<p>The Carpenter Hotel Historic District comprises a hotel complex near Atlantic City, Wyoming. Also known as the Miners Delight Inn, the hotel was established by Nellie Carpenter in 1904 with six rooms and a dining room. The hotel was expanded in 1935 with a two-story section and five guest cabins. The hotel housed Atlantic Citys post office from 1930 to 1953. The Carpenter family sold the hotel in 1963 following Nellie&#39;s death. It continues to operate as a hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Stearns Administrative and Commercial District, located on Old USA Route 27 in Stearns, Kentucky, is a 4.3 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It included six contributing buildings and one non-contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The main element is the Stearns Company General Offices Building, "a two-and one-half story frame building that utilizes dormers, porches, and roof lines characteristic of the American Four Square House." The McCreary County Museum now uses the building.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Penn Edmunds House, on Rocky Hill Road / Kentucky Route 1297 in Barren County, Kentucky near Beckton, is a Federal-style brick house which was built in c.1836-37. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Captain William Edmunds received this land as a military grant; his grandson Charles Penn Edmunds built the house. The house has Flemish bond brickwork at the front and common bond on the sides.</p><br>
<p>The Olive Hill C & O Depot is a historic Chesapeake & Ohio railway depot in Olive Hill, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1910, on the southern side of Railroad St., west of the junction with Plum St. in Olive Hill, in Prairie School style.</p><br>
<p>It was renovated for use as a First National Bank branch in 1989–1990.</p><br>
<p>The Irvine Historic Business District in Irvine, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It is located at roughly the junction of Kentucky Route 52 and Kentucky Route 89</p><br>
<p>It included 28 contributing buildings and four non-contributing buildings and sites.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>Estill County Courthouse (1939)</p><br>
<p>Wallace Hotel / Citizens Voice & Times (1922), 108 Court St.</p><br>
<p>Mack Theatre (1930s), 110 Main</p><br>
<p>more</p><br>
<p>The Peck and Hills Furniture Company Warehouse is a historic warehouse located at 909 West Bliss Street on Goose Island in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1901, the warehouse was the main storage and distribution facility for the Peck and Hills Furniture Company. Founded in 1896, the company became the largest furniture distributor in the country by the end of the 1920s. The companys warehouse facilities, which were expanded significantly during its growth, were integral to its ability to expand into new markets. The warehouse also connected to the citys railway network, allowing the company to easily ship its goods across the country. Peck and Hills declined significantly during the Great Depression, and it sold its Chicago warehouse facilities in 1942. The warehouse is now one of the few remnants of Goose Island&#39;s industrial history.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 2015.</p><br>
<p>on April 15th 1929 Peck and Hills opened a manufacturing plant at what is now 1000 Denny Way in Seattle. The building was shared with the Baxley Dress company on the 8th floor. The building is still in use today.</p><br>
<p>The Culbertson House in Ashland, Kentucky is an Italianate-style house built in 1876. It is located at 1520 Chestnut Dr. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was built by iron industrialist Thomas Means for his daughter. It is larger than most houses of its era in the area, has "is encrusted</p><br>
<p>with an unusually profuse variety of Italianate features."</p><br>
<p>Appleton City Hall is a historic municipal building in Appleton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1895 as one of the few monumental 19th-century buildings in rural western Minnesota. It initially housed Appletons government offices, fire department, and jail on the ground floor and an auditorium on the upper floor. The city hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and politics/government. It was nominated for supposedly being an example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and for its long service as a local government and community center. However other sources describe the buildings style less specifically as Romanesque Revival, and its municipal services relocated to other facilities in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The New Castle Historic Commercial District in New Castle, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The 6.24 acre listed area includes 29 contributing buildings. It includes the Italianate-style Henry County Courthouse, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>New Castle&#39;s historic center is somewhat different from those of other Kentucky county seat towns, as it never had a railroad. Railroads reached most county seats by around 1920 and shaped development significantly. Most of the contributing buildings in the district are one- or two-story brick structures; three are log buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Henry County Courthouse, Jail, and Warden&#39;s House in New Castle, Kentucky was built in 1875. It was designed by the McDonald Brothers in a mix of Italianate, Second Empire, and other styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It is a six-bay two-story brick building on a rusticated stone foundation. A stone jail and brick jailer&#39;s house extend to the rear, making the overall plan T-shaped.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the building was listed as a contributing building to the New Castle Historic Commercial District.</p><br>
