<p>First Unitarian Church is a historic building located in the downtown area of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The local Universalist congregation traces its beginnings to 1841. Their building at Iowa Avenue and Dubuque Street was destroyed in a fire in 1868, and they built a larger building at Iowa Avenue and Clinton Street. In 1881 the Universalists merged with the local Unitarian Society. In their arrangement, the Unitarians paid for the minister while the Universalists owned the church building. The University of Iowa bought their building in 1907 and renamed it Unity Hall for use as a student union. The Unitarian-Universalist congregation dedicated this Tudor Revival building for their use on October 24, 1908. The dedication address was given by Rev. Eleanor E. Gordon, who was the secretary of the State Unitarian Conference of Iowa at the time. Because of their growth and costs to update the old building, the congregation voted in 2015 to build a new structure in near-by Coralville. They sold this building to developer Jesse Allen. It has subsequently been used as a winter shelter for the homeless while plans were made to include it in a new commercial-residential development. The former church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>Everett School, also known as Davis Addition School, is a historic building located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Davis Addition School opened in 1888. It was named for the subdivision in which it was located. The original section of the building is composed of four rooms, and it cost $12,500 to build. It was renamed "Everett" in February of the following year, possibly after Edward Everett, the United States Senator from Massachusetts who gave the main speech at the Gettysburg National Cemetery dedication, the day that Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. The gymnasium and additional classroom space was added in 1917. The auditorium was added in 1940, and the building has been modernized over the years. Both Everett and Smith Elementary schools were closed in 2011, with their students going to the new Liberty Elementary School. Arch Icon Development of Woodbine, Iowa acquired the building and is in the process of converting it into apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Colfax Spring City Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Colfax, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Colfax was platted in 1866 or 1867 as a railroad and farm-to-market town along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Coal mines were also located to the south of town. Mineral water was discovered in the area in 1875, which led to the development of the mineral water-based health industry in Colfax. The historic district represents the growth during this time period. After the health-related mineral water industry declined, Colfax expanded its farm-to-market economy in the late inter-war and post-World War II years.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers Colfax&#39;s central business district, and includes civic buildings, churches, retail establishments, fraternal organizations, banks, automobile-related strictures, and two parks. The buildings are between one and three stories with most being one to two stories. Most of the buildings are of masonry construction with the former Presbyterian Church parsonage, the only house in the district, built of wood. It is also the only first generation building left in the district. Many of the other buildings from that era (1860s-1890s) were destroyed in fires or tornados. Architectural styles in the district include Italianate, Neoclassical, Tudor, Late Gothic Revival, Mediterranean Revival, and Modern.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District, also known as the Sioux City Railroad Museum is a nationally recognized historic district located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. At the time of its nomination it contained 41 resources, which included six contributing buildings, 16 archaeological sites, six contributing structures, and 14 contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The first railroad to arrive in town was the Sioux City and Pacific in 1868. Eventually, eight railroads would serve Sioux City before consolidations reduced the number to six, making the city the tenth largest rail center in the country in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1912 the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) announced they would build a repair shop terminal in Sioux City. Construction began in 1916 and it was completed two years later. At its height during World War II, the terminal employed 560 workers. They overhauled 35 steam locomotives a day, servicing over 70 trains a day, and maintained thousands of rail cars every year.</p><br>
<p>The Siouxland Historical Railroad Association acquired the property in 1995 and converted the facility into a museum, incorporating the roundhouse. In 2024 the museum announced plans in conjunction with the American Heartland Railroad Society to restore Great Northern 4-6-2 No. 1355 to operation.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart School is a historic building in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1915, the building replaced Marquette Hall near Sacred Heart Church that had been built in 1888. It was designed by the Dubuque architectural firm of Fridolin J. Heer & Son. While the firm has several of its designs represented on the National Register of Historic Places, this is the only school building. The Sisters of St. Francis from Dubuque and lay teachers taught in the school, which had 640 students when it opened. Its early principals were laymen until 1952 when a Sister became the principal. A ninth-grade class for boys was begun in 1930 and tenth grade was added two years later. The high school program was discontinued in 1949 due to a teacher shortage. Enrollment in school was 900 in 1953 and 1,020, excluding the kindergarten, in 1956. The kindergarten program was discontinued the following year because of a lack of classroom space. Eventually, the school itself was closed.</p><br>
<p>The former school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It is being converted into moderate-income housing. The historic status stems from its architect and its closeness to other church buildings.</p><br>
<p>Gage County Courthouse is a historic courthouse for Gage County, Nebraska at 612 Grant Street in the county seat Beatrice, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Gunn and Curtiss (Frederick C. Gunn and Louis Singleton Curtiss) and M.T. Murphy was the building contractor. It was built from 1890 until 1892 in a Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. It was renovated in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Beatrice City Library, at 220 N. 5th St. in Beatrice, Nebraska, was built in 1902-03 and was opened on January 1, 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Designed by architect George A. Berlinghof, who was then based in Beatrice, it is Beaux Arts in style.</p><br>
<p>The librarys creation was the culmination of effort by the Beatrice Literary Club, founded in 1890, which built upon efforts by the local Womans Christian Temperance Union group which established a circulating library.</p><br>
<p>For other Haymarket districts see Haymarket District </p><br>
<p>The Haymarket Historic District is a primarily commercial historic area in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1983. The area includes Michigan Avenue between Portage St. and the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad line; also 105-141 E. Michigan Avenue. It covers 55 acres and includes 22 buildings. The district&#39;s boundaries were increased on May 2, 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Early commercial development in Kalamazoo was along the Michigan Avenue corridor, just west of the Haymarket Historic District. In 1867, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway constructed a rail line to the east of the commercial district, followed in 1870 by another line built by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which crossed Michigan nearby. The opportunities of the railroad spurred commercial growth farther to the east, into the Haymarket area. This area developed rapidly, with buildings constructed between 1870 and the end of the century.</p><br>
<p>The railroads also spurred an influx of German and German Jewish residents, following earlier emigrants who had settled in Kalamazoo in the mid-1800s. Many of these set up shop in the new Haymarket district. The commercial buildings in the Haymarket Historic District are associated with Kalamazoo&#39;s German and German Jewish communities, which established a presence in the area during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Early German and German Jewish businesses located in the district included the Sam Rosenbaum & Sons Company clothing factory and the Desenberg Grocery Company</p><br>
<p>wholesale grocery.</p><br>
<p>In the 21st century, the area offers shopping and dining opportunities and is home to the Kalamazoo Ballet Company. There are also several banks and the Arcadia Creek Post Office. Prominent buildings in the district include Arcus Depot (formerly the Grand Rapids and Indiana Line Station of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad), The Wine Loft, London Grill, Kalamazoo City Savings Bank, Olde Peninsula Brewpub, and Ouzo&#39;s European Grill.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Haymarket Historic District is notable for the concentration of fine Victorian and early twentieth-century commercial buildings. The architectural styles represented range from Italianate and Late Victorian Panel Brick to Richardsonian Romanesque and to Sullivanesque (including one building actually designed by Louis Sullivan) to Neoclassical and Commercial Brick style.</p><br>
<p>The Desenberg Building, individually listed on the National Register, is located within the district.</p><br>
