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The Yale Apartments, Chicago Illinois

The Yale Apartments, Chicago Illinois

Built in 1892-1893 the Yale exemplifies the Romanesque style design that was particularly popular in Chicago residential and commercial architecture during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Before establishing his own practice and designing the Yale, John T. Long had worked for Adler & Sullivan and W. W. Boyington, architects who had designed distinguished Romanesque-style buildings. With the seven-story Yale building, Long and his client Edgar M. Condit departed from the scale of the two-story wood frame houses that lined suburban Englewood's streets. The jump in scale reflected something of the boosterish optimism concerning Chicago's possibilities for physical and commercial expansion on the eve of the World's Columbian Exposition. Condit placed 54 apartments on a piece of land that would

Elder's Mill Covered Bridge and Elder Mill, Watkinsville Georgia

Elder's Mill Covered Bridge and Elder Mill, Watkinsville Georgia

The Elder's Mill Covered Bridge and Elder Mill are an early 20th-century rural industrial complex in Georgia. Typical of such complexes, the Elder Mill Road site consists of a water-powered mill and a nearby bridge. Once commonplace, the existence of an intact mill or covered bridge is unusual and the combination exceptional. The only other intact mill/covered bridge complex in Georgia is Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge in Cobb County. The Elder's Mill Covered Bridge was built using the patented Town Lattice design, one of only a few covered bridge forms used in the United States, and was built by Nathaniel Richardson, who also built several structures in the area, including the Ashford Methodist Church. The bridge had to fulfill

Ardoyne Plantation House, Houma Louisiana

Ardoyne Plantation House, Houma Louisiana

The exact date of Ardoyne's construction is somewhat of a mystery. According to information passed down through the family, it was begun in 1897 and completed in 1900. However, a book printed in 1894 contains a picture of Ardoyne. Since the builder, John D. Shaffer, acquired the property in 1888, it must have been built sometime between then and 1894. According to family tradition, the architect designed Ardoyne from a picture of a Scottish castle that Shaffer had seen in a magazine. The house has remained in the Shaffer family since its construction and is presently (1981) owned by Margaret Minor Shaffer, the great-great-granddaughter of the builder. Ardoyne Plantation House is set in a cluster of live oaks in a rural

Birg House - Columbia Hall, Franklin Louisiana

Birg House - Columbia Hall, Franklin Louisiana

Columbia Hall is a massive, rambling, late-nineteenth-century frame country house located about two miles northwest of Franklin amid flat canefields along Bayou Teche. The house has lost little of its original architectural fabric and has been little altered over the years. The house has a central hall plan, three rooms deep, with a rear kitchen wing and second rear wing which contains a bedroom. The north front room is merged with the central hall to create a massive L shaped living hall which is the major spatial feature of the house. The most noteworthy aspect of the hall is the massive Eastlake staircase which turns the corner of the L as it ascends. The landing, at which the staircase turns the

Reedsburg Brewery, Reedsburg Wisconsin

Reedsburg Brewery, Reedsburg Wisconsin

The history of the brewing industry in Reedsburg stretches back to 1870, when Frank and Florin Meckler built the first brewery in the community, during a period when Sauk County was the chief hop-producing district in the state. Known as the Reedsburg Brewery, it continued in operation through various ownership changes at the original site on the corner of Fourth Street and North Walnut Street through the nineteenth century until about 1898 when the firm was purchased by Albert Fuhrman, a German brewer who had settled in Oshkosh in 1882 and became the foreman of the Oshkosh Brewing Company before moving to Reedsburg around 1898. Under Fuhrman's management, the Reedsburg Brewery expanded and operated successfully until Prohibition. Indeed, one history claims

Cromer's Mill Covered Bridge, Carnesville Georgia

Cromer's Mill Covered Bridge, Carnesville Georgia

Cromer's Mill Covered Bridge was constructed in 1907 in accordance with a contract awarded by the county to James M. Hunt whose bid of $1,623 was the lowest received. The bridge takes its name from the Cromer family who moved into Franklin County, Georgia, and settled on Nails Creek at this location in 1845. Mr. Will Cromer built the stone abutments on which this bridge rests and he was a descendent of the original family. The Cromers operated a woolen mill downstream from this bridge before the Civil War. Subsequently, the area boasted a cotton gin, flour mill, and sawmill. All of this ceased by 1943 and there are no salient remains near the bridge. Today there are several homes nearby

