<p>The Green Bridge, on the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, was built in 1943. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>It is a single-span Pratt through truss bridge built by the Midland Bridge Co. The bridge has pinned connections that tie together seven 19-foot panel sections. It is 134 ft long and 17 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>It currently is on the property of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, at 4100 Dripping Springs Rd., just outside Las Cruces. It spans the Tortugas Arroyo, a dry wash. It originally was the middle one of a three-span bridge over the Pecos River, which was built in 1902. That location was in Chaves County. It was moved in 1943 to bring a small county road over the Rio Hondo, near the village of Picacho in Lincoln County. It was removed from service in 1989 by construction of a bypass. It was eventually donated to the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, which moved it to its present location in 2007.</p><br>
<p>In its previous locations, it has also been known as the Rio Hondo Bridge at Picacho, as Bridge 3452, and as Pecos River Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Depot in Magdalena, New Mexico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 108 N. Main Street, located off USA Route 60.</p><br>
<p>It was built around 1915.</p><br>
<p>The station was central to the town, which was founded in 1884-85 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad arrived to terminate a branch line from Socorro to there. It was to serve freight traffic of livestock and mining businesses.</p><br>
<p>The railways tracks of the entire branch were removed in 1973 after freight traffic declined. In 1978 the depot was Magdalenas village hall, and "almost the only railroad building remaining to recall the towns hey-day when it was the shipping point for large quantities of ore, livestock and wool and one of western New Mexicos most important communities."</p><br>
<p>In 2013 it was the village hall and library</p><br>
<p>The Atkins and Smith House, is a historic house in Beaver, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 390 North 400 West and was built in 1873.</p><br>
<p>It was built in two parts, probably both by Thomas Frazer, the Scottish-born local stonemason. The first part was a one-room black rock cottage, with a symmetric window-door-window front facade, with ashlar stonework, and with wood lintels and a Greek Revival style cornice. It was one of the first "permanent" houses in Beaver, and was probably built for James Atkins. The second part of the house is a pink rock one-and-a-half-story addition built around 1890 on the north side of the original</p><br>
<p>cottage, with jerkinheads and a broad cornice. Its windows and doors have pink rock lintels. It was built for John A. Smith, then the new owner.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the NRHP April 15, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Calera Downtown Historic District, in Calera, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing included 25 contributing buildings on 22 acre.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significantfor its collection of vernacular commercial structures dating from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, including good examples of one- and two-part commercial blocks, temple-front and free-standing commercial buildings. Together these structures depict the evolution of the community from its days as an early industrial town to its growth as a transportation center. They reflect the variety of opportunities available in the community, offering to meet every need of the citizenry. From banking to groceries, to dry goods, to shoe repair, to entertainment, to socialization, automobile service, and accommodation—all were available in the two-block area of the community.</p><br>
<p>It is located at the junction of USA Route 31 and State Route 25.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Andalusia, at 28 S. Court Sq. in Andalusia, Alabama, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is one-story brick building with a parapeted roof with a "pseudo-pediment", and is in an Early Classical Revival style. It has a cut stone cornice with a frieze and dentils created by J. Thurron & Co. of New York City. Its entryway has pairs of stone Tuscan pilasters supporting a carved stone molding.</p><br>
<p>It was expanded to the rear in 1924 by local craftsman, in more utilitarian style, but still with a parapeted roof and a cornice. On the inside, the appearance is of just one building.</p><br>
<p>The Ledyard Block Historic District is a group of seven adjacent, coherently designed, nineteenth century commercial structures located within a square block at 123-145 Ottawa Avenue and 104-124 Monroe Center, NW, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The group of buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In September, 1857, a disastrous fire destroyed 25 buildings along Monroe Avenue between Market Street and Ottawa Avenue. However, the area was quickly rebuilt with new commercial structures. The first of these was the Ledyard and Aldrich Block, located at the intersection of Monroe and Ottawa. The building was constructed in 1859 for prominent Grand Rapids businessmen William B. Ledyard and his son-in-law, Moses V. Aldrich. The pair built it as an investment property, to house retail stores on the first floor and offices and a boarding house upstairs. Other local businessmen followed, constructing their own buildings along Monroe. Ledyard followed this up with the 1874 construction of the Ledyard Block at Ottawa and Pearl, designed by William G. Robinson.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ledyard Block Historic District contains seven buildings, built in three waves. The first building constructed was the Ledyard and Aldrich Block (now known as the Flatiron Building), located at 102-108 Monroe Center, N.W., which was constructed in 1859-60. The building is a four-story brick Italianate structure spanning seven bays on Monroe and nine on Ottawa. The acute angle between is rounded. Projecting eaves, supported by large wooden brackets, run across the top. Windows are a mix of segmental-arch and round-headed units, all with molded caps.</p><br>
<p>The second wave of construction consists of five adjacent, similar buildings, located at 112, 114, 116, 118, and 122-24 Monroe Center, all built in about 1860. All five buildings are all four-story brick Italianate commercial structures, three or four bays wide. The last (at 122-124) was originally three stories, but a fourth has been added. The buildings are similar in appearance, to the Flatiron Building, although in some cases with less detailing. The buildings were originally constructed for different local businessmen, including Dr. Charles Shepard (112), James Lyman (114), Samuel F. Perkins (116), and John S. Nevius (118).</p><br>
<p>The final wave of construction in the district was the Ledyard Block, built at 123-145 Ottawa Avenue in 1874. It is a four-story yellow brick Italianate block, running 177 feet long along Ottawa Avenue and 99 feet along Pearl Street. The building has Ionia sandstone belt courses and window surrounds. Masonry piers separate the windows. A galvanized iron cornice runs across the top.</p><br>
