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Freeman Goode Mansion - Saunders House, Town Creek Alabama

Freeman Goode Mansion - Saunders House, Town Creek Alabama

Land for the house site was originally purchased from the Government Land Office at Huntsville in 1820 by the Reverend Turner Saunders, a minister of the Methodist church turned merchant. Saunders came from Brunswick County, Virginia to Franklin, Tennessee in 1808. From there he made several tours into what is now Lawrence County The house was constructed by Saunders in 1824. Saunders sold the place to Freeman Goode, who in turn sold it to the Hall Estate. The Saunders House consists of a two story center with two story-and one-half wings. A full half story basement runs the length of the house. Construction is brick masonry with wood frame interior of mill sawn timber. The house which faces south is symmetrical

Emil Bach House - Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Illinois

Emil Bach House - Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Illinois

This is one of the few houses in the Chicago area done by Frank Lloyd Wright after returning from Europe in 1911 and before going to Japan to supervise the work on the Imperial Hotel. It is a late modification of the Fireproof House design published in the Ladies Home Journal in 1906 and is an example of the architect's attempt to destroy the box. Emil Bach was one of four brothers who owned and operated the Bach Brick Company. A second of these brothers, Otto, had purchased the Oscar Steffens house at 7631 Sheridan Road in 1912, which is also Frank Lloyd Wright designed.

Oscar Steffens House - Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Illinois

Oscar Steffens House - Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Illinois

This house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is a later version of the Isabel Roberts house in Oak Park. Both structures are small versions of the Prairie House with revolving spaces around a central fireplace in individually articulated wings. Otto Bach was a brother of Emil Bach, for whom Wright designed a house at 7415 North Sheridan Road in 1915. The two brothers, along with additional members of the family, owned and operated a concern known as the Bach Brick Company.

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy -CBQ- Railroad Roundhouse and Shops, Aurora Illinois

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy -CBQ- Railroad Roundhouse and Shops, Aurora Illinois

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Roundhouse and attached backshop complex located in Aurora, Illinois, are a group of intricately-connected structures built between 1855 and 1954. The complex is all that remains of an extensive railroad shop facility that once filled the 60-acre industrial site on the east side of the Fox River. Extant structures, include a roundhouse, 3 attached machine shops, a rod shop, a blacksmith shop, boiler room, tool room, and wheel corridor and bay. They are an important part of America's engineering heritage not only because of their age and architectural features but because of their contribution to the development of midwestern railroads in general and the CB&Q in particular. Portions of the complex are among the oldest

Wrights Covered Bridge, Claremont New Hampshire

Wrights Covered Bridge, Claremont New Hampshire

One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge engineer at the Boston & Maine Railroad. The use of the arch, which is original here, effected modifications to the lattice design. Snow was an important advocate for wooden bridges into the early twentieth century. It was used as a railroad bridge until 1977 when the line was abandoned. The Concord & Claremont Railroad received a charter in 1848 for a line extending west-northwest from Concord to Bradford, Newport, and Claremont. Work was soon completed to Bradford, but financial and engineering difficulties prevented its further extension until the early 1870s. At

Dunham's Department Store, Trenton New Jersey

Dunham's Department Store, Trenton New Jersey

Dunham's Department Store began as the Scudder and Dunham Dry Goods Store at 13 North Broad Street in 1883. The firm's success and growth made it Trenton's largest retailer by the 1930's, and it dominated this block of town in the mid-20^th century. The core of Dunham's was three adjacent Italianate style commercial buildings at 11, 13, and 15 North Broad Street, built as a commercial block in 1867, known at the time as Lafayette Row. The storefronts were redesigned and the buildings of the row joined internally in 1905. Throughout the 20^th century, Dunham's expanded their selling area and offices by purchasing adjacent buildings and creating internal access to them, although the core of the store remained at the original

The Wallach Building, Trenton New Jersey

The Wallach Building, Trenton New Jersey

The Wallach Building is a commercial building erected on the corner of State and Broad Streets, the heart of downtown Trenton. The modern steel frame building with greatly simplified classical detailing replaced nine individual 19^th century buildings which had crowded together on this site. Planned in the Roaring Twenties, but completed during the Depression, the Wallach Building was the most modern building in this block of downtown. The building was most popularly known as part of the Dunham's Department Store in the 1950s and '60s, and it carried a lighted sign for Dunhams on the corner overlooking State and Broad Streets. The Wallach Building site has been a bustling corner 1n the heart of downtown Trenton's commercial area since the early

