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Weekly List for May 1, 2009	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.
Weekly List for April 24, 2009	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
Weekly List for April 17, 2009	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
Weekly List for April 10, 2009	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
Weekly List for April 3, 2009	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
Weekly List for March 27, 2009	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
Weekly List for March 20, 2009	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
Weekly List for March 13, 2009	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
Weekly List for March 6, 2009	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
Weekly List for February 27, 2009	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
Weekly List for February 20, 2009	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
Weekly List for February 13, 2009	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.
Weekly List for February 6, 2009	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.
Weekly List for January 30, 2009	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.
Weekly List for January 23, 2009	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.
Weekly List for January 16, 2009	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.
Weekly List for January 9, 2009	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.
Weekly List for January 2, 2009	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.