Lester F. Fortnum, Sr. founded the Fortnum Motor Company in 1913 inBridgeboro, New Jersey. Until 1911 Mr. Fortnum worked as a shipper in the HenryTaubels Hoisery Mills in Riverside. Beginning his sales career in 1912 at theage of 22, Fortnum sold his first bicycle in a building adjacent to the firehouse on South Bridgeboro Street in Bridgeboro, As business progressed andtechnology changed, Lester Fortnum shifted from bicycles to motorcycles, andfinally in 1913 he sold his first automobile.On May 26, 1914, Lester Fortnum purchased the 2.33 acre parcel of landwhere the company's building is now located. Fortnum had the showroom andoffice section of the structure built on the site that year. In the same yearFortnum received his first licensed automobile franchise from the Ford Company.
The Whittier Theatre was not Whittier's firstmovie house, but it was its most prominentone. At least three other motion picture theaterspreceded the Whittier Theatre: the Family Theatre(124 S. Greenleaf Avenue) and the Optic (111 S.Greenleaf Avenue) were both operated by the G.H.Keipp family sometime after 1900, probably in the1910s [Whittier Daily News, n.d., c. 1910s] theScenic Theatre was in business at 211 E.Philadelphia when the Whittier Theatre opened itsdoors in the summer of 1929. When the WhittierTheatre was being planned, the owners deliberatelyselected a site on the outskirts of town toescaoe the Whittier blue laws that would haveprohibited showing movies on Sunday [Tribune/NewsDecember 13, 1987]. The Whittier Theatre wasdesigned as a combination movie palace and stagetheater, and it is noteworthy that the premieregala included not only the screening of MonteBlue's From Headquarters but three specialvaudeville numbers.The relative isolation of the theater from themain commercial district of uptown Whittier seemsto have had an adverse effect on the complex'sbusinesses for several years. Although the twoprincipal adjacent businesses (the McNees Cafe andthe Whittier Pharmacy) were stable, citydirectories indicate that, up until about 1936,other businesses came and went, and there wereseveral vacancies. The heyday of the WhittierTheatre lasted from the late 1930s until the1950s, when television began making inroads onmovie-going. Excerpts from newspaper articlesmake it clear that the theater is fondlyremembered by many of the area's residents as apopular social focal point and an important partof their younger years.
Elisha and Elizabeth Roberts opened The Chalfonte Hotel, or Chalfonte House as itwas first called, on June 25, 1868 near the corner of Pacific and North CarolinaAvenues in Atlantic City. The Roberts' choice of this corner was no doubt determinedby its proximity to the train depot to the north and the ocean to the south. Becausethe tides were continually increasing the beach area, the Roberts found itpossible to move the hotel forward twice, once in 1879 and again in 1889. Theyalso extended their main building and added subsidiary structures to it. TheChalfonte passed through a period of transition in management during the eighteen nineties and came under the control of Henry W. Leeds around 1900. Leeds embarked on a major expansion program and in 1904 constructed Atlantic City's first tall, iron frame hotel. It is this structure that people usually mean today when they recall staying at the Chalfonte. The original structure, however, was not demolished. As a comparison of the 1903 site plan with the 1904 site plan shows, it was simply moved sixty feet to the west, re-clad in brick, and integrated into the larger hotel complex. Atlantic City is the creation of the second half of the nineteenth century. Itwas the result of steadily increasing urbanization with its inevitable need forsome place where the masses could escape from work and city streets to leisure, romance, and sea breezes. Those with time enough and money could go to Cape May, where well-to-do Philadelphians mingled with their counterparts from southernstates. Even the well-to-do, however, may have found the long journey an inconvenience,while those whose work week ended on Saturday afternoon and started again on Monday morning simply had no means of escape from their sweltering row houses.
