<p>The Mason Street Historic Residential District is a primarily residential historic district located along Mason Street between Dewey and Hickory Streets in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The section of land where this district is now located was previously a large, fenced fairground, containing an exhibition building, race track, and judges tower. However, as the city of Owosso grew, the land became more desirable for other uses. In the early 1890s, builder James Laverock pressed the city to sell him a portion of the fairgrounds. Laverock had previously developed other commercial and residential projects in Owosso, and the city acceded to his request. With his prominent place in the city, he was able to quickly build and sell solid working-class homes along Mason Street. By 1900, the tract along Mason Street was home to a series of working-class families, including a machine shop foreman, a dime store owner, a master mechanic for the Ann Arbor Railroad, several carpenters, the principal of the Owosso Business College, a watch-maker at Christians Department Store, the proprietor of a book and stationery shop, clerks at Christians and Duffs Grocery Store, a baker, a carriage painter, an</p><br>
<p>agricultural implements salesman, a railroad brakeman, a janitor, a barber, and several widows.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mason Street Historic Residential District is a residential section of Owosso that contains 40 lots developed with modest working-class homes from the 1890s. All but three are one of the three tract housing styles used by James Laverock. The remaining houses were constructed in the early 20th century, and complementary in materials and scale. The houses are primarily located along two blocks of Mason Street, with a few located on the central street, Oak, just north and south of Mason.</p><br>
<p>Within the three housing styles used by Laverock, individual houses were differentiated by using different styles of wood ornamentation. The first style, used in 19 homes, is a two-story, L-shaped balloon-framed building sheathed in clapboard with a gable roof. These houses have simple balanced fenestration with the main entryway in the recess of the L and a shed-roof front porch. The second style, used in 16 homes, is a two-story rectangular balloon-framed building sheathed in clapboard, again with a gable roof. These homes have a single-story addition in the rear, simple fenestration, and a front entryway. The third style, used in only two homes, is a two-story rectangular balloon-framed building sheathed in clapboard, with a gable roof. These two houses had slightly home complex fenestration and a small front porch.</p><br>
<p>Nasers Tavern is a historic building in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a designated Pittsburgh historic landmark. It is thought to be the oldest surviving building on Butler Street, the main commercial street in Lawrenceville. As of 2018 it houses a branch of Pennsylvanias state-run liquor store, Fine Wine & Good Spirits.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the building is two stories tall with a gable roof and fronts on Butler Street. It has three first-floor storefronts with individual entrances, as well as a separate apartment entrance, all with wooden, Greek Revival style trim. The corner of the first story is cut away to provide a corner entrance. The westernmost storefront is part of an addition that was constructed sometime before 1870, which is demarcated by a pair of chimneys. The second story is seven bays wide and three bays deep, with a stepped gable facing 41st Street. Behind the main block are several additions extending along 41st Street.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Apartments is a building in Midtown, Houston listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by local architect, Alfred C. Finn, and completed in 1924. It was first an owner-occupied four-plex. Later it was used as a hospital in 1945, converted to single-family residential use in 1970, and after 1997, re-purposed as law offices. The building was vacant through most of the 1950s and 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Apartments building is located on Webster at the corner of Caroline in Houston&#39;s Midtown neighborhood. Benjamin Cohen commissioned the design work for the four-plex in 1919, and resided in one of apartments for the first sixteen years of its existence. The apartments were converted for use as a hospital in 1945, which was known as Home Hospital and later as Physicians and Surgeons Hospital. A map from the early 1950s confirms its use as a hospital, but it lay vacant for seven years after 1952. By this time, the previous suburban character of the neighborhood transitioned to commercial buildings and boarding houses. An attempt to revive the building as a hospital in 1960 failed quickly as it stood unused from 1961 through 1968.</p><br>
<p>One room at the Benjamin was rented as an apartment in 1969 before John and Blanche Bankes converted it to a single-family residence in 1970. John Bankes lived there until his death in 1993, and Blanche remained there until 1997. A law firm acquired the property a year later, performed some renovations, then resold it to a real estate partnership in 1999. Mid-Continent Houston Properties, LTD converted the building to office use for one tenant.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin represents an early-20th-century stylistic synthesis of the Arts and Crafts movement with Renaissance Revival elements. Decorative flourishes at the front entrance are rendered into relatively austere interpretations. Subtle modulations in the polychrome patterns of the brick work introduce another decorative element. Non-original features of the property as recently as 2002 include: a metal fence around the back of the property, a car port, a paved surface parking lot, and an area for the dumpster and utilities.</p><br>
<p>Peoples National Bank Building is a high-rise building in Courthouse Square, Tyler, Texas, at 102 N. College Street. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco building was designed by noted Texas architect Alfred C. Finn, who touted an extensive portfolio of steel-framed skyscrapers when the Peoples National Bank Building was completed in 1932. Since 2014 it has been known as the People&#39;s Petroleum Building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Local attorney and judge Samuel A. Lindsey commissioned the Peoples National Bank Building in 1932, amidst the Great Depression. Lindsey was also a local real estate investor and chairman of the bank. He established the Peoples National Company as a medium to finance the project while limiting liability to the bank and to himself. The building is located at the southwest corner of Courthouse Square in downtown Tyler. Block 9, Lot 5 was previously occupied by the two-story Goldstein and Brown mercantile store, which was damaged by a fire as early as 1930. The mercantile partners sold the property to People&#39;s National Bank in May 1931. The bank commissioned Houston architect Alfred C. Finn to design a skyscraper to replace the store, and by October, he submitted illustrations for the proposed building. A local contractor, Campbell & White, was responsible for construction, and engaged Universal Contracting of Houston to pour the foundation in April 1932. Campbell & White was the general contractor.</p><br>
<p>Peoples National Bank Building opened on 5 November 1932 and was fully leased before the start of 1933. It was home to Tylers most important business tenants: McMurrey Refining Company, the law firm of Pollard & Lawrence, and Broughton Wilkinson, who started a local oil boom with the development of Daisy Bradford #3. The buildings owners responded to the demand for local office space by expanding the four-story wing on West Erwin street to ten stories. It remained the prime office location in Tyler through the 1950s, after which the building lost tenants and attempted to stem the tide with some expensive renovations in 1969. Nations Bank acquired Peoples National Bank, then moved into its own new twenty-story building in the early 1980s. This additional office space near the square and the trend of new suburban development in south Tyler caused high vacancy rates in downtown. Tyler Towne Centre acquired the building in 1997, while preserving its appearance. Through 2001, the banking facilities lacked a tenant, but Tyler Towne Centre leased some retail and office space. According to one report, however, the building was mostly unoccupied in 2000. A new ownership group – Garnett and Tim Brookshire, and Andy Bergfeld – began a new renovation project in the early 2010s, replacing infrastructure, including new air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing systems. They renamed it Peoples Petroleum Building. Renovations of the tenth and eleventh floors created model office space to show to potential tenants. As of September 2014, the ninth and tenth floors were leased, with the eleventh floor refurbished as leasable space.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural characteristics</h2><br>
