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Louisa May Alcott School, Baltimore Maryland

Louisa May Alcott School, Baltimore Maryland

Elementary School in MD abandoned in 1983

Louisa May Alcott School, originally known as School No. 59, was completed in 1910 and is associated with the progressive movement which dominated public education in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The reform of Baltimore's City Charter in 1899 resulted in the appointment of a Board of Education free from ward politics and an Architectural Commission to promote harmony in the design of Baltimore's public buildings. Under these changes the professional standards of teachers and principals were raised, a progressive curriculum was introduced, and the city began to move its schools from the crowded and poor environments of rented spaces in warehouse structures to new school buildings that reflected a far more complex program and were conceived as monuments

Congress Hotel - Hotel Kernan, Baltimore Maryland

Congress Hotel - Hotel Kernan, Baltimore Maryland

The Hotel Kernan, constructed in 1903 for theater impresario James Lawrence Addie Kernan (1838-1912), is an example of lavish hotels of the period. Designed by Philadelphia architect John Allen, the hotel was constructed as part of Kernan's Million Dollar Triple Enterprise, which also included the Maryland Theater (now gone) and the Auditorium Theater now Mayfair Theater). Kernan, a noted Baltimore philanthropist who founded the J.L. Kernan Hospital and Industrial School at Radnor Park, lived at the hotel until his death in 1912. The Kernan interests sold the hotel in the 1920s. The establishment, which was renamed the Congress Hotel in 1932, was owned and operated by the Firey family from 1938 to 1977. By the 1970s, Kernan's deluxe establishment had declined

Coffin Point Plantation, Frogmore South Carolina

Coffin Point Plantation, Frogmore South Carolina

Coffin Point, once a prosperous Sea Island plantation, was also a center of activity during the Port Royal experiment in the early years of the War Between the States. The exact date of construction for the Coffin Point Plantation house is not known; however, Coffin Point Plantation diaries held by the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston date back to 1800. An entry dated October (1801) notes an agreement to employ a Mr. Wade and additional carpenters to work on St. Helena in the erecting a dwelling house, stable, Negro Houses. As there is no signature and several entries are missing, the diary's author is not identified; however, it is a Coffin Point Plantation Book and is believed to have belonged

The Forks of Cypress Plantation House, Florence Alabama

The Forks of Cypress Plantation House, Florence Alabama

The character of James Jackson provided a raison d'etre for the Forks of Cypress. Jackson, an ambitious Irish-born venturer of capital, probably moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama, shortly after his 1818 purchase of the land on which the Forks would be built. Jackson had initially immigrated to Philadelphia in about 1799, where he went into business with his brothers. In 1801, Jackson relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued to act as a merchant and also pursued surveying. Heavy investment in lands in Lauderdale County as a prominent part of the Cypress Creek Land Company no doubt precipitated his removal to Alabama in the late 1810s. He is considered a founder of the town of Florence. James Jackson was a friend

Moravia Union Cemetery - Dry Creek Cemetery, Moravia New York

Moravia Union Cemetery - Dry Creek Cemetery, Moravia New York

The Moravia Union Cemetery is Moravia's earliest community burial ground and contains the graves of many of the village's first settlers and leading citizens. The cemetery is distinguished by its relatively great age and its isolated, rural setting. The settlement of Moravia began in 1789 with the arrival of John Stoyell from Connecticut. Stoyell was followed in the 1790s and 1800s by additional settlers from Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and Vermont. The First Congregational Church Society was organized in 1806 and became the first religious institution established in Moravia. The transplanted New England church exerted considerable influence in the early affairs of the village. In 1806, the church society purchased land for a cemetery from Moses Little at a site approximately one-half

Shea Terrace Elementary School, Portsmouth Virginia

Shea Terrace Elementary School, Portsmouth Virginia

Shea Terrace Elementary School opened in September 1925 as the Sixth Avenue School in Portsmouth, Virginia. Located in the residential neighborhood of Shea Terrace, it was built to replace the Glasgow Street School. The Shea Terrace neighborhood is located on one of the fingers of land created by the various creeks and bays of the Elizabeth River with Port Norfolk to its west and Park View to its east. Shea Terrace Elementary School was built to replace an outmoded school during a period of growth in public school construction throughout the state of Virginia. It was part of an effort to improve educational facilities in the City of Portsmouth and its level of architectural sophistication is indicative of the increased importance

