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Magnolia Hall - Saunders House, Hagood South Carolina

Magnolia Hall - Saunders House, Hagood South Carolina

This house was built by Isaac Barnes ca. 1821 and consisted of the present dining room, kitchen, porch, bedroom, parlor and north porch at the rear of the present house. In 1853, Dr. Swepson H. Saunders married Harriet Rebecca McCall and bought the house and 197 acres from James Dunlap. Between 1853 and 1860, Saunders added onto the existing house with elements of an elevated facade and a full facade front porch with detached columns, adding four large bedrooms with the spacious hall and the front piazza with an overhanging roof structure to accommodate the Saunders' growing family of fourteen children. The house is an excellent example of a typical plantation residence of the antebellum South. It is a rather modest

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Depot, Delmar Iowa

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Depot, Delmar Iowa

Iowa was greatly affected by the development of the rail industry. The railroads connected the two major rivers along the state's east and west boundaries and provided a means to channel people and goods into Iowa, while also carrying agricultural products, livestock, raw materials and manufactured goods from town to town, and out of the state. Following the Civil War there was a tremendous period of growth, with the manpower and materials necessary for railroad construction readily available. The initial phase of railroad building followed the east/west route linking the two rivers, but from the mid-1870s on, construction of north/south and diagonal lines became more important. The town of Delmar exists primarily because of this rail development. In 1870 two railroads

Roberts Covered Bridge, Eaton Ohio

Roberts Covered Bridge, Eaton Ohio

The Roberts Covered Bridge, erected in 1829, is the oldest covered bridge extant in Ohio and the second oldest covered bridge remaining in the United States. It is also the only covered, double-barrelled span (two-lane) bridge remaining in the state. It was built by Orlistus Roberts, who did not live to see it finished, and Joseph Campbell for traffic on the Hamilton and Eaton Turnpike, which was privately owned and operated under authority granted by the Ohio State Legislature. It was built as a toll bridge. Today, this bridge is still in use, although the once heavily-traveled road on which it stands was long ago abandoned in favor of Ohio 127, which is located just west of Old Camden Road. The

Bankard-Gunther Mansion, Baltimore Maryland

Bankard-Gunther Mansion, Baltimore Maryland

The size and design of the Bankard-Gunther Mansion attest to the success of Jacob J. Bankard, one of many enterprising and prominent butchers who flocked to Butcher's Hill beginning in the early 19^th century. His elegant house served as model for other homes of the affluent in the area. In 1891, the mansion became the home of George Gunther, the son of the mayor of Werthheim, Germany who established a famous brewing dynasty in Baltimore, and it continued to be one of the most fashionable residences in Baltimore in the late 19^th century. In 1919 the building became an important Baltimore charitable center to be used by the Hebrew Home for Incurables and the Emmanuel Center to provide humanitarian service to

Lynden Department Store, Lynden Washington

Lynden Department Store, Lynden Washington

The Lynden Department Store is an excellent representative example of a highly significant phenomenon in the history of commerce in rural western towns in the United States; that of the independent, small-town department store that served as a social and commercial landmark in these towns. Although the story of the big city' department store is well documented, equally important to large segments of the U.S. population living in rural centers in the first half of the twentieth century is the lesser-known development of the small town, locally-owned department store. The Lynden Department Store was a classic example of this commercial and social town center, anchoring the town with a centrally located emporium of goods ranging from farm and city clothing, to

Warnke Covered Bridge, Lewisburg Ohio

Warnke Covered Bridge, Lewisburg Ohio

The Warnke Bridge was built to span Swamp Creek in 1895 by Evrett S. Sherman who came to Preble County, Ohio in 1886 in the wake of the great storm that had destroyed so many of the county's bridges. Mr. Sherman came here from Delaware County, Ohio, where he had lived and worked since coming to Ohio after the Civil War. Mr. Sherman brought a model of his Childs truss bridge to show the Preble County Commissioners, and they were so impressed that he was awarded several contracts to rebuild storm-damaged bridges. He worked in Preble County from 1886-1895. The Warnke Bridge was his last covered bridge. He finished it shortly after finishing the Christman Bridge northwest of Eaton over Seven

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge Massachusetts

Mount Auburn initiated the great age of American cemetery-building with its establishment in 1831. Its gentlemen founders guided its original design following their intensive study of European landscape examples adapted to American social goals and didactic intents. It was organized as a non-profit corporation, and its design marked a major shift in the way Americans buried their dead. It inspired great progeny, other cemeteries, the first public parks, and the first designed suburbs in the nineteenth century. Shaped by intellectual endeavor, emotional aspirations, dreams, and fundamental human needs, its well-preserved cultural landscape represents a distinct American design. As the country's first large-scale designed landscape open to the public, Mount Auburn is a place of national significance. Mount Auburn had a profound

