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Dougan Round Barn, Beloit Wisconsin

Dougan Round Barn, Beloit Wisconsin

According to the son of the builder, whose juvenile handprints were embedded in the concrete floor of the barn, the barn was built in 1911 following the concepts of Prof. F. H. King of the University of Wisconsin, who espoused compact, economical construction, reduction of labor and operating costs to obtain the optimum profit for the owner, and adequate light and ventilation for the livestock. Wesson J. Dougan, a young methodist minister, had bought the farm in 1906 from Mrs. S. G. Colley. The original Colley pioneer had been an early settler of the Town of Turtle, and the Colleys had built the older barn, to which the round barn was connected, and the farmhouse. Mr. Dougan and the carpenter, Mark

Parker Covered Bridge, Upper Sandusky Ohio

Parker Covered Bridge, Upper Sandusky Ohio

The Parker Covered Bridge is located in a historically significant area. Just one-half mile south of the bridge is the grave of Tarhe the Crane, chief of the Wyandots. It was from this Indian tribe that Wyandot County took its name. Three and one-half miles south of the bridge is the Indian Mill State Memorial, administered by the Ohio Historical Society. The United States Government built this mill for the Wyandots in about 1821. The Parker Covered Bridge was built in 1873. by J. C. Davis and is named for nearby landowners. This bridge is located over a section of the scenic Sandusky River that is included in the Sandusky River Scenic Waterway Project. The purpose of this project, which is

New Lyme Institute - Deming School, New Lyme Ohio

New Lyme Institute - Deming School, New Lyme Ohio

The institute was founded in 1878 under the name of Northern Ohio Collegiate and Business Institute. The land and $3,000 in matching funds toward the building were donated by Judge William S, Deming, New Lyme's most important citizen at the time. Aged 65, Judge Deming saw the possibility of an institute supplying the great need for preparatory education. The building was first opened in 1879. The school was incorporated as the New Lyme Institute in 1883. The first president was Jacob Tuckerman, a native of Connecticut who had come to Ohio in 1836 studied at Kingsville Academy and at Oberlin, and served as superintendent of the Ashtabula County Schools and principal of Orwell Academy. During his administration the attendance reached 300

Dr. Benjamin Gregg House, Florence South Carolina

Dr. Benjamin Gregg House, Florence South Carolina

Located in a downtown section of florence, South Carolina, the Dr. Benjamin Gregg House is a notable example of the Beaux Arts style of residential architecture. Constructed circa 1907, the Gregg House was built by Dr. Benjamin Gregg, a prominent physician and pharmacist in Florence. The Gregg House was constructed as a private residence between 1905 and 1908 by Dr. Benjamin Gregg, a leading citizen of the town of Florence. Born in May 1860, Benjamin Gregg was educated at Mercer University, New York University, and the Bellvue Hospital. Upon completion of his education, Gregg set up a medical practice and pharmacy in Florence. Gregg's practice prospered and he eventually was appointed as surgeon for both Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard

Oakhurst - Budd Matthews House, Newberry South Carolina

Oakhurst - Budd Matthews House, Newberry South Carolina

Located in the town of Newberry, South Carolina, Oakhurst was constructed between 1893 and 1895 by Budd Cade Matthews and Clara Crotwell Matthews. It is a combination of both Queen Anne and Italianate architecture. Oakhurst or the Matthews House was constructed as a private residence by Budd Cade and Clara Crotwell Matthews. Mrs. Matthews was the daughter of James Alfred Crotwell, a prominent Newberry businessman who founded the Crotwell Brickyard. He was also involved in real estate and constructed one of the town's early hotels. Clara Belle Crotwell married Budd Cade Matthews on September 29, 1891. According to tradition, they lived in the Crotwell house on the present Oakhurst property following their marriage. It is believed that this frame house still

Nick Prevost House, Anderson South Carolina

Nick Prevost House, Anderson South Carolina

The Prevost House, located in Anderson, South Carolina, was originally constructed in 1877 for Nick Prevost, an Anderson businessman. The house was constructed in the Renaissance revival style along the lines of the German Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. In 1876, S. H. (Nick) Prevost and his wife, Virginia Palmyra (Pallie), visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. They were particularly impressed with the German Pavilion, which had been designed by H. J. Schwarzmann in the Renaissance revival style. Shortly after their return to Anderson, they began construction of the Prevost House, which incorporates Renaissance revival elements after the design of the German Pavilion. It is believed the Prevosts purchased plans or drawings of the Pavilion to follow

