Boalsburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,722 at the 2010 census. The village claims to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. However, that claim was brought into question by Bellware and Gardiner in their book, The Genesis of the Memorial Day Holiday in America, in 2014. In their book, Bellware and Gardiner point out that the Boalsburg story was first published in 1904, forty years after the fact with no indication that General Logan drew inspiration from any activities in Boalsburg and no evidence that it started the holiday.
Dunbar-Creigh House, also known as Lawrence Inn, is a historic home located at Landisburg in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is a 2+1⁄2-story stone house built between 1794 and 1809. The structure measures 28 by 30 feet and is built into the bank of a hillside.
The Col. James Graham House is a historic log cabin located on West Virginia Route 3 in Lowell, West Virginia. It was built in 1770 as a home for Col. James Graham, the first settler of Lowell, and his family. It was later the site of an Indian attack on the Graham family in 1777. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1976. The Graham House is the oldest multi-story log cabin in West Virginia. It is currently operating as a museum.
Egg Hill Church is a historic church located at Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1860, and is a one-story, banked building built of pine on a stone foundation. It measures 35 feet wide and 42 feet long. Regular services at the church were suspended in 1927. The church is located at the southwest end of Egg Hill.
The John Abbott House is an historic house located on King Street in Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1980.
Freeman Estate, also known as Park Hill Farm, is a historic home located at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. The estate house was built between 1912 and 1914, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, masonry American Craftsman-style dwelling. It measures 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) and has a red, clay-tile roof. It features a front porch floored with red quarry tile, that extends approximately 80 feet (24 m) across the entire front of the home and wraps around its left side. Also on the property are a contributing stone wall and cobblestone path dated to the construction of the house.
Morlunda, also known as the Col. Samuel McClung Place and Oscar Nelson Farm, is a historic home located near Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1827–1828, and consists of a main house with ell. The main house is a two-story brick building measuring 56 feet long and 21 feet deep. The ell measures 48 feet and it connects to a 1+1⁄2-story formerly detached kitchen.
Mastery Charter School Thomas Campus, formerly the George C. Thomas Junior High School, is a secondary charter school located in the south section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is run by Mastery Charter Schools. It is located at the intersection of 9th and Johnston Streets just north of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Nearby are the residential neighborhoods of Marconi Plaza, Lower Moyamensing, and Packer Park; the recreational parkland of FDR Park; and the historical and new business-development center of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The school is located within the boundaries of the Sports Complex Special Services District, directly on the Oregon Avenue urban corridor of small shops and restaurants anchored by larger shopping plazas on the east and west end of Oregon Avenue, and near the revitalized commercial area of Passyunk Avenue. It shares a site with the D. Newlin Fell School.
Centre Mills is a historic grist mill located at Miles Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1802-1803, and is a two-story fieldstone building, with a basement and attic. It measures 44 feet, 10 inches, by 58 feet, and has a gable roof. Also on the property are a barn, stone house, and miller's house. The stone house was built in 1813, and is a two-story stone dwelling, measuring 40 feet by 30 feet, with a two-story frame addition. It features a porch supported by Corinthian order columns. The miller's house is a frame dwelling on a stone foundation. The stone house is operated as a bed and breakfast.
McAllister-Beaver House is a historic home located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1850, and is a massive two-story, five bay rectangular limestone building. It measures 42 feet, 4 inches, across and 34 feet, 2 inches, deep in the Georgian style architecture. It has a low pitch, gable roof and a center hall plan interior. A rear kitchen ell was added in 1913. It was home to two prominent residents: Hugh N. McAllister, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania State University, and Gov. James A. Beaver.
Boal Mansion is a historic home located at Boalsburg, Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The original pioneer cabin was built in 1809 and was a simple 1+1⁄2-story stone house. It was incorporated as the kitchen and kitchen hall when the house was expanded. The expansion is a two-story stone house in the Georgian style which measures 30 by 50 feet and has a side hall plan. The house was expanded again between 1898 and 1905 by Theodore Davis Boal and introduced some Beaux-Arts style design. The main façade was expanded from three to five bays.
