At Dewey, a tiny settlement of five or six log houses at the confluence of the Colorado and Dolores rivers, State Highway 128 once crossed a cable suspension bridge over the eddying Colorado River, here approximately 150 yards wide. The bridge was built in 1916.  In its prime, it was designed to support the weight of 6 horses, 3 wagons, and 9000 pounds of freight. It was significant for its outstanding engineering accomplishment and for its historical role as a vital transportation and commercial link connecting southeastern Utah with Colorado and other points east.  In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, Moab and other southeastern Utah towns were dependent on communities in western Colorado both for everyday supplies and for markets for their agricultural products.  This bridge, which spanned the formidable natural barrier of the Colorado River, was the first to provide a direct connection.  Dewey Bridge was Utah’s longest suspension bridge and, at the time of its construction, was the second longest suspension bridge west of the Mississippi.  It was also the state’s longest clear span bridge.  

The bridge burned in 2008.  The Grand County, Utah, sheriff’s department attributed the April 6th fire to a 6 year old boy. He was playing with matches when he sparked a wildfire near the Colorado River that quickly spread to the bridge.  The wooden bridge, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was virtually destroyed. The span was a familiar landmark for those who frequent the Moab area to take advantage of its slick rock mountain bike trails and other recreational pursuits.  Photo was taken in 2007. 

William J. Lemp Company 

Cherokee Street and Lemp Avenue, St. Louis, MO 

In 1864, William J. Lemp purchased a five block area around the storage house on 13^th Street and Cherokee Street, and began construction of a complete new brewery. By putting the new facility over the storage caves, moving all the kegs by wagon from their Second Street brewery would no longer be necessary.  The limestone caves were used to control the temperature during the creation of the lager. 

By the early 1870’s, Lemp’s Western Brewery was the largest brewery in St. Louis in a field of 30, with E. Anheuser & Company’s Bavarian Brewery coming in second. The brewery was the 19^th largest in the country, producing 61,000 barrels in 1876.[i] 

Justus Ramsey House (Shown with Piano Bar sign)

252 7th Street West, St. Paul, MN 

This small stone residence, one of the oldest remaining structures in the city of St. Paul, was built in 1851.  It is now become a appendage of an italian restaurant’s piano bar.  

Graham Kivette House – Claiborne County 

The Graham-Kivette House, built circa 1810, is the oldest home in Tazewell and one of only a few buildings that survived a disastrous fire in 1862. It was built by William Graham, a merchant and one of the founders of Tazewell. James Kivette acquired the home at the turn of the 20th century from William Yoakam, its then current owner. Kivette was a lawyer and coal mine operator. His daughter, Louise Kivette Redman, was a novelist and had several books published.  Since the death of John Kivette, the last descendant of the Kivette family, the house has remained empty for a number of years, while the executors of the will figure out what to do with it. Due to a lack of maintenance, the masonry is in need of repointing, the foundation is sinking on the right side of the building, and wood is beginning to deteriorate due to rot. The porch roof and possibly the standing seam metal roof on the main portion of the house are in need of replacing. Portions of the interiors are beginning to deteriorate due to dampness, and paint and wallpaper are peeling from the walls. The Eastern Tennessee Preservation Alliance hopes that listing the house will help draw local awareness to the historic value of the house and the necessity of action before the house is lost due to neglect, deterioration, or fire. ETPA will work with the Claiborne County government, Claiborne Historical Society, and the East Tennessee Development District to determine the most effective strategy to protect this community resource. 

Memorial Stadium, Johnson City, Tennessee (Pic from Google Maps accessed 12/31/2010) 

Memorial Stadium, originally called Roosevelt Stadium, was built in 1935 with Federal Works Project Administration funds.[i] It was demolished to make way for a new community center in July of 2010.   The stadium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19th, 2010, too late to stop demolition, which began on July 27th. 

Memorial Stadium was the home of the Burley Bowl, which took place between 1945 and 1956.  This much anticipated event consisted of a parade held in downtown Johnson City in mid-morning, followed by a football game at Memorial Stadium in the afternoon.  Both heavily attended proceedings originated soon after the close of World War II as a way to celebrate the opening of the upcoming tobacco market season.

Andrew Ballentine House (300 Block of S. 1st Street, Pulaski, TN) 

This structure was built in 1825 by Andrew Mitchell Ballentine (1792-1858), an immigrant from Ireland.  

