor from that used on the upper two floors. When it was constructed, the building was symmetrical in design, but when the auditorium was added in 1937 it threw off the symmetry. This was the first high school-only building in Spencer. Previously, the high school grades were on the first floor of the town&#39;s only school building, and the lower grades were on the upper floor. This building was built when A. H. Avery was the superintendent of the Spencer school district. Avery had introduced a five-year high school program that included vocational training as many students would not be going on to college. He advocated for the new school building that included vocational-specific classrooms.</p><br>
<h3>Auditorium</h3><br>
<p>The auditorium was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Keffer & Jones. The three-story Art Deco structure was completed for $132,000. Financing for its construction came from three sources: $57,000 came from Public Works Administration funds, $70,000 from a local bond referendum, and $5,000 from the local school district. The addition contained additional classroom space and a 1,200-seat auditorium that served the high school and the needs of the local community. The present gymnasium was added to the building in 1967.</p><br>
<p>A new high school was built in 1960, but it did not include an auditorium. The old high school became a junior high school and then a middle school, but the high school continued to use the old auditorium until 2016. In 2010 the Spencer Area Activity Center relocated to the first floor of the high school building, and the upper two floors were converted into 16 apartments by Community Housing Initiative.</p><br>
<p>The John R. Barber House, near Springfield, Kentucky, was built in about 1904 or 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included three contributing buildings and one contributing structure on 9 acre.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story brick structure on a limestone foundation. It has a hipped roof with a jerkinhead.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Walton Law Office, separately NRHP-listed in 1977, is adjacent to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Big Spring Church, located at 121 Rose Hill St. in Versailles in Woodford County, Kentucky, USA, was built in 1819. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is 47x32 ft in plan and has three bays on its front and five bays along its sides.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a Baptist meeting house, at the head of a ravine holding the spring after which it is named.</p><br>
<p>The Spencer House is a historic house at 1039 Asylum Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1929 for a bank chairman, it is one of the last grand houses to be built in the city&#39;s Asylum Hill area, and is a good 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 Spencer House is located west of downtown Hartford in the city&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the south side of Asylum Avenue at its junction with Gillett Street. It is a -story masonry structure, built out of red brick with wooden trim. It is covered by a side gable roof pierced by three gabled dormers finished in wooden shingles. The main facade is five bays wide, with a recessed center entrance fronted by a gabled portico supported by round columns. An ell extends to the rear of the main block. The interior follows a center hall plan, with what was historically the main parlor on the left, and the library and dining room on the right, with service facilities in the ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1929 for Arthur Spencer Jr., chairman of the board of the Hartford National Bank and Trust Company. It was designed by Ebbets & Frid, and marked the end of Asylum Hills period as the citys fashionable residential area. The neighborhood entered a decline with the advent of the Great Depression, and has lost many houses to subsequent commercial development. This house was adapted for use as a medical office in 1959, and as a radio station studio facility in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Burlingham Building is a historic building located at 104 W. Oak Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Dentist Luke Burlingham had the building constructed in 1883 to house his professional offices, with apartments on the upper floors. While the building was originally four stories tall, the apartments were successful enough that Burlingham added two more stories of apartments in 1897. Architect Alfred Smith designed the Victorian building; as it faces the corner of Oak and Clark Streets, the building is an example of the common Victorian corner buildings of the era. A cast iron turret on the corner and three matching cast iron bays project from the building; each features slate shingles and colored glass in the central windows. The rest of the building is built from red brick with sandstone trim, with a bracketed cast iron cornice along the roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Timber Point is a historic summer estate in Biddeford, Maine. Located at the city&#39;s southernmost tip, and now part of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, the property was developed in the 1930s by architect Charles Ewing for his family. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Timber Point occupies a mostly wooded promontory at the very southernmost tip of Biddeford, across the Little River from the Goose Neck section of Kennebunkport. The estate property, totalling nearly 86 acre, also includes Timber Island, just south of the promontory. It is accessed via Granite Point Road, which passes through the Biddeford unit of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, which now includes the Timber Point property. The built elements of the estate include its main house, garage, boathouse and bathhouse, and a number of other outbuildings. The main house is a -story Colonial Revival wood-frame structure, which presents a broad facade to the southern vista of the promontory, and a projecting gabled entry section to the north. The interior is composed of a series of rooms. The "public" rooms interconnect without hallways.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased in 1929 by Louise Parsons Ewing, and was at the time a combination of woods and farmland. Her husband Charles was an architect active in New York City and Maine. He designed the main house and other aspects of the estate, and the couple entertained friends and family there, notably including the artist Rockwell Kent and writers Booth Tarkington and Kenneth Roberts. In 2012 their heirs sold the property to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><br>