<p>The John Black House, at 595 N. 100 West in Beaver, Utah, was built around 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a one-and-a-half-story two-room brick cottage with a hall and parlor plan, and a symmetric window-door-window front. It has an end-wall chimney, and was built on a block rock foundation. The masonry work is "excellent", characteristic of stonemason Alexander Boyter&#39;s work.</p><br>
<p>It has decorative wrought iron roof cresting about the bay window on its south side, which is believed to be the only example in Beaver. It has eaves with a broad cornice and boxed returns in both gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed significant "because of its historic date, its relatively unaltered appearance and its builder. Alexander Boyter built mostly with the pink rock and the brick, and the most common trait amongst all of his homes is the fine masonry work. The style of this home is also interesting because it is most influenced by the traditional vernacular styles in Beaver. However, c. 1910 was a relatively late date to build a house in this style because by then the vernacular building methods and traditional styles were breaking down in Beaver."</p><br>
<p>Later additions are to the rear and do not detract very much.</p><br>
<p>The Mesilla Park Historic District, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The listing included 131 contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 184 acre.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly bounded by Bowman St., Union and University Aves., and Park Drain.</p><br>
<p>The district includes:</p><br>
<p>Mesilla Park Elementary School (1907-1963), separately listed on the National Register in 2015</p><br>
<p>a railroad depot (1925)</p><br>
<p>St. James Episcopal Church (1911)</p><br>
<p>Chope&#39;s Town Cafe and Bar, in La Mesa, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>It was established as a restaurant in 1915 by Longina and Margarito Benavides, when Longina began selling her enchiladas to locals. It was named for José "Chope" Benavides, their son, who took over in the 1940s. He wore chopos (overalls) often.</p><br>
<p>It was founded by Chope and Lupe Benavidez.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 16145 New Mexico State Road 28.</p><br>
<p>Bridge A 249 is a historic wooden trestle bridge in New Mexico&#39;s Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, just outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 as Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico.</p><br>
<p>It is a very small trestle bridge, relative to the Mexico Canyon Railroad Trestle a short ways away, which has a viewpoint from the highway. This one has just three small spans: a central span resting on wooden supports and two approach spans.</p><br>
<p>It is a single-tier wood-frame trestle which was part of the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountains Railroad, a railroad that operated from 1899 to 1947. The railroad had about 26 mi of track connecting Alamogordo, New Mexico to spruce and fir timber areas in the Sacramento Mountains.</p><br>
<p>This trestle is one of seven trestles surviving out of 51 built by the railroad. It was deemed significant "in the area of engineering because it is a representative design by Chief Engineer H. A. Sumner of small trestles required to continue the rail line over small drainages in the upper elevations of the A&SM Railroad."</p><br>
<p>It is located west of USA Route 82, northwest of Cloudcroft, New Mexico</p><br>
<p>Mexican Canyon Trestle is an historic wooden trestle bridge in New Mexico&#39;s Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, just outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is located about.5 mi northwest of Cloudcroft off US 82. It can be seen from a viewpoint, off the highway, with a historical plaque describing "The Cloud Climbing Railroad".</p><br>
<p>It is the most prominent remaining structure of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway which operated under various names from 1899 to 1947.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1899, the curved trestle has an overall length of 323 feet and rises 52 feet above the canyon floor. Vertical supports spaced 15 feet apart consist of 12" x 12" timbers. The rails (removed in 1948) and crossties were placed on 8"x16" stringers held together with three-quarter-inch bolts and cast iron spacers. In order to form the curve, the top part was built in 21 sections with 8"x16" timbers. There are 10 main timbers 15 feet in length in each of the 21 sections resting on footing blocks set 4 to 8 feet underground. Lateral, longitudinal, and diagonal wooden braces prevented sway and shifting of the trestle. A wooden guard rail ran along the track to keep the ties from bunching. Metal guard rails running outside the standard gauge rails prevented derailed trains from falling off the trestle.</p><br>
<p>This structure was one of 58 trestles built on the mountainous 32-mile route which also required a switchback and numerous sharp curves. After the route was abandoned in 1947, the rails were taken up and salvagers removed a few of the timbers. The trestle is still essentially intact, however, and is a striking feature of the landscape near Cloudcroft.</p><br>
<p>It is a large trestle bridge, in fact huge relative to the size of the single-tier Bridge A 249 a short ways away.</p><br>
<p>It is a multi-tier wood-frame trestle which was part of the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountains Railroad, a railroad that operated from 1899 to 1947. The railroad had about 26 mi of track connecting Alamogordo, New Mexico to spruce and fir timber areas in the Sacramento Mountains.</p><br>
<p>This trestle is one of seven trestles surviving out of 51 built by the railroad. It was deemed significant as "the most prominent remaining structure of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway" and as a largely well-preserved, prominent landmark.</p><br>
<p>It is located at an elevation of 8,450 feet.</p><br>
<p>The A. B. Baca House, at 201 School of Mines Rd. in Socorro, New Mexico, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>It is a "Hipped box", an example of Territorial Style. It was built by Abel Trujillo and Jesus Martinez.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "a well-maintained, late-Territorial, hip-roofed, cubic adobe dwelling. It combines local craftsmanship with a plan, roof design, and decorative elements brought from the Midwest."</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin H. Averiett House, near Sylacauga, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included three contributing buildings on 605 acre.</p><br>
<p>This property has also been known as the Hudson Hamilton Place. It includes "Georgia Folk House" architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Averiett estate had more than 10,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.</p><br>
<p>The House at 303 Eaton Avenue, in Socorro, New Mexico, was built in 1893 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Its architecture is Late Victorian and vernacular Territorial Style.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story adobe house, with a Territorial Style portico across its front. The portal includes chamfered posts with decorative Victorian scrolled brackets.</p><br>
