<p>Portland Fire Station No. 17, at 824 N.W. Twenty-fourth Ave. in Portland, Oregon, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It originally held a horse-drawn steam pumper and a horse-drawn ladder truck, requiring three and two horses respectively.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Lee Gray Holden, who was serving as Battalion Chief during 1911–1922, as part of his career in Portland Fire Bureau.</p><br>
<p>The Brigham City Fire Station/City Hall, at 6 N. Main St. in Brigham City, Utah, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Andrew Funk and was built as a fire station in 1909. Its hose tower was designed to rise 70 ft.</p><br>
<p>It was remodelled in 1935 to serve as city offices, to design by Carson F. Wells.</p><br>
<p>Truck Company F, at 1336-1338 Park Rd. NW in Washington, D.C., was built in 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Leon E. Dessez in Renaissance style.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as Truck Company 6, Old Engine Company 11, and Old Columbia Heights Firehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a Washington, D.C. historic designation on July 22, 2004. According to the DC Office of Planning,</p><br>
<p>The William Baskin House, at 811 W. Quay Avenue in Artesia, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story hipped roof house built of artificial stone in 1905, and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Artesia.</p><br>
<p>It is one of ten houses of cast-stone construction which were together listed on the National Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The August and Eliza Fuermann Jr. House is a historic house at 500 S. Third Street in Watertown, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1893 for local brewer August Fuermann Jr., his wife Eliza, and their two children. August died unexpectedly later in the same year, and Eliza sold the house to hatmaker Clara Weiss, who lived there for 40 years. The two-and-a-half story brick house has a Queen Anne design with elements of the Neoclassical style; Queen Anne architecture was popular throughout the United States in the late twentieth century. The design features a wraparound front porch with a pavilion at the main entrance, multi-story bay windows on the south and north facades, and a front-facing gable end with decorative shinglework.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hebron Town Hall is located in Hebron, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building served as the town hall until 1981. It has also served as a polling station during elections and has hosted events including plays, dances and art exhibitions. Currently, it serves as a museum operated by the Black River Woods Historical Society. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial, near Wallace, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two cobblestone monuments in the Nine Mile Cemetery, erected in 1921 by the United States Forest Service, with associated graves of firefighters who died in forest fires in 1910.</p><br>
<p>One commemorates five men who died at the West Fork of Placer Creek, fighting forest fires on August 20, 1910. The other commemorates six men who died at the Bullion Mine.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Fire Station is a historic firehouse at 146 E. Milwaukee Street in Jefferson, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The City of Jefferson built the fire station in 1871 for its new volunteer fire department, which formed the same year. Architect Alexander Kirkland, who practiced in Scotland before moving to Jefferson in 1868, designed the two-story Italianate building. The station has a yellow brick exterior and features arch windows with keystones, four pilasters on the north face, and a corbelled cornice. In addition to its primary function, the fire station served as a community center, as the department hosted social gatherings and many of Jeffersons prominent residents volunteered for the department. The building also housed Jeffersons municipal offices from 1878 to 1965.</p><br>
<p>The fire department used the fire station until 1983. The building has since been converted from its original use and is occupied by a number of businesses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building at 305 S. Main Street in Jefferson, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The library was built in 1911 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Architects Claude and Starck of Madison designed the Prairie School building. The one-story building has a brick exterior with an entrance topped by a large overhanging roof, rows of windows on each end, and a low gable roof with wide eaves. It has been identified as one of the best-preserved examples of a Prairie School library building in Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently used by the Council for Performing Arts for offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Genesee County Savings Bank is an office building located at 352 South Saginaw Street in Flint, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Genesee County Savings Bank was founded in 1872. In 1915, the bank opened a new headquarters at the corner of Kearsley and Saginaw Streets. In 1916, the bank consolidated some business aspects with the First National Bank of Flint. Due to Flint&#39;s booming economy, both banks were outgrowing their headquarters, and in 1919, Genesee County Savings Bank constructed this new building only a block from their old headquarters. The building was designed by Hodgson Brothers of New York City. Over the rest of the 1920s, the bank grew tremendously, and in 1957 merged with Merchants & Mechanics Bank to form Genesee Merchants Bank & Trust Co. The bank moved its headquarters to Genesee Towers in 1968.</p><br>
