<p>The John B. Hanten House, located at 518 E. Kemp Ave. in Watertown, South Dakota, was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>It is an "imposing" three-story building upon a full basement which is "one of the finest houses in the city". Its masonry walls are built of structural tile and clad with dark bronze vitrified brick laid in running bond. It has Doric pilasters at its corners.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant in the area of architecture, because it is one of the few known surviving examples of domestic housing designed by Watertown, South Dakota, architect Maurice A. Hockman.</p><br>
<p>In 1940 it was donated to serve as a rectory for the Immaculate Conception Parish.</p><br>
<p>Black House is a historic house in McMinnville, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built circa 1825 for Jesse Coffee. From 1830 to 1849, it belonged to Samuel Hervey Laughlin, the editor of the Nashville Banner and the Nashville Union, two newspapers based in Nashville, Tennessee, who served as a member of the Tennessee Senate. It was acquired by Thomas Black, the mayor of McMinnville, in 1874, and it remained in the Black family until the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed in the Federal architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 17, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The A. C. Gilruth House, located at 218 Second Ave. NE in Watertown, South Dakota, was built in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "a good example of the smaller homes built in the North End Neighborhood, Watertown, South Dakota, after the turn of the century."</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story ornamental concrete block masonry (cast stone) structure.</p><br>
<p>The Watertown Commercial Historic District is a 22 acre historic district in Watertown, South Dakota. It is roughly bounded by First Ave. N., Third St. E., Second Ave. S., and First St. W.</p><br>
<p>It includes works by Watertown architect Maurice A. Hockman.</p><br>
<p>It includes 69 contributing buildings and 47 non-contributing ones.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Codington County Courthouse and the Carnegie Free Public Library, which are separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead, in Lincoln County, South Dakota roughly 10 miles northwest of Beresford, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant in 1994 as "a good example of a South Dakota farm passed down through one family. The buildings reveal the ever change methods and modernization of agricultural technology as well as providing a good example of typical period house and outbuilding styles. The Tuntland Farm is historically significant for its long association with agricultural development in rural South Dakota. This collection of buildings also typifies a well preserved example of building styles on the ever evolving farmstead. Occupied and fanned by the same family since 1890 the house and barn retain a high degree of historic integrity."</p><br>
<p>The Porter–Todd House, an Italianate house at 929 S. 4th St. in Louisville, Kentucky, was built in 1869. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a white-painted brick building with two front porches that are "among a very few fine examples of decorative Victorian cast iron work remaining in Louisville."</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Charles C. Porter, a milliner, sometime during 1869–1875, but Porter had to mortgage the house by 1876. The mortgage-holder, James Todd, eventually acquired the property at a bankruptcy auction, and descendants of Todd seem to have owned and rented out the house until 1929.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 it was the home of the American Saddle Horse Breeders Association.</p><br>
<p>The house may have been moved or destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The Massé/Darby House is a plantation house fronting on Highway 182 in Baldwin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was originally part of a large sugar plantation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The builder and precise date of construction of the house, called Darby House on the National Register of Historic Places, is presently unverified. An undocumented newspaper article in possession of the current owner of the house dates the Darby House to 1782 and names the builder as Andre Massé, according to "... records of the present owner, Mr. D.L. Johnson... ". Another article from the Eunice News by Marie Johnson, 5 October 1976, gives a building date of 1764-1776. These two articles, although discrepant, are especially noteworthy in that the Johnson family owned or resided in the Massé/Darby House from 1938 until 1981, and apparently possessed documentation now lost or unavailable to present day researchers.</p><br>
<p>An article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 4 July 1976, by the Louisiana Tourist Commission, dates the house (again without citation) to 1765; and the late Emery Hebert, who owned Darby House from 2001 to 2014, in an undated handout follows suit, citing the 1765 date but incongruously naming the builder as Alfred Hennnen, who was born in 1786.</p><br>
<p>In 1969 the House was purchased by the St. Mary Bank, which, in 1981, commissioned Leonard L. Battaglia to research the property transfers for the house. Battaglia traced the land upon which the house stands to an original Spanish land grant to Andre Massé, but his report contains no mention of the house itself until 1814, when Dr. James Hennen sold the land "where vendor now resides" to his son Alfred Hennen. This brief statement has led several writers, among them the reporter for the National Register of Historic Places, to credit James Hennen as the builder of the house with a building date of 1815. There are no known records that substantiate either the attribution to Hennen or the date of 1815.</p><br>
<p>The history of "Darby House" in Baldwin, Louisiana, has suffered from confusion or misreading of others sorts. Much confusion has arisen from the existence of another house known by the same name and of similar period and style—no longer standing but still remembered—in nearby New Iberia. Yet further confusion is with Alice plantation, modeled on and thus post-dating the Massé/Darby house, that once stood in Baldwin but was moved in 1961 to Jeanerette. Alice has also been variously dated: a bronze plaque at roadside gives a building date of 1790, while other sources date the house to 1803. But even this latter date would place the Massé/Darby House earlier than James Hennen&#39;s ownership, which dates to 1809.</p><br>
<p>Andre Massé was, arguably, the earliest settler of the Attakapas. A census of 1766 records M. Massé with household, including 24 slaves, near present-day Charenton, three miles from Baldwin. Thus Massé was well-established early on, with a sizeable entourage. It is plausible—indeed likely—that M. Massé would have built a substantial home for his enterprise, underpinning the attribution of the house to Andre Massé as reported by the Johnson family.</p><br>
<p>The Massé/Darby House has been owned by, or home to several locally prominent people over the years, including Agricole Fusellier and Charles Grevemberg. It was owned at the time of the Civil War by François Optat Darby (a captain in the Confederate Army) and subsequently purchased in 1867 by the philanthropist and educator John Baldwin, after whom the town of Baldwin is named. The house remained in the possession of Mr. Baldwin or his descendants until 1938, when it was purchased by Jessie Frost Johnson.</p><br>
<h2>French Colonial Style</h2><br>
<p>The Massé/Darby House exemplifies a distinct style of French colonial domestic architecture once common throughout Louisiana but now quite rare.</p><br>
<p>The Massé/Darby House is two-storied with thick lower walls of brick, and upper walls of bousillage-entre-poteau (mud, mixed with animal hair, between posts). The ground floor was used for utilitarian purposes, such as office, storage, cooking, etc. The upper-level was used for living—a central parlor with a fireplace opens onto a broad gallery across the front and onto an inner loggia at back, with bedrooms situated to either side. To the rear, cabinets—smaller general-purpose rooms used variously as auxiliary bedrooms, sick rooms, or sewing rooms—flank the loggia.</p><br>
<p>Rooms are entirely en suite, each opening out onto gallery or loggia via French (glazed double) doors. Gallery and loggia function as outdoor covered hallways, replete with stairways, and overhung by a steep, double-hipped and dormer roof. Fireplaces, normally with French wraparound mantels, are interior. The disposition of rooms at ground-level essentially duplicates that above.</p><br>
<p>On the façade, five bays defined by substantial round columns of plastered brick support an upper gallery of seven bays defined by slender wooden colonnettes. Doors and windows are positioned in relation to the interior of rooms rather than the façade. From without they may consequently appear somewhat disjunct, or "syncopated" in relation to the regular cadence of columns and bays.</p><br>
<p>The Ford House in Owenton, Kentucky was located at 311 S. Main St. It was built in 1870. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was a Greek Revival-style house with a two-story pedimented portico with double square columns. It was built by Frank Ford out of yellow poplar cut on the premises to replace the previous house, which was burned in the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The building was destroyed sometime around 2010 and a Dollar General Store now resides on the site.</p><br>
<p>The New Liberty Historic District in New Liberty, Kentucky is a 29.5 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is located along Kentucky Route 227, roughly between KY 978 and KY 36.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 64 contributing buildings and five contributing sites. Development in the district dates from 1815.</p><br>
<p>Selected properties include:</p><br>
<p>Garvey-Moody Residence (1880), a two-and-a-half-story brick house, mostly unchanged since originally built</p><br>
<p>New Liberty Post Office (1875), a commercial building, mostly unchanged since originally built</p><br>
<p>The Sherman Tavern, near Sherman, Kentucky, was built in about 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "a good example of the popular version of a three-part Greek Revival composition featuring a recessed pedimented porch. The structure has historical interest in being one of the mid-19th century taverns on the Lexington-Covington Road, one of the first macadamized roads in Kentucky."</p><br>
<p>The listing included three contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The property is said to have had 10 slave cabins, which no longer exist.</p><br>
<p>The Bay City Downtown Historic District is a primarily commercial historic district, located in Bay City, Michigan and roughly bounded by the Saginaw River, Second Street, Adam Street, and Center Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bay City was founded in the mid-1840s, and the first commercial establishment began admitting customers in 1850-51. The initial commercial development in Bay City, in the 1850s and 1860s, occurred along North Water Street, adjacent to the lumbering businesses along the river. Third Street, linked to West Bay City via a bridge over the river, also became an important commercial artery, as did Center Avenue. The first brick building was constructed in 1862, and fire regulations put in place after a disastrous 1865 fire ensured further buildings would be brick.</p><br>
