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William Byrd High School, Vinton Virginia

William Byrd High School, Vinton Virginia

The William Byrd High School was a gathering space for significant local events and a focal point for the entire community of Vinton, Roanoke County, for several decades. The school also played a role in the desegregation of local schools with one grade per year being integrated over the last four years it served as a high school before being replaced by the current William Byrd High School, which was built to serve the larger fully integrated school system. William Byrd High School, the school on the hill, was constructed in 1933. The name of the high school was changed from Vinton High School with the construction of this new building, at the suggestion of Dr. Herman Horn, principal of Vinton

Point Retreat Light Station - Lighthouse, Juneau Alaska

Point Retreat Light Station - Lighthouse, Juneau Alaska

Point Retreat Light Station is one of sixteen staffed navigational lights established by the U.S. Government in Alaska. Lighted on September 15^th, 1904, it has been part of a system of navigational aids to safely guide commercial and recreational vessels through the dangerous and heavily traveled southeast Alaska waterway known as the Inside Passage. It is located a short distance north of the City of Juneau and is accessible only by water or air. The U.S. Lighthouse Service constructed the existing light tower and support buildings and structures in 1924. One of the first concrete lighthouses built in Alaska during the 1920s, often to replace older wood frame buildings, Point Retreat's architecture is influenced by the Art Moderne. Keepers sought assignment

Buffalo Public School Number 77, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School Number 77, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School #77 (PS 77) is in the North Prospect Hill neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Located at 429 Plymouth Avenue, the former elementary school was constructed in 1927-1928. The architect, Ernest Crimi, utilized nearly identical plans for several other schools in Buffalo, as the city underwent an educational building boom due to a shortage of adequate instructional spaces at the start of the twentieth century. Built during the height of school construction in Buffalo, PS 77 was one of twenty-four new schools and twenty-six additions built by the Buffalo School District between 1919 and 1929. This rapid school construction reflected post-World War I school building patterns as well as efforts by the Buffalo School District to end the use

Grand Island North Light Station - Old North Light, Munising Michigan

Grand Island North Light Station - Old North Light, Munising Michigan

The Old North Light Station, built in 1867, is the oldest in the Pictured Rocks area of Lake Superior and predates the organization of Alger County, in which it stands, as well as the closest town, Munising, established in 1885. The lighthouse and its surrounding buildings present a strikingly original example of a nineteenth-century light station. Never encroached upon by development and never modernized, it still retains its original form and utilizes the same lighting, heating, water, and sanitation systems as when originally constructed. The building retains many features which were installed for functional purposes: internal shafts in the tower for the pendulum of the occulting mechanism, tool closets with original brass fittings, and a massive cast-iron staircase and deck. Illuminated

Buffalo Public School No. 57, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School No. 57, Buffalo New York

Located at 243 Sears Street, Buffalo Public School PS 57 was constructed in 1914 as an addition to an older school, no longer extant, to address overcrowding resulting from a growing Polish immigrant population in the neighborhood but also allowed for an opportunity to provide a modern school facility. The building embodies the full realization of standardized school design at the start of the twentieth century, at a time when New York state and federal guidelines regarding educational architecture began influencing school construction across the state. PS 57 represents how a smaller outdated school could be enlarged to incorporate an updated educational program by including specialized spaces for vocational studies then in vogue such as manual training and incorporating functions such

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot, Farmington Minnesota

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot, Farmington Minnesota

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot in Farmington is significant as the only major railroad structure remaining in the Dakota County towns that developed as station points. Farmington, like numerous other county towns, was dependent on the railroads for its late 19th-century expansion as a regional commercial center. The town was platted at the intersection of two early lines, the Minnesota Central and the Hastings and Dakota railroads, both of which were absorbed into the growing Milwaukee Road system by the early 1870s. Farmington later became the site of a large freight yard from 1910 to 1921. The combination passenger and freight depot, built in 1894, occupied the site of earlier depots. The structure resembles those built by

Buffalo Public School PS 44 - Lincoln School, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School PS 44 - Lincoln School, Buffalo New York

Former Elementary School in Broadway Neighborhood Buffalo NY

Buffalo Public School #44 (PS 44) is located at 1369 Broadway Street and was constructed in two main stages. Commissioned by the City of Buffalo and the Board of Education, the northeastern portion of the school was designed first by the city's Building Bureau architect, Howard L. Beck, in 1907-1909, and then the remaining portions were subsequently designed by the city's Board of Education architect, Ernest Crimi in 1930. While each part of the building was commissioned and designed by different architects, the overall plans of the building were adapted from standardized plans that were used throughout many schools in Buffalo throughout the early twentieth century. Classroom size, daylight, ventilation, room finishes, heating systems, corridor size, circulation and fireproof construction were

