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Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Highlighted New Listing – November 12, 2010
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA
The Haydel-Jones House is a rare and important example of a French Creole Plantation House thought to have been built around 1815. Although Creole dwellings once dominated the rural landscape of central and southern Louisiana, only approximately 30 examples remain that are raised on brick piers. In addition to brick piers, the Haydel-Jones House also possesses other typical French Creole features such as a spreading hipped roof with heavy braced timber frame walls, briquette-entre-poteaux (porous brick) and bousillage (wattle and daub) infill, a full length front gallery and asymmetrical floor plan. Historically, the house was affiliated with the Ursine Haydel, a sugar cane planter and descendent of Matthieu Haydel, who arrived in the Louisiana colony in 1721. The property is now used as a private vacation retreat.
Women’s Rights National Historic Park
Seneca County, NY
Listed: 03/23/2012
The Women’s Rights National Historic Park District is composed of four discontinuous units that are thematically linked to the early 19th century Women’s Rights Movement in the United States and to the First Women’s Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. The four units are the Wesleyan Chapel/Visitor Center and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls, as well as the M’Clintock House, and the Hunt House which are in Waterloo, New York. A small group of women developed the idea and wrote the call for the convention at the Hunt House in Waterloo. Members of the M’Clintock family met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to draft the Declaration of Sentiments at the M’Clintock House in Waterloo. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, historic for its association with Stanton, who became a national leader of the Women’s Rights Movement, was also a home base for 14 years after the convention, used for the continued development of the Women’s Rights Movement. These two towns, which became the birthplace of women’s rights in the United States, were strategically located in the center of the groundswell of religious and reform movements occurring in central New York in the first half of the 19th century. During the 1830s and 1840s, women’s active roles in anti-slavery and legal reform efforts (on the latter case, specifically with regard to married women’s property rights) informed a growing concern for women’s rights on a broader scale.
The Women’s Rights National Historic Park was established by the US Congress in December 1980 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 12/28/1980. Since that time the National Park Service has purchased several historic lots around the Stanton House and acquired three additional resources: the Visitors Center, the Chamberlain House, and the Young House, which have extended the boundaries of the original site.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
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Bert Warland OBE was a long-time town clerk / community leader / activist ~ his mother was a friend of local aboriginals who camped at victor harbor on the seafront.
The Warlands were involved with the Terminus Hotel Port Elliot (now Hotel Elliot) and the Austral Hotel Victor Harbor (later called Pipiriki) located at the seaward side of the railway crossing gates opposite The Warringa (now The Anchorage). The Austral was VH's first Hotel.
above is scatty memories from my time compiling FROM THE PAST ~ a weekly feature for friends of the VH Library (then operated in the old Institute building next to the town hall & currently the RSL clubrooms)
Highlighted New Listing – March 9, 2012
Riverside County, CA
In 1941, 60-year old Cabot Abram Yerxa, born in the Dakota Territory on the Lakota Sioux Reservation and one-time interpreter for the Inupiak Native Americans in Nome, Alaska, began his greatest achievement, building Cabot’s Old Indian Museum. An artist and Native American advocate, he built his rambling four-story structure, patterned after those built by the Hopi Indians of the Southwest. Designed and built without the use of any formal architectural documents, the finalized museum and the guest house (“Nellie’s House”) borrowed much from the multi-tier, baked-clay dwellings of the historic Pueblos.
Completed and opened to the public as a Trading Post, Museum/Art gallery and personal residence in 1944, it was a noted feature of the town of Desert Hot Springs, California. In 1945 Cabot married Portia Graham (1884-1969), a lecturer and teacher of metaphysics and Theosophy at a school she founded in Morongo Valley, and for the next 20 years artists, tourists and people interested in metaphysical philosophy came through Cabot’s Old Indian Museum. Cabot himself would lecture on Native American culture. After his death in 1965, Cabot’s Old Indian Pueblo Museum was left vacant for four years until it was purchased by Cole Eyraud, a member of the Desert Hot Springs Council. After Eyraud’s death, the family deeded the property to the city, who are now the current owners of the museum and shop.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Listed: 03/02/2012
The International Order of the Odd Fellows was first organized in Dakota Territory on May 25, 1870, with a number of lodges in southeastern South Dakota. The Dell Rapids Lodge No. 8 was still one of the early I.O.O.F. chapters when it was established in 1876. After statehood in 1889, the Grand Lodge split between South and North Dakota in May 1890. At its height, the Dell Rapids Lodge had 250 members but ended its charter in 2008.