<p>The Columbus Izaak Walton League Lodge, on USA Route 81 just south of Columbus, Nebraska, was built in 1938. It was designed by local architect Emiel Christensen, whose Oak Ballroom in nearby Schuyler, Nebraska, shares a similar rustic style.</p><br>
<p>The lodge sits on the north bank of Barnum Creek and is mainly constructed of cottonwood logs donated by a local landowner. Volunteer labor was used to construct it.</p><br>
<p>The lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The listing included two contributing buildings and five contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>It serves as the lodge of the Columbus chapter of the Izaak Walton League, one of the oldest conservation organizations in the United States. The lodge building is available for rent, for weddings or other usages, in 2018.</p><br>
<p>Other names: NeHBS No. PT00-262</p><br>
<p>The Old Blacksmith Shop is located at 26 Charlotte Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of an outbuilding located on the site during the British possession of Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Not much is known about the history of the original blacksmith shop. The oldest known record of the structure is 1771, during the British Period in St. Augustine. At that time, there were several similarly constructed outbuildings. In 1782 the property was sold to David Morran, who rented one of the buildings to a blacksmith. When the 1783 Treaty of Paris gave Florida back to Spain, David Morran returned to England but left his wife in St. Augustine to manage the sale of his properties. She was unsuccessful, and Jesse Fish and James Henderson managed the sale to the Spaniards.</p><br>
<h2>Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board</h2><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board began the reconstruction of the Blacksmith Shop in late 1967 and completed it in 1968. The home that stood on the site at the time, known as the Judson Property, was demolished in 1967. The Preservation Board&#39;s in-house construction crew built the 12 x 16 foot wooden outbuilding from pine logs that were cut with a broad axe and adze, in accordance with the historic construction methods that would have been used at the time. The shop had a dirt floor with no windows and no insulation. During the 1970s, it served as a working blacksmith shop for San Agustín Antiguo. The board wanted to closely replicate the experience of an 18th-century shop and installed a double forge. Visitors could watch the blacksmith, who was a descendant of early Minorcan settlers, making horseshoes and doing more intricate ironwork for other Preservation Board properties.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Blacksmith Shop operates as a coffee shop, Crucial Coffee Café. It is managed on behalf of the state by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Ribera House is located at 22 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of the home that originally stood on this site during the First Spanish Period  of St. Augustine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is unknown when the Ribera House was first built. Juan de Rivera was listed as the owner of the property in a 1764 Spanish map. He was a native Tolomato Indian and an artilleryman at the Castillo de San Marcos. He died in Cuba in 1772, and the original structure was torn down circa 1777.</p><br>
<h2>Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board</h2><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board purchased the Parks Hotel in 1963 and demolished it in 1964 to reconstruct the Ribera House, which was completed in 1965. An old coquina wall had been found under a sidewalk in front of the Parks Hotel. The wall was twenty-three inches thick, thicker than walls of average coquina structures built during the First Spanish Period. Archaeological work was completed at the site by eight students from Florida State University under the direction of Dr. Hale Smith, director of anthropology at FSU, and Robert Steinbach, the archaeologist for the Preservation Commission. The combination of Spanish records and the archaeological records in the 1960s allowed the Preservation Commission to reconstruct the Ribera House with 90% accuracy, said Early Newton, executive director of the Commission.</p><br>
<p>Funds for the project came from the Commission&#39;s private foundation, St. Augustine Restoration Foundation, Inc, as well as from donations by Winn-Dixie, Florida Power & Light, and Lawrence Lewis, one of the founders of Flagler College. The house was reconstructed on the original foundations discovered during archaeological digs. It is built of coquina, a type of limestone formed by compacted seashells. It operated as the orientation center of San Agustín Antiguo, the Preservation Board’s 18th century museum village. The house was interpreted as a representation of a wealthy St. Augustine family.</p><br>
<p>The Ribera House Garden became the first formal garden in the restored downtown area. There was a dedication ceremony to open the garden in early May 1968. The president of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., Carroll O. Griffin, presided over the ceremony. A committee appointed by the past president of the Federation of Garden Clubs, a Mrs. Blanchard, planned the garden itself. The garden held plants of the variety that were known to have existed in colonial St. Augustine.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Ribera House is a retail store managed on behalf of the state of Florida by the University of Florida Historic St. Augustine. The adjacent garden is currently being restored with new landscaping and historical interpretation of the site; it will be opened to the public in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Gonzáles House and the De Hita Houses are located at 33 and 35 St. George Street, St. Augustine, Florida. Both houses are reconstructions of First Spanish Period  homes built on their original foundations.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A 1763 Spanish map shows that at the same lot stood a coquina house belonging to Bernardo Gonzáles and a tabby house belonging to Gerónimo de Hita. Both of these men served in the mounted dragoons and lived near the Castillo de San Marcos. When the two left Florida at the start of the Florida’s British Period (1763-1783), the properties went to Jesse Fish, who in turn sold them to Captain Andrew Rainsford. The lot was vacant for much of the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board</h2><br>
<p>The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board purchased the land where the De Hita House once stood with funds donated by Elizabeth Towers, a member of the board. The Board (at that time called the St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission) won a condemnation suit to acquire the Smith boardinghouse (Gonzáles House) at 33 St. George Street for $17,500. Within thirty days, the Smith property was to be demolished and restorative work continued at both sites. The city of St. Augustine had granted the Commission condemnation powers in 1959 at its inception. After two years of failing to negotiate a selling price for the Smith boardinghouse, the Commission decided to go to court, as a last resort.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological digs led by Dr. Kathleen Deagan of Florida State University revealed the original foundations. The reconstruction of the two homes was completed in 1979 with funding from the Florida Bicentennial Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Gonzáles and De Hita Houses operate as the Taberna del Caballo, a Spanish themed restaurant that is part of St. Augustine’s Colonial Quarter Museum. It is managed on behalf of the state by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Otis Elevator Company Factory Building is a historic industrial building located at 1435 W. 15th Street in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Otis Elevator Company had the factory built in 1900. The company, then the nations largest elevator manufacturer, sought to grow its sales in Chicago, as the citys growth and numerous new skyscrapers made it a profitable market for elevators. The Chicago firm of Adler & Treat designed the factory as a brick building with Colonial Revival elements. The factory served as a regional headquarters until 1914, when Otis restructured and introduced smaller regional offices; while it continued to have a Chicago office, it sold the factory building. The Riley-Schubert-Grossman Company, a wholesaling firm, purchased the building in 1916; while it only occupied the building for a short time, its extensive remodeling gave it its present-day layout.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago Telephone Company Kedzie Exchange is a historic telephone exchange building located at 17 S. Homan Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1906–07, it was one of the many telephone exchanges built in Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as telephone use grew rapidly. Chicago architecture firm Pond and Pond designed the Classical Revival building. The building&#39;s design is noteworthy for its decorative elements, which include a dentillated cornice and belt course and an arched entrance with floral corbels. Early telephone exchanges were staffed almost entirely by women, and Pond and Pond believed that a decorative design would be more inviting to female workers than a plain and functional building. Major Chicago firm Holabird & Roche designed three additions to the building in 1913, 1928, and 1948. The telephone exchange closed in the 1960s, and the building was subsequently used by the Wilhelm K. Roentgen Elementary School through the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Triay House is a historic property located at 31 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of the First Spanish Period structure that stood on the site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Early Spanish records of St. Augustine show that Pedro de Florencia owned a house made of stone that stood on this property during the First Spanish Period. While the British were in possession of Florida, merchant Jesse Fish held the property. Juan San Salvador bought the property when Florida was returned to Spain in 1783, but soon after sold it to Francisco Triay. Triay was a Minorcan settler who came to St. Augustine from Andrew Turnbull&#39;s New Smyrna colony. The Triay family owned the home through 1834, and the original house stood on the site as a residence and served in various commercial capacities until 1904 when a two-story house was built.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission (later the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board) purchased the property where the Triay House once stood in 1964 from Charles Bennett and Buel Baker. Archaeological digs at the site revealed the original foundations, on which the house was reconstructed. The home was a small two room structure made of coquina.</p><br>
