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First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sheldahl Iowa

First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sheldahl Iowa

The Sheldahl 1^st Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church was built by Norwegian immigrant Osmund Sheldahl. This remarkably well preserved vernacular frame building calls attention to the presence of an early Norwegian settlement party in Story County, and represents the unique voluntary ministerial efforts of Sheldahl to that community during the years 1883 through 1896. Osmund Sheldahl (1824-1900) settled in Illinois in 1845, preached there for ten years as a lay minister to his fellow Norwegian immigrants, and in 1854 came with three neighbors to the Sheldahl-Huxley area in Story County Iowa to search for cheap good land. The next year, twenty one families (106 persons) who had previously organized themselves as the Palestine Congregation made the trek to that location and settled.

Taylor Signal Company-General Railway Signal Company, Buffalo New York

Taylor Signal Company-General Railway Signal Company, Buffalo New York

The Taylor Signal Company/General Railway Signal Company building was built on the brick-pier system of factory construction and represents a transitional phase in American factory architecture between the older multi-storied brick mill tradition established in the 1820s and the concrete-framed daylight factory type that was developed between 1902 and 1906. Additionally, the building has special significance from having been designed by the locally well-known architectural firm of Esenwein & Johnson. The office, which designed other factories, planned important buildings of various types in Buffalo. The Taylor Signal and General Railway Signal Companies garnered success in the early mass production of electric railway signals. In 1907 the General Railway Signal Company, the name under which the company operated after a 1904 merger,

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne Indiana

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne Indiana

Both the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the site upon which the church is located have great historical significance. The building is a fine example of the Gothic style. The stained glass windows, dating from the late nineteenth century, and the interior wood carvings, dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are considered to be among the most beautiful examples of both crafts in the western hemisphere. Also, the site was a burial ground for the Miami Indians, a tribe once powerful in the area. The first Catholic church, rectory, school, and cemetery in northern Indiana were built on the site. The present Cathedral is the oldest church building in the city of Fort Wayne. In 1831, Father

Linde Air Products Factory, Buffalo New York

Linde Air Products Factory, Buffalo New York

The Linde Air Products Factory (also referred to as the Chandler Street Plant) is an oxygen extraction plant located at 155 Chandler Street in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Opened in 1907 by the German-based Linde Air Products Company, the Linde Air Products Factory in Buffalo was the first oxygen extraction facility in America and was later dubbed the birthplace of the oxygen industry in the United States. The laboratory in the Chandler Street Plant served as the primary research facility for the company from 1923 until 1942. On site, the company produced pressurized oxygen for acetylene torches used in industrial welding and developed new methods of transporting liquid oxygen. In addition, scientists involved in the Manhattan Project used laboratories in

Allen Temple, Cincinnati Ohio

Allen Temple, Cincinnati Ohio

The African Methodist Episcopal Church represents a very sophisticated architectural statement for such an early date. The history of the AME church is integral with the early development of the city of Cincinnati and a monument to the early organizational efforts of its black citizens. Erected in 1852, this building was the second house of worship for the Cincinnati Congregation of the Children of Israel, Beni Israel. Known as the Broadway Synagogue it was abandoned by the congregation around 1866-1869 who erected a new building known as the Mound Street Temple. Today the church is commonly referred to as the Allen Temple and is occupied by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The AME was referred to as the first successfully organized

Ste. Anne Roman Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

Ste. Anne Roman Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

The parish of Ste. Anne is the second oldest Catholic parish with a continuous record in the United States. (Only the parish of St. Augustine, Florida is older.) The church was founded by M. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701 simultaneously with the beginning of construction of Fort Ponchartrain on the site of present day Detroit. Cadillac started construction on a chapel on July 26^th, only two days after his arrival at the site. The church of Ste. Anne has been closely associated with the growth and development of the City of Detroit. It is the only institution in existence which dates from the beginning of the city and its records, starting in 1704, are an invaluable source of information

Leonard Shaw & Dean Shoe Factory, Middleborough Massachusetts

Leonard Shaw & Dean Shoe Factory, Middleborough Massachusetts

The Leonard, Shaw & Dean Shoe Factory at 151 Peirce Street is the sole surviving mill built as a shoe factory in town; the only representative of the period in the history of Middleborough when shoe production became the largest industry in the local economy. The Leonard Shaw & Dean factory remained an industrial production facility until 2001. Few physical resources associated with the shoe industry remain in Middleborough. No ten footers (small cobbler shops on private property that characterized operations of the shoe industry from the middle of the 18^th Century to the early 19^th Century) have been documented in Middleborough. Several survivors of buildings once used as central shops (production facilities introduced in the first half of the 19^th