The Odd Fellows Home of Dell Rapids was built in 1910 to serve as a home for dependent children and the elderly members of the International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.). From that time until 1947, it served as both a home for dependent children and for elderly members of the Odd Fellows through two world wars, the 1918 influenza epidemic, and the Great Depression. The Old Fellows Home of Dell Rapids was the first and only home built by a fraternal order in South Dakota. Such fraternal order homes represent a substantial aspect of the early period of Progressive Era social welfare institutions before social work professionalized.
The property expanded over time into a 172-acre home and farm that had served around 100 children and 150 elderly residents by 1935. The grounds, main building, and structures were designed by prominent regional architect Joseph Schwarz and are each made of the characteristic and locally-quarried Sioux quartzite with limestone accents, in a simplified Italian Renaissance architectural style.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Multiple Property Listing: Historic Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver 1940-1965, Colorado
Highlight New Listing – April 22, 2011
Denver County, CO
The five-county Denver region in Colorado experienced a 146 percent increase in its population between 1940 and the end of 1965, growing from 407,962 to just over a million. 70 years ago, the city and county of Denver dwarfed the metropolitan region’s other counties and cities in terms of population, but early suburban development in the 1920s and 1930s set the stage for subdivision growth. In 1939, Denver slowly emerged from the stagnation affecting housing growth during the Great Depression, and as the United States prepared for World War II Denver became a major center of federal military activities, and after the war many veterans came to the Denver region to live. Federal programs designed to assist returning veterans in acquiring homes resulted in the metropolitan area’s greatest period of growth in the 20th century, creating hundreds of new residential suburbs. Between 1940 and 1965, builders erected more than 160,000 new single-family dwellings within Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson Counties. The thousands of subdivisions created in the region of the 1940-65 period varied in terms of scale, street layout, size and shape of blocks and lots, amenities, protective covenants, and the manner in which development proceeded.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Executive Chef Joel Thevoz participates in a conference on composting, Aquaponics and other biosystems in efforts to learn more about his own systems that he plans to implement at our kitchen in Arlington, VA. This is phase one of his trip; second is an Aquaponics intensive course in Northern California. Chef Joel will have a weekly feature on our tumblr with interesting and innovative ways to practice sustainable agriculture. Stay tuned.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Highlighted New Listing – November 12, 2010
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA
The Haydel-Jones House is a rare and important example of a French Creole Plantation House thought to have been built around 1815. Although Creole dwellings once dominated the rural landscape of central and southern Louisiana, only approximately 30 examples remain that are raised on brick piers. In addition to brick piers, the Haydel-Jones House also possesses other typical French Creole features such as a spreading hipped roof with heavy braced timber frame walls, briquette-entre-poteaux (porous brick) and bousillage (wattle and daub) infill, a full length front gallery and asymmetrical floor plan. Historically, the house was affiliated with the Ursine Haydel, a sugar cane planter and descendent of Matthieu Haydel, who arrived in the Louisiana colony in 1721. The property is now used as a private vacation retreat.
Multiple Property Listing: Historic Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver 1940-1965, Colorado
Highlight New Listing – April 22, 2011
Denver County, CO
The five-county Denver region in Colorado experienced a 146 percent increase in its population between 1940 and the end of 1965, growing from 407,962 to just over a million. 70 years ago, the city and county of Denver dwarfed the metropolitan region’s other counties and cities in terms of population, but early suburban development in the 1920s and 1930s set the stage for subdivision growth. In 1939, Denver slowly emerged from the stagnation affecting housing growth during the Great Depression, and as the United States prepared for World War II Denver became a major center of federal military activities, and after the war many veterans came to the Denver region to live. Federal programs designed to assist returning veterans in acquiring homes resulted in the metropolitan area’s greatest period of growth in the 20th century, creating hundreds of new residential suburbs. Between 1940 and 1965, builders erected more than 160,000 new single-family dwellings within Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson Counties. The thousands of subdivisions created in the region of the 1940-65 period varied in terms of scale, street layout, size and shape of blocks and lots, amenities, protective covenants, and the manner in which development proceeded.
