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North Bend Plantation, Oscar Louisiana

North Bend Plantation, Oscar Louisiana

North Bend is a rare surviving example of a large fully raised Creole plantation Creole dwellings once dominated the rural landscape of central and southern Louisiana, but today perhaps only 300 - 400 examples of these buildings remain standing outside New Orleans. Of these, the majority are small or moderately sized one-story houses, while only approximately thirty are members of the distinct group of substantial, fully raised plantation houses which are regarded as the apex of the Creole style. North Bend is one of these rare survivors. North Bend is a large raised Creole plantation house that stands on the south bank of the False River in a rural section of Pointe Coupee Parish. Originally constructed around 1835, the two-story brick

White Hall Plantation House, Simmesport Louisiana

White Hall Plantation House, Simmesport Louisiana

White Hall Plantation House was the home of Bennett Barton Simmes, the founder of the town of Simmesport it served as the Headquarters of the Department of the Gulf, Nineteenth Army Corps, United States Forces, under the command of Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks just prior to the campaign at Port Hudson, Louisiana. Bennett Barton Simmes purchased the plantation on July 17^th, 1852 from Samuel J. Norwood. He paid $27,970.40 for A certain tract of land … with all the buildings and improvements thereon containing six hundred and forty acres more or less … slaves eighteen in number … together with all the mules cattle hogs and farming utensils appertaining to the above described plantation. Not much is known about Simmes beyond

Federal Knitting Mills Building, Cleveland Ohio

Federal Knitting Mills Building, Cleveland Ohio

Herbert G. (Goldberger) Goulder and Louis H. Hayes established the Federal Knitting Mills company in Cleveland in 1905. Within six months Louis L. (Seligman) Selden joined the company as a partner. The company, employing 75 people, was first located at a rented 10,000-square-foot loft at 600 Huron Road. Around 1910 the company relocated and became the sole occupant of a building at West 29^th and Detroit. The firm was incorporated in 1926 and by 1928, the firm employed 650 people. Over 100,000 pieces of knitwear were produced each week. Federal Knitting Mills made sweaters, bathing suits, caps, dresses, shawls, scarves, knitted headwear, and many knitted novelties. It also exported knitted lace for Spanish shawls that were sold to tourists in Manila.

Dilger Store - West Rushville General Store, West Rushville Ohio

Dilger Store - West Rushville General Store, West Rushville Ohio

West Rushville links two hubs of Zane's Trace, Lancaster to the southwest and Zanesville to the northeast. A late-nineteenth-century county history referred to the early town as a prosperous community owing its success to both the travel and the tobacco trade. Although unexpected, Fairfield County experienced some success in its tobacco farming. In 1881, the county yielded 1604 pounds of tobacco from 8 acres. West Rushville served as a link in this tobacco trade. After storage, wagon loads of this tobacco were shipped east to Kentucky and Maryland. The general store served as a warehouse, and the odor of the tobacco is still present in the attic. Besides its use in the tobacco trade, the store provided the main source of

Ouachita Parish High School, Monroe Louisiana

Ouachita Parish High School, Monroe Louisiana

The Ouachita Parish High School is located on Grand Street adjacent to the Ouachita River in downtown Monroe. The Interstate 20 overpass runs beside the property. Built between 1924 and 1930, the building consists of a 3 story rectangular classroom block with a courtyard to the south and a large auditorium to the north. The building is constructed of brick, hollow tile, and concrete. On the facades, the brick is laid up in Flemish bond. Except for the auditorium and vestibule, the interiors are unornamented. The auditorium vestibule is a small 3-bay paneled space with pilasters, dado, and scallop-filled arches. The auditorium is ornamented with fluted pilasters, dado, and Georgian-style doors flanking the proscenium. The building's main significant feature is its

Sidney Herold Mansion, Shreveport Louisiana

Sidney Herold Mansion, Shreveport Louisiana

The Sidney Herold Mansion was designed by Edward F. Nield, an important early 20th-century architect of the Shreveport area. His work includes numerous hospitals, schools, private buildings and most notably, the Caddo Parish Courthouse. In addition, the Herold Mansion is one of the grandest houses ever built in Shreveport, and probably the city's finest extant example of an early 20th-century Renaissance Revival residence. A large number of substantial eclectically styled homes were built in Shreveport between 1900 and 1940. But these are predominantly boxy in character with restricted suburban lots. By contrast, the Herold Mansion has a broad palatial spread, with a three part central block and pavilion end wings. Its impressive five-acre hilltop setting gives it the status of a

