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Grays Reef Light Station, Bliss Township Michigan

Grays Reef Light Station, Bliss Township Michigan

Grays Reef Light Station was part of the Federal government's construction program during the 1920s and 1930s to construct permanent offshore light stations to replace light vessels at hazardous locations in the Straits of Mackinac area. This lighthouse marks Grays Reef, a dangerous area of rocky shallows adjacent to a heavily traveled shipping channel. Grays Reef Light Station was constructed from 1934 to 1936 and is one of the last offshore light stations built in Lake Michigan. It was engineered to withstand the harsh environmental conditions characteristic of its exposed open-water location. The light station was manned from 1936 to 1976 when it was automated. It remains in service as an automated aid to navigation and landmark. This lighthouse warns mariners

Southern Pacific Freight Depot, Yuma Arizona

Southern Pacific Freight Depot, Yuma Arizona

The Southern Pacific Railroad Yard, on which this depot stood, was built in 1877 and was the first in Arizona. The yard was used to stockpile building materials for use across Arizona. It played an important role in the construction and opening of the Southern Pacific railroad route across the United States. The Freight Depot itself was the earliest remaining in the state. The Depot was built in 1891 and was the last remaining structure from the rail yard. The structure was a simple wood-frame building with an 8 bay loading dock. It measured 100' x 60'. An office was added to the northwest side in 1917. In the 1980s, the Yuma County Live Steamers had plans to rehabilitate the building

Wadsworth Estate - Long Hill, Middletown Connecticut

Wadsworth Estate - Long Hill, Middletown Connecticut

Large Estate Fully Restored After Years of Abandonment

Despite its faded grandeur, the Long Hill mansion, together with its associated wooded parkland, still evokes the Gilded Age, a period when great fortunes were expended on building and maintaining palatial seasonal retreats. Time and neglect have exacted their toll but the essential integrity of the estate remains. While the delineation of its varied landscape has blurred over time, it still conveys the essence of its original concept, the integration of formal classicism in a pastoral and wooded setting. Chief among the many experts who participated in the development of the estate over a 22-year period were Olmsted Brothers, undoubtedly the oldest and most noted landscape architectural firm of the period, and the architectural firm of Hoppin and Koen of New

Curtis Island Light, Camden Maine

Curtis Island Light, Camden Maine

Curtis Island Light, or Negro Island Light, as it was called for one hundred years, was first built in 1836 under the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The light was built by George Gault of Boston and the first keeper was H. K. M. Bowers. Bowers stayed on until 1841 and since then many keepers have occupied the position. The light station must have fallen into disrepair at some time for in 1896 it was ordered rebuilt by President Grover Cleveland. For many years the island was a signal station for the Boston-Bangor boats, many of which stopped at Camden. This small island also served as a pleasure spot for many of Camden's residents and visitors as a favorite picnic area. In

The Carolands - The Chateau, Hillsborough California

The Carolands - The Chateau, Hillsborough California

It is commonplace that in their search for status, wealthy Americans have often attempted to recreate the surroundings of European aristocracy; but the Carolands is among the very best examples of this phenomenon. It was built by Harriet Pullman Carolans, heiress to the Pullman fortune. The house was planned faithfully on the model of royal French chateaux, with none of the compromises to American traditions which are usually found in homes of this type. For example, the monumental stair-court (which here is the most spectacular architectural feature of the house) is seldom found on this scale in American mansions, probably because its original function (derived from the processional rituals of Baroque royalty) was unrelated to American lifestyles even of the wealthy.

Stepping Stones Light Station, Kings Point New York

Stepping Stones Light Station, Kings Point New York

Stepping Stones Light Station, first lit in 1877, was constructed through the efforts of the federal government to provide an integrated system of navigational aids and to provide for safe maritime transport in and around the port of New York. The Second Empire-style brick house and tower are constructed on a granite pier that rests on the outer edge of a rocky reef at the western end of Long Island Sound. The Second Empire style was employed in the design of approximately two dozen lighthouses north of the Chesapeake Bay, with the majority built during the 1870s. The same design was used three years earlier in the construction of the Hudson-Athens Light Station, along the Hudson River upriver from New York

Bottoms House, Texarkana Arkansas

Bottoms House, Texarkana Arkansas

The Bottoms House is an extraordinarily fine example of the modern residential architecture of the early twentieth century, outstanding in interior and exterior design alike. This property was built in 1910 for George W. Bottoms, a native of Virginia who moved to Texarkana in 1873 to become one of the town's most successful lumber kings during the turn of the century. Bottoms' house well reflects the prosperity of this gilded age in Texarkana's history. The design of the house harmoniously combines the sweeping horizontal lines and massing of the Prairie Style with the decorative interest of the Craftsman Style. Reflective of the Prairie Style are the building's dominant porch with its horizontal orientation enhanced by cast stone banding, its broad gambrel

