<p>The Jacob Hoffstetter House is a former single-family home located at 322 East Washington Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jacob Hoffstetter arrived in Ann Arbor in 1854 at the age of five with his parents, Christian and Mary Hoffstetter; one of a large number of German immigrants who arrived in the area in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1872, Jacob Hoffstetter established a saloon and grocery on Main Street. Jacob, his wife, and his family lived above the store for some time. The business proved prosperous, and in about 1887 Hoffstetter sold the business and used the proceeds to construct this house. The home was large, and the Hoffstetters took on boarders. These included the men of the University of Michigan chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, who boarded with the Hoffstetters from 1888 when the chapter was founded until 1894.</p><br>
<p>In 1937 the house was divided into apartments, and a new entrance constructed at the southeast corner. The building was rehabilitated again in 1980 for commercial and residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jacob Hoffstetter House is a large two-story, red brick, gabled Late Victorian structure sitting on a coursed ashlar foundation. The windows are narrow, single-light-sash, double-hung units with stone sills and segmental-arch heads. At the lintel level in each story, a two-brick high belt course of yellow brick encircles the building. Bay windows and the two side porches are topped with cornices.</p><br>
<p>The 1937 renovation substantially altered the interior, but much of the original wood trim was kept and new trim was selected to be consistent with the old.</p><br>
<p>The Elephant Butte Irrigation District is a 6,870 acre historic district in New Mexico and Texas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included three contributing buildings and 214 contributing structures, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Sierra County, New Mexico and El Paso County, Texas.</p><br>
<p>It preserves portions of the Rio Grande Project, a USA Bureau of Reclamation project which distributes water of the upper Rio Grande River.</p><br>
<p>It is in the area of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The district runs roughly along USA Route 85 between its junction with New Mexico State Road 90 and the El Paso, Texas city limits.</p><br>
<p>The Pittsburg Commercial Historic District, in Pittsburg, Texas, is a 32 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It included 66 contributing buildings and one contributing site, as well as 21 non-contributing buildings. Four buildings within the district are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks .</p><br>
<p>The district runs along Marshall, Quitman, Jefferson, Church, and College Sts, roughly from Cypress St. to North St.</p><br>
<p>It includes works by James E. Flanders, Smith & Prager, and by Shirley Simons & Sons. It includes Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and commercial block architecture.</p><br>
<p>Its notable buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Camp County Courthouse (RTHL #, 2004), 1928, 126 Church St.</p><br>
<p>Cotton Belt Depot (RTHL #, 1991), 1901, 170 W. Marshall St.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church (RTHL #, 1976), 1904, 115 Mt. Pleasant St.</p><br>
<p>Former USA Post Office, 1925, 145 Jefferson St.</p><br>
<p>Former Pittsburg Fire Station, 1927, 132 Jefferson St.</p><br>
<p>Frank Sexton Lodge #206 of A.F. & A.M., 1931, 202 Jefferson St.</p><br>
<p>Southwestern Bell Telephone, 1940, 134 Mt. Pleasant St.</p><br>
<p>W. L. Garrett & Sons building (RTHL #, 1990), 1890, 102 Quitman St.</p><br>
<p>Southern University Historic District is a historic district located on Southern University campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>When first listed, the 7 acre area comprised a total of 5 historic buildings, dating from c.1870 to 1928.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1999, with a boundary increase on April 16, 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The historical district contains a total of 5 contributing properties, built between c.1870 and 1928:</p><br>
<p>Laundry/Riverside Hall, 30.52386&deg; latitude, -91.19854&deg; longitude, built 1922 as a single story laundry. Some time in 1930s was enlarged and renamed Riverside Hall.</p><br>
<p>Industrial Building for Girls, 30.52396&deg; latitude, -91.19818&deg; longitude, built 1920. Also known as the Home Economics Building and McNair Hall.</p><br>
<p>Machine Shop, 30.52405&deg; latitude, -91.19788&deg; longitude, built 1921. No more existing.</p><br>
<p>Industrial Building for Boys, 30.52408&deg; latitude, -91.19743&deg; longitude, built 1921. Building was enlarged in 1940s. Also known as the Mechanical Arts Building and the Industrial Arts Building.</p><br>
<p>Martin L. Harvey Auditorium, 30.52295&deg; latitude, -91.19803&deg; longitude, built 1928. Now hosting the Southern University Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>Southern University Archives Building, 30.52169&deg; latitude, -91.19719&deg; longitude, built c.1870. Also individually listed.</p><br>
<p>Harris Hall is an auditorium located at 617 East Huron Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Reverend Samuel Smith Harris was the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. During the late 1800s, in response to the controversy surrounding the then-new theory of evolution, Harris had the idea of constructing a forum for discussions of religion and science. Ann Arbor, the location of the University of Michigan, was Harriss selection for a location. In 1883, Harris and the local parish, St. Andrews, began raising funds to construct a building. The church hired Detroit architect Gordon W. Lloyd to design this auditorium. Construction began in 1886 and was complete in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally named Hobart Hall in honor of former bishop John Henry Hobart, but was renamed after Harris&#39;s unexpected death in 1888. The hall was used for lectures, concerts, and other cultural forms of entertainment. The hall served the Episcopal church (it included parish house facilities) and University students, as well as the community at large. In addition to the auditorium, the building also contained a gymnasium, bowling alley, and billiard room. The building continued to be used for its original purpose until 1943, when it was converted to a USO for servicemen undergoing military training at the University. Beginning in 1946, the University leased it to use as headquarters for the Band and Wind Instrument departments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Harris Hall is -story, red brick gable-roofed structure, measuring 50x80 feet. It sits on a random-ashlar foundation, and has yellow-gray stone trim as string courses, doorway and window sills and lintels, and drip moldings. It has wooden Queen Anne-style eavesboards with supporting brackets. Above the entry and first floor windows are recessed, arch-topped, spandrel panels containing red terra cotta. Similar panels in the second story contain colored glass transom lights. A flight of limestone steps runs up to the main entrance, which is protected by a projecting, gable-roofed structure with rounded flanking walls and carved stone capitals similar to Romanesque columns.</p><br>
<p>The James W. Alcorn House, in Stanford, Kentucky, was built in 1885. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 409 Danville Ave. in Stanford. The listing included six contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, brick T-plan house. Five frame outbuildings are included in the listing. It has also been known as The Hickories at St. Asaph&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>The house was home of James W. Alcorn, who served as a Confederate officer in the American Civil War and who later "gained regional recognition as a successful attorney during the latter half of the 1800s."</p><br>
<p>The Camp Colorado Replica, in Coleman, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>It was built with assistance of a $3,600 grant from the Texas Centennial Commission, plus Works Progress Administration-funded labor.</p><br>
<p>Around the year 1855, the original Camp Colorado was located near the present-day community of Ebony, Texas in Mills County, but would be relocated to a site near Mukewater Creek in Coleman County only a year later in 1856. It functioned as part of a series of other military stations meant to function as a bulwark between settlements to the East and hostile Native American tribes. With the outbreak of the Civil War, all of the troops stationed at the camp joined the Confederate Army, except for one. Due to this mass exodus of soldiers, Camp Colorado was reoccupied by Texas Rangers until the end of the Civil War, whereupon it would be abandoned once more. Camp Colorado would remain unoccupied until fourteen years later, when an Englishman by the name of H.H. Sackett bought the land and used the old headquarters as his home.</p><br>
<p>The William Anderson House is a single-family house located at 2301 Packard Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Built around 1853 for William Anderson, the first Washtenaw County Sheriff, the house is a well-preserved surviving example of Greek Revival architecture in Southeast Michigan. The house is owned by Genesis of Ann Arbor, a joint Jewish-Christian house of worship that has used the Anderson House for its food bank program since 2007.</p><br>
<p>William Anderson and his descendants lived in the house until the 1930s, when it was foreclosed upon. Dr. Inez R. Wisdom, a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, purchased the house in 1937. Wisdom lived in the house with her longtime partner Gertrude L. Griffith, and also operated her medical office there. Wisdom constructed a small chapel on the property in 1941, which expanded into the St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>The church built a larger building on the grounds in the 1950s, and entered into a unique joint venture with Reform Jewish congregation Temple Beth Emeth in 1974, forming Genesis of Ann Arbor. The Anderson House was then operated as commercial office space from the 1980s until the 2000s, when it became the location of the Back Door Food Pantry, a food bank operated by Genesis of Ann Arbor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>William Anderson</h3><br>