<p>The streets were paved in the 1870s and 1880s, at the same time that the city was exploding in size, with over 25,000 residents in 1884. As the city and the commercial district grew, development shifted east to Washington. New construction continued through World War I, and additional construction was implemented even later.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bay City Downtown Historic District consists of 91 structures: 90 of which are commercial, and one government building. Sixty-seven of the buildings contribute to the historic character of the district. The district occupies about 16-1/2 square blocks in the northwest portion of Bay City&#39;s downtown. The structures in the district date from the Civil War through the early 1930s, and include a variety of styles, from Italianate Commercial Palaces to Romanesque commercial blocks, early 1900s Colonial Revival buildings and Modern designs.</p><br>
<p>Some of the most significant structures in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Jennison Hardware Company, 901 North Water Street. A complex of three masonry buildings, including a five-story retail/warehouse facility designed in 1924 by Albert Kahn, a two-story office-block constructed ed in 1913, and a two-story trapezoidal-shaped warehouse constructed in 1921.</p><br>
<p>Denison Block/Alert Pipe & Supply, 1001 North Water Street. A two-story brick commercial block erected in 1882–83 by E.B. Denison.</p><br>
<p>Phoenix Block, 717–723 Washington Avenue. A four-story Romanesque Revival building constructed in 1886–87.</p><br>
<p>Ueberroth Block, 816 Washington Avenue. A three-story masonry commercial block erected by Chris H. Ueberroth, a dealer in crockery, glassware, and china, in about 1890.</p><br>
<p>Scheurmann Block, 818 Washington Avenue. A three-story masonry Romanesque Revival commercial building designed in 1891 by Pratt & Koeppe and constructed for Richard Scheurmann.</p><br>
<p>C.E. Rosenbury & Sons, 822 Washington Avenue. A four-and-one-half-story Romanesque Revival commercial block designed by Pratt & Koeppe</p><br>
<p>Davidson Building, 916 Washington Avenue. A three-story masonry commercial block built c. 1915.</p><br>
<p>Herman Hiss & Company, 905 Washington Avenue. A two-story masonry commercial building with a Modernistic design with zig-zag ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, 1000 Washington Avenue. A monumental rectangular three-story masonry building constructed in 1931–32.</p><br>
<p>The Bay City Times Building, 311 Fifth Street. A two-story masonry commercial structure erected in 1907–08 and designed by Albert Kahn.</p><br>
<p>First Shearer Block/McCormick Block, 101–107 Center Avenue. This three-story building, built in 1866, was the first three-story business block constructed in Bay City.</p><br>
<p>Simmons Jewelers, 208 Center Avenue. A "Commercial Palace" structure erected in the late 1870s or early 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Griswold/Bijou Block, 210 Center Avenue. A three-story masonry commercial building constructed in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Shearer Block, 311–319 Center Avenue. A four-story masonry commercial block.</p><br>
<p>Bromfield & Colvin Grain Elevator, 1022 Adams Street.</p><br>
<p>Bromfield & Colvin Grain Warehouse, 1018 Adams Street. A four-story masonry warehouse erected in the later 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Charles Mix County Courthouse, located on Main St. between Fourth and Fifth Sts. in Lake Andes, South Dakota, was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story building, the only Prairie School-style courthouse in the state. It was designed by architect William L. Steele who also was involved in the design of the well-known Woodbury County Courthouse in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The Fruitdale School, on High St. at the northwest edge of Fruitdale, South Dakota, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a wood-frame building with a projecting, pedimented entry. It was deemed " significant in both the areas of architecture and education because of its unusual style and exceptional state of preservation, and as the only school in the history of the town of Fruitdale. In addition, the school is architecturally, the most imposing structure in the community with its simple classic detailing it reaches a level of style not found in most rural schools."</p><br>
<p>The property includes a shed-like building and about 20 beehives.</p><br>
<p>The Vale Bridge near Vale, South Dakota brings a local road over the Belle Fourche River. It was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It is a Pratt through truss bridge produced by the Canton Bridge Company. Its main span is a 142 ft steel, pin-connected truss. Together with four timber approach spans, it is 236 ft long.</p><br>
<p>It is located one mile east and.6 miles north of Vale.</p><br>
<p>The Midland Street Commercial District is a primarily commercial historic district located primarily along Midland Street, between Catherine and Litchfield Streets, in Bay City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The west side of Bay City was developed much later than the east side. While the east side was settled in the late 1830s, it was not until 1863 that Henry Sage and Henry McGraw established a sawmill on the west side. They platted the small town of Wenona and began selling lots. Growth came quickly: by 1865 a plank road to Midland and a second road to Saginaw were opened, and the Third Street Bridge connecting Wenona to Bay City was constructed. By 1866 Wenona had over 1000 residents, and in 1867 a railroad line was laid, and the first brick building on Midland Street was built. Wenona and Midland Street became a railroad and commercial hub.</p><br>
<p>However, by the turn of the century, the lumbering which had been an economic base was declining, and in 1903 the west side of the river was incorporated into Bay City, causing economic activity to slowly move to the east side of the river. Growth along Midland Street during the first part of the twentieth century was slow, and halted completely at the onset of the Great Depression. Because of this, the section of Midland Street remains much as it did in 1929.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Midland Street Commercial District is four blocks long, and contains fifty structures, forty-nine of which are two- and three- story commercial buildings, and forty-four of which contribute to the historic character of the neighborhood. Structures date from the 1860s to 1929, and styles include Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Art Deco.</p><br>
<p>Significant structures in the district include:</p><br>
<p>The Loose Block - 601-603 Midland Street. Built in 1879, this three-story structure is a commercial adaptation of the Queen Anne style, containing stone, tile, terra cotta, and brick detailing. It was built for William Loose, a casket maker and undertaker.</p><br>
<p>The Lumbermans State Bank- 701 Midland Street. Spencer O. Fisher and Captain James Davidson founded the Lumbermans State Bank, and in 1881 constructed this three story, three bay brick building to house the bank.</p><br>
<p>The Fisher Block - 705-7-9-13 Midland Street. In 1881, a fire destroyed the buildings at this location, and in 1883 Spencer O. Fisher built this large Italianate-styled building.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Block - 510-512 Midland Street. This building, two story building was constructed in about 1890.</p><br>
<p>The Westown Theater - 611 Midland Street. This Art Deco theater was constructed in 1915 on the site of an earlier commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The People 1s National Bank - 509 Midland Street. This two story, three bay red brick Georgian Revival building was built in 1923 as the Bay County Savings Bank.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational United Church of Christ in Belle Fourche, South Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Its building, completed in 1949, is Tudor Revival in style. It is T-shaped. It was designed by architects Joseph Vanderbilt and Carl Bard. A rectangular addition to the rear was added in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The church was deemed "significant locally as the most prominent Tudor Revival styled building in town" and as the "most styled" of the historic brick churches, out of seven churches, in Belle Fourche.</p><br>
<p>Congregationalist church services were first held in Belle Fourche in 1891. The church&#39;s first building, a small frame church, was built in 1892.</p><br>
<p>It is one of two church buildings of the congregation, in 2018; the other is at 423 Elm Street in St. Onge.</p><br>
<p>The Carl Friedrick Gartner Homestead, located west of South Dakota Highway 79 near Newell, South Dakota, was settled in 1882 and was proved up in 1892. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The structure of greatest historical interest is a single pen log cabin with full dovetail notching which was built in 1882. It was moved to the present site from a timber claim not far away, in the 1890s. The structure was placed onto a concrete foundation in 1949. The site&#39;s original log barn and dugout house were destroyed long ago.</p><br>
<p>The Rotchev House is a historic house at Fort Ross State Historic Park in the USA state of California. Built in 1812, it is the forts only building to survive from the period of the Russian-American Companys California settlement. It is one of a very small number of Russian-built structures in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as the Commander&#39;s House, Fort Ross. </p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rotchev House is located in Fort Ross State Historic Park, located on the Northern California coastline of Sonoma County. It is a single-story structure measuring about 36 x, built out of hand-squared redwood timbers joined by notches at the corners. It is covered by a steeply pitched hip roof fashioned out of split and hewn redwood, laid in planks as long as 23 ft and as much as 1 in thick. The planking is chiseled in place to help channel water away from the gaps between planks further down the roof. The interior is divided into seven chambers and a larger hall.</p><br>
<p>Fort Ross was founded in 1812 by a team from the Russian-American Company under the leadership of Ivan Kuskov. The Rotchev House is one of the buildings constructed during the first year; other buildings included barracks, a chapel, and storehouses. The fort was sold in 1841 to John Sutter and was vacated by the Russian company in 1842. The house is named for the last Russian commander, Alexander Rotchev.</p><br>
<p>The Newell High School, on Dartmouth St. between 4th and 5th Streets in Newell, South Dakota, was built in 1922 and for school to begin in 1923. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building with a full basement. It has Tudor arch doorways on its first floor and stone trim, and the building is "topped with Tudor battlements." It was designed by architects Johnson, Miller & Miller.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed to be "the most imposing structure in Newell (1983 population, 638)" and "architecturally significant to Newell and South Dakota as an outstanding example of the English Vernacular Revival." The school was also deemed to have "significance in the area of education through its distinction as the largest rural school in Butte County with the most complete curriculum available to public school students."</p><br>
