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Adams Covered Bridge - San Toy Covered Bridge, Malta Ohio

Adams Covered Bridge - San Toy Covered Bridge, Malta Ohio

Of the 3,500 identified timber truss railroad, canal and vehicular bridges built in Ohio, by 1998 less than 4 percent, or 135 bridges are extant, and only 61 carry traffic. The Adams, or San Toy Covered Bridge, one of five covered bridges remaining in Morgan County, and one of only three on its original site, exemplifies the multiple kingpost truss covered bridge in Ohio. By far the most common of all wooden truss designs in Ohio, the multiple kingpost truss became known across the state as the Buckingham truss, so named after Catherinus Buckingham, bridge builder and state Adjutant General. Until the late 1940s, Morgan County had 15 covered bridges, but construction of Burr Oak Lake and surface coal mining have

Corson Emminger Round Barn, Watertown South Dakota

Corson Emminger Round Barn, Watertown South Dakota

Corson Emminger came to South Dakota from Wisconsin in the early 1900s. He may have gotten the idea of building the round barn from the many located in his native state. There are few of these structures in South Dakota, especially those constructed from concrete blocks. The barn was apparently originally used in the process of dairy production. In 1905 Emminger bought the farmsted for $6,000 and began construction of the barn four years later and finished it in 1910 at a cost of $1,500. He lived on there for four years when he moved into Watertown and then to California in 1920. The barn was his pride and joy and became a landmark for that part of the state. Jacob

Albania Plantation House, Jeanerette Louisiana

Albania Plantation House, Jeanerette Louisiana

Albania was built by Charles Francois Grevemberg, a member of a German family which had migrated to Louisiana. The house remained in his descendants' hands until 1885 when it was sold due to non-payment of debts. The new owners were brothers Isaac and Samuel Delgado. Upon the death of the surviving brother in 1912, the house and accompanying land were willed to the City of New Orleans. In 1957 the city sold the house, along with a small tract of land, at a public auction. Emily Cyr Bridges was the successful purchaser. She and her husband rehabilitated the home and, later, Mrs. Bridges opened it for tours. The home is now closed to the public. In contrast to the rest of

Anderson Brothers Department Store - Sears, Roebuck & Company, Portsmouth Ohio

Anderson Brothers Department Store - Sears, Roebuck & Company, Portsmouth Ohio

The Anderson Brothers building was constructed in two stages, the original portion in 1899 and a substantial expansion and addition in 1925. The design of the expansion was intended to give the building the appearance of a single modern structure. The building served its original function of housing a department store from its construction in 1899 until 1984; this activity occupied the four southern bays of the expanded structure. A separate retail operation occupied the two northern bays for many years. The building was constructed during the greatest period of growth and prosperity in Portsmouth. George Washington Anderson arrived in Portsmouth in 1867 and opened a store, which he operated until 1871 when he sold it to go to Kansas to

Peters Cartridge Company - Remington Arms, Kings Mills Ohio

Peters Cartridge Company - Remington Arms, Kings Mills Ohio

The Peters Cartridge Company complex is visible evidence of a powder and ammunition industry that once flourished in southwestern Ohio. Peters Cartridge was a leader in ammunition research and development. Peters Cartridge Company was connected by family, interlocking management, and ownership with the King Powder Company that occupied the other side of the river. Joseph Warren King came west from Connecticut to operate the Miami Powder Company at Goes Station north of Xenia, Ohio. He was successful and opened his own Great Western Powder Company mill on the Little Miami River in 1877. In 1881, King persuaded his son-in-law, Gresham M. Peters, a Baptist minister, to accept a vice-presidency in the company. G. M. Peters became president on J. W. King's

Eagles Building - The City Mission, Dayton Ohio

Eagles Building - The City Mission, Dayton Ohio

The building which served as a lodge hall and subsequently a city mission gives the distinct, if incorrect, impression of being a theater. The building is unique in the way the styles are so successfully melded within Pretzinger's distinctive design. Pretzinger's 1914 interior design for the auditorium was modified and simplified by the firm of Gebhart and Schaefer in June 1926. A Wurlitzer Organ (removed) was installed in 1926 giving us the occupation date for that part of the structure. The building served as the City Mission after being purchased from the Eagles in 1968. The City Mission moved in 1981. The Eagles Building will be revitalized as the Union Station Music Palace, a restaurant. A historic Wurlitzer theater organ has

Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge, Allensvllle Ohio

Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge, Allensvllle Ohio

The Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge was built in 1875 by George Washington Pilcher, a well-known Vinton County stone mason and builder. Mr. Pilcher was a Civil War veteran and was quite active as an itinerant lay preacher. He built the foundations for many Vinton County bridges, and along with his brothers, built the foundations for Cutler Hall at Ohio University at Athens. One unconfirmed story says that Mr. Pilcher might have been county engineer at the time he built the Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge. The contract for this bridge was originally awarded to a John Calvin for $6 per linear foot, and the masonry work was to be done by Mre Pilcher. For some unknown reason, Mr. Celvin made

