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Startup Candy Factory, Provo Utah

Startup Candy Factory, Provo Utah

Named after the founder, William Startup, and the family that still carries on the business, the Startup Candy Factory is a record of the candy industry in Provo and the state of Utah. The present building, constructed in 1900 to house the expanding business that began in Provo in 1875, is important for its longtime and continuing association with the company and its peak years of production. The Startup Candy Company was one of the earliest candy factories in the state and in 1892 became the third wholesale manufacturing company in Utah. The candy industry has thrived in Utah's ideal dry climate and; in modern years, Utah's candy makers have produced more candy than the combined Inter-mountain states. Renowned for several

Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit Michigan

Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit Michigan

The Lee Plaza Hotel is one of the finest and most elaborate apartment hotels surviving from Detroit's 1920s heyday. Its ornate public rooms are well-preserved examples of the lavish, historically inspired, interior decorating of the period with its emphasis on fine craftsmanship and rich materials. The structure is notable for its excellent state of preservation and the fact that, unlike the city's other luxury hotels, it has never been significantly redecorated or remodeled. The Lee Plaza was constructed in 1928 as a luxury-class apartment hotel. Its location on West Grand Boulevard was determined by the growing commercial importance of the New Center Area, typified by the construction of the General Motors Building (1922) and the Fisher Building (1928), a few blocks

Green Sergeants Covered Bridge, Stockton New Jersey

Green Sergeants Covered Bridge, Stockton New Jersey

The last remaining covered bridge in New Jersey, Sergeant's Bridge was constructed in 1872 across the Wickecheoke Creek due to actions of the Hunterdon County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Charles Ogden Holcombe of Lambertville, responsible for most of this regions covered bridges, was the designer and chief carpenter of the bridge, which was built on the site of a pre-Revolutionary stone bridge, using the original stone abutments. Another builder involved was Peter Sibley, a nearby ship carpenter. The masons were Ely and Charles Everitt, but being constructed on old abutments their work was confined mainly to repairs to the wingwall. During their period of popularity in New, Jersey, roughly from 1825 to the last quarter of the 19^th century, there were

Northern Pacific Railway Depot, Little Falls Minnesota

Northern Pacific Railway Depot, Little Falls Minnesota

The design of the Northern Pacific Depot in Little Falls is the work of Minnesota's most famous resident architect, Cass Gilbert. Begun in 1899 and completed in 1900, the depot is executed in the Shingle Style. It is one of Gilbert's last Minnesota works, completed before he moved permanently to New York, where he achieved national prominence. As a rail facility, the depot is the best-preserved structure in the area associated with the Northern Pacific Railway, which was vitally important to the region's settlement, agricultural and industrial development, and the transportation of products, mail, and passengers. Without efficient means of transportation, there were limits on the amount of industrial activity that could feasibly occur in the Little Falls area. Although the

Judge Felix Poché Plantation House, Convent Louisiana

Judge Felix Poché Plantation House, Convent Louisiana

The Judge Poché Plantation House is a fine example of a raised plantation house built under the influence of the Victorian Renaissance Revival. This can principally be seen in its large front dormer with its oeil-de-boeuf motifs and in its arcaded front gallery. This decorative treatment is unusual because most plantation houses were characterized by Greek Revival styling. The Judge Poché Plantation House is associated with Felix Pierre Poché, Civil War diarist, Democratic party leader, and prominent jurist. Poché built the house and maintained it as his residence until 1880 when he moved to New Orleans. It served as his summer house from then until 1892, at which time he sold the property. Poché's Civil War diary is regarded as an

Whittier Covered Bridge - The Great Bridge, Ossipee New Hampshire

Whittier Covered Bridge - The Great Bridge, Ossipee New Hampshire

Whittier Bridge is one of the few surviving Paddleford truss bridges in the United States. The topography of eastern central New Hampshire has always dictated that the major north-south transportation routes will pass through the gap between the Ossipee Mountains and Ossipee Lake, and that those routes will cross the Bearcamp River, which flows across this gap. Beginning in the 1770's, when Capt. John Dudley built a road for the Masonian Proprietors who owned the township of Ossipee, the site of the Whittier Bridge was an important river crossing on the major north-south highway through what is now Carroll County. As early as 1796, deeds refer to a bridge at the site. The importance of the Great Bridge, as it was

Pegram Plantation House, Lecompte Louisiana

Pegram Plantation House, Lecompte Louisiana

Pegram Plantation House is a superior Greek Revival residence among a limited number of examples surviving in Rapides Parish, a large area that once would have had many more. On the eve of the Civil War Rapides Parish was about twice as large as it is today. It consisted of approximately 2800 square miles and possessed some of the richest cotton and sugar-producing land in Louisiana. The 1860 census shows eighty-nine major slaveholdings in the parish, with only six involving absentee owners. (Major slaveholdings are defined as fifty or more slaves.) The average size of a slaveholding was 125, which was the highest in the state. Then there were numerous holdings of less than fifty. Of course, some of the best

