Monday 12/31/2007
The Sherman Street Historic District is an integral part of the development of the urban apartment in Denver. The district consists of an intact collection of three-story walk-up apartments built during the period 1929 to 1950.

Sunday 12/30/2007
Adams County Courthouse — Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the existence of this John J. Huddart-designed building is a direct consequence of the birth of Adams County and the election of Brighton as the county seat. The building, completed on May 10, 1906, demonstrates the contribution a courthouse makes to the legal system of a society and the architectural contributions a building of this stature provides a small town as a symbol of growth and prosperity

Friday 12/28/2007
Updated: Franconia Twp and Lower Salford Twp, Montgomery County, PA.

Saturday 12/22/2007
Updated: David Cutler Neighborhoods and Retro Neighborhoods.

Friday 12/21/2007
Updated: Whitpain Twp and Plymouth Twp, Montgomery County, PA.

Tuesday 12/18/2007
Updated: Honey Brook Twp and West Brandywine Twp, Chester County, PA.

Friday 12/14/2007
Dude ranches, historic sites and magnificent scenery draw travelers to Arizona.

Rapid growth and robust development have been the hallmark of Maricopa County ever since the 1860's; by far the lion's share of energy and activity has evolved around the State's capital, Phoenix.

Thursday 12/13/2007
The Forest Park Southeast Historic District represents the late nineteenth and early twentieth century phenomenon of the working- and middle-class quest for relief from the crowded and polluted conditions in the older residential sections of St. Louis.

The Tiffany Neighborhood District began development in 1891 as Dundee Place, one of south St. Louis' earliest streetcar suburbs.

The Ohio River — "Ohio" is an Iroquois Indian word meaning Great River. And indeed she is, from the source at Pittsburgh to the mouth at Cairo Illinois where she empties making the Mississipi all the mightier.

The City of Columbus, seat of government for Franklin County, was designed and created specifically for the purpose of being the capitol of the state of Ohio.

Wednesday 12/12/2007
The Village of Ashley was plotted in 1849 when the first railroad between Cincinnati and Cleveland passed through the county. According to several Delaware County histories, the community prospered by the presence of the railroad and its close proximity to fertile farmland. [ Delaware County, OH ]

The area's first, permanent white settler (John Beard) put down roots in 1807, and the following year the village of Delaware was established and received the coveted designation as county seat (1808).

Monday 12/10/2007
[ Tippecanoe County, Indiana ]
Neighboring cities Lafayette and West Lafayette are, together, home to more than a dozen National Register Historic Districts; these include:

Friday 12/07/2007
By 1990, the Hickory Street District's small scale, location (5-minutes to downtown), and multi-family buildings began to attract owners interested in rehabilitation. [St. Louis, MO]

Wednesday 12/05/2007
Cassill Place Historic District retains integrity as a surviving segment of the former Cassill Place, a residential haven for wealthy citizens of Carthage in the period between 1890 and 1925. [Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri]

Monday 12/03/2007
The Eldridge Avenue Historic District is a gracious residential area situated on a bluff overlooking the bay in Bellingham. [Whatcom County, WA]

Sunday 12/02/2007
New: North Penn School District Neighborhoods, Montgomery County, PA


The Rucker Hill Historic District is an exclusive residential area on a knoll above Port Gardner Bay in Everett, Washington. The historic district includes 102 single family residences, most of which are well preserved examples of the popular domestic styles of the early 20th century, including Colonial Revival, American Foursquare, Bungalow, and Craftsman style homes.

The Everett City Hall is a monumental Art Deco style municipal building built in 1929 of buff-colored brick and designed by prominent Seattle architect A.H. Albertson.

Saturday 12/01/2007
Lying on hilltops overlooking the commercial heart of the city the Robidoux Hill Historic District contains 61 contributing resources which retain sufficient historic character to reflect the stylistic preferences dominant in domestic architecture of St. Joseph between c.1865-1909. [Buchanan County, Missouri]

Friday 11/30/2007
The Jewell-Lightburne Historic District includes buildings from nearly every period of construction in the city's history and serves as a physical reminder of the slow, steady growth of the community influenced by various physical and economic factors. It is an architectural textbook of Liberty housing styles and contains some of the best examples of Victorian era housing in the city.

