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Cleveland Chandler Auto Company, Cleveland Ohio

Cleveland Chandler Auto Company, Cleveland Ohio

The history of The Chandler Motor Car Company is full of superlatives. The company had a phenomenal growth, with probably the most brilliant financial success of the industry, reckoning time as the prime measure. Its factory was one of the largest automobile manufacturing plants in Cleveland, with few equals ... from an industrial point of view. Its six-cylinder car created a sensation when first marketed, quickly becoming a national favorite. That success rests, in large part, with Frederick C. Chandler. He was born in Cleveland in 1874. By 1890, he had begun working for the H. A. Lozier and Company, a Cleveland manufacturer of sewing machines, boats, bicycles, and an early gasoline automobile, the Cleveland Tricycle. After the American Bicycle Company

Lunatic Asylum - Mills Building, Columbia South Carolina

Lunatic Asylum - Mills Building, Columbia South Carolina

It is known from hospital records that Robert Mils built the center section and the first portions of the flanking wings in 1825-1&27. The next portion of the wing to the east was added in 1838 end the next portion of the wing to the west, in 1842. These both were from Mills1 plan and probably were designed by him. The end portions of the flanking wings were requested to be constructed in 1848. However, since the records have been lost, it is not known whether they were built then or by whom. All evidence points to the likelihood that these were done by Samuel Sloan. It is certain that these end portions were erected prior to 1860. The original structure

Ainsley Hall - Robert Mills House, Columbia South Carolina

Ainsley Hall - Robert Mills House, Columbia South Carolina

The mansion, on the south side of Blanding Street between Pickens and Henderson Streets, was one of Columbia's few early buildings to escape the ravages of the Civil War. Robert Mills had returned to South Carolina at the invitation of the state government, and received appointment as Engineer and Architect of the State and a commissioned seat in the Board of Commissioners of Public Works, and soon undertook the building of the important Lunatic Asylum in Columbia, one of the pioneer asylums in the United States. It was while he was in Columbia that his close friend;, Ainsley Hall, commissioned him to design this new house. Hall emigrated from England about 1800, settled in Columbia, and set himself up as a

Odd Fellows Home of Ohio, Springfield Ohio

Odd Fellows Home of Ohio, Springfield Ohio

Built in 1898, this was Originally a Home for Orphans and Elderly

The exterior of the Odd Fellows Home appears much as it did when first constructed. The original plans however, called for a two story structure with large covered porches on the front and on either side and a mottled tile roof. When completed, the main structure was increased to three stories in height and the porches were not built. Also, heavy red tile was substituted for the mottled tile. The cost of construction was estimated at $57,187 as a result of the aforementioned modifications. The interior of the third floor was finished in 1899. By 1902, the home was full with approximately 250 residents and discussions began concerning an addition. In that same year, the home was electrified with power being

Fenwick Hall Plantation, Johns Island South Carolina

Fenwick Hall Plantation, Johns Island South Carolina

Set along the banks of the Stono River and featuring an oak allee on the land side, Fenwick Hall is one of the earliest surviving eighteenth-century brick plantation houses in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Fenwick Hall was constructed when plantation agriculture, specifically rice cultivation, boomed and merchants grew wealthy on extensive trade with Great Britain. Tradition holds that the earliest portion of Fenwick was built for merchant John Fenwick on the location of a previous log plantation house. John Fenwick came to South Carolina from England in the early eighteenth century. A noteworthy citizen in his own right, Fenwick fought against the Spanish and French attacks on Charles Towne in 1706, led troops as a garrison commander during the 1715 Yemassee

Santa Maria Plantation, Baton Rouge Louisiana

Santa Maria Plantation, Baton Rouge Louisiana

During the tenure of Charles Knowlton and his wife, Kate Andrews Knowlton, Santa Maria was a post-bellum plantation of some significance to the area. The 1880 Agriculture Census reveals the size of the operation. At that time, the Knowltons owned 740 acres of land, of which 440 were improved and 300 were woodlands. Twelve acres planted in sugar cane in 1879 yielded 17 hogsheads of sugar (17,000 pounds) and 1,200 gallons of molasses. Twenty acres of corn yielded 750 bushels. Gladys Morrill's grandparents were Charles P. Knowlton (Captain in Confederate Army) and his wife, Katherine (Kate) Andrews, daughter of John Andrews, the founder of Belle Grove Plantation. In a letter on file at the State Historic Preservation Office, Mrs. Morill related

Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Dayton Ohio

Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Dayton Ohio

State of Ohio second major institution for the insane. Plans for the building were based on the first uniform plan of hospital construction, developed by Dr. Thatias Kirkbride of Philadelphia, a knowledgeable expert on asylum architecture who had traveled throughout England. He studied the defects of the European model and devised plans, formulated in a series of 26 presentations, which were formally adopted by the Association of Superintendents of Institutions. This building layout became a prototype for most of the mental hospitals built in the 1800's. The Kirkbride plan consisted of an administration building, to be used for offices, store-rooms and kitchen, as well as a residence for the superintendent and medical officers. On either side of the administration building are

Arcade Hotel, Springfield Ohio

Arcade Hotel, Springfield Ohio

In its heyday, the Arcade Hotel was recognized as a leading commercial center in the downtown business area. The atmosphere created by the large skylighted arcade of shops undoubtedly promoted that commercial activity. The original building consisted of the four story element which formed the northwest corner of the Arcade was erected circa 1860. While this original building once belonged to the Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly Reaper Works which began operation in 1856, the exact construction date for the original building is not known. The remainder of the Arcade which nearly surrounds the original building was erected in 1883, at a cost of $125,000. The Arcade Hotel addition was constructed in 1883 by prominent area businessman, Oliver S. Kelly. The Arcade

Cherokee Plantation, Natchez Louisiana

Cherokee Plantation, Natchez Louisiana

Hovering off the ground as Creole houses do, Cherokee stands one and one-half stories tall (over the almost 6' raise) and is covered by a hipped roof sheathed in wood shingles. Framing consists of cypress posts in-filled with bousillage; the foundations are brick masonry piers that lift the house a full-story off the ground. The hipped roof is cantilevered over the 12' deep galleries and hand-hewn cypress columns rise from the gallery floor to meet it. Part of the rear and side galleries was enclosed at an earlier date to accommodate modern sleeping, plumbing, and culinary needs. Bousillage walls are also found within the kitchen, although incongruent with the walls dating to the initial (1830s) construction period. Besides the enclosure of

Dimon Sturges House - The Windmere - Gardner Apts, Mansfield Ohio

Dimon Sturges House - The Windmere - Gardner Apts, Mansfield Ohio

This building was Mansfield's largest and finest example of Second Empire style residential architecture. It was one of the most imposing residences along Park Avenue West, which developed in the late nineteenth century as the town's finest residential street. Its large proportions, intricate exterior stone trim, elaborate molded metal roof dormers and extremely tall mansard roof gave this building distinction when compared to other houses of the period in the locality. On the interior, its fine walnut woodwork, round arched openings throughout, the presence of marble fireplaces in the principal rooms on both main floors and two massive stairways gave this building real distinction. The front stairway, set within a rotunda and designed so that it branched midway up into two

Peerless Motor Car Company, Cleveland Ohio

Peerless Motor Car Company, Cleveland Ohio

The Peerless Motor Car Company remains something of an enigma in the Cleveland automobile industry. While the peerless car ranked among the nation's most expensive, its production outlasted moat of Cleveland's medium-priced automobiles. While the Peerless factory foreshadowed the best in modern architectural trends, the plant's manufacturing methods were twenty years behind the times when the company folded in 1931. The Peerless Motor Car Company began in 1869 as The Peerless Wringer and Manufacturing Company. It became The Peerless Manufacturing Company in 1891 when it added bicycles to its line of wringer washing machines. The plant on Lisbon Street, adjacent to the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad tracks, had a rectangular, two-story office. The Cleveland Rubber Company, whose general manager L. K.

Connie Mack Stadium - Shibe Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Connie Mack Stadium - Shibe Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

This structure was the first reinforced-concrete stadium in the nation. The Evening Bulletin called it a baseball showplace of the country. Although it had other uses over the years, the stadium was built to accommodate the professional baseball team, Philadelphia Athletics, who occupied it from 1909 to 1954. (The Athletics are now defunct). When the stadium was vacated in 1970 it was the oldest park in the major leagues. It was demolished in 1976 after a fire in 1971 had severely damaged it. In 1909, when construction was finished, the new park was V in shape and consisted of a grandstand and a pair of bleachers. (Later additions changed that shape). The grandstand was in the center, forming a corner which

Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge Louisiana

Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge Louisiana

Built in the late 1790s on a ridge overlooking the Mississippi River, the original four-room plantation house was enlarged in 1815-1820. It was saved from demolition in 1967 and restored as a historic house museum.