<h2>Modern</h2><br>
<p>Today the Triay House operates as the St. Augustine Seafood Company, and the building is managed on behalf of the state by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Bay Head Historic District is a 440 acre historic district in the borough of Bay Head in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. This residential district located along the Atlantic Ocean was added to the National Register of Historic Places  on February 1, 2006, for its significance in architecture and transportation from 1877 to 1940. It includes 549 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. Part of the district extends into Point Pleasant. In 2018, the L. Ron Hubbard Residence at Bay Head, a contributing building featuring Shingle style architecture, was listed individually on the NRHP. The All Saints Episcopal Church was built in 1889 and is the oldest church in the borough. The Bay Head Chapel was remodeled in the 1940s to feature Colonial Revival architecture. The Greenville Arms was designed by architect Wilson Eyre Jr., an innovator of the Shingle style.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Ace Theatre in Miami, Florida, is an Art Deco commercial structure constructed in 1930 in Miami&#39;s Coconut Grove neighborhood. On July 1, 2014, the site was designated as a local historic resource. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 13, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company, later Wometco Enterprises, owned the theater since its construction in 1930 until 1979, when the building was purchased by Harvey Wallace. The Wallace family founded Ace Development Co., the theater&#39;s current owner.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, Ace Theatre was the only film venue to serve the black community in Coconut Grove.</p><br>
<p>The Fremont Historic Commercial District is a 8 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is roughly bounded by 3rd, Military, Park and D Streets in Fremont, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>The district recognizes "an enclave of late 19th- and early 20th-century buildings which represent Fremont&#39;s role as a regional center of wholesale and retail commerce." It is an asymmetrical-shaped district which has parts of seven city blocks in the central business district of Fremont. The listing included 43 contributing buildings and 27 non-contributing ones.</p><br>
<p>The Elk Falls Pratt Truss Bridge, near Elk Falls, Kansas, spans the Elk River at the east end of Montgomery St. It was built in 1892 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It is a Pratt truss bridge built by the George E. King Bridge Co. The bridge was taken out of service in the 1970s and, in 1992, was in the process of some restoration. It was open for pedestrian use.</p><br>
<p>The Beach Haven Historic District is a historic district in Beach Haven, Ocean County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983 for its significance in architecture and history as a beach-front resort during the 19th century. The district boundary was increased on November 19, 2014. It now includes 149 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Edward H. Williams House at 506 South Atlantic Avenue in Beach Haven, Ocean County, New Jersey is a Queen Anne-style summer house built. It was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company for Edward H. Williams, a partner in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and is a mirror image of the Converse Cottage next door. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Beach Haven Multiple Resource Area . It is also a contributing property of the Beach Haven Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bank of American Fork is a historic commercial building in downtown American Fork, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places  and once again serves as the headquarters of the bank  which was formerly known as the Bank of American Fork.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is located at 1 East Main Street (US-89) in downtown American Fork. It is significant as the only surviving bank building and the "most visually impressive" of four surviving intact historic commercial buildings on Main Street.</p><br>
<p>Originally called The People&#39;s State Bank of American Fork, it officially changed its name to Bank of American Fork in the 1960s. Bank of American Fork purchased and restored the historical building built in 1911 and was listed on the NRHP March 9, 1993. The historic building originally housed the original Bank of American Fork that closed after the 1929 stock market crash. In 2019, the Bank of American Fork was rebranded as Altabank.</p><br>
<p>The Israel Beetison House, located southeast of Ashland, Nebraska, was built in 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was delisted in 2023.</p><br>
<p>Its 1976 NRHP nomination states that it "stands as one of the fine examples of the Italianate style of architecture in Nebraska. Due to the economic hardship associated with the settlement of a wilderness territory, the Greek and Gothic Revivals saw very little development in Nebraska before they had passed out of favor. The Italianate was probably the first style in the state to gain widespread popularity."</p><br>
<p>The house has been destroyed in a fire on April 12, 2022.</p><br>
<p>The house was demolished on May 2, 2022</p><br>
<p>The Duff Building is a commercial structure located at 118 West Exchange Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Duff family was established in Owosso by the 1840s, when Charles C. Duff established a grocery in the community. By the Civil War, both Duffs business and the town of Owosso had grown substantially. However, Duff put his business on hold to enlist in the Union army. He returned to Owosso after the end of the war and re-established the grocery. By 1880, downtown Owosso and Duffs grocery were booming.</p><br>
<p>In 1889, Duff purchased the title to an undeveloped piece of property in Owossos downtown from Manderville D. Grow. Grow had purchased a strip of land on which he was constructing the Grow Block on the western portion, leaving the eastern portion for sale. Duff began construction of a new building, completing it in 1890. Records indicate that the firm of "Duff and Detwiler" occupied the building during the 1890s, but it is unclear whether Duffs partner W.J. Detwiler was involved at all in the construction of the Duff Building.</p><br>
<p>By 1912, Duff moved his store to another location, and sold the Exchange Street building to Willis E. Hall and George W. Detwiler. Detwiler took over as sole owner, ond over the next two decades the building housed the Detwiler grocery, the jewelry firm of D.H. Wen and Company, optometrist George B. Gilbert, the Knapp and Smith Undertaking firm, the Owosso Meat Market, and Telfers Market. In 1932, the Duff Building was leased to Montgomery Wards, who purchased it in 1939.</p><br>
<p>To contain the Montgomery Wards store, the Duff building was combined with the Grow Block and a third building to create more space. Montgomery Wards remained in the building until the early 1980s. It was rehabilitated in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Duff Building is a three-story, four-bay building measuring twenty-two feet by eighty-five feet. It is constructed of red brick. The facade is designed in an Italianate style, with one storefront containing a recessed doorway, wide windows with kickpanels below, and brick side piers. The second floor contains two paired, one-over-one, double hung sash windows set in bowed-arch brick openings. The third floor level, contains four symmetrically placed one-over-one, double hung sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The Stewart-Anderson House is a historic mansion in Tupelo, Mississippi. It was built in 1867. It served as the Tupelo Female Academy and it later became the private residence of state representative and senator W. D. Anderson, who also served as the mayor of Tupelo from 1899 to 1907.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built circa 1867 for Dr Robert Stewart and his wife Mary Jane Stewart. From 1870 to 1884, the dining-room served as the Tupelo Female Academy, whose headmistress was Mrs Stewart. Her father, Thomas Stuart, moved into the house. A Presbyterian missionary, he was a co-founder of the Presbyterian church in Tupelo.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased by W. D. Anderson, an attorney for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, in 1887. The home was bought & refurbished by Dr. & Mrs. W. L. Kitchens in 1968.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The I-house was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style in the 1860s and remodelled in the Colonial Revival style circa 1900. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 24, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Grow Block is a commercial building located at 120-122 West Exchange Street in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Manderville D. Grow was born in 1831 in the Village of Homer, New York. His mother died in 1843, and the next year his father moved to Atlas, Michigan. In 1854, Manderville Grow married Eliza Mitchell, and the couple moved to Shiawassee County, where they started a sheep-breeding farm. The farm was successful, but in 1887, the Grows decided to move to Owosso. There, he invested in the community&#39;s downtown, buying a plot of land at the northeast corner of Exchange and Ball Streets in 1889.</p><br>
