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Johnston-Hay House, Macon Georgia

Johnston-Hay House, Macon Georgia

18,000 Square Foot Mansion is Reported Haunted and Offers Ghost Tours

This magnificent Italian Renaissance Villa was built for William B. Johnston, 1855-60, after he and his wife, Ann Tracy, returned from their honeymoon in Italy. With them they brought plans, artisans, landscape gardeners, and furnishings for their future home which would include nineteen Cararra marble mantels, and a five-hundred pound front door with solid silver hinges. When the house had been under construction for one year, William Makepace Thackeray visited Macon, commented on Macon's pretty houses, and wrote a letter to his daughters in London describing his friends, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Johnston. Several years before, Mr. Johnston had begun his business career by being elected a Director of the Ocmulgee Bank in 1837 and of the Macon Manufacturing Company

Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford Connecticut

Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford Connecticut

Haunted Former Children's TB Hospital, Vacant since 1996

The Seaside Sanatorium, especially designed for the heliotropic treatment of children infected with tuberculosis, was the first institution of its kind in the United States. It was designed by Cass Gilbert (1858-1934), a nationally renowned architect. An infectious disease that has existed in world populations since the Neolithic period, tuberculosis did not reach epidemic proportions until the Industrial Revolution produced the crowded living conditions that were favorable to its spread. By the mid-nineteenth century, the disease accounted for one-quarter of the adult deaths in Europe, and by the last decades of the century, it had become epidemic in many American cities and was the leading cause of death. The contagious nature of the disease was well understood by 1865, and the

Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City New York

Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City New York

Now a Museum, Both Visitors and Employees Report this Home Haunted

In addition to its distinction as the only important pre-Revolutionary house still standing in Manhattan, the Morris-Jumel Mansion is the major surviving landmark of the Battle of Harlem Heights. Although a small-scale affair, the important effects of the battle were immediately evident. One major result was the restoration of the offensive spirit of the American Army, after the recent succession of defeats and retreats. The Jumel house served as the headquarters of Washington from September 14^th to October 18^th, 1776. Following their victory on Long Island, the British had easily occupied New York City on September 15^th, routing a portion of the American Army at Kip's Bay that same day. The Americans retreated to their fortified lines on the heights north

Jesse Lee Home for Children, Seward Alaska

Jesse Lee Home for Children, Seward Alaska

This Abandoned Orphanage Had a Haunted Reputation

The Jesse Lee Home for Children at Seward opened in 1926. Many Alaska Native children orphaned by epidemics, particularly devastating in western Alaska where medical care was extremely limited, lived at the home. The home was one of the largest and most stable institutions to care for and educate the hundreds of orphaned children. A number of Alaska's outstanding Native leaders were raised and educated at the Jesse Lee Home during its Seward years. John Ben Benny Benson, Jr., from Chignik, was one of the children who lived at the Jesse Lee Home. In 1927, his design was selected for Alaska's territorial, and later state, flag. While the Methodist Women's Home Missionary Society owned and operated the home, it received financial

D'Evereux Hall House, Natchez Mississippi

D'Evereux Hall House, Natchez Mississippi

Built in 1840, this Private Mansion is among the finest Greek Revival houses in America

D'Evereux is, by virtue of its Doric portico and superb plaster ornament, among the finest Greek Revival houses in America. The builder of D'Evereux was William St. John Elliot, a planter born in Maryland in 1800. Elliot was president of the Natchez Protection Insurance Company, chartered in 1829 to insure Mississippi cotton crops from the time of ginning to sale at New Orleans or elsewhere. Mrs. Elliot was Anna Frances Conner, daughter of William Conner of Berkley Plantation, in the Second Creek settlement near Natchez. Twice widowed by the time she was twenty-three, Mrs. Elliot brought to her third marriage substantial estates inherited from her previous husbands, a Mr. Bell and Dr. William H. Ruffin. In 1836, Elliot purchased eighty acres

Frogmore Plantation, St. Helena Island South Carolina

Frogmore Plantation, St. Helena Island South Carolina

This SC Plantation Dates Back to the Early 1700s

The Frogmore Plantation Complex on St. Helena Island is associated with Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, the founders of Penn School, and with prominent St. Helena businessman James Ross Macdonald. The plantation was originally owned by Lieutenant Governor William Bull, who willed it to his son in 1750. The property passed into the hands of John and Elizabeth Stapleton in 1790; the house and barn were built circa 1810, probably during their ownership. In the antebellum era, the boat that carried mail to St. Helena Island from Beaufort landed here, and mail addressed to Frogmore was sure to reach the island. The present-day name of Frogmore, for the crossroads at the Corner, derives from this usage. When the United States Post