Robbs House, Gaffney South Carolina

Robbs House, Gaffney South Carolina

The Robbs House, built by Thompson Robbs in 1884, was one of the oldest homes in Gaffney and one of the few brick homes constructed in the town in the nineteenth century. The house was significant due to its craftsmanship and essentially unaltered condition. It retains its original finely detailed porch and a collection of early outbuildings. Thompson Robbs was a wealthy merchant and farmer who settled in Gaffney soon after it was founded. The Robbs family continued to be prominent in the community into the early 20^th century; the home was still owned by descendants of the family until it was demolished in 1991. he Robbs House has a central passage house plan with a two-story brick ell at the

Sarratt House - Taylor House, Gaffney South Carolina

Sarratt House - Taylor House, Gaffney South Carolina

The Sarratt House is an example of the Queen Anne style. The house was built in 1882 for J.L. Sarratt, who was a prominent Gaffney merchant for many years. The Sarratt family occupied the house until 1932 when it was sold to the Taylor family. The house is in unusually intact condition and its large porch area, tower and gables make it one of the most architecturally significant late nineteenth-century residences in Gaffney. The Sarratt House is a two-story, frame house built in the Queen Anne style. The house's most striking feature is the 180' long porch which wraps around the main (north), east and west facades. The porch has milled posts with brackets, drop pendants and a decorative frieze composed

South Carolina Penitentiary - Central Correctional Institution, Columbia South Carolina

South Carolina Penitentiary - Central Correctional Institution, Columbia South Carolina

Established in 1866, the penitentiary has followed many of the national trends in prison reform to improve the treatment of convicts in South Carolina. The penitentiary was the beginning of a state penal system which would eventually evolve into the current South Carolina Department of Corrections. The penal reform movement in the United States was one of a number of reform efforts during the nineteenth century. In order to turn criminals into responsible citizens, reformers urged the individual states to create penitentiaries. In such an institution, the convicts were to be isolated from society and the other prisoners as much as possible. This solitude would keep negative influences away from the convict and allow him time to meditate on his wrongdoing.

Oaklyn Plantation, Darlington South Carolina

Oaklyn Plantation, Darlington South Carolina

This Has Been a Working Plantation since the 1830s

Oaklyn Plantation, straddling the Old Charleston Road at Black Creek in Darlington County, is one of the major plantation establishments of the county and the seat of the Williamson family for over 200 years. The area which is now Darlington County was first settled by non-indigenous people six decades after Charleston, the initial English settlement in South Carolina, was established in 1670. Development in the Province was confined to the Low country until after the adoption of the Township Act of 1730, which authorized several frontier settlements in the Back Country of South Carolina. The Welsh Tract was established on the Great Pee Dee River, one of the major waterways of South Carolina, in 1736 for the settlement of Welsh Baptists

Tarver Plantation, Newton Georgia

Tarver Plantation, Newton Georgia

Tarver Plantation is a Greek Revival plantation house constructed about 1850. The plantation consists of approximately 1,300 acres that have historically been part of this large land holding. It was the home of Henry Andrew Tarver and his wife Elizabeth Solomon Tarver until the Tarvers moved to Atlanta in the 1870s. In 1850, the plantation consisted of 3,700 acres and produced a variety of crops, including corn, oats, cotton, peas and beans, and sweet potatoes. In 1860, the plantation operation had been scaled down to 2,200 acres, with corn, cotton, and sweet potatoes as main crops. During the Civil War, the plantation was a source of food and other supplies for the Confederate government. The plantation was operated by slavery through

Pine Bloom Plantation, Newton Georgia

Pine Bloom Plantation, Newton Georgia

Pinebloom Plantation was the plantation home of Alfred Holt Colquitt (1824-1894) and his wife Dorothy (Dolly) Tarver Colquitt (1829-1855) from the 1850s to 1875. It was an extensive working farm in both the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Under Colquitt's ownership from the 1850s to 1875, it was both an antebellum plantation where as many as 93 slaves were used to cultivate 1,400 acres of the original 2,400-acre property, and a postbellum plantation utilizing free laborers who were paid wages. Colquitt lived on the plantation, using it as his principal residence before, during, and after the Civil War. Principal crops grown were cotton, peas and beans, corn, and sweet potatoes. Colquitt had a great interest in the improvement of agriculture after the

Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station, Shelbyville Tennessee

Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station, Shelbyville Tennessee

The Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station is an example of the kind of smaller-scale, private-sector venture of a capitalist hydroelectric engineering projects typical at the time of its construction on the smaller rivers in Tennessee. The design of the Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station is similar with two other extant sites on the Duck River, all designed and built in the 1920s by the same two Nashville industrial engineering and construction firms, for the same public utilities firm. The site operated for twenty-four years from 1924 to 1948 and was the sole source of electricity for Shelbyville. Only minor changes in generating machinery were made. Site Description The Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station is located near the junction of the Duck River and State Highway 231 in

