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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station, Evansville Indiana

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station, Evansville Indiana

The L & N Station was built in 1902 according to the designs of Richard Montfort, chief engineer of the L & N Railroad, and was a compact version of depots erected by the engineer's office in that period from Indianapolis to Birmingham. The lithic facade, generous arches, and richly carved detail place the building squarely within the sphere of Richardsonian Romanesque. The L & N depot was planned during the decade when rail service finally reached in all four directions from the city. Evansville was strategically situated at the intersection of several rail networks, making it one of the leading rail centers in the Midwest. Increased trade and manufacturing also contributed to the city's growth. With a turn-of-the-century population of

Haverhill-Bath Covered Bridge, Woodsville New Hampshire

Haverhill-Bath Covered Bridge, Woodsville New Hampshire

The Haverhill-Bath Bridge is the first and only bridge to have been erected on its site. In March 1827 at the town meeting, the residents of Bath selected Ira Goodall, Samuel Minot, and Samuel Hutchins as a committee to confer with the selectmen of Haverhill regarding the site of a bridge between the two towns. At the next town meeting in March 1828 the subject of the bridge was not discussed or acted upon; however, in September of 1828 Bath set aside $300.00 for procuring timber and stone for a Bridge near Alcott's Saw Mill. John H. Carbee and Moses Abbott were chosen to supervise this money and in March of 1829 Ariel Miner was given superintendency over the building of

East Springfield Union School, East Springfield New York

East Springfield Union School, East Springfield New York

The East Springfield Union School, opened in 1909, the school, built to house the Union Free District #1, replaced five independent common district schools in the town of Springfield. Attributed to an architect identified only as Mr. Warner, the school has a distinctive Neoclassical style design. Although the school was executed in concrete blocks (an innovative, yet economical period building material), the addition of several purely decorative elements, including the heavy cornice, the slate gable ends, and the lunette windows, reflect community pride in the new East Springfield Union Free School. The building also includes a substantial 1936 cinder block addition that incorporated an auditorium and gymnasium, features by then deemed essential for school construction. The East Springfield Union School, later

Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge, Cornish Mills New Hampshire

Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge, Cornish Mills New Hampshire

Designed and built by James Tasker (1826-1903) of Cornish, New Hampshire. Tasker was paid $812 in February, 1883 after the bridge had been completed the previous year. James Tasker is believed to have built the following bridges:
Kenyon Bridge, Cornish, NH
Blow-Me-Down Bridge, Cornish, NH
Dingleton Bridge, Cornish, NH
Meriden Bridge, Cornish, NH
Cornish-Windsor Bridge (with Bela Fletcher)
Stoughton Bridge, Windsor County, VT
Salmond's, Windsor County, VT
The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, World Guide to Covered Bridges number for the Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge is 29-10-02; New Hampshire Department of Public Works and Highways number is 080/095. Bridge Description The Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge (Cornish Mills Bridge) is an

Tianderah Estate, Gilbertsville New York

Tianderah Estate, Gilbertsville New York

Tianderah is one of the finest homes in Gilbertsville, a small but prosperous village in southwestern Otsego County. Founded near the end of the eighteenth century by settlers from England and New England, the village became a manufacturing and industrial center in the early nineteenth century. When the railroad made small local industries obsolete, the village developed a summer resort trade, capitalizing on the beautiful landscape of the area. Many wealthy people established vacation homes in Otsego County during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, with several of them commissioning designs by the leading fashionable architects of Boston and New York. The original owner of Tianderah, N.C. Chapman, was a St. Louis businessman who was descended from the founder of

Municipal Courts Building, St. Louis Missouri

Municipal Courts Building, St. Louis Missouri

The Municipal Courts Building is located at 1320 Market Street in St. Louis Missouri. Arguably a masterpiece, the building was designed by prominent architect Isaac Stockton Taylor in 1909 and completed in 1911-12. Built to replace the original courts building but meant to house a number of other civic agencies and offices, the building was part of a great city plan to develop a center of public buildings and parks just west of the downtown core in conjunction with the City Beautiful Movement and a need for long-range planning for St. Louis. In 1904, St. Louis hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition (St. Louis World's Fair) and nearly 20 million visitors from around the world witnessed not only the best of what

Dalton Covered Bridge, Warner New Hampshire

Dalton Covered Bridge, Warner New Hampshire

Split by the Warner River, the town of Warner required many bridges in the nineteenth century to connect its many small mills and associated population centers. The first of many bridgings of the Warner River occurred at the Lower Village in 1774. The number of bridges, their names referring to mills and farmers that no longer exist, and the lack of nineteenth-century maps with place and owners' names make it difficult to determine whether or not the Dalton Bridge is the first bridge to occupy its site. The Dalton Bridge was built in 1853 for $630.12 by Joshua Sanborn, who constructed the wood part of the bridge, George Sawyer and Webster B. Davis, both of whom built the abutments. In 1871

