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Richard and Deborah Glaister House, Lansing Michigan

Richard and Deborah Glaister House, Lansing Michigan

The Glaister House was the home of master stone mason Richard Glaister, who, employed by N. Osburn & Co., contractor for the Michigan State Capitol built in 1872-78, served as the company's head of stonecutting for the capitol's construction. The house is one of the few remaining Italianate houses in Lansing. The city's growth and development since the later nineteenth century have resulted in the loss of much of the city's nineteenth-century housing stock. In 1847, after long and hard deliberations in the state legislature, what is now Lansing was selected as the future site of the seat of Michigan state government. The area, centrally located within the southern Lower Peninsula but previously wilderness except for a small settlement around mills

Kansas City & Southern Depot, Decatur Arkansas

Kansas City & Southern Depot, Decatur Arkansas

The Kansas City-Southern Railroad was the realization of the dream of Arthur E. Stilwell, a native of Rochester, New York. Stilwell envisioned a railroad that would be straight as the crow flies to connect Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico. Farmers, ranchers, lumber, and coal men were being exploited by the rates charged to ship goods by way of the east, ignoring the ports to the south, in order to get them to waters for European markets. With his railroad Stilwell could ship faster, cheaper and preserve the perishables that were often spoiled along the normal shipping channels. At the age of thirty Stilwell organized the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad and in 1889 started the Kansas City, Pittsburgh &

Gem Theater, New Orleans Louisiana

Gem Theater, New Orleans Louisiana

The Gem Theater is a good example of a first-class theater built specifically for African Americans in their respective neighborhood. Theaters such as the Gem were symbolic during a time of segregation and allowed for the African American residents to have their own theater where they were not specifically relegated to one section due to segregation. Segregation was in place throughout the country in the 1940s and 1950s and as with other public establishments, theaters had separate entries for whites and African Americans. They also had separate ticket booths as well. These entry routes bypassed the main lobbies and usually included a steep, narrow stair that led to an upper balcony where they sometimes had more uncomfortable seats and fewer amenities

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Depot, Mammoth Spring Arkansas

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Depot, Mammoth Spring Arkansas

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas was named for the underground spring that surfaces at this location, forming the sole source for the Spring River (measuring 180 feet in diameter, the spring discharges a constant volume of 45,000 cubic feet per minute, regardless of season; it is considered to be the largest such spring in the United States). The earliest settlement in the area was located across the state line in Missouri, but the entire community largely relocated after the railroad came through in 1883. With the arrival of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad (a relatively small railroad that just dipped into Arkansas from Missouri to the north, and which later became part of the St. Louis and San Francisco, now

Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Depot, Manila Arkansas

Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Depot, Manila Arkansas

The site of present-day Manila was settled by Ed Smith in 1852. He located there to take over management of a lumber mill. Virgin timber comprising of red oak, cypress, gum and walnut attracted many workers to Manila. Both the first post office and community were named Cinda, after the daughter of Sam Bunch who was the first postmaster in 1898. At the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, the community was renamed Manila in honor of Admiral Dewey's famous victory. In addition, the citizens named their streets after Dewey and two U.S. battleships in the engagement, Baltimore and Olympia. The railroad came to Manila in 1901 when investors from Jonesboro recognized the need for transportation to and from Big Lake Island.

St. Paul's German Evangelical Church and Parish House, Louisville Kentucky

St. Paul's German Evangelical Church and Parish House, Louisville Kentucky

St. Paul's German Evangelical Church is an excellent example of Gothic Revival with influences from the English Perpendicular style. It is the design of Clarke and Loomis, an architectural firm of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Louisville which gained widespread local distinction for many ecclesiastical, residential and commercial designs. St. Paul's is one of Louisville's oldest Evangelical congregations, organized in 1836 as the First German Evangelical Congregation of Louisville, Kentucky. They held meetings in a carpenter shop for the first three years of their existence, and in 1839 makes purchased a small brick Methodist church on Green St. (now Liberty) between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Finally, in 1841, the congregation had outgrown the small church building and a

Iron Mountain Railroad Depot, Glenwood Arkansas

Iron Mountain Railroad Depot, Glenwood Arkansas

Glenwood was platted c. 1907 with the arrival of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad and is one of the newer towns of Pike County. The A. L. Clark Lumber Company from Bonham, Texas, provided the major impetus for the town's formation by opening a lumber mill in 1906. Originally known as Holly, the name of the fledgling community and railroad station was changed to Glenwood in 1908 when the post office was established. The town was incorporated later that year. An early photograph, believed to have been taken c. 1910, reveals a bustling, dirt Main Street lined with commercial structures with the depot positioned in the middle of the road, the site which is now the intersection of