<p>The Greenup Masonic Lodge, located at 314 Main St. in Greenup, Kentucky, is a three-story brick building constructed in 1867. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a combination Masonic lodge hall and commercial building. It was deemed notable "as Greenup&#39;s best exampie of how Greek Revival and Italianate stylistic elements were combined to create impressive commercial buildings after the Civil War." It was built for the Greenup Masonic Lodge, which was organized in 1827. The lodge incorporated in 1868 in order to build the building.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as Leslie&#39;s Drugstore.</p><br>
<p>The Lane Theater in Williamsburg, Kentucky, located at 508 Main St., is an Art Deco-style building which was built in 1948. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The first-floor level of the facade "is covered in yellow and brown horizontal striped panels of enameled metal, accented with chrome&quot the facade further above "is faced in vertical yellow and brown striped panels of enameled metal surrounding second floor glass block windows."</p><br>
<p>The Stearns Golf Course, at 131 Clubhouse Dr. in Stearns, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The nomination included 180 acre including the 49 acre golf course, a log clubhouse built in 1936, and a kidney-shaped in-ground pool. The clubhouse and pool were funded by the Works Progress Administration. It was located in a coal company town and the NRHP nomination described it as "a very unusual place, as well as a significant one. It shows the lengths that some coal companies went to create a familiar experience in a very foreign place, importing a feature of urban leisure in a place of rural work."</p><br>
<p>The Hand County Courthouse and Jail, located at 415 W. First Ave. in Miller, South Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The Art Deco courthouse was built in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is 70x100 ft in plan and is 51 ft tall (from first floor to roof).</p><br>
<p>The jail and residence is also built in Art Deco style, and was built in 1931 of Bedford stone. It is 71x49 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>The Edgar Vernon House, located off USA Route 16 in Presho, South Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1908 and is a one-and-a-half-story house with some elements of Victorian architectural style; it was the grandest house in the area. It was built for the Edgar Vernon family who came from Delaware to Lyman County, South Dakota in 1907. It was built by carpenters Emery Fry, David Holmes, and Bill Nelson.</p><br>
<p>The house served as a flu hospital during World War I.</p><br>
<p>South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 16-570-054 in rural Corson County, South Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It brings a local road over Oak Creek near McLaughlin, South Dakota.</p><br>
<p>It is a small rural bridge in Corson County, South Dakota. It is a pony truss bridge with king post trusses built by Western Bridge & Construction Co. in 1911.</p><br>
<p>St. Therese Church, west of Beattyville, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It is a wood-frame church on a concrete block foundation. It was built in 1948 from materials of the Contrary Creek Settlement School Church, a previous church located about a mile away, which had been built in the 1920s. The new church was built to a different design. Kitchen and living quarters for Catholic nuns and for the circuit-riding priest were added.</p><br>
<p>Beaumont Avenue Residential District is a 5.7 acre historic district in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It includes properties along Beaumont Avenue from number 338 to number 538. It included 14 contributing buildings and two non-contributing buildings, all being residences. The oldest house is the Magoffin-Gaither House, at 464 Beaumont Avenue, built in 1850.</p><br>
<p>The America Fore Building is a historic office building located at 844 N. Rush Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was built in 1923 for the America Fore group, a group of four insurance companies with shared leadership. In the early 20th century, commercial development north of the Chicago River was guided first by the Burnham Plan in 1909 and later by the North Central Business District Association, which commissioned a plan of the area in 1919. While the Association mainly focused on development along Michigan Avenue, it also made plans for the surrounding neighborhood, and the America Fore Building was built according to these plans. The building is twelve stories tall, only two higher than the Association&#39;s set limit for Michigan Avenue, and features a similar design with stone cladding and large showroom windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The William Soaper Farm in Henderson, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>While the entire farm is about 549 acre in size, the listed area is 148.5 acre. This area includes 13 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site, as well as two non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The buildings include:</p><br>
<p>William Soaper Home (c. 1808), built as a log dogtrot building, expanded in 1834 to enclose the dogtrot and to add a second story, converting it into an I-house.</p><br>
<p>The Barret House, at 204 S. Elm St. in Henderson, Kentucky, was built in c.1868. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is an "imposing Italianate villa" built for William T. Barret, a successful tobacconist.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing building in the South Main and South Elm Streets Historic District, which was listed on the National Register in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Ford Stone House, located south of Elliston in Grant County, Kentucky, was built c. 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story cut stone house with exterior chimneys on both ends. The house was built facing south, but was later moved and faces north.</p><br>
<p>It is located just west of Kentucky Route 1942 in the small community of Folsom, Kentucky (population 85).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Originally built to face south, the house has been reoriented, and its entrance now presents itself on the north side.</p><br>