<p>At the retail level, on the College Street and Erwin sides, the facades are clad in smooth black granite with flutings. The pane glass was originally set in metal frames, but replaced with plate glass set in aluminum frames. The first floor interiors, including the lobby and the banking rooms, are mostly original, decorated in marble and limestone. The elevation is only symmetrical on its College Street side, where the facings are composed mostly of brick and offset by polished black granite.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Avenue-Genesee Street Historic Residential District is a primarily residential historic district, located along Michigan Ave between Clinton Street and the railroad tracks, and along Genesee Street from Michigan Avenue to Shiawassee Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Michigan Avenue-Genesee Street District was developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, as new businesses were developed in Owosso and fine craftsmen moved to the city. The district was located near the newly-established factories, and close to the booming commercial district, so both shopkeepers and craftsmen found the neighborhood a convenient place to live. As the neighborhood attracted a varied group of residents, the houses constructed embraced a range of sizes and styles. However, despite the heterogeneity of the buildings, they all exhibited fine craftsmanship. The quality of the houses ensured that the neighborhood lasted, well-cared-for, into the present day.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The streets of the Michigan Avenue-Genesee Street neighborhood are narrow and some sections display brick pavers. The neighborhood is completely residential, containing residences of a modest size but architecturally sophisticated. The district contains 32 properties, all but one of which were constructed in the 19th century. Although a few Greek Revival houses are in the district, most houses reflect later styles, including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake, and Georgian Revival styles.</p><br>
<h2>Significant Houses</h2><br>
<p>The significant houses in the neighborhood include:</p><br>
<p>Eli Gregor Residence (416 Genesee): This house, originally built in about 1860, is the oldest remaining structure in the neighborhood. The older portion of the home is a two story, three bay Greek Revival structure covered in clapboard. It has a gable roof, and porches on both the first and second floor. In the mid-1870s, Eli Gregory, then mayor of Owosso, added a 1-1/2 story French Second Empire section to the home.</p><br>
<p>North-Rigley Residence (220 Michigan): This house was first home to Granville North, part-owner of a furniture company. In about 1890, North sold it to Charles Rigley, president of the Estey Manufacturing Company. The house is a two-story, L-shaped Queen Anne home covered in clapboard.</p><br>
<p>Louis Hall Residence (304 Michigan): Businessman and grocer Louis Hall built this family home in 1893. It is a mix of Queen Anne And Georgian Revival styles, with an asymmetrical floorplan and facade. It is covered with clapboard, shingling, and tongue-in-groove siding. The front porch is supported by Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Gardner Residence (314 Michigan): This house is a modestly scaled but elaborately detailed Eastlake-style residence, constructed in about 1885. It has elaborate ornamentation around the windows and in the gable ends. A series of skilled craftspeople, managers, and businesspeople lived in this house; the first known of these is Samuel Gardner, who moved in some time before 1895.</p><br>
<p>The Walton House is a historic building in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A designated Pittsburgh historic landmark, the house and its neighboring structures exemplify the form and scale of buildings constructed in Lawrenceville during the post Civil War era.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Walton House was built circa 1868 by William and Martha Walton, who emigrated from England and settled in Pennsylvania sometime in the 1860s. During that decade, Walton operated a jewelry store on Market Street in Lawrenceville. The couple&#39;s former property also includes the two adjoining houses at 4416 Plummer St. and 152 45th St. All three buildings were built between 1865 and 1872, but 4412–4414 Plummer St. is thought to be the oldest. During the 1870s, part of the property was operated as an inn and tavern.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Walton House is a two-story, side-gabled double house of frame construction, with vinyl siding installed over the original clapboards. The building is five bays wide with 1-over-1 sash windows used throughout. The corner unit (4412 Plummer St.) has a two-story shed-roofed extension at the rear. The adjoining house at 4416 Plummer St. has an unusual covered breezeway connecting to the rear of the property, which may be related to its use as an inn during the 1870s. The Walton House and its neighbors exemplify the form and scale of buildings constructed in Lawrenceville during the post Civil War era.</p><br>
<p>The Wells Print Shop was located at 27 Cuna Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It operated as part of the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board&#39;s 18th century museum village, San Agustín Antiguo, demonstrating the colonial printmaking process.</p><br>
<h2>William Wells</h2><br>
<p>William Charles Wells was born in 1757 in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of a Tory printer, publisher, and bookseller. He was formally trained as a doctor, receiving a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1780. When the British left Charleston in 1782, William and his brother John moved to St. Augustine where they established a print shop. In St. Augustine the Wells brothers are most well known for publishing the East Florida Gazette, the first newspaper in Florida. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris returned Florida to the Spanish, William Wells went to England and practiced medicine for the rest of his life. He died in London in 1817.</p><br>
<h2>East Florida Gazette</h2><br>
<p>The Wells brothers publication began on February 1, 1783 and lasted a little over one year, with the last issue published on March 22, 1784. Londons Public Record Office only contains three issues of the newspaper, those from March 1, May 3, and May 17, 1783. The St. Augustine Historical Society resurrected the name "East Florida Gazette" with its newsletter, which is indexed on the Historical Society Research Library&#39;s online catalog.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board reconstructed the Wells Print Shop in 1968 on Cuna Street. The original Wells printing press owned by William and John was located on Treasury Lane. The all-wooden shop was constructed using board-and-batten building method, which the British settlers in St. Augustine preferred for its quick construction and ease of repair. The building is 220 square feet.</p><br>
<p>Inside the print shop was a replica of the type of printing press used towards the end of the 18th century. The press was operated daily to demonstrate the printing process to visitors, but the Preservation Board also used it to make reproductions of historic St. Augustine maps and replicas of the East Florida Gazette, which were sold as souvenirs.</p><br>
<p>Today the site once occupied by the Wells Print Shop operates as a jewelry store.</p><br>
<p>The Selden Miner House is a single-family home located at 418 West King Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Seldon S. Miner was an attorney, and was admitted to the Shiawassee County Bar in 1878. He established a legal practice in Owosso, and was soon doing great business. He additionally served on the Circuit Court Commission and later served as a County Judge. He invested profits from his legal practice into a number of the manufacturing firms being established at the time in Owosso, becoming something of businessperson and entrepreneur in addition to a lawyer. In about 1890, Miner constructed this simple house on King Street as a family residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Selden Miner House a wood-framed structure with clapboard siding. home for his family on West King Street. Although simple in detailing, the house shows Queen Anne influences, as in the asymmetrical massing and window placement. However, the box-lie proportions distinguish it from the typical Queen Anne residence. The facade&#39;s ornamentation is confined to a pediment above the front porch containing woven diamond carving, and decorative carving and fish-scale shingling in the gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The Old Miller Hospital was constructed as a single-family home located at 121 Michigan Avenue in Owosso, Michigan; it was later converted to a private hospital. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This small clapboard house was likely constructed in 1895 (although it may have been converted from a barn constructed previous to that date). In 1908, Mary Miller purchased the house and converted it into Owosso&#39;s first hospital. At first, the Miller Hospital contained a single operating room (the original living room) and two patient beds. The hospital was staffed by Miller and one additional nurse, and was utilized by doctors who had patients requiring more extensive care. The hospital ran on a tight budget for a few years, but by 1910, the utility of having a local hospital was being recognized. Other organizations and medical professionals began providing support, and soon an additional operating room was constructed, and the hospital grew to a ten-bed facility. In 1916, Miller sold the hospital to Bertha Bowman. Not long after, a new private hospital, the Swayze Hospital on Pine Street, and in 1921 a public hospital was constructed in Owosso. By this time, Bowman had closed the Miller Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Old Miller Hospital is a two-story wood-framed structure covered with clapboard. It is two bays wide and has an irregular floorplan, symmetrically placed windows, and a broad porch running the full width of the front of the house. It is topped by a gable roof, with the corniceline facing the street. The house has an interesting two story side bay and several additions in the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver Street Historic District is a primarily residential historic district, located along Oliver Street between Third and Oak Street, as well as some adjacent sections of Williams and Goodhue Streets, in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Even when originally settled, the Oliver Street neighborhood was home to Owosso&#39;s most prominent families. The first houses constructed in the area were built in 1838 and 1840 by the pioneering Williams brothers. Development continued along Oliver Street throughout the 1800s, and up until the start of the Great Depression.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The breadth of time over which the houses along Oliver Street were built produced a wide array of architectural styles, including Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, French Second Empire, Romanesque, Carpenter Gothic, Eastlake, Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Dutch Revival, as well as an array of eclectic combinations of styles. The neighborhood contains 122 properties, 114 of which are residential, with seven of the remaining being churches.</p><br>
<p>There are a number of significant individual properties within the district. These include:</p><br>
<p>Josiah Turner Residence - 105 Goodhue Street. Two story, wood-framed and clapboard Greek Revival house constructed in 1856 for Judge Josiah Turner.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church - Fayette Square. Red brick structure Romanesque church built in 1859. Several additions have been made over the years.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Gould Residence - 419 North Shiawassee Street. Brick Italianate residence constructed in 1860 for Ebenezer Gould, Owosso&#39;s first merchant.</p><br>
<p>Goodhue-Christian Residence - 302 West Oliver Street. This brick Italianate home was built around 1860 for the Goodhues, one of the Citys major dry-goods businesses. It was later converted into apartments, but just after 1900 Daniel Christian, founder of Christians Department Store, purchased it and restored it to single-family use.</p><br>
<p>Amos Gould Residence - 515 North Washington Street. Some time before 1860, Amos Gould built an original home on this property, using a simple style executed in wood and stucco. In 1873, he remodeled the house into an elaborate Italianate residence. The original servant&#39;s quarters, now known as the Amos Gould House, have been moved.</p><br>
<p>William Fletcher Residence - 118 East Oliver Street. Italian Villa style home built in 1874 for William Fletcher, who established one of Owosso&#39;s most successful grist mills.</p><br>
<p>Guerdon Dimmick Residence and Carriage house - 713 West Oliver Street. Italian Villa constructed in 1876 for real estate speculator Guerdon L. Dimmick.</p><br>
<p>McHardy-Kincaid Residence - 115-117 Goodhue Street. Brick Gothic Revival structure built in 1885 for hardware store owner Arthur McHardy.</p><br>
<p>Alvin Bentley Residence - 805 West Oliver Street. French Second Empire house built in 1893 for Alvin M. Bentley, owner of the Owosso Tool Company.</p><br>
<p>James Colby Residence - 406 East Oliver Street. Flamboyant Queen Anne house constructed in 1881 for James Singer Colby, a nephew of Isaac Merritt Singer, the inventor of the first affordable sewing machine.</p><br>
<p>Bruce Buckminster Residence - 426 North Washington Street. This site originally housed Owosso&#39;s First Baptist Church, from 1859 to 1875. In the 1880s, well-to-do farmer Bruce Buckminster purchased the site and cleared it to construct of a residence.</p><br>
<p>Frain-Brewer-Fortman Residence - 502 West Oliver Street. Built, this Queen Anne residence was home to H. H. Frain, a local blacksmith.</p><br>
<p>James Osburn Residence - 527 North Washington Street. Queen Anne house built in 1893 by James Osburn, whose family owned a dry-goods store in Owosso.</p><br>
<p>Graham-Bigelow Residence - 522 West Oliver Street. A Eastlake-inspired building spliced onto a French Second Empire building. The earlier building was constructed by Amos Gould for his sister, Villetta Gould Graham.</p><br>
<p>Drake- Scofield Residence - 321 West Williams Street. Built by Sidney R. Drake in the 1890s, this was also home to Stephen Scofield, owner of Owosso&#39;s Yellow Cab Company during the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>William Bigelow Residence /Thomas Dewey BOYHOOD HOME - 421 West Oliver Street. Home built for pharmacist William H. Bigelow in 1898. In 1914, postmaster George Martin Dewey and his wife Annie moved here with their family, including their son Thomas Dewey.</p><br>
<p>Frederick Smith Residence - 403 West Oliver Street. Home built for undertaker Frederick Smith in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Lee Woodard Residence - 825 West Oliver Street. Red brick Georgian Revival home built in 1918 for Lee Lyman Woodard, owner of the Woodard Furniture and Casket Company.</p><br>
<p>James Curwood Residence - 508 West Williams Street. Brick Georgian Revival home in 1910 for author James Oliver Curwood, whose writing studio, known as the "Curwood Castle", is located two blocks away.</p><br>
<p>Calvin Bentley Residence - 621 West Oliver Street. Tudor Revival house built in the mid-1920s for Calvin Bentley, son of A. M. Bentley who founded the Owosso Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>The House at 931 Prince, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The wood-frame house is built in the vernacular style locally employed in the 1890s, with stick work within their front-facing gables alluding to the formal Stick Style and with lathe-rounded porch posts suggestive of vernacular Queen Anne style. Houses built in the 1890s are larger than workers&#39; houses built in the area in the 1880s, which also had front gable massing. The house at 931 Prince was, in 1985, one of "few intact examples" of its type.</p><br>
<p>A 2012 photo of the building shows that the stick work which had appeared in the 1982 photo accompanying the NRHP nomination, has been lost.</p><br>
<p>The Adele Ilfeld Auditorium, on the campus of New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a brownstone Romanesque Revival structure built during the seventeen years from 1914 to 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The building was asserted in 1979 to be "the most architecturally significant structure on the campus" and "critical to the appearance of the campus", while only one other building, the WPA-built Rogers Hall (1937), was deemed to be architecturally significant.</p><br>
<p>It was funded in 1914 by a $75,000 appropriation of the New Mexico State Legislature, and was designed by Las Vegas architect E.W. Hart in style compatible with the campuss Springer Hall. World War I intervened however, causing delay, and then the low bid for construction was over the appropriated sum. Charles Ilfeld made a contribution of $25,000 in memory of his wife Adele in 1919, and then construction began, but the funding was still inadequate to complete the interior. The unfinished building was nonetheless pressed into use after a June 1922 fire damaged Springer Hall. Additional state funding in 1929 plus an additional donation from Charles Ilfelds sons enabled completion and furnishing of the building in 1931.</p><br>