<p>As of 2017, the building was long vacant, and Uptown Development Corporation planned on redeveloping the building into a 100-room hotel. Renovation began in 2019, and was completed in 2020. The building is now home to the Downtown Flint Hilton Garden Inn, an Italian American restaurant, a coffee shop, and a rooftop bar.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Genesee County Savings Bank is an eleven story building with a limestone exterior, located on a lot on the corner of Saginaw and Kearsley. Multiple cornices run around he building, emphasizing its length. The upper floors contain large windows to let natural light into the interior. The top two floors consisted of executive offices, with a colonnade running around the building. Above these is a deep cornice. The lower levels of the Saginaw Street façade appear to have been remodeled in an Art Modern style, inconsistent with the Kearsley Street façade.</p><br>
<p>The Calvin Coolidge Elementary School is a former school building located at 3701 Van Buren Avenue in Flint, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The school was constructed in 1928, with additions in 1951 and 1970. It closed its doors in 2011. In 2018, Communities First began plans to renovate the building into apartments and commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The St. Maries 1910 Fire Memorial, at St. Maries Cemetery in St. Maries, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>A six-foot granite slab memorial, with a 19x13 in United States Forest Service bronze plate, was erected in 1924.</p><br>
<p>The site includes graves of 54 fire fighters lost on August 20, 1910. Also 28 fire victims at Big Creek and 26 at Setzer Creek, killed in 1912, were reburied to the memorial.</p><br>
<p>The Sioux Ordnance Depot Fire & Guard Headquarters, near Sidney, Nebraska, was built in 1942. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included a contributing building and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>It was part of a World War II-era munitions depot, which operated until 1967. The listing consists of the two-story headquarters building and "vintage cedar tree plantings". It is located at the junction of 1st Ave. and Military Rd.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 it was used as a volunteer fire station for the Western Nebraska Community College, as the Western Nebraska Community College Fire Station.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company 29, at 4811 MacArthur Blvd. NW in Washington, D.C., is a fire station built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Albert L. Harris in Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Palisades Firehouse and as Engine Company No. 29.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a Washington, D.C. historic designation on July 22, 2004. According to the DC Office of Planning,</p><br>
<p>The department&#39;s Robert “Bob” Marshall "loved firefighting so much" that he commuted 80 miles to work there, before he was killed in a non-work-related accident in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The College Womens Club was a womens club founded in 1920 based in Berkeley, California. It organized Berkeley&#39;s first cooperative day nursery and established scholarships.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>The College Women&#39;s Club building was built by Walter T. Steilberg in 1928 in the American Craftsman style.</p><br>
<p>The College Women&#39;s Club sold the building and it was turned into a rooming house and a sorority. The building was restored in the early 1990s and then became the Berkeley Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The building, now the Berkeley Hotel, was designated a Berkeley Landmark by the city in 1979 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>South Side Fire Station No. 3, at 1324 S. Minnesota Ave. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was built in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story red brick building, built around 1931 for the National Youth Administration. It became a fire station in 1945. It was sold by the city in 1964 and became a coffee house. In 1983 it was home of the Bernice Johnson School of Modeling.</p><br>
<p>The Utica Fire and City Hall in Utica, South Dakota was built around 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with stamp metal facing upon a stone foundation, with a hipped roof. It has two fire doors. In 1980, the building still contained "four fire carts, with wooden wheels manufactured by the W.S. Knott Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota&quot "these objects are more scarce than the building itself."</p><br>
<p>The Auburn City Hall and Fire House, at 1103 High St. in Auburn, California, is a Moderne-style fire station and city hall which was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by George Clinton Sellon, the first State Architect of California. It was built during 1935-37 as a Works Progress Administration project.</p><br>
<p>It has also hosted the Boys & Girls Club Auburn.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, it holds the Placer County Visitors Bureau/California Welcome Center.</p><br>
<p>The Oceanside City Hall and Fire Station, also known as Oceanside Civic Center, at 704 and 714 Third St. in Oceanside, California, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two buildings, a single-story L-shaped city hall and a two-story fire station with a 50 ft tower, which are visually linked by a retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were designed by architect Irving J. Gill in 1929 as part of a larger civic complex which was not completed.</p><br>
<p>The listing included one contributing object.</p><br>
<p>Auburn Fire House No. 1, also known as Auburn Hose Company No. 1, at El Dorado St. & Lincoln Way in Auburn, Placer County, California, was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>It includes elements of Stick/Eastlake and Queen Anne styles.</p><br>
<p>The station was rededicated in a ceremony in 2013, at its 125th year mark, after a decade of restoration by volunteers.</p><br>