Thursday 11/29/2007
John Nolen, (1869-1937); his prolific and visionary work made him one of America's most influential city planners.

In 1831 Ambrose H. Sevier began a movement which culminated with Arkansas being admitted to the Union in 1836 as the 25th.

Wednesday 11/28/2007
New: Council Rock School District Neighborhoods, Bucks County, PA
Updated: Bucks School District Neighborhoods – Centennial and Central Bucks

Many of the persons involved in the Springfield's growth industries built their homes in what is now the Walnut Street Historic District which ultimately pushed further and further to the east as time passed. The visually eclectic Queen Anne style is well represented in the district, cheek by jowl with the more simplified though no less imposing or substantial catalogue-builder foursquare style of the following generation. [Greene County, Missouri]

Tuesday 11/27/2007
Clardy Heights Historic District
Darwin Adkins bought property on Kansas City Road (now West Liberty Drive) in 1869; Adkins was one of the founders of the Farmers Bank in Liberty. In 1912, the owner of the property was G. W. Clardy. He envisioned a planned subdivision on the northeast portion of the estate. In that year, he submitted his plat for "Clardy Heights." The majority of the lots were approximately 50' by 135', and sold for around $300.00.

Clardy developed a promotional brochure for the neighborhood, a good portion of which is devoted to information about Liberty, "the Bonton suburb of Kansas City." Clardy felt that Liberty was destined to be to Kansas City what Pasadena is to Los Angeles; a city of fine suburban homes. Clardy's subdivision never attracted that many developers, although two fine examples of early twentieth century architecture were constructed immediately adjacent to the house.

Arthur-Leonard Historic District
Although containing only thirty-six contributing buildings, the Arthur/Leonard Historic District has residences which represent nearly every period of architectural development found in Liberty.

Victoria Crossing is a subdivision of detached, single family homes built by Toll Brothers ca. 1984. See also: Index of Toll Brothers Neighborhoods.

Monday 11/26/2007
The Dougherty/Prospect Heights Historic District (Liberty, Missouri) contains a variety of housing styles, types, and sizes. Included are pre-Civil War Greek Revival Residences, Queen Anne style buildings, Prairie and Craftsman style buildings, simple National Folk forms, and early twentieth century vernacular styles.

Friday 11/23/2007
It was on October 30, 1915, that Andrew Jackson Downing was born at Newburgh, New York, on the Hudson. The home in which he grew up was a cottage set on high land commanding a beautiful view of the broad river below and the Fishkill mountains beyond, and his playground and workshop was the nursery of his father and older brother. Later on this whole beautiful and varied countryside became his broader playground and his field for study. His love for this spot never waned and he never left it in his travels but to return with a deeper love and a more tender appreciation of its beauty.

Calvert Vaux, together with Frederick Law Olmsted, planned Central Park, New York, the prototype of large, accessible, nature-like city parks.

Wednesday 11/21/2007
Pasadena's beginning dates to 1873 when a group of settlers from Indiana formed the San Gabriel Orange Grove Association, and purchased land in the area of the old Rancho San Pasqual. [Los Angeles County, California]

Several areas of Pasadena developed in response to the topographic features of their sites, and are noted for their Arts and Crafts architecture, are "Little Switzerland" and Oak Knoll. The former is a grouping of seven residences, designed by the architects Charles and Henry Greene.

Monday 11/19/2007
During the fourteen years of the republic, Vermont issued its own currency, raised its own troops, ran its own postal service, and carried on diplomatic relations. In addition, common and secondary schools were established, the University of Vermont was founded, and the state judiciary was enlarged to provide for a county court system. Finally, on March 4, 1791, after a series of attempts to gain admission to the Union, Vermont was admitted by Congress to the Union. It became the fourteenth state — the first state to join the original thirteen colonies.