<p>John Anderson was an early settler in Washtenaw County, who may have been associated with Orange County, New York. He purchased two parcels of land on Packard Road in 1831, which was at the time outside the Ann Arbor city limits in Pittsfield Township. His son William Anderson was appointed as the first sheriff of Washtenaw County in 1835. As county sheriff, Anderson developed a rivalry with county probate judge Robert S. Wilson, who he derided in 1838 as "a real sack of wind, a perfect humbug, and a bullying bragadocio." Wilson was similarly unfond of Anderson, who he called "a dastardly coward" the same year. Wilson constructed a grand Greek Revival-style house in downtown Ann Arbor in 1839, the same year that Anderson&#39;s term as sheriff ended.</p><br>
<p>Anderson built the present house on the property around 1853. The house is a similarly grand structure, in Greek Revival style, built on a fieldstone foundation. Its construction used techniques that were common in New York and New England in its era, but rare in Michigan, such as board-and-batten siding.</p><br>
<h3>Inez Wisdom</h3><br>
<p>Dr. Inez Ruth Wisdom purchased the house in 1937 for use as a residence and medical office. Wisdom was born in 1884 in Saline, and studied education at Michigan State Normal College, working as a physical education teacher to save money to attend medical school. Wisdom attended the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating in 1923, and interning at the Women&#39;s Homeopathic Hospital in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Wisdom entered into a relationship with Gertrude Griffith, a registered nurse who had served with the Army Nurse Corps during World War I.</p><br>
<p>At the conclusion of Wisdom&#39;s internship, she and Griffith moved to Sturgis, Michigan, where they opened a private medical practice. Wisdom also joined the medical staff of the new Sturgis Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1925. Wisdom was the only woman of the nine doctors at the hospital, and was elected president of the St. Joseph County Medical Society.</p><br>
<p>Wisdom and Griffith left Sturgis in 1929 following the death of Wisdom&#39;s mother, moving back to Saline and later to Ann Arbor, and turning over her private practice in Sturgis to Dr. Nina C. Wilkerson of Springfield, Missouri. Wisdom became the executive director of the Ann Arbor Maternal Health Clinic on North Main Street in 1935, and purchased the Anderson House in 1937 for her residence and medical practice. Wisdom was one of very few doctors in Ann Arbor that dispensed birth control.</p><br>
<p>In addition to her private practice at the Anderson House, Wisdom also practiced at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, where she was elected as the president of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Medical Society. She later served as the president of the Washtenaw County Medical Society, and was elected a life member of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1955.</p><br>
<p>Wisdom lived in the Anderson House with her longtime partner Gertrude Griffith, who was made joint tenant of the property in 1945. Wisdom&#39;s father Eugene also lived at the house until his death.</p><br>
<p>Wisdom and Griffith were active members of the Episcopal Church, and traveled widely. During her travels to Europe, Wisdom was inspired to build a small chapel for her personal use in the back garden of her home. The construction of the 10-seat chapel was funded by Wisdom, who accepted construction services in lieu of payment from her patients. Construction of the chapel began in 1940, and it was dedicated in 1941.</p><br>
<h3>St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church</h3><br>
<p>In addition to private worship, Wisdom opened the chapel for weddings and christenings, and a community quickly grew around it. The southern half of the property, including the chapel, was donated to the Episcopal Church in 1953. The 10-seat chapel quickly proved to be too small, and the newly formed St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church worshipped in temporary space at the nearby Stone School until 1956, when a larger building was constructed adjacent to the chapel.</p><br>
<p>Wisdom died in 1965 at the age of 80, and her ashes were interred in the chapel. Griffith inherited the house, and it to the church that year. Griffith died in 1987 in New Oxford, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h3>Genesis of Ann Arbor</h3><br>
<p>St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church began leasing space to Temple Beth Emeth, a newly formed Reform Jewish congregation, in 1970. The lease grew into an equal partnership of two congregations sharing a house of worship, and Genesis of Ann Arbor was formed as a separate entity to manage the property and facilitate dialogue. St. Clares 1969-built addition was remodeled to accommodate the needs of two congregations, each with their distinct structures and symbols. The chapel built by Wisdom continued in use exclusively for St. Clares. A 1994 addition to the Genesis of Ann Arbor building added a similar small chapel for the exclusive use of Temple Beth Emeth.</p><br>
<p>The Anderson House was not used by either congregation, and by the 1980s it posed a financial burden to Genesis. The house was leased out as commercial office space beginning in 1982, and was occupied by multiple organizations, including a real estate firm and a youth soccer league.</p><br>
<p>Since 2007, the house has hosted the Back Door Food Pantry, a food bank sponsored by multiple local houses of worship. The Back Door Food Pantry began as a program of St. Clare, and since 2010, has also been supported by Temple Beth Emeth and the Ann Arbor Muslim community.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Anderson House is a one-and-a-half-story, end gable, Greek Revival house with a gabled rear wing and a later rear shed-roof addition. The house sits on a fieldstone foundation. The front facade has a portico of four square pillars supporting a classical pediment and an entablature. The frieze above is pierced with decorative grilled panels. The house is clad with vertical, board-and-batten siding. The first-floor windows are six-over-six, double-hung units with triple-light eyebrow windows above in the frieze on the sides of the house.</p><br>
<p>Riley&#39;s Tavern, in or near New Braunfels, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>NRHPdocumentdraft.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in the 1800s, but it was not notable until it was converted into a tavern by James Curtis Riley in 1933. Located near a railroad stop on the Missouri-Pacific Railway line, and near the border of a dry county, it did well. It was the first tavern in Texas to get a license after Prohibition was lifted in 1933.</p><br>
<p>The Erath Memorial Arch, in Stephenville, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>It is not an arch, but rather is a two-part stone gate, built in 1936 as part of celebration of the Texas Centennial.</p><br>
<p>It is located at N. Erath Ave. & W. Washington St. in Stephenville.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by local architect C.V. Head and was carved by Dublin, Texas rock mason Arthur Maxwell.</p><br>
<p>The Foley–Brower–Bohmer House is a historic house in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1889 for lumber and railroad magnate Timothy Foley, transferred to his brother Thomas Foley in 1895, bought by lawyer and politician Ripley B. Brower in 1902, and sold to businessman and banker William J. Bohmer in 1923. The Foley–Brower–Bohmer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its local significance in the themes of architecture, industry, and politics/government. It was nominated for being an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture applied to a large, late-19th-century house, and for the accomplishments of its various late-19th- and early-20th-century inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The William Harrison McCord House is a historic house in Eagleville, Tennessee, USA. It was built in 1882 for William H. McCord, a physician. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, McCord joined the Confederate States Army and served as a surgeon under General Nathan Bedford Forrest&#39;s command. The house remained in the McCord family in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 20, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Lebanon Woolen Mills are historic industrial buildings in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA They were built in 1909 by Dr Howard K. Edgerton. The facility was inherited by John Edgerton, who served as its president from 1914 to 1938. Edgerton was vehemently opposed to labor unions, and strongly in favor of open shops. The facility closed down in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were designed by Francis B. Warfield & Associates in the Colonial Revival architectural style. They have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 12, 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Pomeroy Terrace Historic District is a historic district on the east side of downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. Located south of Bridge Street east of the main railroad right-of-way, it was one of the city&#39;s most desirable residential neighborhoods of the 19th century, retaining many fine examples of residential architecture from that period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Northampton was settled in 1654, and the Pomeroy Terrace area was home to one of its first civic institutions, the Bridge Street Cemetery, located at the northern end of the historic district. Early development was limited to Bridge Street, an extension of Main Street that is now the major east-west road in the area. The town developed industrially in the mid-19th century after the arrival of the north-south railroad, and the area east of the railroad, originally large agricultural lots and estates, was subdivided for development. Its most rapid period of growth was between about 1855 and 1870.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is defined primarily by the north-south roads of Pomeroy Terrace and Hawley Street, and is about 32 acre in size. These two streets are joined by few connecting streets, all of which have historically significant contributing buildings. The district extends across Bridge Street to include the cemetery, and is directly adjacent to the Parsons, Shepherd, and Damon Houses Historic District. The principal buildings in the district were all built as residences with wooden framing, although some have since been adapted to commercial or professional office use. Stylistically they are diverse, ranging from Federal period houses of the late 18th century on Bridge Street, to Stick Style and Colonial Revival houses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The Scott-Majors House, at 425 Chestnut St. in Colorado City, Texas, was built in 1882 or 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It has also been known as Heritage House.</p><br>