Trenton House Hotel, Trenton New Jersey

Trenton House Hotel, Trenton New Jersey

The Trenton House was one of Trenton's most famous and prestigious hotels in the 19^th century, serving politicians in town for the work of the state legislature and travelers who arrived at the nearby railroad station. Transformed to a hotel from a Georgian-style residence in 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette stayed here duing his American tour of that year. In 1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln was a guest at the Trenton House while traveling to his first inauguration. Lincoln was given a reception here, and he addressed crowds of citizens from the hotel balcony. The hotel was a gathering place for many other politicians during the 19^th century, and the legend grew of the Trenton House's Room 100, where deals were made

Vicksburg and Brunswick Train Station, Eufaula Alabama

Vicksburg and Brunswick Train Station, Eufaula Alabama

Railroads were part and parcel of the nation's nineteenth century industrial infancy. Antebellum Alabama planters envisioned railways exporting the region's agricultural commodities and simplifying trading between parts of the state divided by mountain ranges and unnavigable river routes. But railways grew slowly until state and regional leaders aggressively pursued industrialization after the Civil War. In the south, as historians Tom Terrill and William Cooper described, railroads formed the superstructure of the economy of the New South. They were the elemental precondition to better times. A railway mania swept the South after the Civil War, infecting politicians, businessmen, and potential railway laborers. Despite the war-related destruction, and with the help of northern capitol and government subsidies, by 1880 railroad mileage in the

Troutman Building - First National Bank, Connellsville Pennsylvania

Troutman Building - First National Bank, Connellsville Pennsylvania

Department Store Building in PA Prior to Demolition

This building was the historic headquarters of the First National Bank of Connellsville and home to the Wright-Metzler Department Store. Wright-Metzler was eventually absorbed by the equally successful Troutman Department Store in 1925. The building was abandoned in the early 1980s. While historically known as the First National Bank Building, it was commonly referred to as the Troutman Building since 1949. According to The Daily Courier, of 8^th June 1900, the initial scheme for the First National Bank Building was for a three story combination bank, office, and opera house. The newspapers describe the bank portion of the building as measuring 30'-0 x 85'-0 and the opera house measuring 66'-0 x 80'-0 feet. The exterior facings of the building were to

Magnolia Hotel, Seguin Texas

Magnolia Hotel, Seguin Texas

The original building, constructed of an early type of concrete, was built in 1846; the builder is unknown. At a somewhat later date the concrete structure was bought by a Doctor Read, who in all probability added much of the frame structure as it exists today. Down thru the years the hotel was operated by several different families, and it is generally supposed that as the business grew, the hotel was enlarged. In the days prior to the advent of the Southern Pacific railroad, a stage stand vras operated in conjunction with the hotel. Its great ballroom is said to have been the show place of the town, and the center of many social gatherings of note. The stage stand foundations

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Train Station, Laurel Maryland

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Train Station, Laurel Maryland

The Baltimore & Ohio was the first railroad line constructed in this country for both freight and passenger service on a comprehensive scale. Construction began in 1828 and by 1830 the first 15-mile section, running from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills (Ellicott City), Maryland, was complete. The Washington Branch of the B&O, completed in 1835, came from the Baltimore line through Prince George's County and into Washington. It entered Prince George's in Laurel and continued in a southwesterly direction, carrying passengers and freight on to Beltsville, College Park, Riverdale and Hyattsville. The Laurel station was designed by Baltimore architect E. Francis Baldwin. John w. Garrett, then president of the B&O Railroad, hired Baldwin in the mid-1870s to design a number of stations

Missouri Pacific-Texas Railroad Train Station, Alexandria Louisiana

Missouri Pacific-Texas Railroad Train Station, Alexandria Louisiana

In 1882 the Texas and Pacific Railroad Co. received the franchise for the Texas to New Orleans line of the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Co. and on September 11^th of that year, the first regular service between New Orleans and Shreveport was established. This service was followed by five other lines connecting Alexandria to various locals in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. With the establishment of these lines, the lumber industry in central Louisiana, which was basically a sleeping giant, gained considerable momentum, bringing Alexandria to the brink of its so called golden age. Many Northern lumbermen came to Alexandria to capitalize on this new wealth in wood. By the last decade of the century, visible signs of this new railroad-based economy

Kenworthy Hall - Carlisle-Martin House, Marion Alabama

Kenworthy Hall - Carlisle-Martin House, Marion Alabama

In February of 1858, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle acquired 200 acres, encompassing the gentle rise between two small creeks, with a fresh natural spring at the base of the hill. Many of his relatives owned land and lived in plantation houses in the area, and since 1843 Carlisle had lived in a one-story brick dwelling on land that he purchased, located in the neighboring section of the township. After that date he slowly began to acquire lands around the present site of Kenworthy Hall, eventually amassing approximately 440 acres by the time he deeded the property to his wife in 1867. Carlisle wrote his first letter to Richard Upjohn on May 4^th, 1858, inquiring about ideas and terms for designing a country

