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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 – 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.
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.
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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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.
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 – February 17, 2012
Hot Springs County, WY
The small Town of Kirby, established by vote in 1915, is located midway between two larger towns. Within three months, the town voted to erect this jail, which would also serve as the town hall. Kirby and its residents, a small community, soon settled into a prolonged decline that began with the Great Depression and continued through the 1940s and 1950s. The Kirby Jail and Town Hall would be the first and only local government building.
Besides acting as jail and town hall, the building also functioned as the town's polling place for local and national elections. A small, single-pen structure built with minimal ornamentation, the Kirby Jail and Town Hall is a modestly scaled building. The jail and town hall are similar in scale and construction to the elementary school built in 1913 by the school district and to other, privately owned, buildings in town. In this, it forms an integral part of the small-town fabric of Kirby. The jail is also similar in scale to other small-town jails in Wyoming. The aspect that distinguishes this building among its peers is its relatively well-preserved state. And the aspect that distinguishes the jail and town hall historically is the fact that it is the only town government building erected in Kirby-the sole representative of town-level government in this small town.
About A Man
www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/features/A_Single_Man.html
Weekly feature header for the homepage of Tribeca Film.
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 – January 20, 2012
Jefferson County, CO
The 1911 Denver & Intermountain Interurban No. 25 provided service in the first half of the twentieth century between Golden and Denver, Colorado. The car operated over Route 84 of the system from 1911 until the end of service in 1950. Car No. 25 is also important as the only known surviving example of a completely intact, standard gauge, electric interurban railway car of its type designed and built by the Woeber Car and Carriage Company of Denver.
No. 25 and the Denver & Intermountain Railroad remains an excellent relic from the once booming street car industry. The D&IM was a thirteen-mile line that began as a steam-powered railroad. Electrification in 1909 allowed it to eventually penetrate downtown Denver where its interurban cars, including No. 25 by 1911, carefully negotiated the city streets. Although Car No. 25 and its sister car No. 24 were typical of hundreds of interurban trolley cars that operated throughout the nation. Due to the wholesale demolition of trolley cars after the end of electrical rail passenger service in 1950, No. 25 is now rare in that it is the only known surviving, intact, standard gauge, electric interurban railway car of this type built by the Woeber Car Company in the country. Car No. 25 also has the distinction of being the only interurban car from Route 84 to survive and is the only completely intact Denver Tramway Company car known to exist.
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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Judging by the number of photographs of pairs of Clydesdale horses in the Arbroath Herald archive, I wonder if there had been a weekly feature on them? Sadly, there is no information with this one, not even the name of the gentleman, nor which farm it was.
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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This scenic property just south of downtown Miami was at one time an oasis for tropical birds and a getaway for tourists. The district encompasses 15 aces and includes original attractions from the former Parrot Jungle habitat and park. Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 and was home to animal attractions, walkways, and exotic landscape architecture. The park was renamed Pinecrest Gardens when Parrot Jungle and its animal attractions moved to another site. Pinecrest Gardens still features over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical plants and palm trees in a native tropical hardwood and cypress setting. Parrot Jungle/Pinecrest Gardens is listed to the National Register for its unique landscape architecture, building architecture, and place in Florida’s tourism and recreation/entertainment history.
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 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.
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.
Caption from page of a circa mid-1930s WWVA booklet:
"A typical WWVA Saturday Midnight Jamboree crowd waiting to enter the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling to witness a stage presentation of this weekly feature which has gained nation-wide fame. Some of the radio artists who participate in the famous WWVA Jamborees are pictured in this booklet in individual groups.
"One of the most remarkable features of this outstanding WWVA activity is the fact that a large percentage of each Jamboree's audience is made up of persons living outside of the Wheeling district. It is a common occurance [sic] for persons to come from as far as 200 miles to attend a Jamboree. An attendance record of 3400 for a single performance has been set by the WWVA Saturday Midnight Jamboree. These radio shows are held every Saturday night at eleven o'clock at the million dollar Capitol Theatre in Wheeling."