<p>It was the first brick house in Colorado City, built by Colonel J.P. Hodgson. It was bought in 1884 by Winfield Scott, president of the First National Bank, who enlarged and redecorated the house, and lived there until 1889. It was later owned by banker and cattleman W.T. Scott (unrelated).</p><br>
<p>It was later owned by J.P Majors, who opened a jewelry store.</p><br>
<p>The Barlow House in Barlow, Kentucky, is a two-story symmetrical Queen Anne-style house built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>It is located at the intersection of Broadway and S. 5th St.</p><br>
<p>The house is "the only documented example in Ballard County of a historic residential structure that was built according to plan obtained from an architectural patternbook. This fact accounts a great deal for the elegance and modernity of the houses design. The increased contact with the outside world provided through the new railroad connection would have contributed to the Barlow familys knowledge and appreciation for current architectural styles."</p><br>
<p>The James Dickson House, also known as the Sparks House, is a historic house in Linden, Tennessee. It is an example of the "Middle Tennessee I-House," a regional variation on a vernacular architecture style of central passage house with a portico.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built, possibly earlier, making it "one of the oldest houses in the county." Dickson was a magistrate for Perry County.</p><br>
<p>In the postbellum era, the house belonged to the Ledbetter family. When their daughter Minerva married Jessie Sparks, it became associated with the Sparks political family: J. Kent Sparks, their son, served in the Tennessee General Assembly.</p><br>
<p>The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 28, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Richard Calvin Bromley House, also known as Hotel Bromley, is a historic house in Flatwoods, Tennessee, USA.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1909–1911 for Dr. Richard Calvin Bromley, a physician. Bromley was the son of a Confederate veteran and a graduate of the University of Nashville. The house became known as Hotel Bromley because many of Dr. Bromley&#39;s friends frequently visited to hunt and fish. Bromley hired two African-American "servants," who lived upstairs. The house was inherited by his daughter, Celia, a graduate of Vanderbilt University, who lived here with her husband, William Allen Moore of Pulaski, Tennessee. The house remained in the Bromley family until 1947.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 29, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Germania Building Complex consists of two adjacent related buildings located at 119-123 West Washington Street and 209-211 Ashley Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Michael Staebler was born In 1843 in Lodi Township, near Ann Arbor, to German immigrants who had settled in the area in 1831. By 1880, Staebler owned a large farm as well as a sawmill, elder press, flax-seed press, and a threshing machine. In 1885, Staebler had the Germania Building constructed to house his coal and farm implement business and a hotel owned by William L. Frank, known as the Germania House. The hotel catered to both the travelling public and to the local German community, hosting meetings of Ann Arbor&#39;s local German clubs. In 1895, Staebler became proprietor of the hotel as well, renaming it the American House and expanding the building by adding a fourth floor. Michael Staebler brought his sons, Robert E. and Albert H. Staebler, into the business.</p><br>
<p>A third son, Edward, worked at the Staeblers farm implement shop. He convinced his father to sell first motorcycles and then, in 1901, Toledo Steam cars, making Staebler & Sons the first automobile dealer in Ann Arbor. By 1906 the firm was also selling REOs, Wintons, Maxwell-Briscoes, Cadillacs, Dorts, Franklins, and Oaklands. The building was remodeled into a showroom, and a wood-frame garage behind the hotel was used for repairs. In 1918 the previous garage was replaced with a new two-story structure. With the onset of Prohibition, the hotels saloon was closed and converted into an auto parts stor. In 1927, the dining room was closed and converted into a showroom.</p><br>
<p>The Staeblers continued to run the hotel until Albert Staebler&#39;s retirement in 1932. Edward Staebler and his brother Walter ran the automobile dealership until 1952, after which the garage was remodeled into commercial space. The hotel changed its name to the Griswold in 1932 and the Earle in 1954, and continued to operate until 1971. The Staebler family continued to own the building until the early 1970s. The building underwent extensive rehabilitation in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Germania Building Complex consists of two adjacent, physically connected buildings constructed for the Staebler family: the 1885 Germania Building and the 1918 Staebler & Sons garage. The Germania Building stands at the corner of West Washington and South Ashley streets and faces north; the garage is located directly behind the building and is physically attached.</p><br>
<p>The Germania Building is a square, stone-trimmed, red-orange brick, Late Victorian block measuring sixty-six by eighty feet in size standing on a fieldstone foundation. The original building was three stories high; a fourth story was added in 1895. The facade is divided into three structural bays that hold individual storefronts. It has a shallow hip roof and a sheet metal cornice extending across the facade. The upper levels contain wooden double-hung sash windows on stone sills. The openings on the second and third floor are round-headed; the openings on the fourth are square-headed. The first-floor storefronts all retain the original proportions, and some of the original trim, although renovations over time have altered the look of all of them.</p><br>
<p>The former Staebler & Sons garage building Is attached to the rear of the Germania Building. It is a two-story utilitarian structure of red brick on a concrete foundation. The first-floor windows are wood frame units with leaded-glass transoms. The second story windows are wooden double-hung units with fixed-glass transoms and limestone sills.</p><br>
<p>Craigmiles Hall is a historic building in Cleveland, Tennessee, USA. It was built as an opera house in 1877–1878. Its construction was commissioned by Walter Craigmiles, who grew up in the P.M. Craigmiles House. It remained in the Craigmiles family until 1896.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, the building was purchased by J.E. Johnston and a group of investors that included J.T. Johnston, W.P. Lang, May Brown, J.A. Steed, and S.M. Johnston. The property was acquired in 1909 by John and Isa Steed, who added a drugstore to the first floor. A.B. Jones and Vastine Stickley bought Craigmiles Hall in 1948. The building was sold again in 1973 to the Uptown Corporation. Attorney Richard Banks purchased Craigmiles Hall in 1979. The building has been owned by businessman Allan Jones since 1993.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Second Empire architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 25, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Allie M. Best House, at 344 Athens St. in Hartwell, Georgia, is a Tudor Revival-style house built in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Tudor Revival house with a Craftsman interior. It was designed by local architect Luther Temple and was built by Walker and Jule Temple.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "architecturally significant as a rare example in Hartwell of an English Tudor-style house", and its grounds were deemed locally significant for their terraced landscaping done by Best.</p><br>
<p>The P.M. Craigmiles House is a historic house in Cleveland, Tennessee, USA. It was built in 1866 for Pleasant Craigmiles, a businessman. His son Walter built an opera house in Cleveland called Craigmiles Hall. The house later became a public library.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 20, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The H. E. Fortson House, at 221 Richardson St. in Hartwell, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was built around 1913. It is a one-story frame house with a hipped roof and a wrap-around shed-roofed porch.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "important in local black/social history for its association with the Reverend H. E. Fortson" and its NRHP nomination provides:Fortson served as minister of the Hartwell First Baptist Church in the early twentieth century and preached at other Baptist churches in Hart County during his career. He was a prominent minister and teacher in the Rome community of Hartweil. Traditionally, churches were among the most important social and cultural institutions in black communities, and ministers were among the prominent figures in these communities; the role played by Fortson in the Rome section of Hartwell is no exception. / Architecturally, the Fortson House is significant as an example of the type of house built for and lived in by relatively prominent middle-class black citizens of Hartwell in the early 20th century. This type of modest, straightforward house, with its simple arrangement of rooms around a central hall and its wrap-around porch and hipped roof, typifies the housing found in many of Georgia&#39;s small-town black neighborhoods. Relatively few examples of this type of housing survive with their major features intact, making this house a good example of the type.</p><br>
<p>The William L. Coleman House, near Bedford, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1857 in Greek Revival style. It is a two-story brick building with a two-story brick ell. It was built by William L. Coleman, who served as a Confederate officer in the American Civil War. The house, with accompanying farm, was acquired by the three Pierce brothers in 1870.</p><br>
<p>The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The Aldea Linda Residential Historic District is a 75 acre historic district in Tucson, Arizona, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The listing included 15 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The area was developed around 1947 by future state governor Sam Goddard. It has 22 large lots with houses set back from street.</p><br>
<p>It includes the entire Aldea Linda subdivision,</p><br>
<p>The Cottle County Courthouse Historic District is a 13.9 acre historic district in Paducah, Texas which is roughly bounded by N. 7th, N. 10th, Garrett and Easly Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The listing included 40 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures. The eponymous courthouse, the district&#39;s central landmark, is a State Antiquities Landmark  and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark .</p><br>
