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Best Brewing Company of Chicago - Best Brewery, Chicago Illinois

Best Brewing Company of Chicago - Best Brewery, Chicago Illinois

The Best Brewing Company began in 1891; however, the site had been home to a brewery since 1885. At that time, it was Klockgeter & Company, which only lasted a-short time, and then became Kagebein & Folstaff. In 1891, the Hasterlik brothers purchased the brewery and operated it for the next seventy years. The four Hasterlik brothers (Samuel, Charles,- Henry, and Ignatz) pulled down the small brewery and built the existing plant in 1893, beginning a great family brewing tradition that was one of few to survive Prohibition. The history of the Best Brewing Company is a history of the German beer business in Chicago, reflecting its many struggles and changes through most of a century. Germans had continually been one

Strand Hotel, Chicago Illinois

Strand Hotel, Chicago Illinois

The Strand Hotel, a residential hotel, located in the City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was completed in 1915 and was designed by the architectural firm of Davis & Davis. Located in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near the intersection of 63^rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, the Strand Hotel was once at the center of one of the city's largest commercial districts. Construction of the Strand Hotel was completed in 1915 at a cost of $200,000. The new building was financed by Thomas Gaynor in partnership with Frank Nasher. Gaynor was a prominent local real estate developer, and long-time resident of the adjacent Washington Park neighborhood. When first announced, the hotel was originally called the Calumet Hotel and was to be developed

Illinois Central Railroad Depot, Ullin Illinois

Illinois Central Railroad Depot, Ullin Illinois

Ullin is located about 18 miles north of Cairo, Illinois where the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers occur. It is located in northern Pulaski County, which was formed on March 3^rd, 1843. Pulaski County is named after the Revolutionary war hero, General Casimir Pulaski, who was killed in 1779 during the Revolutionary War. As early as 1702 the French government issued charters to protect the junction of the two rivers and control all commercial transactions into the territory. After the French and Indian War which began in 1756 all possessions of the French east of the Mississippi River were transferred to the English. In 1776 the war for American Independence began and the land was taken from the British.

Old Jasper County Jail, Paulding Mississippi

Old Jasper County Jail, Paulding Mississippi

The Old Jasper County Jail, built ca. 1895, is the oldest surviving building in Paulding and one of the oldest in the entire county. After Jasper County was formed in 1833, Paulding, named for Revolutionary War hero John Paulding, was chosen as county seat. Paulding was located at or near the intersection of two important early roads, Jackson's Military road and the Natchez-to-Fort St. Stevens road. The early years of the community were busy ones, and for many years the town was the center of wealth, culture, religion, education and politics for the area and was referred to as The Queen City of East Mississippi. St. Michael's, the third Catholic parish after Natchez and Biloxi to be formed in the state,

English Settlement School, Oakland Oregon

English Settlement School, Oakland Oregon

The one-room school building completed and opened for use as the English Settlement School in rural Douglas County, Oregon stands approximately eight miles northeast of the City of Oakland among the region's rolling hills. Built in approximately 1910 during the height of production farming in the Oakland area, the building served as the only school in the English Settlement community and the school district until 1934 when the district combined with the nearby Oakland school system. The building itself is a modest interpretation of high-style schoolhouses promoted by reformers and state education officials from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Although deteriorated after years of use as a livestock shelter, the building is little altered since its construction. Initially explored

Leesville Schoolhouse, Leesville Texas

Leesville Schoolhouse, Leesville Texas

Located on the east Bank of the Oneal Creek, the school house was constructed about 1870 and remains as one of the few existing structures from the original town site of Leesville. In September, 1841 Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar issued land grants on the banks of the Oneal Creek in the southwestern part of Gonzales County and, after a few years, a small settlement developed along the creek. Just after the Civil War ended, a new wave of settlers migrated to the area. Because of their religious fervor, the new settlers were nicknamed Pilgrims by the local people. The newcomers constructed a temporary building which served both as a church on Sunday and as a house for several families for

Aurora Watch Factory - Aurora Corset Company, Aurora Illinois

Aurora Watch Factory - Aurora Corset Company, Aurora Illinois

Abandoned Watch, and Later a Corset factory in Illinois

The Aurora Watch Company was one of a number of local watch companies in America, most have their hometowns' names (i.e., Elgin, Waltham, Rockford, Springfield …). Aurora won this factory through competition between towns as was recently done for a number of auto factories. The outcome was based on the allowances or inducements from an area. Aurora came up with a capital base of $250,000, of which $75,000 was from the citizenry, and land. The first directors were all jewelers: E.W. Trask, of Aurora; M. Wendell of Chicago, the originator of the move; M. Hoffman, of Quincy; A.H. Pike, of Kankakee; and George F. Johnson, who was the superintendent and worked closely with Adler & Sullivan on the watch factory's requirements.