Sauk City High School, Sauk City Wisconsin

Sauk City High School, Sauk City Wisconsin

Sauk City's strong educational tradition goes back to its founding. The village is unique for having been dominated during its first century by German freethinkers and their descendants. The freethinkers were mostly urban intellectuals who brought a steady stream of lecturers and performers to their hall in the village. These public events and the parties and performances held there by members of the Freie Gemeinde, which were open to the public, made the hall (still standing) a natural focus of educational activities. School commencements, picnics and other events were held there from its construction in 1884 to the construction of the high school in 1916. Cultural resource management in Wisconsin Vol. 3 Education 3-4,5 notes that effective state aid to secondary

Chicago and North Western Depot, Reedsburg Wisconsin

Chicago and North Western Depot, Reedsburg Wisconsin

The depot was designed by Frost and Granger, a Chicago architectural firm that built many C & NW depots, including their main terminal (North Western Station) and the LaSalle Street Station (Rock Island and New York Central) in Chicago. Frost was born in Maine and studied architecture at MIT. He and Granger formed a partnership from 1898-1910. After marriage to the daughter of a railroad magnate in 1885, he received numerous commissions to design railroad buildings. Granger was born in Ohio and educated at MIT, as well as at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Smaller depots designed by Frost and Granger in Wisconsin include those in South Milwaukee, Oconomowoc, Wausau, Ashland, Fond du Lack, Rhinelander, Superior and Eau Claire. Charles

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge, Hilton Georgia

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge, Hilton Georgia

The. Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge was constructed in 1883 by J. W. Baughman under orders of the Early County Board of Commissioners. On September 3^rd, 1957, the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of Early County made the Peter Early Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, custodians of the bridge and they have carried out a program of protection for this bridge. In 1958, the Georgia Historical Commission erected a marker for this bridge on Georgia Highway No. 62 at the intersection with the Old River Road. (Marker Number 049-8) The Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge is one of 22 covered bridges remaining in Georgia and one of only 14 still in use. Four of Georgia's remaining covered bridges are built

Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Henry Hobson Richardson was one of America's most famous architects, and the Allegheny County Buildings are considered by many to be the most magnificent and imposing of his works. The courthouse-jail complex both inside and out is a marvel of good sense and architectural beauty. The present juxtaposition of nearby skyscrapers detract greatly from the buildings monumental appearances. Yet, the buildings remain extremely handsome and are a very real asset to the city both visually and aesthetically. Many critics and Richardson himself considered the Allegheny Court House and Jail and the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago (1885-1887) as the high points of his professional career. The architect, in his last years, was in ill health and he wrote Let me

West Cornwall Bridge, Cornwall Connecticut

West Cornwall Bridge, Cornwall Connecticut

The West Cornwall Bridge is one of three remaining covered bridges in Connecticut and displays an important engineering innovation. Due to their resistance to decay, covered bridges were extremely common throughout America in the 19^th century, yet comparatively few remain. Built in 1841, this bridge is built using the Town Lattice Truss, a series of closely spaced, overlapping triangles with neither arches nor uprights. Because it avoided the serious problem of fatigue at the joints between uprights and diagonals, this truss was strong and durable, and exceptionally easy to construct. Most of the stress was borne by the pegs at each point where the triangles overlap, but since there are so many, no individual point is critical. For these reasons, it

Bear Island Light Station, Northeast Harbor Maine

Bear Island Light Station, Northeast Harbor Maine

Bear Island Light Station was established in 1839 as a guide to Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island. It is prominently located at the summit and western end of Bear Island. The first complex built at Bear Island in 1839 employed a stone dwelling surmounted by a lantern. In 1852, a brick tower was erected off one end of the dwelling, and in 1889 the entire complex was pulled down and rebuilt. Sited above a bold rock ledge, Bear Island Light Station is composed of a squat tower with an attached workroom; a detached, frame gambrel roofed keeper's house; a barn; a diminutive stone oil house; and a boathouse. Now part of Acadia National Park, this light station no longer serves

Union Station, Chatham New York

Union Station, Chatham New York

The Chatham depot is a fine example of Richardsonian design applied to the firm formed by three of Richardson's disciples upon his death in early 1886. The Chatham Station which opened in 1887 was one of the new firm's early works. Although the station was not one of the works Richardson had in progress when he died at the age of 47 his influence is readily evident in several respects. To begin with the Boston and Albany Railroad for which the Station was erected had been a regular client of Richardson's, as he designed nine structures for them between 1881 and 1886, several on the rural station scale. Architecturally the Chatham Station is similar in design to Richardson's stations at Auburndale

