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Weekly List 2009
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Weekly List
for September 11, 2009
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Weekly List
for September 4, 2009
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Yelverton, Dred and Ellen, House,
Wayne County, North Carolina
The
distinguished two-story transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style
house of Dred and Ellen Yelverton is the largest and most stylish house
in Wayne County outside of Goldsboro, the county seat. Wealthy farmer
Dred Yelverton ordered the plans from the Knoxville, Tennessee
architectural firm of Barber and Klutz, pioneers in mail-order design.
Founder George F. Barber supplied fashionable Queen Anne and Colonial
Revival style house plans for clients throughout the United States from
1887 to about 1908. The house, with its wraparound veranda, slate roof,
bay windows, pedimented dormers, and intricately finished interiors has
been lovingly maintained. Read the full file
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Weekly List
for August 28, 2009
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Surratt, Mary E., Boarding House,
Washington, DC
The Mary Elizabeth Surratt
Boarding House in Washington, DC, is an 1843 vernacular Greek Revival-style
dwelling that Mary Surratt operated as a boarding house from September
1864 through April 1865.
During this period, John Wilkes Booth visited the boarding house
both socially and to meet with other members of the conspiracy while
planning President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. After Mary Surratt's execution for
her participation in the assassination conspiracy, subsequent owners
continued to maintain the property as a boarding house. In 1925, then-owner Irvan
Schwarztman converted the first floor of the dwelling into a commercial
space and added show windows at the street level. The building remains in use as a
Chinese restaurant. Read the
full file.
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Weekly List
for August 21, 2009
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Garst, Roswell and Elizabeth, Farmstead Historic District,
Guthrie County, Iowa
By the time of his death, Roswell Garst (1898-1977) would
witness, indeed prod and push forward, a revolution in American
agriculture. Garst led conservative, disbelieving and reluctant American
farmers away from traditional family farming to modern corporate
agribusiness, with all its implications. Read the full
file.
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Weekly List
for August 14, 2009
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Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal , Sagadahoc County, Maine
This fog signal is one of many aids to navigation situated
along the Kennebec River and functioned to enable safe river passage
through the tricky “S” turn of Fiddler’s Reach. The
pyramidal tower of Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal has a footprint of 15
½ feet square and is over 30 feet in height. It was one of the few
Fog Bell Houses constructed independent of a larger light station. Read the
full file.
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Weekly List
for August 7, 2009
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Weekly List
for July 31, 2009
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Harbor Lane- Eden Street Historic District, Hancock County,
Maine
The Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District is a compact 20
acre neighborhood that contains one of the last concentrations of
architect designed summer cottages in Bar Harbor, Maine. Between the end
of the Civil War and the start of the Great Depression, Bar Harbor was
one of the most popular seasonal destinations for elite society from the
Mid-Atlantic through the Great Lakes. Read the
full file.
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Weekly List
for July 24, 2009
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Lake Linden Historic District, Houghton County, Michigan This
district encompasses the historic core of the former stamp mill community
of Lake Linden, which sits in the center of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The
District's buildings, many built following a disastrous fire in 1887 that
destroyed much of the village, reflect the village's boom period in the
late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries when the copper-mining
boom was at its height. Lake Linden's historic core is significant for
containing church buildings, houses, and commercial buildings associated
with ethnic communities important in the community's history, including
the French Canadians, Germans, and Cornish. Read the full file.
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Weekly List
for July 17, 2009
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Naval Reserve Armory, King County, Washington Completed in
1942 using WPA funding, the Naval Reserve Armory was a community-based
project that the federal government eventually designated as an official
National Defense Project at the start of World War II. The Armory served
as an Advanced Naval training School during the war. The building appears
much as it did when it was completed and exemplifies aspects of pre-war
Art Deco and Moderne- particularly WPA Moderne- styles of architecture. Read the full
file.
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Weekly List
for July 10, 2009
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LaRoe Family Homestead Historic
District, Lake County, Florida
The LaRoe Family
Homestead is an example of the wartime homefront efforts of the 1940s. The
property made the conversion from an agriculturally oriented family
enterprise to a small industrial facility, doing piecework for an
aviation supply operation. The LaRoe family, women and children included,
threw themselves into war work as the men served overseas. Photographs of
the LaRoe's small workshop appeared in national media as part of the
Office of War Information publicity program. Read the
full file.