<p>The James Boyter Shop, at 50 W. 200 North in Beaver, Utah, was built in 1911. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was originally used as a shop for James Boyter&#39;s monument-carving. Boyter was a sculptor and carved headstones for cemeteries in the area, working with pink stone tuff and white marble brought from the mining town of Newhouse, Utah. His works often featured lambs. He also was a stonemason and helped his brother Alexander Boyter in construction work.</p><br>
<p>The Ohlman-Shannon House is a historic house in Yankton, South Dakota. It was built in 1871 for Charles Mclntyre, who sold it to Martin P. Ohlman, Sr. in 1878. Ohlman was a real estate investor who served as the president of the American National Bank and as a director and treasurer of the Yankton Bridge and Ferry Company. The house remained in the Ohlman family until 1975, when his granddaughter, married to William</p><br>
<p>Shannon, sold it to John Harmelink. It was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 28, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Burns House is a historic house in Yankton, South Dakota. It was built in 1886 for Robert Burns, a banker who served as the president of the Mortgage Bank. It was acquired by George Durand, the vice president of Yankton College, in the 1900s. Durand and his wife were art collectors. The house was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style, with a tower. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 9, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Van Osdel House is a historic house in Mission Hill, South Dakota. It was built in 1912 for Abraham Lincoln Van Osdel, who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865 and was later elected as a member of the South Dakota Legislature in 1877, 1881, 1885, 1899, 1906 and 1907. Van Osdel was also the commander of the South Dakota department of the Grand Army of the Republic, a book collector, an author and a poet; he died in 1936. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Gurney Hotel is a historic three-story building in Yankton, South Dakota. Replacing the original St. Charles Hotel , the present building was built in 1891 with brick and Sioux Falls granite. It was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque Revival style by architect J.H. Coxhead. It was originally known as the Hotel Pierce, and it was built where the 1870 St. Charles Hotel once stood. It was later renamed the Portland Hotel by its new owner, Alfred Crebbin, presumably in recognition of the importance of the local manufacture of Portland cement . In the 1940s, it was acquired and remodelled by Charles Gurney, and it became known as the Charles Gurney Hotel. It was purchased by Elza Anderson in 1962. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 3, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Catskill Charcoal Ovens, near Raton, New Mexico, date from 1892. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>They are 25 large brick structures which look like beehives, in two groups: 14 about 2.5 mi west of the Catskill townsite, and 11 about two miles east of the townsite.</p><br>
<p>Each is about 28 ft tall, with two 6 ft arched openings, and 15 in thick brick walls.</p><br>
<p>They are located about 20 mi southwest of Trinidad, Colorado and 35 mi west of Raton, New Mexico. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are to their west.</p><br>
<p>The Welch-Averiett House, in Talladega County, Alabama near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included four contributing buildings on 44 acre, on a land parcel of about 1,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1920. It is a "a rambling twelve room clapboard bungalow little changed since c.1920. It has a hipped roof with broad eaves and a shed dormer decorated with angular brackets. The exterior is clapboard irregularly fenestrated with 6/6 wooden sash windows. There are four exterior brick chimneys. Two board and batten cabins adjoin the rear with gabled and shed additions to the west end."</p><br>
<p>It is also known as the L.L. Dean House and was known in the 1800s as Welch Spring.</p><br>
<p>Other parts of the estate are older. The listing includes a rammed earth smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>The original settler, Daniel Welch was living on this property by 1831. The Averiett estate as a whole once had more than 10,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 8 mi southwest of Sylacauga on the north side of Alabama State Route 8, in the Fayetteville, Alabama community.</p><br>
<p>The William Averiett House, near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1866. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included four contributing buildings on 2 acre.</p><br>
<p>It is vernacular Cottage orné in style.</p><br>
<p>It is also known as The Averiett Place.</p><br>
<p>It is located on a private road about.5 mi off Alabama State Route 8.</p><br>
<p>The Averiett estate as a whole once had more than 10,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.</p><br>
<p>The Goodwin-Hamilton House, near Sylacauga, Alabama, is a Greek Revival style house built around 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included two contributing buildings on 22 acre.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as The Hamilton Place.</p><br>
<p>The Averiett estate as a whole once had more than 10,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 2 mi south of Alabama State Route 8 on the east side of Marble Valley Road, in the Fayetteville, Alabama community.</p><br>
<p>The William Greenwood House, at 190 S. 1st West in Beaver, Utah, was built in 1878. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is two stories high, which is unusual for a black rock (basalt) building in Beaver. However it was originally constructed as a lean-to.</p><br>
<p>It was built for, and possibly by, William Greenwood, who was born in Hopinstal, England. It is similar to other buildings by stonemason Thomas Frazer but is probably not a work of his.</p><br>
<p>The CA Bar Ranch, in Chaves County, New Mexico near Mayhill, New Mexico, was built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story house built of random ashlar and dressed stone, with exterior walls 2 ft thick or more. It has fish-scale patterned shingles in its end gables.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the James Fielding Hinkle House. It built by and for James Hinkle, who later built a home in Roswell, New Mexico in 1906, which is a contributing building in the Downtown Roswell Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, it was part of a working cattle ranch.</p><br>
<p>It is located on USA Route 82 about 3 mi west of its junction with New Mexico State Road 24.</p><br>
<p>The South Spring Ranch, on Rt. 2 in Roswell, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included five contributing buildings on 7 acre.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was established in 1874 by John Chisum, to serve as headquarters of his wide-ranging cattle operations. It has also been known as Jinglebob Ranch.</p><br>
<p>Its main house, built in 1902, is deemed non-contributing to the historic character of the ranch, due to modifications in the 1950s. It was originally a three-story red brick mansion.</p><br>