<p>Elm Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery located at 300 Ridge Road in Bay City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By the late 1880s, the cemeteries already established in Bay City were becoming filled. In 1890, a group of Bay City businessmen formed an association for the purpose of establishing a new cemetery. Property was acquired, and by early 1891, landscape architect Mason L. Brown of Detroit had nearly completed a plan of the grounds. Work on the grounds started in the spring. By October 1891, work had proceeded far enough that the first interment took place. Pratt & Koeppe of Bay City designed the gatehouse and chapel, and work on these structures began in late 1891 and was completed in 1892. Although some grading of the site was left, the construction work was essentially complete at the end of 1892. After the main construction was completed, the landscaping was installed, with the trees already on the site supplemented with other plantings.</p><br>
<p>As the cemetery became more popular, families with means began constructing mausoleums on the site, with the first one installed by the family of John F. Eddy in 1899, and the last by the Van Haaren family in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is still active and approximately forty burials are performed annually.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery covers 60 acres of flat terrain, with a central access roadway and curving roads to either side. There are about 13,000 burials in the cemetery, with space for about 5000 more. The foliage on site includes a large variety of shade trees (beech, cedar, maple, oak and pine) along various ornamental trees and shrubs, including catalpa, hawthorn, purple plum, redbud, lilac, sandcherry, spirea and dogwood. The earliest burials are in the rear section of the cemetery, and many sections along the front remain undeveloped today. A number of mausoleums dot the cemetery</p><br>
<p>The entrance to the cemetery is through an arched stone gateway with attached gatehouse. The structure has a Richardsonian Romanesque feel and is 18 by 22 feet with a small tower extending above the roofline. The gatehouse building contains two rooms: A main room, used as the cemetery office, and a small bathroom. The attached gateway extends 47 feet and in 35 feet high.</p><br>
<p>A Richardsonian Romanesque chapel is also on the grounds. The chapel is a one-story buff sandstone structure approximately thirty feet square, with a hip roof clad in slate. A series of steps leads upward to the entrance. The chapel inside contains eight oak pews, four to a side around a center aisle. The basement contains a vault.</p><br>
<p>The Cargill Falls Mill, also known historically as the Wilkinson Mill, is a historic textile mill complex at 52-58 Pomfret Street in Putnam, Connecticut. Founded in 1806, it is one of the state&#39;s oldest mill complexes, and it retains examples of mill architecture spanning more than 175 years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cargill Falls Mill occupies a prominent location across the Quinebaug River from downtown Putnam, set partially on a point projecting eastward on the south side of Pomfret Street (United States Route 44). The mill complex occupies about 7.5 acre, and includes twenty interconnected structures, all of which were originally used in some way in the textile manufacturing process. The buildings vary in size and height, with the largest five stories tall. The oldest building on the site was built in 1824, while the most recent new buildings dating to 1950, although there have been some subsequent alterations. Most of the construction is of brick with interior timber framing, although there is one building built out of coursed rubblestone, and another of wood framing.</p><br>
<p>The roughly 30 ft drop in the Quinebaug River at this point saw early industrial use in the 18th century, with grist, saw, and fulling mills were set up in the vicinity. In 1806, a group of investors from Rhode Island that included Samuel Slaters father-in-law, Oziel Wilkinson, established the Pomfret Manufacturing Company. They built a four-story wood-frame mill building on this site, whose foundation is still in used for one of the later 19th-century buildings. That mill was a direct emulation of Slaters mill in Pawtucket. and produced cotton thread. The growth of the town around this mill complex was instrumental in its eventual incorporation in 1855 of Putnam out of portions of Pomfret, Killingly, and Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The Tyringham Library is a historic public building at 118 Main Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Completed in 1905, it is one of the small town&#39;s few buildings exhibiting architectural sophistication, in this case the Arts and Crafts style. The building currently houses both the library and the town post office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tyringham Library occupies a prominent position in the small town center, at the western corner of Main and Jerusalem Roads. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of rough-cut fieldstone and covered by a hip roof finished in terra cotta tiles. A large square fieldstone chimney rises from the roof peak. The main entrances are set in corner recesses, a stone post supporting the roof corners. A wooden entablature encircles the building below the roof line. The building interior is functionally divided so that one third now houses the post office, and the other two thirds house the library. The library retains many original finishes and furnishings, including a large fireplace, window seats, handmade oak shelving, and Mission style seating.</p><br>
<p>Prior to construction of this building, Tyringhams library was essentially transitory in nature, although the town did pay its librarian a small stipend. John Scott, a transplant from Brooklyn, New York whose family had long summered in the town, became the librarian in 1902, and he and John Scott, another prominent local resident, spearheaded the drive for a permanent home for the library. Drawings for the building were prepared by the noted Pittsfield architect H. Neill Wilson, and it was completed in 1905. Its design, probably the first architect-designed building in the town, is stylistically reminiscent of Shadowbrook, one of Wilsons major commissions, but on a significantly smaller scale.</p><br>
<p>When opened, the building housed the library and town offices. In 1973, the office space was repurposed for use by the post office.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of the Iroquois Building, at the corner of Washita and Quapaw Sts. in Iroquois, South Dakota, was built in 1887. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is Italianate in style. It has also been known as Farmers and Merchants Bank and as Hoevet Funeral Home. It is a two-story brick building on a foundation built of granite, quartzite and limestone cobbles. It has a flat roof with parapet.</p><br>
<p>The Pearl Hotel, located on South Main in Kadoka, South Dakota, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It was built for J.A. Jones and his wife Minnie in 1907 after the town was established in 1906 and a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad train depot was built in 1907. It was the only restaurant and hotel in the town. The Joneses operated it until 1924.</p><br>
<p>The Bay City Masonic Temple is a historic building located at 700 North Madison Avenue in Bay City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1860, a group of Bay City businessmen petitioned to organize a Masonic Lodge. An official charter was granted the next year, and the first meetings took place on the second floor of a commercial building. The lodge moved several times until it settled into the Eddy Block in 1878. In 1890 the Bay City Lodge, along with several other sister lodges, purchased land at this location to construct a building. They hired the local form of Pratt & Koeppe to design a building, and construction began in early 1890. The cornerstone was put in place in mid-1891, and the building was completed in February 1893.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple was used by not only Masons, but also the community at large, and quickly became part of Bay City&#39;s cultural life. However, in May 1903, an electrical fire almost destroyed the building, completely devastating the interior, but leaving the exterior walls standing. The Masons voted to immediately rebuild, and reconstruction commenced right away, albeit using slightly different plans than the original. The rebuilt temple was rededicated in November 1905.</p><br>
<p>By the 1920s, membership in the masons was threatening to overwhelm the capacity of the building. In 1926, the Masons constructed a Scottish Rite Cathedral, known as the Consistory, next to the Temple. However, Masonic membership both nationally and locally fell during the Great Depression; although they rose again after World War II, membership steadily declined after about 1960. By 2004, the Bay City building was far too large for the local organization, and demolition of the 1893 building was considered. However, in 2005, the lodge made an agreement with the Bay City Arts Council, where the Council purchased the building and began to make necessary repairs and improvements.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 2018, the Masonic Temple partners with Excellency Music Festival and Excellency Presents.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple is a three-story red-brown sandstone building, of Moorish Revival design with Richardsonian Romanesque elements, sitting on a raised rusticated sandstone foundation. It is sited on a corner lot, with two main facades. The Madison Avenue facade is symmetrical, but for a three-sided corner bay at one end. It has a wide projecting central entrance with four narrow bays to each side. Originally onion domes were located above the main entrance and atop the outer tower-like bays, but they have since been removed. Six steps lead to the raised entrance, which is flanked by four columns and topped with a semi-circular stained-glass window with the words MASONIC TEMPLE within. A round stained-glass window is located in the second story, and the entrance bay is capped with a copper cornice with pointed trefoil-like cutouts. The remainder of the windows are double hung units within horseshoe arches, with stained glass containing the names of lodge members above.</p><br>
<p>The Sixth Street facade has a three-part comer bay and three additional bays. It contains a second entrance in a projecting tower-like structure, through a pair of double doors. Nearby is a one and one-half-story portico set into the facade. The second-story windows are stained-glass rectangular windows with stained-glass semi-circular upper sections, similar to those on the main facade.</p><br>
<h2>Detail Gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas H. Ruth House, at 209 Poinset Ave. in DeSmet, South Dakota, was built in 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story house located on the corner of South Dakota Highway 45 (Poinset Ave) and 3rd Street. It was built as a single residence in 1900. In 1929 it was remodeled and divided into apartments.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Prairie House Manor Bed & Breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The Sully County Courthouse, at Main and Ash Sts. in Onida, South Dakota, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story Classical Revival-style stone building with a cupola that serves as a clock tower.</p><br>
<p>The building has an entablature with a dentil molding. It was designed by W. M. Rich of the Black Hills Company, a Deadwood architecture firm.</p><br>