Saturday 11/17/2007
The City of Titusville is located in Brevard County, Florida, approximately 40 miles east of Orlando and 46 miles south of Daytona Beach. It is situated beside the Indian River, a salt water lagoon stretching along the Florida East Coast some 100 miles from southern Volusia County to northern Martin County.

Friday 11/16/2007
The Tunkhannock Historic District is locally significant for its role as the commercial center and seat of local government for Wyoming County. Areas of significance are commerce and politics/government. Tunkhannock served as a regionally important transshipment point, a local industrial entrepot, and the commercial, professional, and governmental center of Wyoming County. [Tunkhannock Boro, Pennsylvania]

The Philippi Historic District is composed of commercial and residential resources that form a significant ensemble of 19th and early 20th century architecture in a small Appalachian county seat centered about a distinctive town square. [Barbour County, Philippi, West Virginia]

Thursday 11/15/2007
The Milford Historic District includes the area that has been the trading center of this northeastern Pennsylvania community for nearly two centuries. As such, the district reflects the fortunes of the town, whose prosperity is evident throughout the district in the substantial buildings constructed in the downtown throughout the period of significance. [Pike County, PA]

Wednesday 11/14/2007
The Ripley Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004; Jacob Starcher petitioned the State on December 5, 1832 and his request was granted on December 19, 1832 for the establishment of a town, Ripley. Originally part of Virginia, Jackson County was one of the western counties that becaome the new state of West Virginia in 1863.

Tuesday 11/13/2007
Updated — City of Albany
"The oldest city in the United States, excepting St. Augustine, is Albany. As such, it claims the reverence, not only of every true-hearted Dutch-man, but of every member of the universal Yankee nation, which has no geographical limit this side of Saturn's rings. Until within a few years, Albany was, in every sense of the word, an old-fashioned town. The Present is still linked with the Past more inseparably here than in any other city in the State." – Colt, Mrs. S.S., "The Tourist's Guide through the Empire State," 1871, Albany N.Y.

Sunday 11/11/2007
The Daniel's Hill Historic District is downtown residential neighborhood, prominently sited along a steep hill between Lynchburg's central business district and the James River, is distinguished by a rich variety of architectural styles and housing types dating from the early 19th century through the early 20th century.

Saturday 11/10/2007
East Side Historic District displays a wide variety and high concentration of well-preserved late eighteenth and nineteenth-century brick and frame structures, ranging from simple industrial buildings and early stores to the elaborate Victorian residences which characterize the residential areas. [Catskill Village • Greene County • NY]

Friday 11/09/2007
With the coming of the railroad in the 1880s, Hunter Village was transformed into a village of hotels, boardinghouses and main street shops.

The early development of Saratoga Springs as a fashionable resort community was shaped largely by the vision and entrepreneurship of Gideon Putnam.

The physical isolation of the Union Hill neighborhood [Richmond], combined with its hilly and rugged terrain, led to development of an independent community with a unique plan and distinctive architectural character. In 1980, Michael W. Gold, Managing Director of the Historic Richmond Foundation observed "it is one of the most important treasures of modest, 19th-century domestic architecture in the country."

Thursday 11/08/2007
The Scott's Addition Historic District illustrates commercial and industrial development in the City of Richmond during the early twentieth century. At the close of the nineteenth century, the area was envisioned as a residential neighborhood, but it soon included a number of warehouses due to the proximity of the Acca freight yard and the Acca Locomotive Terminal to the north. Named for General Winfield Scott (1786-1866), was a part of the vast, 600 acre, Hermitage estate that Scott inherited from his father-in law, Colonel John Mayo.

Daniel H. Burnham architect (1846-1912) realized the great possibilities the Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893) offered for the encouragement of fine arts in America. He selected the artists, induced them to undertake the work as a public service, secured to each a full opportunity for expression, maintained harmony among them, and fought their battles with committees and contractors. Having organized the creation of what was known throughout the Fair as the "White City," Burnham was subsequently considered by many the "Father of the City Beautiful" movement.