<p>Another brick house, built in early 1900s in "Hipped Box" style, is contributing.</p><br>
<p>The Ozark Trails Marker at Lake Arthur, in Lake Arthur, New Mexico, was built in 1921. It is located at the junction of Main and Broadway Streets in Lake Arthur. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It is a 21 ft tall obelisk, erected by Artesia, New Mexico contractors Matheson, Hendrickson & Brown for $250.</p><br>
<p>It was one of eight markers in New Mexico&#39;s portion of the trail. Some of the others were deemed road hazards and were removed.</p><br>
<p>It recognizes the Ozark Trail, an early roadway supported by state-level automobile associations.</p><br>
<p>The Green Mountain Lookout is a historic fire lookout tower located at the summit of Green Mountain in the Glacier Peak Wilderness and the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Snohomish County, Washington. The single-story wood-frame structure measures 14 by and was built according to a standard National Forest Service design in 1933 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The structure includes an exterior catwalk and a cable anchor system to protect from strong winds.</p><br>
<p>The lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1988. A lawsuit filed in 2010 sought to remove the structure from the mountaintop, a move that was ultimately prevented by the Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act, which was passed by Congress in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original structure was built in 1933 and was originally used as a fire lookout tower. Since its initial construction, the lookout has often been subjected to severe winter weather which has, on a number of occasions, caused structural damage requiring extensive repairs. In 1950, the roof was replaced and walls, windows, and doors were repaired after heavy snowfall damaged the building the previous winter.</p><br>
<p>The lookout ceased to be used for fire detection purposes after the 1980s, and in the mid-1990s, the building was closed to the public due to a damaged foundation and catwalk. In 2002, after a newly installed foundation was severely damaged by snowfall, the building was dismantled piece by piece, with pieces flown by helicopter to be repaired off-site. After delays from road washouts in 2003 and 2006, the foundation was repaired in 2009 and the building was reconstructed shortly thereafter, with the pieces flown back up to the mountaintop via helicopter.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, an environmental group called Wilderness Watch filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service, claiming that they violated federal law by using helicopters during the lookout restoration process. In 2012, a federal court in Seattle sided with the group and ordered the removal of the structure. In response, Senator Patty Murray introduced the Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act, which was written to amend existing law to prohibit the Forest Service from removing the lookout unless the structure poses a risk to public safety. The act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2014, superseding the court order and effectively preventing removal of the structure. The National Trust for Historic Preservation supported the bill; the president, Stephanie Meeks, stated that they were "pleased that Congress has acted to protect this historically significant and locally cherished landmark. With this vote, the House joins the Senate in affirming that the preservation of this historic resource is compatible with wilderness protection."</p><br>
<p>The Checker Cab Building was built as a garage and office building located at 2128 Trumbull Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building has been rehabilitated into residences, and is now part of the Elton Park lofts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Automobile taxis were first introduced in Detroit in the late 19th century. By the 1910s, automobile taxis were commonplace, with stiff competition between organized taxi companies and independent operators. In 1921, some of Detroit&#39;s independent taxicab operators organized into a confederation soon named the "Checker Taxicab Service," and later the "Checker Cab Company." Checker undercut its competition on prices and allowed owner-operators to join, and by 1922 ran 85 cabs, increasing to 240 in 1924. In 1923, Checker Cab moved into new offices in the General Motors Building.</p><br>
<p>One of Checker&#39;s largest rivals, the Detroit Cab Company, was organized in 1910 as the Detroit Garage Company (later the Detroit Taxicab and Transfer Company). By the early 1920s, the company was the largest taxicab company in Detroit. By 1921, the company had purchased a yard at the corner of Trumbull and Plum, where it built several single-story buildings, including a garage and office. In 1927, Detroit Cab constructed a new, multi-story garage and office building. The new building was designed by the Detroit branch of the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, the Checker Cab Company purchased the Detroit Cab Company, and by 1931 had moved its headquarters out of the General Motors Building and into the Trumbull facility. The Great Depression caused many of Checkers rivals to go out of business, and by the late 1930s, most of the registered cabs in the city were Checkers. The company did well in the postwar years, peaking along with Detroit’s explosive growth, to 900 cabs in 1960, when Detroit’s population was 2 million. As the city struggled from the late 1960’s to the 1980s, Checkers numbers fell accordingly, by approximately 50%. However, it rebounded later and remains the largest cab company in Michigan into the present day. Checker remained in the building on Trumbull until 2016 when it sold the building for redevelopment into loft space.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Checker Cab Building is a three-story, flat-roofed commercial-style brick building measuring 292 by 124 feet. It has a steel and concrete frame and is faced with red-brown brick and cast concrete. The main facade is symmetrical, seven bays wide. The center bay is narrow, containing a single window with a pedestrian door on the first floor. The two flanking bays have paired windows; above these three bays is a gabled parapet. The remaining bays on each side are four- and two-window bays. The four-window bays contain garage doors on the first-floor level. The bays are divided by brick piers trimmed with flat cast concrete bands at each floor level. The windows have cast concrete sills and soldier course brick lintels.</p><br>
<p>The Plum Street facade is thirteen bays long, with red-brown brick like the main facade. The three bays nearest Trumbull contain tripled double-hung windows; the remainder contains steel factory windows.</p><br>