Clifton School, Baltimore Maryland

Clifton School, Baltimore Maryland

Near the turn of the eighteenth century, William Patterson, a significant figure in Baltimore's early commercial history, purchased land bounded roughly by Gorsuch Avenue, Harford Avenue, North Avenue, and York Roads. He informally named this estate Cold Stream, and built a country house on it variously called Cold Stream, Exeter Hall, and Homestead. The Homestead name seems to have been the most popular and became the name of one of Baltimore's earliest planned subdivisions, created by developers of Patterson's estate after his death. It was the easternmost of a belt of communities north of Baltimore City. An advertisement in Matchett's 1853-1854 Baltimore City Directory stated, the situation is one of the most beautiful, most healthy, and most convenient of access in

South Salem Covered Bridge, South Salem Ohio

South Salem Covered Bridge, South Salem Ohio

The South Salem or Buckskin Covered Bridge has been serving the community of South Salem for over a century now. Bids for a bridge at Caldwell's Crossing of Buckskin Creek were let on June 25, 1873, and there were 5 bidders. The lowest bid was submitted by the Smith Bridge Company at $18.75 per linear foot. The abutments were built by Robert Matthews at $5.75 per perch. It is said that even after the bridge was built, many people continued to use the old ford. The name Buckskin by which this bridge is sometimes known, comes from an old legend to the effect that a party of white hunters came upon a band of Indians on the bank of a small

Hotel Laube, Bellingham Washington

Hotel Laube, Bellingham Washington

The Hotel Laube was of the finer of those built at the turn of the century in Bellingham, and no expense was spared on its furnishings. On February 3^rd, 1904, the day the hotel opened, the Daily Reveille reported that the new Hotel Laube was one of the best-equipped hotels on the Sound, and was up-to-date in furnishing and arrangement. The proprietors, Messrs. Hadley and Griffith, were said to have accomplished their purpose of making it a model of comfort and convenience. Hadley and Griffith were well-known hoteliers and had conducted Bellingham's Hotel Byron for five years. The total cost to furnish the hotel was estimated at approximately $12,000, with the hotel furniture being crafted of the best solid quarter-sawed oak,

Cecil Apartments - Jackson Towers, Baltimore Maryland

Cecil Apartments - Jackson Towers, Baltimore Maryland

The Cecil Apartment House is one of the first important apartment buildings in Baltimore. Built in the newly fashionable Beaux-Arts style at the edge of Baltimore's most elite downtown neighborhood, it offered an important alternative to the suburban houses of Roland Park. Dating from the very beginning of the twentieth century, the Cecil provided house-sized units with all of the amenities of fashionable residences while adding new features that linked it to elite in-town housing in other cities, including a centralized kitchen that made it possible to reduce household staff. These ideas helped introduce the idea of apartment living in the city. As the first apartment building to be built in the elite neighborhood of Bolton Hill, the Cecil began the

Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge, Minford Ohio

Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge, Minford Ohio

The Bennett School House Covered Bridge, also known as Tuttleville Bridge, is one of the very few double multiple king post trusses remaining in Ohio. Built at Harrison's Mill in the Tuttleville community, it was an important east-west link in the transportation between South Webster and Minford, Ohio, and a north-south link between northeastern Scioto County and the town of Portsmouth. It is one of two remaining such structures in Scioto County. Its builder, Van Buren Farney, was born on February 21^st, 1836, near Charleston (West) Virginia. He moved to Sciotoville, Scioto County, Ohio with his parents at the age of four. He had a common school education. He was employed at the age of seventeen by Robert S. Wynn, a

Hotel Blanche, Lake City Florida

Hotel Blanche, Lake City Florida

Lake City's growing prosperity at the turn of the century encouraged David W. Brown, a local landowner, to secure the services of Frank Pierce Milburn, the architect of Lake City's new courthouse and the state capitol's 1902 additions, to design the largest and most substantial brick building in town, the Hotel Blanche. On April 29, 1901, he purchased a block just north of the town square, on the diagonal, for his new hotel. He paid $5,000 for the land. The Hotel Blanche was under construction by the spring of 1902. Henry W. Otis, the contractor who built the new courthouse was also the contractor for the Blanche. Upon completion, it was the only three-story building on North Marion Street, and presented

