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Highlighted New Listing – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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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 – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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Highlighted New Listing – August 6, 2010
Other names: Marv's Drive-in, Hungry Onion Drive-in, Big Onion Drive-in, Hwy 30 Drive-in
Elmore County, ID
Embodying the distinctive characteristics of 1950s drive-in restaurant architecture, the KwikCurb Diner in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, is a living reminder of the advent of American car culture and its impact on roadside eateries. While there were various types of eateries along roadways early on, the first restaurant to provide food served to the traveler directly in their vehicle is believed to have been in Texas in the 1920s. Eateries soon followed the roadways, and while they had only walk-up windows, and not car-service, it did not take long for the growing number of roadside eateries to see the appeal of providing car service and by the 1930s “car-hops” became a common sight at the drive-in; it was quicker and easier for the driver. In the post-World War II economic boom era of the 1950s, drive-in services became one of the fastest growing portions of the economy. The year 1955, when the KwikCurb Diner was built by local businessman John Bermensolo along U.S. Highway 30 on the east side of Mountain Home, Idaho, was also an important one to drive-in history: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonalds franchise fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. The design of the KwikCurb Diner, rebuilt as a state-of-the-art drive-in in 1961 and still serving food today from a menu little changes from the 1950s, was largely derived from the early Stanley Metson design for the early McDonalds restaurants designed for the McDonald Brothers in 1953.
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.
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-882-3053
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
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 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 – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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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 – 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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IBT's (It's About Time) Voted Tucson’s #1 gay dance club 8 years in a row by the Tucson Weekly. Featuring Tucson’s premiere drag show hosted by Janee’ Starr. Home of The Bunny Boys and Miss Gay Tucson America 2010 Diva.
IBT's (It's About Time) Dance Club
616 N. 4th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
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Tucson Arizona USA
02-06-2010
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 – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 3, 2010
Mecklenburg County, VA
In its heyday as a working plantation Cedar Grove, in southern Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was home to the Lewis family and about 100 slaves. John Taylor Lewis bought the original 1600 acres of Cedar Grove in 1782 for 80,000 pounds of tobacco and bequeathed this property to his son, John Taylor Lewis (1794-1866), who built the elegant brick Greek Revival main house in 1838. Cedar Grove was influenced in part by the design of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Richard and John Lewis, the sons of John Tyler Lewis, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (1861-5). John achieved the rank of lieutenant and was captured at Gettysburg while Richard was badly wounded at Bull Run, fought at Gettysburg, was wounded three more times and eventually sent home. The end of the Civil War destroyed the wealth of the Lewis family. The main house for a time was used as a tobacco warehouse and suffered neglect, but in 1929 Mr. Lewis’ great grandson, also named John Taylor Lewis, began to buy and reassemble the Cedar Grove property, bringing it back into the Lewis family’s ownership and eventually restoring Cedar Grove. The main house, with its distinctive Greek Revival architecture, is extremely well preserved, as are the two surviving original dependencies: an ice house and a smoke house.
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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 – 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 – 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 24, 2010
Douglas County, NE
In the late 1920s, the concept of the “all-steel house” swept across the nation from Richard Tappan’s Jamaica-Hillside development in New York to Richard Nuetra’s Lovell Health House in the Hollywood Hills, and even to Omaha, Nebraska, where the Henry B. Neef House stands as the best, and perhaps only, property in Nebraska that is associated with the rise of the “steel house” between 1926 and 1933. While ultimately finding only limited success, there is little doubt that the concept of the steel house played a significant role in how Americans imagined how their future during the boundless optimism of the late 1920s and into the uncertainty of the Great Depression. The strength of steel, used in industrial applications, was unmatched by any other alloy, and some architects and steel companies decided to put into practice what they saw as the next advance in residential architecture, replacing wood, although when put into practice, the steel framework was hidden under brick and stucco veneers and period revival forms. The house was completed in 1929. The house, with a concrete block foundation and brick and stucco walls, still retains excellent historic integrity today.
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 – 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 – August 6, 2010
Other names: Marv's Drive-in, Hungry Onion Drive-in, Big Onion Drive-in, Hwy 30 Drive-in
Elmore County, ID
Embodying the distinctive characteristics of 1950s drive-in restaurant architecture, the KwikCurb Diner in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, is a living reminder of the advent of American car culture and its impact on roadside eateries. While there were various types of eateries along roadways early on, the first restaurant to provide food served to the traveler directly in their vehicle is believed to have been in Texas in the 1920s. Eateries soon followed the roadways, and while they had only walk-up windows, and not car-service, it did not take long for the growing number of roadside eateries to see the appeal of providing car service and by the 1930s “car-hops” became a common sight at the drive-in; it was quicker and easier for the driver. In the post-World War II economic boom era of the 1950s, drive-in services became one of the fastest growing portions of the economy. The year 1955, when the KwikCurb Diner was built by local businessman John Bermensolo along U.S. Highway 30 on the east side of Mountain Home, Idaho, was also an important one to drive-in history: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonalds franchise fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. The design of the KwikCurb Diner, rebuilt as a state-of-the-art drive-in in 1961 and still serving food today from a menu little changes from the 1950s, was largely derived from the early Stanley Metson design for the early McDonalds restaurants designed for the McDonald Brothers in 1953.