<p>This 1½-story structure is crafted from cut stone and features prominent exterior chimneys, giving it a stout appearance. On the first floor, each side of the central entrance is adorned with a small window, while the second level remains unbroken by any protruding bays. However, the gable ends are distinguished by attic windows flanking the chimney. Recently, a side entrance has been added to the east, adjacent to the chimney.</p><br>
<p>It is believed that the initial layout included two rooms on the ground floor, but it has since been transformed into a single expansive space, with an enclosed staircase located along the south wall. This staircase ascends to an attic room, which was once finished with plaster. The original woodwork has largely been lost, with the exception of a mantelpiece on the east wall of the first floor.</p><br>
<p>Surrounded by open fields, the site lacks any remaining outbuildings. The property line extends 25 feet from the north and west walls and stretches eastward to Kentucky Highway 1942, while extending southward approximately 75 feet to include the family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>After standing empty for several years and suffering from neglect, the property has recently been sold and renovated for residential use by its new owners.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery nearby features five simple headstones, though none bear any identifiable names.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Ford Stone House is notable as one of the few remaining stone structures in Grant County, and it may well be the oldest.</p><br>
<p>Grant County, established in 1820 by the Kentucky General Assembly, is located in the northern part of the state. The landscape features rolling hills and a primarily rural environment, with Williamstown serving as the county seat and home to around 2,063 residents.</p><br>
<p>Believed to have been built around the time of the countys founding, circa 1820, the Ford House carries historical significance due to its ties to the Ford family, who were pivotal in the regions early milling industry.</p><br>
<p>John Ford, the houses first owner, moved to Kentucky from Virginia around 1794. He acquired the land in 1811 after relocating from Bourbon County. Following his death in 1840, the estate passed to his son, Elijah. Tragically, Elijah was murdered in 1856 by a slave named Warrick Ford, an event that deeply impacted the local community. Many long-time residents of Grant County still recount details of the murder, the ensuing trial, and Warricks quick conviction and execution, noting that these were among the rare legal hangings recorded in the area.</p><br>
<p>While stone buildings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries are more common in regions like the Bluegrass, they are relatively scarce in Grant County, which is situated about 25 miles south of Cincinnati. The county&#39;s limited resources and economic challenges hindered the construction of more sophisticated structures, with most significant architecture emerging during the mid to late Victorian era, following the arrival of the railroad.</p><br>
<p>Interestingly, despite John Fords peaceful passing, local narratives often mistakenly attribute the story of the murder to him, further complicating the familys legacy and intertwining it with the tragic events surrounding Elijah&#39;s death.</p><br>
<p>The Marrowbone Historic District is a 1.7 acre historic district in Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It included three contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Marrowbone Presbyterian Church, the Modern Woodmen of America Hall, and the William Barton House (with a small smokehouse behind). The church and probably also the Woodmen Hall were built by local contractor John Wesley Williams.</p><br>
<p>The Whitesburg Historic District, in Whitesburg in Letcher County, Kentucky, is an 82 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It included 86 contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and a contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It includes parts of Main St., Broadway, Bentley, Webb, and Hayes Aves., Church, Pine, Cowan, Madison Sts., River Rd., and Hazard Rd. in Whitesburg. Altogether it includes 126 contributing and non-contributing resources.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>numerous residences</p><br>
<p>two churches</p><br>
<p>former soft drink bottling plant</p><br>
<p>two bridges</p><br>
<p>various commercial buildings</p><br>
<p>Letcher County Courthouse (non-contributing)</p><br>
<p>The Gower House, located on Water St. in Smithland, Kentucky, was built in about 1780. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It was built as an inn for travelers, on the south bank of the confluence of the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. It is built of 16 in thick brick walls.</p><br>
<p>Author Ned Buntline, who wrote about Buffalo Bill Cody and other Western stories, lived in the inn in 1845.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lawson House, a Queen Anne-style house on Wabash Ave. in Grand Rivers, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-and-a-half-story frame house on a brick foundation. It was completed in 1876.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable "as one of the last and certainly the most identifiable reminders of the brief boom era of the late 19th century which resulted from the attempt to establish an iron industry in the community. This large Victorian house, the most impressive building in Grand Rivers, was constructed as a residence for Thomas Lawson, the developer responsible for the planning and construction associated with the project. Although these plans were ultimately to fail, the period was one of the most historic events in the life of this small Kentucky town."</p><br>