<p>It is commanded by the four-story Art Deco Cottle County Courthouse (SAL #, 2005; RTHL #, 2005), designed by Wichita Falls architects Voelcker and Dixon during 1929-30.</p><br>
<p>It also includes construction by H.W. Underhill. It includes at least one hotel. It includes Mission/Spanish Revival architecture and Early Commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>The site also includes 13 non-contributing buildings, a non-contributing site, two non-contributing structures, and four non-contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The Fabyan Guard Station is a historic United States Forest Service building in the White Mountain National Forest in northern New Hampshire. Located on Cherry Mountain Road north of the Fabyan settlement in Carroll, this 1923 guard station is the only surviving example of this type of structure in the White Mountains. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fabyan Guard Station is located about 0.7 mi north of United States Route 302, on Cherry Mountain Road near a crossing of Desolation Brook. It stands in a small clearing on the west side of the road. It is a single-story log structure, measuring about 16 x, with a gabled roof. It is built out of spruce logs, with the gaps filled with wooden slats and chinked with oakum. The main facade has a door on the right, fashioned out of vertical boards, and windows to its left and in the gable above. The side walls each have two small windows.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1926 by Graham L. Clifford, an early supervisor of the White Mountain National Forest. At the time of its construction, Cherry Mountain Road was part of the Jefferson Turnpike, a toll road passing through the mountains. (The road is one of the longest and best-preserved sections of this old turnpike, which dates to 1811, and is now a seasonal road maintained by the Forest Service.) It was one of the first guard stations to be built in the forest, serving as temporary residences for Forest Service employees assigned to guard that section of forest at a time when transportation was relatively difficult.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Estate, formerly the Davenport Estate, is a historic country estate on Brush Hill Road in Milton, Massachusetts. The estate was owned and developed by the Davenport family for over 300 years before being taken over by its present ownership, a charitable trust. The estate is managed by the Wakefield Trust as part of its educational mission, and its grounds are open to the public by appointment, or on announced occasions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wakefield Estate occupies 22 acre, a remnant of once-larger holdings, on the west side of Brush Hill Road just north of its intersection with Blue Hill Avenue in western Milton. The estate includes three residences and a number of outbuildings, used historically for agricultural and horticultural purposes.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house on the estate is that of John Davenport, which was probably built in the early 18th century, and retains elements of its First Period architecture. The main mansion house, built about 1794 by Isaac Davenport, has a history of substantial alteration and construction, reflective of the family&#39;s rise in economic success and adaptive use of the property.</p><br>
<p>The third house, known as Red Cottage, is a formerly agricultural building that was adapted about 1920 for residential use.</p><br>
<p>The present land of the estate is part of a large parcel of land acquired by John Davenport, who apparently moved here from neighboring Dorchester in 1707, the approximate date of construction of the first house. Davenport&#39;s grandson Samuel was a silversmith who was noted for sitting on the jury in the trials that followed the Boston Massacre.</p><br>
<p>Samuels son Isaac was a successful merchant with offices in Boston, and his success began the transformation of the property to a country estate. The property eventually passed out of Isaacs line and into that of a cousin who was also descended from John Davenport.</p><br>
<p>Following the death of Mary "Polly" Davenport Wakefield in 1994, the property passed to a charitable trust established to preserve the property with an educational and horticultural mission. The property is known for its large number of Kousa dogwood trees, which bloom in profusion in early June.</p><br>
<p>The Nehemiah P. Clarke House is a historic house in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1893 for Nehemiah P. Clarke (1836–1912), who arrived in St. Cloud as a pioneer in 1856 and made his fortune in retail, lumbering, and other business ventures.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for its outstanding Queen Anne architecture and its association with Clarke.</p><br>
<p>The Tyler County Courthouse in Woodville, Texas was built in 1891.</p><br>
<p>It was a red brick building in Italianate style when built. A 1936 renovation added stucco. Tallish, narrow windows topped by arches are among remnants of Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>It was the third courthouse built on the courthouse square.</p><br>
<p>The building received emergency electrical rewiring work in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Weinmann Block is a commercial building located at 219-223 East Washington Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John M. Weinmann was born In Germany in 1836, and settled in Ann Arbor as a young man. In 1863 he married Dorothea Stein and set up a butcher shop. The shop proved prosperous, and in about 1885 Weinmann had the eastern half of this building, located on the corner, constructed. The butcher shop occupied the grade floor. In 1891 Weinmann&#39;s son, Louis C. Weinmann, and a nephew, George Stein entered into a partnership, took over the butcher shop, and had the western half of the building constructed. This building held the meat market until 1937. The corner building was purchased in 1894 by V. Schneider, and housed a confectionery shop, a saloon, and a plumbing shop over the years.</p><br>
<p>The Jno. c. Fischer Company purchased the entire Weinmann Block in 1937. Fisher had been in the hardware business since 1895. The business was sold several times, but remained in the Weinmann Block until 1982. A development corporation purchased the building and redeveloped it for commercial and office use.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Weinmann Block consists of two, two-story, brick, Late Victorian commercial blocks located side-by-side. The two buildings have had a shared interior space for many years. The eastern section on the street corner is a three-bay wide, Italianate structure built in the mid-1880s. The western portion, built in 1892, is wider and has an elaborate galvanized iron facade.</p><br>
<p>The corner portion of the Weinmann Block is three bays wide along the front section and five bays wide along the side. Vertical brick piers separate the bays. A bracketed, wooden cornice runs across the top; this was installed in 1982 to duplicates the original cornice removed in the 1950s. The windows are square-head, double-hung, sash units set in rounded-arch openings in front and segmental-arch openings in the side. The original storefront contained a central double door flanked by large windows; this has been rebuilt with large glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The western portion of the Weinmann Block still contains its original configuration of openings and windows, although remodeled, with a recessed entrance in the center of the facade and a narrow entrance to the second-floor staircase at the west end. The upper part of the facade has original galvanized iron ornamentation designed to give the appearance of masonry. It has a wide central bay topped with a pediment containing the name of the building and date of construction. and narrower bays on each side.</p><br>
<p>The Oklahoma Publishing Company Building, also referred to as the Daily Oklahoman Building, is an historic structure on 4th and Broadway in Oklahoma City. It was built for the publishing company behind The Oklahoman. It was designed by Solomon Layton and built in 1909 after the papers previous building was destroyed by fire. It is listed on the National Register for Historic Places. Layton also designed the Oklahoma State Capitol, governors mansion, numerous county courthouses, public schools, and other significant structures.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-story building. The Oklahoma Publishing Company has a history in offering financial support in Oklahoma&#39;s educational, civic and social infrastructure.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Annin House is a single-family home located at 218 Monroe Street in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was constructed in 1863 for farmer Joseph Annin. In 1867 it was purchased by Alfred Miller, who owned a local hotel. In 1873 it changed hands again, this time to Harvey Bennett, and in 1876 John Hull purchased it. It was later home to the Peoples family, who purchased the home in 1918.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Annin House is a two-story brick Italianate structure shaped like a cube. It is five bays across, with a central entrance portico. It has hip roof with matching interior chimney sand overhanging eaves supported by paired ornamental brackets. Between the brackets are small rectangular windows. Window openings on the primary facades are shuttered double sash with decorative wooden lintels above. A wooden barn/carriage house with a gabled roof and vertical board-and-batten siding sits</p><br>
<p>behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The Milton Masonic Lodge and County General Store in Milton, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story three-bay brick building with a hipped roof, built in the last quarter of the 19th century for the Masonic Lodges in Milton, with first-floor commercial space. It continued to serve as a lodge hall through the date of its NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>The Curtis School at 2349 E. Orchard Rd. in Greenwood Village, Colorado was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It served as a school and as a meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story red brick schoolhouse with a central bell tower, and is the oldest public building in Greenwood Village.</p><br>
<p>The building was moved about 300 ft west to its current location in 1987, and it was then renovated for use as a "community art and history center".</p><br>
