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Pittsfield East School, Pittsfield Illinois

Pittsfield East School, Pittsfield Illinois

East School was the first public school, as we know them today, built in Pittsfield. The contract price of the building was $35,000 for which bonds were sold. The actual cost amounted to $45,000. Leading citizens of the community, such as, Judge Chauncey L. Higbee, Colonel William Ross, and William A. Grimshaw, a lawyer, were the moving spirits toward construction of the building. The building was located in the northeast part of the city. The stone was brought from Joliet by way of the Illinois River and the brick was burned in Pittsfield. Construction was begun in 1861, interrupted by the Civil War, and completed in 1866. At the time it was considered as one of the largest and finest examples

Zoe Theatre, Pittsfield Illinois

Zoe Theatre, Pittsfield Illinois

The City of Pittsfield is located near the geographic center of Pike County, Illinois, and lies approximately 70 miles west of Springfield and 80 miles northwest of St. Louis, Missouri. The city was established in 1833 expressly for the purpose of being the new county seat. The city was named after Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was home to John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's personal secretary, ambassador to England under President William McKinley, later Secretary of State for Theodore Roosevelt, and creator of the Open Door Policy in China. As county seat, the town was one of the various places in central Illinois where Abraham Lincoln practiced law as part of the circuit court, working on 34 cases between 1839 and 1852. Aside from

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Depot, Plano Illinois

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Depot, Plano Illinois

The Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad was one of the country's major railroad companies. Freight and passengers were being moved between Chicago and states to the west on the C. B. & Q. Railroad line, with the main tracks to and from Chicago going directly through Plano. The C. B. & Q. Depot was constructed of brick to replace the aging wooden depot and to provide a solid statement of support to the community of Plano from the railroad company. Plano was not built upon a river as its neighbors to the east, Yorkville and Oswego had been. Instead, it was built around the railroad. When the engineers from the Aurora Branch Railroad were making preliminary surveys, a route through Little

Rosecliff Mansion, Newport Rhode Island

Rosecliff Mansion, Newport Rhode Island

Gilded Age Mansion in Newport RI is Open to the Public

Rosecliff is a fine representative in Newport of the later work of McKim, Mead & White, who had executed earlier residential commissions, and the Casino, there; but all in either the Queen Anne or Colonial Revival styles. This house shows the firm at work in the academic, neoclassical, and often eclectic or adaptive, manner for which they became widely known, (With other documents of the firm, the original drawings for Rosecliff are at the New York Historical Society.) It is also a good representative of the house of desired formal appearance, planned at the turn of the century especially for frequent and elegant entertaining according to the protocols of the era, and (very often French in architectural style and furnishings) which

Claremont Mansion - The Trianon, Colorado Springs Colorado

Claremont Mansion - The Trianon, Colorado Springs Colorado

Beautiful Gilded Age Mansion in CO is now Colorado Springs School

The Trianon, also known as Claremont, was built by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baldwin in 1906-1907. Baldwin was a well-known esthete from New York and Newport and Mrs. Baldwin was a Howbart, inheriting a fortune from Nevada gold, silver, and timber interests. The Baldwins came to Colorado Springs, as did many others, for their health and as a remedy in those days for TB. The Baldwins decided to make a real eastern showplace out in the West. General Palmer had already built a castle, Glen Eyrie, but Palmer was a rather austere town founder and Glen Eyrie was not the sort of place where congenial and convivial people could congregate in the way they were doing in the east in the

San Carlos Hotel, Pensacola Florida

San Carlos Hotel, Pensacola Florida

The Pensacola Hotel Company, organized by J.M. Muldon, Sr., F.F. Bingham, George B. and Charles H. Hervey, P.K. Younge, John E. Stillman, H.L. Covington, F.C. Brent, T.A. Jennings, A.A. Fisher, Henry Hyer, Max Bear, W.S. Keyser, Sol Cahn, William Knowles, and John Merritt, constructed the building at the height of the building boom in Pensacola that lasted from 1906 to 1910. The San Carlos and the building boom reflected the optimism in progress, commercial growth, and prosperity that saturated Pensacola at the turn of the century. One visitor in Pensacola in about 1916 commented, The taxi cab took us along a neat boulevard to an overgrown hotel on Palafox Street. It is known as the San Carlos and has a slightly

Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Stratford Connecticut

Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Stratford Connecticut

Stratford Shoals Lighthouse is significant for its important place in the aids to navigation system in Long Island Sound, standing in the middle of the Sound as its other name, Middle Ground, implies. The middle ground shoal had long been a hazard to shipping. Stratford Shoal Lighthouse replaced several earlier efforts to mark the hazard. In 1831 Congress appropriated $1,000.00 to erect a beacon on the middle ground between Stratford and Crane Neck in Long Island Sound. A lightship was commissioned from a New York shipbuilder in 1837 for $8,500.00, to be positioned over the shoal; it had to be removed in 1866 and was replaced in 1868 with a new lightship. Ice floes were a formidable problem. The uncertainty of