Comstock's Covered Bridge, East Hampton Connecticut

Comstock's Covered Bridge, East Hampton Connecticut

Comstock's Bridge is one of only three covered bridges left in Connecticut. Because they sheltered their supporting members from decay, covered bridges were once common throughout America, yet comparatively few are left. Although no longer used by traffic, Comstock's Bridge is located in a state-maintained picnic area, and is widely accessible. The short 30' span which serves as an entrance ramp on the east bank is typical of construction before covered bridges, although it is not known that it precedes the main span. In this short section, the trusses themselves, the weight-bearing members, are protected by being encased in wooden planks, but the floor and the projecting braces which hold the floor's supports are all exposed. Most New England bridges were

Trinity Church, Boston Massachusetts

Trinity Church, Boston Massachusetts

Designed by the noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson and constructed by Norcross Brothers in 1872-77, Trinity Church is Richardson's masterpiece of church architecture and the prototype of what became immediately known as the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. By 1880 this great church had fully established its 42-year-old designer's reputation as the new leader among architects in the United States. Even before Trinity Church was completed other American architects were producing imitations, and over the next 20 years many prominent churches in the United States, particularly in the Middle west, followed in some degree the model that Trinity Church established. Trinity Church, a mighty stone pile of heavy porches, arches, and buttresses building up to a massive central tower, sprayed with pinnacles

Oakland - Wellborn Plantation, Warm Springs Georgia

Oakland - Wellborn Plantation, Warm Springs Georgia

Oakland was the home of Colonel Alfred Wellborn (1793-1857), one of the most prominent planters in the area who at his death owned over 5,000 acres centered around this plantation house as well as 242 slaves. He was a state senator for the county 1833-34. The house was purchased in 1873 by Franklin J. Williams (1830-1898) who was active in county politics and business. Oakland appears at first glance to be a typical plantation house of the antebellum period. It has the usual features for a house of the 1830's-1840's; exterior chimneys, exterior weatherboarding with flush boards on the front, and the four over four room arrangement typical of a house of the period, especially one of a prominent plantation owner.

Bull's Bridge Covered Bridge, Kent Connecticut

Bull's Bridge Covered Bridge, Kent Connecticut

Bull's Bridge is one of only three public highway structures of this type still standing in Connecticut. A second is the well-maintained West Cornwall bridge farther north on the same Housatonic River, carrying a state highway, and the third is the old Comstock Bridge, no longer in use, over the Salmon River on the boundary between the towns of Colchester and East Hampton. Bull's Bridge therefore is classified as a rarity in this State, which formerly had a considerable number of these attractive features in the rural landscape, now removed by flood, neglect, or deliberate destruction. The structure represents a stage or period in both transportation history and civil engineering, physical remains of which are not common and are correspondingly important.

L & N Marine Terminal Building, Pensacola Florida

L & N Marine Terminal Building, Pensacola Florida

The Gulf Transit Company office building or the Louisville and Nashville Marine Terminal, as it is also known, served as the focal point for the L & N's export trade during the peak years before World War I. This two-story office building recalls the days of Pensacola's peak in the Gulf trade as well as of the company that constructed it, one of the leaders in that trade. Pensacola's importance as an import/export center expanded during the nineteenth century. With the growth of the railroad network outward from Pensacola, the community came to serve as a regional trading center. Coal from Alabama, lumber from Florida and Alabama, as well as other commodities, were shipped from the port of Pensacola. The Louisville

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot, Wetumpka Alabama

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot, Wetumpka Alabama

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot in Wetumpka is typical of the turn-of-the-century depots built in smaller towns by the L & N Line. Constructed in 1906 during a financial panic, it helped provide a stimulus to the town's growth after a period of population decline. Wetumpka was first settled in 1820 and grew rapidly because of its location at the head of navigable waters on the Alabama River System. In the 1840's, Wetumpka had grown to be a promising town of 3,000 or more; the state penitentiary had been located there in 1839 and the city was a candidate for the site of the new state capital. In 1846 when Montgomery was chosen over Wetumpka as the site of the

Wawona Covered Bridge, Wawona California

Wawona Covered Bridge, Wawona California

The Wawona Covered Bridge, spanning the South Fork of the Merced River, is one of the oldest covered bridges in California, and the only covered bridge in the western region of the National Park System. The bridge was built by Galen Clark in 1868, and was converted to a covered bridge about ten years later. It is the oldest surviving bridge in Yosemite National Park. The South Fork of the Merced was first crossed by the Mann Brothers' Trail (or Mariposa Trail), a toll route wide enough for the passage of pack horses, about 1855. The first crossing was a large log about 6' in diameter. The Manns replaced it with a crude bridge they called Clark's Crossing after Galen Clark,

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