<p>It was the first building in Grand Rivers to have electric power, and the first to have indoor plumbing.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Hartford Historic District in Hartford, Kentucky is a 4 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly the 100 and 200 blocks of Main St. and Courthouse Sq., and 100 blocks E. Union & E. Washington Streets. The district includes the Ohio County Courthouse and its jail, and the Hartford city hall, among its 16 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio County Courthouse "is the most imposing building" in the district. It is a two-story concrete building designed by Walter Scott Roberts and built during 1940–1943. It is the fourth courthouse on the location.</p><br>
<p>The Old Town Historic District in Hartford, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The 6 acre listed area included 17 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The district is roughly bounded by E. Union, Clay, E. Washington and Liberty Streets. It includes the Hartford Seminary, which is separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Ceralvo Masonic Hall and School, in Centertown, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Ceralvo Masonic Hall and School replaced an earlier building that had been built in its area but had burnt down the prior year. It was used for the education of the public, public meetings, and it was a religious facility. It was in significant use through the years of 1897-1925 when it served these purposes. After a new school had been built close to the Hall and School, its purpose has shifted to the use of a Methodist church.</p><br>
<p>It was one of 15 sites approved by the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board for NRHP nomination in June 2015.</p><br>
<p>Lebanon Plantation is a state historic site located at 5745 Ogeechee Road in Savannah, Georgia. The site is over 500 acre consisting of a large estate granted to James Deveaux in 1756, and was named for the many cedar trees on the property. An additional 500 acres were granted to Phillip Delegal in 1758 and eventually became part of the plantation. The site was purchased by Joseph Habersham in 1802. Habersham sold it in 1804 to George W. Anderson who built the main house that was rebuilt and added on to after the American Civil War. Anderson&#39;s son, George Wayne Anderson, JR Commanded Fort McAllister in the Civil War, and after the fort fell, Lebanon became his prison and the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army Corps of the US Army.</p><br>
<p>After occupation, the main house at Lebanon was partially destroyed, and foreclosed upon in 1868. It was recovered by George W. Anderson in 1871. The extent of the damage to the original house is not known, but was rebuilt and repaired by April 23, 1873. Anderson later divided the property and allowed French immigrants to form a colony called LEsperance. They planted and cultivated vineyards that did not succeed. In 1916, Savannahs Mills Bee Lane, father of the citys preservationist Mary Lane Morrison, purchased the plantation from the Anderson family heirs, and grew a new variety of orange, called the Savannah Satsuma. It was later owned by Morrisons son, Howard J. Morrison Jr. (1943–2019), and his wife, Mary Reynolds Morrison, the third generation of the Lane–Morrison family to continuously own the property.</p><br>
<p>Lebanon remains a working plantation today, much in the same manner it has for over two centuries.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical setting</h2><br>
<p>Lebanon Plantation is situated approximately 9 mi southwest of downtown Savannah in Georgia&#39;s Lower Coastal Plain region. Located at 5475 Ogeechee Road, just off historic Highway 17.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>Native Americans have probably inhabited the area on at least a semi-annual basis for thousands of years, as indicated by oyster shell deposits excavated in the vicinity. By the time European explorers arrived in the area in the 16th century, the area was claimed by the Yuchi and the Creek tribe. When the first permanent English colonists landed at what is now Savannah in 1733, the area was part of the domain of the Yamacraw, a detached branch of the Creeks, although the area was apparently uninhabited at the time. James Oglethorpe, the leader of these English colonists, maintained a friendly relationship with the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi, and managed to peacefully acquire the Savannah area and the lands in its vicinity.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the late 17th-century, Spain (which had established itself in Florida in the previous century) retained loose control over the Georgia coast via Native American allies. This inevitably brought them into conflict with the growing English colonies to the north, namely Carolina. In 1702, Carolina governor James Moore led an expedition against Spanish settlements in Florida and, en route, raided and destroyed the Spanish Native American missions off the Georgia coast. While Spain still claimed the coast and islands, the area was largely abandoned, creating a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the English Carolinas.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1730s, the English decided to colonize the islands between the Carolinas and Florida. A charter was granted in 1732, and the first colonists set sail in the same year. The English colonists that arrived at Savannah in 1733 formed the core of what would eventually become the colony and state of Georgia.</p><br>
<h3>Establishment of Lebanon Plantation</h3><br>
<p>Nearby, Noble Jones fortified house was one of several defensive works built between Frederica on Saint Simons Island and the Savannah townsite. The English were concerned that the Spanish still claimed the area and would eventually attempt to expel them. Conflict erupted in 1739 with the outbreak of the War of Jenkins Ear, the name for the regional theater of the greater War of the Austrian Succession. Jones took part in an English raid along the St. Johns River in northern Florida in 1740, as well as the successful defense of Frederica at the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742. The end of the war in 1748 largely neutralized Spanish threats to the new colony. The land that would become Lebanon Plantation was granted to James Deveaux in 1756. An additional 500 acres was granted to Phillip Delegal in 1758, that eventually became part of the plantation.</p><br>
