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Santa Fe Railroad Station, Brownwood Texas

Santa Fe Railroad Station, Brownwood Texas

The Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station in Brownwood, Texas, is one of the few large depots remaining intact in the state. Built at a time when rail travel was at its peak in the Southwest, the station represents an outstanding example of the Prairie style from the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite its present deteriorated condition, the building represents excellent adaptive use potential which could alleviate a socially declining neighborhood as well as restore a vital link with the Santa Fe Railroad's illustrious past in Brownwood. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad initiated passenger service to Brownwood on December 31, 1885. Crowds lined the tracks as engine No. 27 pulled a string of wooden coaches into town. This

Hotel McCartney, Texarkana Texas

Hotel McCartney, Texarkana Texas

Rising ten stories above the Texarkana skyline, the McCartney Hotel serves not only as a focal point for the city, but also asa visual reminder of the prominence Texarkana enjoyed as a major southwest railway center during the height of rail transportation. Reciprocally related to the Union Station Terminal, the hotel offered a variety of facilities to travellers and local residents alike. The McCartney Hotel stands today as a reminder of the thriving commercial and industrial economy Texarkana boasted during the first half of the 20^th century. Designed in the grand hotel style of the 1920's by Houston architect Joseph Finger, the hotel is prominently located across from Union Station Terminal, a major railroad center of the southwest. This convenient association

Herrick Public School, Herrick South Dakota

Herrick Public School, Herrick South Dakota

Due to increased enrollment and severe overcrowding, the Herrick Independent School District first met to consider the construction of a new school building in September 1918. Bonded funds for the new school building were approved in March 1919, and construction bids were let the following June. The buildings subsequent design and construction followed a long history of state educational reform. The school closed in 1946. Educational reform in South Dakota as it affected the design of new school construction had its origin in the Progressive era policies of the late nineteenth century. During this time, reformers believed that improved school facilities directly affected the quality of education in rural communities and advocated the implementation of standardized school designs. They cited overcrowding,

Bank of the Iroquois Building - Hoevet Funeral Home, Iroquois South Dakota

Bank of the Iroquois Building - Hoevet Funeral Home, Iroquois South Dakota

In the summer of 1880, the Chicago and Northwestern Land Company placed scrip on 160 acres of land in Kingsbury County and laid out the town site of Iroquois. The town was named after the French name for the Indian Confederacy of the Six Nations. On May 14, 1881, Charles Knecht, a pioneer merchant, purchased the first lot and built the first business structure in the new town. By that fall, however, few other businesses were erected and the town remained almost stationary until the development of the Calliope and Iroquois branch of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. When the branch line was located and it became apparent that the town would have two lines connecting it to Chicago, building began

Hetland School, Hetland South Dakota

Hetland School, Hetland South Dakota

The Hetland school served to educate the local children and the children from out-laying agricultural areas from 1904 until 1971. The town of Hetland was originally surveyed and platted in June 1880 by a railroad townsite agent, Asa Y. Felton, who along with his wife named the town Felton. However, when the application for a Post Office was made, the Postal authorities disqualified the name because there was already a town in the state named Felton. The citizens thought that the town name should honor someone who had taken part in homesteading the community and decided on John Hetland, who was the first homesteader in the district in the fall of 1878. The Dakota Central branch of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad

C.B. Kennedy Mansion, Canton South Dakota

C.B. Kennedy Mansion, Canton South Dakota

The Kennedy Mansion, constructed in 1917, was not ordinary for the town of Canton, as many buildings with a similar date of construction were much smaller in design. A farming region characterizes the surrounding area of downtown Canton. Canton is the county seat of Lincoln County. Settlement in the City of Canton began in 1861 with a small log-front trade dugout. Permanent settlement did not commence until 1866 with immigrants from Missouri. In 1867 the Territorial Legislature organized Lincoln County with Canton as the county seat. Soon after this, the population doubled when, in June of 1868, twenty-three Norwegian immigrant families camped in the Center Square of town until they could build sod or log houses on their homesteads. These families

Jacobson Schoolhouse - Hinkhouse School, Armour South Dakota

Jacobson Schoolhouse - Hinkhouse School, Armour South Dakota

State legislation passed in 1880 provided that a township could establish as many schools as needed, as long as they were at least two miles apart. By 1926, Jacobson School was formed and constructed. Built in 1926, the school's simple one-room, hipped roof design was typical of late nineteenth century schoolhouse design in South Dakota. Often comprised of donated materials and erected with voluntary labor, it was common for communities to construct schoolhouses with a familiar form and known practices. The design of these structures relied heavily upon the established architectural styles familiar to its builders, primarily settlers who had emigrated from New England and the Midwest. The rural schoolhouse was also viewed as a cultural symbol of the community, giving

