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Shadow Lawn Mansion - Woodrow Wilson Hall, West Long Branch New Jersey

Shadow Lawn Mansion - Woodrow Wilson Hall, West Long Branch New Jersey

The present central building of Monmouth College is the second Shadow Lawn. For a short time in the summer of 1915, the first house was the site of the summer White House. President Woodrow Wilson used Shadow Lawn as a base for re-election and narrowly defeated Charles Evans Hughes that autumn. On June 11^th, 1918, Hubert Templeton Parson and his wife Maysie acquired the property for $800,000. The original 65-acre estate grew into 108 acres. Half the land was set aside for farming. Parson became the country gentleman on the estate, although he conducted business in New York City. The house burned to the ground in January, 1927. Parsons started planning immediately for the new house, based on the ground plan

Navesink Light Station - Twin Lights Lighthouse, Highlands New Jersey

Navesink Light Station - Twin Lights Lighthouse, Highlands New Jersey

Twin Lights was the first American lighthouse to test the Fresnel lens in 1841

The Twin Lights at Navesink were established in 1828 on a promontory of land in Highlands, New Jersey, overlooking Sandy Hook peninsula and the Atlantic Ocean. The purpose of the light station was to guide shipping in and out of New York Harbor. The lighthouse's twin or double towers gave it a distinct appearance, preventing mariners from confusing the lights at Navesink with Sandy Hook Light about five miles to the north and the Sandy Hook Lightship nearby. The original twin towers were replaced in 1862 with the current castle-like structure which continued to serve as part of a system of navigational aides for the New York Harbor area until the station was decommissioned in 1949. In the early 1820s, the

Romer Shoal Light Station Lighthouse, Highlands New Jersey

Romer Shoal Light Station Lighthouse, Highlands New Jersey

Romer Shoal was a well-known hazard to navigation several decades before the existing lighthouse was built. Its location on the north side of the Swash Channel, a natural navigation route, meant that a significant amount of maritime traffic passed nearby. It is unclear how this submerged land feature got its name. However, its appellation clearly predates 1837 when the U.S. Congress considered a proposal to erect an aid to navigation on Romer Shoal. This hazard to shipping was marked by a series of unmanned aids to navigation for several decades prior to 1898 when the existing lighthouse was built. In 1837 the U.S. Congress appropriated $15,000 for building a day beacon marker. This was augmented with a second appropriation of $10,000

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Sandy Hook New Jersey

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Sandy Hook New Jersey

The tall, white lighthouse at Sandy Hook, New Jersey was the fifth lighthouse to be built in America, when erected in 1764, and today is the oldest standing light tower in the United States. Originally called the New York Lighthouse, its unfailing beam has befriended innumerable vessels as they have passed in or out of New York. In 1761, the merchants of New York City financed a lottery to raise sufficient funds to erect a lighthouse on Sandy Hook, to guide ships past the New Jersey Shoal into New York harbor. Built by Isaac Contro by June 11^th, 1764, the 105 foot brick and masonry lighthouse was called the New York Lighthouse. The cost of construction was defrayed by a 22

United States Life Saving Station At Surfside, Nantucket Massachusetts

United States Life Saving Station At Surfside, Nantucket Massachusetts

Surfside is the name given to about four miles of coast on the south shore of Nantucket Island, about three and a half miles from the Town of Nantucket. The U. S. Life Saving Service was founded in 1871 and although there were eventually four stations, the Surfside Station was the first one operated on Nantucket. They were located at points where wrecks were unusually frequent, It was estimated that over five hundred shipwrecks occurred around the coast of the Island from the time of its first settlement by the white men to 1877. A vacation guide published in 1889 mentions the following , The Life Saving Station at Surfside is about twenty rods west of the Nantucket railroad depot. Here,

August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm Minnesota

August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm Minnesota

Built just six years after the founding of New Ulm in 1854, and one year before the Civil War, the August Schell Brewing Company is the lone survivor of the seven breweries which have operated in New Ulm. Founder of the brewery which still bears his name, August Schell came to Minnesota in 1856 as a member of the Turner Colonization Society. He was born in Durnbach, Germany, 15 February 1828. In 1848 he came to America and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he followed the trade of machinist in the Cincinnati Locomotive works until moving on to New Ulm. In New Ulm he became interested in the former Cincinnati Mill, later known as the Globe Mill. When that establishment was

Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore Maryland

Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore Maryland

The Hotel Belvedere takes its name from Belvidere, the estate of John Eager Howard situated at Charles and Chase Streets. The main house of the estate was built in 1794, and was located approximately one block east of the existing hotel. In 1870, the original Belvidere estate was demolished for an extension of Calvert Street. During the next several years, the land was divided and subdivided until the partnership of Perin, Harvey and Brown purchased the parcel known as Belvidere. The partners retained the architectural firm of Parker and Thomas of Baltimore and Boston and the construction firm of W.A. and E.A. Wells of Chicago to design and build the Hotel. The design of the Belvedere follows a strong trend of

