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Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Depot, Pikeville Kentucky

Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Depot, Pikeville Kentucky

In 1907, the Chesapeake and Ohio line serving the Big Sandy Valley reached Pikeville. This first access to modern transportation produced an extraordinary growth and development in the city in subsequent years. The new prosperity as well as the new demand for rail transportation are reflected in the passenger depot which was built in 1923 by the C & O Railroad. The passenger depot and adjacent baggage shed were designed by the railroad company. In subsequent years, the depot was a focal point in community life occasionally serving as a site of an early morning wedding for couples leaving on the 6:30 train for Ashland. The depot served the Pikeville community until rail service was terminated. In the early 1980s the

Sears, Roebuck and Company Store, Louisville Kentucky

Sears, Roebuck and Company Store, Louisville Kentucky

The Sears Roebuck and Company Store, built in 1928, is one of few structures in Louisville, and the only major commercial/retail building, constructed in the Art Deco Style. The late 1920s and early 1930s was a time of relative inactivity in Louisville's building and expansion. The largest structures of this period were constructed either by large national corporations or public agencies. The Art Deco and Art Modern styles, which were popular in the period, are represented by only a few scattered structures in the city. These include: the South Central Bell Office Building, the major monument of the Art Deco style in Louisville; the Louisville Municipal Bridge Pylons by Paul Cret; the Greyhound Bus Depot (destroyed) and Bowman Air Field, the

Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago Illinois

Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago Illinois

The Chicago Beach Hotel it is the only Hyde Park Apartment Hotel designed in the Art Deco style. It is also one of the last of the apartment hotels to be Built in Hyde Park before the Depression halted most all major construction. The building's entry and lobby offer an outstanding example of intact, art deco ornamentation which appears to have changed little since it was installed. The romantically inspired bas reliefs, fluted pilasters and decorative ceilings, all contribute to a quintessential late 1920s aura reminiscent of a Hollywood movie set of that era. This twelve-story, Art Deco-style building is rectangular in shape (46' x 116') and is built of buff brick with a black glazed tile-faced base. Above the base,

Verona High School, Verona Kentucky

Verona High School, Verona Kentucky

Verona High School was built in 1914-1915. The earlier Verona school was located on another site within the community. Beginning in 1908, the Kentucky Legislature instituted a series of educational reforms which would alter forever the character of Boone County's educational patterns and would result in an overall county-wide elevation of educational standards. On May, 1914, a local referendum was held on the question of building a high school. One hundred forty-one voters favored the construction of a new building, while sixty opposed the project. A 2.86-acre building site was acquired from O. K. Whitson for $600.00. The architect for the new building has not been identified, but it is known that bids for the construction of the new school were

Bavarian Brewing Company, Covington Kentucky

Bavarian Brewing Company, Covington Kentucky

The Bavarian Brewery had its beginnings in 1866, when a brewery was founded on Pike Street by Julius Deglow. Originally called the Deglow & Co. Brewery, as early as 1869 the brewery was known as the Bavarian Brewery. The Brewery was originally located on the Lexington Pike (now Pike Street), adjacent to a tannery also operated by the Deglow family. As early as 1877, the Brewery property included a large property that stretched from Pike Street south to 12^th (at that time, 11^th Street stopped west of Bullock). Ownership and management of the brewery changed several times through the 1870s, but it remained consistently in operation under the name Bavarian. Finally, in 1882, a German immigrant named William Riedlin entered into

Oliver School, Winchester Kentucky

Oliver School, Winchester Kentucky

Oliver School, was built in 1939 on the site where schools for African American students existed since 1892. Open until 1956, it provided the greatest educational opportunities for African-American students in Winchester and Clark County. The education of African Americans within Kentucky and elsewhere throughout the Southern states occurred much differently than for Whites, and is marked by great challenges of funding for adequate facilities. Often, schools for Blacks were not built in an enduring way. The Oliver Street School building stood, at its construction, as a remarkably well-constructed edifice. It was also the only place in the community where African-Americans received education at the secondary level. The Oliver Street School is the only surviving historic community high school structure, as

B & O Freight Terminal, Cincinnati Ohio

B & O Freight Terminal, Cincinnati Ohio

Constructed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and designed by M. A. Long, an architect employed by the railroad, this building was specifically constructed to facilitate the handling and storage of freight. It is distinguished from other freight storage buildings because of its exceptional length; originally 1,277 feet in length. Its functional design is highlighted by the use of Romanesque Revival details to articulate its facades. These details include rock-faced ashlar first floor supporting engaged columns rising to the fourth floor from which decorative semi-circular arches adorn the facades. Machicolations accentuate the roof trim. The building was constructed in 1904 during a period when the B & O was placing emphasis on freight activities and the importance of Cincinnati as a