Frankfort North Breakwater Light, Frankfort Michigan

Frankfort North Breakwater Light, Frankfort Michigan

The North Breakwater Light has been an important aid to navigation in the Frankfort vicinity for over 100 years. It marks the entrance to the port and has been Frankfort's signature lighthouse since 1912. Initially established on the Lake Betsie entrance channel's north pier, it was relocated to its present position at the offshore end of Frankfort's north breakwater in 1932. This property has promoted safe use of the Great Lakes and the port of Frankfort for shipping, and demonstrates the Federal government's role in providing for a system of navigational aids on state waters. This lighthouse's signal light and daymark have guided mariners safely into and out of the port of Frankfort from 1912 to the present. Its fog signal

Buffalo Public School PS 24, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School PS 24, Buffalo New York

Vacant Former Special Education School Building in Buffalo NY

Located at 775 Best Street in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, Buffalo Public School #24 (PS 24) was the first school to offer special education within the City of Buffalo school system. Beginning in the 1930s, PS 24 housed several sight-saving classes, and over the following decade the building not only became the headquarters of sight saving classes and courses for the blind but also for several programs designed for students with learning and intellectual disabilities, predating state and federal laws regulating education for all students with special needs. Prior to this era, children with special needs were often trained in separate school facilities or simply were not educated at all, so PS 24 played a key role in the integration

Copper Harbor Light Station, Copper Harbor Michigan

Copper Harbor Light Station, Copper Harbor Michigan

The original Copper Harbor Light was built in 1848 and put into operation in 1849 when Copper Harbor was an important entry and shipping point for the emergent copper mining industry in this part of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The discovery of copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula in the 1840s brought a mining boom to the area. No roads led into this wilderness. The only access was by water, and Copper Harbor with its good water harbor offered the closest access for men, equipment, and supplies to the new mines opening nearby. But the coast was rockbound and subject to adverse weather conditions and the harbor entrance channel was hard to locate, very narrow, and hemmed in by dangerous reefs. Requests for

Buffalo Public School PS 63 - Campus North School, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School PS 63 - Campus North School, Buffalo New York

Former School Building in Buffalo NY Closed in 2010

Buffalo Public School #63 is an excellent example of this typical standardized plan, designed by city architect Howard L. Beck in 1917 to accommodate a growing population in the northern part of the city. The University of Buffalo had established a new college campus on the grounds of the Erie County Almshouse, located three blocks to the north, in 1910, and the importance of the streetcar along Main Street and rise of the automobile resulted in the city's suburban expansion to this area in the early 1900s. As illustrated by the 1916 Sanborn Map the neighborhood adjacent to the school was growing. Adjacent streets show residential lots laid out and a large number of houses constructed. St. Agnes Training School for

Point No Point Light Station, Hansville Washington

Point No Point Light Station, Hansville Washington

The Point No Point Station, built on a shallow sandspit where Admiralty Inlet curves south to become Puget Sound, stands at the gateway to the port cities of Seattle, Everett, Bremerton, Tacoma, and Olympia. The station and its site are important both functionally and historically. Because of its pivotal position, the light (automated in 1977) is and probably will remain an operational aid to navigation. Since 1975, the station also has been the site of a radar installation (part of the Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Service). The lighthouse and nearby crew quarters, built in 1879, ten years before Washington became a state, still exist as fine examples of the simple, classic designs of their period. The name Point No Point generally

Bridgeport School, Bridgeport Kentucky

Bridgeport School, Bridgeport Kentucky

Former Elementary School Building in KY Closed in 2005

The historic Bridgeport School in Bridgeport Kentucky, was constructed in 1942 after the previous school burned. Bridgeport has long been a community in Franklin County associated with both public and private schools dating to the early nineteenth century. Over time, the Franklin County School Board met the challenges of changing needs in education through the erection and maintenance of its public school facilities in the community. Plans for a new brick consolidated school had been approved in 1936, as Franklin County and many other areas in the state began to implement new streamlined costs and efficiencies in public education. The site chosen for the new consolidated school was an open parcel of pasture land (the current site) that fronted the newly

Blenheim School, Kansas City Missouri

Blenheim School, Kansas City Missouri

Blenheim School at 2411 East 70^th Terrace, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri was constructed in 1924, with additions in 1927 and 1930. Its character-defining elements include fire-proof concrete and brick construction, wide double-loaded corridors, large windows for fresh air and natural light, an integrated auditorium and gymnasium, and specialized classrooms. Charles A. Smith, architect for the Kansas City School District, designed the three-story red brick Jacobethan Revival school with a symmetrical facade and ornate cut stone trim. The school was built in three phases, as designed by Smith, to accommodate the growing population in the area. Specialized classrooms were important components of the diverse Progressive Era curriculum designed to promote learning by doing and to provide direct access to informational sources.