Lincoln School, Huntsville Alabama

Lincoln School, Huntsville Alabama

Lincoln School was erected in 1929 by Lincoln Mills of Alabama which became one of the largest textile mills in Huntsville. It was located just north of the city limits and typified the paternalistic mill system which provided for all the needs of its employees. Lincoln Village was a self-contained community of housing, stores, community hall, churches, school, and mill buildings, all owned by the company. Although Lincoln School was a company school attended by the children of the operatives, it was staffed and administered through the Madison County Board of Education. When the mill finally closed, the school was sold to the Huntsville City Board of Education which has operated it since then as a city school. Lincoln School has

Old Guntersville Post Office Building, Guntersville Alabama

Old Guntersville Post Office Building, Guntersville Alabama

A post office was first established in what would later become Guntersville in 1833 as Helicon. The name was changed to Van Buren after Marshall County was established in 1836. It was renamed Marshall in 1844, then Gunter's Landing in 1844, and finally Guntersville on January 21, 1854. The first dedicated post office building was constructed in 1910. Home postal delivery began in the town of Guntersville in 1922 and the postal service upgraded the postal facility in 1928. In November 1933, the Guntersville Advertiser Democrat noted: Guntersville has a good chance of securing a post office at an early date. Material and labor are cheap and numbers of men are needing work, so now is a good time to build.

Star Cemetery, Shreveport Louisiana

Star Cemetery, Shreveport Louisiana

Star Cemetery, established in 1883, met the need of the African-American community for an honorable and respectable burial site. It was the city's first African-American cemetery and remained its only one until the late 1920s. The creation of Star Cemetery and others like it was part of a larger drama being played out all over the South as former slaves in the post-Civil War years sought to establish their own institutions and in a larger sense, their own community identity. Many a Southern black church was founded in the late 1860s and '70s, regardless of how new the present building may be. Other major institutions created in the post-war years were benevolent associations (typically mutual aid groups where member dues paid

Calderwood Hydroelectric Power Station, Calderwood Tennessee

Calderwood Hydroelectric Power Station, Calderwood Tennessee

By the mid-20^th century, Alcoa emerged as one of the leading manufacturers in the state, and the development of the Alcoa facility in Blount and Monroe counties made this region an industrial center. Alcoa employed thousands of workers in its aluminum plants, and its hydroelectric facilities made this production possible. During World War II, the increased reliance on air power to fight the axis powers required enormous amounts of aluminum for aircraft production and other war materials. The power supplied by Calderwood was integral to this significant role played by Alcoa. The Calderwood Powerhouse is a notable example of a Colonial Revival-style industrial building. Its unique design is well suited to its site, which has steep rock walls that make side

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Louisiana

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Louisiana

St. Louis Cemetery No. I is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans. As such it contains the oldest examples of above-ground burial in the city. It was established by royal decree from Spain in 1789. Although some early burials took place underground, this practice was early replaced by above-ground burial in brick tombs. Interment in the ground was impractical because of the swampy conditions of the soil, and Benjamin H. Latrobe aptly called New Orleans the City of Wet Graves. The unusual character of the tombs, the legends surrounding the historical figures who occupy them, and the aura of the romantic Louisiana past, have been the basis of much literature on the New Orleans cemeteries. The architectural development of the tombs

Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station, Murfreesboro Tennessee

Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station, Murfreesboro Tennessee

This Early Small Hydro Power Plant in TN Closed in 1941

The Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station is the kind of hydroelectric engineering projects typical at the time of its construction on the smaller rivers of the State of Tennessee. Its design and size, while not unique among its class in the Volunteer State, display the characteristic vertical emphasis of what can be called early hydro-style. It provided the electric needs of the town of and environs of Murfreesboro until 1941 it ceased operation. The Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station represents a change in the business of trading, commerce, services and commodities, and the gradual introduction of electricity into everyday human existence during the early twentieth century in Tennessee. The Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station is located in Rutherford County (population 95,948) on the East

East Side Junior High School, Chattanooga Tennessee

East Side Junior High School, Chattanooga Tennessee

Demolished Junior High in Chattanooga

The national junior high school movement was only seven years old when Charles H. Winder, superintendent of the Chattanooga schools, convinced the city to construct East Side Junior High based on the six-three-three grade division. Designed by architect Clarence T. Jones, East Side was conceived to serve as both a junior high school and as a community center open to the neighborhood in the evenings and on weekends. The junior high school concept was designed to bridge the gap between elementary school and high school. Junior high school provided the students with choices in their studies and with better guidance. The national junior high school movement began around 1910, although there were earlier examples of the six-three-three grade divisions around the