Highlighted New Listing – May 11, 2012
Maricopa County, AZ
The Dr. Lucius Charles Alston House is associated with the history of the development of the African American community in Mesa, Arizona and the community’s future after World War I. The home, located north of the town center in the black neighborhood known as Washington Park was used as Dr. Alston’s office while practicing medicine in Mesa. Lucius Charles Alston was born September 2, 1892, in Louisburg, North Carolina. In 1918, he graduated from the University of West Tennessee with a medical degree. At this time, it was very difficult for an African American to go to medical school. In World War I, Lucius Alston served as a Private First Class in the Army’s 802nd Pioneer Infantry, and was deployed overseas. Dr. Alston married Velma Young, a nurse. They moved to Mesa, Arizona in 1929. The black community living there was segregated from the larger white community, and so the African American residents had their own churches, shops and stores. After years of serving the community, Dr. Alston passed away in Los Angeles, California, on September 16, 1958, and his wife went to live with their son. The Dr. Lucius Charles Alston House is a 1920s Late Craftsman Style Bungalow, characterized by its high-pitched gables that are parallel to the front and sides of the house, and its large, deep, front porch supported on stucco and concrete columns with an arch that extends the entire width of the porch, A second story addition was added during the 1940s.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 16, 2011
Knox County, Maine
Land’s End Historic District, located on Marshall Point in Port Clyde, Maine, on the west side of picturesque Penobscot Bay, is a summer cottage colony developed by Russell W. Porter between 1907 and 1919. Built around a sheltered harbor, the village has traditionally focused on fishing, and more recently, low-key tourism. Marshall Point is an irregular peninsula that extends southwest from the mainland in Point Clyde- the point is less than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide. At the southwest tip of the point the Marshall Point Light Station, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, occupies five acres; the remainder of the approximately 50 acres on Marshall Point were developed as Land’s End. The point is accessed via the paved Marshall Point Road, roughly paralleling the cost. The historic district, which includes those cottages that retain historic integrity, span the point from Teel’s Cove on the northwest to lower Penobscot bay on the southeast.
Within two years of purchasing the property in Port Clyde, Russell W. Porter divided much of his property into lots and pursued a vision of an enclave of seasonal residents dedicated to experiencing nature, living a simplified existence and nurturing artistic talents. At Land’s End Porter built cottages and created a summer community with lasting cohesion. Unlike other colonies characterized by a specific aesthetic for their buildings (i.e. log cabins or large Shingle Style estates) the cottages at Land’s End are an eclectic mix of Craftsmen, Shingle Style, Chalet, and (English) Colonial Revival style-buildings.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Grunwell House
Highlighted New Listing – January 21, 2011
Buncombe County, NC
The Dougherty Heights Historic District in the mountain town of Black Mountain, North Carolina encompasses a residential neighborhood that developed immediately north and northwest of downtown Black Mountain in the early 20th century. Silas F. Dougherty, one of Black Mountain’s earliest businessmen, built a capacious frame house for his family in 1897 on a large tract of land on the north side of State Street. This house ran as a boarding house and hotel under the name “Dougherty Heights” and the neighborhood that grew about it in the 1910s began to attract many of Black Mountain’s prominent families. The district’s historic homes reflect the growth of the town from 1910-1930, when the railroad connected Black Mountain to transportation routes. The district contains houses designed in a mix of nationally popular architectural styles-Craftsmen, Colonial Revival, and Minimal Traditional.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Highlighted New Listing - September 9, 2011
Seattle, King County, Washington
When built in 1927, the Liggett Building on the corner of Pike Street & Fourth Avenue in downtown Seattle was the essence of big city commercial architecture. The Liggett Building is in Late Gothic Revival Style and has an exterior of decorative terra cotta tile above the polished granite retail level. The ten-story high-rise is one of the best examples in the downtown Seattle area of this type of architecture. At the time of design and construction, by the local firm of Lawton & Moldenhour, the Liggett Building was a sign of Seattle’s “building boom” and on trend with the architecture trends of commercial capitols, New York and Chicago. Gothic, as an architectural style, originated in the 12th Century primarily for ecclesiastical structures like churches. Gothic Revival started popping up in major cities in the early 20th Century in the form of skyscrapers. Mid- to high-rise buildings followed suit across the nation; they were hailed as “cathedrals of commerce”, clearly evoking the religious roots of the previous use of the architectural style.
