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Joseph Jefferson House - Rip Van Winkle House and Gardens, Jefferson Island Louisiana

Joseph Jefferson House - Rip Van Winkle House and Gardens, Jefferson Island Louisiana

Jefferson Island, the first of the famous Five Islands of south Louisiana, found its origin in prehistory when the enormous pressures of the earth forced a plug of pure rock salt up from a mother bed, five miles below the surface. This elevated several low hills in the coastal marshes. Treasure Island might equally well be its name, for, besides the inexhaustible deposits of salt, there are also mineral deposits of oil, gas, and sulfur. A gentle climate, adequate rainfall, and fertile soil help to produce a gardener's dream thus making possible the abundant and luxuriant floral beauty of the Island. Full advantage has been taken of these valuable natural resources, as well as the rolling terrain, in the creation of

Enterprise Plantation, Jeanerette Louisiana

Enterprise Plantation, Jeanerette Louisiana

Enterprise Plantation has played a vital role in the economy of the Patoutville area for over a century. It is an estate with its own sugar mill that has grown from the production of a few hogsheads a year in 1835 to a mill that presently grinds 5,000 tons of cane per day. M. A. Patout & Son, Ltd. has the distinction of being the oldest sugar producing and sugar cane agricultural company in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and it is owned by the fourth generation of the founding family. Enterprise Plantation was founded in 1825 by Simeon Patout of Usay, France. Patout had come to America because his marriage to his sister-in-law was considered

El Dorado Plantation House, Livonia Louisiana

El Dorado Plantation House, Livonia Louisiana

El Dorado Plantation was made out of lands purchased by David Barrow in the 1850s. His purchase of 1854 from Joseph Lallande included Section 89 (which contains the house) and much of what is El Dorado today. Of the owners, David Barrow (1805-74) and his wife, Susan Woolfolk Barrow, and his son, Bartholemew Barrow (1836-69), who married Martha Leonora Semple, are the most conspicuous, being members of the large, successful and prosperous Barrow family of Louisiana. By the mid-1850s, David Barrow kept his main residence at Afton Villa in St, Francisville, one of the most important Gothic Revival buildings of the nineteenth century, but focused his main business activity on plantations in Pointe Coupee Parish. His son resided at E1 Dorado

Case Mansion, Canton Ohio

Case Mansion, Canton Ohio

This was the home of architect Guy Tilden's most important client, attorney turned industrialist Frank Case. Case founded the Harvard Co., manufacturing dental furniture, whose building was also designed by Tilden. Tilden was Canton's most prominent architect, designing more than 50 buildings in Canton from 1885 to the mid-1920s. The Romanesque style typifies his earlier work, and the Case Mansion is considered the culmination of Tilden's work in this style. Frank Case was a patent attorney for the Canton Surgical and Dental Manufacturing Company where he became aware of possibilities for making improvements for dental chairs. He began manufacturing dental and surgical chairs in his home and soon built up a large business. Case gave up his law practice in 1890,

Fitzpatrick Hotel, Washington Georgia

Fitzpatrick Hotel, Washington Georgia

The Fitzpatrick Hotel is a fine example of late-nineteenth century hotel design in a mid-sized Georgia town. Its Queen Anne style design and detailing are particularly outstanding for a hotel in a town of this size. The building is an intact example of the hotels located in Georgia's county seats to serve local and county citizens with courthouse business, traveling salesmen (drummers) and out of town visitors. The hotel was one of the largest commercial enterprises in downtown Washington and contributed significantly to the economic development of the city. The hotel was an important local gathering place for meetings, eating and visiting. The Fitzpatrick is a fine example of the modern hotels built in many of Georgia's county seats around the

Raines - Miller - Carmichael House, Macon Georgia

Raines - Miller - Carmichael House, Macon Georgia

This house is one of the most prominent architectural beauties of Macon, at the intersection of two main arteries, College Street and Georgia Avenue, in the heart of the College Hill area. This house was designed by the great architect-builder, Elam Alexander in the form of a modified Greek Cross and was built in the late 1840's by Cadwallader W. Raines. Howard Major in his book, The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic, uses this house to illustrate the variety of detail and the striking individuality often achieved within the Greek Revival style. Godey's Lady's Book is said to have printed the plans followed in 1846 in building the Carmichael House. Judge Raines died in 1856 and his wife in

Col. William McKinley House - Barrowville, Milledgeville Georgia

Col. William McKinley House - Barrowville, Milledgeville Georgia

The significance of McKinley House is primarily architectural. It is a pure example of a Downing Gothic-style cottage and has remained in the hands of family of the original owner. It has been preserved practically unaltered since its construction. A second area of significance stems from the plantation records kept by Col. McKinley concerning the agriculture and weather of the region in the late 1850s, making this site most interesting from the standpoint of American civilization and agriculture. The McKinley House is a Gothic-style cottage which, with minor modifications, was directly adapted from Plate XXVI, A Country-House in the Pointed Style described in A. J. Downing's The Architecture of Country Houses, which was published in 1850. Col. McKinley owned this book