Situated south of Albany on the western bank of the Hudson River, Greene County offers some of the most dramatic views and scenic vistas in the Catskills and has attracted both artists and tourists since the early nineteenth century. [County Seat: Village of Catskill]

The Village of Athens is a community along the Hudson River which has retained much of its architectural and historical integrity since its settling in 1706. Virtually all of Athens is recorded as a Multiple Resource Area on the National Register of Historic Places; additionally, within the village, two historic districts are recognized separately: Brick Row Historic District and Lower Village Historic District.

Wednesday 11/07/2007
The Rivermont Historic District is significant as Lynchburg's first planned streetcar community that included a mixture of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings as well as green space and a transportation system incorporated as an integral feature of the design. Developed at the end of the 19th century by the Rivermont Land Company, the neighborhood is closely linked to downtown Lynchburg by the Rivermont Bridge over Blackwater Creek and reflects the city's growth and prosperity from the turn of the century through the mid-20th century.

Tuesday 11/06/2007
The Laburnum Park Historic District occupies approximately 116 nearly level acres located northwest of Richmond's central business district. It is bounded by Laburnum Avenue, Brook Road, Westwood Avenue, and Hermitage Road. The residential portions of the neighborhood occupy approximately three-quarters of the district's total land area, while the remainder of the neighborhood is dominated by several large institutions including an educational institution, a former city hospital, and a nursing home.

The buildings in the Broad Street Commercial Historic District date from 1852 to 1970 but a majority of the structures were erected between 1880 and 1930.

Lynchburg, City of Seven Hills
• Court House Hill Historic District
• Federal Hill Historic District

Monday 11/05/2007
D. Wiley Anderson, architect (1864-1940) – Well-known throughout Virginia for his residential, commercial and institutional architecture, Anderson was an extremely popular architect practicing in Richmond's Northside suburbs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Hermitage Road Historic District is a four-block section of Hermitage Road, a north-south thoroughfare in Richmond. Situated to the northwest of Richmond's central business district and just south of the Henrico County line, the district is roughly bound by Laburnum Avenue on the south and Westbrook Avenue on the north. It extends from the 3800 block to the 4200 block of Hermitage Road and includes 3801-4219 on the east and 3800-4204 on the west.

Holly Lawn – Situated among clusters of mature oak and holly trees in what formerly was a turn-of-the-century streetcar suburb of Richmond, Holly Lawn is a superb Queen Anne-style residence that is representative of the best suburban architecture of its period. Built in 1901 for Andrew Bierne Blair, a prominent Richmond insurance agent, the house is more closely associated with Dr. Ennion G. Williams, who made Holly Lawn his residence for nearly twenty years following his appointment as the Commonwealth's first Commissioner of Public Health in 1908.

The Wertland Street Historic District is significant because of its historic and architectural associations with both Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. Beginning with the 1830 construction of the Wertenbaker House, home of the University's second librarian, through current times as a residential area for faculty and students, the development of Wertland Street has closely paralleled the growth of the University.

Sunday 11/04/2007
The Manchester Residential and Commercial Historic District in Richmond, Virginia illustrates the growth of a community from a scattered settlement in the seventeenth century, to a thriving port in the eighteenth century. Manchester was granted city status in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth century it was consolidated into the city of Richmond. The surviving architecture represents the prosperous era, the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, when Manchester thrived as a port and manufacturing center on the south side of the James River across from Richmond.

Saturday 11/03/2007
Charlottesville, the home of Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, is one of the most historically significant cities in Virginia. The City, named for Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of George III, was founded in the early 1760's just west of the Rivanna River watergap on the region's principal east-west route, the Three Notched Road.

The Ridge Street District, with the exception of sane minor intrusions, is one of the few areas in Charlottesville [VA] that has remained relatively unchanged since the turn of this century.