<p>Grow constructed a building on his land in 1890, and was able to nearly immediately rent out the space in the new building. By 1892, the building housed the barbershop of Alexander Johnson, a former slave and Civil War veteran, in the basement. The first floor housed the post office and Ainslie and Company Confectionery, and the second floor housed the Owosso Business College. The hall on the third floor was used for events by the Ladies Library and the "Foresters," a local men&#39;s club. Both the Post Office and the Owosso Business College remained in the Grow Block until the 1920s. Other businesses located in the building were the Globe Music and Novelty Company, the Detroit Free Press, and Hall and Sons (dealers in fancy and staple groceries).</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, the ownership of the building passed out of the Grow Family, and the space was consolidated into the home of W.C. Hall and Sons Department Store. In 1932, Montgomery Wards took possession of the building, combining it with the next door Duff Building and an additional structure. The building housed Montgomery Wards until the early 1980s. It then stood vacant for one-and-one-half years until it was donated to the City of Owosso. The city resold it in 1983, and it was renovated.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grow Block a three-story, six bay wide commercial building, measuring forty-four feet by eighty-five feet. It is constructed of red brick in an Italianate design. The front facade contains two storefronts, with wide windows above kickpanels, recessed entryways, brick side piers, and a secondary cornice of pressed metal running along the top of the first floor. On the second floor, trabeated, one-over-one, double hung sash windows are in each of the six bays, with rounded-arch windows on the third floor aligned with the second floor windows. A pressed metal cornice with end blocks, brackets, and a free-standing name and date plate runs along the top of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Heritage House  is located at 1 Aviles Street, or 11 King Street, in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of a late Spanish colonial-style house built in the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological excavations in the 1970s showed the site of the Wakeman House to hold burials dating back to the 16th century. These burials were located near the Catholic church of the time. A further excavation from 1972 showed burials dating back to the 18th century at this site, which could have been linked to the nearby Spanish Military Hospital, just south of the Wakeman House.</p><br>
<p>Around 1852, a structure was built on this site known as the City Hotel, owned by Seth M. Wakeman, a merchant from Connecticut who also operated a grocery store in it. A photograph taken during the Civil War shows us that the Wakeman House was occupied by Union soldiers during that time. There is a photograph from the 1880s that shows Wakeman&#39;s building functioning as a store.</p><br>
<p>The 1884 Sanborn Insurance Map depicts a three-story dry-goods store and a "Gentlemans Store" on this site that was out of business by 1888. By 1893 it was a veneered concrete building known as Lynns Hotel, which was the Chautauqua Hotel by 1910.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 1964, leading up to St. Augustine&#39;s planned quadricentennial celebrations, the state of Florida approved a loan for the erection of a Florida exhibition center at this site. The building on site at the time was known as the Bernstein Building. The St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission would purchase the building with this loan and a reconstruction of the Wakeman House was completed in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Heritage House displayed exhibits on American Indian cultures, Florida&#39;s Seminole Wars, and Spanish colonial life in St. Augustine. Artifacts from archaeological excavations supplemented the exhibits. There was also a showcase that displayed the gifts presented to the city of St. Augustine on behalf of Spanish governmental agencies.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Florida Heritage House (Wakeman House) is an art gallery in downtown St. Augustine.</p><br>
<p>The Gómez House, located at 27 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida, is a reconstruction of a simple wooden house dating back to Florida’s First Spanish Period .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A 1764 Spanish map describes the structure at this site as a “house of boards” owned by Lorenzo Gómez, who had a wife, Catarina Perdomo, and three children. There is no documentation for when the house was originally built or who the former owner was. The home originally contained two rooms and a sleeping loft. A coquina walled well in the yard was the water source for the family.</p><br>
<p>Lorenzo and his family moved to Havana in 1763 following the British occupation of East Florida. The house was left in the charge of British agent Jesse Fish and eventually torn down in St. Augustine’s British Period, most likely for firewood. The site remained empty until the first half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board</h2><br>
<p>The Gómez House was reconstructed in 1969 by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board.</p><br>
<p>The sides of the house were wide wooden vertical boards. The roof was reconstructed with hand split cypress shingles, the Preservation Board conducting public demonstrations of shingle splitting. The windows were built with wooden shutters.</p><br>
<h2>San Agustín Antiguo</h2><br>
<p>The Gómez House was incorporated into the city of St. Augustines living history museum, known as San Agustín Antiguo. It provided a good example of board and batten construction commonly used in the 18th century and was meant to show a typical home of a foot soldier (Lorenzo Gómez) and his family. This type and size of house could be contrasted with that of an artilleryman’s house; a reconstruction of artilleryman Gallegoss house, had been built nearby. Note the proximity of both houses to St. Augustine&#39;s fort, the Castillo de San Marcos.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the Gómez House displayed a home which was also put to use as a tienda. It was a house that was also used as a store. During the age of San Agustín Antiguo, the Gómez House displayed reproduction goods and barrels.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Gómez House is owned by the state of Florida and managed on its behalf by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc. It operates as part of the Colonial Quarter complex, located at the entrance to the Colonial Oak Music Park.</p><br>
<p>The C. Segelke Building, at 1065 17th Ave. in Columbus, Nebraska, was built in 1887. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It served as the Columbus Bottling Works and, in later years, as the Columbus Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Its architecture is simplified commercial Italianate in style.</p><br>
<p>The listing included a second contributing building, a long, low storage shed across the alley behind the main building.</p><br>
<p>The William Horton Farmhouse is a single family home located at 1647 West Miller Road near Morrice, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of the finest rural Italianate farm homes in the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1837, Alanson Horton moved from Connecticut to Perry, Michigan in Shiawassee County. By 1841, he had purchased a farm and moved his family there, constructing a wood frame Greek Revival house in the mid-1840s. Farming was difficult at first, but by the 1860s, the farm was prosperous, as were the farms and communities in the surrounding county. Alansons eldest son, William Horton, joined his father in farming the land, but his career was interrupted when he enlisted in the 9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. William returned home after the war, and by the late 1860s gained control over his fathers farm and house, purchasing the shares that his two brothers and sister had inherited.</p><br>
<p>William Horton was a successful farmer, concentrating on wheat and cattle, and in 1870 and 1871 he constructed a new farmhouse on the farm. He continued to farm until around 1900, when his eldest son George took over the farm. With wheat becoming less profitable, George Horton turned to sugar beets and beans. George Horton died in 1948, and his eldest son Blain Horton took over the farm. However, small family farms such as the Horton&#39;s were becoming less competitive, and Blain soon was working for Fisher Body, and growing corn and hogs part time. By the 1950s, Horton was leasing most of the farmland to other farmers, and in 1978, the house and land were sold out of the family.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Horton Farmhouse is a two-story Italianate cube with a one-and-one-half-story side wing. Both sections are wood-framed and covered with clapboard. The two-story section has symmetrically placed four-over-four, double-hung sash windows with pedimented hoods on both the first and second floor levels of all facades, save the first floor of the main facade, which contains a hipped roof, tri-sided bay window with corner pilasters. The side wing is slightly recessed from the front facade. A hipped roof porch wrapping around the front and side facades shelters a main entry door and an additional secondary door on the side. The windows are again four-over-four, double-hung sash units with pedimented hoods.</p><br>
<p>On the inside, the first floor level contains two parlors, the main stairway, and two smaller rooms that were once used as a sewing room and a nursery. The wing contains a kitchen at the rear and a smaller parlor on the front. The second story contains four bedrooms arranged around the head of the stairway, with several smaller rooms in the half story of the wing.</p><br>