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Weekly List
for July 2, 2009
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U.S.S. LST 325, Vanderburgh County,
Indiana
The USS LST 325
is one of a few surviving U.S. vessels that actually went ashore on D-Day
in 1944. During the Normandy invasion, the LST 325 made over 40
roundtrips from France to England, carrying troops, supplies and wounded.
The LST was the only ship designed and built for the Navy with the
capability to land on beaches, unload troops and supplies and then
retract off the beach.The vessel retains an extraordinary degree of
historic integrity and is fully operable. Read the full file.
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Weekly List
for June 26, 2009
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Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic
District, Sublette County, WY The 1908 Sommers Ranch Headquarters is
an example of the modest ranches of the upper Green River Valley basin
that were founded over one hundred years ago. Pioneering homesteaders,
such as the Sommers family, created a ranch by a variety of means; land
claims, family members' homesteads, or outright purchase of land. Today
the Sommers Ranch Headquarters remain in operation. Read the full file.
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Weekly List
for June 19, 2009
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Hotel Randolph, Polk County, Iowa:
The 1912 Hotel Randolph in Des
Moines employed reinforced concrete for its skeletal support system and pioneered
the use of this construction technology in Des Moines. The hotel's management heavily
touted the new building as Des Moines' only "absolutely fireproof
hotel." This emphasis on
safety set a mandate for any hotel of any pretension in Des Moines to
follow. The immediate success
of the Hotel Randolph called attention to the need in Des Moines for
modern hotel accommodations.
As series of new hotels subsequently followed in the city. Read the full file
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Weekly List for June 12, 2009
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Alleghany Mennonite Meetinghouse, Berks County,
Pennsylvania:
This one-story Pennsylvania German
meetinghouse-style building was built in 1855 in Brecknock Township by
volunteers of the Mennonite Society and their neighbors. Without any ornamentation, the
simplicity of the Meetinghouse architecture is an important example of
the quality of design and workmanship and the simple lifestyle of the
Alleghany Mennonites in the mid-1800s. It is one of the oldest surviving,
least-altered and originally-furnished Mennonite meetinghouses in the
nation. Members of the
Meetinghouse faithfully continued worship there for nearly a
century. After regular
services were discontinued in 1954, interest in the Meetinghouse
declined, the condition of the building deteriorated, and the building
suffered minor vandalism. In
1994 the Alleghany Mennonite Historical Association (AMHA) was formed to
oversee and preserve the Meetinghouse property as well as develop
educational events.
Read
the full file.
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Weekly List for June 5, 2009
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Merced
Theatre, Merced County, California
This handsome Spanish Colonial Revival styled commercial complex was the
work of prolific San Francisco Bay area architects James and Merritt Reid
and represents a fine local example of Depression-era Period
Revival-style commercial design. Read the full file.
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Weekly List for May 29, 2009
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Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse, Fairfax County, Virginia
This meetinghouse was the center
of a community of faith founded by settlers rooted in the Quaker
traditions of the Delaware Valley and William Penn's Colony. Unlike other
settlements, Virginia's early Quakers were met with persecution, causing
many to flee or to be banished from the colony in the 17th century. The
Alexandria Monthly Meeting continues to use the meetinghouse. Read the
full file.
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Weekly List for May 22, 2009
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Bonnie & Clyde Garage Apartment, Newton County,
Missouri
This garage apartment in Joplin,
Missouri is associated with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow more than any
another other Missouri building. The notorious lovers who became legends
for their crime spree through the South and Midwest with the Barrow Gang
lived in the rock-faced structure for a number of days prior to a
shootout between them and Missouri lawmen on April 13, 1933. Read the full
file.
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Weekly List for May 15, 2009
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Neutra Studio and Residence, Los Angeles County,
California
Commonly known as the VDL Research
House II (VDLII), the property is a noteworthy example of twentieth
century Modernism directly associated with one of the field's most noted
practitioners- Richard J. Neutra. The property served as the home,
studio, and social center for Netura and his family during the
architect's most prolific period of activity. Read the full
file.