<p>Its address is 900 University Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel, located in the Masonic Cemetery at Colonias & Romero in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building serves as a chapel and as home for the Masonic Cemetery&#39;s caretaker. It is an L-shaped Tudor Revival-style building with buttresses at ends and midway. It is constructed of rusticated random ashlar sandstone, light brown in color, with reddish mortar. It has a dark brown wood shingle roof, half-timbering in its gable, bargeboards, and exposed rafters.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "one of the most richly finished Tudor Revival buildings in New Mexico". It was funded in 1912 by Charles Ilfeld "the State&#39;s leading nineteenth-century merchant", who later would fund completion of the larger Adele Ilfeld Auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The Sylvester Opdyke House is a single-family home located at 655 North Pine Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sylvester Opdyke was a local builder, and he constructed this house for his family in the early 1890s. In about 1902, the William Boyce family moved in, followed later by the Charles Linzey family. Little more is known about the history of the home.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Opdyke House is a two-story Queen Anne structure with asymmetrical massing, varied placement, and an irregular roofline. A hip roof tower is located on the corner of the house. The first floor facade contains a variety of one-over-one double hung sash windows accented with stained glass. A scalloped wood bandcourse runs around the base of the superstructure. On the second story are tri-sided bays, with shingled window aprons. The windows also have stained glass accents and carved spandrels.</p><br>
<p>A reproduction of Sims Silversmith Shop, operated by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board, is located on the site that is now 12 Cuna Street in St. Augustine, Florida. The precise location of William Sims&#39;s 18th century original shop is unknown.</p><br>
<h2>William Sims</h2><br>
<p>William Sims was a silversmith from Scotland who operated a shop in the town of St. Augustine during the town&#39;s British Period (1763-1784). When he moved to St. Augustine he came with a wife, a son, and four enslaved people. It is possible that in Savannah, being a loyalist, he was convicted of treason and left the colony of Georgia approximately in 1774.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board constructed the building in 1964 to be a typical shop built by Anglo-American refugees from the American Revolution in the 1780s. It is a wooden framed building consisting of a gable roof, wood floors, wood shingles, and a brick foundation.</p><br>
<p>One half of the reconstructed building was put on display as a silversmith&#39;s shop. During the era of the living history museum San Augustín Antiguo in the 1960s and the 1970s, the room was full of iron tools such as anvils and hammers. The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board furnished the museum space with modern reproductions as well, such as a set of dies for shaping silver wire, a work bench, and a bellows beside the fireplace where casting was done.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today the site of Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board&#39;s reproduced silversmith shop is a retail space occupied by Southern Lights Candle Company.</p><br>
<p>The William Watson House is located at 206 Charlotte Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstructed property representing the architecture of St. Augustine&#39;s British Period .</p><br>
<h2>William Watson</h2><br>
<p>William Watson was a Scottish carpenter employed by Andrew Turnbull, the Scottish physician who started the New Smyrna colony in East Florida in 1768. Watson was first hired in London to oversee the carpenters who would eventually build Turnbulls plantation buildings. Watson built Turnbulls own house four miles north of the colony&#39;s harbor. By 1777 he had built 145 house valued at 45 pounds each, using frame construction.</p><br>
<p>As lead carpenter, he was labeled as an overseer and was allegedly a harsh taskmaster. He eventually moved to St. Augustine and lived next door to Father Pedro Camps, to whom he charged the task of selling his property when he and the British left St. Augustine at the end of St. Augustine&#39;s British Period. In St. Augustine he practiced his craftsmanship by purchasing and renovating homes. In this manner, he earned his wealth, became a rich planter, and established an estate on the property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Watson bought the property where his house in downtown St. Augustine later stood in 1779 from James Penman, a British attorney and friend of Andrew Turnbull who left East Florida following a series of disputes with then Governor Patrick Tonyn. On this land he converted a large stable building into a seven-room convalescent home. He also built a two-story wooden framed house where he and his family lived. Their residence in the house was short lived; when Spain regained Florida from England in 1783, Watson and his family returned to England. All of the properties he owned around St. Augustine were left to Father Pedro Camps. The Watson House became the property of Martín Mateo Hernández, a young Minorcan immigrant under the Father&#39;s care.</p><br>
<p>After the heirs of Martín Hernández died in 1802, the Watson House became part of the Spanish Military Hospital complex on what is now Aviles Street, serving as the apothecary. It is believed that the house burned down in St. Augustine&#39;s fire of 1887. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show the lot empty from 1894 to 1899, when a stable building was constructed on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board reconstructed the Watson House in 1968 as an example of British Period architecture. Today it serves as residential property for University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc. (UFHSA).</p><br>
<p>Trinity Lutheran Church, is a historic church building located in Henning, Minnesota, United States. The Lutheran congregation was established in 1878. The brick Gothic Revival church was built in 1898. The twin spires on top of the central tower is a unique feature of the building. It was also one of the first structures built in town. Two other Lutheran congregations were founded in the area in the late 19th-century, Norderhaug Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church  in 1887, and United Lutheran Church in 1896. Those two congregations merged in 1957 and Trinity joined them ten years later, forming Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. St. Edward&#39;s Catholic Church acquired the Trinity church building shortly after that. They moved to a new building in 2002 and sold the old church.</p><br>
<p>The city bought the tax-forfeited building from Otter Tail County. A group called Save the Trinity was organized in 2015 and is involved in renovating the former church, which had fallen into disrepair. It now hosts a variety of community events.</p><br>
<p>The George Pardee House is a single-family home located at 603 North Ball Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Pardee was one of Owosso&#39;s most successful lawyers. In 1906, he contracted local builder T. H. Bouser to build this home.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Pardee House is an eclectic Romanesque Revival-inspired building with an elaborately gabled roofline. The facade is of rough-faced poured concrete block with heavy stone lintels and bandcourses. The massive front porch has Ionic columns and a rounded arch entryway. On one corner of the house is a five-sided, three story tower. The gable ends are deeply recessed, and contain classically-inspired Palladian windows. Other windows in the face contain leaded glass diamond insets.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Palmer House is a single-family home located at 528-530 River Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Albert Palmer moved to Owosso from Jackson, Michigan in 1875. He founded a construction firm with his brother Harmon, and the two men built many of Owossos residential and commercial buildings. One of the first buildings constructed was this home for Albert, built in 1875. The home was later split into a duplex residence for Albert Palmers two sons, and later was the residence of Rudolph J. Beehler, Jr., a local cabinetmaker. In the 1980s, the house was restored as a single family residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Albert Palmer House is a five bay, two story L-shaped Italianate house with a hipped roof. It is simple in overall massing and design, but has rich ornamentation around the windows, and more at the corniceline. Trabeated enframements, topped with molded wood lintels, surround windows on the first floor. On the second floor, an elaborate carving is on each lintel. The eaves are supported by carved brackets.</p><br>
<p>The George Perrigo House is a single-family home located at 213 North Cedar Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Albert Perrigo, was born in Burdett, New York in 1845. His father owned a prosperous foundry and machine shop, but the business was demolished by fire in 1856. Unwilling to rebuild in the same location, the Perrigos to Novi Township in Oakland County, Michigan. As a young man, George Perrigo purchased a farm near Wixom, Michigan. He married Emma Baker in 1869, and became the travelling representative for the Groton Manufacturing Company of Groton, New York, a company specializing in the production of bridges, structural iron, and threshing machinery. Perrigo expanded the Company&#39;s sales and established of a Michigan office, located in Owosso. George and Emma Perrigo moved to the city in 1888. There, he designed and constructed this house for his family in 1891. Perrigo continued to work for the Groton Company until 1897, when he founded his own business on bridge building, contracting, and the selling of threshing equipment. In 1901, Perrigo purchased a handle factory in Owosso. Perrigo was also involved in local government, serving two years as an alderman, five years as a member of the Board of Public Works, and seven years as Supervisor.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Perrigo House is a two story wood-framed Queen Anne house clad in clapboard. It has an asymmetric massing and window location, as well as an irregular roofline. The facade contains Eastlake detailing, providing an eclectic appearance. The front porch contains wooden ornamentation, including a jig-sawed porch apron, an arcaded balustrade with a molded handrailing, spindle-work uprights, and carved fan brackets. Carved fans are also included in the gable ends, along withlacy carved bargeboards.</p><br>