<p>The Weeping Beech was a historic tree located at Weeping Beech Park in Flushing, Queens, New York City. It was the mother of all European weeping beeches in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Weeping Beech was imported by horticulturalist Samuel Parsons in 1846 and planted in 1847. It was designated a living New York City Landmark in 1966, one of two trees in New York City to have received that designation, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 along with the adjacent Kingsland Homestead. The Weeping Beech was partially removed in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The region around the Weeping Beech, called Weeping Beech Park, contains a playground, the Kingsland Homestead, the John Bowne House, and several other historically significant trees.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Parsons, a nurseryman responsible for the planting of Central Park in Manhattan, purchased the cutting that produced the Weeping Beech while travelling in Belgium in 1846. The tree was on the estate of Baron DeMann in Beersal, Belgium, and transplanted to Flushing in 1847. Parsons also created a nursery in Queens in 1868. The nursery was later transported to Kissena Park, where it became a keystone of Flushing&#39;s horticultural industry until its closing in 1901.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, the Weeping Beech was designated an official New York City landmark. The Weeping Beech was one of two trees in New York City that were designated as city landmarks, the other being the Magnolia grandiflora in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.</p><br>
<h2>Weeping Beech Park</h2><br>
<p>The adjacent Weeping Beech Park was created in 1945 in order to protect the John Bowne House, which was designated a museum in 1947. Home to generations of the Bowne family until 1945, the Bowne House reportedly served as a stop on the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places</p><br>
<p>The park also contains the Kingsland Homestead, a house named for sea captain Joseph King. Due to encroaching development from the proposed extension of the New York City Subway&#39;s Flushing Line in 1923, the house was moved twice, the second time to Weeping Beech Park. The Homestead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places It was officially dedicated as a museum in March 1973 and is also home to the Queens Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The park includes a 1.3 acre playground, rebuilt in 1956. The park also contains a grove of weeping beech trees, descendants of the original Weeping Beech planted in 1847. The grove is next to a rare Golden Larch that is on the sidewalk of 37th Avenue and a large Cedar of Lebanon is in the playground. Abutting the park are a 49 in diameter Northern Red Oak and a 50 in diameter White Oak, both of which top 80 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Destruction and memorial</h2><br>
<p>The tree started suffering from poor health in the late 1960s, and was being given fertilizer in an unsuccessful attempt to prolong its life. In March 1999 it was decided that a 10 ft section of the tree would remain in the park as a memorial. By then, the tree&#39;s progeny had been spread all over the United States.</p><br>
<p>The rest of the tree would be given to artists to use for sculptures and benches along a heritage trail in downtown Flushing. A teacher at Flushing High School, Margaret I. Carman, had devised the idea for a trail; the park entrance at Bowne Street has a green named after her in honor of that vision.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Hotel, at 306 W. Coal Ave. in Gallup, New Mexico, was built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story "Decorative Brick Commercial" building.</p><br>
<p>It competed with the Harvey Hotel one block to the west.</p><br>
<p>The hotel went out of business around 1980, and it has also operated as "Ricca&#39;s Mercantile", a store.</p><br>
<p>Engine House No. 3 is a former fire station located at 607 Charlotte Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Kalamazoo hook and ladder company was established in 1846. By 1854 there were two companies, and the fire department continued to grow. In the early part of the 20th century, a number of new stations were constructed, and by 1910, the city had six stations. Four of these were designed by local architect Forrest D. Van Volkenberg, including Engine House No. 3. This station was constructed between 1907 and 1908, and it was used as a fire station by the city until 1980, when it was sold. As of 2013, the building was vacant.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Engine House No. 3 is a two-story brick structure, built in a Prairie School / Bungalow style that was popular at the time of construction. The architect, Forrest D. Van Volkenberg, designed the station with the local area in mind, and the design echoes that of the surrounding houses. It includes a small front porch similar to the houses in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Old Fire House No. 4 is a former fire station located at 526 North Burdick Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As the north side of Kalamazoo grew in the late 1800s, there was a need for greater fire protection in that part of the city. In 1887, the city purchased land for a new station and hired local architect Martin W. Roberts to design a new station. Contractor Alexander Robbins of Kalamazoo constructed the station, and it was in use by the end of 1887. In 1901, a matching addition on one side of the station was constructed to house a new fire truck. The city used the station until 1956, when it was sold. In the 1980s it was used as a warehouse. It was later refurbished into office space. In 2009, "Rescued Treasures," a thrift store associated with the nearby Kalamazoo Gospel Mission, was constructed adjacent to the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Old Fire House No. 4 is a two-story brick Late Victorian structure; the original section is two bays wide. It has a pyramid-roof tower at one corner, and paneled brick detailing.</p><br>
<p>The Casa Grande Womans Club Building, at 407 N. Sacaton Street in Casa Grande, Arizona, USA, is an historic womens club building which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>The Casa Grande Woman&#39;s Club</h2><br>
<p>Originally organized as the "Current Events Club" in 1913, the name was quickly changed to The Casa Grande Womans Club and they joined the General Federation of Womens Clubs. The same year the Club founded the town&#39;s first library, an institution which they ran until 1953.</p><br>