          This structure was erected in 1832 by Isaac Franklin and was known as “the finest country home in Tennessee.”  The ceilings of the attic bare the names of company and regimental units, traced with candle smoke by Union soldiers.  Franklin, the first owner of the property, was born in 1789 to parents of moderate means.  By his fortieth birthday, he was a millionaire.  Besides the home and plantation at Fairview, he owned 50,000 acres of land in Texas and had some holdings in Louisiana and Mississippi.  In 1839, he married Adelicia Hayes, a member of a prominent Nashville family.  Franklin died in 1846.  In 1882, Charles Reed of New York, a rich turf man, bought the property and built an immense stone barn with a shed that covered an exercise track for his horses.           In 1934, the property once again changed ownership after going into receivership and being purchased by William H. Wemyss. The Wemyss’ undertook a multi-year restoration project due to natural deterioration and to restore the house’s internal decorations. Under the Wemyss’ stewardship, Fairvue was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. The National Historic Landmark boundary encompassed 560 acres and included the 2 1/2-story red brick classical home, three slave houses, an overseer’s house, springhouse, icehouse, and the Franklin vault ruins. 

           The current condition of the property bears little resemblance to its historic use as an antebellum southern plantation. The area surrounding the house has been developed into a golf course community with houses and other facilities placed directly adjacent to and interspersed within the property’s main house and outbuildings. Various alterations have been introduced to the main house itself so that it no longer conveys its historic association as an antebellum plantation home. A one-story addition built on the southeast corner of the rear (east) elevation, the introduction of new woodwork and drywall, the widening of doorways, and the retrofitting of the southern section of the house with a modern interior layout, all contribute to the mansion’s loss of integrity. In addition, windows and fiberglass shutters are replicas of the originals while windows have been introduced to the previously open south end of the loggia. Due to this loss of historic integrity, National Historic Landmark designation for Fairvue was withdrawn on April 4^th, 2005. 

Site of Woodlawn (Southwest corner of Big Hill Avenue at the Eastern Bypass) 

This residence was built in 1822 by General Green Clay for his daughter, the wife of Colonel William Rodes.  John Fox, Jr., wrote a description of this house in his novel Crittenden. Woodlawn was occupied by both Union and Confederate forces during the War Between the States. The house was dismantled in 2005 and removed from the county. 

Site of Bernheimer Oriental Gardens, 16980 Sunset Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, CA (Pic from Microsoft Bing Maps 12/10/2010) 

From an Oriental gatehouse, a palm-lined private road led to a hill crowned by a group of small one-room Japanese houses the home of Adolph Bernheimer, a cotton exporter and designer of the gardens, who in 50 years made 17 trips to the Orient collecting the treasures in the house and gardens. To the left of the gatehouse was a reproduction of the stables in the temple grounds at Nikko, Japan, in the black, mauve, and gold colors characterizing all the buildings. Beside the stables was a rock-lined lily pool with a bronze miniature of Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher of the 6^th century B.C., mounted on a horse.The exceptionally life-like bronze figure of Ten-Jin, ninth-century Japanese religious teacher, mounted on a representation of a sacred ox, watched over the entrance to the flower and bronze-lined path which winds to the Bernheimer home. Each room of the home was a separate house, although the four units were connected by pergolas. Treasures included color paintings on rice paper many hundreds of years old, bridal and temple kimonos, fingernail tapestries woven by specially-grown fingernails; and two pairs of devil-dogs, the traditional protectors from evil spirits, the female of each pair represented with suckling pups. More bronzes enhanced the downward path to the Sunken Garden, among them a Burmese Buddha in a “wishing well.” At the bottom was a miniature lake, replete with miniature temples and figures of warriors and elephants. Bernheimer, a native of New York, began collecting Oriental objects in 1887, came to Los Angeles in 1913, and in 1915 created an Oriental garden on a hilltop near Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue. Work was begun on the present location in 1925 and completed in 1927. Total expenditures came to $3,000,000. 

Lodgepole Opera House, Oberfelder Street, south of Front Street, Lodgepole, NE (Google Streetview accessed 11/26/2010) 

This property is significant of bringing a wide variety of entertainment to the community. Additionally, the building retains a high degree of historical integrity.  The two-story false-front commercial building was constructed by Frank Isenberger in 1911 as a garage, with the opera house located on the upper floor. “Lodgepole Opera House,” painted in large letters, remains visible on the front facade. The opera house has a stage and a projection booth, added later when it was used to show motion pictures. 

Dempster Mill Factory, 711 S. 6th St, Beatrice, NE–shown in Google Streetview, accessed 11/18/2010 

This company was founded in 1878 by C. B. Dernpster who, with $37 of his own and $300 borrowed from relatives, bought a third interest in a small retail pump and windmill shop. 