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Weekly List for May 8, 2009
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"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas"
Sign, The, Clark County,
Nevada
The sign that reads, "Welcome
to Las Vegas, Nevada,"
has welcomed people to Las Vegas
since 1959. The sign is a
work of art in neon that has become an iconic symbol of the city. The 1950s saw an explosion of
casino construction on the Las Vegas Strip, and the 1959
"Welcome" sign represented the optimism and boosterism of Las Vegas casino
owners and civic leaders.
Designed by local sign maker Betty Whitehead Willis, the sign is
situated in the median strip of Las Vegas Boulevard South, probably in
its original (or near original) location. Clark County
has provided visitors with a turn out and parking area in the center of
the right of way to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of visitors who
annually seek to have their photographs taken in front of the sign. Read the full file.
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Weekly List
for May 1, 2009
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Lockheed
PV-2 Harpoon #37396, Hancock
County, Indiana
This plane is an intact, operable, very rare
example of a special purpose WWII aircraft, the anti-submarine patrol
bomber. Built in 1945, #37396 was deployed to VPB-136, to Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station, Puget Sound,
Washington in July, 1945. Read the full
file.
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Weekly List
for April 24, 2009
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Argabrite
House, Greenbrier County,
West Virginia
Built in 1908, this Queen Anne cottage was designed by the firm J.H.
Daverman and Son, which published plan books featuring small, affordable
houses…See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for April 17, 2009
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Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, Columbia County, Wisconsin
Consisting of two adjacent
landscaped parcels of land, the Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site
marked the culmination of a several decades-long struggle on the part of
the citizens of Lodi
to improve and beautify the southern entryway to the city. Funding for the landscaping of the
School Hill hillside and for the rip-rapping work on the banks of Spring
Creek came from 1930s era public relief funds provided by the Federal
Government. The subsequent
creation of Veterans
Memorial Park on
the west bank of Spring Creek was funded by donations from the citizens
themselves and was a project of the Lodi Garden Club. See full documentation
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Weekly List
for April 10, 2009
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Homestead-Horton
Neighborhood Historic District, Windham County,
Vermont: This district is a cohesive, well preserved
example of a residential district that developed during the late 19th and
early 20th centuries to provide housing to the burgeoning workforce in Brattleboro. During
the era of heightened industrial activity from the 1870s to the mid-20th
century the growth of neighborhoods like this one transformed the town
from a village to an urban center….See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for April 3, 2009
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Waynesboro Historic District, Burke County,
Georgia
The Waynesboro Historic District, established in
1783, is located in east central Georgia. Today's district
clearly reflects Waynesboro's
beginnings; after railroads reached the area by the mid-1800s, the town
grew to become the regional hub for processing and shipping farm
products. The layout of the downtown is virtually unchanged. See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for March 27, 2009
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Billy Simpson's House
of Seafood and Steaks, District of Columbia: This restaurant, which
opened in 1956, and its proprietor played a central role in the social
and political culture of the District
of Columbia's African American community during
the period of transition from segregation to an era of Home Rule with a
largely black political leadership. "Billy" Simpson created a
meeting place for the African American luminaries of politics, government
and entertainment. See full
documentation
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Weekly List
for March 20, 2009
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Hays
House, Jefferson County, Mississippi
The Hays House in Lorman,
MS is a well-preserved,
intact, and rare example of a Greek Revival cottage with full-facade
gallery. The galleried cottage is closely related to the Creole cottage
of Louisiana and the Biloxi cottage. These forms rely in
some fashion on Caribbean building traditions and were adopted across Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
See Full Documentation See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for March 13, 2009
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Dyer,
Arthur J., Observatory, Davidson
County, TN.
The 1953 Arthur J.
Dyer Observatory was built under the guidance of well-known astronomer
Carl K. Seyfert and has been an important research facility for Vanderbilt University. The local community
played such a significant part in its construction, the observatory was
committed to serving the public as well as research and graduate
training. The observatory is regularly open to the public for school
tours, popular lectures, observation nights, and other programs See full documentation
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Weekly List
for March 6, 2009
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Rosemont, New
Castle County, Delaware
Built c. 1890, Rosemont, also known
as the Joseph W. and Ida Guest House, is located along the high ground
above the Delaware River in Brandywine
Hundred. Today only one acre survives of the original landscape. As if to
demonstrate its rare status, the house is completely hidden from view by
suburban development. See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for February 27, 2009
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Wing Park Golf Course, Kane County, Illinois
The century-old Wing Park Golf
Course stands as the oldest and best preserved nine-hole municipal course
in Illinois,
featuring its original configuration of trees, fairways and greens. Early
municipal courses such as the one at Wing Park
played a major role in popularizing the game of golf at a time when
venues for public play were severely limited. See
full documentation
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Weekly List
for February 20, 2009
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Kenmil
Place, McCracken County, Kentucky
Kenmil Place, located in Paducah,
KY, is an excellent example
of Classical Revival style domestic architecture. The house began as an
Italianate style, side passage house from the 1880s. In 1923 the house
more than doubled in size and gained its current Classical Revival
features. The key elements of the Classical Revival style are a
symmetrical facade and a dominant two-story portico supported by
classical columns .