Stacy G. Carkhuff House - Twin Oaks Estate, Akron Ohio

Stacy G. Carkhuff House - Twin Oaks Estate, Akron Ohio

The Carkhuff house holds an important place in the civic, cultural, and social history of Akron during the first half of the 1900s. It was the home of Stacy G. Carkhuff, the highly respected secretary of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company from 1905 to 1943. It is situated in a neighborhood of fine, large residences, a number of which were built for top-ranking officers of the city's three major rubber companies during the early years of their rapid growth. The structure itself, designed in the Georgian Revival style by the prominent New York firm of Trowbridge & Ackerman, is notable for its extraordinary use of brickwork to produce an effect of rich detailing and refined proportion, with almost no special

Akron Public Library, Akron Ohio

Akron Public Library, Akron Ohio

The former Akron Public Library is the best example in downtown Akron of Beaux Arts Classicism in the French Renaissance mode and it is one of the most highly regarded buildings that Frank O. Weary, a major turn-of-the-century architect, designed in his long career; it was the first permanent home of the city's first general circulation library (1904-1942) and the first permanent home of the Akron Art Institute (1948-1981). Frank Orlando Weary (1849-1921) practiced architecture in Akron from 1875 until shortly before his death. He specialized in the design of public and business buildings and churches, Among his major commissions were Ohio court houses in Hancock and Carroll counties, While serving as architect for Oberlin College, he designed three stone buildings;

University High School - Oakland City College, Oakland California

University High School - Oakland City College, Oakland California

Construction on University High School was begun in May 1922 under building permit 69600 for a 2-story reinforced concrete school, and completed in August 1923 at a cost variously reported as $518,569 and $541,716. The architect was Charles W. Dickey, then Supervising Architect for the Oakland public schools, and the builder was R.W. Littlefield. In 1926-27 a detached gymnasium was built at the rear, and a manual arts wing was added to the south end of the main building. Building permit records give the cost for the gym as $103,000 (permit A23190) and the builder as J.E. Branagh, and $37,516 for the shop wing (A22552, E.T. Leiter & Son, builder). The final phase of construction on the existing buildings took place

East Cleveland District 9 School - Superior School, Cleveland Heights Ohio

East Cleveland District 9 School - Superior School, Cleveland Heights Ohio

The school was built as the District 9 school of East Cleveland Township in 1882. It was the third school building on the site, replacing an earlier brick building. The minutes of the Board of Education in 1853 stated that a still older building was an Old House of little value. Must be rebuilt. The frame second story of the existing building was added in 1915. Cleveland Heights became an independent municipality in 1901. The Superior School was used for regular classes until 1925. It stood vacant for years, then in the late 1940s and 1950s it was used for classes for slow-learning children. At present it is used as a storage building by the City of Cleveland Heights. Because the

JB Courtney Woolen Mills, Appleton Wisconsin

JB Courtney Woolen Mills, Appleton Wisconsin

The birth of the woolen industry in Wisconsin is closely linked to the spread of sheep farming in the state. According to Cultural Resource Management, sheep farming in Wisconsin preceded the development of a mature livestock agriculture, grazing on pastureland not devoted to wheat. Providing both raw materials for the ubiquitous spinning wheel and a cheap source of meat, sheep (driven in from southern Illinois and the Ohio Valley) complemented the cash-crop economy and spread with settlement throughout the territorial period. Early concentrations of sheep were found in the southeast counties, where pastureland was most plentiful and settlers from the British Isles and Vermont were most prominent. Between 1845 and 1850, Wisconsin's sheep population exploded, climbing from 30,000 to over 125,000.

Bergstresser Covered Bridge, Canal Winchester Ohio

Bergstresser Covered Bridge, Canal Winchester Ohio

The Bergstresser Bridge was built in 1887 by the Columbus Bridge Company at a cost of $2,690. The abutments were laid by M. Corbett. The name Bergstresser comes from one Daniel Bergstresser who owned 79 acres to the east of the bridge site in section 31 of Madison Twp. This is the original bridge on this site. Louis Kramer built a grist and saw mill here in 1808 and the ford was always known as Kramer's Ford although the mill has been gone for many years. The Partridge truss was undoubtedly chosen for this bridge because its inventor, Reuban Partridge (U. S. Patent #127,791, June 11, 1872) of Marysville, Ohio, was an officer in the Columbus Bridge Company at that time.