<p>Irishman Stephen Deane and African Fenda Lawrence, partners in the African slave trade, raised their mixed race children at Lebanon during the American Revolution.see Robert S. Davis, "Free But Not Freed: Stephen Deane&#39;s African Family in Early Georgia," Georgia Historical Quarterly 97 (Spring 2013): 61-72.</p><br>
<h3>Antebellum Lebanon</h3><br>
<p>The practice of slavery had been banned by Georgias original charter, so many land owners used indentured servant labor to tend the fields in many plantations early years. When the Trustees revoked the ban on slavery in 1749, most turned to slave labor in order to make them profitable. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Lebanon was occupied and served as the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army Corps, under the Command of General William Babcock Hazen. After the fall of Fort McAllister, its Commander, George Wayne Anderson Jr. was imprisoned in his own home. General Hazen and Lt. Col. Strong invited General William Tecumseh Sherman to dinner, to celebrate their victory. In a kind gesture of respect, General Hazen also invited Major Anderson to attend the meal, after clearing the request with Sherman. The discussion was surely lively - during the meal Anderson engaged in a heated exchange with General Sherman about the tactics employed to defend the fort and the bravery of all who fought there. Cigars were exchanged and smoked, tributes were made to the fallen.</p><br>
<h3>Lebanon in the 20th century</h3><br>
<p>Lebanon Plantation reflects the organic architectural growth of a plantation house continually occupied through several generations. From its antebellum origins, destruction and rebirth after the Civil War, Reconstruction and remodeling, the main house has retained its identity and character. The Neo-Classical veranda of the twentieth century coexists with the core of the house built in the Greek Revival style of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h3>Lebanon Plantation today</h3><br>
<p>Today Lebanon&#39;s Verdant Kitchen, founded in 2012 by Howard Morrison and Brisbane native Ross Harding, produces beverages, baked goods, candies, snacks and spices available at regional farmers markets, online and in specialty gourmet and grocery stores.</p><br>
<p>The ginger crops, including turmeric and galangal — also known as Thai ginger — are grown and harvested at Lebanon Plantation, then sliced, dried and ground at raw food temperature in the plantations USDA-certified organic processing facility. The products are then made in the companys USDA-approved kitchen in Atlanta.</p><br>
<p>Whitehaven  is a historic plantation house in Paducah, Kentucky, in use since 1983 as the Kentucky welcome center on Interstate 24  near the state border with Illinois. It is the only historic house in the United States also used as a rest area. The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1865, tobacco dealer Edward L. Anderson completed construction of a simple two-story, brick farmhouse, the bricks for which had been fired in a pit on the grounds. The house remained in the Anderson family until sold to a local businessman, Edward Lafayette Atkins, in 1903. Atkins commissioned his friend, architect Alda Lafayette Lassiter to remodel the house in the Classical Revival style. Lassiter added a grand staircase, elaborate plaster ceilings with crown molding, and a large portico with eight Corinthian columns. The house was painted white, and Atkins named it Whitehaven.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, after the death of Atkins&#39; wife, Atkins sold the house to James P. Smith, mayor of Paducah. The Smiths made many changes, hiring Marshall Fields to do interior decorating. Smith added a storm shelter in the back yard and converted the attic into additional bedrooms for their six children. Nell Smith changed the name of the now 22-room house to "Bide-A-Wee" ("Stay awhile") to honor her Scottish heritage, and she and her daughter created formal gardens on the property.</p><br>
<h2>Decline</h2><br>
<p>The last member of the Smith family moved out of the house in 1968, and it was left with caretakers who seem to have both abused the house and sold fixtures from it. After the caretakers themselves moved out in 1979, vandals broke every remaining pane of glass but one, and water damage rotted ceilings, floors, and portico. A portion of the east wall collapsed.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 1981 the Smith family sold the 32 acre parcel to Paducah Junior College, which planned to use the property in expanding the college. The college did not want to demolish the house, but it did not have the money to restore it either. Later that year, Governor John Y. Brown Jr. and Secretary of Transportation Frank Metts decided that the house could serve as the I-24 welcome center. There was opposition from other tourism-dependent counties, which wanted a modern welcome center nearer the Interstate and the Ohio River and believed that restoring the mansion benefited Paducah and McCracken County at the expense of other nearby tourist areas.</p><br>
<p>After a brief archaeological investigation, the house was carefully restored using as much original material as possible. The kitchen wing was partially demolished and the remainder adapted to serve as a welcome center, with restrooms, information desk, and storage areas. Three outbuildings — the gazebo, storm shelter, and carriage house — were also saved and repurposed. Part of the second floor of the house was devoted to displaying memorabilia of Vice President Alben Barkley (1877–1956). The welcome center, renamed "Whitehaven," was officially opened on June 23, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The James B. Dutton House was built as a single-family house located at 605 Calhoun Street in Lapeer, Michigan. It is now the Calhoun Apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was constructed between 1863 and 1864 for James B. Dutton, a lawyer and insurance agent in Lapeer during the town&#39;s period of early prosperity and growth. In 