Keachi Country Store, Keachi Louisiana

Keachi Country Store, Keachi Louisiana

The Keachi Store stands far above other Louisiana country stores, most of which date from the late nineteenth century or later, and most of which are humble unpretentious structures with no architectural refinement. DeSoto Parish was settled principally in the two or three decades prior to the Civil War and is one of three parishes (other than New Orleans) considered to be major centers of Greek Revival architecture in the state. Although many examples from this architectural flowering have been lost, including the impressive Keachi Female College, an astounding number survive. DeSoto boasts about twenty residential examples of the style, four churches, a Masonic hall, and the Keachi Store. This special heritage represents the parish's architectural apogee, and the temple-fronted Keachi

Shelburne-Cox House, Taylorsville Kentucky

Shelburne-Cox House, Taylorsville Kentucky

Deeds suggest that the house was built for Mastin B. Shelburne in about 1840. Shelburne bought the four lots (#29 -31) which became associated with the house between July 1838 and March 1839 for between $50 and $65 apiece. It is very doubtful the house was on the property before this date. In 1845 Shelburne sold the houses and lots whereon I now reside to his brother-in-law, Daniel Stephens, for $3400. By 1850 Shelburne was back in the house, renting it from Stephens in exchange for boarding three of his Stephens nieces and nephews. Shelburne, who is listed as a farmer in the 1850 census, was one of Taylorsville's early settlers, one of the county's first Justices of the Peace, one

Shawnee Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

Shawnee Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

Shawnee Elementary, like Shawnee High School, was named in honor of the neighborhood in which it is located. This U shaped building addresses its neighborhood by facing Herman Street and the neighborhood beyond. The school was built in 1915 with, additions made in 1927 and 1954. The school has been vacant for several years. Shawnee Elementary plays an important role as an architectural landmark in Louisville's west end neighborhood. It was designed in the Jacobean Revival style by J. Earl Henry, and serves as one of Louisville's finest examples of this style. Henry designed it while serving as the city architect for schools, borrowing architectural elements and detailing from historical sources. The two main entries to the building, for example, are

Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot, Bunkie Louisiana

Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot, Bunkie Louisiana

Bunkie literally came into being because of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, which arrived there in 1882. Being on a main line railroad made it possible for Bunkie to flourish during 1911-1940 as a cotton shipping point. Because of the rich alluvial soil in the area, agriculture has always been the mainstay of the economy, with cotton and sugar cane being the chief money crops. Local farmers relied upon the railroad to transport thousands upon thousands of bales of cotton to market. Bunkie's location on the railroad also enabled it to attract various cotton related industries such as compresses and cotton seed oil companies. The dependence of these industries on the railroad is graphically illustrated on Sanborn maps (1923 and 1931)

Old Handleman Building, New Orleans Louisiana

Old Handleman Building, New Orleans Louisiana

In the various old business districts of New Orleans, the vast majority of commercial buildings are only two stories high and do not feature columns of any kind. Few received the kind of fully developed four-story Palazzo treatment seen at the Handleman Building. It was designed by the firm of Weiss and Dreyfous (later Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth), probably the leading architectural firm in Louisiana during the 1920s. It is an elegant and restrained example of the application of Renaissance Revival architecture to a commercial building. It is particularly noteworthy for its use of the colossal order, which is unusual in a commercial building in the area. Building Description The Handleman Building is set on Dryades Street in the central business

Union Station, Springfield Illinois

Union Station, Springfield Illinois

Springfield of the 1890s, unlike today, contained a great deal more industry and looked upon all growth as positive. It received Union Station as a symbol of civic pride by default. In 1895, the Chicago and Alton Railroad had constructed a new depot which was the finest in town. This came after local citizens boycotted the C & A for its poor facilities. Fearing a similar attack, Illinois Central Railroad (I.C.R.R.) officials constructed Union Station. Completed in 1898 at a cost of $75,000, it was truly intended to be a Union station as the I.C.R.R. leased space to four other passenger services serving east and west routes. In October of that same year, President William McKinley visited Springfield, arriving at the

Armstrong Cork Company, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Armstrong Cork Company, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Cork is a natural product, the porous outer bark of the cork oak, an evergreen tree grown primarily around the Mediterranean. Natural cork is harvested easily and can be processed simply, and has been used for fishing floats and as stoppers for containers since before the start of recorded history. For a variety of reasons, Pittsburgh became America's largest producer of commercial glassware in the mid-19^th century, especially glass bottles and jars. The growth in Pittsburgh's demand for cork for bottle stoppers and jar lid liners was a natural offshoot of the glass industry. Processed food manufacturers, such as Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Company, increased the local need for cork. Late in the 19^th century other uses for cork emerged, including