Hyde Manor - Hyde's Hotel, Sudbury Vermont

Hyde Manor - Hyde's Hotel, Sudbury Vermont

Hyde Manor, dating from 1865, is an example of an increasingly rare type of building complex: the 19^th century resort hotel, a large and essentially self-sufficient resort which catered to affluent summer guests. Throughout the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, Hyde Manor was one of the more celebrated resorts in New England and attracted guests from the Eastern Seaboard and the South. The site originally achieved renown in 1801 when Pitt W. Hyde (1776-1823) bought a tavern located here. Hyde, a native of Pomfret, Connecticut, owned and operated a major stage-coach route from Albany to Montreal and Hyde's Tavern, located on the route, soon became a popular roadhouse stop for those in transit. Several factors contributed to the tavern's gradual expansion

Washington Hotel - Cadillac Hotel, Greenville Texas

Washington Hotel - Cadillac Hotel, Greenville Texas

This Hotel Building has Stood Vacant Since 1986

The Washington Hotel in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, is a six-story reinforced concrete building with a brick veneer and classical terra-cotta detailing, designed for mixed residential and commercial use, with retail spaces occupying the ground floor. Completed in 1926, it filled a long-standing need within the growing community of Greenville for a modern hotel, and stood as a testament to the transformation of Greenville's downtown during the first decades of the twentieth century. The city of Greenville was founded in 1846 as the county seat of newly formed Hunt County. Greenville grew slowly until the 1880s, when five major railroads, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Extensions Railway (1880), the East Line and Red River Railroad (1881), the Dallas and Greenville Railroad

Robert E. Lee Hotel, San Antonio Texas

Robert E. Lee Hotel, San Antonio Texas

Abandoned hotel in Texas Converted to Apartments

The Robert E. Lee Hotel was constructed three blocks north of the Plaza de las Islas and Plaza de Armas, where San Antonio's earliest civilian and military settlers made their homes after the city's founding in 1718. The site lies between San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River and is bounded by some of the city's oldest thoroughfares including Obraje (Travis) Street on the south, Acequia Street (Main Avenue) on the east and Flores Street on the west. The San Pedro Acequia, a Spanish irrigation ditch that began in today's San Pedro Park, crossed the property on its way south through downtown. This acequia was closed in 1912. In the 18^th and 19^th centuries, the area north of the plazas

M.G. Ellis School, Fort Worth Texas

M.G. Ellis School, Fort Worth Texas

Located on a site used for public education for nearly a century, the M. G. Ellis School was the most important public building still extant linked with the former community of North Fort Worth. Annexed by Fort Worth in 1909, only three years after the school was opened, North Fort Worth grew up around the meat-packing houses established in the late 19^th century. The school building was one of a few structures from this period that survived in largely original condition. Erected at a cost of $35,000, the school reflects the classical trends so prominent in American architecture of the period, with large classrooms laid out in a symmetrical H plan. The use of elliptical windows as a decorative element, along

Highland Park General Hospital, Highland Park Michigan

Highland Park General Hospital, Highland Park Michigan

The old Highland Park General Hospital Complex is an important landmark in Highland Park history, being one of the first two municipal institutions established when the people of Highland Park voted to become a city in December of 1916. Erected by the community's new city government in 1918-21, it served thereafter as a distinguished and respected health care facility in the Detroit metropolitan area until its closing in 1976. From the beginning, the operation of the hospital, together with that of the city's other fine municipal institutions, contributed a strong image of municipal independence as Detroit annexed more and more suburban territory in the surrounding vicinity. The complex developed in an integrated and coherent fashion to provide a visually prominent and

Eddystone Hotel, Detroit Michigan

Eddystone Hotel, Detroit Michigan

The Eddystone Hotel is one of a collection of three Italian Renaissance style hotels constructed by Lew W. Tuller, during the 1920s, a period in Detroit's history that saw the construction of several luxurious downtown hotels built to accommodate the explosive population growth of the city. The Eddystone was part of a grandiose plan on the part of Tuller and other Detroit builders to duplicate the urban character and the real estate market of the city of New York. The hotel was designed by Louis Kamper, one of Detroit's most prolific and outstanding architects, who was responsible for the design of many of the city's landmark buildings. The Eddystone Hotel was the first of three hotels to be built in the