1869, the house passed to Oliver and Mary P. Nichols, the owners of a local hardware store. The Nicholses lived in the house until 1892, when it was purchased by the Presbyterian Church, whose sanctuary is located two blocks away. The church used the house as a manse until 1955. After this use ended, the house was converted into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The James B. Dutton House is a T-shaped, wood-framed structure sitting on a stone foundation. The house is sited on a corner. The stem of the "T" contains a five-sided first floor bay window ornamented with dentils, paired brackets, and arched window surrounds. Above is a pair of rounded-arch windows on the second story, and carved and incised brackets at the eaves. Other windows in the facade have similar gentle arching and molded surrounds. The gable ends contain ocular windows. An angles entryway facing the corner was added when the house was converted into apartments.</p><br>
<p>The James F. Fairweather–Jacob C. Lamb House is a private house located at 540 South Almont Avenue in Imlay City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Fairweather family settled in Imlay City in the early 1860s, and by 1864 was farming on land south of town. At about that time one family member, James F. Fairweather, started a drygoods business in town. Although settled much earlier, Imlay City was not actually platted until 1870, when the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad constructed a line through the settlement. The arrival of the railroad created a business boom, and in 1871 James Fairweather purchased a lot in town, and by 1874 had this house constructed.</p><br>
<p>In 1879 James F. Fairweather ended his business, sold his home, and apparently moved from Imlay City. The new owner of the house was Jacob C. Lamb, who was born in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1828 and had settled in Dryden, Michigan in 1854. He began farming, and also ran a mercantile business dealing in wool with his brother. By 1867 he was dealing over 250,000 pounds of wool, and in 1871 constructed a grain elevator in Imlay City, and in 1876 an evaporator used to dry fruit. Lamb maintained his house in Dryden until 1878, when he moved into this house in Imlay City. He continued his various business enterprises, and by 1880 ran one of the county&#39;s largest businesses, with a yearly income of over $250,000.</p><br>
<p>Lamb and his family owned this house until 1907, when it was sold to the Hovey family. In 1922, Mark Cheney, the village&#39;s tax assessor, bought the house. It remained in the Cheney family for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This house is a two-story wood frame Gothic Revival structure covered with clapboard. It has an L-shaped plan with a tower-like projection in the front containing the entrance. Two single-story additions are in the rear, constructed in the late 19th and early 20th century. The original portion of the home is three bays wide, each topped with a steep gable containing ornamental bargeboards in the gable ends. The elaborate detailing includes Gothic pointed arch door and window enframements, and single- and two-story bay windows.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a center stair surrounded by a living room, foyer and parlor, and a library/sunroom. The dining room, kitchen, and bath are in the rear addition. On the second floor, the floor plan echoes the lower story, with three bedrooms and a sewing room aligned with the major rooms downstairs.</p><br>
<p>The Baldin House, near Ebeneezer, Kentucky, United States, was built in c.1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, three-bay structure with a Gothic Revival-style gabled roofline.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "as an example of how Mercer County builders interpreted the Gothic Revival style in their choice of a steeply pitched roof, bargeboards on the eaves, and central wall gable to ornament a single-pile, central passage plan with an ell."</p><br>
<p>The Lewis H. Stanton House, nicknamed "The Chimneys", is a historic house in Morris, Minnesota, United States, built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the theme of architecture. It was nominated for its Stick–Eastlake architecture and prominence among the housing stock of Morris.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lewis H. Stanton (1860–1938) was the son of Edwin Stanton, who served in Cabinet-level positions with presidents James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson. The younger Stanton moved from Washington D.C. to Minnesota for health reasons, and had this house constructed for himself by a former East Coast schoolmate. Stanton left Morris around 1890, moving with his family to New Orleans, where he spent the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>The College Street Historic District in Harrodsburg in Mercer County, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The 8.5 acre, along College St. from North Lane to Factory St., included 27 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "an uninterrupted concentration of 19th- and early-20th-century buildings that line a significant street in Harrodsburg, the oldest permanent settlement in Kentucky. American architectural evolution is well represented in this diverse collection, but the most visually prominent style is the Greek Revival a style that flourished and gained wide acceptance in Harrodsburg and Mercer County."</p><br>
<p>It includes Doricham, at 409 N. College St., which was separately listed on the National Register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Daniel House, located on Canaan Land Farm in Mercer County, Kentucky northeast of Harrodsburg, about.75 mi off USA Route 68, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included four contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house is a brick one-and-a-half-story three-bay hall-parlor plan house which was built around 1800. Its brick on north and south walls is laid in Flemish bond. Accompanying the house are a smokehouse and two sheds.</p><br>
