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Tucker School Building, Tucker Arkansas

Tucker School Building, Tucker Arkansas

The Tucker community was named after John Woodfin Tucker, who came to Jefferson County in 1867 or 1868 and settled on Plum Bayou. In the vicinity of his house, Tucker also constructed a frame warehouse or commissary building. However, when the Cotton Belt line was constructed through the area c.1887, he moved the building to the small settlement at the rail line, which became known as Tucker when the post office was established. The Tucker community has always been tied to the Tucker plantation, and has been an agricultural community focused on cotton production in the area. The Tucker School was built c.1915 to serve the white students in the Tucker community. Tucker did have a Rosenwald School (built 1925) and

Red Covered Bridge - Chaffee Bridge, Morristown Vermont

Red Covered Bridge - Chaffee Bridge, Morristown Vermont

The Red Covered Bridge is the only covered wood bridge remaining in the town of Morristown, and one of the last covered bridges built in Vermont (1896). The bridge has a structural design of modified queenpost trusses which is unique among the covered bridges in the state. The Red Bridge crosses Sterling Brook above a scenic narrow gorge whose upper walls of exposed bedrock provide natural abutments for the bridge. 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 Red Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two

St. Boniface-St. Vincent Roman Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

St. Boniface-St. Vincent Roman Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

The German immigration into Detroit, which began early in the 19^th century, had resulted in the formation of a German parish, St. Mary's, as early as 1841. St. Mary's was located on the east side of Detroit, in an area which grew to be the German commercial center for a time, and which is now known as the Greektown District. Expansion of the German community generally moved eastward along Gratiot Avenue, and to some extent that pattern continues today; the first division of St. Mary's was the establishment of St. Joseph's in 1855 at Gratiot and Orleans. Some Germans, however, did settle on the west side of Detroit, particularly along Michigan Avenue in a generally Irish area known as Corktown. In

St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Church, Detroit Michigan

St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Church, Detroit Michigan

A meeting of residents of the area near the outskirts of the city along Grand River Avenue on the northwest side in May 1915, led to a petition to the Diocese of Detroit to establish a new parish to serve that area, then served by St. Leo's and the recently established St. Agnes. Bishop John Foley purchased the triangular block which the parish occupies on the feast of St. Theresa of Avila in 1915, thus establishing the patronage of the new parish which became the fiftieth parish of the Detroit Diocese. Fr. John J. McCabe was assigned as pastor in November of that year. After meeting in the basement of St. Leo's, the new parish moved to its newly built temporary

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church and Rectory, Detroit Michigan

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church and Rectory, Detroit Michigan

This large Church Complex in Detroit was Demolished in 1993

Designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Van Leyen, Schilling & Keough, specialists in the field of Catholic church architecture in the 1920s, and laden with a wealth of decorative art in stained glass, ceramic tile, limestone, marble, bronze, and wrought iron which date from the time of the church's construction, St. Thomas the Apostle Church is an outstanding example of Catholic church design of the 1920s in Detroit, a city which constructed numerous Catholic churches during that decade of intense growth. Built in the 1924-26 period, this fine church building with its adjacent rectory reflects the rapid growth of the Polish Catholic population on Detroit's east side. Father Stanley S. Skrycki began to serve the rapidly growing Polish community on

Quinlan's Covered Bridge, East Charlotte Vermont

Quinlan's Covered Bridge, East Charlotte Vermont

Quinlan's Covered Bridge is an outstanding example as one of the nine covered wood bridges remaining in Vermont which are supported by Burr arch trusses. The bridge has been given careful maintenance, sympathetic to its original fabric. One of three covered bridges remaining in the town of Charlotte, Quinlan's Bridge stands within the extraordinarily scenic agricultural valley of Lewis Creek. 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 Quinlan's Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two flanking timber Burr arch trusses. Each truss incorporates an arch built

Bayonne Trust Company, Bayonne New Jersey

Bayonne Trust Company, Bayonne New Jersey

The Bayonne Trust Company Bank building at the corner of Broadway and Ninth Street stands as a symbol of one of the most dynamic growth eras of the City of Bayonne, known as the New Jersey metropolitan era. Its construction marked the conviction of its investors that Bayonne had progressed from its earlier identity as a peninsula of small farms to one of industrial growth. During the Civil War, the Central Railroad of New Jersey transported soldiers and supplies through the peninsula of Bayonne, demonstrating a potential yet to be tapped. After the war, the oil industry and a succession of small manufacturing firms took advantage of Bayonne's location for national and international commerce. Architect Lansing C. Holden's choice of a