LeClaire Hotel, Moline Illinois

LeClaire Hotel, Moline Illinois

Historically, as late as the 1910s, Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island and Moline comprised the Tri-Cities; as early as the 1930s, Rock Island, Moline and East Moline comprised, with Davenport, Iowa, what came to be called the Quad-Cities. Moline was the product of riverside development dating to the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The town sprang from the impoundment of a subsidiary branch of the Mississippi (Sylvan Slough) between 1837-1841. David B. Sears and associates' development of the water power potential between Arsenal Island and the Illinois shore shaped the character of the new town; it would thereafter be linked to industrial improvement. The original town plat surveyed in 1843 entailed about twenty blocks, its location now bounded by the river

J.C. Penney Building, Newberg Oregon

J.C. Penney Building, Newberg Oregon

The J.C. Penney building was constructed in 1927 during a period of prosperity and economic growth. It was the first chain department store to establish a location in Newberg. After two decades without national competition, two other companies opened catalog shops within a block of the store. However, J. C. Penney was the only one to have an actual storefront with merchandise in the community. It remained in its original location on E. First Street for over 50 years. The J.C. Penney building property is part of the J.B. Rogers Land Claim, which was acquired by Walter Edwards from his father, Jesse Edwards, Newberg's founding father. In December 1926, the heirs of Walter Edwards transferred this property as part of his

F.W. Woolworth Store, Lexington Kentucky

F.W. Woolworth Store, Lexington Kentucky

The F.W. Woolworth building is located in Lexington, Kentucky which is located in the center of Fayette county. Lexington is in the heart of the inner-Bluegrass region and serves as a commercial hub for the smaller towns that surround it. By the early twentieth century, Lexington's Main Street was well-established as the city's retail center and the entire region. Lexington's first Woolworth's opened in 1902 at 268 West Main Street. The Lexington store, #152, was located in an existing commercial structure. This was part of the corporate strategy in this early phase of expansion. In 1912 S.S. Kresge opened a store just two doors down from the Woolworth red front. These two stores co-existed with each other, bringing the dime store

Brown-Proctoria Hotel, Winchester Kentucky

Brown-Proctoria Hotel, Winchester Kentucky

The Brown-Proctoria Hotel, situated at the corner of the crossing of Lexington Avenue and Main Street in downtown Winchester, the county seat of Clark County, was begun in 1904 during a period of expansion and growth in the town's history. The county's location at the foot of the Appalachian chain that runs through the eastern part of the state gave rise to great expectations that Winchester would participate in the development of east Kentucky and become the region's gateway to the Kentucky mountains. Although these hopes went largely unrealized, there was sufficient traffic through the city to maintain the elegant hotel, which, for many years was the finest in the area. A massive block of Indiana limestone and granite brick trimmed

Douglass School, Lexington Kentucky

Douglass School, Lexington Kentucky

The Douglass School, part of the state's separate but equal educational policy, was built in 1947. At the time of its completion, there were only 62 public High Schools for black students in the state and only 13 of these were, like the Douglass School, county facilities. Following the Civil War, Kentucky faced the challenge of providing public schools for thousands of freedmen. African Americans held statewide conventions in Lexington (1867) and Louisville (1869) to petition for public schools. Rather than admit blacks to existing schools, the General Assembly created a separate system of common schools for blacks in 1874. In 1891 the revised Kentucky constitution legalized segregated public education. According to all reports, black schools were even more inadequate than

Duffields Depot, Shenandoah Junction West Virginia

Duffields Depot, Shenandoah Junction West Virginia

The B&O Railroad, the first class one, common-carrier railroad in the then-young United States, was incorporated under Maryland State Charter in 1827, and began construction westward from Baltimore, Maryland in 1828, when the first stone was laid on July 4. The goal of the company was to reach the Ohio River, to bring the commerce of that region to Baltimore City and its port, and to carry goods and commodities as well as passengers inland to the Ohio River region, and beyond (the B&O reached Pittsburg-as it was then spelled--Pennsylvania in 1871, Chicago in 1875). By 1836 the B&O had reached Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Between 1836 and 1842, the portion of the railroad between that location and Cumberland, Maryland on the