<p>The Cassville Crossroads Historic District is a historic district located in the community of Cassville, at the junction of CR 571 and CR 528, in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982 for its significance in agriculture, architecture, art, commerce and religion. It includes nine contributing buildings and one contributing structure.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Luciano de Herrera House is located at 58 Charlotte Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction, depicting a house from St. Augustine&#39;s Second Spanish Period .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On a Spanish map dated 1764 this house is recorded as a “ripio” (rubblework) dwelling belonging to a Juan de Muros, most likely a military man. Juan de Muros was not a native of St. Augustine and his place of birth is illegible in records.</p><br>
<p>The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded Florida to Great Britain. A British map dated 1765 shows that William Wilson owned the house at this site and that he had built an additional outbuilding there. Wilson made a living by purchasing and selling land.</p><br>
<p>Luciano de Herrera bought the house in 1785. De Herrera was an infamous man. He was born in St. Augustine during the First Spanish Period and stayed during the British Period, acting as a military correspondent and writing letters to Cuba, informing the Spanish there of British actions. In 1781, British Governor Patrick Tonyn found him out, and he fled to Havana to escape punishment. When he returned to St. Augustine in 1784, it was as chief overseer of works in East Florida, a reward bestowed upon him by Spanish Governor Vizente Manuel de Zéspedes.</p><br>
<p>De Herrera&#39;s descendants sold the house in 1789 to Miguel Isnardy, the sea captain and contractor for the St. Augustine Cathedral. Next in 1792, Pedro de Cala, a free black man, bought the home, which was described as being “of stone, wood and shell, on St. Charles Street.” De Cala then sold to Jose Lorente in 1797, who in turn sold to Don Gabriel Guillermo Perpall in 1803.</p><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, this site was the office for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The structure at 58 Charlotte Street today was built to portray the house as it looked during Luciano de Herreras time. The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board bought the property in 1966 and reconstructed it in 1967, using masonry and board and batten techniques. At the time of purchase in 1966, the site was operated by Neil Popes Garage.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Currently the Luciano de Herrera House serves as La Pentola Restaurant in downtown St. Augustine. The building is owned by St. Augustine Foundation, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Williams-Cole House is a single family home located at 6810 Newburg Road near Durand, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1836, Levi Frost and Daniel Tuttle purchased the land on which this house now stands. Two years later, Benjamin O. Williams (the founder of nearby Owosso) purchased the land from them. Daniel Williams, Benjamin&#39;s son, was also involved in developing Owosso, and in 1854 he purchased the farmland from his father. Although records are uncertain, it is quite likely that Daniel Williams built this home on his land as a development project. Williams sold the land and house in 1855.</p><br>
<p>Over the next two decades, the house changed hands ten times, until 1876 when William N. Cole purchased the property. Cole was born in Brownville, New York, and married Laura Bunce, who had been raised in Michigan. The couple moved to Michigan in 1867, settling near Corunna before purchasing the Williams house with 80 associated acres, and an additional 240 acres nearby. In 1894, the property was transferred to William H. Cole, William N.&#39;s only son. The younger Cole was a Civil War veteran who had previously been both a farmer and a shopkeeper, as well as being elected sheriff of Shiawassee County. He farmed the property until 1908.</p><br>
<p>The house passed out of the Williams family and went through several owners until being purchased in 1929 by the Chrisinske family, who owned it at least into the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Williams-Cole House, is a two-story, wood-framed gable-roofed structure, covered with board-and-batten siding, with single story, gable-roofed wings attached on both sides and the rear. The house measures 70 feet by 95 feet. The architectural style is an unusual combination of Greek Revival massing and formal structure, and Carpenter Gothic ornamentation. The front facade is three bays wide, with the center bay projecting forward. Windows are six-over-six double hing units, with a symmetrical placement, although the first-floor doorway is set to one side of the central section. The flanking wings are fronted with porches. The door has a traditional Greek Revival enframement. Above each window in the central bay are wood molding tracery caps, giving them the appearance of Gothic arches. At the eaveslines of the main roof and the porches, decorative wood barge-boards add another Gothic element.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Funsten House, also known as The Bishops House, Old Bishops House, and Bishop Rhea Center, is a -story Queen Anne style clergy house constructed in 1889 in Boise, Idaho, USA, that served as the rectory for St. Michaels Church and later St. Michaels Cathedral until 1960. The house was renovated and expanded during a 1900 remodel by architect John E. Tourtellotte.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed as Bishop Funsten House on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bishop Daniel Tuttle purchased the city block bounded by Idaho, Bannock, First, and Second Streets in Boise for $375 in 1867, but a rectory was not constructed on the site until 1889. Prior to 1889, St. Michael&#39;s rectory was located at the corner of Idaho and 5th Sts., but the earlier house was sold in that year to butcher Tom Woodcock, and a new rectory was constructed at the corner of Idaho and 2nd Sts. by carpenter and undertaker A.G. Lachapelle.</p><br>
<p>Reverend D.C. Patee was the first rector to occupy the house, and it was described by the Idaho Statesman in 1891 as "the finest rectory building in the Northwest." The house featured Queen Anne design elements including metal cresting on the ridgebeams, a double overhang in the main front gable, and turned posts on the front porch.</p><br>
<p>Bishop James B. Funsten arrived in Boise in 1899 and lived at the house until his death in 1918.</p><br>
<p>In 1900 the house was remodeled by architect John Tourtellotte, and the corner turret and a large, wraparound porch were added. Tourtellotte applied a veneer of Boise sandstone to the outer walls of the main floor and included a gazebo at one end of the new porch.</p><br>
<p>In 1902 the house was listed in the name of Bishop Funsten as were other church properties. The house was known informally as the bishops&#39; house prior to the 1950s, and occasional reference was made to Bishop Tuttle House in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1960 Rt. Rev. Norman L. Foote became the last bishop to occupy the house when it was converted to a meeting facility. It served as Precinct 3, an election polling place, in the 1960s. Renamed the Bishop Rhea Center in 1966 to honor Bishop Frank A. Rhea, the house became a recreation facility for elderly citizens.</p><br>
<p>The house was moved from its foundation at 120 W Idaho St and relocated at 2420 Old Penitentiary Rd in 1975, after a community effort to save the house from demolition. At its new location, the house is known as The Bishops&#39; House.</p><br>
<h2>Second Bishop Funsten House</h2><br>
<p>Adjacent to Bishop Tuttle House in the St. Michael&#39;s Cathedral block is a nonresidential brick structure known as Bishop Funsten House, completed in 1971. The building provides space for offices, classrooms, a library, and a kindergarten.</p><br>
<p>The Julius Frieseke House is a single family home located at 529 Corunna Avenue in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Julius Frieseke was born in Germany in 1842, and came to Owosso along with his parents and his brother Herman in 1858. Both brothers went to work in the Shattuck brickyard in Owosso, then moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan to work in another brickyard there, and served in the Union army during the Civil War. After the war, they returned to Owosso, and soon purchased the Shattuck brickyard, renaming it the J. & H. Frieseke brickyard. The business started small, but by 1891 employed 25 workers and made two to three million bricks per year.</p><br>
<p>In about 1897, Julius Frieseke constructed a new brick house, replacing his earlier frame house that still stands nearby. He lived in the house until his death in 1920.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Julius Frieseke House is a two-and-one-half-story, cross-gable, Queen Anne structure built of dark red brick which was manufactures in the Frieseke brickyard. The exterior has simple detailing. It has a wraparound Tuscan-column veranda in the front. The windows are double-hung, one-over-one-light, sash units set in plain segmental-arch window heads, with rounded head windows in the gables.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Road Bridge  is a former road bridge which carried Martin Road across the Shiawassee River in Caledonia Township near Corunna. It was one of the oldest metal through truss highway bridges in Michigan, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. As of 2016, the bridge has been removed from its original site, and will be restored and reassembled at the Auburn Valley State Park in Yorklyn, Delaware.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In about 1850, settler Titus Yerkes dammed the river near this point and constructed a mill. A second mill was constructed later in the nineteenth century, and this location became an important local milling center. It is not known when the first Martin Road bridge was constructed, but there was one in place by 1874. This bridge was apparently washed out in the 1880s, and in 1885, Caledonia Township contracted with the Mount Vernon Bridge Company of Mount Vernon, Ohio to design and construct a replacement bridge. The company installed this bridge at the site. It is the only known example of this firm&#39;s highway bridge work known to survive in Michigan. Although the bridge was in use for years, the mills that made this river crossing locally important were gone by 1908.</p><br>