<p>In 1921 the women organized a free school lunch program. In 1962 they organized the Casa Grande Valley Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Casa Grande Womans Club Building was designed by Tucson architect Henry Jaastad and built by Michael Sullivan. built in 1924 in the Pueblo Revival style. The Club Building was constructed with stones donated by club members, obtained from the nearby desert. In 1997 the Womans Club sold the building to Casa Grande for $1.00. The building underwent a complete restoration which was completed in 2001, and won the Arizona Main Street award for Best Historic Rehabilitation in 2002, and the Governor&#39;s Honor Award in 2003. The wooden entrance sign was restored in restored 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House is a historic plantation house built that is one of the oldest houses in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. It is located at 4835 Flat Bridge Road inside the Panola Mountain State Park. It is one and a half stories, constructed in the Plantation Plain style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Parker house is of the Plantation Plain style and one-and-a-half stories tall. It is three bays wide and one room deep, with an extra travelers room adjacent to the front porch. There are two chimneys, one on each end wall.</p><br>
<p>Aaron Parker Jr. was born November 12, 1788, in North Carolina to Aaron and Charity Shuffield Parker Sr. The family moved to Clarke County, Georgia, the following year, and Parker was raised there. In 1806 he married Margaret Browning (born June 30, 1789), also originally from North Carolina. The couple would eventually have 14 children over 55 years of marriage.</p><br>
<p>Parker purchased land and moved his family from Clarke County in the spring of 1822. Parker purchased additional plots of land in the area and built the house here around 1830. At the time the land was part of Henry County (but would be split off to form Rockdale County in 1870).</p><br>
<p>Parker was active in the community, serving as county justice of the peace and postmaster general, but his primary occupation was farming. By 1850 he owned almost 3,000 acre of land, as well as 15 slaves. (That increased to 24 slaves by 1860, though his land holdings had decreased to 1,000 acre).</p><br>
<p>Parker died on January 5, 1881. His wife had died 10 years earlier. Both are buried in a cemetery in Rockdale County. His children inherited his property including 606 acre of remaining land. The house and land were sold several times during the 20th century. At times the house was rented to tenants.</p><br>
<p>In 1991 the property was being developed into the Southerness Golf Club, and the house was to be demolished. Community efforts prevented that, and instead the golf course incorporated the house, using the first floor as an office. A paved turn-around connected to the parking lot was built surrounding the house and the rest of the golf club&#39;s buildings were built nearby. The rear (north) facade of the house is directly adjacent to pavement but the other sides of the house are buffered by a small yard with a low rock wall. While it was included in the golf club, several changes were made including: new wood siding, reconstruction of the rear porch, brick veneer on the chimneys, and new doors and windows.</p><br>
<p>The golf course eventually closed and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources bought the 110 acre property for $790,000 in 2004. Since then the state has demolished the former golf club buildings and made other changes to create a more rural landscape. The Rockdale County Historical Society partnered with the state to perform a structural assessment and restore the house, which was in a "deplorable" condition.</p><br>
<p>Although it is not open to visitors generally, the park sometimes holds living history demonstrations at the house.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Dawson Womans Club was founded in 1905 as the "Wednesday Afternoon Club" and became a member of the Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Dawson Woman&#39;s Clubhouse, in Dawson, Georgia, is a log cabin structure which was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was delisted in 2019 because it had been moved. As of 2018, it had been moved to the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and Stonewall Street.</p><br>
<p>The building is a log cabin built for public use, made "of round, saddle-notched, unchinked logs that rest on a primitive pier foundation composed of stacked fieldstones."</p><br>
<p>The building is now known as the Log Cabin Club House, and is offered for rent for events. It was for some time located at 360 6th Avenue, NE, in Dawson.</p><br>
<p>The womans club became inactive by 1950, and was reorganized as the Dawson Womans Garden Club or Dawson Garden Club. According to the Terrell County Historic Preservation Society, "community improvement has continued to be a goal, although limited to the area of city beautification."</p><br>
<p>The house belonged to the Dawson Garden Club from 1950 to 1994, when it was transferred to the Dawson Restoration Society (now the Terrell County Historic Preservation Society).</p><br>
<p>The Crouse House, in Opa-Locka, Florida, was designed by architect Bernhardt E. Muller for owners J. W. and Jennie Crouse. The house includes Moorish Revival elements, and it was constructed in 1926 at the corner of Peri and Ahmed Streets in Opa-locka. The house is part of the Opa-locka Thematic Resource Area, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places August 17, 1987. Original features of the house included a bell tower at the Peri St. entrance and a dome above the garage entrance on Ahmad St., but neither feature survived numerous alterations.</p><br>