Cove Grove Plantation, Hertford North Carolina

Cove Grove Plantation, Hertford North Carolina

This Greek Revival Mansion Features Dramatic Double Porches

Cove Grove is an unusually graceful and impressive coastal plantation house, combining the boldness of the Greek Revival with much of the delicacy of the late Federal period. Its dramatic double porches engaged under the main roof and its well-executed exterior and interior detail make it an outstanding member of an important regional group of houses, of which it is stylistically apparently the earliest. Its builder, Benjamin Skinner, was a notable member of a family of regional and state importance. Benjamin Smith Skinner (1795-1861) acquired several small tracts of land in the Old Neck section of Perquimans, beginning in 1818, to form Cove Grove Plantation. About 1830 he built the Cove Grove mansion, which has been owned by his descendants ever

Central School, Asheboro North Carolina

Central School, Asheboro North Carolina

Erected in 1926 in the East Side neighborhood of the small town of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, Central School is a well-preserved example of the Rosenwald Schools built for African-American children throughout the South in the early twentieth century. Some construction money came from the county school board, but much was donated by black private citizens and by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The Fund, established by the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company to aid Southern black education, also provided state-of-the-art plans for the structure. Central School is a one-story, gable-roofed brick building based directly on the design entitled Seven Teacher Community School, to Face East or West Only, published in the Fund's 1924 pattern book Community School Plans, Bulletin

West Swanzey Covered Bridge, Swanzey New Hampshire

West Swanzey Covered Bridge, Swanzey New Hampshire

Among the picturesque covered bridges of New Hampshire, the West Swanzey Covered Bridge is one of the finest and an excellent illustration of the Town Truss design in one of its best Granite State applications. The crossed planks, forming a lattice-like web fastened together with wooden pins or trunnels, provided an efficient but structurally indeterminate construction design, which is especially important historically in such a well-proportioned example as the West Swanzey Covered Bridge. The bridge has the added value of illustrating a bridge construction within a busy village, a rare type today as all covered bridges face serious preservation challenges of an endangered species. An important transportation link between two parts of West Swanzey village, this bridge is a vital part

Land's End Plantation, Hertford North Carolina

Land's End Plantation, Hertford North Carolina

Land's End is perhaps the most impressive member of an important regional group of plantation houses, combining characteristic coastal configuration with handsome academic ornament. It's starkly picturesque setting, grand scale, and dramatic form, plus the bold Greek Revival details taken from the designs of Asher Benjamin, and the distinctive stair, all executed with superb craftsmanship, making it one of the most important early Greek Revival plantation houses in the state. In 1810 James Leigh (1781-1854) purchased part of the land sold by the King of the Yeopim Indians to George Durant 150 years before. To it, Leigh added adjoining tracts; key purchases were made in 1826 and 1836. At some time, traditionally about 1825 but more likely in the 1830s, he

Iowa Wesleyan College Old Main Building, Mount Pleasant Iowa

Iowa Wesleyan College Old Main Building, Mount Pleasant Iowa

The College was founded in 1842. Citing financial difficulties, it closed in May 2023, leaving an economic hole in the town of just over 9,000 residents in southeastern Iowa. Old Main was planned and built under the leadership of College President, James Harlan (1853-1855). At the time of his acceptance of the presidency, the institution was called the Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. The change of name to Iowa Wesleyan University with a new Iowa State Charter took place in 1855, as one of the goals of James Harlan in his presidency. The second goal was the construction of Old Main. James Harlan resigned the presidency of Iowa Wesleyan University in 1855 to become United States Senator from Iowa. He held that

Waterloo Covered Bridge, Waterloo New Hampshire

Waterloo Covered Bridge, Waterloo New Hampshire

In 1839 the town of Warner laid out a road in the Newmarket section of Warner, which appears to be the same road as the current Newmarket Road. As this road is divided by the Warner River, it is reasonable to assume that at least one of the many bridges built by the town of Warner in the early nineteenth century spanned this crossing. (As with the Dalton Bridge, it is difficult to know which bridge crossed where, for they were mostly attached to place and personal names which no longer exist and for which there is no good documentation.) In 1857 a bridge referred to as Waterloo Bridge was repaired for $78.00. In 1860 $473.65 was paid by the town

Bennington High School, Bennington Vermont

Bennington High School, Bennington Vermont

Bennington High School, built in 1913 is on a 2.29-acre parcel of land at the north side of Main Street at the east end of the downtown area in Bennington, Vermont. The school is a fine example of an early 20^th century school. Bennington is situated in the southwest corner of Vermont between the Taconic and Green Mountain regions. Bennington High School is located at the east end of the downtown area and is surrounded by houses, small businesses, and professional offices. Built in 1913, the school displays distinctive characteristics of a typical early 20th-century school in Vermont; a large central entrance, high-style brick and stone construction, and large windows. The first Bennington High School building (c. 1875) on School Street