Gunther Brewing Company - Hamms, Baltimore Maryland

Gunther Brewing Company - Hamms, Baltimore Maryland

Though the president of the Gunther Brewing Company at its founding in 1900 was George Gunther, Jr., the force behind the operation seems to have been his father. George Gunther, Sr., whose last name was originally spelled Guenther, had been involved in brewing in the area for more than twenty years after arriving from Germany in 1866. Gunther worked to sweeten dank cellars at the northeast corner of Conkling and O'Donnell Streets in the early 1870s, joining Christian Gehl's brewery in 1878 and working in the brewery that stood on Conkling Street to the north of the current Gunther complex. Gehl had established his brewery in 1876 in connection with a set of earlier lagering cellars dating to the proprietorship of

Sears Department Store Building, Washington DC

Sears Department Store Building, Washington DC

The Sears, Roebuck & Company department store, designed and built in 1940-41, is highly significant to the architectural and cultural heritage of the nation's capital. Designed by the Sears company's chief architect John Stokes Redden and store planner John G. Raben. It is among Washington's earliest and most significant examples of modern commercial architecture, illustrating the revolutionary impact of the Modernist design philosophy of functional expressionism on the historicism that constituted Washington's dominant architectural idiom; in conception and execution, the building anticipated the modern revolution which transformed the city after the war. It embodies significant innovations made by an influential national retailer in the development of modern department store design, including a windowless and upside down layout--a major customer entry from

FallingWater - Frank Lloyd Wright House, Mill Run Pennsylvania

FallingWater - Frank Lloyd Wright House, Mill Run Pennsylvania

Famous FLW Designed Home Falling Water

Fallingwater on Bear Run is a summer house built for Pittsburgh millionaire Edgar J. Kaufmann and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wayne Andrews has called it the most famous modern house in the world while Vincent Scully proclaimed it one of the complete masterpieces of twentieth-century art. The house, cantilevered over a waterfall, has come to be one of America's most renowned buildings, appealing not only to architects, but to the general public as well. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department store owner, gave Wright the commission for a retreat, a beautiful home, elevated over a waterfall, its wings reaching out into the air, as part of the natural landscape. Its relationship to its surroundings is like that of a tree house, a

Montgomery Union Station, Montgomery Alabama

Montgomery Union Station, Montgomery Alabama

Montgomery's Union Station, one of the largest and most elaborate railway stations still standing in the State, is an excellent example of late 19^th century commercial architecture. Situated on the Alabama River, not far from the city wharf, it served as the focal point of transportation into the city until the advent of commercial air travel, Its size, the ambitiousness of the design and the opulence of its materials make it a monument to the importance of rail transportation in the early 20^th century. Prior to its construction in 1898, the city had been served by a small two-story frame structure built in 1860. By 1894, forty-four passenger trains were serving the city daily and the present station was planned and

Godlington Manor, Chestertown Maryland

Godlington Manor, Chestertown Maryland

The old house on Godlington Manor, patented to Thomas Godlington, a London merchant, in 1659, is significant as a tract of land, originally 1,000 acres, owned at the end of the seventeenth century by Michael Miller, a large landowner, whose lineal descendants still owned and lived on the property in the 1970s. Godlington's gambrel roof section constructed in the late eighteenth century was one of several houses on the manor tract. It is doubtful that Michael Miller or his son, Arthur, or grandson, Arthur, lived in the extant house. In 1747 the land on which the house stands was rented to John Jordan and then to Bartus Wilkins, a ship carpenter. After 1768 when the land returned to Arthur Miller's possession

Seneca Glass Company, Morgantown West Virginia

Seneca Glass Company, Morgantown West Virginia

Seneca Glass Company was founded by a group of immigrant German glassblowers. Natives of the district of Baden in southern Germany, many of these men had previously been employed at the North Cumberland Glass Company in Cumberland, Maryland. In 1891, they met in Cumberland to form their own corporation and subsequently purchased, for $10,000, the plant of the Fostoria Glass Company, at Fostoria, Ohio (Fostoria Glass had moved to Moundsville, West Virginia). The new company flourished from the beginning but was soon faced with the threat of a fuel shortage. In 1896, the directors decided to relocate their plant near a plentiful supply of natural gas and decided upon Morgantown. The new plant began production in January 1897 and continued until

