Weekly List
for May 8, 2009
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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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