<p>Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss founded Opa-locka in 1925, and he hired architect Bernhardt Muller to design the community with a Moorish Revival motif inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights. Curtiss was not able to achieve Muller&#39;s vision for the community, although several sites were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Norton House is a historic house at 200 Pine Orchard Road in Branford, Connecticut. Built about 1715 in what is now Madison, it is one of Branford&#39;s small number of well-preserved 18th-century houses. It was moved to its present location about 1940, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Norton House is located in a residential area in southeastern Branford, on the northeast side of Pine Orchard Road south of Birch Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof covered in wooden shingles, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide, with sash windows placed symmetrically around the center entrance. The window and door openings, as well as the building corners, are simply trimmed, with the second story windows butted against the eave. The rear roof face extends to the first floor, giving the house a classic New England saltbox profile. A modern single-story ell extends further to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1715 in what is now Madison, where it was known as the Norton House. It was moved to its present location about 1940, and underwent a restoration thereafter.</p><br>
<p>The Monroe McKenzie House is located in Palmyra, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>McKenzie was a boot and shoe manufacture who also served as a justice of the peace. The house is one of the earliest examples of a concrete structures in the United States. Currently, the Palmyra Historical Society uses it as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Harvey Hotel in Gallup, New Mexico, at 408 W. Coal Ave., was built in 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with a Decorative Brick Commercial style facade and "Stone Commercial Style" walls. It competed with the Grand Hotel located one block to the east.</p><br>
<p>It was never associated with the hotel line of the Fred Harvey Company.</p><br>
<p>The Flatiron Building on Battery Park Avenue in Asheville, North Carolina was completed in 1926. The nine-story In its first decade, it was to home dozens of businesses, as well as WWNC, Ashevilles oldest radio station. Jimmie Rodgers, whose star persona and Appalachian musical style earned him the designation "Father of Country Music", made his first broadcast performance from WWNCs 8th-floor studio.</p><br>
<p>The building was largely occupied by business professionals, physicians, and dentists throughout its first 50 years. As Asheville slowly recovered from its post-Great Depression slump, the Flatiron&#39;s tenant mix turned over to more creatives, therapists, and small tech start-ups (particularly during the 2000s).</p><br>
<p>Midtown Development Associates bought the building in 1985 for $440,000. A $1 million renovation took place at that time. Early in 2018, building manager and co-owner Russell Thomas put the building up for sale with a $16 million asking price; the buyer would be required to preserve the building. On October 8, 2018, Thomas announced the building needed $3.5 million in renovations. Shortly thereafter, local developer Philip Woollcott presented plans to convert the building from offices to a boutique hotel.</p><br>
<p>The restoration and renovation project lasted roughly 4.5 years, partly due to delays forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The hotel includes an Italian-Appalachian restaurant called Luminoso, a rooftop bar, an underground speakeasy, and a coworking space. The building itself has been largely preserved, with details including historic Terrazzo and marble flooring, transom windows, and door signage highlighting 29 of the buildings&#39; previous tenants. The Indigo Road Hospitality Group began accepting reservations for the 71-room Flat Iron Hotel in 2024. The hotel and restaurant officially opened on May 15, 2024.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, local artist Reed Todd installed an 8-foot tall cast iron sculpture of an antique flatiron just across Wall Street, to the building&#39;s east. The sculpture has become a popular tourist landmark and backdrop for street performers.</p><br>
<h2>Ironland</h2><br>
<p>In recent years a new micronation called Ironland has emerged from the Flat Iron Sculpture by Youtuber magnify. Although no country recognizes them, Ironland has over 30+ embassies all over the world. Additionally, the nation has an official football team, recognized by both the team and the nation - Galway United FC.</p><br>
<p>The Town Club is a women&#39;s club based in Portland, Oregon, United States.</p><br>
<h2>The Town Club</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1928, the club&#39;s original membership consisted of the wives of prominent Portland businessmen. The stated purpose of the club was to "promote and develop the physical and mental capacities of its members and to provide and maintain suitable opportunities, accommodations and facilities for social, recreational, educational, civic and charitable enterprises, movements and undertakings." In 1929, Mrs. T. B. Wilcox donated the property for the Town Club building. By 1930, membership had grown to 350. While membership is primarily for women, men are allowed to join the club. The club is still active.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>The Town Club&#39;s building was constructed in 1930 in the Mediterranean Revival style. Due to the steep incline of the property the club house was constructed with three "split" levels. It has a brick facade and a hipped tile roof. Originally, the building contained bedrooms to accommodate members returning to Portland to visit.</p><br>
<p>The Town Club building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The building is still standing and serves as a club house and event venue.</p><br>