<p>RSL-3, is a Remote Sprint Launch facility in Cavalier County, North Dakota near Concrete. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>Part of the Safeguard missile defense program, RSL-3 is one of four Remote Sprint Launch sites that were built in northeastern North Dakota as part of the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, the first anti-ballistic missile system built in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The site is open for public tours in the summer.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin Todd House is a single-family home located at 520 North Adams Street in Owosso, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Along with Amos Gould and Alfred William, Edwin Todd invested in the Amboy, Lansing, and Traverse Bay Railroad Company, which opened its rail line from Owosso to Lansing in 1862. Although initially shaky, the line proved a financial success, and Todd earned enough money to begin investing in other enterprises. He soon had a stake in a number of saw mills, wool carding companies, and other industries in Owosso. Around 1890, he constructed this fine residence for his family.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Todd House is a two-story Queen Anne brick and clapboard residence, with asymmetrical massing and an irregular roofline. The facade uses a wide variety of finishes and ornamentation. The first floor contains a large rounded arch window, topped with a brick voussoir and limestone keystones. A carved fan half-pediment is placed above the front entry, and there are carved rising-sun and star details in the baseboard. The second story contains a shingled bandcourse, clapboard siding, and a bracketed cornice line. The gable ends above contain half-timbering, carved bargeboards, and small gable windows with stained glass.</p><br>
<p>The Delta County Bank Building, on Main Street in Delta, Colorado, is a Romanesque Revival-style building constructed in 1892. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It has historically served as a department store, as a professional building, as a meeting hall, in addition to serving as a financial institution.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story masonry building with a three -story corner tower, which somewhat dominates downtown Delta.</p><br>
<p>The Paonia First Christian Church, at 235 Box Elder Ave. in Paonia, Colorado, was built in. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It has also been known as Paonia Christian Fellowship.</p><br>
<p>A local history website describes it:The Paonia First Christian Church is an excellent example of Romanesque style church as interpreted by local craftsmen. The building, along with several other churches, is in the heart of the residential area of Paonia, which has a long-standing religious identity marked by the high density of churches in the small town. The building is constructed of regularly coursed, rusticated sandstone with distinctive architectural features such as the round, three-story, crenellated tower with a graduated buttress.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Williams House is a single-family home located at 611 North Ball Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alfred L. Williams and his brother Benjamin (whose house is nearby) were early settlers of Owosso, and established the city as a destination for residents and manufacturers. Alfred started the first general store in Owosso, the Williams Brothers Trading Post. He also dammed the Shiawassee River in 1836, and arranged to build a millrace to channel the water power and establish the town&#39;s first mills. Between 1838 and 1840, Williams constructed this small frame house on Oliver Street as his first permanent residence in Owosso. It was moved to the present location some time around 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Williams House is a small three bay, one-and-one-half story Greek Revival structure. It is framed using hand-hewn beams, and covered in clapboard. The house has no ornamentation save a front a porch that was added when the structure was moved to its present location.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Oliver Williams House is a single-family home located at 628 North Ball Street in Owosso, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin O. Williams founded Owosso in 1836 with his brother Alfred (whose house is nearby). The two brothers recruited potential settlers and manufacturers to the area. Benjamin Williams spent the next few years traveling in search of investors, and stayed in temporary quarters when in Owosso. However, in 1838 he built this small house on West Oliver Street as his permanent residence in his town. The home was moved to its current location on Ball Street some time after 1868. The home has also served as the residence of local craftsperson and painter Henry H. Daniels, who purchased the home from Williams some time before 1876, and Daniel&#39;s daughter, Nina, and her husband, John Dettwiler.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Williams House is a small L-shaped wood-framed Greek Revival house. It is constructed of hand-hewn beams and clad in clapboard. The main section is two bays wide and two stories high, and features balanced window location and an oddly proportioned corniceline with returns. The side section one story high and has a recessed facade, two-over-two double hung sash windows, and an original glass transom over the front door. It also has an extended porch-like roofline supported by columns and a full entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Eugene Jacobs House is a residential building located at 520 North Adams Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was constructed around 1856 by Eugene Jacobs.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Eugene Jacobs House is unique in the area for its architectural qualities. The structure is basically a simple wood-framed two-story home clad with clapboard. The core design is a Greek Revival style, featuring simple window placement, an unadorned corniceline, and broad fasica boards common to the style. However, the house was repeatedly "modernized" in subsequent years, and displays elements of Italianate, Stick, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Second Renaissance Revival, and Georgian Revival styles in addition to the original Greek Revival. These elements include a Palladian-inspired window in the gable end, jig-sawed detailing on the porch columns, S-scrolled brackets in the arcade&#39;s spandrels, and an ornate balustrade on the porch roofline.</p><br>
<p>The Jesus M. Casaus House, at 628 3rd St. in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included three contributing buildings and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>Its National Register nomination asserts:This two story, pitched roof house constitutes a fine example of the Craftsman/Bungalow Style. The attention to detail, from the battered piers supporting the outside porch to the oak molding and stenciled wall patterning on the interior, is evident throughout the structure. Despite the enclosure of the original back porch, the structure currently expresses an integrity of form in its low-lying massing, craftsman-like detailing and consistency between exterior and interior.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by or for Jesus M. Casaus (1867–1958), a sheriff of Guadalupe County and a New Mexico state legislator.</p><br>
<p>Contributing outbuildings are a two-room storage building and a stone garage. An underground water cistern with a covering structure, and a water pump, also contribute.</p><br>