Bantam Ridge School, Wintersville Ohio

Bantam Ridge School, Wintersville Ohio

The Bantam Ridge School is the sole surviving remnant of an important phase of the township district school system from the 19^th century. One-room schoolhouses were a common element of the education heritage of the country prior to the consolidations which resulted in the major school systems of today. Due to major encroachments from strip mining and the urban sprawl of nearby Steubenville, few of these early schoolhouses remain in the county. No others exist in Cross Creek Township and the Bantam Ridge School is significant for its high degree of structural integrity, retaining most of its interior and exterior detailing and finishes. The Bantam Ridge School was built as a grade school for the Cross Creek Township Board of Education

Francis Plantation, Davisboro Georgia

Francis Plantation, Davisboro Georgia

This 1,700 acre Cotton Plantation in GA Remained in the Same Family for Over 100 Years

The Francis Plantation has remained untouched by the 20^th century and its great significance lies in this fact. This plantation illustrates the way of life as it existed on an antebellum cotton plantation in the mid-19^th century and it is unique to Georgia in its remarkable state of preservation. As far as the eye can see from the plantation structures there are no intrusions, and in all directions fields planted in cotton can still be seen because the descendants of Cordall Francis, (1765-1840) the original landowner, still farm the land. This Southern tradition of the land's supremacy along with the remote location of the plantation are the main reasons that the Francis Plantation has survived intact for over one hundred years.

Desire Plantation House, Vacherie Louisiana

Desire Plantation House, Vacherie Louisiana

Perique, a Pungent Tobacco, was Grown Here, and Cigars Were Manufactured in the House

Desire Plantation House is the only remaining plantation associated with the historically important perique tobacco industry of St. James Parish. There were attempts to cultivate tobacco in much of Louisiana during the eighteenth century, chiefly for the purpose of making the European market independent of British tobacco grown in the eastern colonies. By the 1780's the Louisiana area produced about a half million pounds annually. But in the nineteenth century, tobacco was largely displaced by sugar and cotton. By the mid-nineteenth century, the only remaining tobacco growing area was St. James Parish, where perique tobacco was produced on a small commercial scale by family farmers. Perique is a pungent flavorful black tobacco cured by fermentation in its own juice under pressure.

Bouverans Plantation House - Arialo, Lockport Louisiana

Bouverans Plantation House - Arialo, Lockport Louisiana

Bouverans is a rare surviving example of a leading architectural trend in antebellum Lafourche Parish, the transition from Creole to Greek Revival architecture. Much of the architectural history of the Acadian parishes centers upon the gradual inculcation of American architecture into the Creole traditions of the area. This process began in about 1820 and lasted essentially until the Civil War era. Bouverans stands near the end of this transition both because of its date (c.1860) and because, although Creole features are clearly present, the American Greek Revival style dominates the character of the house. Because of this, Bouverans is exemplary of the final stage in the process. Most of the extant antebellum residences of Lafourche Parish reflect the Greek Revival style

Bank of Ville Platte, Ville Platte Louisiana

Bank of Ville Platte, Ville Platte Louisiana

The area that became Evangeline Parish was within the northwestern part of Imperial St. Landry Parish until the creation of a new local jurisdiction in 1910. Settlement in the area began in the late eighteenth century, with most of the immigrants arriving from France and Canada. Additionally, a number of early settlers were persons of Irish descent who came to Louisiana after first living in Spain. Among the early French settlers was Marcelin Garand, a former Adjutant Major in Napoleon's army, who is credited as the founder of the town of Ville Platte. (The date of his arrival is unclear; his death occurred in 1852.) The Louisiana Legislature incorporated the community on March 16, 1858, by which time the area was

Alice C Plantation House, Franklin Louisiana

Alice C Plantation House, Franklin Louisiana

Alice C was built for Jotham Bedell, who owned the sugar plantation from 1846 to 1859. It was named Alice C by a subsequent owner, John Calder, for his wife, Alice. The plantation's sugar mill survived until the mid-1950s when it was dismantled. In contrast to the rest of South Louisiana, which is known for its French Creole architecture, St. Mary Parish is renowned for its many major examples of the Greek Revival style. The parish was formed in 1811, and its parish seat, Franklin, was founded in 1808 by men with English rather than French names. The booming antebellum economy was based largely upon sugarcane, and area planters were among the wealthiest of the wealthy. They built impressive residences on

Oregon Creek Covered Bridge - Freeman's Covered Bridge, North San Juan California

Oregon Creek Covered Bridge - Freeman's Covered Bridge, North San Juan California

The covered bridge over Oregon Creek has been used continuously since its construction over a century ago. The actual construction date is in question, however, Thompson and West indicate that Tom Freeman built a bridge across Oregon Creek in 1858 and in 1871 built another a little above the first at a cost of $2,500.00. The original bridge was washed away subsequent to the construction of the new bridge. Other references quote various dates, including 1860, 1861 and 1862 as the year that the bridge was constructed. In any event, this bridge is either the oldest, or one of the oldest covered bridges in the western United States still in general use. Tom Freeman, who built the bridge, operated it and

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Lost Places: Images of Bygone America

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Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind

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