<p>The Old West Haven High School is a historic former school building at 278 Main Street in West Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1926 during a period of rapid population growth, it served the city as a high school and then junior high school until 1983. It was designed by New Haven architect Roy Foote, and is a prominent local example of Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now houses residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old West Haven High School is located in a mainly residential area two blocks east of the West Haven town green, on the south side of Main Street east of Washington Avenue. It is a large two-story H-shaped structure, built with load-bearing masonry walls of brick and terra cotta. Its long main facade is broken up by projecting sections at the ends and in the center. The end pavilions have brick pilasters at the corners, and terra cotta pilasters flanking bands of sash windows. The center pavilion houses the main entrance, which is framed by two-story columns with Egyptian Revival capitals and a fully pedimented gable. The front portion of the H originally housed classrooms and offices, while the rear of the building housed the gymnasium and auditorium.</p><br>
<p>West Haven experienced rapid growth in the late 19th century, with people moving to the city in pursuit of industrial employment. This rapid growth overwhelmed the local schools, and the city embarked on a major school construction program in the 1910s. Land for this building was purchased in 1916, but construction did not begin until 1925, and the building opened in 1927. It was designed by New Haven architect Roy Foote, who had already designed one school for the city, built in 1905. Population growth continued through the mid-20th century, and the city built a new high school in 1964, converting this one into a junior high school. It was closed in 1983, and was sold for redevelopment.</p><br>
<p>The Palace Theater is a 2,900-seat auditorium at 100 East Main Street in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut. The theater currently presents a variety of live entertainment, hosting traveling productions and locally produced events. It was built in 1921 to a Renaissance Revival design by Thomas W. Lamb, and is an architecturally prominent element of the city&#39;s downtown. It underwent a major restoration in the early 21st century, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Palace Theater is located in downtown Waterbury, on the south side of East Main Street, east of the city green. It occupies about 125 ft of street frontage, with a series of small storefronts on the ground floor to the right of the theater entrance. The entrance sheltered by a large marquee that projects over the sidewalk. The upper levels of the four-story building are organized into eight bays, with the center six having the most elaborate treatment. The second floor has bands of three windows in each of these bays, and is separated from the upper two floors by a cornice. The upper bays have two-story round-arch windows, flanked by round columns and separated from each other by Corinthian pilasters. A frieze band and cornice cap the building. The interior lobby and auditorium spaces are richly decorated.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The theater was built in 1922 to a design by Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost designers of theaters of the period. When it opened, it was judged to be the citys finest performance venue, hosting traveling vaudeville shows and the latest movies. It was part of the business empire of Sylvester Z. Poli, who controlled as many as thirty theaters, most in the northeastern United States. Only two of Polis theaters survive in some form, and this one is exceptionally well preserved.</p><br>
<p>The Mike and Mary Matson Farmstead is a historic farmstead in Embarrass Township, Minnesota, United States. It was established by a Finnish immigrant family around 1900 and includes five surviving buildings constructed with traditional Finnish log architecture. The farm was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for its state-level significance in the themes of agriculture, architecture, and European ethnic heritage. It was nominated for its association with the Finnish settlement and conversion of St. Louis County&#39;s cutover woodland into productive farmland, and for exhibiting their use of traditional log architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district consists of seven contributing properties, all dating to around the year 1900. Five are log buildings: a cattle barn, a hay barn, a cattle and hay barn, a stable, and a smoke sauna. All five were constructed by the Matsons neighbor Gregorius Hanka. Rounding out the inventory of historic properties are the farms well and agricultural fields.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Branch Library and Fire Hall, in Riverside, California, is a historic library and a fire station which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Classical Revival library was built in 1908 and renovated in 1927–28. It was originally designed by architect Seeley L. Pillar (1865-1968), and architect G. Stanley Wilson (1879-1958) designed the renovations.</p><br>
<p>The Overlook Historic District encompasses a historic residential area north of downtown Waterbury, Connecticut. Roughly bounded by Calumet Street to the north, Columbia Avenue to the east, Cables Avenue and Tower Road to the south, and Willow an Fisk Streets to the west, it includes the city&#39;s finest concentration of turn-of-the century residential architecture, which was developed as its first major planned residential subdivision. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Overlook residential district was a combination of farmland and country estates of wealthy Waterbury businessmen prior to its development beginning in the late 19th century. In 1897, real estate developer Cornelius Cables began purchasing land in the area, and made a comprehensive plan for residences catering mainly to middle and upper-class families. Columbia Avenue, a boulevard with a grass median, was the central feature of his plans, with three distinct subareas with differing lot and house sizes. Roads were laid out somewhat informally, respecting the hilly terrain. The area was built out by 1930.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is about 116 acre in size, and includes nearly 500 historic buildings. About 350 of these are residences, and only five are institutional buildings; the remainder are outbuildings such as garages that date to the period of development. Most of the houses are of wood frame construction, and the majority are Colonial Revival in style. Other period styles are well represented, including the Queen Ann and Craftsman. The non-residential buildings include a church, school, and fire station.</p><br>
