The Milwaukee County Historical Society, also known as MCHS, is a local historical society in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Founded in 1935, the organization was formed to preserve, collect, recognize, and make available materials related to Milwaukee County history. It is located in downtown Milwaukee in the former Second Ward Savings Bank building.
The Cowell Lime Works, in Santa Cruz, California, was a manufacturing complex that quarried limestone, produced lime and other limestone products, and manufactured wood barrels for transporting the finished lime. Part of its area is preserved as the Cowell Lime Works Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. In addition to the four lime kilns, cooperage and other features relating to lime manufacture, the Historic District also includes other structures associated with the Cowell Ranch, including barns, a blacksmith shop, ranch house, cook house and workers' cabins. The 32-acre Historic District is located within the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, to either side of the main campus entrance.
The Sharon Valley Historic District is located around the junction of Kings Hill, Sharon Valley and Sharon Station roads in Sharon, Connecticut, United States. It is a small community that grew up around an iron mining and refining operation during the late 19th century, the first industry in Sharon.
Harris Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Walkersville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The main house was built in 1855, and is a three-story center plan house in predominantly late Greek Revival syle, with some Italianate elements. The agricultural complex consists of a bank barn with an attached granary; a second frame barn that shares an animal yard with the bank barn; a row of frame outbuildings including a converted garage, a workshop, and a chicken house. There is also a drive-through double corn crib; and a frame pig pen from 1914. The 20th-century buildings consist of a frame poultry house, a dairy barn with milk house and two silos, and an octagonal chicken coop. A lime kiln is located on the edge of the property. The property is preserved as part of the Walkersville Heritage Farm Park.
Oliver Warner Farmstead is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in the towns of Hopewell and Phelps near Clifton Springs in Ontario County, New York. The 203-acre (82 ha) district contains three contributing buildings. The buildings are a cobblestone farmhouse built about 1840 in the late Federal / early Greek Revival style, a 19th-century barn, and 19th century wagon house / machine shed.
Morse Farm is a historic home located at Moravia in Cayuga County, New York. It is a two-story, frame Federal style farmhouse. The house is in a "big house, little house, back house" configuration. Portions of the house reportedly date to 1794; the house was remodelled into essentially its present form about 1815. Also on the property is a 19th-century two-story barn with board and batten siding.
Stillman Farmstead is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. The district includes three contributing structures; the farmhouse, a mid-19th-century barn (1840), and a large garage. The farmhouse is a 2 1⁄2-story frame building built in 1889 in the Queen Anne style.
The Fairmount Historic District is a 409 acres (166 ha) historic district located along County Route 517 in the Fairmount section of Tewksbury Township, near Califon, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1996 for its significance in architecture, exploration/settlement, and industry. The district includes 72 contributing buildings that were deemed to be contributing to the historic character of the area, plus five contributing structures, nine contributing sites, and one contributing object. One contributing building is located in Washington Township, Morris County.
East Farm, also known as the Archibald M. Brown Estate, is a national historic district located at Head of the Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. The district encompasses an estate with seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. The estate house was originally built in the 18th century about 1690 and as the Smith family farmhouse, then greatly enlarged by its architect-owner in 1910. It is a wood framed, clapboarded structure with a wood shingle roof, and Colonial in style. Also on the property are a contributing barn with shed, milk house, two cottages, and barn and garage complex. The estate also retains an intact formal garden.
Johannes Decker Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Gardiner in Ulster County, New York. The district includes three contributing buildings and one contributing structure. It consists of the main stone house dating from the 1720s, with three later 18th-century additions, a 1750s Dutch style barn, and a carriage and ice house also erected in the 18th century. The main stone house is 1 1⁄2-story rubble dwelling with a flared Flemish gable roof.
Sheldon–Owens Farm is a national historic district located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. They are set on a property assembled between 1784 and 1945. The oldest structure is a barn dated to the late 18th century. A number of the outbuildings date to the 1830s and include barns, a granary, brick smokehouse, and sugar house. The farmhouse dates to 1853 and was constructed on the foundation of the 18th-century house. Dated to the early 20th century are a storage shed, machine shed, well house, and additions and renovations to older buildings. The property has been adapted for use as a bird sanctuary.