<p>The L. E. Snyder House, at the corner of Cedar and Sixth Streets in Onida, South Dakota, is a brick house built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Hedman House and as the Voorhees House. It has elements of American Foursquare architecture. It was designed and built by the Black Hills Company, a Deadwood architecture and contracting firm.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Strong Woodward House and Studio is a historic property at 43 Upper Street in Buckland, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was the home and studio of prominent New England landscape artist Robert Strong Woodward from 1936 until his death in 1957. The property has been maintained virtually intact except for maintenance and minor alterations since his death. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Strong Woodward property is located on the southern fringe of the village center of Buckland, on the east side of Upper Street, roughly opposite the Maj. Joseph Griswold House. The property is 16 acre in size, offering views across the local valley to the nearby hills. The propertys built infrastructure includes a house, barn, and a number of once independent outbuildings which have been joined to the house. The outbuildings include a former blacksmith shop, chicken coop, and carriage house. Woodwards studio, located in the former blacksmith shop, is sited at the eastern end of the complex, where its southeast orientation affords good views.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1850 by Joseph Taylor, and is adorned with modest elements of Victorian Gothic trim. The property was purchased in 1883 by Henry Southwick, the town blacksmith. It was here that he (and afterward his son) carried on that business. In 1934 Robert Strong Woodward purchased the property. Woodward, a paraplegic due to an accident with a revolver when he was 21 years old. He made significant changes to the property to accommodate his wheelchair, moving the chicken coop to close a gap between the house and the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith shop and carriage house were moved a short distance to be directly next to each other, and the barn was moved from the south side of the house to the north, in order to provide an unobstructed view down the valley. In fact, moving the barn and chicken coop gave the entire south side of the house, from his bedroom to studio balcony a vantage point from which to paint. The studio has been maintained in virtually the same condition since Woodward&#39;s death in 1957 by the recipient of his estate.</p><br>
<p>The Smith House is a private house located at 113-115 Prospect Street in Vassar, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joshua D. Smith was born at Sackets Harbor, New York in 1821. His parents moved to Michigan in 1825. In 1850, Smith moved to a location about south of what is now Vassar. In 1851 he moved to this location and had this house constructed, the first frame house in Vassar. The house was built for Smith by James Saunders, another Vassar pioneer.</p><br>
<p>Smith remained in this house and engaged in locating land, farming, and manufacturing until his death in 1883. In 1908, the house was purchased by Howard and Clara Smith (no relation to Joshua D.), who turned the house into a two-family home. In 1914, four porches (two in the front and two in the rear) were added to the house, along with a den, cellar, a new kitchen, and two bathrooms. The Smiths passed it on to their son Howard L. Smith. Howard Smith occupied the house as of 1977. It was later passed on to Harry Smith and his wife Shirley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Smith House is a 1-1/2 story house with a tower-like structure on one side. It is constructed of fine corkpine, a native of the Vassar area. The house has a gabled roof, with a partial hip roof on the front and a gabled dormer on the wing. The exterior is painted white and trimmed in green, with plainly trimmed windows. The front porches are supported with square columns.</p><br>
<p>The interior contains a living room, downstairs bedroom, dining room, and kitchen, and bedrooms upstairs, which are all original construction. A den, cellar, a new kitchen, and two bathrooms were added in 1914. The interior is in excellent condition, and contains a beautiful staircase.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank, Freeman, located at 394 S. Main St. in Freeman, South Dakota, was organized in 1902. Its building was built in 1906 and was eventually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>It was noted "for its local significance in the area of commerce as an example of small-town banking industry in South Dakota. The bank remained open to serve its town and surrounding agricultural community through the Great War boom, the subsequent agricultural recession, the Great Depression and a bank robbery. The corner location and design of the two-story brick building are indicative of the status the bank had in the community."</p><br>
<p>The Gottlieb Schmitt House, located at 150 W. Poplar in Menno, South Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a 40x26 ft two-story frame house built in 1888 around an original house that was built earlier. It is significant for association with early German-Russian immigrant Gottlieb Schmitt, one of the first settlers in Menno.</p><br>
<p>In 2018 it is the Menno Heritage Museum; it was purchased in 1983 by the Menno Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The West Burton Place Historic District is a residential historic district located at 143-161 W. Burton Place in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district, which includes twelve main houses and five carriage houses, was developed in the late 19th century but renovated into an artists colony in the 1920s and 1930s. Artist Edgar Miller and businessman Sol Kogen began the districts redevelopment by redesigning and opening Carl Street Studios in 1927; at the time, Burton Place was known as Carl Street. Kogen and Miller, as well as other Chicago artists, gradually converted other homes on the street into artists studios and residences. While the homes started off as Italianate or Queen Anne structures that had become dilapidated by the 1930s, their redesigns featured then-modern styles such as Art Deco and Art Moderne; five of the streets homes retain their original designs, providing architectural contrast.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2007. The cul-de-sac was later designated a Historic District by the City of Chicago after one of the buildings was threatened by demolition. The landmarking effort was led by author Keith Stolte, attorney and Chicago Art Deco Society Vice President Amy Keller, and Edgar Miller Legacy founder and Executive Director Zac Bleicher.</p><br>
<p>The Neuville is a historic apartment building located at 232 E. Walton Place in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The eleven-story building was built in 1920, making it one of the first luxury apartment buildings in Streeterville. Architect John Reed Fugard of Fugard & Knapp, a firm which went on to design many of Streetervilles apartments, designed the Renaissance Revival building. As was typical of high-rises of the era, the lower two and upper two floors are the most ornate, with limestone facing on the lower two and projecting piers on the upper two; in contrast, the central floors are faced with plain red brick. An elaborate cornice runs along the roof on the front facade, while a plainer cornice above the second floor and a belt course above the ninth separate the buildings sections. Like most luxury apartment buildings of the period, the building features a heavily ornamented entrance, a large lobby, and spacious ten-room apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 2, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The McKinley School is a former school building located at 510 Butler Street in Vassar, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school in Vassar, a frame structure, was built in 1852; this was replaced in 1860 with a brick structure. As the population increased, an addition was made to that school in 1881. However, the district was still growing, and the decision was made to construct a second building to serve pupils living on the east side of the city. The McKinley School was constructed in 1886, and was originally known as the "East Primary Building." However, soon after the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, the name was changed to the McKinley School. The building was used for classes by the school district until 1964. After that, it was used as storage by the school district until 1971, when it was sold to private owners.</p><br>
<p>The school used to be a dance school. Currently a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The McKinley School is a 1-1/2 story plain brick two-room schoolhouse on a stone foundation. The main entrance is through two double doors, located within an arched opening and surmounted by a fan light. The windows are in segmented arched openings. A 40 foot tall tower once held the school bell.</p><br>
<p>Inside are two rooms, both 27 feet by 33 feet. A small kitchenette is in the rear, and the building contains bathrooms and a coatroom.</p><br>
<p>The Watrous General Store, also known as the Juniata Township Hall, is a former commercial structure located at 4607 W. Caro Road in Watrousville, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aaron Watrous first moved to the site of what is now Watrousville in 1852, looking to make money in the logging business. In 1853 he built a sawmill near this site, and shortly afterward built a log boarding house and frame lean-to, from which he operated a store. In 1860 Watrous purchased the land at this location, and platted the village of Watrousville. Some time between 1860 and 1864, he built the first story of the Watrous General Store. In 1864, Watrous sold the store and lot to David Philbrick for $300. Soon after, the building was increased in size to the present dimensions. The Philbrick family at first operated a general store out of the building. However, by 1875, they were operating a furniture store. In 1882, the Philbricks sold the building to the township of Juniata for use as a township hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the Watrousville – Caro Area Historical Society engaged with the township on a 99-year lease of the building. The Society began refurbishing the building and it now houses the Watrousville Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Watrous General Store is a two-story balloon frame rectangular structure with a gable roof and a cut stone foundations. It has a one-story wing attached on one side. The structure measures forty feet long by thirty feet wide, including the wing. The exterior is plain but for a heavy wood molding under the eaves and above the front door. The unusually tall door is flanked by black metal light fixtures. The windows on the first floor of the main structure are two over four double hung sash units, the upstairs windows are six over six double hung sash units, and the windows in the wing are two over two double hung sash units.</p><br>
<p>The Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall is a historic building at 88 East Church Street in the East Hardwick village of Hardwick, Vermont. It was built in 1909 for what is now the oldest Grange chapter  in New England to operate under its original charter. The building is a well-preserved example of vernacular Queen Anne architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall is located in the village of East Hardwick, on the east side of Church Street opposite its junction with Stevens Lane. It is a clapboarded wood-frame structure with a gable roof, presenting stories to the street. It is set on a steep hillside above the Lamoille River, however, and has a full understory. The street-facing facade has a single-story hip-roofed porch across the front, supported by turned posts with jigsawn brackets and turned balustrades on either side of the entry stair. Scrolled brackets also adorn the building corners. A similar porch once sheltered the secondary entrance on the lower level; its surviving decorative elements have been stored.</p><br>