Friday 11/02/2007
The Stockade Historic District has been the site of continuous human habitation for over three hundred years. Evidence of every chapter of this long history may be read in the asymmetry of the street patterns, the dense accumulation of structures and the rich diversity of architectural styles which remain today. [City of Schenectady, NY]

Thursday 11/01/2007
The Hunterstown Historic District encompasses most of the small town of Hunterstown which is located in Straban Township, Adams County along Beaver Dam Creek on Rt. 394 and Granite Station Road.

Tuesday 10/30/2007
Evergreen Hamlet was founded in 1851 by a local lawyer, William Shinn, who with a group of five other well to do citizens formed a community with the purpose of securing to themselves the advantages of both city and country living.

Monday 10/29/2007
Index to National Register and National Landmark Properties – Links to pages that include selected text transcibed for Living Places from copies of the original nomination documents as submitted to the National Park Service/National Register.

Incorporated about 1830, Marietta Borough was formed out of three settlements: New Haven, founded 1803, Waterford, 1804, and Irishtown, 1813. Early growth and expansion were due to the lumber industry. In the 19th century, timber was cut upriver, in the forests of central Pennsylvania and the logs were then floated down the Susquehanna River. [Lancaster County]

Saturday 10/27/2007
Updated: The Beaver Historic District is the reflection of unusually farsighted urban planning from the last decade of the eighteenth century. Following the American Revolution, veterans were to be paid based upon a system of depreciated "bills of credit" issued by the State. In 1781 a law was passed which fixed the scale by which veterans were to be remunerated for their service. In 1783, the state legislature assigned to veterans all the land north and west of the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers, with the southern half of the territory to be given in redemption for these depreciation certificates; these tracts became known as "Depreciation Land." [Beaver County / Beaver Borough]

Friday 10/26/2007
Located just across the southern boundary of Historic Newtown Boro is Newtown Gate a residential subdivision built in 3 sections, each a different style of home: apartment-style, 2-bedroom condominiums (active adult, currently selling in the $200s), multi-story, 3-bedroom townhomes (currently selling in the $300s) and 4-bedroom, detached singles (currently selling in the $400s).

Thursday 10/25/2007
Retro / Baby Boomer-Era Neighborhoods (ca. 1950s)

Village of Nassau — a map of 1854 shows a vigorous group of mills still operating at the site on the northern arm (Elm Street) of the crossroads which was chosen by Hoag. The foundry, eight stores and several hotels are indicated on the east (Albany Avenue) — see Albany Ave Historic District, west (Church Street) — see Church St Historic District, and north (Elm Street) arms of the crossroads. Two southern streets, Chatham — see Chatham St Historic District — and Malden, which fork at the crossroads, were as yet largely undeveloped. However, by 1876, Chatham had buildings on its west side while Malden Street had development on its east side. [Rensselaer County, New York]

Sunday 10/21/2007
The Chattel Houses of the Caribbean West Indies are sometimes referred to as the original 'mobile homes.'

Friday 10/12/2007
Updated — Wycombe is a rural village with modest late Victorian homes, primarily two-and-one-half story frame, set on spacious wooded lots.

Thursday 10/11/2007
The Waverly Historic District, with the retained rural village character brought in the 1820s by its New England forebears, stands alone in the region as a distinct architectural entity with unimpaired integrity consisting of a densely-concentrated inventory of primarily residential buildings dating principally from the middle years of the nineteenth century. [Abington Twp, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania]

Friday 10/05/2007
The General Electric Realty Plot is a planned residential neighborhood created in 1899 to house the top scientists and engineers working for the General Electric Company. [City of Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York.]

With sales down, resale inventory up, and resale prices leveling off, single family home buyers interested in Council Rock School District [Bucks County, PA] may want to take a look at Newtown Crossing. With almost a dozen homes vying for buyers, ask your Realtor® if now might be a good time to 'make an offer.'

