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Dayton's Department Store, Minneapolis Minnesota

Dayton's Department Store, Minneapolis Minnesota

The Dayton's Department Store building is located at 700 Nicollet Mall (historically 700 Nicollet Avenue) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Dayton Corporation is a leading Minneapolis company that had a profound impact on Minnesota's retail landscape in the twentieth century. From its innovative sales and marketing techniques to revolutionizing discount shopping, the Dayton Corporation changed the way that Minnesotans shopped. The downtown Minneapolis location was the company's first store, its flagship store, and its corporate headquarters. From 1903 through the 1960s, the Dayton Corporation would respond to changing market conditions, suburbanization, and consumer demands in ways that changed the retail landscape in Minneapolis-and the country. From their corporate offices on the upper floors of the flagship store at Seventh Street South and

Alabama Midland Railway Depot, Ashford Alabama

Alabama Midland Railway Depot, Ashford Alabama

The Ashford/Alabama Midland Railroad Depot was associated with the Alabama Midland Railroad which was a major force in the development of the sparsely populated southeastern section of Alabama, primarily, Henry and, after its creation in 1903, Houston County. The depot was constructed in 1892 at the small lumber and naval stores producing village of Ashford as a shipping and passenger service station for the railroad. The railroad opened an avenue for the shipment of naval stores and lumber and later agricultural goods to markets which, up to the coming of the railroad, were not accessible. The accessibility of these new markets, by rail, attracted people living in the area around the town to settle near the shipping point of their products

Fort Payne Opera House, Fort Payne Alabama

Fort Payne Opera House, Fort Payne Alabama

The Fort Payne Opera House is a boom-town theatre. In 1889, the Fort Payne Coal and Iron Company was organized on the assumption that coal and iron deposits in the area could turn this village into a thriving manufacturing city. Immediately the town began booming, with investments coming from as far away as New England. Promoters called Fort Payne the little Chicago of the South. The DeKalb Hotel, with 180 rooms, was constructed, the opera house was built, and a railroad was laid up the mountain. When the mineral-manufacturing complex failed to materialize, the boom suddenly ended and the newcomers left. The population figures for this period show the rapidity of changes. In 1888, one year before the boom began, there

Sanger Brothers Complex, Dallas Texas

Sanger Brothers Complex, Dallas Texas

The block in downtown Dallas bounded by Elm Street on the north, Lamar Street on the Bast, Main Street on the south, and Austin Street on the west, contains four of the most significant buildings in the city. Examples of the High Victorian Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Commercial-Sullivanesque styles are to be found on this block. The oldest building in the complex, located in the center of the block facing north on Elm Street, was built in 1884. Five stories in height, the building is a masonry structure with load-bearing walls. As was typical of the period, a cast iron storefront at the street level supports the masonry edifice above. An equally typical feature is the High Victorian Italianate-influence in the

Hughes Brothers Manufacturing Company Building, Dallas Texas

Hughes Brothers Manufacturing Company Building, Dallas Texas

The Hughes Brothers Manufacturing Building was constructed as the largest building in a domestic and manufacturing complex in a residential area known as The Cedars, beginning the neighborhood's transition to industrial uses. Designed by Dallas architect Harry Overbeck, it is an excellent and intact example of circa 1900 warehouse design using elements from the Chicago School, and simplified Romanesque and Classical design. The Hughes Family and Hughes Brothers Manufacturing Company The extant Hughes Bros. Building is the only remaining component of a complex of commercial and residential buildings first established by Dr. Frederick E Hughes (1830-1895) after his arrival in Dallas in 1872. Dr. Hughes was an accomplished physician who worked to improve public health policies in Texas and served on

Great Southern Railroad Passenger Depot, Fort Payne Alabama

Great Southern Railroad Passenger Depot, Fort Payne Alabama

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Depot at Fort Payne is a fine example of boom town architecture, and one of the few surviving 19th-century railroad terminals in Alabama. In the 1890s several towns in North Alabama experienced booms. According to Charles Grayson Summersell, an Alabama historian, Fort Payne furnishes an excellent example of boom and panic during this period. In 1889 the Fort Payne Iron and Coal Company was formed. Within five days $1,000,000 was raised. Investors, mainly from New England, flooded into the area and a great city was planned. From a community of 500 in 1888, Fort Payne grew into a metropolis of 2,698 in 1890. The necessary facilities for a town this size were planned. A report of

Albertville Depot, Albertville Alabama

Albertville Depot, Albertville Alabama

The Albertville Depot is one of Marshall County's older transportation landmarks and is the oldest building in the town which was leveled by a tornado in 1908. The city of Albertville had its beginnings in the 1860s when a post office was established, but the town did not begin to grow until the 1890s, and was not incorporated until February 18^th, 1891. Since the 1850s efforts had been made to connect the navigable waters of the Tennessee and Coosa Rivers by rail. In 1890 the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad undertook the completion of the project land on October 3^rd, 1892 the first official run was made between Guntersville and Gadsden with a stop in Albertville. The depot was erected