<p>The East Hardwick Grange chapter was founded in 1873, just one year after the first Grange chapter in New England was established in St. Johnsbury. This chapter at first met in other village spaces, including a church and the village hall, before having this building constructed in 1909. The building committee overseeing the project included former Governor of Vermont Charles J. Bell. The building is distinctive in Vermont in part because relatively few Grange halls were built specifically for that purpose, and were built following guidelines published by the national organization.</p><br>
<p>The Old Willow Community Center is a historic community building on West Willow Community Center Circle, off mile marker 69.7 of the Parks Highway in Willow, Alaska. It is a single-story log structure, measuring 60 x, built out of local spruce. It is covered by a broad aluminum gabled roof; the gable ends are finished in wooden shingles. The interior consists of a single large chamber. The building was constructed in 1961 as part of a community drive for a meeting space that was more spacious than the local railroad station. In 1992, it was moved a short way south of its original location, where the new community center and library now stand. The building continues to be used for community events.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church of Sutton is a Baptist church in the town of Sutton, Massachusetts and was founded on September 9, 1735, by the Reverend Benjamin Marsh one of the founding fathers of the town and Thomas Green. It is the fourth oldest Baptist church in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The First Baptist Church of Sutton was organized, in 1735. With the exception of a ten-year period of being inactive, in the war years from 1775 to 1785, there have been almost steady services of worship and activities carried on by the men and women of this church. The first structure  was located just down the road where Sutton High School is now, the second  was built on where the current police and fire departments are, and third structure was built on what is now Central Turnpike in 1829 and is part of the West Sutton Historic District with the Fellowship Hall added in 1959. The sanctuary building is in the Greek Revival style of the time. The church is tied to many of the historic families that have and still call Sutton home. Among the names we read the names of Putnam, Buard, Waters, Davis, Freeland, Brigham, King, Marble, Titus, Rich, Dana, Merriam, Lamb, Sibley, Shaw, Moore, Burdon, Luther, Whittier, Plummer, Wallace, Leonard. First Baptist Church is part of the North American Missions Board Revitalize and Replant effort in New England stopping the 17 churches that close every week in America. Through the years the church has been also known through the town and region as Legacy Church, First Baptist Sutton, West Sutton Baptist Church, Sutton Baptist Church, Baptist Meetinghouse, and its original founding name by Rev. Marsh, The Frontier Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>1700s</h3><br>
<p>The original Baptist Church in Sutton was organized on September 19, 1735. James Bound had begun a group of Baptists meeting in the town prior to the date, and encouraged the organization of a church in the town. In 1737, Benjamin Marsh and Thomas Green were both ordained as co-pastors of the church. Green would leave with a group to Leicester to start a Baptist church there, in the Rochdale village, today known as Greenville Baptist Church. Marsh would go on to lead the First Baptist for over 40 years (still the longest tenure), seeing the church grow in life and vigor from the events of the Great Awakening. The first building was erected in 1750, at the corner of Hutchinson and Boston Roads. The second was built on Freeland Hill, this building had no steeple or bell. It was later moved to Braman Village and is now between the West Milbury and Sutton Roads and serves as the home of the Sutton Historical Society. Shortly after Rev. Marshs passing, the church was partially dissolved due to the wars in America, but the members reorganized the church in 1785 and elder Ebenezer Lamson was chosen as the new pastor until he was voted out following his admission in beliefs of teachings that were against orthodox theology. In 1792, Rev. William Batchellor who was the pastor of First Baptist, organized the Second Baptist Church/Manchaug Baptist Church in South Sutton (the building was the original second structure of First Baptist and moved for their use in 1842) which today is the Historical Societys.</p><br>
<h3>1800s</h3><br>
<p>The church was active during the 100-year anniversary celebrations of the founding of Sutton. Under Rev. Samuel Waters the church grew to over 100 people and was no longer able to fit in the second building for one service. The congregation voted to and raised money to build their third and the current sanctuary building which would house 250 people total and included a balcony/choir loft. The present edifice was built in 1829 in a more central location in West Sutton. The property was purchased because George Whitefield is said to have spoken on the grounds during a week in Sutton in April 1745. It was dedicated on Sept. 16, 1830. Hand-hewn lumber was used for the Greek Revival temple front of the structure was a form widely employed by congregations of all denominations in the early to mid decades of the 19th century. The steeple was of the Christopher Wren type. The lovely old bell was cast in Medway, Mass. by G.H. Holbrook in 1829, one of the first church bells to be cast in the United States. The old choir loft was closed and pew doors were taken off in the 1890s, only one of these pews from the original 1829 building remains in the enclosed loft leading up to the bell tower. The 1800s would see short terms from a number of pastors, many of whom were older and near retirement, with a few dying during their term as pastor. The Civil War would also play havoc on the pastoral terms as three men would pastor the church at about the same time because of service commitments to the Union Army. The church would be closed off and on for the years of the war because of this, with the elders leading services and other functions of the church.</p><br>
<h3>1900s</h3><br>
<p>The church during the 1904 Bi-centennial celebrations of Suttons founding had Rev. Arthur Davis represent the church at all the festivities and functions. Several houses in West Sutton were used as a parsonage until, in 1915, the Church purchased a large house nearby. The one hundredth anniversary of the building of the church was celebrated, in 1929. A cellar was dug under the church, affording space for a furnace, and the two big wood stoves were removed. The interior was redecorated. Electric lights were installed in memory of Mr. C.S. Jones, who had been a member of the Mens Sunday School Class, known as the "Knights of the Wheel." A Womans Community Organization, known as "The Hillside Club," was organized in 1906 to aid this church financially and to be of benefit to the community, and the members had always been ready and willing to raise extra funds when needed. In 1950, the club spent $100 beautifying the Community Hall and $400 towards the redecoration expenses. A Christian Endeavor Society was first formed in the 1890s, but later discontinued — until 1936 when it was revived. It has been a very vital and important part in the life of the church and the community, carrying on many worthwhile projects. Among the improvements made at this time were a new choir section made to the right of the stage area. New pews were bought for this project, but because they didnt match the interior of the church, this caused some issues with older families of the church. a maroon velveteen curtain was placed in the area to cover this up. They held religious services Sunday evenings as well as mornings at this time. The church lost several tiers of its steeple in the 1938 hurricane but otherwise looks much as it did in the engraving in the original town history. The horse sheds to the west of the building were torn down. The 1938 hurricane blew down the beautiful Christopher Wren-type steeple, damaging other parts of the building. In 1938, modern improvements were introduced. The men of the parish capped over the second section of the steeple and a fund has been started to build a new spire. In 1938, the Church felt the need for a larger place in which to hold activities of different kinds. The large two-story building next door was bought for a parish house and community hall for the use of the church and community. This building had been, for many years, a real "old time" country store and post office. It is being improved and modernized. The first well, drilled in 1949, supplied the church, parish hall and parsonage. A new organ was given to the church by the Hillside Club, in 1910, and this was electrified, in 1948, through the efforts of the Club and Choir. In 1951, The very important project of re-plastering and painting the whole interior of the Church was undertaken, in 1950. Money had been earned with auctions, suppers, movies and a Bazaar. A contractor was hired, but, in order to save money, the men and women of the Church and community cleaned and painted the pews and floor. The paint was donated by members of the Church. In removing old paint from the pews, it was found that the trim is solid mahogany. This trim restored, gives the white pews their original beauty. A beautiful maroon velveteen Choir Curtain, Dossal Curtain and draperies to match at the two south windows are now installed. In 1950, there were sixty-three members. A new hall has been added to the east side in 1959 to accommodate the growing congregation with classroom space under it with access to the 2.5 acres of land behind the structures. In the late 1990s the sanctuary was refurbished again and the balcony area was covered up as well as four pew areas reducing the capacity to about 180 to this day.</p><br>
<h3>2000s</h3><br>
<p>The church had been affiliated with the Triennial Convention and American Baptist but in 2003 joined the Southern Baptist Convention, through the Baptist Convention of New England, when the Rev. Edward Pentland and church leadership voted to join a more conservative denomination. The back of the church has a baseball field and basketball court that was in use by the town for many years until the town built new town ball fields and a soccer field complex on Central Turnpike. In 2004 the church replaced their rotting wooden sign with a newer lighted one and message board. The fellowship hall also was used as a meeting space for the local gun club, police and fire unions, flower club, Alcoholics Anonymous, and other groups in Sutton. Rev. Pentland retired in June 2017, having the church in April 2017, call Rev. Donald J. McKinnon to become its new pastor. 2017 saw the church begin a web and social media presence by launching its own website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, as well as begin the #ForSutton hashtag.</p><br>
<p>The church recently rejoined Sutton&#39;s Chain of Lights Christmas celebrations.</p><br>
<h2>Pastors</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Marsh, 1735–1775 (40 Years)</p><br>
<p>Thomas Green, 1735–1737 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Lamson, 1785–1794 (9 Years)</p><br>