John H. Adams House, High Point North Carolina

John H. Adams House, High Point North Carolina

As a successful city in the first decade of the twentieth century, High Point constructed an electric streetcar system. Track was first laid in 1905, but it was not until 1910 that enough tracks were laid to place the first cars in operation. The city's pattern of growth was strongly influenced by the location of the new system's tracks, and subsequent residential development was concentrated on the north side of town. Developments of streetcar suburbs were spurred by the streetcar system almost immediately. The earliest of these was Johnson Place, developed in 1907 even before the first streetcar ran. The development got its name from the Johnson family farm, bought with other smaller parcels by the Home Investment and Improvement Company

Mukilteo Light Station, Mukilteo Washington

Mukilteo Light Station, Mukilteo Washington

The point on which Mukilteo Light Station is built was the site of a treaty meeting between Governor Isaac Stevens and the Indians in 1856. The site was established as a light station in 1906 and a facility designed by C. W. Leick constructed. Mukilteo is the sole remaining of several structures of similar type constructed in the area. Among these were Ediz Hook (1906) and the second light at Cape Arago, Oregon. Part of the original complex was a windmill which was built over one of the few wells which supplied water for the needs of the growing community. This structure is now gone, but is highly visible in early photographs. The first entry in the guest register, which remains

Glynallen - General Drafting Company Office, Morristown New Jersey

Glynallen - General Drafting Company Office, Morristown New Jersey

Glynallyn is one of the few remaining Millionaires Row Mansions that lined Madison Avenue in the Morristown area during The Gilded Age - (1890-1929). Based on the design and atmosphere of the 1481 manor house of Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire, England, Glynallyn ably exemplifies the desire of the new American wealthy class, whose overwhelming accumulation of money, allowed them to try to outbuild Europe in their quest for prominence. Glynallyn was conceived by George Marshall Allen (1863-1941) who amassed his wealth through several varied business opportunities. These included pioneering in color printing through the Allen Publishing Co., the Bermuda Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, the National Starch Trust (an early conglomerate) and the W.A. Gaines Company, operator of the Old

Cape Decision Light Station, Sitka Alaska

Cape Decision Light Station, Sitka Alaska

Cape Decision Light Station was the last of 16 staffed lights established by the U.S. Government in Alaska. Since its lighting in 1932, 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. The lighthouse, the main building at the site, housed the light, fog signal, and radio equipment, offices, and living quarters for three keepers. It is, like many of its predecessors in Alaska, a reinforced concrete building with modest Art Moderne influences. The original lamp installed in the original lantern at the Cape Decision station was the first electric one used at an Alaskan lighthouse. In 1974, the

John E. Aldred Estate - St. Josephat's Monastery, Lattingtown New York

John E. Aldred Estate - St. Josephat's Monastery, Lattingtown New York

The John Aldred Estate, named Ormston after Aldred's wife's maiden name, is one of the major estates to survive intact from the Gold Coast era. It was designed in 1916 in the popular Tudor revival style of the early twentieth century by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924), the prominent American Gothicist. Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts were the landscape architects. The construction of the estate typifies the development of the Gold Coast in the early decades of the twentieth century, an area which grew from a cluster of seasonal resorts in the late nineteenth century into one of the largest enclaves of millionaires' residences by the Depression. Aldred himself was a pioneer industrialist in the area of hydroelectric power. The site acquisition

Five Finger Light Station, Petersburg Alaska

Five Finger Light Station, Petersburg Alaska

Five Finger Light Station is one of sixteen staffed navigational lights established by the U.S. Government in Alaska. Since 1902, 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. Located south of the city of Juneau and north of the city of Petersburg at the entrance to Stephens Passage, Five Finger Light Station began operation March 1^st, 1902, on the same day as Sentinel Island Light Station north of Juneau. These were the first U.S. lighthouses built in Alaska. The U.S. Lighthouse Service built the concrete lighthouse and hoist house that stand at the station in 1935 after the

Citizens Hall, Interlaken Massachusetts

Citizens Hall, Interlaken Massachusetts

Citizens Hall, which was built in 1870, is a small-scale version of the civic buildings constructed in the Second Empire (Mansard) and Italianate styles in major American cities following the Civil War. In Citizens Hall, that typically stone and brick architecture is translated into a wooden rural idiom and combined with elements which reflect the characteristic exuberance of the Victorian period. The Hall is the architectural epicenter of Curtisville, a small community within the Town of Stockbridge, which grew up around twelve mills. The mills are gone but several small dwellings in Greek Revival vernacular style, a brick store building, a Federal brick church and a Greek Revival inn remain. Historical records for Citizens Hall are scant and most are contained