Lincoln School, Owosso Michigan

Lincoln School, Owosso Michigan

Elementary School Building in MI Converted into Apartments

The Lincoln School is the oldest existing public school building in the city of Owosso and an early surviving example of the work of Lansing architect Samuel Dana Butterworth. The building served as an elementary school from 1916 to 1980 and as an alternative high school from 2005 to 2011. Founded in the mid-1830s around a site on the Shiawassee River with abundant water power potential for mills, Owosso grew slowly until the late 1850s, when a first railroad connection spurred more rapid development. In 1859, the settlement was incorporated as the city of Owosso. Saw and planing mills and other wood products manufacturing formed the city's early industrial base, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the city's

St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Parish House, Akron Ohio

St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Parish House, Akron Ohio

This Akron Church was Extensively Damaged by Fire in 2018 and Facing Demolition

This is an early building designed specifically as a Sunday school and parish house, and secondarily as a sanctuary. It is located in the city where the Akron plan, of which it is an excellent example, was evolved. St. Paul's Episcopal Parish was formed in 1835. Meeting at first in private homes and rooms, the congregation built a small frame building in 1844, and that building was subsequently enlarged in 1870. In 1884 the church purchased the triangular lot at East Market, Forge, and Fir Streets and built the existing Sunday School and Parish House for $35,000. It was dedicated on January 6^th, 1885. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, religious organizations became increasingly concerned with the care and

Daniel Boone House, Defiance Missouri

Daniel Boone House, Defiance Missouri

Built by His Son, Nathan, Daniel Boone Lived here until his Death

The Daniel Boone Home, historically known as the Nathan Boone House, is an early Missouri residence associated with the famous Boone family. It dates from the period of initial settlement in Missouri. Tax records confirm the existence of the house by the early 1820s. Boone family records cite 1803-1811 as the period of construction. The house has similarities in design and construction to the home of George Boone, III, grandfather of Daniel Boone. This house, constructed in 1733, is located in Limekiln, Pennsylvania. Daniel Boone (1734-1820) is one of the most famous figures on the American Frontier. Daniel and his wife did not build a permanent home of their own in Missouri, but lived with several of their children in the

Williamsburg Bridge, New York New York

Williamsburg Bridge, New York New York

The Historic Williamsburg Bridge in NYC Was the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World When It Opened

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Completed in 1903, it was the longest suspension bridge span in the world until 1924. It was designed by Leffert Lefferts Buck as one of the last major suspension bridges for the horse and carriage. Following the Brooklyn Bridge, which captured the imagination of engineers, poets, and artists after it opened in 1883, the Williamsburg Bridge was considered an ugly duckling by comparison. L.L. Buck countered the aesthetic criticism of the bridge with the words but it is strong. This first major suspension bridge

Grand Rapids Christian High School, Grand Rapids Michigan

Grand Rapids Christian High School, Grand Rapids Michigan

Former School Building in MI is now Apartments known as 415 Franklin

Grand Rapids Christian High School was the Grand Rapids' Dutch Reformed Christian community's first high school, and the site itself is at the very heart of the community's belief in, and value placed upon, religious education. There was built their first theological school in 1892, to which a junior college would later be added, and which would house the first iteration of Calvin College. When the college moved to a larger site in 1920, the original building became Grand Rapids' first Christian high school. The 1931 addition to the 1892 building utilized Henry H. Turner's twenty years of design experience during Grand Rapids Public School's early-twentieth-century building boom and expressed his take on the Lombard Romanesque style, a distinct classification within

Boylan Apartments, Raleigh North Carolina

Boylan Apartments, Raleigh North Carolina

Historic Apartment Complex was Built with Public Works Administration Funds

Built in 1935, one-half mile due west of the state Capitol, the Boylan Apartments are Raleigh's earliest garden-style apartment complex. The complex is comprised of three three-story brick Colonial Revival-style buildings arranged around an open courtyard. The project, led by local businessman Rufus Boylan, was one of the first in the nation to participate in a Public Works Administration program that loaned federal money to private developers. The program aimed to provide jobs for the unemployed at the close of the Depression while creating quality modern housing for lower-income residents. The project's controversial three-year road to completion was reported in both local and national newspapers. North Carolina endured the national economic Depression and Recovery era under Democratic Governors O. Max Gardner

Portland High School, Portland Michigan

Portland High School, Portland Michigan

Now Restored as the Portland School Apartments, this School Closed in 1991

The Portland High School was constructed in 1919-20 to replace the former high school destroyed by fire in 1918. With an addition constructed in 1936, the school housed the entire Portland public school student population from Kindergarten through twelfth grade from 1920 when it was completed until 1953, when the student population could no longer be contained in the single building. In the 1950s two elementary schools were constructed to house the growing Portland school population, and in 1967, the 1919-20 building was converted into the junior high school when a new high school was constructed. In 1969, the auditorium stage ceased to be used, although the gymnasium continued to serve the junior high school students. In 1991, the 1919-20 building