<p>The East Michigan Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district located at 300-321 East Michigan Avenue, 99-103 Maple Street, and 217, 300 and 302 East Henry in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The East Michigan Avenue Historic District consists of eighteen houses with nine barns and carriage houses clustered around the distinctive William H. Davenport House, which is individually listed on the National Register. The houses were constructed during the period of 1870-1920, and include architectural styles ranging from Queen Anne and Second Empire to Colonial Revival and Bungalow. The William Davenport house occupies an entire city block along Michigan, with the bulk of the structures in the district facing it.</p><br>
<p>The houses along Michigan, as well as on the adjacent properties on Maple, are on lots of fairly uniform size, with wide lawns and large setbacks. Several were constructed in a Queen Anne or Colonial Revival style by builder Elwood Rogers, and so there is a uniformity in scale and design. Although all houses in the district are of superior design and quality, the three properties on Henry, behind the Davenport house, are included because of their exceptional value.</p><br>
<p>The most significant houses in the district are:</p><br>
<p>Max Fosdick House (303 E. Michigan) Built in 1917–18, this bungalow is an outstanding example because of the integrity of its design. It was built for Max Fosdick, the grandson of local farmers and an employee of Detroit Edison. The house is a -story frame building, with a roof ridge sweeping toward the street to enclose a one-story full-width front porch. A dormer with a porthole window is positioned over the entrance. Brackets support both the dormer and roofline.</p><br>
<p>Willis M. Fowler House (315 E. Michigan) Built in 1911, this -story frame house was constructed by builder Elwood Rogers for William Fowler, a real estate businessman. It has a hipped roof, projecting gables with fan-shaped windows, and an off-center entrance.</p><br>
<p>George Seeger House (101 Maple) Built in the early 1900s, this -story Colonial Revival house was also constructed by builder Elwood Rogers for George Seeger, the son of prominent German American farmer Matthias Seeger. The house has a steeply pitched hipped roof with cross gables, a one-story rear extension, and a rounded wraparound porch in the front.</p><br>
<p>Beverly Davenport House (302 E. Henry) This house was built in 1873, when local businessman William Davenport hired Detroit architect J.J. Smith to design this house for his son, Beverly. Beverly Davenport joined his father&#39;s mercantile firm, and was eventually cashier and then president of the Citizens Bank. The house is a -story frame Second Empire structure with a central projecting bay containing a flared gabled roof, squared-off top, and bargeboard trim. It has a mansard roof with porthole dormers and brackets below the eaves.</p><br>
<p>William H. Davenport House (300 E. Michigan) This house was designed by Detroit architect William Scott and built in 1876 for prominent businessman William Davenport. It is a frame structure with a slate mansard roof and a corner tower. Exterior decoration includes ornate brackets, corbels, lintels, and dormers.</p><br>
<p>The Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Site is an archeological shipwreck site which consists of the wrecks of the wooden bulk freighter George Spencer and the wooden schooner-barge Amboy. Both vessels were wrecked during the Mataafa Storm of 1905. In 1994 the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History of the George Spencer</h2><br>
<p>The George Spencer (Official number 85849) was built in 1884 by the Thomas Quayle & Sons Shipyard in Cleveland, Ohio. She had an overall length of 242 ft, she was 230 ft long between her perpendiculars, her beam was 37 ft wide and her cargo hold was 20 ft deep. She was powered by a 625-horsepower fore and aft compound engine which was fueled by a coal burning Scotch marine boiler. She had a gross tonnage of 1360.75 tons and a net tonnage of 1082.79 tons. She was used to haul bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grain. She was also one of the first vessels to load iron ore in Two Harbors, Minnesota when the port opened in 1884.</p><br>
<p>In 1888 the Spencer was sold to B.L. Pennington (Lockwood Taylor & Company). In 1889 the Spencer was transferred Lockwood Taylor Hardware Company (2/3) and B. F. Powers (1/3). In 1895 she was transferred to the Commercial Transit Company. In 1899 the Spencer was sold to the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Company of Tonawanda, New York. On September 9, 1901, the Spencer was sailing down the west channel of the Niagara River when she grounded at the head of Little Island. When she was freed she was towed by the tugs that freed her to a dock. The 1,400 tons of iron ore that was in the Spencer cargo hold was consigned to the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Plant. The Spencer grounding was caused by low water levels in the river.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Amboy</h2><br>
<p>The Amboy (Official number 95276) was a wooden schooner barge that was constructed specifically for the Minnesota&#39;s iron ore trade. She was built in 1874 by Quayle & Murphy of Cleveland, Ohio. She was originally named Helena. In July 1891 the Helena sank in a collision in the Little Mud Lake, St. Marys River with the loss of one life.</p><br>
<p>On August 26, 1892, the Amboy arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, full of water. She was traveling from Escanaba, Michigan, when she was caught in a storm. Eventually the amount of water pouring into her hull became too much for the pumps to empty. She was eventually saved by the tugboats Gregory and Blazier; they towed the Amboy to Cleveland.</p><br>
<p>On October 14, 1893 the Amboy ran aground at the foot of Georgia Street in Buffalo, New York. She was in tow of the steamer Helena but broke away in the strong gale. The Helena left the Amboy to be freed by tugboats. Eventually the tug Cascade came to her assistance and after about half an hours work she was freed.</p><br>
<p>On September 5, 1898, at around 10:00A.M. the Amboy ran aground in the Niagara River near the Germania Park. She was under tow of the tug James Byers; she was bound from Tonawanda, New York with a cargo of iron ore in her cargo hold. Low water levels caused her keel to hit bottom and run aground. The Byers failed to free her. Eventually the tugs Cascade, Hibbard and Conneaut arrived to try and free her but also failed. A lighter was also sent to try and rescue her by removing part of her cargo.</p><br>
<h2>Final voyage</h2><br>
<p>On the day of November 28, 1905 the Spencer and the Amboy were bound from Buffalo, New York for Duluth, Minnesota with a cargo of coal when they were struck by the full force of the Mataafa Storm. After the storm blew itself out it was discovered that 18 ships had been wrecked or stranded; and one, the steamer Ira H. Owen was lost with all hands. The crew of the Spencer cut the line between her and the Amboy in an attempt to save both of the ships. Both vessels were driven ashore. The crew of the ships escaped the vessels with a breeches buoy which was rigged up by some nearby fishermen.</p><br>
<p>A December 1, 1905 issue of the Duluth Evening Herald described the wreck of the Spencer and the Amboy:</p><br>
<p>Both boats lost their bearings in the snowstorm and landed on a sandy beach. As soon as they struck, buoys with lines were thrown over the side. When they floated ashore they were caught by fishermen and made fast. With an improvised life buoy rigged in the hawsers the entire crew were taken safely to shore preceded by Mrs. Harry Lawe, wife of the mate, who was acting as steward. The vessels ran on the rocks Tuesday morning, and for thirteen hours the situation of the crew on the battered hulks was desperate. Fishermen rushed into the surf almost to their necks and aided the sailors to escape. The Spencer cargo can be lightered but there is little hope for saving the boat. The vessels were coming up without cargo to load ore. Capt. Frank Conland sailed the Spencer and Fred Watson was master of the Amboy. The Spencer was valued at $35,000 and the Amboy at $10,000.</p><br>
<p>A December 6, 1905 issue of the Duluth News Tribune wrote about the assessment of the wrecks:</p><br>
<p>Captain C.O. Flynn returned last evening from an inspection of the stranded steamer George Spencer and schooner Amboy. He said "the schooner Amboy is a total wreck...the steamer Spencer is still in good shape. Her hatches are intact, and she does not appear to be seriously damaged. As to the condition of her bottom that cannot be told at present.</p><br>
<h2>The George Spencer today</h2><br>
<p>The remains of the George Spencer lies off the beach and about one mile south of Sugar Loaf Cove, the quarter mile long stretch of beach is crescent shaped and blends from the large cobbles on the north to the sand on the south section of the beach. Even though much of her hull was removed there are still large bits of her hull on the site.</p><br>
<h2>The Amboy today</h2><br>
<p>The remains of the Amboy lies not too far from the wreck of the Spencer. The remains of the Amboy 74 ft keelson is encased in sand and cobbles. The section of her keelson which is parallel to the beach has been eroded by the waves, it consists of side-by-side white oak timbers. It is two timbers high and secured with hundreds of iron bolts that are.875 inches in diameter. Near the southern end of the timbers there is an upright timber which is believed to be part of her centreboard.</p><br>
<p>The Hodgenville Womens Club, on the Public Square in Hodgenville, Kentucky, is a womens clubhouse which was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The club was organized in 1919with the purpose of bettering the community through social, civic, and arts projects. Mrs. C. J. Hubbard was instrumental in forming the group whose slogan was "Better Hodgenville." Activities of the Club in the 1920s and 1930s included improvements in the city cemetery, assisting the Red Cross, sponsoring local entertainment and lectures, organizing tree plantings in the city, and promoting Lincolns heritage in the county. No other similar group was in existence in Hodgenville in these years and the Clubs membership boasted some of the town&#39;s most leading citizens.</p><br>