The builder of Windsor, Smith Coffee Daniell, II,was born in Mississippi in 1826, the son of an Indian fighterturned farmer and landowner. His own holdings were so vast(eventually totaling 21,000 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana)that he studied law at the University of Virginia in order tobetter administer his estates. In 1849 he was married to hiscousin Catherine Freeland (1830-1903), by whom he had sixchildren, and in 1859 he began building Windsor. Basic constructionwas done by slave labor, and the 16-inch bricks forthe walls were made at a kiln across the road from the house.Skilled carpenters were brought from New England for thefinished woodwork, and the iron stairs, column capitals, andbalustrades were manufactured in St. Louis and shipped downthe Mississippi River to the port of Bruinsburg, several mileswest of Windsor. Daniell died at age 34 on April 28, 1861,only weeks after completing his home at a cost of $175,000.00.During the Civil War, Windsor reputedly was used asan observation post by the Confederates, who sent signals fromits cupola across the Mississippi River to Louisiana. It isalso said to have served as a Union hospital after the Battleof Port Gibson in May, 1863, its mistress having dissuadedFederal troops from burning it.
Designed by the noted Philadelphia architect, Samuel Sloan, and constructedin 1860-62, Longwood is the largest and most elaborate of the octagon housesbuilt in the United States. The mansion, which was never completed on the interior, was to have 32 rooms each with their own fireplace.Longwood is also one of the finest survivingexamples of an Oriental Revival style residence which along with Olana,a Persian villa designed by R. M. Hunt for Frederick Church and built in1870-72 near Hudson, New York, illustrates the exotic phase of architecturalromanticism that flourished in mid-19th century America. Longwoodis interesting as an earlier, less academically detailed version of theMoslem Revival which uniquely combines stylistic eclecticism of bothMoslem and Italianate, with the octagonal form first fostered by thephrenologist and amateur architectural theorist Orson Squire Fowler.Although never completed on the interior, the fine detailing of the exteriorhas survived in an amazing state of preservation. When the document of thebuilding itself is combined with the papers of its owner, Haller Nutt,and of its architect, Samuel Sloan, an unusually complete insight is gainedinto the architectural theory of the period as well as the creative process involved in a unique and beautiful work of art.
The Ahnapee Brewery was built in 1869 for Wojta (aka Vojta) Stransky, a businessmanfrom the nearby city of Kewaunee, and Herman Seideman, a brewer who had come toAlgoma from Sturgeon Bay. Their brewery was constructed to fill the local need fora brewery in the city of Ahnapee, a community that was by then heavily settled withpersons of Bohemian and German extraction. The new brewery was built at a cost of$12,000 and was the most impressive building in the community for several yearsthereafter. Apparently the brewery was a commercial success and it continued inoperation under a number of different owners until 1894. In 1909, the building was converted into a fly net manufacturing plant by local businessman George Kelsey. In1926, the by then vacant building was taken over by another company thatmanufactured washing machines in the building for a number of years. Afterwards,the building was used primarily for feed storage until 1967, when a local doctor,Dr. Charles W. Stiehl, restored it to house the well-known wine-making business.The first settlers arrived at the mouth of the Ahnapee River (then known as the WolfRiver) in 1851. These men were John Hughes and Orrin Warner, both of whom madetheir first journey to the site in March of 1851 from the city of Manitowoc.
Construction of the Paramount Theater was initiated in 1930 by Publix Theatres, the exhibiting organization of ParamountPictures. Financial difficulties forced the saleof the uncompleted building to Fox-West Coast Theatres,the firm that completed the theatre and operated it untilit closed on September 15, 1970, although the nameParamount was ultimately retained. In 1972 the buildingwas purchased by the Board of Directors of the OaklandSymphony Orchestra Association. During 1973 the buildingwas restored, and in 1975 the City of Oakland, the presentowner, assumed ownership from the Oakland Symphony OrchestraAssociation.The Paramount Theatre in Oakland was one of only three theatresbuilt by the Publix chain on the West Coast and was the lastone started in a construction program which began in 1925. Itwas not only the last Publix house but was also the last verylarge moving picture theatre built on the West Coast and isnow the largest of the type still extant there. The groundbreakingceremony was performed with a golden spade by E. B.Field, President of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, onDecember 11, 1930. Speeches by Paramount and municipal officials,including Commissioner George H. Wilhelm representingMayor John L. Davie, who was ill, and music by the ROTC Bandand the Oakland Firemen's Band marked the occasion.