Fittingly, the Liggett Building, which housed the New York-based L.K. Liggett Drug Company one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies at the turn of the century, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C – Architecture. It is a property that embodies the distinctive characteristics of its period, type and method of construction. It also represents the Seattle 1920s building boom and its trends.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Dr. Samuel & Mary Cooley House
Highlighted New Listing – January 21, 2011
Buncombe County, NC
The Dougherty Heights Historic District in the mountain town of Black Mountain, North Carolina encompasses a residential neighborhood that developed immediately north and northwest of downtown Black Mountain in the early 20th century. Silas F. Dougherty, one of Black Mountain’s earliest businessmen, built a capacious frame house for his family in 1897 on a large tract of land on the north side of State Street. This house ran as a boarding house and hotel under the name “Dougherty Heights” and the neighborhood that grew about it in the 1910s began to attract many of Black Mountain’s prominent families. The district’s historic homes reflect the growth of the town from 1910-1930, when the railroad connected Black Mountain to transportation routes. The district contains houses designed in a mix of nationally popular architectural styles-Craftsmen, Colonial Revival, and Minimal Traditional.
Highlighted New Listing – May 13, 2011
Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex
Wayne County, Michigan
The Prentis Building and Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium on Wayne State University’s campus were built in 1962-64 and designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, FAIA. These buildings reflect a critical period in Minoru Yamasaki’s career (late 1950s and early 1960s) when he experimented with ornament and the effects of list and shadow as well as using pools and gardens to soften the urban character. The two buildings were designed specifically to relate to each other in terms of function, architectural aesthetic, and spatial feel. The Prentis Building (currently home to the School of Business Administration) has distinctive upper floors that project outward, supported by thin columns. The recessed lower floors’ off-center open walkway provides a clear view of the DeRoy Auditorium front façade. DeRoy is a windowless rectangular building with exterior tracery detailing that hints at Gothic architecture. Another distinctive feature of DeRoy Auditorium is the reflecting pool that surrounds it on all sides, much like a moat. Visitors must walk across small bridges to access the building. This two-building complex has exceptional national significance for its place in the important career of Minoru Yamasaki and the evolution of architecture. They are two of four buildings on the Wayne State University campus designed by Yamasaki.
Multiple Property Listing: Historic Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver 1940-1965, Colorado
Highlight New Listing – April 22, 2011
Denver County, CO
The five-county Denver region in Colorado experienced a 146 percent increase in its population between 1940 and the end of 1965, growing from 407,962 to just over a million. 70 years ago, the city and county of Denver dwarfed the metropolitan region’s other counties and cities in terms of population, but early suburban development in the 1920s and 1930s set the stage for subdivision growth. In 1939, Denver slowly emerged from the stagnation affecting housing growth during the Great Depression, and as the United States prepared for World War II Denver became a major center of federal military activities, and after the war many veterans came to the Denver region to live. Federal programs designed to assist returning veterans in acquiring homes resulted in the metropolitan area’s greatest period of growth in the 20th century, creating hundreds of new residential suburbs. Between 1940 and 1965, builders erected more than 160,000 new single-family dwellings within Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson Counties. The thousands of subdivisions created in the region of the 1940-65 period varied in terms of scale, street layout, size and shape of blocks and lots, amenities, protective covenants, and the manner in which development proceeded.
Highlighted New Listing – September 16, 2011
Knox County, Maine
Land’s End Historic District, located on Marshall Point in Port Clyde, Maine, on the west side of picturesque Penobscot Bay, is a summer cottage colony developed by Russell W. Porter between 1907 and 1919. Built around a sheltered harbor, the village has traditionally focused on fishing, and more recently, low-key tourism. Marshall Point is an irregular peninsula that extends southwest from the mainland in Point Clyde- the point is less than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide. At the southwest tip of the point the Marshall Point Light Station, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, occupies five acres; the remainder of the approximately 50 acres on Marshall Point were developed as Land’s End. The point is accessed via the paved Marshall Point Road, roughly paralleling the cost. The historic district, which includes those cottages that retain historic integrity, span the point from Teel’s Cove on the northwest to lower Penobscot bay on the southeast.
Within two years of purchasing the property in Port Clyde, Russell W. Porter divided much of his property into lots and pursued a vision of an enclave of seasonal residents dedicated to experiencing nature, living a simplified existence and nurturing artistic talents. At Land’s End Porter built cottages and created a summer community with lasting cohesion. Unlike other colonies characterized by a specific aesthetic for their buildings (i.e. log cabins or large Shingle Style estates) the cottages at Land’s End are an eclectic mix of Craftsmen, Shingle Style, Chalet, and (English) Colonial Revival style-buildings.