Power House Covered Bridge, Johnson Vermont

Power House Covered Bridge, Johnson Vermont

This 1870 Bridge is Downstream From a Former Hydro Power Plant

The Power House Covered Bridge stands a short distance downstream from a former municipal hydroelectric generating station at cascades of the Gihon River. The bridge was built in 1870, twenty-five years before the generating station from which it derives its present name. The Power House bridge is one of three covered wood 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. The Power House Covered Bridge consists of a single span supported by two flanking timber queenpost trusses. Each truss incorporates five iron suspension rods that

Pitts Theatre - State Theater, Culpeper Virginia

Pitts Theatre - State Theater, Culpeper Virginia

The Pitts Theatre, located in the Town of Culpeper, in Culpeper County, Virginia, was erected from 1937 to 1938 and served as a motion picture theatre. Designed by architect Nicholas Roney of Henrico County, Virginia, it is an Art Deco-style motion picture theatre. The Pitts Theatre was part of the Pitts chain of theatres in Virginia that extended from southeast to northwest Virginia. Founded by Benjamin T. Pitts of Fredericksburg, Virginia, the chain ultimately had thirty-eight theatres. Pitts was a Virginia state senator from 1944 through 1958 representing the counties of Louisa, Spotsylvania, Goochland, and Orange in the Virginia Senate. The Pitts Theatre operated under the Pitts chain through 1971 when it became a part of the R. C. chain, a

Court Street School, Freehold New Jersey

Court Street School, Freehold New Jersey

From 1921 until 1948, the Court Street School was the only public elementary school within the borough of Freehold open to African American students. The Court Street School is a New Jersey public school building constructed to provide separate educational facilities for African American students. Every city and town in the southern portion of the state with an appreciable black population supported a dual system of public elementary education during the early twentieth century. Among these communities was Freehold. The practice of educating African American children separately from white children began during the era of slavery. The first attempts to educate the children of slaves were made in the eighteenth century by the Society of Friends. Because of Quaker influence, the

Poland Covered Bridge, Cambridge Junction Vermont

Poland Covered Bridge, Cambridge Junction Vermont

The Poland Covered Bridge crosses the Lamoille River at the former railroad interchange and station of Cambridge Junction. The bridge stands a short distance northeast of the junction between the Saint Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad (originally the Vermont Division of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad) and the abandoned Burlington and Lamoille Railroad, which were opened to traffic in 1877. The Poland Bridge, which is the first bridge at the site, was constructed to provide direct access to the Cambridge Junction depot for residents of towns north of the river. George W. Holmes completed the bridge during the autumn of 1887; Luther A. Wheelock laid the abutments under contract. The Poland Bridge derives its name from the resident of the adjoining

Palace Amusements, Asbury New Jersey

Palace Amusements, Asbury New Jersey

Originally Known for it Carousel, this Park Closed in 1988

Palace Amusements opened as a carousel house in 1888, and it is the only enclosed amusement arcade on the New Jersey shore with a surviving nineteenth-century pavilion. It housed unique and high quality amusements created by many of the nation's finest and most artistic amusement innovators, including a Ferris wheel which carried patrons from an interior boarding area to an observation deck high above roof level. Palace Amusements provided an experience that became integral to resort recreation. It specifically reflected the resort experience in Asbury Park. Its attractions produced an environment that excited ten decades of visitors, and inspired one of New Jersey's most prolific generations of songwriters and performers. The history of popular entertainment can be traced back to the

Monnett Hall Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio

Monnett Hall Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio

Delaware, Ohio, has a reputation as a seat of higher learning in frontier Ohio. Ohio Wesleyan University was founded there in 1844 to meet the need for a suitable Methodist school. The success of Oberlin College, another Ohio school of 1833, had shown the soundness of the idea of co-education, and a need was soon felt in Delaware for a suitable school for young women. To meet the need, one Rev. William Grissell and his wife founded the Delaware Female Seminary in 1850, located in the old Delaware Academy building. By 1852, however, the Seminary had declined and was to be abandoned, but a local Methodist group which had been meeting in the Seminary's chapel decided to continue the school under

