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Point Conception Light Station, Santa Barbara California

Point Conception Light Station, Santa Barbara California

Ancient mariners affixed the name California's Cape Horn to bold Point Conception. Its sinister appearances reminded old salts of that internationally known bastion of rock at the bitter end of South America. Like Cape Horn, the waters about it are fickle in character. The wind-whipped seas driving in from the Pacific snub their noses against its seagirt walls and explode, there being no outcrops to break the impact. Point Conception was one of those landmarks the old Spanish navigators searched for on returning from the Philippines. It is little wonder that the point was chosen as the site for one of the early U.S. government lighthouses. A guiding light has shone from its awesome climes for a century and a quarter.

Oakley Plantation House, St. Francisville Louisiana

Oakley Plantation House, St. Francisville Louisiana

Oakley plantation house is located in the Audubon Memorial State Park in West Feliciana Parish. Construction of the house was started in 1799 on a Spanish land grant by Ruffin Gray, a successful planter from Natchez, Mississippi. Gray died before the house was completed. His widow Lucy Alston finished the house and remarried James Pirrie of Scotland. Pirrie thus inherited Oakley and the two gray children, Ruffin Jr. and Mary Ann. To this marriage a daughter Eliza, was born on October 6^th, 1805 at Oakley. This was the young lady who indirectly introduced the aspiring artist and naturalist John James Audubon to the beautiful Felicianas. In the spring it was customary for the planters from surrounding parishes to bring their families

Moundville Plantation House, Washington Louisiana

Moundville Plantation House, Washington Louisiana

In the 19^th century, the Wartelle House at Moundville Plantation was the focal point of an impressive commercial agricultural establishment, a 2,122 acre cotton and sugar-producing estate worked by almost 200 slaves before the Civil War. Bounded on the north by Bayou Cocodrie, on the south by Bayou Carron, and on the east by Bayou Courtableau, the plantation lies in the heart of the upper Teche country. At the northeast corner of the estate, near the confluence of the three bayous, was once the village of Moundville. Like the plantation, the village took its name from Indian mounds in the area, burial grounds from which arrowheads have been recovered. The 1827 home predates by several years the incorporation of the nearby

Lakewood Plantation House, St. Joseph Louisiana

Lakewood Plantation House, St. Joseph Louisiana

Lakewood is a Greek Revival plantation house. It is one of the few remaining examples in Tensas Parish, where once they must have been quite numerous. Also, among the half dozen or so that have survived, Lakewood is noteworthy. The importance of Lakewood, within the context of Tensas Parish, as a Greek Revival plantation house can be graphically illustrated by examining the census schedules of 1860. On the eve of the Civil War, the population of the parish was 91% slaves and there were 118 large slaveholdings (i.e., fifty or more slaves). Of these 118, the average size of a slaveholding was 100. The absentee ownership rate was 34%. Hence, of the 118 large slaveholdings in the parish, 78 of them

Sentinel Island Light Station, Juneau Alaska

Sentinel Island Light Station, Juneau Alaska

Sentinel Island Light Station is a guide on an important water passage for Alaskan transportation and commerce. Sentinel Island and Five Finger light stations along Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage started operating on March 1^st, 1902. They were the first American lighthouses built in Alaska. Sentinel Island Light Station stands at the entrance to Lynn Canal, a heavily used marine transportation corridor from near the city of Juneau north to the cities of Haines and Skagway. The U.S. Lighthouse Bureau added a concrete Art Deco style lighthouse building to the site in 1935 that is an excellent example in Alaska of the popular architectural style. Sentinel Island Light Station continues to guide recreational and commercial vehicles through the Inside Passage today. The

Farmville Plantation, Elmwood North Carolina

Farmville Plantation, Elmwood North Carolina

Farmville Plantation, the home of the Chambers family who were among the county's first settlers, includes an interesting early brick dwelling and an impressive Federal house distinguished by its handsome brickwork and well-executed interiors. Especially notable is the graceful spiral stair with tulip brackets, characteristic of the major Federal houses of the Piedmont. Henry Chambers was the grandfather of Joseph Chambers, the builder of the present Farmville Plantation house. A native of Pennsylvania, Henry obtained land in Rowan County, North Carolina, by a grant of 640 acres surveyed in 1754. According to a descendant's memoir, Henry Chambers' log dwelling was still standing and in fairly good condition at the end of the Civil War. Tombstone records indicate that Henry Chambers was

Block Island South East Light, New Shoreham Rhode Island

Block Island South East Light, New Shoreham Rhode Island

Block Island South East Lighthouse is one of the finest lighthouses constructed by the U.S. Light House Board in the 19^th century. The station has served as a primary aid to navigation since it was first lit and today is one of the last 12 lighthouses in the country still equipped with a lighted first-order Fresnel lens. South East Light also exemplifies a relatively brief era of architectural sophistication at the Light House Board. The picturesque quality of the steeply pitched Gothic roof and chiseled masonry of the lighthouse design provides one of the U.S.'s most powerful expressions of the romanticism inherent in the function and setting of the lighthouse. Early in the history of New England, Block Island was recognized

