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Weekly List for October 3, 2008
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National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
The Center (also known as the Arecibo Observatory) is the site of the world's largest and most powerful radar and radio astronomy telescope. The telescope was completed in 1963 at a total cost of about $9 million. The telescope is capable of examining phenomena that occurs as close as two miles above us, on the Earth's atmosphere, and of probing objects ten billion light-years away, at the very edge of the discernible universe... See full documentation |
Weekly List for September 26, 2008
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Adams County Courthouse, Adams County, Indiana
Built in 1873, the courthouse is a well-preserved example of a Second
Empire-style county courthouse constructed during the courthouse building
boom that swept across the state of Indiana in the mid-to-late nineteenth
century. The Adams County Courthouse is exemplary of the work of J.C.
Johnson, an important architect of public building....See full documentation.
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Weekly List for September 19, 2008
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Art Troutner Houses Historic District, Bonneville County,
Idaho. This Idaho Falls historic district boasts an
extraordinary assemblage of single-family residential structures in a
modern, "space-age," architectural style of the 1950s. As
examples of modern architecture, the residences embody the mid-century
shift away from the traditional box and toward new and experimental
elements......See full documentation.
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Weekly List for September 12, 2008
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Clark Hall, University of Virginia, Albermarle County,
Virginia. Clark Hall served as the academic home of the UVA's School
of Law from its completion in 1932 until 1974. Notable for its two-story,
sky-lit interior Memorial Hall, the room is one of the Commonwealth's
most significant 20th century interiors......See full documentation.
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Weekly List for September 5, 2008
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Langley Park, Prince George's County, MD.
This Georgian Revival style mansion is a unique example in PG George
County of a great country house of the 1920s. The residence was designed
by leading Washington, D.C. architect George Oakley Totten Jr., for Frederick
and Henrietta McCormick-Goodhart, an affluent Anglo-American couple who
named their new property after the family's Elizabethan estate house in
England. Since being sold in 1947 by the McCormick-Goodhart family,
Langley Park has had several other uses: the center for the Eudist
Fathers, a French Canadian Catholic Order, apartment units, and as a
school.....See full documentation.
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Weekly List for August 29, 2008
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Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, Oconto County, WI. Constructed in
1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Mountain Fire Lookout Tower
is one of the two remaining towers out of the 19 that once served the
Nicolet National Forest. Designed to protect northern Wisconsin's timber
resources from the ravages of fire, the lookout tower served as the
central link in the fire detection system. The towers were distributed so
as to form a network from which the entire landscape could be kept under
surveillance. In 1994, the USDA Forest Service rehabilitated the Mountain
Fire Lookout Tower for public access and interpretation. ...See full documentation.
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Weekly List for August 22, 2008
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George
Nakashima House Studio and Workshop -- Bucks County, Pennsylvania
George Nakashima was an architect and acclaimed Modern furniture designer
and woodworker who won numerous awards for his work. His Bucks County
property includes his former residence, studio, production workshops,
lumber storage buildings and other resources associated with his family
and career from 1946-1990. The property contains many fine examples of
International Style buildings with interiors and a landscape setting that
complement and reflect Nakashima's furniture craftsmanship. The listed
property continues to be operated by his daughter, Mira, in the
production of furniture based on his archive of designs and her original
work. ... See full documentation.
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Weekly List for August 15, 2008
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Cobblestone
Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, Seneca County, New York. This outstanding
Greek Revival style farmhouse is architecturally significant as a
representative example of the cobblestone method of construction in NY.
...See full documentation.
This property is part of the Cobblestone Architecture of New York MPS - Read the cover document
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Weekly List for August 8, 2008
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Beverly
Drive-In Theatre, Forrest County, Mississippi
This Drive-In Theatre represents a distinct cultural era; the post-war
car culture. This example, one of the few extant in Mississippi, is
rather striking in its integration of the manager's house into the
screen. Although damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the Beverly was an
operational drive-in prior to August 2005 and retains all the necessary
elements to, once again, operate as a drive-in theatre.. . ... See full documentation.
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Weekly List for August 1, 2008
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Dutton-Waller
Raised Tybee Cottage, Chatham County, Georgia - This cottage is an
excellent example of a raised Tybee cottage, a standard beach house
design for middle-class families on Tybee Island from the 1920s through
the 1940s. In recent years, skyrocketing land values and intensive
development have resulted in the demolition of numerous Tybee cottages. .
... See full documentation.
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July 25, 2008
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Built
near the Canadian border between 1906-1909, Coghlan Castle finds its
uniqueness as the only example in North Dakota of a regional variation of
a fieldstone construction technique found mostly in southwest Manitoba.
Maurice Coghlan had the house built of granite with the assistance of a
stone mason from Canada. Recently, a non-profit group has raised money to
restore and protect this significant resource. ... See full documentation.
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July 18, 2008
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The
St. Francis City Park was created shortly after the Great Depression and
was the result of the City Council arranging for the Civil Works Administration
to employ workmen and provide federal funds to help finance the project.
It was an oasis in the downtown during the Dust Bowl era and it has been
a centerpiece in the community for nearly seventy-five years. ... See full documentation.
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July 11, 2008
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Sea
Call Farm, Orleans, Massachusetts:
encompasses 6.53 acres, which are located in an area that contained other
small farms and older houses
characteristic of the cultural landscape ... See full documentation.
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