<p>The West Town Historic Commercial and Industrial District is a combination commercial and industrial historic district located along Main Street between Cedar and State in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When Owosso was established, most of the growth occurred in an area around the Shiawassee River. However, in 1856, the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway arrived in the city, followed by two more lines by 1867. By the 1880s, a fourth line was added, and the southwest part of Owosso became a busy hub of railway infrastructure. Manufacturers soon realized that locating near the lines would reduce transportation costs, and their workers established neighborhoods near the new factories. To serve these new neighborhoods, a small commercial district sprang up on Main Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The West Town Historic District is a commercial and industrial area, containing 35 buildings. Thirteen of these date from between 1856 and 1890, and fifteen more date from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Of the remainder, all but two fit the scale and architectural feel of the district. The commercial portion of the district along Main Street is primarily two-story brick store buildings, ornamented with cast iron, tin, stone, and tile details. Earlier buildings are mostly Italianate in design. Later buildings are more streamlined in design. The industrial section of the district, located near the railroad tracks to the north of Main Street, has been substantially demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Citizens National Bank Building, at 801 Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It has also been known as the New Citizens Building. Besides serving as a financial institution, it has served as a specialty store and as a hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Denver architect Guy B. Robertson. It is a three-story building, prominent on the corner of Grand Ave. and 8th st. as almost all other Grand Ave. buildings are one or two stories tall. It is a two-part commercial block building, with Classical Revival ornamentation, and also with elements of 20th Century Commercial Style including in its flat roof, projecting cornice, and Chicago-style windows on its upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Franklin, at 217 West Jefferson in Mangum, Oklahoma, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-story, red brick building located at the northwest comer of Mangum&#39;s town square, specifically at the northwest corner of West Jefferson Street and West Commerce</p><br>
<p>Alley.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architects Layton, Hicks & Forsyth and was built by contractor McMillen-Shelton Co. It is 51x112 ft in plan and is generally Renaissance Revival in style, with elements of classical and Mediterranean motifs. It has a three-part form of some skyscrapers, with base, shaft and capital. It has a reinforced concrete frame, with hollow clay tile curtain walls, sheathed in break. Carthage stone is used for trim. The hotel is topped by a neon "Hotel Franklin" sign.</p><br>
<p>The Brittain-Garvin House, at 411 North 9th St. in Duncan, Oklahoma, was built around 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The listing included three contributing buildings and a contributing object.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, Prairie School house. It is roughly L-shaped and has a porte cochere. It was expanded and wooden awnings were added around 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Abilene Fire Station No. 2, at 441 Butternut in Abilene, Texas, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed to be "Abilenes best and least altered example of a local government building. It is the citys only fire station that retains its integrity and stands as a vivid reminder of municipal efforts to provide basic services for local residents."</p><br>
<p>Dallas Fire Station No. 16, at 5501 Columbia Ave. in Dallas, Texas, was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story red brick building designed by architect H. A. Overbeck. It has a "curvilinear Mission Revival parapet, cast stone geometric detailing, and knee brackets supporting a shed roof with red clay tiles." It also incorporates Prairie School architecture.</p><br>
<p>Fire Engine House No. 9, at 1810-1812 Keene St. in Houston, Texas was built in 1899. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by "prominent Houston architect" William A. McMillen and was, besides McMillen&#39;s house at 510 Gray, the only surviving example of his work.</p><br>
<p>The building is no longer at that address.</p><br>
<p>In 1997 it was asserted to have been designed by Olle J. Lorehn, instead, and to have been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Number 4 Hook and Ladder Company in Dallas, Texas, located at Cedar Springs Rd. and Reagan St., was built in 1909. It has also been known as the Oak Lawn Fire Station and as Fire Station No. 11. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>It is notable as the first "suburban" fire station in Dallas. It is a two-story building designed by prominent Dallas architect Herbert M. Greene, and is one of the last public buildings in Dallas designed in the Prairie School style. It also includes elements of Mission/Spanish Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Ardmore Historic Commercial District, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, is a 19 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 97 "major structures", in total having 133 contributing buildings. It runs along Main St. from the former Santa Fe railroad tracks to B St., N. Washington from Main to 2nd Ave., NE., and Caddo from Main to the northern side of 2nd Ave., NE.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>the USA Courthouse Building at 200-202 W. Main, a two-story red brick building designed by architect C.E.Troutman, built 1896–1898.</p><br>
<p>Masonic Temple Building at northwest corner of Main and Washington Streets, built 1896–1898, a three-story red brick Victorian Romanesque building, with limestone and brick detailing.</p><br>
<p>Ardmore has an Ardmore Main Street Authority, one of the various Main Street programs which act in the interests of commercial district revitalization.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Caswell Rifle Range located in Caswell Beach NC, is a discontiguous part of Fort Caswell which defended Confederate positions on the North Carolina coast during the Civil War and served both as an army training ground in World War I and a patrol/ communications base in World War II. In 2013, the rifle range which was constructed during WWI, along with Fort Caswell itself, was designated as a National Register of Historic Places property.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>A little over two miles west northwest of Fort Caswell which sits on the east end of Oak Island, the site is located in a residential section known as Caswell Dunes. Open to the public, it can be reached by turning off Caswell Beach Rd. onto Pinehurst Dr. and proceeding north for about 200 yards to Foxfire Trace.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The structure is mostly below grade and composed of three sections of concrete walls which range from 8" to 1’ thick and in total measure 184 ft in length. Sloping from north to south and open on top, the 9.5’ north wall is 3’ higher than the south wall; the structure&#39;s width varies among the three sections. The 14’ long eastern section originally had a roof and served as a storage room for target supplies and tools. It had a doorway leading to the 76’ long center section, which essentially served as a walkway between the storage room and the 94’ long target area at the western end. A door opening connects the center and western sections. "May 20th, 1918" is inscribed in the ·south wall of the middle section.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The US War Department approved construction of the rifle range on January 21, 1918 for small arms training of soldiers. After World War II, it was declared surplus and sold, and over the years left untended, the range walls were undermined due to tree roots and water infiltration. Of special concern were the load-bearing supports across interior doorways which were cracking and separating from the walls. In 2012, work started on restoring the range, which involved among other things using contracted labor and volunteers to initially stabilize the walls. Currently, Friends of Fort Caswell Rifle Range, a non-profit formed in 2015, is carrying on this task with the full support of the Town of Caswell Beach and the Caswell Dunes Homeowners Association. On April 5, 2018, the USA World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library announced that the 1918 Fort Caswell Rifle Range was one of the one hundred WWI memorials chosen for a restoration grant and honored with the official national designation as "WWI Centennial Memorial". And then on November 11, 2018, the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Armistice Day, the Brunswick County WWI Monument recently erected on site, was dedicated to commemorate the veterans who fought in the war. In addition to managing the facility, in 2020 the Friends of Fort Caswell Rifle Range arranged to publish Brunswick County in the Great War Containing biographic sketches of all known Brunswick County NC WWI service members, the book features a 25 page introductory section with photos and diagrams along with text about the Caswell Beach rifle pits that chronicles its history.</p><br>