Moro Plantation House, Waterproof Louisiana

Moro Plantation House, Waterproof Louisiana

Moro Plantation House is an important example of a Greek Revival plantation house. It is one of the few remaining examples in Tensas Parish, where once they must have been quite numerous. Also, among the half dozen or so that have survived. Moro is noteworthy in several important respects, as described below. The importance of Moro, within the context of Tensas Parish, as a Greek Revival plantation house can be graphically illustrated by examining the census schedules of 1860. On the eve of the Civil War, the population of the parish was 91% slaves and there were 118 large slaveholdings (i.e., fifty or more slaves). Of these 118, the average size of a slaveholding was 100. The absentee ownership rate was

Healey Building, Atlanta Georgia

Healey Building, Atlanta Georgia

The Healey Building is the final tall office building design of the Atlanta firm of Morgan and Dillon before World War I and is considered by many of the architects in Atlanta today to be the finest of the city's early skyscrapers. They feel that the verticality created in the Healey Building by the (use of the) Gothic style is most suitable for a tall building. They praise the lightness and clean lines of the elevations and openness of interior planning. The sweeping verticality of the structure is produced by the use of clustered piers which rise throughout the building's sixteen-story high exterior, while the lightness and clean lines of both the interior and exterior is solely attributable to the qualities

Glenridge Hall House, Sandy Springs Georgia

Glenridge Hall House, Sandy Springs Georgia

12,000 Square Foot Mansion Built for a Wealthy Atlanta Businessman Demolished 2015

At the time of the construction of Glenridge Hall, the West Paces Ferry Road was the location for many of the summer homes of wealthy Atlantans. Mr. Glenn had plans drawn for a house on West Paces Ferry by Robert Pringle and Francis Smith. For some reason, the plans were never realized, and the site near Sandy Springs was chosen. According to Mr. Glenn's grand-daughter, Mr. Glenn owned several tracts of land north of Atlanta. The building site for Glenridge Hall was due to his preference. The other houses on West Paces Ferry Road were smaller, though no less refined than Glenridge Hall. Several of those houses were close to the size of Glenridge (among them being Craigellachie and Broadlands), although

Spectacle Reef Light Station, Benton Township Michigan

Spectacle Reef Light Station, Benton Township Michigan

Spectacle Reef Light Station was a part of the efforts of the federal government to provide an integrated system of navigational aids throughout the United States, and to provide for safe maritime transport in the Straits of Mackinac vicinity and throughout the Great Lakes. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Great Lakes have served as a major transportation corridor for maritime commercial traffic. Spectacle Reef Light Station sits isolated on a pair of hazardous underwater rocks lying just 7 feet beneath the surface of Lake Huron. These rocks were responsible for numerous shipwrecks prior to 1874 when the Spectacle Reef Light Station was established. It has been an integral part of successful commerce and safe travel throughout the Great Lakes region since

Callanwolde House, Atlanta Georgia

Callanwolde House, Atlanta Georgia

Callanwolde was the home of Coca-Cola family member Charles H. Candler. It is named for Callen Castle in Ireland that was given to a Candler ancestor by the British crown in the 17^th century. Built in the early 20^th century and designed by Henry Hornbostel, Callanwolde is a successful amalgamation of 19th-century Gothic Revivalism and 20th-century ideas of form and function. Used as the Candler home until 1959, it has since served in the educational program of the First Christian Church of Atlanta, as an artists' studio and presently anticipated as a cultural and recreational center. It is said that Charles H. Candler, commissioned this house because he was convinced by the Emory University campus planner and architect, Henry Hornbostel, that

Zuber-Jarrell House, Atlanta Georgia

Zuber-Jarrell House, Atlanta Georgia

The Zuber-Jarrell House is a Neo-Classical Revival style house from the turn of the century. It retains its form, columns, bracket detailing, front porch, portico, porte-cochere, and stained and other decorative glass work on the exterior, as well as the original wood, floors, doors, and spaces on the interior. It has an extremely unusual entrance stair hall with intact stairs. It was obviously the work of a master architect, although the individual or firm has not yet been identified. The high quality of the materials used to build this house, especially the woodwork, and the craftsmanship reflect the fact that the house was built for a lumber baron with extensive resources. The house is significant in commerce because the original owner-builder,