Evergreen Plantation, Wallace, St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

Evergreen Plantation, Wallace, St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

Evergreen is a plantation complex of thirty-nine buildings, including a grand big house with its various dependencies and a double row of twenty-two slave cabins. All but eight of the buildings are antebellum. The plantation is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish on a stretch of the river that is agrarian in character. Although the sugar mill is no longer extant and the buildings have received some alterations over the years, Evergreen remains an amazing image of the South's plantation landscape. Essentially Evergreen is composed of the main house and its dependencies in a fairly confined area and a double row of slave cabins well to the rear. The layout of the

David Olivier Plantation House, New Orleans Louisiana

David Olivier Plantation House, New Orleans Louisiana

This was a Large Plantation, Later Converted into an Orphanage, and Demolished in 1949

The Olivier House, probably built in 1820, was typical of the large early 19^th century plantation houses that were located within a short distance of New Orleans. With the great prosperity that the city experienced in mid-century, and the resultant rapid increase in population, these country plantations and residences were sold and often the houses were converted for other uses or demolished, and the lands divided into city lots. The house and property was sold to Erienne Carraby, L.B. Macarty, M. Duralde, and Philippe Guesnon in April 1833 for $70,000. They divided the land into lots and sold the house in June of the same year to A.L. Boimare. According to city records, the house was owned by Albert Piernas at

Angelina Plantation, Mt Airy St. John Baptist Parish, Louisiana

Angelina Plantation, Mt Airy St. John Baptist Parish, Louisiana

This Plantation House in Louisiana was Demolished in 1950

Angelina Plantation received its name from Angelina Roussel, probably the daughter of George Roussel and Adelaide Haydel who acquired the property in 1828 from Godfrey Boudousquie. At that time the property contained about fourteen arpents fronting the river which Boudousquie had bought in 1820 from Jean Baptiste Ory. Ory had acquired the property in small parcels over a period of years. Boudousquie bought the property from Ory for $30,000,00 and sold it two years later for $53,000.00, which would seem to indicate that the property had been considerably improved, possibly by the construction of the plantation buildings. The two hexagonal dove cotes, which stood on either side at the rear of the house, and the small outbuilding, probably built as a

Burnside Plantation, Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish Louisiana

Burnside Plantation, Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish Louisiana

Today this plantation ia called Burnside instead of by its original name, The Houmas. Mr. John Burnside, from whom comes the present name, did not acquire the house until 1858, which was many years after its erection. The first name of the plantation was derived from the Houmas Indians who once occupied this region. It was in 1774 that these lands, some 11,930 acres, passed from the hands of the Redmen to those of the Yftiite. Since such a great number of Indian Tribes were cheated out of their lands by the early settlers, it is interesting to note that this transaction was actually a sale. It was made by Calapane, Chief of the Bayou Goula and Houmas Indians, to Maurice

Homeplace Plantation, Hahnville, St Charles Parish, Louisiana

Homeplace Plantation, Hahnville, St Charles Parish, Louisiana

The house was originally built for the planter Fortier on a 10,000-acre tract of land facing the Mississippi River (a couple hundred feet away) and the Old Spanish Trail. Braddish Johnson acquired it before the Civil War. At some time during the time of these first two owners, the dining room with a marble floor was located in the northeast corner of the basement; kitchen between the four live oaks; garconniere similar to the main house but smaller was off to the northwest and a corresponding one to balance. Carriage house and pigeonier, barn and an arc of 26 slave houses completed the plan to the rear. D. Haydel owned it for a few years. P. A. Keller acquired the property

Uncle Sam Plantation, Convent, St James Parish, Louisiana

Uncle Sam Plantation, Convent, St James Parish, Louisiana

One of the most extensive of Louisiana sugar cane plantations, it included 1300 acres originally. Mighty oaks that once graced the front lawn have been devoured by the ever approaching river. Due to encroachment of the Mississippi upon the levee bordering the plantation, demolition of the main group of buildings began in March of 1940, The main house, garconnieres, offices and pigeonniers as well as a stable and carriage house were all marked for removal. The slave hospital, sugar mill and other unidentified buildings were destroyed previously with only their footings remaining. Samuel Fagot, the original owner, died, shortly before the Civil War, leaving the plantation to his widow who lived until the 1870' s. Management of the field and mill

Olana - Frederic Edwin Church House, Hudson New York

Olana - Frederic Edwin Church House, Hudson New York

Olana was lived in by and designed in large part by Frederic Edwin Church, famous American painter of the Hudson River School. The mansion is a combination of Western and Near Eastern architecture. Church and his wife toured Europe and the Wear East. As a result of these visits, Church incorporated architectural versions of the two different parts of the world in his design for a new home. The styling of his house is largely Moorish. The design includes several Persian themes which Church called personal Persian. Architect Calvert Vaux had a supervisory role in the design; he also drew plans for the 37-room mansion. The vastly sculptured landscaping design was done by Frederick Law Olmsted. At the time of Church's

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