<p>The Gill Center Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century village center of Gill, Massachusetts. The district is focused on Main Road near its junction with River Road, in the central northern part of the town, and has served as the community&#39;s center since its incorporation in 1793. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999; it features a variety of mainly Greek Revival and later Victorian architecture, as well as some 20th-century Colonial Revival buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Gill was originally a part of Deerfield and was first settled as part of that jurisdiction in the early 18th century. It was set off as part of Greenfield in 1753 and was separately incorporated in 1793. At that time, the towns citizenry decided to erect the Congregational church near the towns geographic center, and it became the nucleus of the new towns center, standing on the north side of Center Street. The church was completed in 1796 and given a Greek Revival makeover in 1846. The centers first institutional building was a schoolhouse built in 1793; it was replaced in 1824 by one that is still standing.</p><br>
<p>The district is more than 100 acre in size, and is anchored by the triangular town green, which is bounded by Center, River, and Main Roads. In addition to the Congregational church and school, the district is home to Gill&#39;s Greek Revival town hall, a late 19th-century commercial building, and the Colonial Revival public library. Residential architecture is predominantly Greek Revival in character, with a few examples of older Federal style and later Italianate architecture. One unusual building is the former Methodist church, built in 1827 and converted into a residence.</p><br>
<p>The Lee Woodard and Sons Building is a former factory building located at 306 South Elm Street in Owosso, Michigan, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1900, Lyman Woodards Furniture and Casket Company had grown large enough to warrant constructing an additional building. Woodard built a large four story brick factory building directly adjacent to his existing plant and began equipping it. Unfortunately, demand for finished wood products began to decline. In 1904, Lyman Woodard died, causing a crisis at the firm. His son, Lee, stepped in to restore the companys health. When woodworking products failed to revive the company, Woodard turned to metal furniture and converted the factory&#39;s equipment. By the mid-1920s, Woodard was again prominent in the furniture-making business and began constructing an addition to the factory.</p><br>
<p>The Great Depression took its toll and, by 1942, the Woodard Furniture Company had liquidated its assets. In 1942, Lee Woodard converted the factory to make components for the war effort. After the war, he resumed furniture production, concentrating on metal furniture. Production continued for the next few decades and, in 1995, the company moved its factory and offices into a new building. Later, the original 1900 building was converted into loft housing, containing commercial space and residential lofts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lee Woodard and Sons Building is a large four-story brick factory. The building has tripled sets of four-over-four double hung sash windows in bowed arch brick openings. The only details on the exterior are brick pilasters at two bay intervals and a simple dentilated brick corniceline. A addition is ten bays wide and has the same basic window pattern, but with windows in trabeated brick openings.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Woodard Furniture and Casket Company Building is a former factory building located at 219-222 South Elm Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lyman E. Woodard was an architect and builder from New York. In 1866, he moved to Owosso and opened a wood sash, blind, and door manufacturing company, the first of many woodworking companies to establish themselves in Owosso. Through the 1870s and 1880s, Woodard grew his business to include furniture and caskets in addition to sash, blinds, and doors. He also undertook an aggressive advertising campaign that was to make his products known throughout the United States. To increase his clientele, Woodard diversified his product line to produce similar item in varying quality and price, so that a consumer could purchase a simple pine bedstead, or an elaborately carved ash or walnut unit. In 1885, Woodard&#39;s Furniture and Casket Company had grown large enough that he constructed a new facility to house it at the corner of Cass and South Elm Streets. In 1888, a large section of the new factory complex burned, but was rebuilt by Woodard later the same year.</p><br>
<p>Lyman Woodard died in 1904, and the business passed to his sons Frank, Fred, and Lee Woodard. They dropped the sash and door products to concentrate on furniture and caskets. By the 1910s, the flu epidemic created a booming casket business, and by the 1920s the Owosso Casket Company was the world&#39;s largest casket maker. However, the Great Depression took its toll on the businesses, and by 1942 both the Woodard Casket Company and Furniture Company had liquidated assets, with Lee Woodard starting a new line of metal furniture. The Woodard Furniture Company remained nearby until 1995, when moved its factory and offices into a new building. As of 2015, the former Casket Company Building remained substantially vacant.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lyman Woodard Furniture and Casket Company Building is a large Commercial Italianate brick factory building, containing several connecting production areas, ranging from two to five stories high. The factory has simple four-over-four double hung sash windows in bowed arch openings. The brickwork features brick bandcourses and pilasters, and a trabeated brick corniceline.</p><br>
<p>The Bedford Presbyterian Church is a parish church in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The current structure was built in 1872 in the Gothic Revival style, as the fourth building for the congregation on the site. The historic building is part of the Bedford Village Historic District, and was listed in 1973. It also serves as a venue for performances of sacred music.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bedford Presbyterian Church was founded in 1680. In its first years, the church was either Congregational or Anglican, depending on the minister. The church is the fourth building on the site on the village green in Bedford. The cornerstone was laid and services celebrating the dedication of the then-most-recently-restored building were held in 1872.</p><br>
<p>The first minister, Reverend Thomas Denham, settled in 1684, and a meeting house was built in 1689. When Bedford became part of New York, this house was transferred to Rye, New York. Bedford was part of the Anglican Church until the Revolution. A second meeting house was burned by order of a British colonel in 1779. A third house was transferred to Westmoreland Sanctuary. The fourth building, the present church, was built in 1872, with a Sunday school in the rear. It was described as</p><br>
<p>It is part of the Bedford Village Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in northern Westchester County in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The church, which has excellent acoustics, is often used as a venue for sacred music concerts and recitals. The choir The Master Singers of Westchester performed regular concerts such as Brittens A Ceremony of Carols in 1984, his cantata St. Nicholas in 1986, and Bachs Mass in B minor in March 2003. The Westchester Oratorio Society performed its 20th-anniversary concert there on 6 May 2018, performing Mozart&#39;s Requiem, with organist Anthony Newman.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the congregation contracted with Martin Pasi to design and build a new tracker organ for the church. The organ is a 2-manual organ of 29 stops and is entirely encased in the rear gallery.</p><br>
<p>Bedford Presbyterian is known for its creative worship, outreach ministries, and youth programs. The high school youth program is centered around work trips to Appalachia and Nicaragua. The members of the congregation work with, the, and. Bedford Presbyterian Church helped to co-found the in which local churches and synagogues provide shelter for homeless guests during the winter months.</p><br>
<p>Their present minister is the.</p><br>
<p>The Dunstable Center Historic District encompasses the town center of Dunstable, Massachusetts. Centered at the junction Main, High, and Pleasant Streets, this area has served as the town center since 1791, when its church was moved here. The district, now home to a broad array of residential and civic architecture, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Dunstable was incorporated in 1673, and originally covered a large area, from Milford, New Hampshire to Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. Early growth was slow, and the community remained predominantly agricultural into the mid-20th century. The towns boundaries were altered by splitting off neighboring towns (most recently Tyngsborough, Massachusetts in 1809) and the setting of the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1740. In 1753, the towns citizenry voted to build a new church on Meeting House Hill, about 1 mi east of the current town center. That building was moved in 1791, prompted by a population shift in the rural community into western portions, and a schoolhouse was also built on the same parcel. Neither of these buildings survive, but the present Evangelical Church, a neo-Classical building dating to 1913, was built on the site, and an 1825 schoolhouse, converted for public works use, stands nearby.</p><br>
