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Poydras High School, New Roads Louisiana

Poydras High School, New Roads Louisiana

Poydras High is the descendant of a succession of schools made possible by the philanthropy of Julien Poydras, a local planter and public benefactor. Poydras died in 1824. His will contained a clause bequeathing the sum of $20,000 for an educational fund, the interest from which was to be used for the erection of a school. Established in 1829 near New Roads, Poydras College operated until the outbreak of the Civil War. A Poydras School of New Roads operated for a few years in the 1880s, and in 1889, the immediate predecessor of the building was established on the present site. It was called Poydras Academy. By 1912, the school had outgrown the resources of the Poydras Fund, and it was

Taftsville Covered Bridge, Woodstock Vermont

Taftsville Covered Bridge, Woodstock Vermont

The Taftsville bridge is one of the most extraordinary covered bridges in Vermont. Constructed in 1836 by Solomon Emmons, the bridge is the third oldest covered bridge in the state among those whose dates have been documented. Structurally the Taftsville bridge is unique, being a combination of queenpost through trusses with laminated plank arches. Despite its age, the bridge has not been extensively altered. The covered bridges of Vermont are among its most cherished and symbolic historic resources. About one hundred bridges still stand in the state, the greatest concentration by area of covered bridges in the country. Bridge Description The Taftsville Covered Bridge consists of two spans, totaling 189 feet in length, supported by flanking timber queenpost through trusses augmented

Rosebank Plantation House, Weyanoke Louisiana

Rosebank Plantation House, Weyanoke Louisiana

This was Once a Large Cotton Plantation

Rosebank is architecturally interesting because of its design with the continuous upper and lower front porches and enclosed stairs, and its upper and lower, three-bay rear loggias, forms a prototype for later, more refined versions of Louisiana Plantation houses such as Shadows-on-the-Tech in New Iberia, Louisiana. Historically, the house is significant for two primary reasons, it is built on land granted by the Spanish government in 1790, and it served as a dwelling place for several generations of slave-owning cotton planters whose industry helped form the economic basis of the antebellum South. According to legal instruments at the West Feliciana Parish courthouse showing the chain of title of the land on which the house is constructed, a man by the name

Belcrest Hotel, Detroit Michigan

Belcrest Hotel, Detroit Michigan

Built in 1926 as a luxury class apartment hotel, the Belcrest is an early work of Detroit architect Charles N. Agree and a work that helped establish his reputation locally as a first-class designer. It is a prime early Detroit example of the apartment hotel development concept. By 1926 this development idea was successful in other major cities such as New York and Chicago, the Belcrest was one of the first buildings in Detroit to be designed to provide the services of a hotel coupled with the long-term residential features of an apartment building. The Belcrest was constructed in 1926 as a luxury class apartment hotel. Its location on Cass Avenue was determined by the growing importance of the Cultural Center

Swanton Covered Railroad Bridge, Swanton Vermont

Swanton Covered Railroad Bridge, Swanton Vermont

The Swanton Covered Railroad Bridge was the longest of the three covered railroad bridges remaining in Vermont. It was destroyed by fire in 1987. The structure was built in 1898 to connect what is presently the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad, a lateral line running from St. Johnsbury to Swanton, Vermont, with the main north-south line of the Central Vermont Railroad directly west of the river. The structural integrity of the bridge, from abutments to trusses, remains substantially unimpaired. The pragmatic uses of various structural systems within the bridge and the presence of both pegged and bolted bridge joints document the transition of bridge-building technology at the turn of the 20^th century. The tracks leading to the bridge have been

Meriden Curtain Fixture Company Factory, Meriden Connecticut

Meriden Curtain Fixture Company Factory, Meriden Connecticut

The Meriden Curtain Fixture Company was a unit in a larger industrial enterprise known as the Charles Parker Co. Charles Parker (1809-1902) was an aggressive industrial innovator who dominated the manufacturing scene in Meriden for much of the 19^th century with a variety of factories and products. Charles Parker was born in Cheshire but came to Meriden in 1829 to work in a factory making coffee mills. By the end of that year he was in business for himself. In 1831 he bought land on Broad Street to build his first factory building. This site is about one block west of the Meriden Curtain Fixture Company Factory. By 1844 Parker was using steam for power, the first in Meriden to do

Stony Brook Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

Stony Brook Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

The Stony Brook Covered Bridge is the last covered wood bridge supported by kingpost trusses to have been built on a public highway in Vermont. The bridge was constructed by John Moseley in 1899, only five years before the end of the historic period of covered bridge construction on public highways in the state which began about 1820. The Stony Brook Bridge is one of five bridges remaining on public highways in the town of Northfield, the second highest concentration by town of such bridges in Vermont. The covered bridges of Vermont are among its most cherished and symbolic historic resources. About one hundred of the bridges still stand in the state, the highest concentration by area of covered bridges in