Franklin Foundation Hospital, Franklin Louisiana

Franklin Foundation Hospital, Franklin Louisiana

The Franklin Foundation Hospital was a direct consequence of the 1946 Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act, the far-reaching federal legislation that sponsored hospital construction and health clinics in under-served areas, particularly in rural communities and small towns. The Franklin Hospital was one of the first built in Louisiana under the Hill-Burton program and continued to use the program in its expansions and direction until its demise in the 1970s. The Hill-Burton program was a major landmark in U.S. healthcare history. Between 1947 and 1970, 5,677 hospitals were built under the Hill-Burton auspices, half of those in communities with populations less than 10,000. The program set nationwide standards for hospitals and health clinics, later adding nursing homes, chronic disease hospitals, mental health, and

Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot, Leachville Arkansas

Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot, Leachville Arkansas

The Blytheville, Leachville, and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot in Leachville is significant for its association with a small, entrepreneurial railroad line that sought to improve access to larger markets for local farmers in Arkansas's Mississippi Delta region. Leachville's relatively central location within the rich, agricultural lands of northeast Arkansas combined with its propitious location between some of the major ports on the Mississippi River to make it a relatively important railroad intersection in the last years of the nineteenth and into the early years of the twentieth century. The first rail line to be built through Leachville was the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern, which constructed an east-west line in 1900. This line attempted to take advantage of Leachville's existing status

Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant, Arabi Louisiana

Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant, Arabi Louisiana

The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant in Arabi, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, was one of over three dozen branch assembly plants that Ford opened between 1911 and 1932 throughout the United States as part of the company's expansion efforts to meet an insatiable demand for its automobiles, particularly the Model T. America's entrance into World War I in 1917 suspended the company's development plans, but as wartime recovery gave way to the economic boom of the 1920s, when the Arabi plant was constructed, Model Ts grew so popular that they soon comprised half of all cars in the United States. The incredible popularity and success of the Model T was the result of Henry Ford's relentless efforts to innovate, streamline, and

Missouri - Pacific Railroad Depot, Nashville Arkansas

Missouri - Pacific Railroad Depot, Nashville Arkansas

Nashville, Arkansas experienced its most significant period of growth as a community after the Civil War, when the gradually increasing attempts of local farmers to diversify their crop production (growing, in addition to the traditional staple of cotton, such other cash crops as peaches, alfalfa, corn, onions, tomatoes, and cucumbers, not to mention the raising of livestock for commercial sale) combined with the arrival of the railroad to transform this formerly small, rural town into a bustling commercial center and the county seat of Howard County. The Missouri-Pacific Depot in Nashville was constructed as part of an extensive building campaign initiated by the railroad during the second decade of the twentieth century. The Missouri-Pacific undertook a statewide effort to upgrade and

Saline River Bridge, Benton Arkansas

Saline River Bridge, Benton Arkansas

The Saline River Bridge was one of Arkansas' best unaltered examples of a reinforced-concrete, open spandrel, deck arch bridge. Designed by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, Bridge Engineering Division, under the supervision of N.B. Garver, Chief Bridge Engineer, and constructed by the Arkansas General Construction Company of Little Rock in 1928, this bridge was one of only 10 unaltered examples of the open-spandrel, reinforced-concrete, deck arches surviving in Arkansas. The Saline River Bridge was constructed as part of a six bridge improvement project on the Benton-Malvern Road beginning two miles west of Benton. It clearly reflects the AHTD's substantial influence in reinforced-concrete bridge design and construction during the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department Era: 1923-1939. The bridge was demolished prior

Missouri - Pacific Railroad Depot, Benton Arkansas

Missouri - Pacific Railroad Depot, Benton Arkansas

Benton, Arkansas has been platted as early as 1836, and could boast of having a racetrack long before the establishment of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, thirty miles to the southwest. Though such small, local industries as salt mining and a pottery works had been established relatively early, the arrival of the railroad after the Civil War combined with the explosion of the lumber and timbering industry locally to make Benton an important local transportation hub for both industrial and commercial interests, not to mention passenger traffic. The Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot in Benton was constructed c. 1917 after it had acquired the old St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern line that ran between Missouri and Texas as part of the Missouri-Pacific