Roosevelt School, Coeur d'Alene Idaho

Roosevelt School, Coeur d'Alene Idaho

Architect George Williams, who enjoyed a regional reputation as a specialist in schools, was the designer of this building. It is a good example of his early work, done just after he arrived in Coeur d'Alene in 1903. It is the only similar building preserved in the area. As a restored building, located near the county courthouse, it can have an impact on local historic preservation efforts through its example. Adaptive use as an office building had been arranged by the owner. School buildings in this area have rarely remained in use for more than six decades, and unless some other basis for preservation can be found, no examples of any kind of early twentieth-century school architecture (or of any other

Turkey Point Light Station, North East Maryland

Turkey Point Light Station, North East Maryland

The Turkey Point Lighthouse is one of the earliest extant lighthouses in the state of Maryland. The lighthouse embodies a distinctive design and method of construction that typified lighthouse construction on the upper Chesapeake Bay during the first half of the nineteenth century. Excluding Cape Henry (164 feet) and Cape Charles (191 feet), Turkey Point Lighthouse, sitting on a 100-foot bluff, has the highest focal plane of any lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay at 129 feet above the water. The 100-foot-high, buff-colored bluffs at Turkey Point, visible for several miles down the Chesapeake Bay, have served as a landmark and aid to navigation since colonial times. With the opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in October 1829, the Lighthouse Board

David Whitney Mansion, Detroit Michigan

David Whitney Mansion, Detroit Michigan

The residence of David Whitney, Jr., on Woodward Avenue was once described by the Detroit Free Press as an American palace enjoying the distinction of being the most pretentious modern home in the state and one of the most elaborate houses in the west. David Whitney, Jr., descended from a line of colonial ancestors who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, came to Detroit in 1857 and assumed charge of the western business of two firms involved in the buying and shipping of lumber and the purchasing of pine lands and logs. For some time these firms ranked with the largest dealers in the country and Whitney had charge of their operations in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, These firms dissolved in

Somerset Hotel - Hotel Roosevelt, Chicago Illinois

Somerset Hotel - Hotel Roosevelt, Chicago Illinois

Designed by Jules De Horvath and constructed in 1892-1893, Chicago's eight-story Romanesque Revival style Somerset Hotel is an example of late-nineteenth-century high-rise Chicago residential hotels. Constructed during the building boom that preceded the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Somerset Hotel shared common architectural elements with a broad spectrum of Chicago hotel, office, and apartment buildings. Although he trained as an architect in Paris, France, De Horvath adopted the precedents and formal motifs of Chicago buildings for his Somerset Hotel design. He attended closely to the work of Clinton J. Warren, Chicago's most notable late-nineteenth-century hotel designer, who, like De Horvath, worked for Burnham & Root during the 1880s. The Somerset Hotel stood as one of the notable buildings that formed the hotel

Egg Rock Light Station, Winter Harbor Maine

Egg Rock Light Station, Winter Harbor Maine

Egg Rock Light Station, situated on a bold rock island at the entrance to Frenchman Bay, is the only extant complex of this configuration in Maine. It was established in 1875. The light station on Egg Rock is prominently located in Frenchman Bay between Mount Desert Island to the west and Schoodic Peninsula to the east. Its construction here was undoubtedly in response to the rising maritime traffic in the bay, a large proportion of which was increasingly associated with summer tourism in and around Bar Harbor. The establishment of a steam powered fog signal in 1904 further underlines the importance of the station to local traffic. Egg Rock was automated by the Coast Guard in 1976, and its ancillary buildings,

Hendler Creamery, Baltimore Maryland

Hendler Creamery, Baltimore Maryland

Its original use as a cable-car powerhouse for the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company from 1892 to 1898 played an important role in Baltimore's transportation history, with the development of the cable-car mass transit in Baltimore, which attempted to use a new mode of urban transportation in place of the horse-car. The building powered the run of cable from Gay Street to North Avenue, using steam engines which propelled a sheave that pulled a continuous loop of cable. When the electric trolley replaced the cable-car as the more economical means of mass transit, the building was used by Baltimore's trolley monopoly, United Railways and Electric Company, from 1899 to 1903. The building's conversion to a theater from 1903 to 1912 links

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Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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Abandoned Palaces (Abandoned Places)

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