<p>The Rodney G. Hart House is a single-family home located at 244 W. Park Street in Lapeer, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The Rodney G. Hart House reflects the period of strong economic development following the arrival of Lapeer&#39;s first railroad in 1871, and utilizes to the fullest the money, materials, and manpower that could so richly interpret the popular Queen Anne styles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, this house was built for Rodney G. Hart. Mr. Hart was born in 1831, and was the first child born in the city of Lapeer. His father, Alvin N. Hart, was one of the first settlers of Lapeer, and more importantly is responsible for the construction of the historic Lapeer County Courthouse. Rodney Hart</p><br>
<p>pursued a number of business ventures in the Lapeer area. He was Lapeer&#39;s third mayor, constructed the first grain elevator in Lapeer, served as postmaster, and was involved in banking, farming and stockbreeding. Naturally, this adventurous man was responsible for bringing the first automobile to Lapeer from Chicago in the Spring of 1901.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rodney G. Hart House is an ample, elegant Queen Anne residence executed in brick, stone, and wood. This house is a two-story, brick, Queen Anne structure built on a stone foundation. Its front entryway is oriented in the corner, facing the intersection of Park and Cedar Streets. The entry porch at this corner is approached via a corner stair, and sits on an arched stone foundation and wraps around both adjacent facades. A three-story square brick tower is located above, and is capped by a domed hip roof. Gable roofs flank the tower with decoratively shingled gable ends. The windows are double-hung, one-over-one units, and the main facade has chamfered corners where the second-floor windows are accented with hoods and large brackets.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Perry House is a single-family home now located at 1497 West Genesee Street in Lapeer, Michigan. It was originally built in 1890 at what is now 892 Saginaw Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Warren Perry was a prosperous farmer who lived at what was then the southeastern outskirts of Lapeer in the late 19th century. Perry built this farmhouse on Saginaw Street in the early 1890s. After Warren Perry, the home was owned by three additional farmers: - Asa Farnsworth (whose family settled in Lapeer County in the 1840s), Michael and Mary Kearney, and Matthew Wheatley. The home was later owned by Lapeer Metal Products today, who used as a rented single family residence. The home was moved some time after 1985 to its present location on Genesee.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Warren Perry House us a -story wooden house with irregular massing and wooden decorative elements representative of the Queen Anne style. The gables contain diagonal clapboarding, saw-tooth shingling, and pierced vergeboards. The second floor windows in the front facade&#39;s projecting bay are topped with curved hoods. The entryway is located on the recessed bay of the front facade, and is sheltered by a small porch with a gable to one side.</p><br>
<p>The John and Julia Hevener House is a single-family home located at 1444 West Genesee in Lapeer, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Hevener was born in 1842. In the mid-1860s, he became a business partner of Enoch J. White, one of Lapeer&#39;s founding settlers. The two men founded and ran a</p><br>
<p>highly successful general store. Henever served at various times as Mayor of Lapeer, Superintendent of the County Poor, Board of Education Secretary, and Trustee of School District #2. John and Julia Hevener purchased this lot from Enoch White in 1884, and constructed this house. They lived in the house for nearly 30 years. In the 20th century, the house was converted into doctor&#39;s offices and then into apartments. It was later restored as a single family dwelling.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hevener House is one of the most elaborate Queen Anne-styled residences in Lapeer, distinguished by the ornateness, complexity and delicacy of its Queen Anne-inspired detailing. It is a two-and-one-half-story house with irregular massing, varied exterior wood surface</p><br>
<p>treatments, and a large wrap-around porch with decorative supports. The house sits on a stone foundation and is covered with clapboard, and shingling and vergeboards in the main gables, gable corners, and gabled pediments of the porch roof. There is a bay window on one east facade and small pointed attic windows in the gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Palmer House is a single-family home located at 240 North Main Street in Imlay City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Palmer was born in Saratoga County, New York in 1831. He began working on the railroad as a civil engineer by age 17, and in 1851 was working in Toledo, Ohio. He moved to Wisconsin in 1853, and then to Michigan in 1856, where he was chief engineer and superintendent of construction for the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad. Drawn by the land, he platted out the settlement that was to become Imlay City. In 1870, he started construction of the Bancroft House, a railroad hotel in Imlay City, and over the next few years he opened a bank, worked as a school board member, and served as a village trustee.</p><br>
<p>Early in the city&#39;s history, Palmer constructed a house on this lot. In 1890, Palmer moved the original house backwards on the lot and built this house for his family. Palmer lived in the house until his death in 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Palmer House is a two-story Queen Anne house framed and sheathed in wood. It is laden with wood detailing, including a variety of window shapes and sizes, a complex roofline of hipped and gabled shapes, and a rich overlay of shingled, carved, incised, turned, and jig-sawed wood ornamentation. The house is asymmetrical, with the front facade continuing a recessed central bay capped with a pediment and flanked by a projecting bay capped by the end of a gabled roof, and a further recessed bay that is actually a three-story tower topped with a hipped roof and finial.</p><br>