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Multiple Property Listing: Historic Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver 1940-1965, Colorado
Highlight New Listing – April 22, 2011
Denver County, CO
The five-county Denver region in Colorado experienced a 146 percent increase in its population between 1940 and the end of 1965, growing from 407,962 to just over a million. 70 years ago, the city and county of Denver dwarfed the metropolitan region’s other counties and cities in terms of population, but early suburban development in the 1920s and 1930s set the stage for subdivision growth. In 1939, Denver slowly emerged from the stagnation affecting housing growth during the Great Depression, and as the United States prepared for World War II Denver became a major center of federal military activities, and after the war many veterans came to the Denver region to live. Federal programs designed to assist returning veterans in acquiring homes resulted in the metropolitan area’s greatest period of growth in the 20th century, creating hundreds of new residential suburbs. Between 1940 and 1965, builders erected more than 160,000 new single-family dwellings within Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson Counties. The thousands of subdivisions created in the region of the 1940-65 period varied in terms of scale, street layout, size and shape of blocks and lots, amenities, protective covenants, and the manner in which development proceeded.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
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Silas & Martha Dougherty House
Highlighted New Listing – January 21, 2011
Buncombe County, NC
The Dougherty Heights Historic District in the mountain town of Black Mountain, North Carolina encompasses a residential neighborhood that developed immediately north and northwest of downtown Black Mountain in the early 20th century. Silas F. Dougherty, one of Black Mountain’s earliest businessmen, built a capacious frame house for his family in 1897 on a large tract of land on the north side of State Street. This house ran as a boarding house and hotel under the name “Dougherty Heights” and the neighborhood that grew about it in the 1910s began to attract many of Black Mountain’s prominent families. The district’s historic homes reflect the growth of the town from 1910-1930, when the railroad connected Black Mountain to transportation routes. The district contains houses designed in a mix of nationally popular architectural styles-Craftsmen, Colonial Revival, and Minimal Traditional.
Highlighted New Listing – September 2, 2011
Gasparilla Island, Lee County, FL
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two streets designated for cars. No bridge linked Gasparilla Island to the mainland until 1958. The Downtown Boca Grande Historic District represents the historic commercial core of the town of Boca Grande, and contains distinctive examples of various architectural styles from roughly 1900-1953, including Wood Frame and Masonry Vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, Moderne, and Gothic Revival.
In 1881 phosphate, used in the production of commercial fertilizer, was discovered in the Perce River Valley northeast of Boca Grande (Spanish for “Big Mouth”). This discovery would bring the railroad to Gasparilla Island and would result in the construction and the town of Boca Grande. The American Agricultural Chemical Company, owned by Peter Bradley (1850-1933) was largely responsible for the transformation of the sleepy island, which prior to their arrival held only a lighthouse and the assistant keeper’s house. Wealthy Americans were attracted to the warm weather and fishing opportunities available, and the early list of property owners included J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lamont, and the du Pont family. The Hotel Boca Grande, renamed the Gasparilla Inn, opened in the 1911-1912 season, became a great success with a large group of Boston society people, who became its first guests. By 1915, accommodation requests had been so great that the hotel was extended.
Highlighted New Listing – September 16, 2011
Knox County, Maine
Land’s End Historic District, located on Marshall Point in Port Clyde, Maine, on the west side of picturesque Penobscot Bay, is a summer cottage colony developed by Russell W. Porter between 1907 and 1919. Built around a sheltered harbor, the village has traditionally focused on fishing, and more recently, low-key tourism. Marshall Point is an irregular peninsula that extends southwest from the mainland in Point Clyde- the point is less than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide. At the southwest tip of the point the Marshall Point Light Station, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, occupies five acres; the remainder of the approximately 50 acres on Marshall Point were developed as Land’s End. The point is accessed via the paved Marshall Point Road, roughly paralleling the cost. The historic district, which includes those cottages that retain historic integrity, span the point from Teel’s Cove on the northwest to lower Penobscot bay on the southeast.
Within two years of purchasing the property in Port Clyde, Russell W. Porter divided much of his property into lots and pursued a vision of an enclave of seasonal residents dedicated to experiencing nature, living a simplified existence and nurturing artistic talents. At Land’s End Porter built cottages and created a summer community with lasting cohesion. Unlike other colonies characterized by a specific aesthetic for their buildings (i.e. log cabins or large Shingle Style estates) the cottages at Land’s End are an eclectic mix of Craftsmen, Shingle Style, Chalet, and (English) Colonial Revival style-buildings.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month