Johnson Railroad Depot, Johnson Vermont

Johnson Railroad Depot, Johnson Vermont

The Johnson Depot is significant as an excellent example of Victorian railroad architecture. Its distinctive Stick Style uses heavy chamfered wood trusses under wide eaves, and is otherwise enriched with Queen Anne period detail. The interior plan was a standard on northern Vermont rail lines, with separate waiting rooms for men and women, richly finished in beaded fir panelling. Both the interior and exterior are in near-original condition, including much of the hardware and fixtures. The Depot's significance to the community goes far beyond its distinctive architecture. For nearly a century it played a major role in the economic and social lives of Johnson's townspeople, linking them to the people and markets of the whole nation. In 1887 this building was

Waco High School, Waco Texas

Waco High School, Waco Texas

The Waco High School complex is a landmark in Waco's Central Business District, and includes the 1912 Beaux-arts school building, the 1924 Gothic Revival auditorium, and the 1955 mid-century modern music building. It served as the city's primary high school from 1912 through 1971, with an all-white student body until integration of the Waco school district in the late 1960s. The completion of the Waco High School was a high point in the public school district's plan to modernize the school system in the first half of the 20^th century. Its monumental presence recalls an era when local school districts constructed educational buildings that symbolized the importance of education to the community. The school building is the oldest extant public school

New Alcazar Hotel - Central Building, Clarksdale Mississippi

New Alcazar Hotel - Central Building, Clarksdale Mississippi

The New Alcazar Hotel was built in 1914-15 to supersede the original Alcazar Hotel, built on an adjoining lot to the south in ca. 1895 by the locally-famed real estate partnership of Cecil W. King (1845-1924) and W.P. Anderson (n.d.). King and Anderson began their real estate careers as planters outside of Clarksdale, slowly expanding their plantation with acquisitions of surrounding farm lands over time. By the 1890s, the pair had begun to acquire holdings in Downtown Clarksdale and apparently entered real estate development with the construction of the original Alcazar Hotel. At the time of Cecil King's death in 1924, the land holdings of the K & A Plantation exceeded 15,000 acres; their holdings in downtown Clarksdale at this time

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Depot, Madison South Dakota

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Depot, Madison South Dakota

Lake County was organized in 1873, taking its name from the numerous glacial lakes within its borders. Founded that same year, Madison soon became the county seat. Located at the center of the county, the city has been a focal point for regional commerce and politics almost since its beginning. As in most settlements of the state, its early existence depended upon the presence of reliable railroad service. The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (later adding the Pacific extension) entered Madison from the east in 1881. Because of its fortunate central location, the city became one of several minor hubs in the company's sprawling network of short lines. The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, also called the Milwaukee Road,

Spring Creek School, Zeona South Dakota

Spring Creek School, Zeona South Dakota

The school was named after Spring Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Moreau River, the closest water source. Constructed in 1920 from a plan in the South Dakota state standards publication for rural schools, the Spring Creek school replaced an earlier school built on the same spot in 1912. The original school was held in a sod claim shack that was part dugout. The local ranchers and homesteaders made the school benches and desks, and guled a piece of oil cloth that was painted black to one of the walls to serve as a blackboard. A homesteader in the Govert area of Harding County, Cora Minks, originally from Ohio where she had been a school teacher, was the

Pulp Mill Covered Bridge, Middlebury Vermont

Pulp Mill Covered Bridge, Middlebury Vermont

The Pulp Mill Covered Bridge is the last dual-lane or double-barreled covered wood bridge to carry a public highway in Vermont, and one of two such bridges to survive in the state. In 1957 there were only six other double-barreled covered bridges remaining in the United States. The Pulp Mill Bridge is also the longest Burr truss bridge surviving in Vermont. According to Herbert Wheaton Congdon, the Pulp Mill Bridge was probably built about 1820. This date ranks the Pulp Mill Bridge as the oldest covered bridge in Vermont, at least among those whose dates have been documented. Despite its age, the bridge continues to carry much local traffic on a paved road between Middlebury and Weybridge. Those towns also share

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, Flora Illinois

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, Flora Illinois

Flora was surveyed and platted in 1854, the year the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad came through the area. The railroad company wanted to locate the depot at Mooresville, one mile west of the present location of Flora. The Moore brothers refused to donate or sell land for a station house. Mooresville was a town with a store or two, blacksmith shop, a number of dwellings and other buildings. The action of the Moore brothers killed their town when Samuel White offered his land a mile to the east, and Flora was platted. Many of the stores and houses from Mooresville were afterwards moved to Flora. Samuel White donated the land for the depot. The name of Flora was given to the