Leroy Pope - Grant Elementary School, Memphis Tennessee

Leroy Pope - Grant Elementary School, Memphis Tennessee

The Leroy Pope Elementary School (now known as Grant School or Grant/Pope School) is a good local example of a Classical Revival-influenced building designed by B. C. Alsup and as an example of a school the reflected the tremendous population growth in Memphis between 1912 and 1930. As Peggy Jemison explains in Greenlaw Rediscovered, the school building was built in 1912 at 190 Chelsea Avenue and named Leroy Pope School. White children attended it, and African American children attended Grant School at the corner of Auction Avenue and North Seventh Street. Hurt Village, a public housing project for whites, was built in 1953 on property adjacent to Grant School. Therefore, African American children were attending school next to the white housing

Peabody High School, Trenton Tennessee

Peabody High School, Trenton Tennessee

The Peabody High School was designed by Rueben A. Heavner, a regionally important architect who specialized in school buildings and residences beginning in the early twentieth century. Built in 1917, the structure served as the primary high school for the young people of Trenton for over sixty years. In 1876 Professor Gentry R. McGee began laying the foundations for the establishment of public education in Gibson County, Tennessee. After securing $1,000.00 from the Peabody Education Fund, an endowment established by George Peabody to aid education in the South, a public school building was constructed in Trenton. By early 1917, the original Peabody School building was inadequate to serve the growing number of students in Trenton and the surrounding area. A five-member

J. Stoddard Johnston Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

J. Stoddard Johnston Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

Johnston Elementary School is one of the finest examples of the Beaux-Arts style applied to institutional buildings in Louisville. The school, which was completed in 1915, is the work of the local architectural firm of Joseph and Joseph. Alfred and Oscar Joseph became partners in 1908 and in the next two decades established themselves as one of the most prominent architectural firms in Louisville. Alfred had long been associated with the firm of McDonald Brothers and its successors, while Oscar was trained as a civil engineer. The brothers designed numerous theaters, clubs, residences, schools and industrial buildings in styles which ranged from the neo-classical to Spanish and Tudor revivals. Some of their finest works were executed in the classical mode, such

Swartz Covered Bridge, Wyandot Ohio

Swartz Covered Bridge, Wyandot Ohio

The Swartz Bridge crosses the Sandusky River not far from the headwaters of that stream and indeed, it seems more creek than river at this point. The Old Swartz Bridge is in a very historic area. This area was once within the old Wyandot Indian Reservation. Less than a mile west of the covered bridge, Broken Sword Creek enters the Sandusky River. Col. William Crawford is supposed to have broken his sword and thrown it into this creek just before his capture by the Indians. Ever since, the creek has been known as Broken Sword Creek. About ten miles southwest of the Swartz Bridge is the interesting Killdeer Wildlife Area. The county has taken good care of this fine old Howe

Jeffersontown Colored School, Jeffersontown Kentucky

Jeffersontown Colored School, Jeffersontown Kentucky

The old Jeffersontown Colored School (first known as School #2A) was built in 1929-30 as an elementary school for African American children in grades one through eight who lived in Jeffersontown and the surrounding area. It replaced a frame residence that was on the site when it was purchased by the Board of Education of Jefferson County in 1912 and which had housed the elementary school since that time. The architect of the new building was Oscar W. Holmes, a former teacher at DuPont Manual Training School and a draftsman/architect for the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Holmes, along with local architects Arthur G. Tafel and Edgar Archer, submitted proposals in April 1929 to the Board of

Charles D Jacob Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

Charles D Jacob Elementary School, Louisville Kentucky

The land on which Jacob Elementary School was built was originally owned by Charles Donald Jacob, four-term mayor of Louisville, and was in close proximity to Jacob's Park, later known as Iroquois Park. In its earliest days, it also bore the names Jacob's Addition Graded School or Community School. When it began in 1892, The Jacob School was an independent county school whose first location is unrecorded. In 1898 a new two-room frame structure opened on the southeast corner of Camden and Woodruff Avenues. Fourteen years later, a larger Jacob School was opened on the corner of Camden and Wheeler Avenues, with a capacity of one-hundred-twenty-five students. This address was once Bennett and Bannon Avenues; the name Bennett was changed to

Cadentown School, Lexington Kentucky

Cadentown School, Lexington Kentucky

The settlement patterns of African-American hamlets in the Bluegrass are unique from those found in the rest of the South. After the Civil War social and economic conditions in the South, including intensive agriculture, numerous small or marginal land holdings and a very low reserve of operating capital, encouraged the development of a scattered population of African-American sharecroppers. Contrary to these overall conditions, the economy of the post-Civil War Bluegrass was quickly reestablished, assuring that the large farm owners could afford to continue an extensive form of agriculture that emphasized specialized stock raising, and only a few labor intensive crops such as tobacco and hemp. This agricultural focus apparently favored a clustered pattern of settlement, in which the clusters were located

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