<p>The historic Fullerton Police Station, formerly Fullerton City Hall, at 237 W. Commonwealth Ave. in Fullerton, California, was built during 1939 to 1942. It was designed in Mission Revival style by influential architect G. Stanley Wilson, and was made of poured concrete. Ceramic tiles and terra cotta for the project were produced by Gladding, McBean and Company.</p><br>
<p>The current city hall, at 303 W. Commonwealth Avenue, is in the New Formalism style of architect. The front arches are inspired by the original city hall and the terra cotta color salutes the roofing material used in the first city hall.</p><br>
<p>The historic building has included the Fullerton Police Department, the Fullerton Jail and the Wayne H. Bornhoft Facility. It has served as a city hall, a courthouse, and a meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>The Portage Street Fire Station is a former fire station located at 1249 Portage Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. As of 2018, the space houses the Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kalamazoo grew rapidly at the end of the nineteenth century; in particular, southeastern part of Kalamazoo near Washington Square experienced rapid growth after a series of large paper mills opened nearby between 1890 and 1900. However, the area lacked adequate fire coverage. In 1903, the city council hired Kalamazoo architect Robert M. Gallup to draft plans for a new fire station. After some revision, local contractor Moore McQuigg was hired to construct the building. The station was completed in mid-1904.</p><br>
<p>The station, called "Engine House No. 2," was used by the city until 1953 when a new fire station was constructed nearby. The building housed a laundromat until about 1976. However, the building became severely deteriorated. It was purchased by a new owner in 1982 and rehabilitated to house a contracting business in the first floor and office space upstairs.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Portage Street Fire Station is a two-story orange brick structure, trimmed with yellow-gray, rock-face limestone, with a hip-and gable roof containing a total of five dormers. It measures 40 feet by 60 feet. It stands on a corner lot; attached to the building corner nearest the intersection is a pyramid-roof tower, projecting outside the footprint of the building proper. All of the building windows are one-over-one double hung units. The front facade has arched fire-door openings on the first floor. A limestone tablet in the front contains the inscription "Portage St. Fire Station."</p><br>
<p>The Ledgewood Historic District is a 41 acre historic district located in the Ledgewood section of Roxbury Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2013, for its significance in architecture and community development. It has 40 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and one contributing site. It includes the King Store and Homestead and the Silas Riggs House, which were both previously listed individually.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The two-story frame King Homestead was built around 1878 with Italianate and Queen Anne styles. The two-story stone King Store was built in 1827 with Greek Revival architecture. The one and one-half story Silas Riggs House was built around 1805. Jackson&#39;s Store was built in the late 19th century. Canal Street follows the route of the Morris Canal in the district.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Isaac Palmer House is a historic house at 736–756 Main Street in Branford, Connecticut, USA. Built about 1810, it is a good local example Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Isaac Palmer House is located west of downtown Branford, on the north side of Main Street at its junction with Cedar Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It originally had a central chimney, which is no longer visible above the roof line. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance, each with a projecting cornice. The entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and wide Doric pilasters, and is topped by an entablature and projecting cornice. A two-story ell extends to the right of the main block, and a 20th-century garage is located at the rear of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1810, probably by Linus Robinson shortly before he sold it to John Hobart and Edmund Palmer. It remained in the Palmer family through most of the 19th century and has since been subdivided into two units.</p><br>
<p>The Silas Riggs House is a historic house built around 1805 by Silas Riggs  in the Ledgewood section of Roxbury Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 11, 1977, for its significance in architecture and community history. It was later added as a contributing property to the Ledgewood Historic District on April 18, 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Silas Riggs was born in Mendham and moved here, then known as Drakesville, around 1805. Riggs was a tanner, and later a canal boat owner, operating on the Morris Canal. His son, Albert Rose Riggs, owned the King Store. The one and one-half story frame house was moved to its current location in 1962. It was restored by the Roxbury Township Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Parsons House is a historic house museum at 180 South Main Street in Wallingford, Connecticut. Built about 1770, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian residential architecture. It has housed the local historical society since 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Parsons House is located in a residential area south of downtown Wallingford, on the east side of South Main Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof, end chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The first floor facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled porch with square columns. Three gabled dormers pierce the steep front face of the roof. The interior has original finishes in most of its downstairs rooms, and its upper level has been opened up to create a museum gallery.</p><br>