Staats Mill Covered Bridge - Tug Fork Covered Bridge, Ripley West Virginia

Staats Mill Covered Bridge - Tug Fork Covered Bridge, Ripley West Virginia

When the Staats Mill Covered Bridge was constructed in Jackson County, West Virginia in 1887, it was only the latest of many such wooden structures to dot the countryside of West Virginia and the United States. Today, however, the Staats Mill Bridge, is one of only 18 remaining in the state. The Staats Mill community of Jackson County, West Virginia, was founded by the Staats family. Abraham Staats (1750-1826) and his wife Ann King Staats (1755-1811) were the progenitors of the Staats family in Jackson County. Abraham served in the Revolutionary War. Their son Cornelius served in the War of 1812 and married Ann Carney. They were the parents of Issac Staats, who built the first water-powered mill on Tug Fork

Walkersville Covered Bridge, Walkersville West Virginia

Walkersville Covered Bridge, Walkersville West Virginia

Following submission of a petition by J. E. Spriggs, G. I. Dennison, and H. O. Wilson and others to the Lewis (bounty court on June 13, 1902, the court-appointed W. E. Wick and W.D. Anderson as a committee to locate a site for a bridge across the right fork of the West Fork River, about one mile south of Walkersville. The committee was to evaluate the nature of the ground for the placement of abutments, the required length of the bridge and all other details necessary for arriving at a cost of construction. On July 1, 1902, the court decided to build three iron bridges, one of which was to be located south of Walkersville. W. S. Smith was authorized by

Gauley Bridge Railroad Station - C&O Station, Gauley Bridge West Virginia

Gauley Bridge Railroad Station - C&O Station, Gauley Bridge West Virginia

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Passenger Station at Gauley Bridge, in Fayette County, West Virginia, is an example of a small-town passenger station constructed in the late 19^th century that has survived down to the present time. It is one of the few remaining passenger stations out of many built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad for the many small towns and villages of Appalachia. Gauley Bridge, as a community, dates from around 1812, the period of its earliest settlement. The village was at first known as Kincaid's Ferry until 1822 when bridges were constructed across the Gauley and Kanawha Rivers here to accommodate traffic on the James River - Kanawha Turnpike. As a stopping point on the Turnpike, Gauley Bridge

Willard Covered Bridge, Hartland Vermont

Willard Covered Bridge, Hartland Vermont

One of two remaining covered bridges in the town of Hartland, the Willard Bridge is one of the most carefully maintained covered bridges in Vermont. Both its builder and exact date are unknown. In addition to a program of careful maintenance, the location of the structure on a lightly traveled road and its protection from washouts by a flood control dam will assure the survival of the bridge. Vermont's covered bridges are among the state's most cherished and symbolic historic resources. About one hundred bridges still stand in the state, the greatest concentration by area of covered bridges in the country. The Willard Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two flanking timber Town lattice trusses. Two laminated stringers

Fairborn Theatre - Fairborn Twin Cinemas, Fairborn Ohio

Fairborn Theatre - Fairborn Twin Cinemas, Fairborn Ohio

Advances in transportation have historically defined the area that is present day Fairborn, Ohio. Early settlement began in the area in 1799 and by 1816 the village of Fairfield had been platted. The Mercer Log House reflects the early settlement of the Fairborn area, and the Bath Township Consolidated School represents the area's late nineteenth-century development. In 1850, railroad tracks for the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad were laid one mile outside of the village of Fairfield. Named for the superintendent of the railroad, the town of Osborn developed along this railroad route. Osborn flourished while Fairfield declined in population until the War Department purchased 25,000 acres west of Fairfield for an air base in 1917, the precursor to Wright-Patterson

Hotel Roodhouse, Roodhouse Illinois

Hotel Roodhouse, Roodhouse Illinois

The Hotel Roodhouse provided first-class lodging and dining to railroad travelers, railroad management and line personnel as well as business people. It is the only remaining hotel in Roodhouse retaining its original integrity which was built during the period when the town of Roodhouse was a thriving railroad center. Roodhouse's development had its earliest beginnings in the 1850s, when the area on which Roodhouse was founded was referred to as The Crossroads - the place where a state road crossed another public road and connected the Illinois River with the eastern part of the state and the country. John Roodhouse, who had moved from Tazewell County in 1854, purchased 400 acres of land in this location which was to become part

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, Huntington West Virginia

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, Huntington West Virginia

Huntington began after the Civil War, born of the necessity of obtaining a western terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Between October 1870 and July of 1871, Colis P. Huntington purchased most of the land west of the Guyandotte River. He then formed the Central Land Co. and hired a Boston architect to lay out his city. The city of Huntington began as a railroad town and remains such to this day. In the empire-building days of 1890 progressive Huntingtonians built a north and south railroad between Guyandotte and Kenova, the Huntington and Big Sandy Railroad. A few years later this operation was taken over by the Ohio River Railroad which by September 1901 was incorporated into the Baltimore and

Book Title Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences (Jonglez photo books)

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Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

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Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

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