Steedman Estate - Casa Del Herrero, Montecito Santa Barbara California

Steedman Estate - Casa Del Herrero, Montecito Santa Barbara California

The Steedman House in Montecito, California, was designed in the 1920's by Santa Barbara's prime architect of the Spanish Colonial Revival style, George Washington Smith, and reflects a close intellectual and artistic collaboration between him and the St. Louis industrialist owner, George Fox Steedman, an artisan and silversmith. Built in the middle of Smith's short (1916-1930) but prolific career, the house is considered one of Smith's most beautiful, epitomizing his ability to integrate discrete elements of Moorish and Andalusian style into a cohesive whole. The house is notable for having retained the spirit of the 1920s; neither the elegantly landscaped estate grounds nor the house has been significantly altered since the death of the original owner. Although numerous Southern California architects,

County Farm Covered Bridge, Dover New Hampshire

County Farm Covered Bridge, Dover New Hampshire

The County Farm Bridge appears to be the first bridge constructed on its site (although other earlier bridges spanned the Cocheco River closer to Dover center). It has a tradition of having been constructed from timbers which were milled in East Boston and arrived ready to assemble. A further distinguishing characteristic of the bridge is its unusually low-pitched roof; a bridge of very similar design and proportions (especially the almost flat roof) existed at Dover Point named the Old Dover Point Bridge which carried both a public road and a railroad bed. However, insufficient information was found to determine a builder, or manufacturer for either of these bridges. The nearby Dover County Farm from which the bridge draws its name was

Fullerton Union Pacific Depot, Fullerton California

Fullerton Union Pacific Depot, Fullerton California

The Fullerton Union Pacific Depot played a major role in the development of the City of Fullerton. The last of the three railroads to be built through the community, its completion made Fullerton the regional rail center of northern Orange County. In addition to being typical of the Union Pacific Depots from the early 1920s, the structure is one of the few remaining important examples of the Mission Revival Style in the area. Spared from demolition by its inclusion in the Fullerton Transportation Center, the building was moved to its new site near the Santa Fe and Pacific Electric Depots. Through these preservation efforts, the Fullerton Union Pacific Depot will remain a highly visible and identifiable artifact from an important era

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Cornish New Hampshire

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Cornish New Hampshire

The present Cornish-Windsor Bridge is the fourth on the site, the earlier ones having been built in 1796, 1824, and 1849 (the first covered bridge) and lost to floods. One month after the 1849 bridge was washed away, James F. Tasker of Cornish and Bela J. Fletcher of nearby Claremont signed a contract on 3^rd April 1866 for the construction of the present bridge. Tasker, who was an intuitive engineer able neither to read nor to write, directed the work. He used an adaptation of the Town lattice truss, substituting six-by-eight-inch timbers for the usual planks in the lattices. The structure was framed initially in a Windsor meadow to the northwest of the site. Construction took about seven months; the bridge

Mary Plantation House, Braithwaite Louisiana

Mary Plantation House, Braithwaite Louisiana

Mary Plantation House is one of Louisiana's finest examples of French colonial-style architecture. It is a classic example of a nationally recognized style found in limited numbers in the state. Though many houses were built similar to it in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, few of these have survived. In all likelihood fewer than thirty first-rate examples of large French colonial-style plantation houses remain in the state. Features that make Mary a classic example of the French colonial style include; its large hip roof; its chamfered upper gallery columns; its large hall-less cabinet plan; its use of brick-between-posts construction on the upper story; its use of French doors, exposed beaded beams, and wraparound mantels; and its placement of chimneys against the

St. Emma Plantation House, Donaldsonville Louisiana

St. Emma Plantation House, Donaldsonville Louisiana

St. Emma is a large mid-19th-century Greek Revival Plantation house. This can be seen in its full two-story height, its articulation, and in its central hall plan which is three rooms deep rather than the usual two. It amounts to a larger version of the standard five-bay, central hall plan, raised plantation house. In addition, of the many plantation houses of the Bayou Lafourche area, St. Emma is above average both in terms of size and pretention. St. Emma Plantation was owned from 1854 to 1869 by Charles A. Kock, one of the leading sugar planters and large slaveholders in Louisiana. It played a role in a series of Civil War skirmishes in the Donaldsonville-Bayou Lafource area. Born in Bremen, Germany