<p>It purchased the property in 1921 and raised funds for a clubhouse building throughout the 1920s. With Federal Works Project Administration funding of $2,646 for labor, and $1,500 of the Club&#39;s funds for materials, it was built in 1934 and formally opened in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The building is a one-story stone-veneer building with some Colonial Revival stylings in its interior mantles and decorative door surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Beaumont Clubhouse, at 575 Magnolia Ave. in Beaumont, Texas, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It has also been known as the Womans Reading Club.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "historically significant for its long association with the development of cultural and social life in the city. Built shortly after the 1901 Spindletop oil discovery, the clubhouse provided a community cultural center with an auditorium and stage for housing educational activities, socials, banquets, dances, plays, musical concerts and art exhibits." The building was used for Red Cross fundraising and otherwise to support the World War I effort, and then again later to support the World War II effort.</p><br>
<p>It includes Classical Revival influences in its columns and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Port Arthur Federated Womens Clubhouse, at 1924 Lakeshore Dr. in Port Arthur, Texas, is a womens club building which was built in 1924. It has also been known as The Department Clubhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is located in Lakeshore Park.</p><br>
<p>It served asheadquarters for a prestigious and progressive league of womens clubs which date from Port Arthurs founding. Clubwomen have contributed substantially to Port Arthurs social, cultural and political life throughout its history. The building was constructed in 1924 and has been used ever since as headquarters for clubwomen. Designed by Charles L. Wignall, a respected Port Arthur architect, it is one of the most pretentiously designed Bungaloid structures in town. The buildings design and location in Lakeshore Park in what was once the most fashionable part of town are conspicuous reminders of the club&#39;s prominence in the community.</p><br>
<p>The Cardinal Hotel is a railroad hotel built in 1908. It is one-half mile east of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Starting in 1974, under the ownership of Ricardo Gonzalez, the hotels bar became a hub of Madisons gay and Cuban communities. In 1982, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ernest Eckstedt had the Cardinal Hotel built in 1908 and 1909. Eckstedt had been born to German immigrants in Milwaukee in 1864. He worked in a flour mill and a tannery, then got a job with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, working as a switchman, then other jobs. In 1885, he moved to Madison and settled in the German-heavy Williamson Street neighborhood. In 1902, he built the Atlas Hotel at 221-223 S. Baldwin Street. He sold the Atlas after a few years and ran the Tivoli Gardens at Williamson and Baldwin.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, always watching for opportunities, Eckstedt bought two lots at the corner of S. Franklin and E. Wilson, just across Wilson Street from the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. He tore down a barber shop and built the first three stories of the Cardinal Hotel, opening July 1, 1908. The fourth and fifth stories were added the following year.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was designed by architect Ferdinand Kronenberg, who had immigrated from Germany in 1885 and settled in Madison. He designed the Cardinal Hotel with a rounded corner facing the depots which would provide much of its business. The street-facing walls are red-brick broken by regular windows which rest on bands of lighter horizontal trim. The windows themselves are framed by quoins and voussoirs in colors that alternate between red that matches the brick and a lighter stone. A cornice runs around the street-facing sides above the fifth story with a line of dentils beneath. The door on the curved corner led into a tavern at the front of the building, with Craftsman-style dark wood finishes and leaded glass windows. A door on the other Wilson Street corner led to a restaurant and hotel lobby on the first floor. With the addition of the fifth story, there were 56 guest rooms on the floors above. Eckstedt himself had an apartment on the second floor in the curved corner above the tavern.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the CM&SP depot across Wilson Street, the Chicago & Northwestern depot was a block up Wilson. Travelers arriving in Madison by train saw the then-prominent 5-story building with the striking multi-colored masonry and the hotel became "a headquarters for railroad men and also was well known to hundreds of traveling men." Eckstedt became a prominent member of the business community, operating the Cardinal for twenty years and becoming the head of the Valecia Condensed Milk Company and guiding its expansion. When Ernest died in 1928, his son George took over the hotel for four years, when he died. A number of owners followed George. As rail travel gave way to automobiles, the hotel offered longer-term rentals.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Ricardo Gonzalez took over the Cardinal Bar. Gonzalez was born in Cuba in 1946 and immigrated to the USA in 1960 after the Cuban Revolution. He came to Ripon to work as a manager for the Green Giant canning company, then moved to Madison to work as an affirmative action officer. Under his management, the bar became popular with LGBTQ and Latino communities, and was an organizing center for them, hosting fundraisers for LGBTQ causes and candidates. Gonzalez himself was elected alderman for Madison&#39;s 4th district in 1989 - the first gay Latino elected to public office in the USA In that post he worked to revitalize the downtown.</p><br>
<p>A fire in the 1980s led to the building being converted to condominiums. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. Additionally, it is located within the East Wilson Street Historic District. In 2017 Ricardo Gonzalez sold the bar to Mike Eitel and it was converted to the Nomad World Pub.</p><br>
<p>The East Wilson Street Historic District includes remnants of businesses that grew around two railroad depots a half mile east of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, starting in the 1860s. A cluster of the hotel and saloon buildings from this district are still fairly intact, in contrast to Madison&#39;s other railroad station on West Washington. In 1986 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A mania for railroad-building swept the USA in the second half of the 1800s, before the automobile. The first railroad to reach Madison was the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, crossing the state westward. In 1854 it began to provide service at a large stone depot six blocks west of the capitol. In 1864 the Chicago and North Western Railway built a line into Madison from Beloit to the south, crossing Monona Bay. The C&NW tried to persuade the earlier Milwaukee Road to build a union depot on Blair Street, but Milwaukee declined. Instead in 1869 it built a small passenger depot on East Wilson. In 1871 the C&NW built passenger and freight depots nearby, east of Blair Street. Three more rail lines entered Madison by 1871, passing through this east-side depot area: one from Sun Prairie, one from Portage/Green Bay, and one from Baraboo.</p><br>
<p>Businesses grew in the area to serve railroad men and passengers. In 1867 Prussian immigrant Herman Klueter opened a wooden grocery store on E. Wilson. Four years later he built a two-story brick building for his grocery, added a feed business, and rented his old store to a butcher. In 1872 William Schumacher built the two-story Germania House Hotel – still existing at 510 E. Wilson St. In 1873 August Ramthun built the Madison house hotel and saloon at 520–524 E. Wilson. In 1875 George Schlotthauer added the Lake City House at 502 E. Wilson. In 1885 the C&NW built a bigger 2-story brick depot, which housed a small hotel and dining room. Also nearby by that time there were another grocer, two tobacco shops, several barbers, and three small saloons. (The 600 block of East Wilson and Williamson Streets nearby was heavily German, and it shows in the names of these early businessmen.)</p><br>
<p>In 1886 the Milwaukee Road built a new Victorian Gothic train station nearby. Hotels continued to expand and other businesses started. "By the 1890s, the east and west depot areas were among the liveliest spots in town." In 1899 148 trains passed through Madison each day. The five-story Cardinal Hotel was added in 1908 and 1909. The C&NW had hoped to build a grand depot on Blair Street, but it would have required closing Blount Street, which was opposed by local interests, so they scaled back their plans and built the smaller but elegant depot described below in 1915. Prohibition in 1916 forced most of the saloons to either close or shift to selling meals or soft drinks for twenty years. Even with increasing automobiles, rail traffic continued until after WWII, when passenger traffic began to decline. The Milwaukee Road shut down its east side depot in 1952 and the C&NW stopped passenger service in 1965.</p><br>
<p>Lacking lodging traffic from the railroads, the hotels switched to rent rooms weekly and monthly. Bars continued business, but the neighborhood declined. Prospects turned in 1980 when a luxury condominium was built east of the district. In 1982 the Cardinal Hotel was bought to be rehabilitated as an apartment building. And in 1983 Madison Gas and Electric built their new headquarters behind the C&NW station, incorporating the depots into their new complex.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing buildings</h2><br>
<p>These are some of the surviving historic contributing buildings in the district, listed in roughly the order built:</p><br>
<p>Herman Kleuters Grocery at 506–508 E Wilson St is a 2-story brick store with the east section built in 1871 and the west section added in 1891. It housed Kleuters grocery store, feed store, and a meat market. The street-level storefronts have been redone, but the second-story windows, pilasters, brick corbelling and cornice are intact.</p><br>
<p>The East Madison House at 520–524 E Wilson was built in 1873 by August Ramthun as a 3-story brick hotel and restaurant. In 1891–1892 it was expanded west. The exterior was rebuilt in 1897, retaining Italianate-style windows, but adding the Queen Anne-style corner tower. More recently the establishment has been called the Wilson Hotel and the Hotel Ruby Marie.</p><br>