Smith Point Light Station, Smith Point Virginia

Smith Point Light Station, Smith Point Virginia

This was one of Eleven Pneumatic Caisson Lighthouses Built in the US

The Smith Point Light Station was part of the federal governmental efforts to provide an integrated system of navigational aids and to provide for safe maritime transportation in the Chesapeake Bay, a major transportation corridor for commercial traffic from the early 19^th through 20^th centuries. The lighthouse embodies a distinctive design and method of caisson construction that typified lighthouse construction on the Chesapeake Bay during the second half of the nineteenth century. Of the eleven pneumatic caisson lighthouses built in the United States, seven were built in the Chesapeake Bay: three built in the Virginia portion of the Bay (Wolf Trap Lighthouse, 1894, Smith Point Lighthouse, 1897, and Thimble Shoal Lighthouse, 1914) and four in the Maryland portion of the Bay

Spotswood Hall - Shelby Smith House, Atlanta Georgia

Spotswood Hall - Shelby Smith House, Atlanta Georgia

Located in a prominent upper-class neighborhood in an area northwest of downtown Atlanta known as Buckhead, Spotswood Hall is an early 20th-century Classical Revival house and the work of three of Atlanta's premier artisans. Spotswood Hall is an excellent example of a Classical Revival-style house and as an example of the work of two important Atlanta architects. According to Georgia's Living Places: Historic Houses in Their Landscaped Settings (1991), the Classical Revival style was very popular in Georgia from the 1890s through the 1930s. Spotswood Hall exhibits architectural features commonly found on early 20^th Century examples including a two-story entry porch, the presence of a porte cochere and one-story side porches, and a symmetrical facade with a central entrance accented with

Dofflemyer Point Lighthouse, Olympia Washington

Dofflemyer Point Lighthouse, Olympia Washington

The Dofflemyer Point Light is the only lighthouse-type major aid to navigation below the Narrows on Puget Sound. The light is the major navigational aid on lower Puget Sound and guides shipping traffic through a relatively narrow entrance to Budd Inlet and distinguishes the entrance from the entrances to several other inlets which form the southern extremities of Puget Sound and are separated from Budd Inlet by only small points of land. Olympia on Budd Inlet was an early and important port. It was established as the first Custom House on Puget Sound in 1851 and was an active destination in early shipping of lumber and steamboat traffic as early as 1853. The City of Olympia built a mile long dock

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad-Creston Station, Creston Iowa

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad-Creston Station, Creston Iowa

This was the largest, best-constructed depot in Iowa on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad at the time. It was a division point, and all the business for southwest Iowa was conducted from this depot. Being a division headquarters, this depot also housed the office for the Master Carpenter who was in charge of all section work and bridge work for the entire division. Since a great amount of switching and the forming up of trains was done in the Creston yards the office of the trainmaster was also located in the Creston Depot. In addition, there were two branch lines and one foreign railroad also originating in Creston and controlled either entirely or in part from this depot. Also, shortly

Iowana Hotel, Creston Iowa

Iowana Hotel, Creston Iowa

Built in 1919-1920, the Iowana Hotel in Creston played a pivotal role in the development of the city's downtown commercial district. Comparatively modern hotels, featuring fireproof construction and up-to-date amenities, were just beginning to enter into the secondary markets of Iowa's small towns during the 1910s and 1920s. As sources of civic pride and emblems of material and cultural accomplishment, these hotels were often subsidized by towns eager for their construction. Creston was no different from many other Iowa towns of the time in its aspiration for first-class travelers' accommodations. What differentiated this town from its peers was the means by which it acquired the facility. Rather than court one of the franchises then operating in the Midwest, a consortium of

Heron Neck Light Station, Vinalhaven Maine

Heron Neck Light Station, Vinalhaven Maine

Heron Neck Light Station was established in 1853 as a guide to Carvers Harbor and Hurricane Sound. It is a component in the system of navigational aids in Penobscot Bay. One of the principal communities served by the Heron Neck Light was Vinalhaven located at the north end of Carvers Harbor. Incorporated in 1789, Vinalhaven's population in 1850 was 1,252 persons, most of whom probably combined fishing with limited farming. Later in the century, Vinalhaven witnessed the development of a local granite quarry and tourist industry. The Heron Neck Light was also sited at the southeast entrance to Hurricane Sound, a body of water framing the west side of Vinalhaven Island and punctuated with islets. Site Description The Heron Neck Light

Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments, Atlanta Georgia

Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments, Atlanta Georgia

The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel is an excellent example of the grand hotels built across America in the 1920s. The location and monumental size of the hotel mark the commercial progress of Atlanta demographically and financially during this period. The neo-Georgian architecture was felt to reflect the refined grace of New South society as well as signify its economic successes. The Atlanta Biltmore has been able to survive the rush of more centrally located hotels during the 1970s, as well as the age of interstate-related suburban motels. The primary financial impetus for the construction of the Atlanta Biltmore was provided by Atlanta capitalist William Candler. Candler was the son of Asa G. Candler, Sr., president of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, and had

Book Title Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

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Abandoned America: Dismantling The Dream

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The Atlas of Abandoned Places: A Journey Through The World's Forgotten Wonders

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Abandoned Train Stations (Abandoned Places)

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