St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans Louisiana

St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans Louisiana

St. Louis Cemetery II is the second oldest cemetery in New Orleans. It was established so that burials would be further from the center of population in order to prevent the spread of diseases such as cholera and yellow fever by the miasmas thought to be emanating from St. Louis Cemetery No. I. It was consecrated for burials in August, 1823. (The Girod Street Cemetery, established in 1822 for New Orleans Protestants, was destroyed in 1957.) With their above-ground burial, New Orleans cemeteries are among the most unusual in the United States. Such burial provided an opportunity for artistic expression of craftsmen, artisans, and New Orleans' finest 19th-century architects. Concentrated in the three squares of St. Louis II are notable tombs

Harrisburg Covered Bridge, Harrisburg Tennessee

Harrisburg Covered Bridge, Harrisburg Tennessee

The Harrisburg Covered Bridge is one of a half-dozen that are still standing in Tennessee. Fortunately, it was saved from total dilapidation when two local DAR chapters saw fit to restore the structure in 1972. It is still in use today. Harrisburg is a small community in rural Sevier County. There was never any extensive development in the area; it is marked by some fine examples of mid and late-nineteenth-century homes. The bridge was built by Elbert Stephenson Early in 1875. Early, a resident of the area, was the owner of Newport Mills. The Harrisburg Covered Bridge, long a landmark in the area, is an example of the covered bridges that were once numerous in the state, but have now almost

White Chewing Gum Company - American Chicle, Cleveland Ohio

White Chewing Gum Company - American Chicle, Cleveland Ohio

It was in this context of experimentation and innovation, an environment in which small start-up businesses grew into industrial giants, that William J. White took the chewing gum industry to new heights. Born in Ontario in 1850, White came to Cleveland with his parents at the age of six. As a young man, about the mid-1870s, White entered business as proprietor of a candy store. About 1876 he entered the chewing gum business through the purchase of an existing gum manufacturing plant from George Clark. White took in a partner, Charles Heisel, and later sold this first gum business to Heisel. The business was located at what is today 819 Superior Avenue in Cleveland, in a building that is no longer

Guilford Center Cemetery, Guilford New York

Guilford Center Cemetery, Guilford New York

The town of Guilford was settled in the first decades of the nineteenth century, primarily by New Englanders moving west. The first burial, in 1809, was that of Ralph Dickinson, the young son of one of the town's founding families. The Dickinson child was buried on the family farm; however, within a year, the Dickinsons had set aside a parcel (150' x 150') around their son's grave for a town burial ground, a plan had been drawn, and the fifty-four lots had been allocated to more than fifty local citizens. The cemetery was enlarged with three additional purchases in 1865, 1867, and 1906. The Guilford Center Cemetery occupies a picturesque sloping hillside and is enclosed by a 1906 wrought-iron fence. The

Walker Mill Hydroelectric Station, Sevierville Tennessee

Walker Mill Hydroelectric Station, Sevierville Tennessee

The Walker Mill Hydroelectric Station is the kind of hydroelectric engineering project typical at the time of its construction on the smaller rivers of the State of Tennessee. Its design, while not unique among its class in the Volunteer State, displays the typical vertical emphasis of what can be called early hydro-style. It, along with another now demolished site, provided the electric needs of the town of Sevierville until 1938 when the TVA acquired the station. It is capable of operation today when the water level is high enough. The Walker Mill Hydroelectric Station represents a change in the business of trading, commerce, services, and commodities, and the gradual introduction of electricity into everyday human existence during the early twentieth century

St. Joseph's Church and Friary, Cleveland Ohio

St. Joseph's Church and Friary, Cleveland Ohio

The congregation dwindled due to the construction of nearby interstate highways, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland closed the church in 1986. It was later deconsecrated. The friary and school suffered moderate damage on January 25, 1993, after a fire set by homeless people who sought shelter in the building got out of control. A second, much more severe fire (whether set by homeless individuals or vandals was unclear) occurred inside the church itself on February 15, 1993. A third fire on February 19, 1993, destroyed the remainder of the structure. The church was demolished on February 20. Fortunately the stained glass had been removed prior to the fires. This is the second oldest existing church in the city of

Lind Arcade, Zanesville Ohio

Lind Arcade, Zanesville Ohio

The original Lind Arcade was built in 1928 by Sam E. Lind, a local theatre owner. A 1936 thumbnail biography of Lind which appeared in a local newspaper held that Zanesville's first arcade has answered a long-felt need. Five of the first six tenants of the new structure were physicians. One year after completing the arcade, Lind added a third story to house the Chamber of Commerce which remained here until the late 1930s. In the winter of 1939, radio station WHIZ broadcast its first program from the third floor of the Lind Arcade. The Lind Arcade was the only such building that was ever constructed in the city of Zanesville. Architecturally, it is reminiscent of the Second Renaissance Revival, a

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