Corbin Covered Bridge, Newport New Hampshire

Corbin Covered Bridge, Newport New Hampshire

On May 25^th, 1993, this bridge was destroyed by arson. There appears to be no accurate information as to the date of the construction of Corbin Bridge. Thedia Cox Kenyon's New Hampshire's Covered Bridges and William Gordan Keyworth's The Covered Bridges of New Hampshire each identifies 1835 as the year of construction. But Wheeler's History of Newport, New Hampshire, and Edes' Tales from the History of Newport state that the first covered bridge in the town was built at Kelleyville (some three miles down river from Corbin's) in 1839. The town records of annual meetings and selectmen's records for the period 1830-1840 support the conclusions of Edes and Wheeler. The records for the period 1819 to 1865 make no clear reference

Silk Exchange Building, St. Louis Missouri

Silk Exchange Building, St. Louis Missouri

The Silk Exchange Building was designed in 1901 by the firm of St. Louis architect Isaac S. Taylor. Built in a prime location during the height of St. Louis' pre-World's Fair image consciousness, it is a sophisticated example of excellence in the design of a utilitarian building. Two important developments intersected in turn-of-the-century St. Louis at the site of the Silk Exchange Building. One was the spectacular westward growth of Washington Avenue as a linear district of handsome warehouses and factories along the north edge of the Central Business District. The other was the vision of Twelfth Street, as a major boulevard in a City Beautiful that would greet visitors to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The intersection of Market and Twelfth

St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, St. Louis Missouri

St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, St. Louis Missouri

Constructed in 1896 for St. Augustine's Roman Catholic parish, the church is a good representative example of German Catholic architecture in St. Louis, expressing ethnic identity in the hall church plan. Designed by German-trained St. Louis architect Louis Wessbecher, the Gothic Revival building features fine brick masonry trimmed with stone and stained glass windows. The rectory, built in 1928 in Tudor Gothic style, was designed to relate harmoniously to the church. St. Augustine's Church (later Christ Baptist) was founded in 1874 as a national parish exclusively for the use of German Catholic immigrants. The location of the parish on Hebert and Lismore Streets in north St. Louis was an indicator of the swelling tide of German immigration to St. Louis and

Coombs Covered Bridge, Winchester New Hampshire

Coombs Covered Bridge, Winchester New Hampshire

The Coombs covered bridge illustrates the Town Truss construction designed and patented in 1820 by Ithiel Town, a New Haven architect and builder. It is characterized by a lattice-like web of light planks crisscrossed at an angle of 45 degrees to 60 degrees, fastened together with wooded pins or trunnels. The Coombs bridge is supported by split granite abutments so perfectly fitted together that no mortar was required. The bridge and abutments are in excellent condition. Less of an essential transportation link today, the Coombs bridge does occupy a position of great convenience to students and tourists very near NH Route 10. To by-pass this bridge would require substantial improvement of gravel roads in both the towns of Swanzey and Winchester

Webster Hotel, New York City New York

Webster Hotel, New York City New York

The Webster Hotel is one of the few remaining examples of the once-numerous small hotels that characterized midtown Manhattan in the early twentieth century. Designed by the prominent New York City architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout in 1902, the Webster exhibits the three-part composition and classical detail characteristic of high-rise architecture in this period. Construction of this building was a product of the rapid development of the midtown area as a commercial and theatre district after 1890. Nearly one hundred hotels were built in the neighborhood between 1898 and 1916; the Webster is representative of a large group of smaller hotels that catered to the middle class. Today, more than two-thirds of midtown's turn-of-the-century hotels have been destroyed. The Webster

Columbia Covered Bridge, Columbia New Hampshire

Columbia Covered Bridge, Columbia New Hampshire

The Columbia Covered Bridge was built across the Connecticut River between Columbia, New Hampshire and Lemington, Vermont to replace an earlier bridge that was destroyed by fire in 1911. Charles Babbitt completed the Columbia Bridge, which is the third bridge on the site, in 1912. The towns of Columbia and Lemington shared the original cost of the inter-state bridge, and continue to share the cost of its maintenance. The Columbia Bridge is the only crossing of the Connecticut River between those towns. The Columbia Bridge and another covered bridge (the Mount Orne Bridge) across the Connecticut River about 37 miles to the south at Lancaster, New Hampshire are the only highway bridges remaining in the state of New Hampshire which are

Union Station, Lockport New York

Union Station, Lockport New York

Constructed in 1889 for the New York Central Railroad, the Union Station in Lockport is a good illustration of late nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival depot architecture. The modestly substantial size of the station provides an indication of Lockport's commercial importance during the nineteenth century. The city of Lockport owes its settlement and growth to the development of major transportation systems in the area and later to the water-powered industry. The first railroad was constructed there in 1837, a little more than a decade after the opening of the Erie Canal which passed through the area. Trains ran from Lockport to Niagara Falls daily and later this system formed an important link in the New York Central line. Development of the railroad continued

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