<p>The Saunders-Crosby House, at 200 E. Deming in Roswell, New Mexico, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is unusual in its Queen Anne style because it has a two-story hexagonal cupola and a hexagonal porch and cupola. All eaves have Victorian gingerbread trim.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased in 1907 as part of recruiting H.P. Saunders, a banker, to move from Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Ruby Saunders Crosby, a daughter who served in the Red Cross overseas during World War I, donated the house to the American National Red Cross in 1965. The Red Cross owned it in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The James Phelps White House, at 200 N. Lea Ave. in Roswell, New Mexico, was built in 1910–12. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-and-a-half-story yellow brick house built for Roswell area rancher James Phelps White. It was built by his father-in-law, David Young Tomlinson, apparently following design of a house which White&#39;s wife liked in Fort Worth, Texas where Tomlinson and brothers were building contractors.</p><br>
<p>It includes Western Stick architecture and Prairie style architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Juan Cristobal Armijo Homestead, at 207 Griegos Rd., NE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was built in 1875. It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1978 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing structure on 9.5 acre.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as Outlook Ranch and as Hacienda del Lago. It is a Territorial hacienda, built of terrones (sod bricks) with multiple rooms surrounding a placita.</p><br>
<p>The house is set back in the property and screened by trees and shrubberies. The property includes a man-made pond created around 1950, which gives the property its "Hacienda del Lago" name. It is adjacent to another historic property, the Juan de Dios Chavez House.</p><br>
<p>The Old Albuquerque Municipal Airport Building at 2920 Yale Blvd. SE. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a Pueblo Revival building built in 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story flat-roofed building. It was built in 1939 in labor-intensive construction funded by the Works Progress Administration, using adobe bricks and other local materials. It was designed by the City Architect, Ernst H. Blumenthal. Blumenthal also designed the Monte Vista Fire Station, also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as the passenger terminal for the Albuquerque Municipal Airport (now Albuquerque International Sunport) until the current terminal was built in 1965. It was served by Trans World Airlines, Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines (1950-1986), and Pioneer Air Lines. The building later served as the first home of the Albuquerque Museum from 1967 to 1979. The building underwent a major rehabilitation in 2002 in which much of it was restored to its original condition of the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Municipal Airport Building has also been known as the William Cutter Memorial Building, a notable aviator.</p><br>
<p>The Record Printing and Box Company Building was built as a manufacturing and office building located at 15 Carlyle Street in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. As of 2019, the building was being redeveloped into mixed use commercial space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Battle Creek was a major center for printing in the late 19th century, with the Seventh-day Adventist Church publishing house located in the city, as well as smaller printing services. With the rise of the cereal industry in Battle Creek, including Kellogg&#39;s and Postum Cereal Company, several of the printers established lines to print cereal boxes. One of those was Eugene Cole, who in 1902 reorganized his newspaper publishing company as the Record Printing & Box Company. The company immediately constructed a new factory on Carlyle, and was soon employing 150 people and running presses 22 hours a day to keep up with demand. However, in 1905, Cole resigned due to ill health and the Record Printing and Box Company went into receivership. Although the business continued, in 1907 the plant boiler exploded, resulting in substantial damage. The Record Printing and Box Company was sold to board member W.I. Fell, who relocated the printing equipment to another building and reorganized the company into the Michigan Carton Company.</p><br>
<p>A portion of the now-vacant Carlyle plant was rented out to the W. H. Eldred&#39;s Wholesale Saddlery, a maker of fine leather goods. The business thrived, although the rise of the automobile slowly reduced demand for its products. Eldred temporarily retired in 1915, but reopened at the start of World War I to produce goods for the war. After the war, he shuttered the business permanently in 1919. In 1916, the Alsteel Manufacturing Company joined Elred as a tenant in the building, and in 1919 took over the entire structure. Alsteel manufactures a paper baler, meant to compress flammable waste materials and reduce fire risk. The company expanded to produce a range of steel products, including wire baskets, lawn-sprinklers, vegetable slicers, and hose clamps. Alsteel remained in the facility until 1952, when they moved to a larger building.</p><br>
<p>Afterward, the Record Printing and Box Company Building was used as a warehouse and sales office for Hermann Typewriter Service. In 1968, the company was purchased by Fred Crandal and renamed Officeways. Crandal retired in 2000 and donated the building to the Battle Creek Community Foundation. The now-vacant building was sold to the City of Battle Creek in 2003. Redevelopment was planned, but did not come to fruition until 2017, when the building was purchased by Restore (269), a local development company.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Record Printing and Box Company Building is a three-story brick timber-framed building with a flat roof, typical of manufacturing plants built at the turn of the century. The external brick is brown. Window openings are arched or flat with keystones. The main entrance is through a double door located in an arched brick opening with semicircle glass window above Brick cornices run atop the building along the street facades.</p><br>
<p>The Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is part of the Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District, was built in 1929, and is located near Coatesville, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, this historic district includes thirty-seven contributing buildings, four contributing structures, one contributing object, and two contributing sites.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built by the Veterans Bureau Construction Division and Veterans Administration Construction Service, structures in this historic district have been classified as examples of the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival periods.</p><br>
<p>"The original mission of the hospital was to provide neuropsychiatric care to veterans, and the historic district preserves the general characteristics" of the period. It conformed with a 2011 study of veterans hospitals nationwide.</p><br>
<p>The R.H. Cowan Livery Stable, at 220 Maxwell Ave. in Springer, New Mexico, was built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a 50x140 ft building with 18 in thick walls made of sandstone rubble. In 1979 the building was "shaded on the north by an enormous cottonwood". On its gable front there is a round window with the words "R. H. Cowan Livery Stable" above, and, in 1979 it also showed "1883", although the date of construction was not fully readable. Historic photos show it fully.</p><br>