Hotel Waukegan - Chateau Waukegan, Waukegan Illinois

Hotel Waukegan - Chateau Waukegan, Waukegan Illinois

Conceived in 1926 and built in 1927, Hotel Waukegan was constructed during a decade when Waukegan's population grew from 19,226 to 34,499 and Waukegan was a thriving business city, with 65 industrial establishments employing 9500 people. Built during a boom period, and supported by public subscription, the hotel was sited at the intersection of two of Waukegan's most highly traveled streets, standing high on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The twelve-story Hotel Waukegan has always been the tallest building in town and since its completion has had a distinctive presence in the city's streetscape. The site selected for construction of the Hotel Waukegan was prominent in Waukegan, at the northwest corner of Washington Street, the city's major east-west business street, and

Waits River Schoolhouse, Topsham Vermont

Waits River Schoolhouse, Topsham Vermont

The former Waits River Schoolhouse is an early twentieth century combination school and grange building which has sustained a series of well-documented historic alterations in response to standards set by the Vermont State Board of Education. Used as a school from 1914-1972, and as a grange hall from 1914-1953, the building reflects both educational and social institutions in the small, agricultural and manufacturing village of Waits River, Vermont. The chronology of alterations to the school describes the rural interpretation and implementation of the state's public school standardization process. The building is distinguished architecturally by a multi-story hipped roof form typical of twentieth century school buildings, by Colonial Revival style detailing, and by elaborate interior pressed metal cladding added in 1931. A

Lebanon Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Lebanon Oregon

Lebanon Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Lebanon Oregon

In 1871, the Oregon & California (O&C) Railroad, the first railroad in the Willamette Valley, by-passed Lebanon and built their track through to Albany instead, 14 miles to the west. Located on the South Santiam River, the town founders sought to use the river as a link to the new rail line. An attempt was made in 1871 to navigate the river with the steamboat Calliope from the Willamette River to Lebanon via the Santiam River. It proved to be unsuccessful for the river was not deep enough to accommodate a fully loaded steamboat. In 1872-73, the Santiam-Albany Canal was completed as a means of connecting the agricultural and timber products of Eastern Linn County to the Willamette River steamboats and

Miller Plantation House, Olive Branch Mississippi

Miller Plantation House, Olive Branch Mississippi

As the most sophisticated example of the Greek Revival style in DeSoto County, the Miller Plantation House is significant to the history of architecture. Not surprisingly, the most ambitious design element of the mansion is its portico with giant order columns and a full, well-proportioned entablature which is without a raking cornice for a pediment. While this arrangement is not uncommon, the unusual interpretation of the Corinthian order makes the Miller Plantation House virtually unique in Mississippi. Here, the Corinthian capital is produced with a single row of acanthus applied to the bell between the astragal of the shaft and the abacus. Correct Corinthian calls for a minimum of two superimposed rows of acanthus. The unknown builder who was responsible for

John Jacob Astor Hotel, Astoria Oregon

John Jacob Astor Hotel, Astoria Oregon

The eight-story John Jacob Astor Hotel is a prominent landmark in Astoria and was, in its hey-day, the hub of social and civic activity in the historic sea port at the mouth of the Columbia River. The reinforced concrete building is believed to be, even today, the tallest commercial structure on the Oregon Coast. Its construction was inspired by increased tourist traffic, and, as was typical of major hotel projects in the early automobile age, it was financed by capital investors assisted by public subscription and bond issue. The plans were drawn by the Portland firm of Tourtellotte and Hummel, which later was responsible for the Lithia Springs (Mark Anthony) Hotel (1925) in Ashland, the Redwoods Hotel (1926) in Grants Pass,

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse - Tilly, Seaside Oregon

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse - Tilly, Seaside Oregon

This Decommissioned Lighthouse is now a Repository for Crematory Remains

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse is Oregon's only offshore light and the fourth oldest of nine lighthouses now standing on the state's coastline. Its construction, completed in 1881, was an engineering feat involving hazardous landings of men and materials by derrick and breeches buoy from a lighthouse tender anchored off the rock. Its roof was replaced and extra loft added to the keepers' quarters in 1889, at which time openings on the heavy weather sides (south and west) were filled. Its period of service as an aid to navigation extended more than 75 years under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Light House Keeping Service and, from 1939 on, the U.S. Coast Guard. It was superseded by a whistle buoy

Book Title Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

Book Title Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

Book Title Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

Book Title Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks

Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks

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