<p>William Batchellor, 1794–1799 (5 Years)</p><br>
<p>Samuel Waters, 1799–1825 (26 Years)</p><br>
<p>Moses Harrington, 1825–1831 (6 Years)</p><br>
<p>John Walker, 1831–1836 (5 years)</p><br>
<p>L. B. Cole, 1836–1837 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Charles H. Peabody, 1837–1840 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Otis Converse, 1840–1842 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Samuel Richards, 1842–1843 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>George Deland, 1843–1846 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Job B. Boomer, 1846–1849 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>G. W. Benton, 1849–1850 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>J. Thayer, 1850–1852 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Lorenzo O. Lovell, 1852–1859 (7 Years)</p><br>
<p>O. Crane, 1859–1860 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>J. D. Donovan, 1860–1862 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>David Avery, 1862–1863 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>C. L. Baker, 1863–1864 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>J. Barber, 1864–1865 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Gilman Stone, 1865–1868 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>N. Medbury, 1868–1869 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>A. E. Battlle, 1869–1872 (4 Years)</p><br>
<p>J. H. Tilton, 1871–1873 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>E. J. Stevens, 1872–1873 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Charles F. Myers, 1873–1876 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>E. J. Stevens, 1876–1877 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Joel P. Chapin, 1877–1880 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Charles Newhall, 1880–1885 (5 Years)</p><br>
<p>Albert Green, 1885–1888 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Tuck, 1888–1891 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>William D. MacKinnon, 1892–1897 (5 Years)</p><br>
<p>Charles B. Williams, 1897–1900 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Fred F. Thayer, 1900–1902 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Leopold Sharf, 1901–1903 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Arthur Davis, 1903–1906 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Joseph Joy Theakston, 1906–1910 (4 Years)</p><br>
<p>Allan H. Bissell, 1910–1912 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Frederick Webb, 1912–1915 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>O.D. Thomas, 1915–1916 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>H.Y. Vinal, 1916–1920 (4 Years)</p><br>
<p>J.D. Matthews, 1920–1922 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Leonard Smith, 1922–1925 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Sydney Cahoon, 1925-1926 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>A.C. Krane, 1926–1927 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Kenneth Hatch, 1927–1928 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Henry Schwab, 1928–1936 (8 Years)</p><br>
<p>Fred Bopp, 1936–1937 (1 Year)</p><br>
<p>Vernon D. Byron, 1937–1942 (5 Years)</p><br>
<p>Lee L. Burton, 1942–1944 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Warren C. Young, 1944–1947 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Lewis F. Hall, 1947–1954 (7 Years)</p><br>
<p>Arthur Darby, 1954–1962 (8 Years)</p><br>
<p>John Olson, 1962–1965 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Everett Nickerson, 1965–1967 (2 Years)</p><br>
<p>Willard Smith, 1968–1969 (1+ Years)</p><br>
<p>C. Vaughn Overman 1969–1972 (3 Years)</p><br>
<p>Charles Pentland, 1969–82 (13 Years)</p><br>
<p>Lloyd Yeagle, 1982–1992 (9 years)</p><br>
<p>S.H. Hartman, 1992–1997 (5 Years)</p><br>
<p>Edward J. Pentland, 1997–2017 (20 Years)</p><br>
<p>Donald J. McKinnon, 2017–</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District, located in Flushing Michigan, includes buildings on Main St from Maple to 628  Main St and the Flushing Depot at 431 W Main St. Properties in this district are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 82 structures located on 22.4 acres of land create the district with commercial buildings reflecting ornate Italianate and early twentieth-century styles constructed between 1850 and 1918 and residences exhibiting a wide variety of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungaloid styles and their vernacular derivatives built from 1850 to 1932. Properties we added as part of the Main Street Historic Commercial District and the Genesee County MRA .</p><br>
<h2>Notable Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Henry H. Chatters & Charles N. Talbot Building</h3><br>
<p>100 E Main St. Built 1889. Three story Italianate brick building.</p><br>
<p>In partnership with Charles Talbot, Henry Chatters opened a general mercantile business on the corner of Main and Maple. The building was built in 1889. The cost of the building was $8000. The first floor was used for their business. The second floor functioned as a dining room and dance hall. The 3rd floor was built as a headquarters for a Masonic lodge. The building was sold to the Masonic lodge in 1911. From 1920 to 1959 Bueches Bros., now Bueches Food World, used the first floor as a grocery store.</p><br>
<h3>Laurel House Hotel</h3><br>
<p>101 Main St. Built 1890–1895. Two story Italianate brick building.</p><br>
<p>Built on the site of a wood-framed hotel that burned in 1878. The wood building was purchased by Mary Passmore in the early 1870s. After the fire, a new, three-story brick building was erected by Mary. The three-story brick building was used as a hotel. The top story was removed after a fire on September 21, 1890, and was cut down to two stories. By the mid-1920s the building was no longer used as a hotel. The Flushing Observer occupied the second story from 1894 to 1919.</p><br>
<h3>Arza Niles & Lyman Davie Building</h3><br>
<p>104 Main St. Built in 1886. Three-story Italianate brick building.</p><br>
<p>Built by Arza Niles and Lyman Davie in 1886. The third story was added in 1889 for the Odd Fellows lodge and used until 1916.</p><br>
<h3>Davie&#39;s Opera House</h3><br>
<p>107 E Main St. Built in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1882 by Lyman E Davie. Contains the first cornerstone ever laid in Flushing. The cornerstone was secured from the site of the Flushing Stone Quarry. Davie&#39;s Opera House was located on the second floor. The building originally had a Balcony. The building was purchased in 1916 by the Odd Fellows lodge.</p><br>
<h3>Franklin A Niles Building</h3><br>
<p>112-114 Main St Built 1890–1900.</p><br>
<p>A two-story brick building built for Daniel Cotcher and Franklin Niles. Cotcher and Niles ran successful hardware business since 1865 that moved to this location.</p><br>
<h3>J. B French Building</h3><br>
<p>115 Main St</p><br>
<p>Built 1889-1890 by James French to house his hardware business.</p><br>
<h3>John L. Green/Jacob Kimmel Building/Corinthian Hall</h3><br>
<p>137 E Main St. Listed as 135. Built 1850-1860 Early wood-framed building. Brick exterior added in 1891.Two story Italianate brick veneer building.</p><br>
<p>Originally built by John L. Green as a wood framed blacksmith shop. Later its walls were sheathed with a brick veneer. Kimmel acquired the building in 1880 and operated his business there. The second floor was called Corinthian Hall. The room at the rear of the building was once used to house a fire engine. It is the only pioneer wooden building in existence in Flushing.</p><br>
<h3>Flushing Grange and Observer Building</h3><br>
<p>208 - 214 E Main St. Built 1889</p><br>
<p>Built in 1890 the Grange building and 3 adjoining were all built at the same time. The second build for the Perry Bros mercantile business, third for George Hall, a Flint businessman and the fourth by Joseph Davis & Sons for implement sales. One time used as an outlet for Durant-Dort Carriage Co. The Flushing Observer moved into 214 in 1919.</p><br>
<h3>Presbyterian Church/Community Center</h3><br>
<p>309 E Main St. Built in 1861 to 1864.</p><br>
<p>Construction started in 1861 but delayed because of the Civil War. The building was completed in 1864 with the steeple added in 1865. Church closed in 1921 and was donated to the city for use as city hall. The steeple was destroyed in 1934 by a cyclone.</p><br>
<p>The Concord Gas Light Company Gasholder House is a historic gasholder house at Gas Street in Concord, New Hampshire. Built in 1888, it is believed to be the only such structure in the United States in which the enclosed gas containment unit is essentially intact. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Since 2012, it has been owned by Liberty Utilities, a gas, water and electric company. In 2022, Liberty struck a deal with the city of Concord and the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance to begin emergency stabilization work on the building, so that planning for protection and future use can continue.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Concord Gas Light Company Gasholder House is located south of downtown Concord, on the east side of South Main Street just south of its junction with Water Street and north of its junction with Gas Street. It is a circular brick building 86 ft in diameter, which is capped by a funnel-shaped roof that has a cupola at the center. The total building height is 80 ft. Architecturally, the wall is divided into sixteen sections, articulated by simple brick piers, with a tall and narrow round-headed window in most of these sections. A south-facing bay has a projecting hip-roofed valve house, which historically served as the source feed for the storage facility, while a west-facing bay has a projecting gable-roofed valve house which housed the interconnection to the city mains.</p><br>
<p>Inside the brick structure is a concrete storage tank with a capacity of 125,000 cuft. It has a floor 12 in thick, with walls that taper from 34 in at the base to 30 in at the top. It is reinforced by wrought iron bands. The gasholder (which functions as a sort of lid on the tank) is 80 ft in diameter, and is constructed out of metal plates riveted together. It was guided in its movements by rails mounted on the inside of the concrete tank.</p><br>
<p>The Concord Gas Light Company was founded in 1852, establishing a plant for manufacturing lighting gas from coal on South Main Street. As the company expanded service, it built smaller gasholders, both near its manufacturing sites, and at remote service areas. By the 1880s, it had four such gasholders with a total capacity of 80,000 cuft, which was deemed inadequate for its needs. The present building was constructed in 1888 as a long-term solution to its capacity problem. In 1921 the company built a second gasholder, a more modern steel structure with more capacity, which was demolished in 1989. The company discontinued use of gasholders in 1952, when Concord was connected to natural gas pipeline networks.</p><br>
<p>According to research performed as part of a Historic American Engineering Record survey of the building, it is believed to be the only gasholder building of its type with an intact interior tank.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation efforts</h2><br>
<p>The building is the subject of strenuous preservation efforts. Liberty Utilities acquired it in 2012 when they purchased a 2.4 acre property from another utility company. In late December 2020, Liberty Utilities stated, "The building is in poor condition and has become a safety hazard. Since we are a regulated utility company, and since this building does not serve any purpose for our customers, we cannot justify investing heavily to save it." However, the NH Preservation Alliance fought to stall the company&#39;s demolition efforts, listing the building as one of its "Seven to Save" in 2020 because of its architectural and regional significance.</p><br>