Cape Henry Lighthouse, Virginia Beach Virginia

Cape Henry Lighthouse, Virginia Beach Virginia

Cape Henry Lighthouse was the first structure authorized and completed by the newly organized Federal Government in 1789. Cape Henry Lighthouse is an octagonal sandstone structure, faced with hewn and hammer-dressed stone; it is the third oldest lighthouse in America, having been completed in 1792. From early colonial times, Chesapeake Bay had boasted a substantial volume of shipping. For decades, however, efforts at gaining the benefits of a lighthouse were unsuccessful. The division of the Bay between Virginia and Maryland made unified action difficult; the comparative regularity of the Virginia coast made the need for a lighthouse seem less pressing; and there was difficulty in reaching an agreement among all the many interested, and often conflicting, parties; the Virginia and Maryland

Ambassador Hotel, Dallas Texas

Ambassador Hotel, Dallas Texas

The Ambassador Hotel, in the Cedars neighborhood immediately south of downtown Dallas, Texas, is a six-story stuccoed brick building built in 1905 and remodeled to its current Mediterranean-inspired appearance in 1932. The building opened as the Majestic Hotel and was considered at that time as one of the city's premier hotels, but soon went into receivership and reopened as the Park Hotel under new owner F.W. Boedecker in 1907. Eclipsed by the establishment of luxury hotels in downtown Dallas, such as the 1912 Adolphus, as well as the transition of the Cedars neighborhood from an upscale residential district to an industrial and commercial district, the hotel served long-term and short-term tenants under different owners until its purchase in 1955 and conversion

Cape Charles Lighthouse Station, Kiptopke Virginia

Cape Charles Lighthouse Station, Kiptopke Virginia

The Cape Charles Light Station tower is the only onshore first-order cast-iron skeletal-type lighthouse tower in the United States. Other first-order lights exist on skeletal towers on offshore pile foundations and on onshore skeletal towers built of steel. At 191 feet, Cape Charles is the tallest skeletal tower, and the second tallest tower of any construction type in the country. Cape Charles was a busy seaport in the early 19^th century. With the advent of the railroad, it became an important juncture for cargo bound for Norfolk and passengers to be ferried between trains. As a seacoast light, Cape Charles used a first-order lens to light the approach to the Cape from the Atlantic. Until 1939, a civilian keeper and two

Los Angeles Harbor Lighthouse Station, Los Angeles California

Los Angeles Harbor Lighthouse Station, Los Angeles California

Whenever a deep-sea ship arrives on her maiden voyage in Los Angeles Harbor, the master is presented with a plaque by the Los Angeles Harbor commissioners. Etched on these plaques is a likeness of Los Angeles Harbor Lighthouse, considered the city's official greeter. It has been a landmark and seamark on the tip of the San Pedro Breakwater since 1913. Designed and built differently from any other West Coast lighthouse, the tower, in a way of speaking, is in the same condition as the Tower of Pisa. Many years ago a furious gale struck, sending seas slamming into the lighthouse, repeatedly bathing it in salt water. Standing defiant on a giant block of reinforced concrete, the sentinel was buffeted for five

Trinidad Head Lighthouse Station, Trinidad California

Trinidad Head Lighthouse Station, Trinidad California

The Trinidad Light Station serves as a monument to the federal government's efforts to make the Trinidad Headlands safe for maritime transportation. The 400' island-like headlands is the most prominent and visible landform on the California coast north of Cape Mendocino. The light station also serves as an entrance beacon to Trinidad Harbor, at one time a bustling harbor home to numerous steam schooners and sailing vessels. Although the lighthouse tower dates from 1871, the federal government had purchased the land five years before in 1866. As early as 1851 federal and local officials had been agitating Congress for a lighthouse at this location. The harbor traffic in mining equipment, lumber, and agricultural products served to make Trinidad one of the

Aloha Apartment Hotel, Los Angeles California

Aloha Apartment Hotel, Los Angeles California

The Aloha Apartment Hotel is a multi-family, residential hotel building. Built during a time of rapid residential and commercial growth of Hollywood and the motion picture industry, this type of building was an architectural response to a tangible need. Its construction relates to the broader commercial development in the city in the 1920s and 1930s. Development of the Aloha Apartment Hotel The 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows a one-and-a-half-story, freestanding house with a one-story front porch and a freestanding rear one-story garage. The house sat in the middle of a double lot. A 1921 Baist Real Estate Atlas shows the same configuration. On October 8^th, 1928, a building permit was issued for a Class C apartment building with 142 rooms