LaSalle Theater Building, Cleveland Ohio

LaSalle Theater Building, Cleveland Ohio

International Savings and Loan Company built the commercial mixed-use building in 1927. Cleveland architect Nicola Petti designed the building. International Savings and Loan Co. recognized the growth of the North Collinwood area spurring the need for commercial and residential development. The LaSalle Theater Building has since been a community anchor recognized for its architectural prominence and commercial contribution. A 1928 Plain Dealer article announcing the theater building opening refers to the exterior architecture style as English and the interior details as Spanish. However, it is referred to today as Neo-Classical Revival style. The style is common among commercial and public buildings in the early 20^th century due to the inspiration generated from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. It

Variety Store Building and Theatre, Cleveland Ohio

Variety Store Building and Theatre, Cleveland Ohio

The Variety Store Building and Theatre is one of the few remaining multiple-use buildings containing a theater located on the West Side of Cleveland. Since the West Side has always been culturally distinct because of the topography of the Cuyahoga valley and the settlement patterns of the city. At the time of its construction, the Variety Theatre was considered to rank among Cleveland's finest. A large number of similar West Side theaters, including the Granada, the Lyric, and the Tivoli, have been demolished. While the commercial fronts are not architecturally distinguished, the theater is an excellent and well-preserved example of the more restrained classical aspect of the 1920s movie theater style, in contrast to the atmospheric palaces and other exotic styles.

West Technical High School, Cleveland Ohio

West Technical High School, Cleveland Ohio

Formerly Abandoned School Building in Cleveland OH

On February 15^th, 1912 construction on West Tech High School was complete. Twelve teachers and 24 students from East Tech High School inhabited the new school shortly thereafter. West Tech offered a distinctive curriculum of three different programs: technical, commercial, and academic (college preparatory). The school was known for the quality and variety of its vocational courses. In later years, the school concentrated on class work rather than vocational schooling. The school partook in training skilled workers during both WW I and II. Of particular note are the following facts. The school offered the first auto driving classes in the U.S. in 1936. It was the first school to offer aeronautics/aircraft classes, and for a long time the only high school

Bishop-Andrews Hotel, Greenville Florida

Bishop-Andrews Hotel, Greenville Florida

The community, known today as Greenville, was settled as Sandy Ford in the early 1850s, and a post office was first established there in December 1851. The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad moved eastward into the area around 1859. Growth, however, did not take place until after the Civil War. Elijah James Hays was one of the first prominent land owners in Sandy Ford. He moved there after the war, during the early 1870s, and began his enterprises, which included a general mercantile store; a drug store, for which he was the pharmacist; a brick yard; a cotton gin; a grist mill; a cotton warehouse; a turpentine still; and large farms. In April 1876, the name of the community was changed to

Jordan Covered Bridge, Spanning Thomas Creek, Scio Oregon

Jordan Covered Bridge, Spanning Thomas Creek, Scio Oregon

The Jordan Covered Bridge is located on Jordan Road (County Road 829), just south of the junction with State Highway 226 in Linn County, Oregon. The small rural community of Jordan is one-mile southeast of the bridge, and the town of Scio is approximately six miles to the west. The structure spans Thomas Creek, a tributary of the South Santiam River, near its confluence with Jordan Creek. The bridge is 17 feet wide and has a total length of 148 feet including a clear timber span of 90 feet and 58 feet of timber trestle approaches, containing in all approximately 6,600 square feet. The wooden housing covering the central span is approximately 30 feet high from the base of the skirting

Wabash Railroad Depot, New Haven Indiana

Wabash Railroad Depot, New Haven Indiana

Long before permanent settlement by Europeans and Euro-Americans, Native Americans understood the importance of the New Haven area in terms of its transportation links. The Maumee-Wabash was an important route for canoe trade or, the transportation of warriors or soldiers. A short portage of five miles or so connected travelers from the eastern Great Lakes bordering Ohio and Canada to the Wabash River, and on to the Ohio River. Euro-American Fort Wayne supplanted the Native American villages in 1794, allowing eventual American control over trade and travel on the Wabash River. The promise of river trade was enough to lure settlers to plat both Fort Wayne and New Haven. Pioneer John Gundy had arrived in the New Haven area in 1820;

Cleveland Worsted Mills Company, Cleveland Ohio

Cleveland Worsted Mills Company, Cleveland Ohio

The Cleveland Worsted Mills Company complex survives with nearly every building intact as one of the larger older industrial complexes in Northeast Ohio. Since the buildings were built over a twenty-five-year period, they reflect the changes in American industrial architecture over that time both in terms of stylistic and structural elements. Even though all of the machinery has been removed from the complex, by their design and relationship to one another, the buildings. reflect the woolen industry at the turn of the century. This complex of buildings functioned as the main operation of an eleven-mill conglomerate with plants in Ohio, New York, and Rhode Island. By 1926 Cleveland Worsted Mills was the second largest national consolidation of worsted mills. Thus these