Sherman Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Nassau in Rensselaer County, New York. The complex includes the main house and seven contributing outbuildings. They are a hay barn, wagon barn, corn house, hog bar, ice house, and a barn attached to the hay barn. All were built in the late-18th or early-19th century. the main house was built about 1797 and is a two-story, rectangular frame house with a full attic, full cellar, and high pitched gable roof in the Federal style. A major remodeling about 1840 added some Greek Revival details.
Wrightsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Wrightsville in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 350 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in the central business district and surround residential areas of Wrightsville. A majority of the dwellings are small, frame vernacular workers' houses dated to the 19th century. More substantial brick and stone dwellings date to as early as he 1790s. Notable industrial buildings and structures include the Wrightsville Hardware Complex, McConkey Building, Wrightsville silk mill, and lime kilns.
Knorr–Bare Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has 13 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, four bay, brick farmhouse (1906); frame Pennsylvania bank barn (1896); and 1 1/2-story stone cabin. The remaining buildings were mostly built between about 1896 and 1940, with two tenant houses dated to the late-18th century and mid-19th century. Other buildings include a milk house, smoke house / bake house, privy, four wagon sheds, and a hay barn. The contributing structures include a lime kiln, silo, and a variety of animal shelters.
John Eakin Farm, also known as Jacob Kooker Tavern, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure. They are three houses, two barns, one wagon shed, two smokehouses, one spring house, one outhouse, one garage, one milk house, one chicken house, and the ruins of an out kitchen, lime quarry, lime kiln and two sheds. The most notable building is the Jacob Kooker Tavern, the oldest section of which dates to 1739. A tavern occupied the building from 1761 to about 1797.
The Hopewell Farm, also known as Lower Farm and Hopedell Farm, is a historic home and farm located at 1751 Valley Road in Valley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 500-acre farm complex has six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and six contributing structures. The buildings and property were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Limestone, also known as Limestone Plantation and Limestone Farm, has two historic homes and a farm complex located near Keswick, Albemarle County, Virginia. The main dwelling at Limestone Farm consists of a long, narrow two-story central section flanked by two wings. the main section was built about 1840, and the wings appear to be two small late-18th-century dwellings that were incorporated into the larger building. It features a two-story porch. The house underwent another major renovation in the 1920s, when Colonial Revival-style detailing was added. The second dwelling is the Robert Sharp House, also known as the Monroe Law Office. It was built in 1794, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick and frame structure measuring 18 feet by 24 feet. Also on the property are a contributing shed (garage), corncrib, cemetery, a portion of a historic roadway, and a lime kiln known as "Jefferson's Limestone Kiln" (1760s). Limestone's owner in the late-18th century, Robert Sharp, was a neighbor and acquaintance of Thomas Jefferson. The property was purchased by James Monroe in 1816, after the death of Robert Sharp in 1808, and he put his brother Andrew Monroe in charge of its administration. The property was sold at auction in 1828.
Mount Saviour Monastery is a historic farm and monastery campus within a national historic district located near Pine City, Chemung County, New York. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites on a working farm in continuous operation since 1865. The monastery was founded in 1950 and the property is owned by the Benedictine Foundation of New York State. Located on the property are the contributing Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel (1953) and East and West Buildings (1964), St. Joseph's House (1954-1957), St. Peter's House, St. Gertrude's House, Mount Saviour Monastic Cemetery (1960), Good Shepherd Lay Cemetery (1955), St. Peter's Barn, Main barn (1959), Arts & Crafts Building & Storage, Wagner House, St. James's House, and Annex.
Hurstville Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located north of Maquoketa, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. At the time of its nomination it included three areas: the former lime manufacturing works, a farmstead, and the townsite. All that remains are the four kilns, and an old warehouse. Both the townsite, which was across the road and to the southwest, and the farmstead, which was behind the kilns to the south, are gone. Also gone are the remaining company buildings, with the exception of the old warehouse, which were across the road to the west. The houses in the townsite were side-gable cottages. Many lacked indoor plumbing into the 1970s and were vacant. The farmstead included 20 structures devoted to domestic or agricultural use. Two large barns were the most notable structures. The farm served the needs of the town. The most significant structures in the district were the lime kilns.