Hudson Grist Mill, also known as Crotsley Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Saltillo in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1850, and is a 2 1/2-story frame building, measuring 36 by 28 feet. It sits on a rubble stone foundation and has clapboard siding. An elevator head is housed in centrally placed extra story. Attached to the mill is a two-story frame addition.
Camp-Woods, is a historic estate with associated buildings located at Villanova, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and built on a 400 ft (120 m) high spot which had been a 200-man outpost of George Washington's Army during the Valley Forge winter of 1777–78. The house, built between 1910 and 1912 for banker James M. Willcox, is a two-story, brick and limestone, "F"-shaped house in an Italianate-Georgian style. It measures 160 ft (49 m) in length and 32 ft (9.8 m) deep at the "waist." It has a slate roof, Doric order limestone cornice, open loggia porches, and a covered entrance porch supported by Doric order columns. The house was designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926). The property includes formal gardens. Its former carriage house is no longer part of the main estate. The original tennis court is now also a separate property named "Outpost Hill". The Revolutionary encampment is marked by a flagpole in a circular stone monument at the north-western edge of the property. The inscription reads, "An outpost of George Washington's Army encamped here thro the winter of Valley Forge 1777-1778".
Andrew Rabb House is a historic home located at German Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1773, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, 5-bay, stone dwelling in a vernacular Georgian style. It measures 44 feet by 24 feet. Andrew Rabb was a locally prominent and wealthy distiller who was significant in the Whiskey Rebellion in Fayette County.
Col. Edward Cook House is a historic home located at Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was built between 1772 and 1776, and is a two-story, four bay, rectangular stone dwelling with a one-story kitchen wing. The main block measures 36 feet by 28 feet and the kitchen wing 24 feet by 20 feet. It has a medium-pitched gable roof and plain cornice with return. Also on the property are a contributing smoke house and wash house.
Furnace Hills Tenant House, also known as Kurtz House and Foxfire House, is a historic home located at West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is a 1 1/2 to 2+1⁄2-story, banked sandstone dwelling, built c. 1830–1850. It is considered to be in a vernacular Pennsylvania German perpendicular bankhouse style. It measures 19 feet wide and 26 feet deep and has a gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing stone stable, also built c. 1830–1850. The stable has a frame barn addition built in the 1930s.
Troxell-Steckel House is a historic home located at Egypt, Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1756, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone dwelling with a high-pitched gable roof in the Pennsylvania-German style. It measures 48 feet long and 35 feet wide. Also on the property is a contributing stone spring house and late-19th century barn. The house and property were given to the Lehigh County Historical Society in 1942, and is now open as a historic house museum.
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Freight Shed is a historic freight station located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, along Broad Street. It was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in 1878, and is a large 1 1/2-story brick and stone building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It measures 99 feet, 5 inches wide and 235 feet long. It has a long, sloping roof supported by a Fink truss system, with glazed monitors.
Hibernia House is a historic home located in Hibernia County Park, near Wagontown, West Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in four phases between the late 18th and early 20th century. The original house was owned by Isaac Van Leer and his well known historical Van Leer family. The original section was a two-story, stone dwelling measuring 18 feet by 24 feet. In 1798, a 1+1⁄2-story, stone kitchen addition was built. In 1821, the mansion house was built making the older sections the west wing. The mansion house is a 2+1⁄2-story, four-bay, stone structure measuring 45 feet by 43 feet. The house was modified between 1895 and 1910 to add a 33 foot wide pedimented pavilion, ballroom addition, and addition to the west wing.
Theodore Davis Boal, also known as Terry Boal, was an American army officer and architect. He entered into several partnerships over his career, the Boal and Harnois architectural firm in Denver, Colorado and a partnership with Ward Brown in Washington D.C. He designed a number of important mansions that are listed with the National Register of Historic Places. One of his important works, also an NRHP property, is the ancestral family estate, Boal Mansion.