Bennington Railroad Station, Bennington Vermont

Bennington Railroad Station, Bennington Vermont

The Bennington Railroad Station is the only example in Vermont of a railroad station in Richardsonian Romanesque style. A locally significant architect, William C. Bull, designed the marble station following closely the idiom of H. H. Richardson. The building represents the strong influence exerted by Richardson on railroad station architecture during the late nineteenth century. Owing to its location on a branch line, the Bennington station served passenger trains only during the first thirty-five years of its existence. By the 1890s, the rather modest Bennington and Rutland Railway passenger depot at Bennington must have become inadequate. The village was expanding rapidly along with its textile and other industries. The population of Bennington township increased from 6,391 in 1890 to 8,033 in

Swiftwater Covered Bridge, Bath New Hampshire

Swiftwater Covered Bridge, Bath New Hampshire

The present Swiftwater Bridge at Swiftwater Village is the fourth bridge to cross the Wild Ammonoosuc River at this site. The first bridge was built in 1810 and carried away by a flood in 1818; it was replaced in 1818 by a bridge that was destroyed by flood in 1828. The bridge was replaced again in 1829, this replacement remained on the site until 1849 at which time it was dismantled and replaced by the current bridge. Little mention is made of this bridge in the town meeting records at the time of its construction, for this reason, it would seem likely that supervision of its construction fell to the town surveyors of highways and bridges who were Joseph Fifield and

Brentwood House, McComb Mississippi

Brentwood House, McComb Mississippi

Brentwood is the best remaining example of the Neoclassical Revival style in McComb. The Neoclassical Revival was widely adopted throughout Mississippi in the first two decades of this century for prestigious residences. The symmetrical main facade is dominated by the full-height, pedimented portico with fluted Ionic columns; the elaborate frontispieces surrounding beveled leaded glass doors, transoms and sidelights; the semi-circular side portico; and the ceramic tiled hip roof trimmed with a dentilled and modillioned frieze and molded cornice of Brentwood combine to create an excellent example of domestic Neoclassical Revival architecture. The interior has such features as fluted pilasters; eight fireplaces with ornate mantelpieces; an open, two-flight stairway having a mahogany balustrade and drop pendants; a tripartite stained glass window; fine

Athol Plantation House, Edenton North Carolina

Athol Plantation House, Edenton North Carolina

This Greek Revival Home was Once Center of a Large Plantation

Athol is an imposing Greek Revival plantation house of unusual form and handsome detail. The house is dominated by full-height Roman Ionic columns which compose a heroic portico at the front and double porches along the sides of the T-shaped house. Built for the planter Joshua Skinner, who obtained the property in 1836 and died in 1853, the house is an important member of a distinctive group of major houses in the Albemarle region not only related in style but also with the Skinner family. This group includes Cove Grove, the Edmund Blount Skinner House, and Land's End, one of the most outstanding regional interpretations of the Greek Revival in North Carolina. Athol is one of approximately five outstanding regional structures

Vesper Cliff House, Owego New York

Vesper Cliff House, Owego New York

Vesper Cliff, known otherwise as the Johnson-Platt House and originally Tioga Terrace, is an extremely rare surviving example of Greek Revival-style residential design authored by prominent antebellum architect Alexander Jackson Davis. Referred to by architectural historian Talbot Hamlin in his 1942 study Greek Revival Architecture in America, though at the time he was not aware of the building's pedigree, the Johnson-Platt House represents an interesting variation of the monumentally porticoed Greek Revival style house popular among wealthier patrons in that era. The bold effect of the exterior and the sophistication of the interior treatments of Vesper Cliff betray the skilled hand of Davis, a prominent member of the New York City architectural scene who during the period emerged as a designer

Stark Covered Bridge, Groveton New Hampshire

Stark Covered Bridge, Groveton New Hampshire

The graceful design and picturesque setting of the mid-19^th century Stark Covered Bridge makes it one of New Hampshire's best-known covered bridges; the subject of innumerable calendars, Christmas cards, paintings, and illustrations; a favored stop on the Canadian National Railroad annual North Country foliage tours; the scene of Covered Bridge Dances for local fundraising projects; and, illuminated at Christmas, a traditional focal point for holiday celebrations. The Stark Bridge owes its existence to artists and covered bridge buffs, who convinced the state legislature to appropriate funds to preserve the structure as a bridge of historic value and an asset to the state (Senate Joint Resolution #9, 1947) although the town had voted to replace it with a steel span. Following standard

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