<p>In January 2021, an anonymous donor pledged $500,000 to help save the building from demolition. The donation elevated public interest in the project, and led to a vote by the Concord city council to enter into discussions with Liberty about preservation of the building and future development of the site as a monument and centerpiece of a future south end community. In April 2021, Liberty Utilities agreed to match funds from the anonymous donor and conduct emergency stabilization work. In March 2022, emergency stabilization work on the building began.</p><br>
<p>The Townsend North House is a private house located at 325 North Main Street in Vassar, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Townsend North was born in 1814 in Ulster County, New York. In 1835, his family moved to Washtenaw County, Michigan, where North and his father established a construction contracting company which, among other things, built the first dormitory on the University of Michigans campus. Norths father retired in 1839, but Townsend North continued in the contracting business until 1845, when he moved to Flint. There, he became part of a venture to construct a bridge across the Cass River at Bridgeport; his payment for his contribution was 3000 acres of land, to be located in any portion of Michigan. North chose this location in Tuscola County, and established the town of Vassar.</p><br>
<p>North lived in Vassar and contributed to the economy of the town. He established the first sawmill in 1849, selling it in 1865. He founded a woolen mill in 1867, and by 1875 opened the first bank in Vassar and the first successful general store. He also held public office, ranging from serving as the Tuscola County Register of Deeds in 1850 to serving as State Senator from 1874 to 1875.</p><br>
<p>In 1865, North constructed a house at this location, on a high bluff overlooking Vassar. In 1880, he refurbished and expanded the house into this stylish mansion. The house had the first central heating system in the town, as well as its own hot and cold water system.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Townsend North House is a 2-1/2-story L-shaped Eastlake structure with asymmetrical massing, clad in clapboard. The facade dominated by a narrow, ornate center tower, located in the center of the L, with a steeply sloped hip roof. To the left of the tower is a two-story, two-bay section capped by a gable roof with the eavesline to the front. To the right of the tower is another two-story, two-bay section capped by a gable roof, but with the gable end to the front. Gables are clad with vertical boards. Shutters cover the four bay windows. Two front porches haves paired support columns and heavy cornices.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the house has hardwood woodwork of cherry, walnut, and oak. Etched glass is used throughout for decoration, with a particularly fine example on the front door. Doorframes are elaborately carved, with fine Eastlake detail. In the master bedroom, the fireplace surround displays the ornate carving, and an ornately crafted mirror surround is located above the fireplace.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Montague is a former hotel located at 200 South State Street in Caro, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It now houses the Montague Place Apartments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Montague was born near London, Ontario in 1847 and moved to Caro in 1863. After a stint in the Union Army, he joined his uncles mercantile business. He bought out his uncle in 1867, and continued in business with William E. Sherman. Montague and Sherman constructed a commercial block, located at this site in Caro, in 1869. Over the next few years, Montague continued to construct commercial enterprises in Caro. He also opened a bank in Caro in 1875, and a sugar beet factory in 1899. At this point, Montague realized the need for a first class hotel in Caro. In 1900, Montagues earliest business block was demolished and work began on the first Hotel Montague. The hotel opened in 1902. Montague continued in various business interests for the next 20 years, and even planned to construct an opera house adjacent to the hotel. However, in 1921, he was overcome by illness and died January 10.</p><br>
<p>On November 21, 1923 the first Hotel Montague burned down. The Caro Board of Commerce, realizing the need for a hotel in town, began planning to construct a replacement structure almost immediately. By late December they were reviewing plans from Saginaw architects Cowles & Mutscheller, and by March 1924 had gathered funds to build the hotel. Construction began in May, and was completed by December 1924.</p><br>
<p>The hotel continued to operate as a hotel through the Great Depression and beyond. The hotel changed owners in 1962, but by the late 1960s, much of the hotel business had moved to newer motels on the outskirts of the community. It was again sold in 1978, and in 1984, a fire closed the hotel for good. The building remained vacant through 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Montague is a -story L-shaped brick and cut fieldstone building sited on a corner lot. The main facade is Classical Revival in form, and includes a pedimented, double-deck, brick-pier portico at the join of the legs of the L. Concrete stairs at both ends of the portico provide access to the main entrance. The lower story is clad with fieldstones, a remnant of the original 1902 hotel. The upper two stories are covered with a brown face brick. The flat roof is hidden behind a parapet. Two small additions from the 1950s are in the rear. All windows are double hung wood, with a single light.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Columbia is a former hotel building located at 194 East Huron Avenue in Vassar, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The building now houses a restaurant, the Riverside Grill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Vassar was founded in 1849 by Townsend North and James Edmunds. It grew steadily, primarily due to the logging business, and was incorporated as a village in 1871. However, the depletion of the timberlands in the area and the 1881 Thumb Fire signalled the end of lumbering in Vassar. The area shifted to agricultural production, particularly of sugar beets. By 1900, sugar beet production was an important component of the local economy.</p><br>
<p>During this era or transition, prominent Vassar businessman J.P. Blackmore constructed this hotel. Blackmore was born in County Tippery, Ireland, and came to Michigan in 1871 to work on the construction of heavy timber bridges for new railroad lines being built at the time. By 1874, J.P and his brother Simon had moved to Vassar and set out on various business ventures, including opening a saloon and billiards hall in 1875 and later purchasing the Central House, one of Vassar&#39;s earliest inns. In 1883, Blackmore purchased the Jewell House in Vassar, then expanded the hotel and sold it in 1888 to concentrate on farming. However, in 1892, Blackmore built this hotel, the Hotel Columbia in Vassar.</p><br>
<p>Blackmore owned and operated the Hotel Columbia until 1902, when he sold the business to his brother Simon. Simon Blackmore sold the business to John H. Schultz in 1909. The hotel and its restaurant passed through a number of owners between 1913 and 1932 and became the "Vassar Hotel" in 1929.</p><br>
<p>It operated as a hotel until 1986, when a severe flood damaged the building and forced it to close. The group renovated the hotel, and a restaurant, "Betty Lous," opened inside in 1996. Betty Lous closed in the 2010s. The building was vacant for several years until 2016, when a new restaurant, the Riverside Grill, opened.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Columbia is a two-story L-shaped brownish-red brick commercial building with a flat roof and concrete foundation. A single story mass is at the rear of the building, in the angle of the L; two small additions are appended onto this mass. The building is located on a corner lot, with two main facades, but giving primacy to the longer facade along Huron. Both facades have flat arch one-over-one windows with continuous rock-face sandstone sills. On the corner is a small round "turret" on the second floor, supported by two plain stone columns. Atop the turret is a sandstone block bearing the inscription "J. P. Blackmore." Below the turret is an entrance which originally led to the lobby. The entrance door is surrounded by sidelights and a transom. Both facades are partitioned by pilasters into bays.</p><br>
<p>The Millington Bank Building is a commercial building located at 8534 State Street in Millington, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It now houses the house the Millington-Arbela Historical Society&#39;s museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Millington Township was first settled in 1850. Logging began a few years later, and the railroad line came through in 1871. This led to the platting in 1873 of the village of Millington. The village was incorporated in 1877, and by 1881 had a population of about 450 people. The first local bank in Millington was established in the early 1890s by local druggist John A. Damon, who founded the Millington Bank. By 1893 Damon had sold out to F.E. Kelsey and Co. owned by Frederick E. Kelsey and Julian D. Wilsey. In 1897, Kelsey and Wilsey purchased the site on which this building sits; the bank building was almost certainly constructed later that year or in early 1898.</p><br>
<p>At the end of 1898, Kelsey and Wilsey sold the bank property to Caro bankers William H. Carson and John M. Ealy. The firm took on more partners, and Carson died in 1904; by 1907 the firm running the Millington Bank was called Ealy, Evans & Co. Ealy, however, overextended by purchasing or establishing a string of banks in the region, and in 1927 declared bankruptcy.</p><br>
<p>A new bank, the Millington National Bank, was formed in 1927 and purchased the former Bank of Millington building in 1929. However, the Millington National Bank failed in 1933. The building housed a medical practice from 1938 to 1948, served as the public library from 1952 to 1972, and housed a photo studio and card shop from 1972 to 1995. After this, the building was refurbished to house the Millington-Arbela Historical Society&#39;s museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Millington Bank Building is a single story commercial building constructed with split fieldstone walls and a flat roof. The building measures twenty-four feet in width by thirty feet in depth. The main facade has two similar broad, arched openings. One holds the recessed main entrance, the other opening holds a tripartite window with double-hung sash. A cornice runs across the top. The interior was and is a single room, with a brick vault against the rear wall.</p><br>
<p>The Tuscola County Courthouse is a government building located at 440 North State Street in Caro, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tuscola County was established in 1840 as part of Saginaw County, but in 1850 was authorized to establish its own county government. Vassar was selected as the first county seat, but a prolonged dispute over the location, begun in 1860, ended with Caro being designated the county seat in 1867. An unused church building was moved into Caro to serve as the first courthouse until 1872, when a new stone-and-brick courthouse was erected.</p><br>