<p>The Lake City House at 502 E Wilson is a 3-story brick hotel and saloon built in 1875 by George Schlotthauer. The hood moulds over the windows and the bracketed cornice place it within Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>The August Krehl Pharmacy at 408 E Wilson St is a two-story brick store built in 1889, with commercial Italianate brick pilasters and dentils and a wooden cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Cardinal Hotel at 416–420 E Wilson is a 5-story Neoclassical-styled hotel built by former railroad worker Ernest Eckstedt in 1908 and 1910 – the last and largest railroad hotel built in Madison.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and North Western station at 133 S Blair Street is the C&NW&#39;s second depot on the east side of Madison. The passenger depot was built 1910–1911 – two stories clad in gray limestone – a Neoclassical design by Frost and Granger, with heavy quoins on all corners and the entrance lit by second-story windows. To the northwest is a 2-story red brick freight house – also quoined – with round segmentally-arched openings at street level. When Madison Gas and Electric acquired the station and built their complex in the 1980s, they tore down some of the railroad structures behind, but preserved these two historic buildings, incorporating them into their complex sensitively.</p><br>
<p>The Isberner Clothing Store at 402 E Wilson is a 3-story dark brick building with stone trim built in 1923. It is a commercial interpretation of Prairie Style, and its original street-level storefront is still intact.</p><br>
<p>The Bascom B. Clarke House in Madison, Wisconsin was built in 1899, designed in Queen Anne style with Gothic Revival details for Clarke, who founded the magazine American Thresherman. In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bascom B. Clarke was born in Virginia in 1851. In 1857, his family headed west, where his father founded the town of Mount Adams on the White River in Arkansas. After the Civil War Bascom lived in Colfax, Indiana. With only a few weeks of formal education in his whole life, he became postmaster and published a newspaper. In 1873 he married M. Belle Watkins. Their beginnings were humble - Bascom later said that their first home in Indiana was "furnished with a borrowed table and a borrowed bedstead" - but he made a small fortune selling threshing machines.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 Clarke moved to Madison, continuing in the threshing machine business. There he helped organize the Dane County Telephone Company with Robert La Follette and others. In 1898 he began publishing American Thresherman, the only magazine at that time to focus on the mechanization of farming. Bascom regularly contributed a column called "Uncle Silas" in which he shared his own musings, like "Most of the skyscrapers in the cities have farmer boys as tenants."</p><br>
<p>In 1899 Clarke had the architectural firm Claude & Starck of Madison design this house. The firm had just formed the year before and would go on to design many Prairie Style libraries around the state, but this early design is residential and traditional. The house stands 2.5 stories, built of wood. The complex roof, asymmetric gables and bays fall within the Queen Anne architectural style that was popular at the time. Yet the pointed-arch church-like windows in the dormer ends draw from Gothic Revival style and some of the woodwork on the porch draws from Stick style. Inside was dark woodwork, a brick fireplace, and bookcases with Prairie Style leaded-glass doors. The house cost $4,500 to build.</p><br>
<p>Bascom was also instrumental in establishing a Masonic temple in Madison. He died in 1929. In 1980 his house was added to the NRHP as an early design of Claude and Starck and as home of one of Madison&#39;s leading citizens. The house is now located within the Orton Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The George Lawrence Clarke Jr. House is located in Butler, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.</p><br>
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<p>Originally, George Lawrence Clarke Jr. built the house as part of a new farmstead on property that had been his father&#39;s. The house has since been moved in order to save it from being demolished when the farmstead was being redeveloped to serve as a railroad yard. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1994 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel W. Dean House is a simple brick Italianate-style home built about 1856 in Madison, Wisconsin for Dean, an early leader and developer in the area. In 1980 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
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<p>Nathaniel W. Dean was born in Massachusetts in 1817 and arrived in Madison in 1842. He initially co-owned a successful dry goods business, then shifted into real estate. In 1846 he was elected clerk to the Dane County Board of Supervisors. In 1857 he was elected state assemblyman for one term. A Whig and then Republican, he generally supported business interests and railroads. He also supported building the third state capitol and Negro suffrage. He also served as treasurer of the UW Board of Regents and in that role planned UW funding through land sales and had a hand in planning North Hall, South Hall and Bascom Hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1855 Dean bought from the UW 160 acres on which this house sits in the town of Blooming Grove. It was then farmland, and he and his wife Harriet had this farmhouse built - perhaps a country retreat from Madison. The house is two stories and rectangular. The design is on the simple end of Italianate, with a symmetric front, simple stone window sills, and plain brick lintels. A dentilated wood cornice surrounds the top except on the back side, hiding a flat tarred roof. A wood porch which echoes the cornice spans the front of the house.</p><br>
<p>Deans main interests were in the city of Madison. His real estate office was in an office block called Deans Block that he built at King and Pinckney streets. He eventually became the largest stockholder in the Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets. In later years, Dean rented a room in Madison, but he gave his occupation as "farmer" in the 1870 census, and is listed in Blooming Grove. He also donated land for Blooming Grove&#39;s town hall and Commonwealth Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>After Dean died in 1880, Harriet sold the house to Frank Allis. He sold to Adolph H Kayser in 1916. Then a private golf club bought the house and land in 1922, and sold it to the city of Madison in 1928. It served as a public golf course clubhouse for decades.</p><br>
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<p>The Erastus Dean Farmstead in Bradford, Wisconsin is probably the oldest complex of farm buildings in Rock County, with the house built in 1840 and the barn in 1844. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Erastus Dean came to Emerald Grove from Vermont in the winter of 1837-1838 after an early career which included mission work among the Cherokees in Tennessee. He was the first settler in Bradford township. About 1840 he began to build the house that still stands. He built a store in Emerald Grove and eventually bought 1,000 acres from the government at $1.25 per acre.</p><br>
<p>Erastus built the first 24x24 foot section of the house from oak logs he cut nearby and squared to six by eight inch timbers, according to his grandson William Allen Dean. He clad the house in siding sawed in Milwaukee, which was the nearest sawmill at that time, and built the 14x24-foot limestone addition soon after. The resulting structure is 1.5 stories, with a saltbox profile, unadorned. Three families lived in the house the first winter, school was taught in one room, and the house hosted the first church services in the area. The grandson heard that an Indian trail ran through the yard and passing Indians sometimes slept on the floor in the house.</p><br>
<p>About 1844 the main barn was added, 60x64 feet, framed with hand-squared timbers, with space for horses and cattle below and a hay mow above. East of the main barn is a tobacco barn, 63x42 feet, built in the 1800s. East of that is a horse or sheep barn and other structures.</p><br>
<p>The Dowling Apartment Building was built as a luxury apartment block a half mile south of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin in 1922. In 2002 it was added to the State and National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
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<p>William L. Dowling was born in Madison in 1864 and raised in the neighborhood where he later built this apartment. As a young man, he worked in the freight department of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, then moved to mail clerk, then partnered in a shoe store on Capitol Square. By WWI, William was a community leader, chairing the local draft board and serving on the Madison Common Council for seven years in the 1910s and 1920s.</p><br>
<p>In middle age William married Margaret Graham. She had moved from Ohio to Madison in 1900, starting as a hat trimmer in the Mahoney Hat Shop, then buying the shop in 1904. She ran her M. L. Graham Hat Shop until 1917 when she married William, then sold the shop to her sisters.</p><br>
<p>The Dowlings had their apartment block built in 1922, ten years after the first such building appeared in Madison. The apartment block form of housing appeared in New York and Chicago in the last quarter of the 19th century, a way to expand the amount of housing in a neighborhood where land was limited, and to free residents from maintaining a yard and exterior of their home. In Madison the first apartment blocks were built in 1911. At the time, Madison&#39;s population was doubling about every twenty years, due to expansion of manufacturing, state government, and the university.</p><br>
<p>The Dowling Block was designed by Philip Dean of Madison, three stories tall, with a footprint like a squashed letter H, clad in dark brick and trimmed with light stone. Neoclassical styling is present in the molding and modillion in the front cornice and the pilasters and entablature around the front entrance. The name "DOWLING" is inscribed above that entrance and a lantern hangs on either side. That entrance door has sidelights and a transom. A hip-roofed stair tower is attached to the back of the building, clad in stucco. The initial construction cost was $30,000.</p><br>
<p>Inside were ten apartments, with a central hall on each floor. The Dowlings themselves lived in the three-bedroom apartment A - one whole side of the first floor. The apartments were finished with mahogany doors, birds eye maple floors, plaster walls and ceilings, hex tiles in the kitchens and bathrooms, Craftsman-style woodwork, built-in cupboards, dining room chandeliers, and a fireplace in each apartment. In the central hall was a trash chute, laundry chute, and dumbwaiter. Opposite the Dowlings apartment on the first floor was a two-bedroom apartment, a janitor&#39;s office, and a garage. The floors above had two one-bedroom apartments on each side of each floor. In the basement was a common laundry room, storage, and an incinerator.</p><br>