Seybold Baking Company Factory, Daytona Beach Florida

Seybold Baking Company Factory, Daytona Beach Florida

In June of 1926, the company purchased four lots in the Daytona Gardens Subdivision. In late July, Tipton, C.J. Bramlett, the Southern Baking Company's general manager, and J. Edwin Hopkins, an engineer and architect from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, visited the site and announced that construction would be forthcoming and the bakery would begin production in November. Hopkins' design for the plant called for the erection of a large two-story edifice with a Mediterranean-Revival style design that featured elaborate terra-cotta ornament. It was to be constructed with a brick and steel I-beam structural system. The bake oven was to measure eighty-two feet in length and be capable of producing 108,000 pounds of bread daily. Bids for the construction of the plant were let

Union Depot and Atlantic Coast Line Freight Station, Live Oak Florida

Union Depot and Atlantic Coast Line Freight Station, Live Oak Florida

Railroads were responsible for the founding and development of the town of Live Oak, Florida. The community was established as the junction of north/south and east/west systems in the later 19^th century and became an important center for the shipping of lumber, turpentine, and other agricultural products. This activity reached its peak during the first decades of the 20^th century. The first rail line to come through the area was the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad. It was incorporated on January 8, 1853, and authorized to construct a line from Pensacola in west Florida to the Georgia line north of Jacksonville on the Atlantic coast. Another company, the Florida Atlantic and Gulf Central, began construction in the same year on a route

Lippincott Mansion - Melrose Hall, Ormond Beach Florida

Lippincott Mansion - Melrose Hall, Ormond Beach Florida

The Lippincott Mansion is located in Ormond Beach, Florida, a community whose origins date from the British Period. Its early development is associated with James Ormond I, a British planter who became a Spanish subject and received a land grant in the vicinity of Tomoka State Park during the first years of the 19^th century. On his grant, Ormond established Damietto, a plantation typical of those established in the vicinity of Ormond during the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821) and the early years of the United States Territorial Period (1821-1845). The plantation economy of the Ormond Beach area and other areas of East Florida was largely destroyed during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Settlement and the economic development of the area was

Home of the Friendless, Baltimore Maryland

Home of the Friendless, Baltimore Maryland

Built in 1870 for the Home of the Friendless, a private organization, 1313 Druid Hill Avenue provided a home for orphaned and deserted children for six decades. It was part of a three-building complex that housed from 100 to 200 children each year, representing an era when large numbers of unwanted children were institutionalized rather than raised in a home environment. 1313 Druid Hill Avenue was built as a home for orphan boys in 1870. It was the second of three buildings built by the Home of the Friendless on Druid Hill Avenue south of Lafayette Avenue. A nearly identical home for girls had been completed ten years earlier just to the north. Later, in 1900, a third building housing a

Beaver Island Light Station, St. James Michigan

Beaver Island Light Station, St. James Michigan

The Beaver Island Light Station was built in 1851. It is probably the third oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes. Its construction and initial operation took place during an era of turmoil on Beaver Island. On July 8th, 1850, James Jesse Strang, a Mormon follower of Joseph Smith, was coronated King and claimed Beaver Island as his Kingdom. The Mormons abandoned the island six years later. The site overlooks a large expanse of Lake Michigan and focuses on the major shipping lanes. Since the eighteenth century maritime traffic has funneled past Beaver Head as it approaches the Straits of Mackinac. The U.S. Lighthouse Service operated the lighthouse from 1851 until 1938. At this time the U.S. Coast Guard assumed operation until

Central School, Iron River Michigan

Central School, Iron River Michigan

Central School was Iron River's largest public school building, from its initial construction in 1904-05 until a new high school was completed in 1928. The school initially served as the high school for the entire school district, which served all of Iron River Township, including the village, and also as the primary school, grades K through 8, for two of the district's four subdistricts within the village. Following the completion of the high school, the building served grades K through 8 and then later as a middle school until its closing at the end of the 1979-80 school year. The school building, enlarged in 1910-11 to its present size and form, is an architecturally distinguished example of early twentieth-century public school

Lookaway Hall, North Augusta South Carolina

Lookaway Hall, North Augusta South Carolina

Lookaway Hall was built from 1895 to 1898 for Mr. Walter M. Jackson who, with his brother James U. Jackson, formed the North Augusta Land Company in 1890 in order to develop those beautiful hills across the river from Augusta. They purchased approximately 5,600 acres from the Robert Butler estate for One hundred thousand dollars. James Jackson developed a town plan for a community and resort area, and the Land Company built a bridge spanning the Savannah River from Thirteenth Street in Augusta to Georgia Avenue in North Augusta. This main street for the new community ran up the hill and split to create a triangular property for a city park. Beyond this park Walter Jackson sited his house, making it

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