West Point Lighthouse, Fort Lawton Washington

West Point Lighthouse, Fort Lawton Washington

Located on the east side of Puget Sound about five miles northwest of the Commercial District of Seattle, West Point Light was established in 1881. This tip of land marks the northern turning point for shipping from Puget Sound into Elliot Bay, The Port of Seattle. With the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1915, the light achieved greater significance for it marks the turning point to Shilshole Bay. The lens at West Point is a fourth-order Fresnel revolving type with twelve bullseyes. It was manufactured by the French firm of L. SAUTTER, LEMONNIER ET CIE., A Paris, and is so marked. The source of illumination is now an electric bulb rather than the original oil lamp. The guest

Clara T. O'Connell School, Bristol Connecticut

Clara T. O'Connell School, Bristol Connecticut

The Park Street School/Clara T. O'Connell Elementary School was built in 1914, with several additions, the last completed in 1960. Located at 122 Park Street, the O'Connell School marks the point of transition in Bristol's history when industrial growth resulted in rapid population increases and the need to replace wood-frame district schoolhouses with well-lit, well-ventilated, sanitation-equipped, fire-proof buildings. At the time of its construction in 1914, the Park Street School was extolled as one of Bristol's best examples of a modern educational building. Thanks to the tenets of the Progressive Movement, which spanned a period from roughly 1890 to 1930, the nation's public schools were increasingly idealized as an egalitarian institution in which all children might develop both their minds and

East Charity Shoal Light, Cape Vincent New York

East Charity Shoal Light, Cape Vincent New York

East Charity Shoal Light is an important offshore aid to navigation in Lake Ontario. It marks hazardous shoals nearby the principal shipping lanes for vessels navigating to and from the St. Lawrence River. This lighthouse's construction was completed in 1935. It is an important local aid to navigation, and continues serving this function today for both commercial shipping and recreational watercraft. The lighthouse structure includes three principal components, a crib foundation and pier, concrete deckhouse, and cast iron light tower. The lighthouse's original optic and illuminating equipment have been removed and replaced with a modern optic and solarized power supply. East Charity Shoal Light was constructed during the time period when the Federal government engaged in a concerted effort in the

Rock Island Depot, Faribault Minnesota

Rock Island Depot, Faribault Minnesota

The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot in Faribault was the completing component of the railroad network linking Faribault to the major cities of central and southern Minnesota and beyond. The depot was constructed in January 1902 by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern and turned over to the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific in June of the same year. The line was the last major link of Faribault's rail connections, which had begun in 1864 with the construction of the Minnesota Central (now Milwaukee Road) from Minneapolis to Mendota and Faribault and in 1866 to Owatonna. In 1882 the Minnesota Central constructed a line from Red Wing to Waterville, making east-west connections for Faribault (now serviced by the Chicago

Cape Florida Lighthouse, Cape Florida Florida

Cape Florida Lighthouse, Cape Florida Florida

The Cape Florida Lighthouse served as an essential link in the series of navigation aids built on the eastern seaboard to assist waterborne commerce. With its completion in 1825, the light marked the southeastern tip of Key Biscayne, indicated the location of the dangerous Florida Reef and led mariners to the safe anchorage provided in the lee of the Key. The lighthouse came to the nation's attention in 1836 during the Second Seminole War. John W. B. Thompson, the Assistant Keeper, and a black helper were forced to barricade themselves in the lighthouse during a Seminole raid on July 23^rd 1836. His personal account appeared in Niles Register and provided the reader of the day with a suspense story that would

Bristol High School, Bristol Connecticut

Bristol High School, Bristol Connecticut

The construction of Bristol High School marked Bristol's transformation from a rural farming town to an internationally recognized industrial city. This monumental high school building served the practical needs of a rapidly expanding population while also serving as a symbol of the city's success as a major manufacturing center. As Bristol was transformed from a small farming town to a center of manufacturing over the course of the 19^th century, eleven district schools were formed to serve the expanding population. The town's earliest schools fell under the direction of the Ecclesiastical Society, which oversaw their creation and operation throughout the 18^th Century. The Society had constructed five district schools by 1764. These wood-framed buildings were the archetypal one or two-roomed schoolhouses

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