Freier Round Barn, Draper South Dakota

Freier Round Barn, Draper South Dakota

The Freier Round Barn is the only known example of a wood frame pre-cut catalog barn erected in South Dakota that still retains its historic integrity. The barn is an example of the final stage of round/polygonal barn building, affordable pre-cut catalog barns that were the final and outstanding achievement of research and promotion within the agricultural community from the late 19^th and into the early 20^th century. Manufacturers promoted these barns as easy and affordable to build with none of the problems that plagued earlier round barns. These barns had self-supporting roofs with clear span, easily filled hay lofts; sufficient light and ventilation; interior silos and convenient and efficient interior arrangements. Built by M.E. Studervant in 1918 for $3,000, the

Stark Round Barn, Unityville South Dakota

Stark Round Barn, Unityville South Dakota

The Stark Round Barn was constructed in 1921 by the Johnston Brothers firm. The Johnston Brothers Clay Works of Fort Dodge, Iowa was the leader in the construction of the hollow tile barn in Iowa. The company built their first barn in 1910 in Iowa and worked their way west into South Dakota. The Stark Round Barn is one of seven that were constructed in South Dakota. There are three innovative technological advances that occurred with the Final Period of Round Barns. First is the use of the interior silo. While the interior silo was introduced in the 1880s, it did not come into common use until the early 1900s. The second advance that was widely adopted during this period was

Eagles Building-Strand Theater, Alliance Ohio

Eagles Building-Strand Theater, Alliance Ohio

The Eagles Building dates from 1921. It was constructed to house the Fraternal Order of Eagles, an organization established in Alliance by 1913 and housed since that year in a prior building on the site. In 1921 the Eagles shifted to temporary quarters so that the present structure could be built. The Eagle Home Co. Inc. was formed with Judge M. C. Moore as its president, J. J. Bengnot as secretary and A. L. Hubbard as treasurer. By 1923 the Eagles Home and S. B. Cohn Clothing & Dry Goods operated from this building. Given the presence of large recessed bricked-in panels along the west wall of the building's lower levels, it seems likely that the dry good store was housed

Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge, Wilkesville Ohio

Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge, Wilkesville Ohio

Ponn Bridge, with its humpbacked construction, is one of the longest and most unusual covered bridges in Ohio. It is one of five covered bridges in Vinton County. One other of them, the Eakin Mill or McLaughlin Bridge, is of similar construction, though shorter in length. However, it has been severely damaged and will probably not be repaired, making the Ponn Bridge even more precious. Its beautiful setting, over Raccoon Creek, is another contribution to its worth. The Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge is located in Wilkesville Township, Geer Road over Raccoon Creek in Vinton County. Most of the information about it originates with the office of James E. Lee, Vinton County Engineer. The bridge was built by Martin E. McGrath and

Zoarville Bridge - Dover River Bridge, Zoarville Ohio

Zoarville Bridge - Dover River Bridge, Zoarville Ohio

The Zoarville Bridge is the only known example of a Fink through truss bridge still standing in the United States. It is also the sole surviving bridge erected by Smith, Latrobe and Company of Baltimore, and is the only surviving work by Charles Shaler Smith, the company president, who was a prominent innovator in the design of 19th-century American bridges. The Fink truss was patented in 1851 by Albert Fink, an engineer who worked for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. His original design was for a deck truss without a bottom chord. As a modified example of a Fink through truss, the Zoarville Bridge has a reduced number of posts and ties used in its trusses. A true Fink truss would

Central Dakota Flouring Mill Grain Elevator, Arlington South Dakota

Central Dakota Flouring Mill Grain Elevator, Arlington South Dakota

The breadbasket of the United States moved west with the frontier, from Connecticut to New York to Ohio, then on to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and finally to the Dakotas, Kansas, and the rest of the Great Plains. The wheat that farmers raised in the early days of the American Republic was hauled only a few miles to the nearest water-powered mill where it was ground into flour, as it had been in Europe for centuries. Grain was handled in sacks, hauled in wagons, stacked in flat warehouses, and then wheeled aboard canal boats or coastal vessels for distribution to market. In 1820, only one of every eight bushels of wheat produced in the United States was raised west of Pittsburgh or