.. See full documentation
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Weekly List
for February 13, 2009
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Hot Springs Historic District, Madison County,
North Carolina. This district is significant as the historic
center of a small mountain community in the northwest corner of Madison
County, NC. Once natural warm springs were discovered by settlers in the
early nineteenth century, the town became one of the earliest resort
communities in the state...See full
documentation.
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Weekly List
for February 6, 2009
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Paul Bunyan
Statue, Multnomah County, Oregon
Built in 1959 in anticipation of the Oregon
Centennial Exposition held in Portland
that year, the robust, iron and plaster statue of Paul Bunyan sat
prominently along historic Route 99 (Pacific Highway) at the gateway to
the local Kenton community. A remnant of the auto-centric society ushered
in by the post-war boom, the statue is a fine example of mid-twentieth
century roadside architecture…. See full documentation.
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Weekly List for January 30, 2009
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Block 35
Cobblestone Alley, Pulaski County, Arkansas
This alley is an extremely rare surviving 19th-century cobblestone alley,
in fact, it may be the last remaining example, in downtown Little Rock.
The alley, approximately 300 feet long, still retains its original c.1889
cobblestone pavement. As a result, the Block 35 Cobblestone Alley remains
an extremely intact example of early street design and construction, and
a tangible reminder of early travel in Little Rock. ..See
full documentation.
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Weekly List for January 23, 2009
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Hopkins House, Shawnee County, Kansas This 1859 house is an outstanding example of a
Greek Revival limestone domestic design retaining high integrity. The
house has associations with Territorial Kansas and Eli Hopkins, a founder
of Tecumseh, KS. Unlike many southern sympathizers
who chose to leave Kansas in the late
1850s, Eli Hopkins and his Tecumseh neighbors stayed in Kansas
and pledged their loyalty to the Union…See full documentation.
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Weekly List for January 16, 2009
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Joseph
and Mary Jane League House, Bibb County, Georgia This 1950 house is an early and exceptional example of a
Contemporary-style Ranch-type house in Georgia. Its low form,
H-shaped footprint, zoned interior, open-space plan, building materials,
and integration of indoor spaces with outdoor landscaping all reflect
up-to-date ranch-house design. Jean League Newton, the architect of this
house, was among the earliest professionally trained women architects in Georgia.
..See full
documentation.
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Weekly List for January 9, 2009
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Pythian
Opera House, Lincoln County,
Maine
This opera house in Boothbay Harbor, erected in
1894, is a substantial and architecturally impressive three-and-a half
story structure designed as a multi-purpose building to serve
governmental functions for the nascent town, offer a venue for cultural
activities and host local Fraternal organizations. It was also an
important public hall utilized by the community as a site for
entertainment and recreation until the late 1980s. ..See full
documentation.
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Weekly List for January 2, 2009
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Quaker Sites in the West River Meeting, Southern Anne
Arundel County, Maryland, c. 1650-1785, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Featured this week is a Multiple
Property Documentation Form used for a Multiple Property Submission, the format
through which historic properties related by theme, general geographical
area, and period of time may be documented as a group and listed in the
National Register. The
Multiple Property Submission of archaeological sites associated with
Quakers in the West River region of Anne Arundel County, Maryland,
is based on archaeological and archival work carried out over a decade
(1991-2007) by The Lost Towns Project of Anne Arundel County. Significant property types such as
agricultural outbuildings and landscapes, quarters and religious sites
were identified based on functional uses reflected in historical
documentation and as known through comparable archaeological sites in the
region. See full documentation.
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