Park Avenue Hotel, Detroit Michigan

Park Avenue Hotel, Detroit Michigan

The Park Avenue Hotel is one of three Italian Renaissance-inspired hotels constructed along Park Avenue for Detroit hotel man Lew W. Tuller during the 1920s, a boom period in Detroit's history that saw the construction of a number of luxurious hotels to accommodate the rapidly rising number of visitors to and transient and permanent residents in the city. The Park Avenue was part of a grand plan on the part of Tuller and other Detroit developers to emulate the urban character of New York's Fifth Avenue. The Park Avenue was planned by Detroit architect Louis Kamper, designer of many of the city's leading hotel buildings and downtown landmarks in the 1920s. The Park Avenue Hotel was the most lavish of three

Royal Palm Hotel - Park Avenue House, Detroit Michigan

Royal Palm Hotel - Park Avenue House, Detroit Michigan

The Royal Palm Hotel (now the Park Avenue House) is the oldest hotel in the downtown Detroit area which has continually operated in its original use as a residential hotel since its construction. It is also the only hotel in Detroit of its era that is still in operation. The Book-Cadillac, the Pick-Fort Shelby, the Statler, and the Madison-Lenox Hotels all stand vacant. The Tuller and The Detroitor Hotels have been demolished. The Park Avenue and The Eddystone Hotels have been converted to homeless shelters. The Royal Palm Hotel was built in 1924 for Lew Tuller, a noted builder of hotels and apartment houses in Detroit. Mr. Tuller came to Detroit at age seventeen from Jonesville, Michigan and began work with

John Harvey House, Detroit Michigan

John Harvey House, Detroit Michigan

The John Harvey House was built in 1885. Its architectural style is representative of the eclectic nature of American architecture in the late 19^th century. Its owner, John Harvey, businessman and philanthropist, and his family were instrumental in educating and feeding the city's poor children during the period immediately following the Civil War and on into the early twentieth century. The establishment of Detroit's Industrial School and later the Sabbath Mission School did much to aid the city's indigent children. The land upon which the John Harvey House sits was part of the Park Lots that were part of the ten thousand acres granted by Congress in 1806 and were laid out by order of the Governor and Judges in 1808.

Montgomery Ward & Company Warehouse and Store, Portland Oregon

Montgomery Ward & Company Warehouse and Store, Portland Oregon

The Montgomery Ward & Company, located at 2741 NW Vaughn, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon is a nine-story-plus basement, reinforced concrete structure built between 1920 and 1936. The building was designed by W. H. McCaully of Montgomery Ward & Company, and is one of seven similar facilities built by the company around the United States. When constructed, the massive building, a landmark juxtaposed against the west hills of Northwest Portland, contained the greatest floor space of any building in Portland, and was claimed at the time to be one of the largest reinforced concrete buildings west of The Rockies. The company, the nation's first mail-order merchandizer, established its first warehouse on the west coast in July 1913, in Portland, to service customers

Gassaway Train Depot, Gassaway West Virginia

Gassaway Train Depot, Gassaway West Virginia

Prior to the coming of the railroad in Gassaway, the area that is now the town was farms for a few of the county's early settlers. Nearby were farms and a mill on the Elk River. The county and the vicinity of Gassaway was a small rural agricultural society. The county's population began to increase in the 1890 period, predominantly due to the timber extraction industry. In 1880, the population was 9,787. This grew to 13,928 in 1890, and 18,904 in 1900. Following the establishment of Gassaway the population of the county grew to 23,023 in 1910, and 23,973 in 1920. The 1920 figure is the highest for the county. Following this there was a steady decline to the present population

Barber School - Polk Township District No. 2 Schoolhouse, Walkerton Indiana

Barber School - Polk Township District No. 2 Schoolhouse, Walkerton Indiana

In 1840 Marshall County had forty school-age children, twenty-five of whom attended subscription schools. There were only three schoolhouses in the county at that time. In 1848 the State of Indiana allowed voters to decide if education should be made available free to the public. Marshall County residents voted 619 in favor and 86 against. The state constitution was amended to include Article VIII providing for tax dollars to be used for the free education of the public's children. After its adoption rural schools began to develop rapidly in Marshall County, keeping pace with the settlement of the area. By 1858 the number of schoolhouses had grown from 3 in 1840 to 69. In 1862 there were 84 schools, in 1868

Horace Mann Public School, Indianapolis Indiana

Horace Mann Public School, Indianapolis Indiana

The Horace Mann School #13 is the second oldest public school remaining in Indianapolis, and the most intact and architecturally significant of the few public schools remaining from this era. The building is a fine example of the Italianate style, retaining most of its original exterior detailing, including the bracketed cornice, segmentally arched, hooded windows, and hipped roof. The building was designed by Edwin May (1824-1880) the well-known architect of the Indiana State Capitol Building and of many county court-houses, including those in Franklin and Sullivan, Knox, Decatur and Hamilton Counties. In May of 1873 Edwin May was commissioned by the School Board to develop plans and specifications for a basic school building with the intention that the plans would be

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