<p>However, the bridge eventually deteriorated, and it was closed to traffic in 1987. In 2015, the township sold the Auburn Valley State Park in Yorklyn, Delaware. In 2016, the bridge was disassembled and removed by Bach Steel. Renovation is underway. As of 2021, the Park&#39;s master plan envisioned the bridge (rechristened the "Snuff Mill Road Bridge") being widened and used as part of a recreational trail.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Martin Road Bridge is a single-span, metal, pin-connected, Pratt through truss structure having. The bridge is 119 feet long and fifteen feet wide between the trusses. The deck is made up of three-by-eight-inch wooden planks, supported by six rows of six-inch I-beams and two rows of six-inch channels, all supported by sixteen-inch metal floor beams. In its original location, rubble fieldstone abutments on each bank supported the bridge. A plaque mounted on one end post names the bridge&#39;s builder, the Mt. Vernon Bridge Company of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and the 1885 year of construction.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle House is a nonresidential building adjacent to St. Michael&#39;s Episcopal Cathedral in Boise, Idaho. The building was designed by local architects Wayland & Fennell and constructed in 1907 under the direction of Bishop Funsten of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, and the building commemorates the work of Daniel S. Tuttle, first bishop of Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Five years after construction of St. Michael&#39;s Cathedral (1902), the congregation and its leadership recognized a need for space devoted to receptions, recitals, classrooms, library, gymnasium, and offices. And from its conception, the new building was also intended to honor the work of Bishop Tuttle. Tudor Gothic style and Boise sandstone were chosen to match the exterior of the adjacent cathedral.</p><br>
<p>After the Bishop Tuttle House was completed, the Idaho Statesman described it as "a stone building of handsome design...costing nearly $20,000."</p><br>
<p>The Harris County Courthouse of 1910 is one of the courthouse buildings operated by the Harris County, Texas government, in Downtown Houston. It is in the Classical Revival architectural style and has six stories. Two courtrooms inside are two stories each. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1981.</p><br>
<p>It houses the Texas Court of Appeals districts 1 and 14.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the time of its opening the Texas district courts number 11, 55, and 61 moved into the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1930 the cupola was removed. There were previously stairs made of granite that connected the second floor with the ground, but they were removed in 1950. The courthouse received a modernization in 1953 which updated the interior. In 2011 the courthouse was rededicated after an extensive renovation, which began in March 2009, and restored the interior to the original style. The renovation had a cost of about $65 million, and included adding a cupola that was created in the 1980s as well as re-adding the granite steps. The reopening was in August 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House, also known as just the Cobb House, is a single-family home located at 115 West 2nd Street in Perry, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1874–77, the Chicago and Northeastern Railway (controlled by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad) constructed a line through this area. Local residents thought the railway would establish a station at the point where the line crossed the Mason and Owosso state road, but instead, the railway constructed a station three miles away in Morrice, Michigan. Undeterred, residents platted the village of Perry at the crossing point in 1877. The railway refused to establish a station at the new community, but residents petitioned the state Legislature, who decided in their favor. The population of the new community grew rapidly, and by 1880 had reached 300 people. Two of these were Hezekiah W. Cobb and his wife, Sarah Fishell Cobb, who came to Perry in early 1879. Cobb was a doctor, one of two in the community.</p><br>
<p>Hezekiah W. Cobb was born in Barre, New York, in 1832. He attended a seminary for two years, after which he taught school in Missouri for four years. During this time, he studied medicine, then attended the St. Louis Medical College. He married Sarah E. Fishell of Pembroke, New York in 1859. The couple moved to Pleasant Gap, Missouri, but in 1861, and the Civil War loomed, they fled back to New York after their house was burned. Cobb practiced medicine in New York State until 1876, then moved to Perry in 1879. When he arrived, there was no permanent lodging available, so Cobb lived and practiced out of the local hotel for over a year.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, the Cobbs built a new house to live in and to house their medical practice. In 1902, Sarah Cobb died, and in 1905, Hezekiah moved his practice out of the house to another building. He continued to practice medicine until at least 1911, and continued to live in his house until his death in 1920. By this time, the Cobbs only child, Leon R. V. Cobb, and his wife Clara were living in the house, and they continued to live there until Leons death in 1941 and Claras in 1947. Their son Arthur B. Cobb and his wife Eva then moved in, and lived there until Arthurs death in 1967, and Eva&#39;s transition to a nursing home in the mid 1980s. The house was then vacant until 1989, when it was sold out of the family. In 1994, Thomas C. and Kellie L. Willson purchased the house and began the process of converting it into a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Cobb House is a two-story hip-roof structure with a one-story gable-roof addition on the rear. The main section measures about twenty-six feet by twenty-eight feet, and the addition measures seventeen by fourteen feet. The house is clad with clapboard and is simply detailed, with plain cornerboards, a broad architrave and frieze bands, and broadly overhanging eaves. The windows are tall, narrow one-over-one square-head units in plain board frames with moulded caps. The facade is asymmetrical, with a pair of side-by-side entrances under a small hip-roof door porch with turned posts.</p><br>
<p>The Rodríguez House is located at 58 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstructed structure where there was once a tabby house during Florida&#39;s First Spanish Period . It is part of the St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A Spanish map dating to 1764 indicates that this small two-room house belonged to Antonio Jose Rodríguez, son of Jose Antonio Rodriguez of Seville and Gertrude Morales. The house was most likely demolished during the British Period when British soldiers pulled down tabby houses to reuse the building materials. Early homes such as the Rodríguez House had flat wooden roofs and no fireplaces. The rooms were heated with braziers.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>The St. Augustine Restoration Inc. decided to take on reconstructing the Rodríguez House in the late 1960s using funds donated by Edward Ball of Jacksonville, Florida. During the time of St. Augustine&#39;s downtown living history museum, San Agustín Antiguo, this structure was used to house craft demonstrations such as pottery making. Evalina Manucy, of Florida State University, demonstrated pottery in the Rodríguez House in 1968, having already worked for the Board as a weaver, baker, and candlemaker. The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board acquired the house in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Rodríguez House is a retail store, started by Jon Williams, re-enactor. St. Augustine Textiles provides historical costumes, uniforms, and accessories to a wide audience. The house is owned by the State of Florida and managed on its behalf by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine Inc.</p><br>
<p>The old Durand High School is a former school building located at 100 West Sycamore Street in Durand, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Durand was first platted in 1876, at the juncture of the Chicago & Northeastern and the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railway lines. In 1890, a four-room brick school building housing all grades was constructed on Sycamore Street where the former high school now stands. This building was expanded in 1909, and in 1912 a second school was constructed on the south side for grades one through six, leaving the original school to house the upper grades. However, in 1920, the 1890 school was destroyed by fire. After the fire, the school board hired the Detroit firm of Van Leyen, Schilling & Keough to design a new building. Due to the high post-WWI inflation, only one section of the original plan was constructed in 1920. The school opened for classes in early 1921.</p><br>