Site of Busch Gardens, 929 S. Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena, CA (Pic from Microsoft Bing Maps accessed 12/7/2010) 

The gardens were once part of the grounds surrounding the mansion of Adolphus Busch (1830-1913), the St. Louis brewer. Over the course of its history, Busch Gardens was visited by more than 1,000,000 people. The Pacific Electric Railway added a Busch Gardens stop on its nearest line. The site hosted entertainments, benefits, dog shows and Easter egg parties. Hollywood used the Gardens as a film location throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s. Among the many movies filmed there were Adventures of Robin Hood, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Gone With the Wind. Busch Gardens was open to the public for the majority of years 1905 to 1937. Adolphus’ wife Lily, who lived in their home in Pasadena until her death in 1928, maintained the Gardens after Adolphus died. On two separate occasions, they were offered to Pasadena as a city public park. 

Los Angeles Examiner Building, 1111 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA (Pic from Microsoft Bing Maps 12/5/2010) 

This is a reproduction of the California Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 

The structure was the plant of the Los Angeles Examiner, a morning Hearst-chain newspaper. Visible from the street on the Broadway side were five giant presses, each with a capacity of 32,000 forty-eight- page papers an hour. 

Metropolitan Opera House, N. Broad Street and Poplar Street, Philadelphia, PA (Google Streetview accessed 11/15/2010) 

The Metropolitan of today is little more than the tomb of the musical glories of another generation. The discoloration of the light brick and limestone exterior emphasizes the air of somberness that has enshrouded the massive building.  In its heyday, 1908 to 1913, operatic stars of the first magnitude graced its stage, and wealthy and socially prominent Philadelphians filled the horseshoe boxes and the orchestra and dress circle seats. Oscar Hammerstein came to Philadelphia in 1907 and built the opera house, then known as the Philadelphia Opera House, on the site of the former O’Harrah Mansion. Comment in musical circles at the time ran to the effect that “social Philadelphia will never go uptown.” Society’s playground was centered south of Market Street. Hammerstein proceeded with the new project, however, and when the doors of the house opened for a presentation of Carmen on November 17^th, 1908, social Philadelphia attended in a body. 

Philadelphia audiences responded whole-heartedly to Hammerstein’s presentations for two seasons. But, faced with a $400,000 mortgage which he saw no way of clearing, he abandoned hope of making a success of the house. It was taken over by E. T. Stotesbury as an adjunct of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, and the name of the theatre was changed to the Metropolitan Opera House. For three successive years opera was presented there each Tuesday evening with such luminaries as Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Tetrazzini, Nellie Melba, Frieda Hempel, Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer, Antonio Scotti, and Mme. Schumann-Heink. The structure was leased to Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, theatrical producer, in 1913. In 1920, the lease was taken over by the trustees of Lu Lu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In order to accommodate Morris Gest’s production, The Miracle, in the winter of 1926 and 1927, the theatre was redecorated to simulate a cathedral. Evangelistic services were conducted here in 1930, and it was used by the world-famous Freiburg Players for the presentation of their Passion Play in 1931. The stage is the largest of any theatre in the city, and the seating capacity of 3,791 is the second greatest. 

Germantown Town Hall, Germantown Avenue & W. Haines Street, Germantown PA (Google Streetview accessed 11/15/2010) 

This building is three stories in height and constructed of white sandstone with steel construction and granite base. Above the six Ionic columns of the semi-circular porch is a denticulated cornice and above this a railing. The building was completed in 1923 by John Molitor. It was dedicated in 1925 and supplanted the old Town Hall, which was used as a hospital during the Civil War. The clock and the bell in the tower were formerly in Independence Hall. The building is currently in a state of abandon. 

 Grand Central Air Terminal, Air Way between Grandview and Sonora Avenues, Glendale, CA (Photo taken in 2002 by Gabriel Shadid) 

The Grand Central Air Terminal was the Los Angeles terminus of the Pan-American Airways and the Mexican Aviation Company.  It also served as a United States Customs port of air entry. The offices and waiting rooms were in a tan stucco Terminal Building, on the Air Way side of the 220-acre landing field. The government-approved Grand Central Flying School had its headquarters at the field, around which were several private flying schools and many aircraft shops. The air squad of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office was based here; hangars provided space for private planes. The “crate” in which Douglas Corrigan “lost his way” on an announced flight from New York City to California in 1938, landing next day in Ireland, was pieced together and tuned up on this field. The field, established in 1928 by a small group of aviation enthusiasts, passed the following year into the hands of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation which enlarged and developed it. It was later been superseded in large part as a transcontinental and international airport by the Union Air Terminal at Burbank (now Bob Hope Airport).