Highlighted New Listing – April 27, 2012
Dickinson County, KS
The ATSF Steam Locomotive #3415 is a Class 3400 Pacific-type passenger engine built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1919. It was operated by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) Railroad for 34 years and was donated to the City of Abilene in 1955. It sat in Eisenhower Park until 1996 when it was removed from the park for restoration. The locomotive is now situated on an abandoned segment of the Rock Island Railroad track that is used by the Abilene-Smoky Valley Railroad, a not-for-profit organization that operates a railroad museum and excursion train. When not in use, the locomotive is stored in the engine house at 411 South Elm Street in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas.
Locomotive #3415 is a Pacific-type 4-6-2 passenger engine built in 1919. The 4-6-2 designation refers to the engine's wheel arrangement - the first number notes the number of leading wheels, the second number notes the number of driver wheels, and the third number notes the number of trailing wheels. It is one of only three 4-6-2 3400 class Pacific type steam locomotives remaining in Kansas, and the only member of the class that is operational.
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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.
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 – August 6, 2010
Other names: Marv's Drive-in, Hungry Onion Drive-in, Big Onion Drive-in, Hwy 30 Drive-in
Elmore County, ID
Embodying the distinctive characteristics of 1950s drive-in restaurant architecture, the KwikCurb Diner in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, is a living reminder of the advent of American car culture and its impact on roadside eateries. While there were various types of eateries along roadways early on, the first restaurant to provide food served to the traveler directly in their vehicle is believed to have been in Texas in the 1920s. Eateries soon followed the roadways, and while they had only walk-up windows, and not car-service, it did not take long for the growing number of roadside eateries to see the appeal of providing car service and by the 1930s “car-hops” became a common sight at the drive-in; it was quicker and easier for the driver. In the post-World War II economic boom era of the 1950s, drive-in services became one of the fastest growing portions of the economy. The year 1955, when the KwikCurb Diner was built by local businessman John Bermensolo along U.S. Highway 30 on the east side of Mountain Home, Idaho, was also an important one to drive-in history: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonalds franchise fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. The design of the KwikCurb Diner, rebuilt as a state-of-the-art drive-in in 1961 and still serving food today from a menu little changes from the 1950s, was largely derived from the early Stanley Metson design for the early McDonalds restaurants designed for the McDonald Brothers in 1953.
Highlighted New Listing – September 3, 2010
Mecklenburg County, VA
In its heyday as a working plantation Cedar Grove, in southern Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was home to the Lewis family and about 100 slaves. John Taylor Lewis bought the original 1600 acres of Cedar Grove in 1782 for 80,000 pounds of tobacco and bequeathed this property to his son, John Taylor Lewis (1794-1866), who built the elegant brick Greek Revival main house in 1838. Cedar Grove was influenced in part by the design of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Richard and John Lewis, the sons of John Tyler Lewis, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (1861-5). John achieved the rank of lieutenant and was captured at Gettysburg while Richard was badly wounded at Bull Run, fought at Gettysburg, was wounded three more times and eventually sent home. The end of the Civil War destroyed the wealth of the Lewis family. The main house for a time was used as a tobacco warehouse and suffered neglect, but in 1929 Mr. Lewis’ great grandson, also named John Taylor Lewis, began to buy and reassemble the Cedar Grove property, bringing it back into the Lewis family’s ownership and eventually restoring Cedar Grove. The main house, with its distinctive Greek Revival architecture, is extremely well preserved, as are the two surviving original dependencies: an ice house and a smoke house.
Highlighted New Listing – April 27, 2012
Dickinson County, KS
The ATSF Steam Locomotive #3415 is a Class 3400 Pacific-type passenger engine built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1919. It was operated by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) Railroad for 34 years and was donated to the City of Abilene in 1955. It sat in Eisenhower Park until 1996 when it was removed from the park for restoration. The locomotive is now situated on an abandoned segment of the Rock Island Railroad track that is used by the Abilene-Smoky Valley Railroad, a not-for-profit organization that operates a railroad museum and excursion train. When not in use, the locomotive is stored in the engine house at 411 South Elm Street in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas.
Locomotive #3415 is a Pacific-type 4-6-2 passenger engine built in 1919. The 4-6-2 designation refers to the engine's wheel arrangement - the first number notes the number of leading wheels, the second number notes the number of driver wheels, and the third number notes the number of trailing wheels. It is one of only three 4-6-2 3400 class Pacific type steam locomotives remaining in Kansas, and the only member of the class that is operational.