<p>By the 1920s, the 1873 courthouse was considered too small, and in 1926 voters approved a one mill tax to raise $300,000 to fund a new courthouse. In 1931 a building committee was established, which reviewed multiple proposals, accepting plans from Detroit architect William H. Kuni, who also designed the Alpena County Courthouse. Contractors were hired, and demolition of the old courthouse and construction of the new one began in 1932. The building was completed in 1933, and continues to serve the county.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Tuscola County Courthouse is a rectangular, two-story, Art Deco building measuring 120 feet by 75 feet. The exterior walls are steel frame faced with Indiana limestone on a granite-faced foundation. The facade has a central mass with slightly lower wings to each side which project slightly forward. The grounds are nearly level with the entryway, which is reached via a six-step staircase. The main block contains five vertical bands of windows separated by projecting piers. Windows are square-headed on the first floor and round-arched on the second. The piers support an entablature which reads "TUSCOLA - COUNTY - COURT - HOUSE"</p><br>
<p>The interior is reached through a recessed entryway, which leads into a vestibule and then the lobby. A stair accesses the second-floor lobby and the courtroom. In the public spaces, the floors are terrazzo and the walls are pink marble. A tinted and stained glass window fills the broad and tall arched window in the rear wall behind the main staircase&#39;s mid-level landing.</p><br>
<p>The Lovira Hart, Jr., and Esther Maria Parker Farm is a historic farmstead located at 9491 West Frankenmuth Road in Tuscola Township, Michigan. It was settled in 1836 and has been continuously owned by the same family since that time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lovira Hart grew up in Mount Morris, New York. In late 1836, Lovira and his wife&#39;s brother, John Abbey, traveled to Tuscola County and purchased land. They were some of the first European settlers in the area. In 1837 Hart constructed a log cabin and returned to New York to bring his family. In mid-1837 Lovira, his wife Hannah Emeline, and their family moved to this location in Michigan. However, in 1841 Hannah Emeline died in childbirth, leaving Lovira with four young children. Lovira Hart remarried in 1842, to Esther Maria Parker; the couple had three more children.</p><br>
<p>Lovira Hart became involved in local government and politics, serving as Tuscola Township Supervisor in 1844, 1846, 1851, and 1857, as Township Treasurer in</p><br>
<p>1850, and he was elected Tuscola Countys first County Judge in 1850. He also built one of the townships first schools in 1850.</p><br>
<p>Hart constructed the farmhouse on the property between 1848 and 1852, when the family moved in. A well house and barn were built some time later. The farmstead was substantially upgraded in 1880, with an addition to the house and the construction of several outbuildings. Lovira Hart died in 1892, passing the farm down to his descendants. Additional buildings on the property were constructed through the first half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lovira Hart, Jr., and Esther Maria Parker Farm complex straddles Hart Road, and includes a farmhouse with multiple outbuildings. The house is of post and beam construction on a stone foundation. It is a front gable Greek Revival Upright and Wing structure with a two-story upright and single story wing. A single-story addition is located at the rear. There is a small covered front porch on the wing section, supported by two square columns, sheltering the entry door which is symmetrically flanked by two windows. The house is clad with clapboard, now covered with vinyl siding. Greek Revival detailing includes the low-pitched roofs, cornice returns, symmetrical placement of the windows, and the wide band of divided trim along the cornice line of the upright.</p><br>
<p>Outbuildings in the complex near the house include: an 1852 gable-roof wellhouse, a 1920 concrete block ash house, a 1920 garage, a 1942 hog cot, and a 1910 hog barn with a gambrel roof. Across the road there are more buildings, including a pre-1880 horse and buggy barn, a windmill and watering trough shed, a large 1870 gambrel roof barn, two milk houses, a silo, corn crib, chicken coop, and tool barn.</p><br>
<p>The South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130 is a historic bridge in rural Turner County, South Dakota, carrying 281st Street across the East Fork Vermillion River north of Davis. Built in 1906, it is the oldest surviving bridge built for the county by the Iowa Bridge Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130 is located in eastern Turner County, about 3 mi north of Davis and 0.5 mi west. It is a six-span structure, carrying 281st Street across the East Branch of the Vermilion River. between 450th and 460th Avenues. Five of the spans are timber stringer approach spans, four east of the main span and one to its west. The main span is a Pratt through truss, 75 ft in length. Its western abutment is a timber trestle, while the eastern one is of concrete construction with fieldstone wing walls. The truss consists of pin-connected elements, and the floor decking consists of timbers laid over steel I-beams.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1906 by the Iowa Bridge Company of Des Moines, Iowa. The county had a contract with that company to provide its steel truss bridges between 1905 and 1911, apparently as part of a common but illegal practice of "pooling", in which companies divided the state into areas where they did not compete against one another. Of the four surviving Iowa Bridge Company bridges surveyed in the county in the late 1990s, this one is the oldest.</p><br>
<p>The Erastus Bolles House is a historic house in Afton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1856 in what was then the separate community of Valley Creek. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement. As one of the original houses in Valley Creek, it was nominated for helping to depict one of the many small Washington County settlements that formed around a commercial venture—though one that never progressed to formal platting—and the community&#39;s two-decade preference for Greek Revival architecture. Valley Creek was later formally incorporated into Afton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Erastus Bolles House is a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame building on an L-shaped floorplan. Its design is extremely simple. The low-pitch gables lack the pediment returns of high Greek Revival, but the style is manifest in the overall massing, the six-pane double-sash windows with straight sills and lintels, and the narrow clapboard siding. The main entrance is offset to the right edge of the front façade. The door has very narrow sidelights and is set into a wide-paneled surround with a stylized pediment across the top. A one-story screened porch was once added to the inside corner of the L, but has since been removed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Erastus Bolles was born in Madison County, New York, in 1821. In 1855 he traveled to Minnesota to visit his uncle Lemuel Bolles, who had settled in Washington County in 1842 and built the first private gristmill north of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The younger Bolles liked what he saw and returned the following year with his wife Sophronia and their children to settle permanently. They picked a location a little farther up Valley Creek from Lemuel&#39;s mill, adjacent to the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road, where they constructed this house and a blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>Once a year in the fall the Bolles family would travel to Saint Paul to purchase winter supplies, a journey that involved setting out with a team of oxen at 3:00 in the morning.</p><br>
<p>Erastus Bolles, who had trained as a blacksmith and toolmaker with his father, harnessed water from Valley Creek in 1858 to power a trip hammer and other equipment, allowing him to expand into manufacturing farm implements. A community taking its name from the waterway grew around Bolless business. In 1863 the Valley Creek School was first organized, meeting initially in the Bolles home until a schoolhouse could be moved onto land Erastus sold for the nominal fee of a dollar. In the early 1870s he opened a retail store, becoming postmaster of Valley Creek. Upon their daughter Emmas wedding to Silas Geer in 1873, Erastus and Sophronia gave them land across the road as a wedding present, upon which they built their own house. In 1875 Erastus transferred the smithy business to their son Charles, who soon relocated it a short distance downstream and added corn and feed grinding facilities. The Bolles store burned down in 1880 but Erastus had it rebuilt and turned it over to Charles and his other son Fred. Erastus Bolles died the following year.</p><br>
<p>The Bolles House was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as one of three early Valley Creek houses in a 1981 thematic resource study. The Newington Gilbert House was also listed but the third residence, built for the Bolleses&#39; daughter and son-in-law, was not.</p><br>
<p>The Newington Gilbert House is a historic house in Afton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1864 in what was then the separate community of Valley Creek. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement. As one of the original houses in Valley Creek, it was nominated for helping to depict one of the many small Washington County settlements that formed around a commercial venture—though one that never progressed to formal platting—and the community&#39;s two-decade preference for Greek Revival architecture. Valley Creek was later formally incorporated into Afton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Newington Gilbert House is a two-story wood-frame building. The original section has a simple rectangular floorplan. Patterned on ancient Greek temples, it sports as decoration full-height pilasters at the front corners, a wide entablature, and gable returns forming a broken pediment. The double-sash windows have straight wooden lintels. while an attic window at the gable peak has a shelf-like hood supported by small brackets. An enclosed porch stretches across the front of the house and wraps around much of the south side as well. The porch has square columns that echo the pilasters on the main structure.</p><br>
<p>A transverse wing was added to the rear of the Gilbert House sometime after its nomination to the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Newington Gilbert was born in Onondaga County, New York, in 1815. He married his wife Celestia in 1850 and the couple moved out to Washington County, Minnesota, the following year. They initially settled on a farm in Woodbury, where Newington served as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Democrat delegation to the Minnesota constitutional convention in 1857. In 1860 he and a business partner established a gristmill on Valley Creek. Newington sold his interest in the mill just two years later, but in 1864 the Gilberts moved to the community of Valley Creek and had this home built for themselves and their two children. When Newington died in 1912 at the age of 97, he was the last surviving member of the state constitutional convention.</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert House was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as one of three early Valley Creek houses in a 1981 thematic resource study. The Erastus Bolles House was also listed but a third residence, the Silas Geer House, was not.</p><br>