First Presbyterian Church, Detroit Michigan

First Presbyterian Church, Detroit Michigan

First Presbyterian Church was the home of the oldest Protestant congregation in Detroit. It is one of the city's most outstanding Romanesque Revival ecclesiastical buildings, as well as an example of the finest work of an important local architect. The congregation of First Presbyterian Church traces its origins to 1816 when its forerunner, the First Evangelical Society of Detroit, was formed as the first Protestant congregation in Detroit. Up to this time, the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic population of the city had been served by the century-old French Catholic parish of Ste. Anne. In the early 1800s significant numbers of Americans from New York State and New England began to settle in Detroit. At first, only occasional visiting Protestant ministers and the

Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom, Upper Jay New York

Keith and Branch Ford Motors Factory and Showroom, Upper Jay New York

Built in 1920, the Keith & Branch Ford Motors Factory & Showroom in Upper Jay, Essex County, is a somewhat rate and early example of automobile-related architecture in New York's Adirondack region. The building was conceived and erected to accommodate the partial assembly and local sale of Ford Motors Model T automobiles, generally acknowledged as the first car widely accessible to American consumers. The business partnership of Keith & Branch, formed by local residents Earl Keith and Robert Branch in 1910, established a Ford Motors franchise in Upper Jay in 1914 and subsequently built the subject building and an automobile service station, known as the Central Garage. These two buildings were important local indicators of the advent of the automobile age

Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit Michigan

Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit Michigan

The 1891 Cass Avenue United Methodist Church is a monumental example of Richardsonian Romanesque ecclesiastical architecture and was an important work of Malcolmson & Higginbotham, a prominent Detroit architectural firm. Of major significance are the organ, which is thought to be the largest nineteenth-century pipe organ in Michigan, and the Tiffany glass windows of the sanctuary. Formed in 1880 to serve a rapidly growing, suburban neighborhood, the church is now located in the Cass Corridor, an inner-city Detroit neighborhood. The Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in 1880 as an outgrowth of the efforts of the Methodist Church and Sunday School Alliance. The Alliance's Missionary Committee felt that this rapidly growing area was too far distant from the downtown to

Garver's Supply Company Factory and Office, Madison Wisconsin

Garver's Supply Company Factory and Office, Madison Wisconsin

The Garver's Supply Company Factory and Office was the Garver's Supply Company's new and centralized approach to livestock feed production during a time of increased industrialization of the farming industry. The buildings were constructed in 1906 by the United States Sugar Beet Company as a sugar beet refining plant, a small but important subset of the agricultural economy in Wisconsin during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1929, the factory building and adjacent office building were purchased by agricultural entrepreneur James R. Garver and the factory building was substantially remodeled in 1929-1931 to serve as a commercial feed mill. The buildings as they currently stand exemplify the increasing industrialization of livestock feed production during the first half of the

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Toledo Ohio

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Toledo Ohio

The steeple of St. Patrick's Church rises from the midst of a warehouse and low cost housing district on the near south side of Toledo. The Gothic structure is now virtually unused. Its parish has dwindled to less than fifty families. Monsignor Jerome E. Schmit remarked that the future of St. Patrick's was uncertain. Reverend Edward Hannin, an Irish immigrant, came to Toledo in April, 1862 to establish a new parish. The cornerstone of the first St. Patrick's Church was laid in July, 1862. In 1874, Reverend Hannin constructed St, Patrick's Institute. The Institute contained dormitories, a gymnasium, and library, and was designed to keep the parish boys off the street. In 1892, the foundation for the new church was completed.

Fuller Shirt Company Factory, Kingston New York

Fuller Shirt Company Factory, Kingston New York

The Fuller Shirt Company Factory is located at 45 Pine Grove Avenue, in Kingston, New York. Fuller Shirt Company was a prominent early-to-mid-twentieth century shirt manufacturer, and the subsequent Kingston Shirt Company operated here intermittently between 1892 to c.1965. First established in 1906, with later additions dating to c. 1928-c.1957, the facility was a local early-twentieth century Kingston manufacturing enterprise. The company was originally founded in 1892 by Isaiah Fuller and housed in a building located on Prince Street. As the company grew, it became evident that a new factory was needed. The company relocated to Pine Grove Avenue, adjacent to the West Shore Railroad, which offered convenient means of product and material shipment, and constructed a new factory on the