<p>The house has an uncertain construction history, and is currently believed to have been built about 1770, based on stylistic evidence. Uncertain documentary evidence suggests it may have been built as early as 1759, but this assumes that the documents refer to the same building. The house was probably built by John Parsons, and is named for his grandson Samuel, who owned it by 1803. By the turn of the 20th century, a wing had been added to one side, and the building had been converted into a two-family residence. It was given to the Wallingford Historic Society in 1919, which adapted it for its use as a headquarters and museum.</p><br>
<p>The Tennille Woman&#39;s Clubhouse, at 132 Smith St. in Tennille, Georgia, was built in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Tennille Woman&#39;s Club</h2><br>
<p>The Tennille Womens Club was founded in 1914 as a sewing club. It later took on civic projects and was incorporated in 1920 when it became a member of the Georgia Federation of Womans Clubs and the General Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs. It "federated with the state and national program in 1921 after undergoing an application review in which the club had to be certified as being non-political and non-sectarian and being devoted to promoting better communities." In 1998 it was still active with about 40 members.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1922, Tennille Woman&#39;s Clubhouse is one-story log building, purpose-built to serve as a clubhouse. It is built in the Craftsman Style.</p><br>
<p>Its south room was the founding location of the first public-supported library in Washington County, which later moved.</p><br>
<p>The Holly Street Fire Hall, at 1600 Holly St. in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a red brick two-story fire station designed with elements of Colonial Revival and/or Classical Revival style by Nashville&#39;s first city architect James Yeaman to fit into its neighborhood, a residential area with houses having columns and porticos.</p><br>
<p>The fire hall sustained extensive damage during the Nashville 2020 Tornado which struck around 12:45 AM on March 3, 2020. The fire hall lost its roof and many windows.</p><br>
<p>The James Geddes Engine Company No. 6, at 629 2nd Ave., S., in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1884–85. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story red brick building with terra cotta, stone, and metal details.</p><br>
<p>It is named for James Geddes, a Scottish-born civil engineer who long worked for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was a "prominent Nashvillian".</p><br>
<p>The Pines Bridge Historic District encompasses a historic industrial and commercial village in North Haven, Connecticut. Located just west of the town green and centered around the Broadway bridge over the Quinnipiac River, the village developed first as a commercial hub around a 17th-century bridge at the site, and then as a small industrial village in the 19th century. Now mainly residential, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pines is a name historically associated with the head of navigation of the Quinnipiac River, which was first settled in the 1670s. Construction of a bridge made the area a small commercial center, serving travelers on the road connecting New Haven and Hartford (now roughly State Street). The area developed in the early 19th century as a brickmaking center, a business which expanded after the railroad (whose line forms the district&#39;s eastern boundary) arrived by 1840. It became the principal commercial area of North Haven by the 1850s, but declined in importance in the mid-20th century due to increased automobile use and the construction of Interstate 91, which separated the area from the town center.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is 40 acre in size, and consists of two sections, joined by the Broadway bridge. The western section is roughly L-shaped, extending along State Street on either side of the Broadway junction, and then west along Bishop Street. The eastern section consists of a lobe of land south of Broadway and Old Broadway, which is bounded on the east by the railroad and the west and south by the river. A cluster of fine houses stand along State and Bishop Streets, most dating to the first half of the 19th century. More densely built housing lines the west side of Philip Place. There is now only one formerly industrial building in the district; it is a former carriage factory at 9 State Street which has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The Fire Hall No. 1 in Nashville, Tennessee, at 1312 3rd Ave. N., was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story fire station which was designed to appear residential, with elements of Tudor Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the "Germantown Fire Hall and as the George W. Swint Sr. Engine Company No. 1.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, it was owned by Neighborhoods Resource Center, which planned to convert it into offices.</p><br>
<p>It is located just outside the boundary of the Germantown Historic District, which is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Molyneux Chevrolet Company Building, also known as the Rockwood Fire Department Building, is a historic building in Rockwood, Tennessee. It was built in 1927 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is an L-shaped two part commercial building. It was made of poured concrete walls, with concrete made by forms in a block-like pattern. It has decorative concrete pilasters. It was built to hold a flat-roofed fire hall in one bay on the eastern side, and the Molyneux Chevrolet Company in three other bays covered by a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The building still existed in 2011.</p><br>