<p>A trail on the property was listed as a National Recreation Trail in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Bird Octagonal Mule Barn, in Shelby County near Cropper, Kentucky, was built in about 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It once housed 40 mules. They were fed from a bin in the center.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "a unique example of one type of specialized stock barns associated with agricultural diversification in the late 19th c. It is the only recorded octagonal barn and one of few mule barns to be identified in the county."</p><br>
<p>The Birds Nest (Shelby County, Kentucky), across Cropper Road, is also listed on the National Register. It was a large Greek Revival style house of Philomen Bird, Henry Birds father. Philomen gave 100 acre to each of his children.</p><br>
<p>Its listing followed a 1986-87 study of the historic resources of Shelby County.</p><br>
<p>The barn is on private property with "No trespassing" signage.</p><br>
<p>The Saffell Funeral Home, located at 4th and Clay Streets in Shelbyville, Kentucky, was built in about 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is or was a two-story, three bay brick side passage plan building which had been stuccoed by 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was listed as part of a larger study of historic resources in Shelbyville.</p><br>
<p>The building appears to have been removed by 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Logan House, in the area of Finchville, Kentucky, was built in about 1860. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a center passage plan brick building on an ashlar foundation. The house is believed to have been built around 1860 "by a descendant of Kentucky pioneer Benjamin Logan who settled on this site in 1794 on a 1,000-acre land grant. Logan is said to have built a house and grist mill on the site and lived here until his death in 1802."</p><br>
<p>The listing included five contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Clay City National Bank Building, located on 6th Ave. in Clay City, Kentucky, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building, 28x65 ft in plan. Its front is three bays wide.</p><br>
<p>It has served as the Red River Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was noted to be "one of the few nineteenth-century buildings to survive in Clay City and the most substantial early structure remaining on the main thoroughfare of the town."</p><br>
<p>The Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District, also known as the Hugh B. and Mary H. Swan Farmstead and the Springdale Stock Farm, is a nationally recognized historic district located northwest of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district is a farm that was used as a rendezvous camp by the Union Army during the American Civil War. The two contributing buildings are brick farm buildings that were here when the camps were in operation. The Hugh B. and Mary Swan House (c. 1854) is a two-story brick structure that exhibits Greek Revival and Italianate influences. The two-level, brick spring house is a vernacular structure with a gable-roof. While typical in Pennsylvania, this is a rare example of a spring house in Iowa. A large stone was erected as a monument to the two Civil War camps in a southwest corner of the farm. It was placed by the Belle Coddington Tent No. 34 of the Daughters of Union Veterans, on June 8, 1930. The open rolling fields to the east of the house are the contributing site as they were the location of the camps. Four frame 20th-century farm buildings are the non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Hugh B. and Mary H. Swan are Pennsylvania natives who built the house and banked spring house around 1854. Part of the farm was leased by the Swans to the federal government for use as a rendezvous camp. Camp Harlan was located here from September 1861 to February 1862 and utilized by the 4th Iowa Cavalry. Camp McKean was located here from August 1862 to November 1862 and it was utilized by the 25th Iowa Infantry. A total of 27 rendezvous camps were utilized in Iowa during the Civil War, and for the most part, they were located along the Mississippi River. In addition to these two camps, "inland" camps were located in Iowa City, Des Moines, Ottumwa, and Oskaloosa. Camp Harlan/McKean was one of five camps in the state that were in operation during rendezvous phases two to four from the fall 1861 to the end of 1862. The other camps include Camp McClellan in Davenport, Camp Lincoln in Keokuk, Camp Union in Dubuque, and Camp Pope in Iowa City. Even though nothing remains of the camps above ground, they are considered well-preserved campsites when considered against the others, which have largely been redeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Wellington Historic District, in Wellington, Kansas, is a 21 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The district follows Washington Avenue, the main business thoroughfare, and is roughly bounded by 19th St., 4th St., Jefferson Ave. and the alley behind the Washington Ave.-facing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 65 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Sport was a tugboat, built in 1873 and wrecked in 1920 in Lake Huron, in the United States. The wreck site, designated 20UH105, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1873, lumber and steel entrepreneur Eber Brock Ward commissioned Frank E. Kirby to design this tug. The boat was built by the Wyandotte Iron Ship Building Works in Wyandotte, Michigan. The Sport was the first steel tug on the Great Lakes, It was designed as a harbor tug, and first used around Wyandotte and the St. Clair River. By 1875, she was assigned to Ludington, Michigan, where Ward owned sawmills. The tug was rebuilt a number of times, and sold to a succession of owners who used it for towing, salvaging and aiding vessels in distress.</p><br>