Fort Armstrong Hotel, Rock Island Illinois

Fort Armstrong Hotel, Rock Island Illinois

The Fort Armstrong Hotel represents a profound example of community dedication and teamwork by its citizenry in their pursuit of a cause they believed in. And it was this kind of dedication that was responsible for the birth of the idea, the funding of the project, as well as the construction of and the community support the Fort Armstrong Hotel enjoyed for over half a century. After sitting vacant for several years, it was converted into an assisted living facility in the 1980s. The civic minds of the City of Rock Island began planning for a project that could not only satisfy the needs of the traveler, but provide an attraction point that would bring meetings, conventions, and even vacationers to

Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse, Portsmouth Rhode Island

Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse, Portsmouth Rhode Island

Built in 1901-1902 to warn ships approaching Bristol and Mount Hope Bay of a shoal south of Hog Island, Hog Island Shoal Light was the last lighthouse to be established in Rhode Island, and the only one in Narragansett Bay built to replace a lightship. Although earlier lights had been established nearby at Bristol Ferry (1854) and off Muscle Bed Shoals (1873), Hog Island Shoal Light is the only surviving one of the three, and as such remains the primary navigational aid for ships in the area. It is one of four surviving caisson lighthouses in Rhode Island. As early as 1869 the annual report to the Lighthouse Board had cited the need for a lighthouse southeast of Hog Island to

Simpson Creek Covered Bridge, Bridgeport West Virginia

Simpson Creek Covered Bridge, Bridgeport West Virginia

Simpson Creek Covered Bridge, also known as the W.T. Law Covered Bridge, near Bridgeport West Virginia was built in 1881. Thomas S. Spates, appointed by the Harrison County Court as a commissioner to examine a site, prepare specifications, and receive bids for the construction of a bridge across Simpson Creek near Shinns Mills, made a report to the court on September 9, 1881, concerning his progress. After he informed the court that Asa S. Hugill submitted the lowest bid, ($700.00 for the woodwork and $4.00/perch for the wing walls and abutments), the court awarded Mr. Hugill the contract. The same day, the court-appointed Thomas S. Spates to superintend the construction of the bridge, and ordered that John Lowe be awarded $40.00

Fletcher Covered Bridge, Maken West Virginia

Fletcher Covered Bridge, Maken West Virginia

John C. Rogers, ordered that William N. Edgell, Elias Swiger, and R. M. Rogers be appointed viewers to locate a site for a bridge over the right hand fork of Ten Mile Creek, near the residence of John G. Rogers. The viewers were to report back to court concerning the size of abutments, height of fills, span length, and the probable cost. J. T. Williams was appointed by the court on July 1, 1891 as a special commissioner to advertise and receive bids for the construction of the bridge. On August 21, 1891, Soloman Swiger was awarded the contract for building the superstructure for $7.25 per linear foot, and L. E. Sturm received the contract for the construction of the abutments

Hokes Mill Covered Bridge, Roncerverte West Virginia

Hokes Mill Covered Bridge, Roncerverte West Virginia

In 1897, during the April term of the Greenbrier County Court, it was ordered that B. F. Mann, R. A. McDowell and Austin B. Erwin be appointed commissioners to have a covered bridge built on stone abutments across Second Creek above Smith's Mill (formerly Hoke's Mill) for a cost of $700.00. The court records do not pinpoint the date of the completion of the bridge, but various drafts were issued between the terms of January 1898 and March 1899 for road repairs in the Irish Corner district. A draft for $175.00 was the only one specifically referenced to the construction of the bridge. Therefore, the bridge was probably completed between April 1897 and March 1899. The Hokes Mill Covered bridge is

Herns Mill Covered Bridge, Lewisburg West Virginia

Herns Mill Covered Bridge, Lewisburg West Virginia

The construction of the Herns Mill Covered Bridge was an undertaking of the Greenbrier County Court in 1884. Lewisburg District road commissioners Harvey Handly and J. W. Johnston, who had been ordered in January of the same year to examine the bridge over Millicans Creek near the mill of S. S. Herns, made a report to the court concerning the present condition of the bridge and the probable cost of construction of a new bridge at that location. The same day the court ordered the commissioners to take the necessary action to have the bridge rebuilt. Harvey Handly, J. W. Johnston and John D. Arbuckle, commissioners, on July 9, 1884, submitted an order to the court which stated that the bridge

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