<p>Paddock Place, also known as the Augustus Paddock House is located at 1033 Lake Drive SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was built as a single-family home and later converted into a banquet and event facility. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Augustus Paddock was born in New York state, and later came to Michigan. He worked on a steamboat on the Grand River, and by 1865 was the manager of the Newaygo Company, a lumbering firm that established the village of Newaygo, Michigan. He became a partner in 1867. In 1872, Paddock purchased the land where Paddock Place now stands. The land had previously been owned by horticulturist Truman Kellogg, who in 1837 began cultivating apples, peaches, plums, and grapes in the area. Paddock built this house on the land in 1873 or 1874. Paddock lived there only a few years, eventually moving to Colorado. In 1879, he sold the house to Sarah Doubleday, who in turn sold it to prominent local physician Alban Botsford in 1881. It was sold again in 1884 to lumberman James M. Lane, and in 1890 to Samuel Scudder.</p><br>
<p>In 1892, Melvin J. Clark and his wife, Emily, acquired the property as their residence. Clark was born in Canada and later came to Michigan, operating a shingle business, a sawmill, and later a wholesale grocery business. He was also involved in several lumber and mining companies and was a director of the Grand Rapids National Bank. The Clarks were also involved in many charitable activities, including establishing the Clark Memorial Home, the Clark Memorial Church, and helping establish the Children&#39;s Home Society. Melvin Clark died in 1909, and Emily Clark remained in the house. She made substantial additions to the building in the early 1910s, engaging architects Robinson & Campau to remodel and add a third story. She also continued to make philanthropic gifts, including funding a substantial portion of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. On her death in 1924, she willed her art collection to the museum.</p><br>
<p>In the 1910s, the Clarks daughter, Marguerite Clark Wurzburg and her husband Edmund Wurzburg, owner of the Wurzburg Department Store, moved into the Clark house with Emily. Edmund died in 1928, and Marguerite remained in the house until 1935. In 1941, the house was sold to the Franciscans, who refurbished the house and opened St. Bernadines Friary. In 1983, the house was transformed into Gibson&#39;s Restaurant. The restaurant closed in 2005 and the house was sold to Greg Gilmore, who reopened it later that year as Mangiamo. Mangiamo closed in 2017, and the house became an events venue.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Paddock Place is a 17,000 square foot structure with 17 rooms. The original house, constructed in 1873, is a two-story, brick veneer, Italianate structure. In 1910 and 1914, a third story with a tile roof was added, and the house was otherwise enlarged and remodeled. The house sits on a five-foot foundation of coursed gray and red cut granite. The first and second floors are faced in brick, while the third is covered with stucco. A wrap-around porch runs across the entire front facade and onto both sides. The lower floors contain round-corner windows with Eastlake rood moldings, as well as bay windows. The roof has projecting eaves, and is covered with red terra cotta tiles.</p><br>
<p>Villa Maria is a retirement community located at 1315 Walker NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The campus was originally operated for the purpose of ministering to troubled young women. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1904, a convent of the Sisters of Good Shepherd was founded in Grand Rapids for the purpose of ministering to troubled young women, providing them with a home and skills to help them to a new start. A farmstead property where Villa Maria now stands was purchased later that year; the farmhouse on the property was used as convent. The first new structure, the Industrial Building, was constructed the following year. It was used both as a dormitory and work space for the women living there, known as penitents. By 1910, Villa Maria housed eight sisters and 71 women needing assistance. The campus was expanded in the 1920s, with the 1922 construction of the Penitent Building and Chapel (designed by architects Wernette & McCarthy). The Monastery Building was added in 1926-27, after which the original farmhouse was sold off.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, the Sisters of the Cross, an affiliated convent, took up residence in the Industrial Building. They remained there until 1951, when a new building was constructed for them. In 1974 the original Industrial Building was remodeled. However, through the 1970s the number of penitents in the program declined, and in 1985 the program was ended. The Sisters of the</p><br>
<p>Good Shepherd decided to sell the facility, specifically to a developer who would adapt the buildings for senior citizen housing. In 1987, the Villa Maria Retirement Community opened.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Villa Maria consists of nine buildings, six of which contribute to the historic character of the complex. These include:</p><br>
<p>Industrial building (built in 1905): a three-story steel structure with brick exterior walls, originally with a hipped roof covered with clay tile. A flat roof was installed during the 1974 renovation.</p><br>
<p>Penitent building (built in 1921): a three-story masonry wall building with a hipped roof covered with green clay tile. The building has distinctive arched window walkways and porches.</p><br>
<p>Chapel building (built in 1921): a two-story masonry wall building with a gable roof covered with a green clay tile. The windows are stained glass. Two small wings were added in 1959.</p><br>
<p>Monastery Building (built in 1926): a two-story masonry wall building with a hipped roof covered with green clay tile. The main entrance has decorative stone columns, and an arched doorway with a statue of the Good Shepherd.</p><br>
<p>Boiler room (likely early 1920s): a one-story masonry building with a steel-framed flat roof.</p><br>
<p>Enclosed walkway (built in 1959): a flat-roofed concrete and brick structure connecting the chapel and monastery buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Mesilla Park Elementary School, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The New Mexico Historic Preservation Commission stated that "The school is notable for its brick construction and its numerous</p><br>
<p>additions built between 1916-1963 as the agricultural valley saw rapid growth because of its pecan orchards and other crops, and the growth of New Mexico State University Mesilla Park Elementary began as a one-room adobe school house in 1901."</p><br>
<p>It also is a contributing building in the 2016-listed Mesilla Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It is now the Frank O&#39;Brien Papen Community Center.</p><br>
<p>It was built, beginning in 1907, in the new Bowman Addition development.</p><br>
<p>"The Mesilla Park Elementary School is a large, sprawling, one-story school building (photo 32).</p><br>
<p>Designed by Henry Trost and built in 1907, the school is a Spanish Mission Revival-style</p><br>
<p>building with decorative pediment above the main entrance. The brick building was covered</p><br>