Pine Brook Covered Bridge, Waitsfield Vermont

Pine Brook Covered Bridge, Waitsfield Vermont

The Pine Brook covered bridge is one of two covered bridges to survive in the town of Waitsfield. The bridge remains structurally unaltered from its original design, lacking any of the various reinforcing devices added to many other covered bridges in Vermont. 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. The Pine Brook covered bridge consists of a single span supported by two flanking timber kingpost trusses. Two logs have been placed upright in the stream bed to give temporary support to the center of the trusses. The bridge rests on abutments built of irregular

Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate, Mill Neck New York

Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate, Mill Neck New York

One of the best preserved Gold Coast estates in NY, now a School for the Deaf

The Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School for the Deaf occupies the former Lillian Sefton Dodge estate in Mill Neck. It is a well-preserved Long Island Gold Coast estate and an excellent example of the sensitive adaptive reuse of an estate as a school. The main house was designed in 1923 in the Tudor Revival style by Clinton and Russell of New York City with Charles Leavitt as landscape architect. Since its purchase in 1949 by the Lutheran Friends of the Deaf, parts of the estate were sympathetically adapted for school use by Richard Burke of Sea Cliff; and in 1967 and 1971 new buildings were added by Knappe and Johnson of Garden City in keeping with the original design. Most of

Orne Covered Bridge, Coventry Vermont

Orne Covered Bridge, Coventry Vermont

The Orne Covered Bridge is the only covered wood bridge supported by Paddleford trusses in Vermont which remains on its original site and carries a public road. (There are two other covered bridges with Paddleford trusses in the state, one in Lyndon and another in Irasburg, but both have been moved from their original sites and are now owned privately.) The builder and date of construction of the Orne Bridge are uncertain; one source states that E. P. Colton built it in 1879, and another states that John D. Colton built it in 1881. The Orne Bridge ranks among the finest surviving examples of vernacular covered bridge architecture in Vermont. The bridge retains to an extraordinary extent its original design, structure,

Benjamin Moore Estate, Muttontown New York

Benjamin Moore Estate, Muttontown New York

Chelsea is the former Benjamin Moore estate, one of the best-preserved of Long Island's Gold Coast mansions. The 1923-4 estate and its 1929 additions were designed by William Adams Delano, of the well-known firm of Delano and Aldrich, in an unusual eclectic combination of Chinese and French Renaissance elements. The grounds, also designed by Delano with the assistance of Mrs. Alexandra Moore and Umberto Innocenti of Innocenti and Webel, preserve one of the more imaginative landscape designs of the period. Still in private residential use, the estate is near the center of the Muttontown Preserve, a five-hundred-acre nature preserve owned by Nassau County, much of which was contributed by the Moore's over the past forty years. The Moores (of Benjamin Moore

Old Schoolhouse Covered Bridge, Lyndon Vermont

Old Schoolhouse Covered Bridge, Lyndon Vermont

Many covered bridges in Vermont are located in remote areas not readily accessible to the general public. The Schoolhouse Bridge is located almost in the center of the picturesque village of Lyndon. Its design is of such outstanding grace as to make it one of the most photographed bridges in the state. It is believed to be the only bridge remaining in the state with covered walkways on each side. It is one of the few structures of its type that obviously was designed for beauty as well as practical purposes. The Old Schoolhouse Covered Bridge is unaltered and retains its original appearance in every detail. Its design is such that the end openings sweep outward and upward and the roof

Minerva Grade School, Minerva Ohio

Minerva Grade School, Minerva Ohio

The Minerva Union School was the oldest public building surviving in Minerva, having been in continuous use for 102 years, first as an educational and recreational facility for 59 years, then as a private warehouse. For many years it served students from four counties, Carroll, Stark, Columbiana and Tuscarawas. Between 1908 and 1926 pupils commuted to school by railroad within a radius of 20 to 30 miles. The building is also an unusually good example of a public building in the High Victorian Italianate style. On June 24^th, 1870, the Union School Committee purchased 2.25 acres from the Samuel Unkefer farm for $1,400. The school building was completed in 1871 by contractors George Yingling and Jarrett Unkefer. The Minerva Union School

Northfield Falls Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

Northfield Falls Covered Bridge, Northfield Vermont

The Northfield Falls 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. Three of those bridges, including the Northfield Falls, stand within one-quarter mile of one another along the same road, which leads west from the village of Northfield Falls. This is the only place in Vermont where one covered bridge (the Lower Cox Brook Bridge) is visible through the portal of another (the Northfield Falls Bridge). 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

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