John Stetson Hat Company, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

John Stetson Hat Company, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The World Renowned Hats were made at this Factory until 1971

The Stetson Company began manufacturing hats in Philadelphia in 1865. John B. Stetson moved production to the site on Germantown Avenue in 1874. Stetson died in 1906, but the firm he founded continued to flourish for many years thereafter, finally ceasing operations on the site in 1971. The plant at one time employed over 5,000 people and contained a total of about 1,400,000 square feet of floor space in its buildings. It was then (circa 1920) the largest hat factory in the world. There were only two American hat-making centers in Colonial times, Danbury, Connecticut, and Orange, New Jersey. The Stetsons settled in Orange, New Jersey, and it was there that John B. Stetson was born in 1830. After learning his

Sand Key Lighthouse, Sand Key Florida

Sand Key Lighthouse, Sand Key Florida

This is one of the most important lights on the coast of the United States. It was first lighted on July 20, 1853, and is the second oldest of the six iron screw pile light houses which extend from Fowey Rocks to Sand Key to mark off-shore keys, shoals, and reefs which are hazardous to coastal shipping. It is the only one of these lights not standing entirely in water. The original brick conical tower, keeper's quarters, dock, etc., were completely destroyed in the hurricane of 18U6. A light ship was stationed here until 1853, when the iron work tower was completed. J.W.P. Lewis who designed this tower was one of the most noted American designers of lighthouses. Lt. George B.

Longacres Park Horse Track, Renton Washington

Longacres Park Horse Track, Renton Washington

The development of Longacres began June 23, 1933, when successful Seattle real estate investor Vinson Joseph Gottstein signed a ten-year lease option for 101 acres of the James Nelson dairy farm in the Green River Valley. In anticipation of the project, Gottstein had organized the Washington Jockey Club earlier that spring. From the newly-formed Washington Horse Racing Commission, he secured a 40-day racing season to commence on August 3^rd, and hired architect B. Marcus Priteca to begin preliminary design work. Priteca's earliest extant drawing for the project is a site plan of the Nelson farm parcel, dated June 21, 1933. Subsequent drawings for the initial phase of development date from June 30 through July 18, overlapping several weeks of actual construction

Bethlehem Train Station, Bethlehem Pennsylvania

Bethlehem Train Station, Bethlehem Pennsylvania

This one and one-half story brick mansard roofed station with canopy skirt supported by elaborate brackets on all four sides stands on the north side of the Central Railroad of New Jersey tracks in Bethlehem. One room deep by four long, bilaterally symetrical with a central telegrapher's bay, it sports elaborate bracketed cornices at both top and bottom of the mansard faces and barge board with crossed timbers, florals, and stars in the eaves at its central cross gable. Built in 1873. The Bethlehem Jaycees leased the station in 1962 from the railroad and restored it as a restaurant with the consulatlon of Charles H. Bauber, AIA, (Newark, NJ) . Between 1977 and 1979, it was subleased by the operators of

Spring Villa House, Opelika Alabama

Spring Villa House, Opelika Alabama

William Penn Yonga built this home and was the original owner. He was his own architect. After a trip to California, during the gold rush, Penn Yonge settled on a beautiful piece of wooded land, near a little village named for his family, Yongesborough. At first he must have lived in a log cabin. But later he built a more pretentious home on his wooded plantation, near a very fine spring. Here he developed a large artificial lake, said to have covered thirty acres. All the way around this lake were beautiful weeping willows, imported shrubs and trees. In the center of the lake was an island covered with lilies and roses. Mr. Yonge had stables and a race track. He

Henry Ford Plantation, Richmond Hill Georgia

Henry Ford Plantation, Richmond Hill Georgia

Henry Ford, the great American industrialist, first visited the Savannah area in 1917. In that year, Ford explored the Georgia coast and Ogeechee River by yacht with his close friend and famous naturalist, John Burroughs. By that time, Henry Ford was a household name for the great automobile dynasty he founded in Detroit, Michigan. He was also the world's first billionaire. On occasion, Henry Ford, John Burroughs, Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison subsequently took camping trips up the Ogeechee River and elsewhere. Henry and Clara Ford had a winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. During the 1920s, however, they were tiring of it because of a lack of privacy. Henry and Clara Ford explored the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers during a

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