Genesee Street School, Lansing Michigan

Genesee Street School, Lansing Michigan

This Elementary School Building in Lansing has been Vacant Since 2013

The Genesee Street School served as a public school building in Lansing, Michigan, from its construction in 1912 until 1984. The building is one of the oldest remaining and longest-used elementary schools in Lansing. The 1912 main building is one of the few known remaining public school buildings designed by prominent Lansing architect Edwyn A. Bowd, who designed so many of Lansing's leading buildings from the 1890s to the 1930s. In January of 1912 the school board moved to have plans drawn up for a new school at the corner of Genesee Street and Butler Boulevard, in a residential neighborhood adjacent to the downtown, on vacant lots that had been purchased in April 1909. In February 1912, the school board resolved

Michigan School for the Blind, Lansing Michigan

Michigan School for the Blind, Lansing Michigan

Former Large School Campus for Educating the Blind in MI

The Michigan School for the Blind was a dedicated attempt by the State of Michigan to effectively educate the blind population in a segregated educational setting to better accommodate their need for training and instruction. The philosophy of a specific educational setting for the blind reflects the broad pattern statewide and nationally in the late nineteenth to late twentieth century before the change in education practices of the late twentieth century, when the blind population was incorporated into mainstream educational systems. The early twentieth-century architecture reflects the popular revival style of educational institutions of that period and the design of buildings sited around a quad reflects the typical design of educational campuses popular at that time. The second major period of

Oheka - Otto H. Kahn Estate, Cold Springs Hills New York

Oheka - Otto H. Kahn Estate, Cold Springs Hills New York

Long Island Gold Coast Mansion is Now a Hotel Known as Oheka Castle

Oheka (now known as Oheka Castle), the palatial summer home constructed for wealthy banker and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn near Huntington, New York between 1915 and 1917, is widely regarded as one of Long Island's most spectacular early-twentieth-century estates. Now situated on approximately twenty-three acres that remain of its original 443 acres, the property includes its original mansion surrounded by numerous associated structures and landscape features that date from its construction period. Long Island's north shore evolved during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a venue of summer estates and cottages for wealthy New Yorkers. Over a period of six decades, the construction of palatial homes continued in the region unabated, resulting in a concentration of vast estates unprecedented

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron Ohio

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron Ohio

Large Vacant Iconic Tire Factory in OH Facing Demolition

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded in 1900, and although it was the youngest of the Big Four rubber companies in Akron, Firestone quickly grew to be one of the world's most innovative and successful tire companies. When the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was established, the tire making industry was in its infancy, struggling to keep up with the needs of a rapidly transitioning transportation network. Technological innovations created by Firestone's company continue to have relevance in the tire and automotive industry. Harvey S. Firestone's creativity, business philosophy and acts of social responsibility enabled his company to become the world's biggest producer of natural and synthetic rubber. Harvey Samuel Firestone By the time Harvey Samuel Firestone was born

Baker Public School, Richmond Virginia

Baker Public School, Richmond Virginia

Three Baker School buildings have existed on this site in Richmond's North Jackson Ward neighborhood since 1871. Each was constructed to serve the city's African-American students during the segregation era of public education in Virginia; after integration, the 1939 school remained open until 1979, when the property was converted to serve other educational programs. The two buildings that remain on the site were constructed in 1913 and 1939. The former was designed by Charles M. Robinson and the latter by Marcellus Wright & Son. In 1957 Interstate 95/65 was constructed immediately to the south of the school property, an event that displaced neighborhood residents and students, and brought with it a population shift towards the city's east end, and the subsequent

Arcola Elementary School, Sterling Virginia

Arcola Elementary School, Sterling Virginia

Arcola Elementary School, built in 1939, was the fifth PWA (Public Works Administration) construction project and the only PWA school built in Loudoun County, Virginia. Built during the era of public school racial segregation, Arcola was Loudoun's first elementary school for white students with individual classrooms for each grade, marking a major shift in standards of education. Where the traditional one-room school dictated a limited curriculum of math and arithmetic, the multi-room school provided enough space to offer a varied curriculum. Public Education in the Rural South After the Civil War, each of the former Confederate states was required to adopt a new constitution as a prerequisite for re-admission to the Union. Part of the mandate of this new constitution was

Captain Lewis Bissell Mansion, Saint Louis Missouri

Captain Lewis Bissell Mansion, Saint Louis Missouri

Large Haunted Plantation Home in St. Louis MO

This residence was built in 1823 by Captain Louis Bissell. Capt. Bissell was a well known officer in the Revolutionary War. Many famous people were entertained in this residence. The house is a two story brick, Old Colonial type with portico which was added at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The portico is built with California Redwood. At least 13 people are confirmed to have died in the house, and it is reportedly now haunted. In 1953, there was a plan to knock it down to make room for an expressway, but the Landmarks Association of St. Louis saved it from demolition in 1957. It then briefly became a restaurant before it was turned into a murder mystery dinner theater,

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