- image from WWVA Booklet, circa mid-1930s, Ohio County Public Library Archives Vertical Files, WWVA Folder
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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 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 – April 6, 2012
Chattooga County, GA
Listed: 04/06/2012
Paradise Gardens in Pennville, Georgia, is a visionary-art environment that contains several hundred pieces of art created by visionary artist Howard Finster (1915-2001) during his residency there between 1961 and 1991. The property, historically significant on the national level due to the exceptional and largely intact example of Finster’s visionary-art environment, includes several Finster houses, studios and a chapel where the artist lived, worked and conducted religious ceremonies. The buildings are interconnected by a series of covered bridges, concrete walkways, and concrete sculptures.
Howard Finster is among the most significant artists in Georgia history and is recognized as one of the most important American folk artists of the 20th century. Born in Valley Head, Alabama, Finster, along with being a Baptist preacher, held a variety of jobs. His work changed dramatically in January 1976 when he received a vision that commanded him to “paint sacred art,” which he followed by painting biblical scenes. In 1982, the Athens, Georgia, rock band R.E.M. filmed the music video for the song “Radio Free Europe” at Paradise Gardens. Finster who had previously met Michael Stripe, the band’s founder and lead singer, appeared in the video. Stripe later asked Finster to design the cover for the Reckoning album. In 1985 he painted the cover album art for the Little Creatures record by the new wave band Talking Heads. Finster’s fame continued to grow, and in 1996, the Coca-Cola Company commissioned Finster to decorate a massive Coca-Cola bottle that was displayed during the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. After Finster moved to nearby Summerville, Georgia, in 1991 he continued to paint and add to Paradise Gardens until his death in 2001. Paradise Gardens, which is less than 50 years of age, has been recognized by art historians, art museums, art critics, preservation advocates, and government agencies as an exceptional example of a 20th-century visionary-art environment in America.
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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.
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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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 – December 2, 2011
Rockford, Winnebago County, IL
For over 150 years the Peacock Brewery has occupied a prominent location in the downtown area of Rockford, Illinois. The site is approximately 2.25 acres and consists of two buildings. For 70 years, this was Rockford’s largest brewery, and the building remains an excellent example of a large beer processing, brewing and bottling facility. Jonathan Peacock, a British immigrant, relocated to Rockford in 1849 and began brewing beer in his home. By 1857, Peacock was ready to expand his operations, and constructed a separate brewhouse on the land between Madison and the Rock River. Later purchased by John V. Petriz from Peacock’s sons in 1899, Petriz built a new brewery over the old one. The brewery plant survived prohibition by concentrating on bottling, but ultimately closed as a brewery, after a final time producing beer after Prohibition, in 1945.
Highlighted New Listing – June 24, 2011
Clermont County, Ohio
Other names: Carl H. and Mary Rosan Greene Krippendorf Estate; Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC)
The 175-acre Krippendorf Estate was once a private home referred to as the Lodge, with numerous outbuildings and designed landscape. The Lodge and entire Estate now serve the public as the Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC). Though there are many unique features, the architecture, designed landscape, and weaving of nature and manmade throughout the Estate make it reflective of the broader Arts and Crafts movement. This movement influenced architecture, decorative arts, and gardening at the turn of the century with emphasis on the use of natural materials and traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. Elements of the Arts and Crafts movement can clearly been seen at the Krippendorf Estate; the Lodge, built in 1899, is an eclectic Shingle Style home and the designed landscape reflects early Prairie Style. The landscape has numerous historic features that remain on site: formal garden, swimming pool, dry stone planting walls, stone-line footpaths, with stone steps and stone bridges. In the mid-1960s the Estate was converted into the Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC). There have been interesting, and continued, preservation on site of the complex and landscape including Eagle Scout projects, as well as dedicated volunteer gardeners who planted and cultivated 103 species of plants introduced by former owner Carl H. Krippendorf.