<p>The house is clad with narrow clapboard siding, with a band course of fishscale shingles. Carved floral swags are over the first floor windows, and there are turned</p><br>
<p>details on the first and second story porches. The tower has squared shingles and cornice line brackets at the top floor level.</p><br>
<p>Beulah Lodge, in the small community of Beulah near Dawson Springs, Kentucky, is a two-story frame structure built in 1908. A one-story rear addition was added in c.1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It was built in part as a meeting hall for the Beulah Lodge 609 F & AM (Free and Accepted Masons) (which, as of 2018 still uses the second floor as its lodge hall), and to serve as a worship space for the local community (its first floor has served various church congregations as a worship space).</p><br>
<p>The Beckley Jackson House, which has also been known as The Stagecoach Inn, near Hanson, Kentucky, was built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a Flemish bond brick single cell central passage plan house on what was then the Jackson-Providence Road. There may have been an original ell to the rear; a new ell replaced that around 1900, and an enclosed porch was added c.1920.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed " significant for its association as an early stage coach stop and post office in ante-bellum Hopkins County. It is the only building from this period associated with early inns along historic road routes in the county. The house is also the only remaining ante-bellum brick building in the rural area of the county."</p><br>
<p>The Central La Grange Historic District in La Grange, Kentucky is a 70 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It runs primarily along Washington, Main, and Jefferson Sts., Kentucky Ave., and First through Sixth Aves.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Oldham County Courthouse. It includes the D.W. Griffith House and the McMahan House which are separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The McMahan House at 203 Washington St. in La Grange, Kentucky was built in c.1820 as a brick I-house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is notable as "the only remaining early nineteenth century structure in LaGrange, Kentucky. As such, the five-bay brick I-house is the towns only tangible link with its early settlement and building period. The double-stretcher Flemish bond of the north facade and the remaining interior Federal moldings and mantles are evidence of the buildings early construction date...."</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing building in the Central La Grange Historic District, which is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Ashwood Avenue Historic District, also known as Ashwood Avenue Historic District, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, is a 23 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It included 13 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district includes nine houses along Ash Ave. from La Grange Rd. to Elm Ave. in Pewee Valley, specifically numbers 100, 106, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117 & 121 Ash Ave. It includes Queen Anne, Bungalow/American Craftsman, and Colonial Revival architecture, built from to 1936.</p><br>
<p>The Albert E. Clore House, at 6400 Clore Lane in Crestwood, Kentucky, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed significant as "an excellent example of a late 19th century residence which combines elements of shingle and stick styles</p><br>
<p>of architecture which were popular during the late 1800s. The Clore family was in Oldham County in early days of settlement and. longtime residence since the early 1800s and associated with town of Crestwood. The house is one of the Victorian houses documented in the comprehensive survey of the county. The Clore family&#39;s main livelihood was agriculture and they proved to be prominent farmers in the area."</p><br>
<p>The Poynter Building, on Main St. in London, Kentucky, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story common bond brick commercial building placed prominently on a corner in downtown London. It held the first drugstore in London. It was deemed "significant as the best example of turn of the century commercial architecture in London and because of its association with the development of significant modern commercial and communication facilities in London."</p><br>
<p>The Trimble House is a Queen Anne home built in 1905 at 725 North Fourth Street in Wickliffe, Kentucky, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Kentucky Heritage Council released:As with any house, many influences impacted the Trimble House: the architects, a Kentucky owner, and the culture along the banks of the Mississippi River. The home was constructed by a town banker, Isaac N. Trimble, who originally resided in a Victorian-era home before he and his neighbors were displaced by two railroads – the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio and the Illinois Central. Trimble relocated to Dennett Heights, a prominent high spot in town, and in 1905 built one of the town’s first brick houses featuring a simply detailed yet complex Queen Anne-style structure. The home’s architects were J.B. Legg and C.S. Holloway of St. Louis, who also designed the Ballard County Courthouse and Methodist Episcopal Church. Current owners Martha and Jim Wilson have lived in the house since 1954 and recently completed an extensive remodeling.</p><br>
<p>The Metcalfe County Kentucky Courthouse, on Public Square in Edmonton, Kentucky, was built in 1868–69. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is a two-story common bond brick structure, Italianate in style. It was deemed significant as "one of the oldest courthouses still standing in south central Kentucky since many have been torn down and replaced by new structures. It is the unofficial symbol or logo for Metcalfe County - the one thing all Metcalfe Countians can identify with and recognize."</p><br>