Shafer Round Barn, Sioux Falls South Dakota

Shafer Round Barn, Sioux Falls South Dakota

This structure is an example of the hollow tile barns found in southeastern South Dakota built during the final stage of round/polygonal barn construction. The final stage is characterized by pre-designed barns which could be ordered from the manufacturer via catalogs or advertisements in agricultural publications. These barns were the final and outstanding achievement of research and promotion within the agricultural community from the late 19^th and into the early 20^th centuries. Manufacturers promoted these barns as easy and affordable to build with none of the problems that plagued earlier round barns. These barns had self-supporting roofs with clear span, easily filled hay lofts; sufficient light and ventilation; interior silos and convenient and efficient interior arrangements. Some farmers ordered the barns

Stuyvesant Railroad Station, Stuyvesant Landing New York

Stuyvesant Railroad Station, Stuyvesant Landing New York

The Stuyvesant Railroad Station (a.k.a. Stuyvesant Landing Depot) is a compelling symbol of the enormous role that transportation has held in the history of Stuyvesant Landing since the community first formed about 1664. Settled and developed first by Dutchmen from Albany, the landing accessed the Hudson River, the highway for trade during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and more than half of the nineteenth century. Stuyvesant Landing was not only a successful agricultural community in its own right; it was a place to which farmers and merchants came from the immediate hinterland and also as far away as the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts; further with the advent of trains, it enjoyed unexpected industrial development after 1851. Built c. 1881 following a devastating fire

State Theater, Deposit New York

State Theater, Deposit New York

Unfortunately the theater was completely destroyed by fire in September 1994. The decorative front sections of the State Theater were designed in 1937 by H.L. Beebe for the Kallet-Comerford Company, an upstate movie house chain with over one hundred theatres in Western New York and Pennsylvania. Beebe's design included a highly decorative facade, marquee and ticket booth, along with a public lobby and restrooms, storage area, office space and projection booth. The facade is constructed of a distinctive blue carrara glass with tripartite poster cases flanking the entrance and is replete with original neon and tungsten light marquee. The theatre is an outstanding example of the Art Deco aesthetic as applied to small movie houses in this period and is remarkably

Sherburne High School, Sherburne New York

Sherburne High School, Sherburne New York

Education in Sherburne began almost with the settlement of the village in 1793-94. John Smith's History of Chenango and Madison Counties (1880) states that while the settlers were still living in log cabins, school meetings were held. A permanent school building was constructed in the 1820s. The Sherburne Free Academy served the needs of the village until 1870, when the Union Free School was constructed on Chapel Street. The brick Italianate style structure was large and imposing, as befitted a village made prosperous by the Chenango Canal (1837) and, later, the Utica, Chenango & Susquehanna Railroad (1867). By 1875 the village contained six churches, three hotels, a National Bank, factories, mills, a newspaper, and numerous shops. Sherburne's growth as a regional

Donald Bruce House - Middlepen Plantation, Orangeburg South Carolina

Donald Bruce House - Middlepen Plantation, Orangeburg South Carolina

Abandoned plantation house in South Carolina

The Donald Bruce House is one of the oldest surviving structures in the Orangeburg area. According to tradition, it was used as a headquarters during the Revolution by both Gov. John Rutledge (1779) and by Lord Rawdon, the British commander (1781). The house is named for Donald Bruce, a prominent merchant, local public official and member of the South Carolina General Assembly during the Revolution. According to tradition, the house was built circa 1735, the year Orangeburg was settled. It is more probable, however, that the house was built either by John Fisher, who was granted, in 1770, the lot on which the house originally stood, or by Donald Bruce, who purchased the lot from Fisher in 1773. The house stood

Sellers Mansion, Baltimore Maryland

Sellers Mansion, Baltimore Maryland

Construction of the Sellers Mansion on Lafayette Square began in the year 1868. Matthew Bacon Sellers (d. 1880) and his wife Anne L. (Lewis) Sellers created their new home and were preparing for the birth of their first (and would be only) son, Matthew Bacon Sellers, Jr. The residence they constructed expresses a successful and proud demeanor. Built by Edward Davis for the Sellers family, the late Victorian styling of the Mansion is finely crafted and architecturally beautifully executed. The Sellers Mansion was the first dwelling built on the eastern side of Lafayette Square, which had been founded about ten years earlier by an agreement between the city and a company of citizens. Sellers had been a plantation owner, but after

Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary, Poughkeepsie New York

Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary, Poughkeepsie New York

Poughkeepsie was first settled in 1687 by two men, Baltus Van Kleek and Hendrick Ostrom, who leased land from the original patentees. Gradually other people moved to the area, sawmills were erected, and a village grew at what is now the intersection of Main and Market Streets. Growth was slow. Although Poughkeepsie was named the county seat in 1717, in 1771, nearly a hundred years after the original settlement, it still had not more than forty houses. With the Revolutionary War came increased importance and activity. Two frigates authorized by the Continental Congress were built in Poughkeepsie during the war, and after the burning of Kingston in 1777, Poughkeepsie became the state capital for a time. Three sessions of the legislature

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