Doubling Point Light Station, Bath Maine

Doubling Point Light Station, Bath Maine

The Doubling Point Light Station is situated on the west side of Arrowsic Island in the Kennebec River. Northernmost of the four-station system erected in 1898 on this important river. In 1892, the Annual Report of the Light-House Board carried a lengthy statement of the need for light and fog signals in the Kennebec River. Gateway to the important harbor at Bath and the upriver communities of Gardiner, Hallowell and the state capitol at Augusta, the Kennebec River carried the traffic of 3,137 vessels in 1891 excluding daily passenger steamers. Based on these statistics the Light-House Board requested appropriations for lights at Doubling Point, Squirrel Point, Perkins Island, and a set of range lights. It was not until 1895, however, that

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Catawba Rosenwald School - Liberty Hill School, Catawba South Carolina

Catawba Rosenwald School - Liberty Hill School, Catawba South Carolina

The Catawba School was built in 1924-25 to serve the African-American community in southeastern York County, South Carolina. It was known as the Catawba School on official lists of Rosenwald schools, but is generally known as the Liberty Hill School locally because of its association with Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church nearby. It was one of twenty schools built in York County with funds from the Rosenwald program between 1917 and 1932. Of these schools, only two, the Catawba Rosenwald School and the Carroll Rosenwald School, are known to be extant. The Catawba School was built with the assistance of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. This program provided matching funds to local communities and school districts to build schools for African-American students

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Cuckolds Light Station, Southport Maine

Cuckolds Light Station, Southport Maine

The Cuckolds Island Light Station marks the entrance to Boothbay Harbor from the ocean. The station first served as a fog signal station in 1892, but, in 1907, a light tower was added. All of the station structures except the fog signal building and light tower built upon it have been destroyed. Still, the fog signal structure is unique because of its granite pier construction built to protect the station from storm waves and its later modification to a light tower. The light and fog signal at the station continue as active aids to navigation. Boothbay Harbor was a busy fishing port in the 19th and early 20th century. The barren rock upon which the Cuckold station is located was first

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Caswell County Training School, Yanceyville North Carolina

Caswell County Training School, Yanceyville North Carolina

Caswell County Training School (CCTS) comprising a 1949 auditorium/cafeteria wing, a 1951 main block, and a 1960 gymnasium, is the product of a statewide mid-twentieth-century campus improvement and consolidation campaign. At the time of its completion, CCTS, which then served first- through eleventh-grade African American youth, was the county's largest and best-equipped educational facility. The 1949-1951 building replaced the nearby one-story, weatherboarded, 1924 Yanceyville School, which became known as Caswell County Training School in 1934 upon attaining high school accreditation from the State Department of Public Instruction. Funding for the new school complex was insufficient, so the Caswell County Board of Education elected to first construct the 1949 auditorium and basement cafeteria, which would become the school's rear wing upon completion

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Point Reyes Light Station, Point Reyes California

Point Reyes Light Station, Point Reyes California

The Point Reyes Light Station was established to warn mariners of local hazards and also to provide an important landmark in setting bearings for San Francisco harbor. Protruding far beyond the rest of the coastline and often shrouded in heavy fog, Point Reyes figures as a dangerous spot on Pacific maritime coastal routes. Congress authorized funds for a lighthouse at Point Reyes as early as 1854. Disputes with local landowners, however, delayed construction until 1870. In the interim, seven major shipwrecks occurred at the point. The construction of the light station proved to be a monumental civil engineering feat. Work began with wagons carrying materials over two miles of steep hills from the landing to the top of the headland. Two

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Charles Carroll Public School, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Charles Carroll Public School, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

On March 23rd, 1846, the current site of the Charles Carroll Public School was purchased by the Philadelphia School Review Board from Joseph J. Ball and his wife for $7,527.93. The rectangular lot extended from Salmon Street on the east to Edgemont Street to the west, which was an unusually large plot of land for a school during this period. The 3-story, brick building, that was subsequently constructed on the site, faced Salmon Street and contained six classrooms with an open playground to the west. Known as the Richmond School until 1848, the building was renamed after founding father Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. By the early 1920s, a comprehensive school building survey determined that this building

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Point Bonita Light Station, Sausalito California

Point Bonita Light Station, Sausalito California

The Point Bonita Light Station contains an intact lighthouse tower (in this case with intact lens as well) and an associated fog-signal building. The tower and fog-signal building, clustered together at the end of the rocky point, give a cohesiveness to the station site. This is heightened by the building's separation from the main access path by a pedestrian suspension bridge. This bridge, existing in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, gives an element of grace and whimsy to the lighthouse site. Point Bonita is the only lighthouse in the United States (perhaps the world) approached by a suspension bridge. The Point Bonita Lighthouse was established in 1855 to mark the northern entrance to San Francisco Bay and to warn

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Roland E. Cook Elementary School, Vinton Virginia

Roland E. Cook Elementary School, Vinton Virginia

Built in 1915 and expanded in 1924, Roland E. Cook Elementary School was an early consolidated school for white students in Roanoke County. The movement to establish consolidated schools began in response to Progressive Era concerns about the quality of life and education in rural areas. Reformers envisioned that one-room schoolhouses would be consolidated into one central location, which would serve as a center of community life. These new consolidated schools would have multiple rooms to allow for the separate instruction of students grouped by class and age. Most Virginia public schools built between 1900 and 1940 are examples of consolidated schools. The design of Roland E. Cook Elementary School is consistent with other consolidated schools built in western Virginia counties

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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

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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 15th, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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Buffalo Public School PS 24, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School PS 24, Buffalo New York

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

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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

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Buffalo Public School PS 63, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Public School PS 63, Buffalo New York

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

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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

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