<p>Margaret continued to live in apartment A after William died in 1930, running the building. In 1931 she had architects John Flad and Frank Moulton remodel the original garage and janitors office into an efficiency apartment. After getting married and leaving her hat shop, Margaret was involved in public charity work - both Catholic and non-sectarian. She chaired fundraising campaigns to build Marshall Hall at Edgewood College and an addition to St. Marys Hospital. For many years she "served on the board of the Madison Catholic Association, the Madison Catholic Womens Club and the Wisconsin Council of Catholic Women," and as president of the last from 1934 to 1936. She co-chaired the Madison clothes depot, supervising five employees. In 1934 Governor Schmedeman appointed her to a statewide citizens committee to review highway safety and another to investigate housing problems. In 1936 Governor Philip La Follette appointed her to another to survey conditions at state institutions. During WWII, she was active in USO. More of her many public services are summarized in the NRHP nomination linked below. She lived in her apartment through all this, until she died in 1962.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Dowling left the apartment to the local Catholic diocese, which sold it to Theodore and Edna Wetternach in 1963. After Theodore died in 1986, Edna commenced updates, getting the exterior brick tuck-pointed, replacing windows, sealing the roof, refinishing floors, replacing the heating system, and replacing sinks and counters in the apartments, with an eye toward preservation.</p><br>
<p>In 2002 the apartment was added to the NRHP as a fine example of an early 20th century apartment block, and for its association with Margaret Dowling, who supported various civic organizations in Madison and beyond for many years.</p><br>
<p>The Grimm Book Bindery is a small Georgian Revival-styled shop built in 1926 in Madison, Wisconsin for the only dedicated book-binding business in town, run by the Grimm family for 60 years. In 1986 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
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<p>Gottlieb Grimm was a German immigrant who came to Madison in 1850 to work for Charles Weed in his book-bindery. There, Gottlieb is said to have bound the first book in Madison. After 24 years of ups and downs, the immigrant ended up as head of the shop and changed its name to Grimm Book Bindery. The building at that time was in the Journal Block. In 1909 it moved to Carroll Street, and in 1916 they built a shop at 324-328 W. Gorham.</p><br>
<p>By 1924 Gottlieb&#39;s children and grandchildren ran the business, which "bound volumes for the state government, the university, other community libraries, city directories, student theses, and private libraries." Despite this business, the building on West Gorham was too large, so the Grimms decided to build a smaller shop. To design the new shop, they hired Madison architect Alvin Small, who had designed Prairie style homes like the 1914 Louis Hirsig house and Prairie style commercial buildings like the 1914 Eddy store.</p><br>
<p>For the new Grimm Bindery, Small designed a small shop in Georgian Revival style, similar in style to Ben Franklin&#39;s printing shop in Philadelphia. The building is one story on a raised basement, with walls clad in red brick. The front door is centered, framed in classically-styled concrete beneath a small pediment. On each side is a large window with a round arch at the top. Topping the wall is a metal cornice decorated with modillions, beneath a short gable roof facade with a stepped parapet on each end, somewhat like Federal style. Above the front door is a neo-colonial-style sign proclaiming "Grimm BOOK BINDERY." Inside, the front door opened to a staircase which led up to an office on the left and the binding room on the right. The basement held a sewing room.</p><br>
<p>The Grimms continued business in this building for 60 years, keeping the exterior very intact. Around 1986 they moved their operations to a different building in Monona and the 1926 building was remodeled into apartments. The NRHP nomination at that time nominated the Grimm Bindery as "possibly the best small Georgian Revival commercial building in Madison" and "the work of a locally important architect, Alvin Small."</p><br>
<p>The Ernest Eggiman House is a prefabricated house assembled in 1936 in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a product called the Motohome - an attempt to provide fast, inexpensive housing during the Great Depression. In 1994 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the only Motohome in Wisconsin.</p><br>
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<p>The USA housing industry collapsed during the Great Depression. In Madison 28 new homes were built in 1933, compared to 260 at the peak in earlier years. Nationwide, the FHA estimated a shortfall of 1.75 million houses in 1935. Demand for architects&#39; services dropped at the same time. With these changes in mind, various architects kicked around ideas for how to build a modest house for non-wealthy clients. Wisconsin architect Frank Lloyd Wright tinkered with his Usonian homes. New Jersey architect Robert McLaughlin, Jr. aimed for a mass market and mass-production with the Motohome, a kit house that could be assembled from prefabricated parts in as little as two weeks for under $5,000.</p><br>
<p>McLaughlin&#39;s Motohome design had a steel frame covered by 4x8 foot asbestos concrete panels. The vertical joints between panels were covered by aluminum strips. Bands of paired casement windows admitted light. The design was modular, so the panels could be put together in different ways to construct 140 different floor plans costing from $3,500 to $7,200. The exterior fit into the International architectural style which was popular for institutional buildings at that time, with rectangular lines, bands of windows, and lack of adornment.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the Motohome had many leading-edge conveniences for that day. Heating, running water, and electricity were controlled by a centralized "moto-unit," which had been designed with help from General Electric and American Radiator. Each Motohome came with central air-conditioning, a dishwasher, a clock-radio, toaster, percolator, iron, washing machine and a bathroom scale. It even came with a library of how-to books and a weeks worth of groceries. It was marketed as a convenient, complete, inexpensive solution to a familys need for housing.</p><br>
<p>The first prototype was built in 1932 by American Homes, and sold to a coal company in Pennsylvania as possible worker housing. In 1935 the Motohome went into full production.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1936, the Eggiman house was the 54th Motohome. It was built for Ernest Eggiman, a salesman, by Advance Homes, Inc. of Madison. It was built with a full basement beneath, unlike most Motohomes which were built on a slab. This particular Motohome had a 2-story cube as its main block and a garage in a smaller one-story cube on the southeast corner. The front door was in the middle of the main block, shaded by a flat canopy that still wraps around the corner of the house. Inside, the first floor holds a living room, dining room and kitchen. A central stairway leads to the second story, with three bedrooms and a bathroom. In 1957 the garage was converted to a den and first-story bathroom. At some point the moto-unit (centralized utilities) was replaced, since it could be serviced only by a specially trained repairman.</p><br>
<p>Only 100 or 150 Motohomes were ever built. They didnt sell and the project was shut down around 1938. Their designer McLaughlin wrote: It is in a sense unfortunate that the desire for shelter had to be one of mans most primitive instincts. A consequence of this has been the enshrouding of the house with various sentimentalities and prejudices which have kept it from becoming as comfortable, healthful, and happy a place to live in as the methods of our modern civilization might otherwise have accomplished.</p><br>
<p>That is, Americans in the 1930s were ready for a factory that looked modern, but for a home they preferred something more like the house they had grown up in.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the Eggiman house was added to the NRHP as "one of the most important examples of the attempt to industrialize the production of housing during the Great Depression", and an excellent example of the International style of architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Edward C. Elliott House is a Prairie Style home designed by George W. Maher and built in 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1978 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
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<p>Edward C. Elliott was a Professor of Education at what would become the University of Wisconsin–Madison, directing a teacher training course and involved in establishing the University of Wisconsin High School. He was later Chancellor of a precursor of the Montana University System and President of Purdue University.</p><br>
<p>Edward and his wife had this house built in 1910, when Prairie Style was around its peak of popularity. It is an example of the "compact cubical" form of Prairie Style - more or less a two story rectangle with a porch on the side. Typical Prairie features are the broad eaves, the hip roof, and the emphasis on the horizontal (belt course between the two stories and the lines on the second story), and the art glass in the front door sidelights and in some windows. Less typical of Prairie Style are the inward-tapered walls and the tapered columns that flank the doors. A two-story porch projects from one side of the house - rectangular on the first story and five-sided on the second. Inside, the front door opens to an entry with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, and the living room features a large brick fireplace.</p><br>
<p>It isnt entirely clear who designed the house, but the Elliotts account books show payments to the prominent George Maher of Chicago, and the Elliotts have ties to the Winnetka area where Maher worked. The house resembles Mahers 1907 design for the Henry W. Schultz house in Winnetka. Madisons Claude and Starck were involved, but possibly only to meet a requirement of on-site supervision.</p><br>
<p>The Elliotts lived in the house from 1911 to 1916. They were followed by Ralph (Associate Professor of Political Economy at the UW) and Nellie Ness from 1916 to 1928. They were followed from 1929 to 1930 by Chester (Dean of the UW extension) and Louise Snell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as one of the few works of George W. Maher in Wisconsin, and as a significant example of Prairie School architecture in Madison.</p><br>