<p>In 1913, the Sport was sold a final time to Captain Robert Thompson of Port Huron, Michigan. Thompson used it as a fire tug in Port Huron, and for other harbor duties.</p><br>
<p>On December 13, 1920, the Sport set out from Port Huron, bound for Harbor Beach. It encountered a heavy gale, and by 6:00 pm was taking on more water than could be pumped out. The seasick and exhausted firetender returned to his bunk, and the boat lost steam, killing the pumps. The crew abandoned ship at about 11:00 pm, and washed ashore near Lexington, still alive.</p><br>
<p>The wreck of the Sport was discovered in 1987. The marker was damaged and removed in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Sport was 57 feet long, with a beam of 14 feet, and a depth of 9 feet. It had a net tonnage of 23 tons and gross tonnage of 45 tons. The boat had an iron frame with a steel hull over it.</p><br>
<p>The wreck is in 45 feet of water, with the hull resting upright, listing slightly to starboard. The upper sections of the tug project 20 feet off the bottom. The boat is intact, and a number of tools and relics are scattered around the site.</p><br>
<p>The Stackpole, Moore, and Tryon Building is a historic commercial building at 105-115 Asylum Street in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in the mid-19th century, and extensively altered in 1896, it is a good local example of a period building with a Beaux Arts cast-iron facade. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stackpole, Moore, and Tryon Building is located on the south side of Hartford&#39;s downtown area, at the southeast corner of Asylum Avenue and Trumbull Street. It is a timber-framed structure with a mainly brick exterior. It is covered by a flat roof with a projecting bracketed cornice, and has a rounded corner featuring curved windows. Most upper-floor windows are set in rectangular openings with brownstone sills and lintels, but a grouping of windows around the building corner have been replaced by a cast-iron facade with large picture windows. The ground-floor storefronts have largely been modernized, although elements of the cast-iron facade are also evident there.</p><br>
<p>The buildings exact construction date is unknown, but is believed to be mid-19th century. Its present appearance dates to a major renovation conducted in 1896 under the auspices of architect Isaac A. Allen Jr. The cast iron facade elements were provisioned at that time by the Phoenix Iron Works of Hartford, which also supplied elements for the Connecticut State House and buildings at Trinity College. The building was for many years home to a clothing retailer, known for most of the 20th century as Stackpole, Moore, and Tryon; it presently houses a bank on the ground floor. At the time of the buildings listing on the National Register in 1978, it had been in continuous ownership by the same family for more than 120 years.</p><br>
<p>The Southwest District School is a historic school building at 430 Simsbury Road in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Built in 1858, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 19th-century district school buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Southwest District School is located in a rural-residential area of southwestern Bloomfield, on the east side of Simsbury Road (Connecticut Route 185) a short way south of its junction with High Hill Road. It is set close to the road on a very small parcel of land. It is a single-story stone structure, with a gabled roof. The stone appears to be locally quarried rock, cut in random sizes and shapes, with square-cut corner blocks. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with sandstone sills and lintels. The street-facing gable facade has two windows, while the south-facing facade has the entrance at the left end, and three windows to its right. The door opens into a small vestibule, which has had a closet partitioned off the far end, with the balance of the building occupied by the classroom. The vestibule is finished in tongue-and-groove wood boards, while the main chamber is plastered, with wide moulding.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1858 by David Grant, who was listed in local census records as a farmer. The school was built to serve the predominantly rural agricultural families of the area, and remained in operation until 1922 or 1923, when the town closed the last of its district schools. The school&#39;s stone construction was fairly typical of rural construction in the area, where a number of farmhouses were also built out of locally quarried materials.</p><br>
<p>The property is currently owned by the Wintonbury Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Southwest School District.JPGExterior, side view (2010)</p><br>
<p>Southwest District School, Bloomfield, CT (interior with blackboard) July 2024.jpgInterior, with blackboard (2024)</p><br>
<p>Southwest District School, Bloomfield, CT (interior facing chimney wall) July 2024.jpgInterior, facing chimney wall (2024)</p><br>