Mad River Glen Ski Lift, Fayston Vermont

Mad River Glen Ski Lift, Fayston Vermont

The Mad River Glen Cooperative in Fayston, Vermont, is the home of the Single Chair Ski Lift, also known as Chair #1. The longest operating single chair ski lift still in its original location in North America, it is a historical treasure for the ski industry. The ski area is located on the northeast slope of General Stark Mountain in central Vermont. The tramway division of the American Steel and Wire Company designed and installed the Single Chair Ski Lift, a patented aerial ski tramway, in 1947. At the base of the ski lift is a bottom Drive Terminal (1600' elevation) that drives a wire rope up the mountain to a top Tension Terminal (3570' elevation). The bottom Drive Terminal features

Labrot and Grahams Oscar Pepper - Old Crow - Distillery, Versailles Kentucky

Labrot and Grahams Oscar Pepper - Old Crow - Distillery, Versailles Kentucky

Born about 1775 in Fauquier, Virginia, Elijah Pepper followed his family to Kentucky in 1797. He first established a distillery with his brother-in-law at the Big Spring behind the Woodford County Courthouse in Versailles. Bourbon County tax records and the census of 1810 show that he moved there for a three-year period before returning to Woodford County. Elijah and his wife Sarah were between the ages 26 and 45 in 1810, and they had seven children (four boys) and nine black slaves. By 1812 Elijah was paying tax on 200 acres of property along Glenn's Creek where he established his grist mill and distillery. Clear title to the property was not established until 1821 and the deed was recorded the following

Boston Beer Company (Original), Boston Massachusetts

Boston Beer Company (Original), Boston Massachusetts

The Brewery Operated at this Site from 1828 until 1957 when the Company Closed

The Boston Beer Company (not associated with the company founded in 1985 that produces Sam Adams) has been associated with the present site since the company was chartered in 1828. In August 1828, Benjamin Thaxter conveyed to the Boston Beer Company a parcel of land, which Thaxter had acquired in July and August of 1828. It was explained in the deed that Baxter had purchased this land with money provided by a group of subscribers who established a fund for erecting and carrying on a brewery of malt liquors at South Boston. Thaxter was to hold the land until such time as they were incorporated, at which time Thaxter would convey the land to the subscribers in their corporate capacity. The

Murphys Hotel - Mitchler Hotel, Murphys California

Murphys Hotel - Mitchler Hotel, Murphys California

Original Murphys hotel built in 1855-56 and known as Sperry and Perry hotel and was called a fire proof building. Stage stop enroute to Calaveras Big Trees, the hotel was built to accomodate that traffic after the trees discovery. Although thought to be fireproof, burned in the fire of 1859. Front part of building was of stone and iron doors separated this part from the wooden dining room in the rear. Work was started immediately after the fire on a new building which was completed for opening the following year in spring. New walls were entirely of stone. The hotel never again burned in subsequent fires. In the fire of 1874 the stone walls saved it from fire. Also in 1893

St. George Hotel, Winchester Kentucky

St. George Hotel, Winchester Kentucky

This hotel was erected by the George brothers, prominent local businessmen, and stands on the site of the old Winchester Hotel, a two-story wood frame hotel and business block. Because of its location near the train station, this hotel catered to railroad travelers. The structure is an unusual combination of Queen Anne and Neocolonial architecture which functioned as a major hotel in town since it opened in 1904. For one year it was the finest hotel in town but was superceded by the larger Brown-Proctor when that hotel opened in 1905. The most prominent feature is the four-story round towner on the corner, capped by a conical roof. Stepped gables accent the two major elevations at the roofline. The main entrance

Scotland Mansion, Frankfort Kentucky

Scotland Mansion, Frankfort Kentucky

The imposing Greek Revival mansion, located off Versailles Road, five miles east of Frankfort, was built between 1845 and 1847 by Robert Wilmot Scott, a prominent lawyer, politician, and innovative farmer and stock raiser. He ws also instrumental in establishing the Kentucky public school and constructed the first common school in the State on his estate. The land on which the house was built had been the estate of Martin D. Hardin (1780-1823), another eminent lawyer and politician. Later owners of the property include Horatio P. Mason, a famous contractor and engineer; and Colonel J. Swigert Taylor, a respected Frankfort distiller and thoroughbred horse breeder. Scotland, as it is now called, is the largest Greek Revival house in Franklin County, and

Schoenhofen Brewery - Edelweiss Beer, Chicago Illinois

Schoenhofen Brewery - Edelweiss Beer, Chicago Illinois

The Schoenhofen Brewery, long known as the producers of Edelweis Beer, was one of the largest and most elaborate breweries ever constructed in Chicago. The Brewery was established in the early 1860's and continued to function until Prohibition. The Schoenhofen Brewery is a fifteen building complex covering about seven acres, two miles south of Chicago's downtown. The first buildings were erected in 1862, when Peter Schoenhofen moved his business eight blocks south and west, from Jefferson and 12^th Streets, to Canalport and 18th. None of these first buildings remain. The oldest building in the complex was probably built about 1867, five years after the founding of the brewery on the 18^th and Canalport site. In the process of growth from 600

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