Louisiana and Northwest Railroad Depot, Magnolia Arkansas

Louisiana and Northwest Railroad Depot, Magnolia Arkansas

This Station Served Mainly Lumber Freight Trains

The Louisiana and Northwest Railroad Depot in Magnolia was built by the Louisiana and Northwest Railroad, one of many railroad lines established in Arkansas for the primary purpose of transporting the lumber and lumber products being produced by the burgeoning Arkansas timber industry to an ever-expanding national and international market. The emphasis of this railroad line on carrying freight is reflected in this depot by its large number of freight doors and its lack of passenger doors on the street elevation. Though this depot was not distinctive architecturally, it remained substantially unchanged since its construction. It was demolished sometime before February 2000. The Louisiana and Northwest Railroad Depot in Magnolia is a single-story, wood frame freight and passenger depot designed in

Colfax Jail, Colfax Louisiana

Colfax Jail, Colfax Louisiana

Grant Parish was named in honor of U.S., President Ulysses S. Grant, and Colfax, its parish seat, was named after President Grant's first Vice-President, Schuyler M. Colfax. Grant Parish was established in 1869, and was one of several parishes created during the Reconstruction era. The parish was created from a fusion of southern Winn Parish and northern Rapides Parish, and upon its establishment the population of Grant Parish was 4,515. Grant Parish also appointed parish officers within its founding year. A year later, in 1870, the parish held elections for Judge, Sheriff, and Clerk of Court. A postmaster was also appointed to the quiet, rural community of Colfax, and almost two decades later, in 1886, the people of Grant Parish voted

DeQueen and Eastern Railroad Depot, Dierks Arkansas

DeQueen and Eastern Railroad Depot, Dierks Arkansas

The DeQueen and Eastern Railroad was incorporated in 1900. The four Dierks brothers, Henry, Herman, Hans, and Peter came to southwest Arkansas from Nebraska in that same year and purchased a sawmill near DeQueen (Sevier County). They soon discovered that their initial dependence upon mules to haul logs from the forest to the mill proved time-consuming and costly, and thus they developed plans for the new rail line that would connect their milling operation with both the neighboring forests and the Kansas City-Southern Railroad line to the west. Though it was a short line initially, the growth of the Dierks brothers' lumbering and milling operations necessitated expansion of their lumber holdings to the east, and thus required the rail line to

Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Yuma Arizona

Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Yuma Arizona

Yuma has long been a vital link in the main southern transcontinental route. From prehistoric times, Yuma has been the site of the best and most important crossing of the Colorado River, and this elegant depot reflects the importance of the location. The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot at Yuma was completed on the 1^st of April 1926 to replace an earlier depot at a different location. The building was dedicated on April 7^th and was part of a general improvement plan by the company. When the new depot was built, the main line had to be relocated, and a new 400-foot single-span bridge was built across the Colorado River. The levee on the Gila River also had to be raised to

Claiborne Cottage Hotel, Covington Louisiana

Claiborne Cottage Hotel, Covington Louisiana

The history of the Claiborne Cottage Hotel property parallels the rise and decline of St. Tammany Parish's health tourism industry in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries and is the last remaining example of the high-end resorts that once dotted the parish. After serving as the St. Tammany Parish courthouse, a private residence, and a Catholic seminary, the 2-story brick masonry building on the Claiborne Cottage Hotel property was converted by the Jaufroid family in 1880 into a health resort catering to a wealthy clientele, primarily from New Orleans. References to the new Claiborne Cottage began appearing in the St. Tammany Farmer that year; for instance, one enticing letter to the editor reads: From what I hear, Covington will be

Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad Depot, Prescott Arizona

Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad Depot, Prescott Arizona

Prescott was first connected to the Atlantic and Pacific (now the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe) Railroad on December 31^st, 1886. This line, known as the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad, was constructed by Thomas S. Bullock with the support of Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle, and a county bonds subsidy of $292,000. This was possible because Prescott was the Territorial Capital. Six months later, on July 4^th, 1887 the Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad was completed, making Phoenix also accessible by rail. Although the desirability of connecting Prescott and Phoenix was known it had to wait for the development effort of Frank M. Murphy. In 1891 Murphy inherited a substantial interest in the Congress mine northwest of Wickenburg from Joseph Diamond

El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot, Douglas Arizona

El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot, Douglas Arizona

Following the establishment of a nascent railway system in the Arizona Territory in the late 1870's and the 1880's, mineral industries within the territory flourished beyond all-expectations. Of particular importance was the mining of copper which increased rapidly over a relatively short period of time. Mining activity in Arizona, first begun on a small scale in the 1850's, grew enormously in the 1870's due to the discovery of large deposits of copper in the Jerome, Bisbee, Globe, and Morenci districts. The Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, located in the southeastern corner of the territory, became one of the richest producers and yielded over one hundred million dollars worth of ore. In 1885 Phelps-Dodge Corporation, one of the leading copper producers in

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