<p>The school district population continued to increase, however, and the already small school became even more crowded. Durand voters turned down one millage proposal in the mid-1920s, but in 1928 approved an expansion of the school. It was designed by the Detroit architecture firm of Van Leyen, Schilling, Keough and Reynolds. In 1929, a wing was added. In the 1950 and 1960s, Durand consolidated with surrounding rural districts. In 1965, a new high school was constructed, and the former high school was converted to a junior high. The junior high was closed in 1996, and sold by the school district to new owners, who converted it into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The former Durand High School is a three-story, E-shaped, red-and-brown brick Tudor Revival school building. The front facade is nine bays wide, with stair/entry towers with wide limestone entry arches at each end. The facade has brick quoins at the corners, a limestone water table and stringcourse on the second floor, a cornice band above the third floor windows, and a stone parapet cap. In each bay is a set of two, two-over-two double-hung windows, aligned on each floor. The towers have three-sided bay windows above the entrances in the upper two stories.</p><br>
<p>The Santoyo House is located at 91 St. George Street, St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of a First Spanish Period  house in Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A 1764 Spanish map indicates that there was a one-story flat-roofed house at this site made of tabby and plaster coating, belonging to Miguel Santoyo, a soldier at the Castillo de San Marcos. Miguel Santoyo was the son of Juan de la Rosa Santoya and Maria Ana Cavallero. Miguel, his father, and his brother were all soldiers at the Castillo. Miguel belonged to a regiment of dragoons. The floor of his home was most likely wooden or earthen and he had no loggia or porch, common in Spanish architecture, connected to his dwelling</p><br>
<p>The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded Florida to Great Britain and Jesse Fish, British agent, sold the house in 1769 to a George Kemp, surgeon and a member of the British General Assembly in East Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>In 1966 the St. Augustine Restoration Foundation Inc. purchased the Miguel Santoyo lot and reconstructed a house to its 1760s appearance.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Santoyo House is retail space operated by Sea Gems. The property is owned by St. Augustine Foundation, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Owosso Downtown Historic District is a substantially commercial historic district, located in downtown Owosso, Michigan, roughly bounded by the Shiawassee River, Comstock Street, Water Street, Park Street, and Mason Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land in the heart of Owosso was purchased in 1833 by Benjamin O. and Alfred L. Williams. The brothers has a millrace constructed in 1837, along which a series of mills were soon constructed. In 1838, they platted the land in the center of what is now Owosso, encompassing what is now the Owosso Downtown Historic District. The first few commercial buildings were likely already in place, but soon a series of wooden stores were erected, defining Owosso&#39;s downtown. The first brick building, constructed in 1844, was the Ament Hotel. The earliest surviving buildings are likely to be the Williams Block at 112 N. Washington, built in 1855, the building at 213 N. Washington, built.</p><br>
<p>The city boomed after the Civil War, and the expansion of the downtown, along with fires that eliminated many older frame buildings, resulted in a substantial rebuilding of Owosso&#39;s commercial district. This development continued into the 1880s and 1890s. By 1915, the city center was essentially built out, and further construction was much slower.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Owosso Downtown Historic District contains primarily commercial buildings, but also contains a number of the city&#39;s important historic governmental, school, church, and social buildings. These include the Municipal Building/City Hall, the Owosso Armory, the former High School, two churches, a Masonic Temple, and others. The buildings in the district are typically two and three stories in height, but include two four-story buildings as well as a number of one-story structures. Architectural styles represented include primarily Italianate and Late Victorian commercial styles, but also some vernacular Greek Revival, Neoclassical, Commercial Brick, and Mid-century Modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Salcedo House and Kitchen are located at 42 and 42 1/2 St. George Street, in St. Augustine, Florida. They are reconstructions of 18th century structures that stood on these sites in St. Augustine&#39;s First Spanish Period .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Salcedo House was a dwelling constructed in St. Augustine&#39;s First Spanish Period (1565–1763). By the end of this period the house belonged to Alfonsa de Avero. Avero, her sisters living nearby, and their families left St. Augustine with other Spaniards when Florida was transferred to the British with the 1763 Treaty of Paris. During the British Period, Thomas Stone, Leonard Cecil, and Robert Johnston owned the property, consecutively. When Spain regained Florida with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Pedro Jose Salcedo, Captain of the Royal Corps of Artillery, bought the lot.</p><br>
<p>From 1796 to 1801, general from the island of Santo Domingo and early leader of the Haitian Revolution Georges Biassou lived in this house. In 1805, Minorcan fisherman and farmer Pablo Sabate bought the house.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>The Salcedo House & Kitchen are both reconstructed on their original foundations that were uncovered and examined during archaeological excavations in 1962. The project overall was the second reconstruction project undertaken by the St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission. The foundations of the Salcedo house were discovered by Dr. Hale Smith of Florida State University as he worked on the archaeological excavation of the Arrivas House. The lots of these properties have changed over time, complication the question of land acquisition and restoration.</p><br>
<p>Walls were built of coquina covered over with plaster. The roof is made of cedar shake shingles. The white-stuccoed kitchen was built to show where British occupants had added a kitchen to the existing property. One can see evidence of a standing kitchen in a 1788 Spanish map following Florida&#39;s British Period. Construction was completed by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in 1965 and during the time of the living history museum San Agustín Antiguo, the Salcedo Kitchen served as a bakery.</p><br>
<p>The Salcedo Kitchen was a huge success, turning out orange, vanilla, almond, lemon, cinnamon, and rum cookies, along with turnovers and fresh bread. In the late 1960s Bessie Bargmon and Lizzie Murray were the bakers, turning out 280 of each cookie per day.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>Today the Salcedo Kitchen is the Spanish Bakery & Café. The Salcedo House is Whetstone Chocolates of St. Augustine. Both of these structures are owned by the State of Florida and managed on its behalf by University of Florida Historic St. Augustine.</p><br>
<p>The Shiawassee Street School, also known as the Corunna Union School or the Corunna High School, is a former school building located at 106 South Shiawassee Street in Corunna, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Corunna School District was organized in 1842, and a single-story frame school was built at this site. As Corunna grew, more room was needed, and in 1851 a two-story brick school was built to replace the earlier frame structure. A larger, three-story brick school was constructed nearby in 1866, but in 1882, both buildings burned. Later that year, a fourth school building, three stories high, was constructed on the same site, serving children from kindergarten through twelve grade. In 1908, this school too burned. That year, the school board hired architect Edwyn A. Bowd of Lansing, Michigan to design the present building, and the firm of Rickman and Son to construct it. This school opened in January 1909. The building served as an elementary school between 1952 and 1976, then became the home of Community Education courses and the Corunna Public Schools Administrative Offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was closed in 2014, when it was deemed unsafe by the Corunna School District. In 2016, redevelopment began to turn the school into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Shiawassee Street School is a two-story brick Georgian Revival style school trimmed in limestone. It has a bell tower topped with a cupola.</p><br>
<p>The Passolt House is a single-family home located at 1105 South Jefferson Avenue in Saginaw, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Passolt was born in Hirschberg, Germany in 1836. He arrived in Detroit in 1854, and worked in the soap manufacturing business. In 1863, he moved to Saginaw, where he began to manufacture Atlas soap, used for laundry. His original 1863 factory (destroyed in 1893) was constructed on a parcel of land near where this house now stands. In 1877, Passolt hired local architect Ludwig E. Bude to design this house. Passolt lived in the house until his death, after which the house was owned by his heirs for a number of years. When they sold it, it was converted to apartments for several years. In 1948, it was converted to use as a business and then adopted for business, and occupied by an advertising agency until 1965. The Saginaw Historical Society purchased the mansion in 1966, and was opened as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Passolt House is a two-story brick structure on a stone foundation. The home was designed to be fireproof, and has wood floors laid over concrete. The middle section of the front facade protrudes eight feet and contains a double set of entry doors. The house was originally fronted by a full-width porch; this was replaced by a four-pillared smaller porch. The house contains fourteen rooms, including two parlors, a dining room, library, kitchen, and bedroom on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The Schmidt Site, also designated 20SA192, is an archaeological site located just south of the Cass River near Bridgeport, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Schmidt Site was settled in the Archaic period, at a time approximately 6000 to 4000 years before the present. The data suggest that the site was inhabited year-round over a number of years.</p><br>