Wednesday 10/03/2007
Cradled virtually in the center of the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, and Troy), the Town of Clifton Park is largely a bedroom community offering a range of neighborhoods catering to a wide variety of homeowner tastes and price-ranges; here's a sampling of 7 detached, single family home subdivisions with location, photos, and neighborhood boundaries:
    Applewood Estates
    Fairway Woods
    Park Lane Estates
    Southwick Meadows
    Summer Hill
    The Oaks
    Wyncrest

Tuesday 10/02/2007
The Verbeck House is architecturally significant as a documented example of the work of prominent regional architect Marcus F. Cummings. Built in 1889 for James Verbeck, a prominent Ballston Spa attorney, the rambling twenty-five room Queen Anne style house is one of the last buildings designed by Cummings before his retirement in 1891. [Ballston Spa is the county seat of Saratoga County, New York.]

Friday 09/28/2007
Vischer Ferry Historic District
First settled in the 1670s by the Dutch from Albany and Schenectady, the hamlet of Vischer Ferry is an unspoiled 19th century rural community which has escaped modern development despite the fact that it is within easy commuting distance of three cities. [located in the Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, NY.

Sunday 09/23/2007
Updated: Toll Brothers Neighborhoods

Monument Avenue marches out from Richmond's old city limits for one and a half miles, a grand avenue laid out with a dual purpose. A National Historic Landmark District since 1997, it was proposed in 1887 to provide an appropriate setting for a major memorial to Robert E. Lee in the former capital of the Confederacy, the avenue was also intended to encourage residential development west of the growing city.

Saturday 09/22/2007 – Choice, Convenience & Affordability in Historic Yardley Boro
Popular with Empty-Nesters and First-time Home Buyers
Yardley Commons is high on the radar of real estate professions looking to provide value to first-time home buyers and empty-nesters. Walk to the Yardley SEPTA train station with service to 30th Street Philadelphia (and points inbetween); minutes to I-95; convenient to Trenton's AMTRAK station; close to Delaware River public boat access; stroll to shops, restaurants and the Delaware Canal towpath (popular for walking, jogging or biking.)

Friday 09/21/2007 – Three Delaware County Neighborhoods

Highland Park and Kirklyn border the McCall Golf and Country Club in Upper Darby Township. These popular, residential neighborhoods were built primarily during the first half of the 20th century and are comprised of a mix of detached singles, twins and row homes.

Paddock Farms is a 1950s neighborhood of detached, single family homes located in Haverford Township.

Wednesday 09/19/2007
The Tamaqua Borough District is a fine example of an early industrial and commercial center in Pennsylvania's anthracite region. The varied ages and architectural styles of its resources represent the development of the town during the late 19th- and early-to-mid 20th centuries. [Tamaqua Boro, Schuylkill County.

Sunday 09/16/2007 – Four Capital Neighborhoods
Boylan Heights, Cameron Park, Glen Forest, Oakwood Historic District, located in the City of Raleigh (Wake County), North Carolina.

Saturday 09/15/2007 – Two Capital Neighborhoods
Chestnut Hill/Plateau Historic District, one of Richmond's early streetcar suburbs, was established about 1890 and experienced much of its growth by 1901.

The Carver Residential Historic District is located to the northwest of Richmond, Virginia's central business district. The area remained largely undeveloped until the 1840s and 1850s when modest brick dwellings for small shop owners and tradesmen were constructed.

Tuesday 09/11/2007 – A Capital Neighborhood
In 1914 the Town of Highland Park became part of Richmond. The area now referred to as the Highland Park Plaze Historic District developed primarily during post Civil War reconstruction, 1866-1915.

Monday 09/10/2007 – Three Capital Neighborhoods
The Barton Heights Historic District is among the earliest of several turn-of-the-century streetcar suburbs in north Richmond.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Church Hill North began its slow development as a neighborhood of middle-class merchants and tradesmen, many of whom either were involved in the tobacco trade, or were associated with businesses in the vicinity of Rocketts, the nearby port of Richmond.

Buildings in the Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District represent a collective body of work by some of the leading mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century architects in the United States and Richmond.