<p>with a hipped roof and included four classrooms. As the student population increased, a series of</p><br>
<p>additions were added beginning in 1916 with two additions on the north and south ends to</p><br>
<p>accommodate four additional classrooms and an auditorium on the rear (west) side of the</p><br>
<p>building. In 1934, classroom additions were again added to the north and south ends of the</p><br>
<p>school. In 1943, a new, larger auditorium, which seats 400 students, was built on the west end of</p><br>
<p>the 1934 auditorium. Lastly, in 1963, a cafeteria was built on the southwest side of the roughly</p><br>
<p>T-shaped building."</p><br>
<p>The Rio Grande Bridge at Radium Springs is a historic timber beam bridge built in 1933. As of 1997, it still carried NM 185 over the Rio Grande, about 1 mi south of Radium Springs, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>In Google Streetview imagery captured May 2018, and in Google satellite view, the bridge is unused except by pedestrians, and is seen immediately adjacent to a modern replacement bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was described by David Kammer in its 1997 NRHP nomination as a 19-span timber beam bridge, crossing the "Rio Grande as it flows in a now well-defined channel some forty miles below Elephant Butte and</p><br>
<p>Caballo Dams. / The substructure consists of 18 creosote-treated timber</p><br>
<p>piers, or bents, each containing seven piles stiffened with</p><br>
<p>diagonal timbers, or sways. The bents measure approximately 12</p><br>
<p>feet from the waterway to the deck. Timber abutments, protected</p><br>
<p>by steel bulkheads, are located beneath each of the approaches.</p><br>
<p>The superstructure consists of 19 spans, each measuring 25 feet</p><br>
<p>in length. The deck, consisting of a 2" x 4" timbers with an</p><br>
<p>asphalt surface, rests on steel stringers. The roadway is 475</p><br>
<p>feet long and 29 feet wide and is flanked by timber felloes. The</p><br>
<p>bridge&#39;s timber rails are lined with metal guardrails."</p><br>
<p>The Zemurray Gardens Lodge Complex, in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana near Loranger, Louisiana, was built around 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest record held in Tangipahoa Parish describes an act of sale in the year 1822 as "the section of land on which Nathan Joiner now lives and was originally settled by Thomas Joiner." The Joiner family are believed to have first settled the property sometime in the 1790s. Further records from the Tangipahoa parish courthouse show that a man named Alfred Hennen purchased the Zemurray property sometime in 1828, in two different land sales, one 640-acre piece was purchased from William Cooper and another 640-acre plot from Moses Moore. The Hennen family built a large home on the property and is believed to be the source of the present structure.</p><br>
<p>The following is an excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places nomination:</p><br>
<p>The land title changed during the following years through various heirs and relatives. In one of the transactions the land was called "Hennen Retreat". In March 1888, the property of Ann Morris Hennen was auctioned to John Albert Morris of Westchester County, New York. The property was then donated to a man named Dave Morris and was renamed "Morris Retreat". Then in the year 1918, the property was sold to the Lake Superior Piling Corporation and was renamed "Holtonwood". Charles and William Holton, the new owners of the company renovated and greatly improved the property.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel Zemurray</h2><br>
<p>Sometime in October 1928, Samuel Zemurray from New Orleans, the president of the United Fruit Company at that time, purchased the property. Howard Schilling, a local parish farmer, was employed to manage the project. His wife Sarah Zemurray, an admirer of flowers instructed Schilling to plant many rows of azaleas and camellias along the forest trails. Samuel Zemurray saw the beauty created and decided to expand the project. Over the subsequent years, the gardens increased in beauty with a majestic scenery. In the mid-1900s, the Zemurray family hired a notable architect from New Orleans named Moise Goldstein and interior designer George Gallup to improve the property. Each spring, hundreds of tourists and people from the surrounding areas would travel to the garden.</p><br>
<h2>Joiner Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The National Register nomination describes it as a narrow wooded driveway that leads from the highway to the garden entrance. Near the entrance to the garden is a small cemetery barely visible with a towering white monument. The inscription on the monument reads, "Nathan Joiner and Wife, First Settlers In the Home Place".</p><br>
<p>It is located about 12 mi northeast of Hammond on Zemurray Garden Drive.</p><br>
<p>The Phillips School in Winn Parish, Louisiana, near Atlanta, Louisiana, was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1918 using parts salvaged from a nearby old building. It is a 41x30 ft wood-frame building with a hipped roof. It is supported by low piers made of concrete or brick, and is covered by weatherboard siding.</p><br>
<p>It was founded and operated as a public-private type partnership to serve African-American children who could not afford private schools, and there were no public schools for them.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, one student, Dessarine Phillips Smith, who attended from 1933 to 1934, stated that "The school made quite a bit of difference. The teacher was very well educated and very creative. She taught us how to make do - to make things out of nothing." It educated about 1,850 persons from 1918 up to 1955, when it closed.</p><br>
<p>It is located about.5 mi west of the junction of Louisiana Highway 421 and Harrisburg Rd.</p><br>
<p>The Thornapple River Drive Bridge is a road bridge in Cascade Township, Michigan, carrying Thornapple River Drive over the Thornapple River. It was listed on he National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A bridge at this location was first constructed in 1880. This bridge was a covered wooden town lattice structure built by Will Holmes, known as the "Withey Bridge". By the 1920s, this bridge was due to be replaced. In 1927, a new bridge was built, using a standardized design developed by the Michigan State Highway Department ten years earlier. The contractor for the bridge was Price Brothers of Lansing. It continues to support vehicle traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Thornapple River Drive bridge is a 150 ft concrete camelback bridge, consisting of two spans, each 75 ft long. The bridge is 22 ft wide and rests on concrete piers and abutments. The bridge supported with concrete reinforced steel girders and has distinctive camelback arches extending above the roadway. Each arch contains five openings occurring above a line of recessed panels.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Rapids Savings Bank Building is an office building located at 60 Monroe Center, NW, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Just before World War I, there was a boom in financial firms in downtown Grand Rapids. In 1916, the Grand Rapids Savings Bank constructed this building, designed by local architects Osgood & Osgood. It served as headquarters for the bank, with additional office space for tenants. Over its history, tenants included lumberman John W. Blodgett, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, and World War II correspondent Alfred D. Rathbone IV.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Rapids Savings Bank Building is a 13-story steel frame commercial tower with a mix of Classical Revival and Beaux Arts styling. The exterior is clad with pale grey granite at the first floor and mezzanine levels, topped with a cornice, and buff-colored brick on the upper stories. A large terra cotta cornice caps the building. The main elevation is five bays wide, with the three central bays containing a two-story recessed entrance framed by four Doric granite columns. On the upper floors, the three central bays contain paired windows, while the outer bays contain one.</p><br>