<p>The location of the Schmidt Site was first noted in modern times in the late 1950s. The first excavations were conducted by Bernard Spencer in 1962. In 1964, James Fitting from the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History continued the excavations. Work was continued in 1971 by Richard Mock of Saginaw Valley State University. It was revisited again in 1973 and 1977 by staff from Western Michigan University. Stone, stone tools, and animal bones were recovered from the site, as well as charcoal. The bones primarily represented deer, but fish bones were also recovered.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Schmidt Site is located on a rise just south of the Cass River, overlooking the marshy floodplain of the river. This rise would have been the shore of the prehistoric Lake Nippissing, or the earlier glacial Lake Algonquin. The site itself borders an agricultural field, although much of the site has never been farmed. Material from the site is scattered about, covering an area of over 40 acres. Much was recovered from relatively deep middens.</p><br>
<p>The Schultz site  and the Green Point Site  are two adjacent archaeological sites located near the confluence of the Tittabawassee River and Shiawassee River in Spaulding Township, Michigan. the two sites were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Schultz site</h2><br>
<p>The Schultz site was occupied nearly continuously from about 1100 BC to 600 AD. It was first investigated in modern times in 1959-1964 by researchers from the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Later investigations were undertaken by researchers from Michigan State University. Ceramics, charcoal, and animal bones were recovered. The site contained hearth locations, refuse pits, and post molds.</p><br>
<p>The Schultz site is located at the edge of a flat wetland near the river, slightly upland on a levee. The full extent runs for nearly a mile.</p><br>
<h2>Green Point Site</h2><br>
<p>The Green Point Site is a large site, and was recorded in the early 20th century. Burial mounds are located at the site, and burials were reported to continue here even in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The Saginaw Central City Historic Residential District is a primarily residential historic district located in Saginaw, Michigan and roughly bounded by Federal Avenue, South Baum Street, South Park Avenue, and Hoyt Avenue. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Now commonly referred to as The Cathedral District, the boundaries have been extended to Holland Avenue to the south.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Saginaw was first settled in 1820. The section east of the river was established in about 1850, and as industry moved into the surrounding timber lands, the village of East Saginaw grew tremendously. It was granted a city charter in 1859, and by the 1870s, fifty mills were operating along the eastern bank of the river. Unfortunately, a series of fires in the 1850s and 1860s destroyed much of the early construction in what is now the Central City Historic District. The Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church, dedicated in 1868, is probably one of the oldest structures in the district.</p><br>
<p>Soon after, in the mid-1870s, the prosperity of East Saginaw and the Central City Historic District reached a peak, which continued on into the 1890s. The bulk of the residential construction in the district was done during this period, making the district predominantly Victorian in character. The largest of the houses were built by wealthy lumbermen, including Lucius and Jerry Holland (503 S. Jefferson), Clarence Hill (523 S. Jefferson) and William Q. Atwood, Saginaw&#39;s only African-American Lumber Baron (. Professionals and tradesmen also lived in the neighborhood, including as well as other doctors, craftsmen, and small business owners. In addition to homes, public buildings were also constructed during this time, including the Hoyt Library and the Castle Station Post Office.</p><br>
<p>The 1890s brought the consolidation of East Saginaw and Saginaw. It also brought the decline of lumbering as an economic driver. However, both coal and sugar beets rose in importance, and by 1910 General Motors was also a major area employer. Development in the Central City Historic Residential District slowed during this period, but a few new houses were constructed in the 1890s and beyond. By 1920, there was almost no space left in the neighborhood. Over the rest of the 20th century, very little new construction was accomplished in the neighborhood, and most of that was due to the demolition of an earlier structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Saginaw Central City Historic Residential District contains approximately three hundred and twenty structures located within a forty block area. About nine percent of the structures in the district were built before 1875; these are primarily Carpenter Gothic residences. The bulk of the houses date from the mid-1870s through the mid-1890s. Some of these continue the Carpenter Gothic style, but it is mixed with other Victorian era architectural styles such as Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne. Later houses were added in Classical Revival and Georgian Revival styles, with some 1920s bungalows in the neighborhood as well.</p><br>
<p>Significant structures in the neighborhood include:</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church (306 South Jefferson): Designed in 1868 by A. Barrows, Jr., the church is a two-story Gothic Revival brick structure with a steeply pitched gable roof and a number of lancet windows.</p><br>
<p>Rectory of St. Mary&#39;s Cathedral (615 Hoyt): Built in 1875, the rectory is a two-story Chateauesque building, three bays wide. It is built of yellow brick on a high stone foundation, with a slate-covered mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>Holland House (503 South Jefferson): Built for lumbermen Lucius and Jerry Holland in 1885, this house is a three-story, three-bay Queen Anne structure with an irregular roofline and a profusion of surface treatments.</p><br>
<p>Hill House (523 South Jefferson): Built for Clarence Hill in 1886, this house is a 2-1/2-story Queen Anne residence with irregular massing and substantial external ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>Hoyt Library (505 Janes): This Romanesque building was constructed from plans begun (but never completed) by Henry Hobson Richardson. The 1890 building is constructed of rough-faced stone with large arched windows.</p><br>
<p>Castle Station Post Office (500 Federal Avenue): Started in 1889, this structure is built of gray and white Bedford stone, and has asymmetrical massing with castle-like dormers and turrets.</p><br>
<p>Wolfarth House (1000 Hoyt Avenue): Built in 1893 by Frank J. Wolfarth; prominent baker who owned Wolfarth Steam Bakery, this house is a 2-1/2 story Queen Anne with multiple porches and short turret. It has been fully restored.</p><br>
<p>Lemke Mansion (934 Hoyt Avenue): built in 1910, Alex Lemke, President of AF Bartlett created a home of vitrified brick with thick, bold lines of mortar; massive white limestone trimmings, beautifully and boldly carved; windows set in massive stone frames; trimmed in rich oak and filled with stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>Curtis-Symons Home (1001 Hoyt Avenue): built by physician James BF Curtis in 1868 in the Victorian style, it was acquired in 1886 by Samuel E. Symons who at that time was vice-president of Symons Brothers and Company, Saginaw’s largest wholesale grocer. In 1938 the home was purchased by Dr. Richard Mudd, grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd who had been accused of conspiracy in the President Lincoln assassination.</p><br>
<p>Symons Mansion (732 S. Warren) was designed by CF Cowles and built in 1909 by John F. Marskey who never moved in due to financial scandal and bankruptcy. The home would be purchased by the Symons grocery family and remain in their possession until the late 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The Bearinger Building is a commercial building located at 124 North Franklin Street in Saginaw, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Isaac Bearinger was born in Ontario, and as a young man came to Michigan to work in the lumber industry. He began as a cook&#39;s helper, rose through the ranks, and finally engaged in a partnership to log timberlands. His logging interests eventually spread over multiple states and into Canada, and Bearinger amassed a considerable fortune. With his wealth, he organized several businesses in Saginaw, including the American Commercial and Savings Bank, the Saginaw Brick Paving Company, and the Union Park Racetrack. In 1893, he constructed the first fireproof building on the east side of Saginaw, the Bearinger Fireproof Building, designed by Saginaw architects W. T. Cooper and Frederick Beckbissinger. The building held stores on the first floor and offices above.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Bearinger continued to own the building until his death in 1904, after which his son, James I. Bearinger, inherited the building. James Bearinger died in 1957, and the building was transferred to his family, who sold it to Detroit lawyers James O. Thompson and Irving A. August in 1972. The building was sold again in 1979, and again in 2002. The building was vacated in 2008, and resold multiple times afterward until it was foreclosed on in 2013. In 2015, it was purchased by the Saginaw Economic Development Corporation. In the summer of 2022 the building was purchased from the SEDC by the city of Saginaw.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bearinger Building is a six-story Chicago-inspired building constructed of brick and steel, and is faced with red brick. Five arches run across the facade from the second to the fifth floor. The sixth floor has ribbon windows, above which there was once a decorative cornice. A limestone facing has been placed over the first floor.</p><br>