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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Highlighted New Listing – December 30, 2010
Talbot County, MD
The Miller’s House, built in the Georgian style, at Wye Mills Village in Talbot County, Maryland, was already standing as a brick building by 1770, it was most likely built during the 1750s or 1760s. Historically significant for its association with the transformation of the agricultural base of Talbot County from tobacco to grain farming, the quality of the design and construction of the Miller’s House represent the high economic status accorded to the profession of miller in the region during the period; as the miller had the ability to process grain for market and to ensure that the mill operated properly. The individual for whom the house was constructed, Edward Lloyd III, was the largest and wealthiest landowner in Talbot County. Although the house would later pass to the Hopkins family in 1840, the Miller’s House remained as one of the best surviving examples of 18th-century architecture in Talbot County. John R. Hopkins, who purchased the Miller’s House, operated the mill until his death in 1887, and the family operated it for a short time following. Today the property remains in Hopkins family ownership.
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.
This scenic property just south of downtown Miami was at one time an oasis for tropical birds and a getaway for tourists. The district encompasses 15 aces and includes original attractions from the former Parrot Jungle habitat and park. Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 and was home to animal attractions, walkways, and exotic landscape architecture. The park was renamed Pinecrest Gardens when Parrot Jungle and its animal attractions moved to another site. Pinecrest Gardens still features over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical plants and palm trees in a native tropical hardwood and cypress setting. Parrot Jungle/Pinecrest Gardens is listed to the National Register for its unique landscape architecture, building architecture, and place in Florida’s tourism and recreation/entertainment history.
This scenic property just south of downtown Miami was at one time an oasis for tropical birds and a getaway for tourists. The district encompasses 15 aces and includes original attractions from the former Parrot Jungle habitat and park. Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 and was home to animal attractions, walkways, and exotic landscape architecture. The park was renamed Pinecrest Gardens when Parrot Jungle and its animal attractions moved to another site. Pinecrest Gardens still features over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical plants and palm trees in a native tropical hardwood and cypress setting. Parrot Jungle/Pinecrest Gardens is listed to the National Register for its unique landscape architecture, building architecture, and place in Florida’s tourism and recreation/entertainment history.
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 5, 2010
Baltimore County, MD
Built in 1875, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland replaced the old Calverton Mansion (built in 1815) when a fire destroyed the mansion in 1874. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which started in 1872 in the Calverton Mansion depended on donations from people within the Baltimore Jewish community, including the wealthy German Jewish community that had settled within the city. The history of the asylum follows the history of the Jewish community in Baltimore, which increased rapidly with immigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building transitioned to serve as the West Baltimore General Hospital from 1923 through 1945 and finally the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland from 1945 to 1989. While associated structures associated with the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the West Baltimore General Hospital, and the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland were demolished n 2009, the original four-story brick Romanesque structure still stands.
Highlighted New Listing – November 5, 2010
Baltimore County, MD
Built in 1875, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland replaced the old Calverton Mansion (built in 1815) when a fire destroyed the mansion in 1874. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which started in 1872 in the Calverton Mansion depended on donations from people within the Baltimore Jewish community, including the wealthy German Jewish community that had settled within the city. The history of the asylum follows the history of the Jewish community in Baltimore, which increased rapidly with immigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building transitioned to serve as the West Baltimore General Hospital from 1923 through 1945 and finally the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland from 1945 to 1989. While associated structures associated with the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the West Baltimore General Hospital, and the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland were demolished n 2009, the original four-story brick Romanesque structure still stands.
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.
This scenic property just south of downtown Miami was at one time an oasis for tropical birds and a getaway for tourists. The district encompasses 15 aces and includes original attractions from the former Parrot Jungle habitat and park. Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 and was home to animal attractions, walkways, and exotic landscape architecture. The park was renamed Pinecrest Gardens when Parrot Jungle and its animal attractions moved to another site. Pinecrest Gardens still features over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical plants and palm trees in a native tropical hardwood and cypress setting. Parrot Jungle/Pinecrest Gardens is listed to the National Register for its unique landscape architecture, building architecture, and place in Florida’s tourism and recreation/entertainment history.
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 – 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.