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Coach Geoffrey Hart, Eric Zang, Matthew Chen, Yale Zhang, Alex Sun and Alexander Fernandez of Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas at the 2026 National Science Bowl® Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Chengcheng Wang, Samanyu Kasinadhuni and Krishik Singh of Irving A. Robbins Middle School in Farmington, Connecticut and team at the Middle School Academic Competition during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Don't see so many of this anymore so I had to take a snapshot when I saw one in a display window in Vienna.
Caretaker's House
Washoe County, NV
Listed: 10/27/2000
The Whittell Estate is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under criteria A, B, and C at the state level. It meets criteria consideration G for properties that have achieved significance within the last 50 years under criteria A and B.
Under criterion A, the property is significant for its association with several different periods of the land development and use at Lake Tahoe including the development of Lake Tahoe as a resort area for the wealthy; the "One Sound State" campaign of the early 1930s; and the role of conservation in protecting lakeside property from development in order to preserve the natural conditions and to provide recreational opportunities. For its critical part in the ongoing conservation and environmental restoration of Lake Tahoe, one of the country's natural scenic treasures, the Whittell Estate meets criteria consideration G at the state level.
Under criterion B, the property is significant for its association with George Whittell Jr. and the Whittell family, a prominent California and Nevada mining family. George Whittell Jr. was a colorful, socially prominent, investor who managed substantial commercial holding in San Francisco and at one time controlled almost the entire Nevada shoreline of Lake Tahoe. Whittell's control of much of the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe and his resolute opposition to development of his property contributed to the conservation of the vital portions of Lake Tahoe's shoreline. For its association with Whittell, the property meets criteria consideration G at the state level.
Under criterion C, the property is significant as one of the last and best examples of a great residential estate on Lake Tahoe from the period in which prominent San Francisco society built homes on Lake Tahoe; as an outstanding example of an approach to architectural design that is intended to be in harmony with its setting; as a representative example of a high of level building crafts stone masonry, iron work, and wood work; and as an example of the work of Frederic J. DeLongchamps, who served as Nevada State Architect and who was Nevada's most prominent architect.
The property retains a high degree of design integrity in the layout, spatial organization, and overall design characteristics of the group of buildings, structures, and landscape features that are the Whittell Estate. The design of individual buildings or features also remains largely intact and unchanged. The design is also strengthened by the high degree of integrity exhibited through unaltered nature of the location, setting, workmanship, and materials. All of the buildings and structures that were designed by Frederic DeLongchamps remain. These include the main house, garage addition to the main house, lighthouse and garage addition, card house, cook and butler's house and garage, admiral's house, and gatehouse. In 1985, a two-story bedroom addition was built on top of the deck of the garage that attaches to the main house. Also in 1985, an entertainment room addition was built on top of the deck of the garage that attached to the lighthouse. Both of these buildings are additions to the original design of the property and are non-contributing features. However, there have been few if any changes to the design of the other buildings and structures designed by DeLongchamps. Overall, there is integrity of design.
The design of the landscape features was the result of artisan stonemasons that worked on the property. No site plan was found of these features, and it is unlikely that there was an overall design for these features. However, it is evident that the three gates, paths, walls, fountains, stone features, and series of outdoor spaces were constructed to take advantage of and dramatize the existing topography and rock outcroppings. It appears that the landscape features that were built during the period of significance remain in place and are unchanged. Also there have been no newer additions to these features.
Tejas Jacob, Ruchir Bollapragada and Ruchir Bollapragada of Van Antwerp Middle School in Schenectady, New York and team at the Middle School Academic Competition during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Coach Phil Medina, Assistant Coach Maureen Kula, Rithik Sogal, Harry Gao, Anna Xing, Michael Melikyan and Sean Skinner of Ward Melville Senior High School in East Setauket, New York at the High School National Mall Day during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Joshua Lawton, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
I found this awesome abandoned cash register outside our apartment building. It was probably being thrown away.
Asa Fleischer-Graham and Angelica Feng of Princeton Charter School (MS) in Princeton, New Jersey at the Middle School Cyber Challenge Day during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
A meter on top of an antiquated industrial fuel pump. Now a fixture in the Pearl Brewery district in San Antonio, Tx.
Students at the Middle School Academic Competition during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Kenneth Michel and Coach Ipsita Gupta of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the Middle School Academic Competition during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Jack Dempsey, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Jason Ma, Edward Mei, Gautam Ramkumar, Haresh Muralidharan and Thrisha Kalpatthi of North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania at the Division Team Challenge during the 2024 National Science Bowl® Friday, April 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo by Joshua Lawton, National Science Bowl®, Department of Energy, Office of Science
Agricultural Buildings and Complexes in Mill Creek Hundred, 1800-1840
Newark, New Castle County, DE
Listed: 11/13/1986
The properties included in the Mill Creek Hundred Agricultural Buildings and Complexes Thematic Nomination are eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C: historic events and architectural significance. The seventeen sites included in this nomination, in particular the bank barns, are significant because they reflect the transformation of agricultural and rural work during a period of major growth in Mill Creek Hundred. Four factors are important in this transformation: a large population increase; a decrease in farm size by one third; the increase in the number of durable buildings (as defined by stone); and the expansion of local industry. As "working" symbols of "new" agriculture, bank barns reflect the transformation of rural society to its most efficient form through the intensive utilization of land, day labor, work space, and building materials. Thus at a time of increasingly competitive interests, diminishing farm size, and local demographic pressure, the barn becomes a symbol of an emerging progressive and industrialized social and economic order in rural Mill Creek Hundred.
The A. Armstrong site is significant under Criteria A and C because it represents, vividly, the transformation of the architectural landscape from one of impermanent log buildings to one of durable stone buildings during the early decades of the nineteenth century in Mill Creek Hundred. The rebuilding occurred as an expression of confidence and pride in the prosperous agricultural and industrial based economy which provided the means for such a transformation.
The A. Armstrong site, as a late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century log dwelling with an 1830's stone wing, is the perfect representation of that change. The Armstrong dwelling is a rare survival of a log house. The number of log dwellings diminished rapidly after the second decade of the nineteenth century. An important detail is that the log section was stuccoed to disguise its construction materials. The barn was built at roughly the same time as the stone wing on the house and represents the multiple purpose farm building.