First Ward School, Elkins West Virginia

First Ward School, Elkins West Virginia

The history of First Ward School is tied to the rapid early development of Elkins and Randolph County following the coming of the railroad in 1889. In that year, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railroad, under the leadership of former US Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and his son-in-law, Stephen B. Elkins, extended their rail line southward from Tucker County to tap Randolph County's rich timber, coal, and mineral resources. Construction and extension of the line between Parsons and the tiny agricultural hamlet of Leadsville, later renamed Elkins, culminated with the passage of the first train through the narrow cut north of the new town's center in December 1889. Beginning in 1888, Davis and Elkins began purchasing large tracts of land

Slaughterhouse Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

Slaughterhouse Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

The Slaughterhouse Covered Bridge is one of five covered wood bridges remaining on public highways in the town of Northfield, the second highest concentration by town of such bridges in Vermont. The Slaughterhouse bridge is the only one of the Northfield bridges which has not been altered structurally. It carries only an occasional vehicle across the Dog River to the abandoned site of a former industry, after which it is named. The covered bridges of Vermont are among its most cherished and symbolic historic resources. ABout one hundred of the bridges still stand in the state, the highest concentration by area of covered bridges in the country. Bridge Description The Slaughterhouse Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two

Chateau Frontenac Apartments, Detroit Michigan

Chateau Frontenac Apartments, Detroit Michigan

The Chateau Frontenac was designed by Detroit architect J. Will Wilson in 1925. By the early 1920's Mr. Wilson's practice concentrated primarily on the construction of apartment buildings. Amongst his better known works in Detroit were the Parkhurst Apartments (1921) at Parker and Agnes and the Art Center Apartments (1926) in the Cultural Center. The original plans identify the building as the Marquette Drive Apartments, as it actually fronted on Marquette Drive, but it opened as the Chateau Frontenac in 1926. Otto Misch was its contractor; Truscon Steel Company did the columns and the footings. Truscon Steel of Youngstown, Ohio grew out of the Trussed Concrete Company of Detroit, a company founded by Julius Kahn, architect Albert Kahn's brother. Classy apartment

Grand Rapids Cycle Company Factory, Grand Rapids Michigan

Grand Rapids Cycle Company Factory, Grand Rapids Michigan

The Grand Rapids Cycle Company factory housed the first and largest bicycle manufacturer in the city of Grand Rapids from 1895 to 1900. For a short period, from 1890 to 1903, the city was an important bicycle manufacturing center. In 1897 there were six factories in the city with an annual production of 25,000 to 30,000 bicycles. Cycling in America The golden age of cycling in the United States took place in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Cycles quickly became popular for recreation, racing, and transportation. The manufacture of the Columbia cycle by Albert A. Pope's Pope Manufacturing Company in 1878 has been called the dawn of the bicycle age in the United States. The Pope Manufacturing Company

Sequin Covered Bridge, East Charlotte Vermont

Sequin Covered Bridge, East Charlotte Vermont

The Seguin Covered Bridge, one of three covered wood bridges remaining in the town of Charlotte, crosses Lewis Creek a short distance downstream from scenic waterfalls. The Seguin Bridge is one of only nine covered bridges remaining in Vermont which are supported by Burr arch trusses. The bridge has been maintained with respect for its original fabric. The covered bridges of Vermont are among its most cherished and symbolic historic resources. About one hundred of the bridges still stand in the state, the highest concentration by area of covered bridges in the United States. Bridge Description The Seguin Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two flanking timber Burr arch trusses. Each truss incorporates an arch built of two

Michigan Bell and Western Electric Warehouse, Detroit Michigan

Michigan Bell and Western Electric Warehouse, Detroit Michigan

The telephone arrived in Michigan in July 1877, sixteen months after the successful demonstration in Massachusetts by Alexander Graham Bell. It was first demonstrated in Detroit, and then in Grand Rapids eight days later. Bell licensed the Telephone and Telegraph Construction Company in Detroit, and the first Detroit switchboard went into operation in 1878. It was connected to fifty-three lines. The second Michigan switchboard was in Grand Rapids, installed in 1879. In 1880 Detroit was connected by phone to Windsor, Ontario, and in 1881 the Michigan Bell Telephone Company was formed to connect Detroit to other Michigan cities. The first line was run to Port Huron through Mount Clemens, Richmond, and St. Clair. By 1885 Detroit was connected to Ypsilanti, Ann