<p>The district is centered at the four-way junction of Main, High, and Pleasant Streets, and is about 150 acre in size. In addition to the church, civic buildings include Roby Memorial Hall, built in 1908 and serving as town hall, and the Classical Revival Union School, built in 1895. Three 18th-century houses survive from the center&#39;s early days, as does the 1754 cemetery, laid out to replace one located on Meeting House Hill.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Hobart Historic District, in Hobart, Oklahoma, is a 36 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The district is roughly bounded by Jefferson St., 3rd, Washington, 4th, and the 200 and 500 blocks of S. Main St.</p><br>
<p>It includes:</p><br>
<p>the already-NRHP-listed Hobart Public Library, at 200 S. Main Street, built in 1912, a Carnegie library designed by architect William McCanse</p><br>
<p>the Hobart City Hall, at 106 E. 3rd Street, also already NRHP-listed, built in 1912, designed by architect W. A. Etherton Etherton was also architect of NRHP-listed Haskell State School of Agriculture, at 808 E. College St. in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>the Kiowa County Courthouse, at 314 S. Main Street, also already NRHP-listed, built in 1903/1935, designed by architect J. Riley Gordon</p><br>
<p>The Ardmore Carnegie Library, at 511 Stanley SW. in Ardmore, Oklahoma, is a Carnegie library built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It has also been known as the Ardmore Garden Clubs Building.</p><br>
<p>The idea for a library in Ardmore began with Anna Barnes Townsend, wife of Judge Hosea Townsend for the southern district of the Indian Territory. After the Townsends moved to Ardmore, Anna obtained funding from Andrew Carnegie about 1903 and the Ardmore Carnegie Library was opened on October 1, 1906. The Townsends donated 800 books for the library.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Fort Worth architect S. Wemyss Smith. It is 60x54 ft in plan. It is built with post-and-beam structural support and has load-bearing walls built of 18x8.5 in cast-stone blocks.</p><br>
<p>The building was modified in 1926 with removal of its original roof and second floor, and again in 1941 with addition of a new wing. The resulting building is a mix of Classical Revival and Craftsman styles.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Woodard Company Workers&#39; Housing is a former multi-family housing unit located at 601 Clinton Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1880s, Lyman Woodard relocated his furniture and casket company to this area, building a large factory building and expanding both his product line and workforce. Woodard was in a competition for skilled craftsmen for his factory, and new that the housing market in Owosso was tight. To attract and retain these craftsmen, Woodard also built this multi-family housing unit next door to the factory, for new employees to use until they were able to secure their own home. Although the exact date of construction is unknown, it is similar enough to the 1885 factory building to suggest that it was constructed at nearly the same time.</p><br>
<p>At some point the building was turned into a commercial space, and now houses the H.K. Allen Paper Company.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lyman Woodard Company Workers&#39; Housing is a two-story red brick building, with a balanced window location, containing six units. The windows are one-over-one double hung sash units in bowed arch openings. Brick pilasters are located every three bays of the building, separating the units. A a simple dentilated brick corniceline runs across the top.</p><br>
<p>The Gallegos House is located at 21 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstructed property demonstrating a typical home of Florida&#39;s First Spanish Period .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original home was built in 1720 and was listed as the property of Juan Garcia Martinez Gallegos on a 1764 map of St. Augustine. By 1788, another map shows that original structure had been replaced by a timber-frame house built by Lucia Escalona.</p><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board reconstructed the Gallegos home in 1962 on its original site. It was their third completed project. They used authentic historical methods of construction, building the structure of an oyster-shell concrete mix known as tabby. The home only has two rooms and a flat roof. It demonstrates typical architecture of the First Spanish Period in that it has no entry from the street but rather through a courtyard on the side for security and privacy. There are no openings on the north wall, which during colonial times would have helped to keep out winds. The Gallegos House served as the Information Center for the Preservation Board&#39;s museum village, San Agustin Antiguo.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Gallegos House stands on the corner of St. George Street and Fort Alley. is a gift shop for the Colonial Quarter and is adjacent to the Colonial Oak Music Park complex in downtown St. Augustine.</p><br>
<p>The Pottawatomie County Fair Pavilion, at the Pottawatomie County fairgrounds in Onaga, Kansas, was built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It is believed to have been designed by Paul Amos Junod, Jr., who was a leader in organizing the Pottawatomie County Fair Association, and it is thought he was influenced by plans published for the octagonal Crystal Palace of the 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.</p><br>
<p>It is an octagonal wood-frame barn and exhibition hall, 54 ft in diameter, with a dome roof topped by a cupola. It is accompanied by a rectangular, one-and-a-half-story 50x81 ft livestock shed.</p><br>
<p>The Kirwin City Hall, at 1st and Main Streets in Kirwin, Kansas, was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It has also served as the Kirwin City Library. In 2004 it hosted the City Clerks office and the citys library.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by E.T. Archer & Co. It was described in its NRHP nomination as an "interesting product of the Arts and Crafts movement that blends the Collegiate Gothic style, which is seen primarily in the prominent pointed-arch entries, with some traditional Craftsman style influences."</p><br>
<p>The Byron Historic Commercial District is a substantially commercial historic district, located in downtown Byron, Michigan, roughly along Saginaw Street from Maple Street to Water Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1824, land speculator Samuel W. Dexter (who also founded Dexter, Michigan) founded the village of Byron. By 1828, the village was developing, and in 1836, Dexter sold his interest in the community to a group who formed the "Byron Mill Company," which aimed to make the village a timber milling center by damming the river and erecting a sawmill. Settlement moved quickly, with the village&#39;s first frame residence built in 1837. In 1841 and 1842, the village gained a hotel and the first general store in what is now the downtown. Also in 1842, the mill changed hands; the new owners rebuilt is as a flour mill, reflecting the growing importance of agriculture. Over the next few decades, wheat and sheep grew in importance, and the village of Byron slowly grew to accommodate the surrounding farmers. Although never a regional center of trade and shipping, Byron did see increased business, including the manufacture of farming implements.</p><br>
<p>Growth in Byron accelerated during the 1880s and 1890s as demand for goods increased, but the village still remained small as it was bypassed by the railroads. However, the bulk of the current downtown was constructed in the 1880s. in the 20th century, however, the rise of the automobile and the conglomeration of surrounding farms into large agricultural businesses has narrowed the commercial district&#39;s use. However, in the 1910s an elevator was constructed and the mill rebuilt as a feed mill. The section of the downtown in the commercial district retains many of the historic buildings from the 19th century, although a disastrous fire in 2012 destroyed a large block of them.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Byron Historic Commercial District consists of a two-and-one-half block long commercial district, covering the downtown area of the village. The district includes thirty-five buildings, of which twenty-two are one-and two-story commercial buildings, nine are houses, and the remaining structures include a mill, a factory, a dam, and a bridge. Of the thirty-five, twenty-six contribute to the historic character of the district, and include a selection of vernacular Greek Revival, Italianate, and early 20th century architectural style, constructed in wood and brick between 1840 and 1940.</p><br>
<p>The district includes some of the first strictures built in Byron, such as the first frame residence in the village, built in 1837; the first store in the village, built, and an inn, constructed in 1848 to replace the inn built in 1842.</p><br>