Sunday 09/09/2007 – A Capital Neighborhood
The boundaries of the Clinton Avenue Historic District include the greatest concentration of speculative middle-class brick rowhousing constructed in the northern end of the city of Albany between ca. 1830 and the end of the nineteenth century. [New York | Albany County]

Saturday 09/08/2007 – A Capital Neighborhood
The Center Square/Hudson Park Historic District is a harmonious collection of diverse nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century urban architecture. [New York | Albany County | City of Albany]

Friday 09/07/2007 – A Capital Neighborhood
The Bellevue Historic District of one of the earliest planned suburban residential neighborhoods in Columbia; its appearance has been largely unaltered by the passage of time. [South Carolina | Richland County | City of Columbia]

Wednesday 09/05/2007
Built by Albany's "lumber barons" and other industrialists during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Ten Broeck Historic District is a self-contained residential enclave that survives today as a significant concentration of urban residential architecture. Ten Broeck is one of several National Register of Historic Places resources found within the boundaries of the city's Arbor Hill neighborhood.

Monday 09/03/2007
It seems these days that print media and the internet are awash in lists touting the "Best Places for        " (fill-in the blank). A perennial favorite, repeatedly finding a spot on many of these lists is Annapolis, the state capital of Maryland and the seat of government for Anne Arundel County.

Friday 08/31/2007
Ginter Park Terrace is one of several streetcar suburbs developed in the north side suburban areas (referred to as Northside) of the city of Richmond, Virginia, in the second decade of the twentieth century

The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which was built to apply the Pennsylvania System of imprisonment, served as a model for numerous other prisons throughout the world. Although of limited influence in the United States, the prison and the Pennsylvania System influenced, and continue to influence, penological practices in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Thursday 08/30/2007
NEW: Median Resale Price Trend
Pennsbury School District
UPDATE: Median Resale Price Trend
Central Bucks and Neshaminy School Districts, Bucks County, PA.

Added: Cumberland County and City of Richmond, Virginia.

Tuesday 08/28/2007
Home Builders & Suburban Development: 1830-1960 — Until the early twentieth century, most subdivisions were relatively small, and suburban neighborhoods tended to expand in increments as adjoining parcels of land were subdivided and the existing grid of streets extended outward.

Monday 08/27/2007
Preschools in Montgomery County – [Montgomery County, Pennsylvania]

Sunday 08/26/2007
Four Historic Residential Neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Beauregard Town, Drehr Place, Kleinert Terrace, and Roseland Terrace.

Saturday 08/25/2007
DOYLESTOWN TWP! ... some "GOOD NEWS" for BUYERS in Central Bucks
Across the region the story for buyers of detached, single family resales has been – # of sales down, prices up. However, year-over-year statistics* for Doylestown Twp show the number of sales have increased, while the median resale price has come down. For the district overall, the opposite remains true – # of sales down, median resale prices up. Those who thought they were priced-out of Central Bucks, may want to take another look – at Doylestown – there just may be a glimmer of sunshine breaking through the clouds.

Friday 08/24/2007
"Welcome To My Neighborhood"
We received the following comments from a Yardley Run resident/homeowner.

"Affordable, friendly, community oriented; a commuter's dream (close to I-95, Rt. 1, PA Turnpike, and trains), self-contained (no through traffic); unique environment where you can have your privacy but still be neighborly; many children; walker friendly with sidewalks; many dog walkers; close to schools and shopping; away from commercial shopping areas; not much traffic in immediate area; many surrounding farms (some owned by the township and dedicated as open space), close to Historic Newtown Boro (young and old ride their bikes to Newtown), Yardley Boro & New Hope Boro; just 10 minutes to the Oxford Valley Mall area."

Might this kind of enthusiasm and spirit contribute to the fact that while the year-over-year median resale price in many neighborhoods has stalled or even dropped, Yardley Run has seen an increase of nearly 10 percent? Who knows if it helps or not? But it sure doesn't hurt. This is one of many popular neighborhoods in Lower Makefield Township, an area occasionally referred to as "Bucks County's Main Line."

Thursday 08/23/2007
The Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site preserves and commemorates the American iron industry and associated economy that developed around Mark Bird's 1771 enterprise. The furnace was a major producer of cannons, shot and shell during the American Revolution.