Scribner Covered Bridge, Johnson Vermont

Scribner Covered Bridge, Johnson Vermont

The Scribner Covered Bridge probably was built originally without its upper walls and roof, and therefore belongs among a small number of covered wood bridges in Vermont that have been rebuilt from open bridges. The trusses of the Scribner Bridge have only about half the usual height of queenpost trusses applied to bridges covered during original construction. The Scribner Bridge is one of three covered bridges remaining in the town of Johnson. The covered bridges of Vermont are among its most cherished and symbolic historic resources. About one hundred of the bridges still stand in the state, the highest concentration by area of covered bridges in the United States. Bridge Description The Scribner Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported

New Perry Hotel, Perry Georgia

New Perry Hotel, Perry Georgia

This large Resort Hotel in GA was Demolished in July 2024

Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the New Perry Hotel was a regional tourist destination along Highway 41, becoming a popular stop for Florida vacationers along the busy route between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida. Since its construction in 1925, the hotel served as a focal point for social interaction in the community and as a landmark for the tourist industry in Perry. The hotel is most readily associated with prominent local business and civic leaders Joe Yates Green and Nannette Green, a husband and wife team who owned and operated the New Perry Hotel from 1944 to 1997. During the 1940s and early 1950s, the Greens expanded and modernized the New Perry Hotel and promoted the city of Perry and

Scott Covered Bridge, Townshend Vermont

Scott Covered Bridge, Townshend Vermont

The Scott Covered Bridge is the longest covered wooden highway bridge wholly within the state of Vermont. The easternmost span of 166 feet supported by Town lattice trusses is the longest single covered wooden span in the state. The Scott bridge holds special interest for being a combination of three structural systems; Town lattice truss, laminated plank arch, and kingpost through truss. The Scott bridge has withstood several major floods that destroyed most of the other covered bridges in the West River valley. A large flood-control dam has been constructed about one-half mile upstream of the bridge, and although it detracts considerably from the scenic environment of the structure, it should spare the bridge from destruction by future floods. In 1955

Lancaster and Waumbek Apartments, Detroit Michigan

Lancaster and Waumbek Apartments, Detroit Michigan

Constructed probably in 1904, the Lancaster and Waumbek Apartments represent the early, turn-of-the-century generation of apartment house development in Detroit. They were designed by the prolific Detroit architect, A.C. Varney, the pioneer apartment building architect in Detroit. The buildings were owned by one of Michigan's first suffragists, Sarah A. Sampson, who resided in the Lancaster with her husband from 1906 to 1919. The apartment building as a housing type came late to Detroit when compared to its earlier popularity in eastern cities. Because of Detroit's relatively slow population growth until the late nineteenth century and its lack of geographical restrictions to concentrate that growth, the need for high density housing was not great. Terraces, or attached row houses, appealed to those

S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, Detroit Michigan

S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, Detroit Michigan

The Kresge World Headquarters Building is a meticulously preserved, Art Deco style office structure of outstanding architectural qualities designed by a noted American architect, Albert Kahn. It is also important for its central role in the growth of a nationally important retailer, the S. S. Kresge Company. Albert Kahn's firm designed the Kresge Building in 1928 to provide a new headquarters for the Detroit-based, five and ten cent store chain. The building was a radical departure from the prevailing skyscraper norm for office buildings at the period, in that it was designed to spread out horizontally rather than soar upward. To accommodate the large structure, a site just outside the central business district in a pleasant, but fading, late Victorian residential

River Road Covered Bridge, North Troy Vermont

River Road Covered Bridge, North Troy Vermont

The River Road Covered Bridge across the Missisquoi River was the only covered wood bridge remaining in the town of Troy. The structure of the bridge displays characteristics that distinguish it from that of other bridges supported by Town lattice trusses in Vermont. Each truss has three chords instead of the usual four, single pegs at the intersections of the lattice planks instead of the usual double, and three exterior timber buttresses where most other bridges have none. Combined with the structural variations, the exterior sheathing of horizontal siding painted red and the steep-pitch gable roof with wide over hangs give the bridge a unique design among the covered bridges in the state. On February 6^th, 2021 the Bridge was destroyed

Old Springdale High School, Springdale Arkansas

Old Springdale High School, Springdale Arkansas

The community now known as Springdale began as the small community of Shiloh, located just to the west of the modern center of town and so-sited due to its proximity to a natural spring. Springdale experienced some economic growth in the years immediately after the Civil War, largely through the impact of various mills that were constructed in the vicinity. However, there is no question that the arrival of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (known as the Frisco) in 1881 provided the impetus for the largest period of economic development Springdale would experience. The concurrent growth of the fruit and vegetable industry throughout Washington County combined with its access to the railroad as a shipping point to turn Springdale

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Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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Abandoned America: Dismantling The Dream

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Abandoned Places: A Photographic Exploration of More Than 100 Worlds We Have Left Behind

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Abandoned Palaces (Abandoned Places)

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