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Highlighted New Listing – August 6, 2010
Other names: Marv's Drive-in, Hungry Onion Drive-in, Big Onion Drive-in, Hwy 30 Drive-in
Elmore County, ID
Embodying the distinctive characteristics of 1950s drive-in restaurant architecture, the KwikCurb Diner in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, is a living reminder of the advent of American car culture and its impact on roadside eateries. While there were various types of eateries along roadways early on, the first restaurant to provide food served to the traveler directly in their vehicle is believed to have been in Texas in the 1920s. Eateries soon followed the roadways, and while they had only walk-up windows, and not car-service, it did not take long for the growing number of roadside eateries to see the appeal of providing car service and by the 1930s “car-hops” became a common sight at the drive-in; it was quicker and easier for the driver. In the post-World War II economic boom era of the 1950s, drive-in services became one of the fastest growing portions of the economy. The year 1955, when the KwikCurb Diner was built by local businessman John Bermensolo along U.S. Highway 30 on the east side of Mountain Home, Idaho, was also an important one to drive-in history: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonalds franchise fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. The design of the KwikCurb Diner, rebuilt as a state-of-the-art drive-in in 1961 and still serving food today from a menu little changes from the 1950s, was largely derived from the early Stanley Metson design for the early McDonalds restaurants designed for the McDonald Brothers in 1953.
Highlighted New Listing – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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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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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.
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.
Abner Hollow Pioneer Cabin
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 – April 13, 2012
Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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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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Prince William County, VA
Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) is a 10,000-acre National Park located approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, DC. Within the park, there are several different multi-cabin camps dating back to the 1930s when the park was referred to as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA). These camps reflect the history and legacy of the New Deal and Depression-era relief programs, while the park itself is a testament to history dating back to 8,000 BC. Over 500 resources were recorded in the PRWI Historic District, and 199 resources have been listed previously on the National Register of Historic Places. Prince William Forest Park Historic District is listed for these significant contributions to American history, from Native Americans to the New Deal, from spies of the Central Intelligence Agency to urban campers escaping from the city. The PRWI Historic District’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings are architecturally significant in NPS rustic style. They remain in use today and have historic integrity.
PRWI Historic District is nationally significant as a model for the NPS Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) program that was a product of the New Deal era. NPS used Prince William Forest Park to illustrate how RDAs could restore agriculturally depleted land, employ the labor of the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and benefit the impoverished children and families of the inner city with its campgrounds. PR WI was also one of the first RDAs in the country and the first of the RDAs in southern states to designate camps for African Americans. Chopawamsic is illustrative of the efforts of the NPS to provide equal accommodations for African-American campers during a time when most parks only offered facilities and campgrounds exclusively for whites.
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Highlighted New Listing – September 3, 2010
Mecklenburg County, VA
In its heyday as a working plantation Cedar Grove, in southern Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was home to the Lewis family and about 100 slaves. John Taylor Lewis bought the original 1600 acres of Cedar Grove in 1782 for 80,000 pounds of tobacco and bequeathed this property to his son, John Taylor Lewis (1794-1866), who built the elegant brick Greek Revival main house in 1838. Cedar Grove was influenced in part by the design of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Richard and John Lewis, the sons of John Tyler Lewis, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (1861-5). John achieved the rank of lieutenant and was captured at Gettysburg while Richard was badly wounded at Bull Run, fought at Gettysburg, was wounded three more times and eventually sent home. The end of the Civil War destroyed the wealth of the Lewis family. The main house for a time was used as a tobacco warehouse and suffered neglect, but in 1929 Mr. Lewis’ great grandson, also named John Taylor Lewis, began to buy and reassemble the Cedar Grove property, bringing it back into the Lewis family’s ownership and eventually restoring Cedar Grove. The main house, with its distinctive Greek Revival architecture, is extremely well preserved, as are the two surviving original dependencies: an ice house and a smoke house.
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 – August 6, 2010
Other names: Marv's Drive-in, Hungry Onion Drive-in, Big Onion Drive-in, Hwy 30 Drive-in
Elmore County, ID
Embodying the distinctive characteristics of 1950s drive-in restaurant architecture, the KwikCurb Diner in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, is a living reminder of the advent of American car culture and its impact on roadside eateries. While there were various types of eateries along roadways early on, the first restaurant to provide food served to the traveler directly in their vehicle is believed to have been in Texas in the 1920s. Eateries soon followed the roadways, and while they had only walk-up windows, and not car-service, it did not take long for the growing number of roadside eateries to see the appeal of providing car service and by the 1930s “car-hops” became a common sight at the drive-in; it was quicker and easier for the driver. In the post-World War II economic boom era of the 1950s, drive-in services became one of the fastest growing portions of the economy. The year 1955, when the KwikCurb Diner was built by local businessman John Bermensolo along U.S. Highway 30 on the east side of Mountain Home, Idaho, was also an important one to drive-in history: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonalds franchise fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. The design of the KwikCurb Diner, rebuilt as a state-of-the-art drive-in in 1961 and still serving food today from a menu little changes from the 1950s, was largely derived from the early Stanley Metson design for the early McDonalds restaurants designed for the McDonald Brothers in 1953.