Wednesday 08/22/2007
Mount Pleasant Historic District is located ten miles west of Pottsville in western Schuylkill County [Foster Township]. It is a small mining village of mostly residential buildings laid out around the intersection of Pleasant and Sunbury Roads.

Tuesday 08/21/2007
Pine Grove Historic District is located in southwest Schuylkill County about fifteen miles southwest of Pottsville. It is situated on the floor of a narrow valley carved by Swatara Creek where the stream curves from the north to the west.

The Downtown Indiana Historic District gives visitors a sense of history through its commercial storefronts, government buildings and tree-lined residential streets.

Monday 08/20/2007
Rising near Cooperstown, New York, the Susquehanna River flows for more than 440 miles through New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, emptying into the Chesapeake bay at Havre de Grace.

The Schuylkill River rises in Schuylkill County and flows in a generally southeasterly direction through Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia where it empties into the Delaware River.

Sunday 08/19/2007
Settlement in Elmwood probably began shortly after 1675, but took place slowly. As late as the middle of the eighteenth century only a few farms existed and even fewer roads. Broad Street, originally a part of an Indian trail known as the Pequot Path.

Thursday 08/16/2007
Sal Lapio Neighborhoods 26 residential subdivisions ca. 1992-2004.

Providence, Rhode Island
The West End is a large, primarily residential neighborhood developed principally between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
College Hill is the site of the first permanent colonial settlement in Rhode Island. Its buildings comprise the city's most distinguished body of historic architecture.

Wednesday 08/15/2007
The Marklesburg Historic District is a nineteenth century linear community in which began to see permanent settlement after ca. 1790. (Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania)

The Huntingdon Historic District was an important nineteenth-century stop for goods and people moving along major transportation arteries.

Updated: PA Historic Index – 125 of Pennsylvania's National Register Historic Districts.

Tuesday 08/14/2007
Hayden City's early homesteaders (1800s) developed the area into a thriving agricultural and logging community by the early 1900s when the economy was further stimulated by the growth of summer resorts along the southwest shore of Hayden Lake (Kootenai County, Idaho).

Monday 08/13/2007
NEW — Index to Neighborhoods built by Dewey Homes.

Sunday 08/12/2007
Updated — Index to Neighborhoods built by David Cutler Group.

Saturday 08/11/2007
The Little Buffalo Historic District, ca. 1808 iron community; known as Juniata Furnace when William Power and David Watts built a small furnace on Limestone Run. (Perry County)

Friday 08/10/2007
The Newport Historic District was listed on the National Register in 1998. Located in Perry County's Newport Boro, the district retains a large number of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings. In addition, much of the layout and structure of the town remains, giving it the visual qualities demonstrative of a local residential, commercial, and industrial center of the 19th century.

Wednesday 08/08/2007
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Birchrunville General Store (ca. 1898, located in the Birchrunville Historic District) is a fine example of Victorian architecture and a reflection of the innovative character of its builder, Thomas B. Dewees. It was erected to house the general store and post office, with a meeting hall above and a creamery below.

Saturday 08/04/2007
So You Want a House on an Acre or Two?
Here's our updated directory of more than 200 Residential Neighborhoods with median lot sizes ranging from 1-to-2 acres. There's something for almost everyone here with median resale prices spanning a range from the $280-thousands (Coatesville or Phoenixville Areas) to $2-million (New Hope Area).

Updated – Toll Brothers Neighborhoods Index [added Audubon Ridge; Blue Bell Country Club; Blue Bell Woods; Cobblestones at Thornbury; Thornbury Hunt].

Friday 08/03/2007
A Town Made for Walking
This is a characterization used by the National Trust for Historic Preservation when it named Lewes, Delaware to its annual Dozen Distinctive Destinantions list for 2006.

Thursday 08/02/2007
Updated: Lantern Hill "traditional" neighborhood development by Granor-Price located in historic Doylestown Boro. New feature allows quick "at-a-glance" presentation of homes for sale in the neighborhood and contact information to reach Lantern Hill real estate experts.