Point Sur Lighthouse, Big Sur California

Point Sur Lighthouse, Big Sur California

The Point Sur Lighthouse was established to aid maritime traffic along the Central California Coast. Point Sur was an important departure point for ships traveling between San Francisco and points south. Until its construction in 1889, there was no lighthouse between Piedras Blancas and Monterey, a distance of 60 miles. The lighthouse additionally warned mariners of nearby reefs, offshore boulders, and swift currents. In 1873 the SS Los Angeles broke up in the surf at Point Sur. Two years later the vessel Ventura wrecked at the same location, spilling a cargo of silks, linens, farming tools, and wagon parts. These, and a series of less spectacular wrecks, prompted the federal government to establish a lighthouse and fog signal at Point Sur.

Franklin School, Schenectady New York

Franklin School, Schenectady New York

Built in 1907, the Franklin School in Schenectady, New York is architecturally significant as a representative example Of the Georgian Revival style popular in the early twentieth century. The school is also significant in local history for its association with Schenectady's rapid industrial and population growth at the turn of the century and the consequent re-evaluation and expansion of the school system. The Franklin School, an architectural landmark in the community for over seventy years, also played an important part in stimulating the development of northwest Schenectady as the focal point of educational and cultural activities in the neighborhood. In 1661 Arendt Van Curler and fourteen other Dutch patentees settled a small fur trading outpost on the Mohawk River just west

Punta Gorda Lighthouse, Petrolia California

Punta Gorda Lighthouse, Petrolia California

Like any lighthouse, the Punta Gorda Light Station has achieved some notoriety as a navigation aid for waterborne transportation. But of far greater significance is the fact that the construction and maintenance of the light station itself presented some unique problems in the field of transportation and communications. Such problems, unusual for mainland light stations, were a result of the station's extreme inaccessibility both from the sea and overland. Thus, for much of its active life the Punta Gorda Light Station was an anachronism, a frontier settlement in the midst of a modern world. As early as 1892 Pacific Coast mariners had requested that a lighthouse be built in the vicinity of Punta Gorda, a rocky cape some 220 miles to

Hotel Van Curler, Schenectady New York

Hotel Van Curler, Schenectady New York

The Hotel Van Curler is an early twentieth-century Georgian Revival-style hotel. Constructed in 1925 as part of a civic pride movement that developed at the height of Schenectady's most prosperous and optimistic period, the hotel was the first of five major Neoclassical public buildings erected in the city between 1925-1933. Its construction was financed by two of the city's major employers (the American Locomotive Company and the General Electric Company), the Chamber of Commerce, and over 1,000 citizens. The building's design was the work of H.L. Stevens and Company, an architectural firm that specialized in designing small hotels. Like many of the firm's hotels, the Hotel Van Curler is a typical example of early twentieth-century Neoclassical style architecture featuring restrained Georgian

Lubec Channel Lighthouse, Lubec Maine

Lubec Channel Lighthouse, Lubec Maine

Erected in 1890, the Lubec Channel Light Station occupies a strategic navigational location in this broad but shallow waterway. It is one of three surviving spark plug lights in Maine. An effort to establish a light station in the Lubec Channel was made following the completion of a dredging project. The 1883 Annual Report of the Light-House Board mentions the need for a light to make the channel of value to commerce at night. Throughout this period the river ports at Calais, Eastport and Lubec were thriving commercial centers much of whose livelihood was dependent upon navigation on the Saint Croix River and Lubec Channel. By 1888 Congress had appropriated a total of $52,000 for construction of the station. It was

Portland Breakwater Light, South Portland Maine

Portland Breakwater Light, South Portland Maine

This Greek Revival structure was first built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1875. The structure was abandoned in 1943 The rebuilding in 1875 did not alter the design or character of the structure. The significance of Portland Breakwater Light is its unique style and construction. It represents the sea-going heritage of the State of Maine in the 18^th and 19^th centuries when it and its sister lighthouses along Maine's rocky coasts stood as symbols of commercial prosperity derived from shipping. Built to communicate the location of Portland Breakwater to ships at sea, it also indicates the concern of 19th-century Americans to make an essentially functional structure aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Its Greek Revival style would have integrated well into the

Young Men's Christian Association of Schenectady, Schenectady New York

Young Men's Christian Association of Schenectady, Schenectady New York

Completed in 1928, the Schenectady YMCA is associated with the national YMCA movement that spread throughout the United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries with the mission to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and physical condition of young men. Locally, it is directly associated with the tremendous industrial and urban growth in Schenectady at that time. Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city experienced a population boom, as workers and their families were attracted to training and jobs in the factories of ALCO, General Electric, and other important industries. With the support of progressive civic and corporate leaders, the local Young Men's Christian Association worked to provide the increasing numbers of boys and young men -

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