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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 – 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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Theodore Roosevelt had emerged as a national hero when Harper’s Weekly featured him on their cover in September 1898. He had previously been an energetic but minor politician in New York State and had been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy when war broke out with Spain over the governance of Cuba in early 1898. Roosevelt was very gung-ho over the war’s prosecution, resigning his post to form a volunteer cavalry regiment - the famous Rough Riders. They mustered in Tampa before setting sail for Cuba. The Rough Riders with Roosevelt at their head were soon in the forefront of the fighting, gaining a notable victory in the hard-fought battle of Kettle Hill. The war was largely won by July 1898, so Roosevelt and his men returned to the United States. His new hero status propelled him on to a much larger national stage, leading to the Vice Presidency in 1900 and the Presidency one year later. He proved to be more of the most dynamic US Presidents of all time.
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
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Highlighted New Listing – March 30, 2012
Riverside County, CA
Steel Development House Number 2 is one of seven all-steel homes-all clustered in the same neighborhood-created by the architectural team of Donald Wexler and Ric Harrison, the structural engineer Bernard Perlin, and the builder Alexander Construction Company. The house is primarily composed of steel and glass on a concrete foundation with no structural wood and represents a unique synthesis of off-site prefabrication and on-site assembly. The house exemplifies simple yet elegant concepts in midcentury modern design plus the novel use of steel construction, demonstrating the possibilities for rapidly-assembled and affordable homes for the middle class that were designed to withstand the harsh desert environment. The property has excellent integrity in all aspects, and appears much as it did as built.
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Highlighted New Listing – March 30, 2012
Riverside County, CA
Steel Development House Number 2 is one of seven all-steel homes-all clustered in the same neighborhood-created by the architectural team of Donald Wexler and Ric Harrison, the structural engineer Bernard Perlin, and the builder Alexander Construction Company. The house is primarily composed of steel and glass on a concrete foundation with no structural wood and represents a unique synthesis of off-site prefabrication and on-site assembly. The house exemplifies simple yet elegant concepts in midcentury modern design plus the novel use of steel construction, demonstrating the possibilities for rapidly-assembled and affordable homes for the middle class that were designed to withstand the harsh desert environment. The property has excellent integrity in all aspects, and appears much as it did as built.
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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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The cover of the November 8, 1884 issue of Harper's Weekly featured two men anxiously watching the ticker tape for returns on Election Day. In the background are their bags of money and "Fears of Robbery." Illustration by Thomas Nast.
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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 – 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 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 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 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.
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.
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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02-06-2010