<p>The Lewellen House, at 2nd and Chestnut Streets in Magdalena, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame house with stucco exterior, with a complex hipped roof. It has a projecting front gable with a veranda on two sides, with modified Doric columns. Other Classical Revival elements include returned eaves and pediments on the house&#39;s dormers.</p><br>
<p>The Don Gaspar Bridge, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, brings Don Gaspar Avenue over the Santa Fe River, between Alameda and E. De Vargas Streets. It was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The bridge&#39;s design introduced, to the area, use of reinforced concrete to make a thinner, more appealing appearance. Its layout was designed by state bridge engineer E.B. Van de Greyn.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as El Puente de Los Conquistadores.</p><br>
<p>The Allison Dormitory, at 433 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was built in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as the last surviving building of the Allison Mission School, a significant institution in the introduction of Presbyterian and other Protestant faiths to the area. The mission became a boarding school in 1908.</p><br>
<p>The building has also been known as the Allison-James School Dormitory and Dining Hall Building.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Marcy Officer&#39;s Residence, also known as the Edgar Lee Hewett House, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was built in the early 1870s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 116 Lincoln Ave., at Fort Marcy. Built by the United States Army, it was the home of Edgar Lee Hewett.</p><br>
<p>It later served as offices for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Longfellow School in Raton, New Mexico, at 700 E. 4th St., is an elementary school which was built in 1939 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect William C. Kruger in a modest Moderne style. It is a one-story brick building. It was extended by additions of four classrooms to the south in the 1960s and a library to the rear, but these do not detract from its historic character.</p><br>
<p>El Zaguan, at 545 Canyon Rd. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a historic complex started in 1854. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The listing included two contributing buildings, three contributing structures, two contributing objects, and a contributing site on 1.8 acre.</p><br>
<p>It is Territorial Revival in style. A zaguan is a compound with a street doorway entrance usually leading back to a courtyard, which is surrounded by one-deep rooms.</p><br>
<p>This has also been known as the James L. Johnson House, and is a former residence of Margretta Stewart Dietrich, and later housed the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased in 1928 by Margretta Dietrich. Changes were made under direction of Santa Fe designer Kate Chapman.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically, the property at 545 Canyon Road was a modest adobe farmhouse. In 1854, James L. Johnson, a well-to-do merchant who was linked to the trade network of the Santa Fe Trail, purchased the house for $250. He and his wife expanded the property adding an additional multi-roomed house, large gardens fed by an acequia to which he had water rights. Other structures the Johnsons built include corrals and stables, chicken coops, hog pens and a smoke shed. The Johnsons eventually expanded the El Zaguan into a mansion of 24 rooms with a library overlooking the garden and a private chapel.</p><br>
<p>Johnson was forced to mortgage the property to a local lawyer and politician, Thomas B. Catron. In 1881, Johnson defaulted on the mortage, and the property was transferred to Catron, although the Johnsons continued to live there. In 1918, Caton sold the property to James Baca who was the Johnsons grandson. Later, after it was purchased by Margretta Stewart Dietrich who saved it from demolition, and it operated as a hotel, as well as an apartment complex. Following Dietrichs death, the property was acquired by the El Zaguan, Inc. corporation, owned by John Gaw Meem, a well-known local architect. In 1979, the property was transferred to the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>El Zaguan is considered one of the "best examples in Santa Fe of the transition from the Territorial to the modern period. The oldest parts of the structure is built of adobe in the Spanish Pueblo style, while latter additions built by Johnson were in the Territorial Style, and included a wooden patio with large panes of glass that were unusual in New Mexico at the time.</p><br>
<p>When placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the domestic home part of the property consisted of a one-story Territorial Style adobe structure with brick parapets along the roof line. The home has a "rambling floor plan connected by a zaguán (courtyard). There are two attached adobe garages, a horno (outdoor oven) and a stone retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>The façade is 150 feet long, located on the north side of Canyon Road in the Santa Fe Historic District. James L. Johnson installed four tall, double hung wooden windows, with 9/6 lights and three windows with 2/2 lights. Additional casement and double hung windows were installed after the house passed on to Catron. The doors to the zaguán are wood and green glass.</p><br>
<h2>Historic acequia</h2><br>
<p>In 2022-23 the historic acequia was restored in the garden at El Zaguan. The acequia was built in the 1850s by Maria Jesusita Johnson who was Johnson&#39;s wife from Mexico. The stone-lined irrigation ditch is fed by the Acequia Madre, the "mother ditch" of Santa Fe. After the McClure Reservoir was built in the 1940s, water to this section of the acequia was cut off. The current water source for the restored El Zaguan acequia comes from well water. Many of the plantings in the garden were imported from colonial Spain, while others were brought by later homesteaders and settlers.</p><br>
<p>File:El Zaguan, Santa Fe, Historic Santa Fe, facade.jpgEl Zaguan, Santa Fe, Historic Santa Fe, facade</p><br>
<p>File:El Zaguan, Santa Fe, South facade detail, front entrance.jpgEl Zaguan, Santa Fe, South facade detail, front entrance</p><br>
<p>File:El Zaguan, Santa Fe, west patio with restored acequia adjacent to the garden.jpgEl Zaguan, Santa Fe, west patio with restored acequia adjacent to the garden</p><br>