Euro-Americansettlement of the lower Lake Chelan country gained momentum in the 1890s astransportation and access to the remote area improved. Homesteaders whosettled in the vicinity of Chelan Butte turned to raising livestock, grazing theiranimals on the grasses of the sparsely forested butte. The summit of the butte,3835' above sea level, provided a dramatic vantage point overlooking LakeChelan and the forests and mountains of Okanogan and Chelan Counties. It ispossible that Chelan Butte was used for fire surveillance purposes prior to anyrecorded Forest Service use of the site.The earliest documented use of the butte for fire surveillance is the notation on a1922 Forest Service map of a triangulation station at the summit accessible by trail. At that time, the geographic location of Chelan Butte was outside theWenatchee National Forest and within the jurisdiction of the Chelan RangerDistrict on the old Chelan National Forest. Forest Service employee Simeon(Sim) Beeson, a forty-year veteran of the Chelan Ranger District, confirmed thatin the 1920s and early 1930s a tent camp was located at the summit. Anotherlong-time Forest Service employee, Marion McFadden, recalled the existence ofa rudimentary gabled lookout cabin in the summer of 1938, his first season onthe butte. In his personal possession is a 1938 photograph of himself as ayoung lookout man standing in front of the grade-level cabin.
The land on which the house stood before it wasmoved to Richmond, was granted to Richard Perrinin 1672. Some of this land had been formerlygranted to Captain Matthew Edloe on October 2,1656, and by him assigned to Richard Perrin.The brick mansion at Wilton was built byWilliam Randolph III (died 1761), a younger sonof William Randolph II (1681-1742), of TurkeyIsland. Upon his death it was inherited by hisson, Peyton Randolph, who married Lucy Harrison,daughter of Benjamin Harrison, Signer of theDeclaration of Independence. The Randolphs ownedit until about 1860, when the heiress of thefamily, Kate Randolph, great granddaughter ofWilliam Randolph III, married Edward G. Mayo.Since then the estate frequently changedhands.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the suburbanization of Louisville focusedon the southern section of the city, radiating from the principal new transportation belt,the Southern Parkway. As town expanded southward, suburban neighborhoods such asSouth Louisville and Oakdale, where historic Churchill Downs Racetrack is located,were incorporated into the city limits.The town of Highland Park began to develop about the turn-of-the-century, apredominantly working class neighborhood with small-scaled, frame, vernacularresidences for working class families. The first school in Highland Park School wasDistrict School 45.It was built about 1898 at the intersection of Louisville Avenue and Almond Avenue. The three-story, brick masonry school, with cut limestone basement, contained six classrooms and twocloakrooms on the first and second floors and two rooms used as an auditorium on thethird floor.
Thomas Marston Green, Jr. (1758-1813), builder of Springfield, was a member of the first general assembly of theTerritory of Mississippi and the second man to represent theterritory in the U. S. Congress. He was a son of ColonelThomas M. Green (1723-1805), who was instrumental in the establishmentof the short-lived Bourbon County (which included theNatchez district) by Georgia in 1785. Thomas M. Green, Jr.,was a brother of Abner Green, territorial treasurer of Mississippi,and brother-in-law of Cato West, acting governor of theterritory, 1803-1805, and a Jefferson County delegate to thestate constitutional convention of 1817. Colonel Thomas Hinds, who distinguished himself in the Pensacola and New Orleans campaigns with Jackson and was also active in the territorial period and early statehood of Mississippi, was a son-in-law ofThomas M. Green, Jr. The Springfield estate was retained bymembers of the Green family until 1850, and in 1914 the houseand 533 acres were acquired by James H. Williams.Local tradition maintains that Andrew Jackson andRachel Donelson Robards were married at Springfield in thesummer of 1791. One of the earliest known references to theevent is in The Memories of Fifty Years (1870) by W. H. Sparks,whose own wife was a daughter of Abner Green: Jackson cameand married her [Rachel], in the house of Thomas M. Green.Sparks' relationship to the Green family would seemingly addcredence to his account, but he diminishes his own reliabilityby such devices as attributing entire paragraphs of verbatimconversation to Jackson. In A History of Mississippi byRobert Lowry and William H. McCardle (1891), the tradition ofthe Springfield marriage was restated, as well as elaborated:General Andrew Jackson was married at thehome of the Hon. Thomas Marstori Green, onthe northern bank of Coles Creek, in whatis now Jefferson County, in the summer of1791, to Mrs. Rachel Robards.... the ceremonywas performed by Colonel Thomas Green,who acted in his capacity of magistrate inand for Bourbon County.No documentation for the above is given; in actuality, however, Bourbon County was officially abolished in 1788.
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