Fidelity Building, Benton Harbor Michigan

Fidelity Building, Benton Harbor Michigan

The Fidelity Building is the largest office building in Benton Harbor. Constructed in 1926 during an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, it is located on a wedge-shaped lot at the city's historic and commercial core. The building overlooks the busiest commercial intersection in Benton Harbor and, in its heyday, was the hub of professional and business life there. Located on the high ground above the marshes northeast of the St. Joseph River, Benton Harbor was first settled in the 1830s by Eleazer Morton. Traveling west via the Territorial Road, farmers from as far east as Kalamazoo would carry their goods through what later became Benton Harbor on their way to St. Joseph, a shipping point on Lake Michigan on the

Darby Plantation, New Iberia Louisiana

Darby Plantation, New Iberia Louisiana

Darby, one of the oldest structures in Iberia Parish, is located on Darby Lane approximately one-tenth mile outside the New Iberia city limits. The home is an excellent example of rural Louisiana colonial architecture, particularly that found in the Teche region of the state. Because of this rural character the house possesses less elaborate detailing, but remains a fine compliment to its setting amid giant live oaks and sugarcane fields. The immigrant ancestor, Jonathan Darby, an Englishman, sailed from France to Pensacola in 1719. In 1737, he married Demoiselle Marie Corbin Bachemin, a native of France. His grandson, Francois St. Marc Darby, inherited the Darby plantation from his father Jean-Baptiste St. Marc Darby. Darby House was built between 1813 and 1820

Pennsylvania Depot, Mount Vernon Ohio

Pennsylvania Depot, Mount Vernon Ohio

The Pennsylvania, Railroad Depot, located on South Main Street in Mount Vernon, Ohio, occupies a most strategic site, not only in view of present and future urban planning, but also with regard to the city and county's historical origins. The Kokosing River, which borders on the property, was the waterway that brought the first settler to the area nine years before the name of Ohio had been given to the territory. Mount Vernon's earliest commercial endeavors were via this river, which was then known as Owl Creek. Fittingly, railroads laid track parallel to the river, and at the turn of the 20^th century the Columbus, Akron, & Cleveland, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies were operating here in a joint venture. Because

Blume High School, Wapakoneta Ohio

Blume High School, Wapakoneta Ohio

Public secondary education in Wapakoneta dated to about 1867, with the first high school class achieving graduation in 1871. High School classes were held on the top floor of the Third Ward (Union) school building for almost 40 years, until growth in the student population and inadequacy of the old building made construction of a new high school essential. The site for the school was donated to the board of education by L.N. Blume, an Auglaize County native who was successful in both mercantile and banking businesses in Wapakoneta and who lived near the school site. Wapakoneta voters willingly passed a bond issue for construction of the school, which cost somewhat over $40,000, and the new building opened in the fall

Power Building, Cincinnati Ohio

Power Building, Cincinnati Ohio

The building was constructed in 1903 by the Power Building Company as a commercial venture established for the purpose of developing this building. The company went out of business shortly after its construction. It was purchased in 1904 by Anna Sinton Taft as a real estate investment. She was a member of the influential Taft family who was involved in state and national politics and who developed numerous downtown Cincinnati buildings by the 1920s. The building was designed for industrial use within which tenants rented space to produce a variety of manufactured or processed items. Early tenants included the Joseph Berning Printing Company and the American Book Company. Also included was Fechheimer Kiefer and Company, a company that was one of

Richland Plantation, Norwood Louisiana

Richland Plantation, Norwood Louisiana

Richland plantation is one of the finest plantation houses in the Feliciana parishes. This can be seen in its wide central hall plan, its graceful winding stair, its colossal Tuscan order portico, its cut stone appearance, and its other classical features. The pedimented portico is particularly well proportioned, and is a relatively unusual feature in the grander Louisiana plantation houses, where the peripteral style predominated. In addition, the chimney gable ends, like the 2½ story design and the floor plan, mark Richland as a house built distinctly under the English influence of the east coast rather than the Creole or French tradition, It therefore stands as an excellent representative of English cultural heritage of the Feliciana parishes. One of the earliest

Execution Rocks Lighthouse, Port Washington New York

Execution Rocks Lighthouse, Port Washington New York

Established in 1850, this property has been an important local aid to navigation and has promoted maritime safety for more than a century and a half. Located approximately six miles from the confluence of the East River and Long Island Sound, it marks a rocky shoal that lies nearby an important route for nautical traffic. The shoal at Execution Rocks has been a notorious hazard to navigation since colonial times. Its dangerous character became especially problematic during the early nineteenth century when maritime traffic in the region increased in conjunction with settlement growth and economic expansion. These circumstances ultimately led to the Federal government's decision to construct a lighthouse at this location. The port of New York has been an important

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