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Cleveland Ohio

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Cleveland Ohio

St. Michael's Church, at the time of its completion in 1892, was the largest, the most costly, and the most artistically notable church in the Cleveland Diocese. For many years it was the largest church in Cleveland, with a capacity of 1,500 persons. It is an important example of a church built to serve one of the immigrant communities so important in the development of Cleveland. It also gives evidence of the commerce of architectural ideas within the Catholic Church in northern Ohio. St. Michael's was the outgrowth of a mission established in 1881 to minister to the needs of German Catholics in Cleveland, immigrants largely from Danzig and West Prussia. The plans by architect Adolph Druiding of Chicago were selected

Oak Knitting Company, Syracuse New York

Oak Knitting Company, Syracuse New York

After the decline of the city's early industries (most notably the salt industry), a large variety of newer industries appeared, building on the reclaimed salt flats in the northwest section of the city, continuing the function of this part of the city as an industrial quarter. The quarter was well removed from the commercial center and residential sections of the city, but connected by roads, rail and waterways to these sections and beyond. The Oak Knitting Company was part of this diversification, constructed on a former salt manufacturing site. By 1910, 29 textile mills and factories in this area were collectively the second largest employer in the city, only surpassed by the large iron and steel mills that required more workers.

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cincinnati Ohio

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cincinnati Ohio

The first Catholic Church in Cumminsville was St. Aloysius, founded in 1852. Its congregation was comprised of Irish and German Catholics. During the early 1850's many Irish came to Cumminsville to work on the Miami and Erie Canal and the new Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. In 1861 the Irish congregation won a lottery and obtained the right to stay in the established parish building. The German speaking members of the congregation received $1,500.00 to begin building another Catholic Church to be called St. Boniface's. This modest Romanesque Revival building was completed in 1863. A brief account of the church noted, When the German exodus took place from St. Aloysius, the English speaking parish men, being in the ascendancy, held services

R.E. Dietz Company Factory, Syracuse New York

R.E. Dietz Company Factory, Syracuse New York

The R.E. Dietz Factory Building is a late nineteenth/early twentieth-century factory in Syracuse, and was a prominent manufacturer of lanterns and lighting products. Although Syracuse is often identified as the Salt City, a reference to the role that industry played in the city's early development, it was the economic transportation corridor created by the Erie Canal and the railroads that brought about the city's great nineteenth-century prosperity by facilitating the efficient transportation of goods through the center of the state: from Buffalo to Albany and then south on the Hudson River to the Atlantic Ocean at the port of New York. Based on its central location on the canal, Syracuse became a hub of commercial and industrial activity. After 1860, the

Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Detroit Michigan

Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Detroit Michigan

In 1918, Bishop Michael Gallagher of Grand Rapids was installed as the fifth Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit. In his nineteen years as bishop (1918-1937), one hundred and five parishes were established, of which thirty-three were ethnic parishes. The parish of the Blessed Sacrament for which this Neo-Gothic limestone church eventually was built had been established in 1906. In 1938, the new bishop, Edward Mooney, made the church the Cathedral of the newly-created Archdiocese of Detroit. Blessed Sacrament Cathedral is one of the most architecturally significant of Detroit's Neo-Gothic churches of the early twentieth century. The Cathedral, measuring 170 feet in length and 105 feet in width, is located on the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Belmont. It is a

Merced County High School, Merced California

Merced County High School, Merced California

This building was the first building specifically designed and constructed as a high school in Merced County. It also served as an early home of the Merced County Library and other civic/governmental offices. This building was a major visual city landmark, The original building exhibited a style of design not common in Merced and may have been the only example of Richardsonian Romanesque in the community. The building appearance was altered from the original by the removal of its bell tower, plastering of the brick, and other remodeling projects. Mr. Bill Bedesen (graduating class of 1903 and retired Merced County Surveyor who was responsible for the remodeling of 1953) stated in a Merced Sun Star newspaper interview: Before that high school,

Curtiss-Wright Airplane Factory, Hazelwood Missouri

Curtiss-Wright Airplane Factory, Hazelwood Missouri

The Curtiss-Wright Airplane Factory is located at 130 Banshee Road in Hazelwood, St. Louis County, Missouri. Airplanes were designed, built, and flown directly out of the building and into the field-contributing immensely to the mobilization effort on the home front for both the Allied Forces and U.S. military. Rooted in the barnstorming tradition of renowned pilot, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, as well as with the inventors of manned flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright, heads of each successor firm ultimately came together in an effort to harness that genius when it combined the two and formed C-W in 1929. Curtiss's airframe inventions coupled with the superior engine designs of Wright, elevated the company to national prominence by World War II and they became

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Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, laboratories, mills and mines that the world left behind (Abandoned Places)

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Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

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Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

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