A few nice register a business images I found:
National Farmers' Bank (1908)
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NRHP #71000441
101 N. Cedar Avenue
Owatonna, Minnesota
Architect: Louis Sullivan
Banker Carl Bennett wanted more than a prominent new building to house his family's business. He wanted a work of art. Bennett's search for an architect led him in 1906 to Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, one of the country's most inventive designers. Together their brilliant collaboration of patron and architect produced what many consider the finest small-town bank in America, the first of Sullivan's "jewel boxes". The building is bathed in a symphony of color, as Sullivan described it. Green and brown terra cotta panels and blue and gold glass mosaic bands contrast with the reddish brick walls and the red sandstone base that anchors the bank to its site, giving depositors a sense of security. Two arched stained glass windows designed by Louis J. Millet are mirrored on the interior by murals of dairy and harvest scenes by Oskar Gross. The lavish organic decorative elements, including four 18-foot-tall cast iron electroliers and teller window grilles, were designed by chief draftsman George Grant Elmslie and cast by Winslow Brothers Company (owned by William Winslow, for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed an iconic house). Today this National Historic Landmark is a Wells Fargo Bank.
Washington DC - West Potomac Park: Thomas Jefferson Memorial - Inscriptions
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general plan."
Original Passages:
"But let them [members of the parliament of Great Britain] not think to exclude us from going to other markets to dispose of those commodities which they cannot use, or to supply those wants which they cannot supply. Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
-- "A Summary View of the Rights of British America"
"For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever . . . ."
-- Notes on the State of Virginia
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. . . ."
-- Notes on the State of Virginia
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."
-- The Autobiography
"Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people."
-- to George Wythe, August 13, 1780?
"It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan."
-- to George Washington, January 4, 1786
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, situated in West Potomac Park on the shore of the Tidal Basin of the Potomac River, is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. Officially dedicated on April 13, 1943--the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birthday, the Jefferson Memorial is one of the last American public monuments in the Beaux-Arts tradition.
The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope, but the cornerstone wasn't laid until November 15, 1939--2 years after his death. Daniel P. Higgins and Otto R. Eggers took over construction, and with Philadelphia contractor John McShain, completed the memorial four years later. Composed of circular marble steps, a portico, a circular colonnade of Ionic order columns, and a shallow dome, the building is open to the elements. Pope's design reflects characteristics of the Roman Pantheon, as well as Jefferson's own design for Monticello and the Rotunda at the University of West Virginia. The memorial was constructed with Danby Imperial marble (Vermont) for the exterior walls and columns, Tennessee pink marble for the interior floor, Georgian white marble for the interior wall panels, and Missouri gray marble for the pedestal. Indiana limestone was used in construction of the ceiling. The cost of construction was slightly more than million.
The 19-foot, 10,000-pound heroic bronze statue of Jefferson, resting on a 6-foot pedestal of black Minnesota granite, by sculptor Rudulph Evans was added to the center of the memorial room in 1947. Evans was chosen from more than 100 who participated in a nationwide competition conducted by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. Adolph A. Weinman's sculpture of the five members of the Declaration of Independence drafting committee submitting their report to Congress is featured on the triangular pediment.
The interior walls are engraved in bronze with passages from Jefferson's writings. Most prominent are the words, taken from from a September 23, 1800, letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, which are inscribed in a frieze below the dome: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." On the panel of the southwest interior wall are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence. On the panel of the northwest interior wall is an excerpt from "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1777", except for the the last sentence, which is taken from a letter of August 28, 1789 to James Madison. The quotes from the panel of the northeast interior wall are from multiple sources including "A Summary View of the Rights of British America," Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson's autobiography, an August 13, 1790 letter to George Wythe, and a letter of January 4, 1786 to George Washington. The inscription on the panel of the southeast interior wall is redacted and excerpted from a letter July 12, 1816, to Samuel Kercheval.
In 2007, The Jefferson Memorial was ranked #4 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
National Register #66000029 (1966)
O'ahu - Honolulu - Nu'uanu Valley: Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii - Kalākaua crypt - Queen Lili'uokalani
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The Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii, also known as Mauna 'Ala (Fragrant Hills), located at 2261 Nu'uana Avenue, is the final resting place of Hawaii's two prominent royal families: the Kamehameha Dynasty and the Kalākaua Dynasty. The 2.7-acre site was designed by architect Theodore Heuck and initially planned by King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma following the death of their son in 1862. After it was completed in 1865, the remains of seven monarchs were transferred from the first Royal Mausoleum at 'Iolani Palace. Today, Mauna Ala is recognized by Congress as sacred land and not part of public domain.
The grounds of the mausoleum are surrounded by a black fence, bearing the royal seal of the Kingdom of Hawaii at the gate. The former mausoleum building, now a small gothic chapel sits in the center, immediately behind the tomb of Kalākaua Crypt, and to the right of the Kamehameha tomb, Bishop Monument, and Wyllie tomb.
The Kalākaua Crypt was built between 1907 and 1910, and is still unsealed for additional descendents (although it appears to be out of space). On June 24, 1910, Queen Lili'uokalani oversaw the moving of Queen Kapi'olani's family, to the 'Ewa side of the wall, and King Kalākaua's family, to the Waikiki side of the wall, from the old mausoleum building.
Among those entombed in the Kalākaua crypt are: King Kalākaua, Queen Kapi'olani, Queen Lili'uokalani, Prince Consort John Owen Dominis, High Chief Caesar Kaluaiku Kapa'akea, High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole, Princess Miriam Likelike, Archibald Scott Cleghorn, Princess Victoria Kai'ulani, Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II, Prince Moses Kapa'akea, Prince James Kaliokalani, Prince Kinini Kapa'akea, Princess Anna Ka'iulani, Princess Kaimina'auao, Princess Virginia Poʻomaikelani, Princess Victoria Kūhiō Kekaulike, Prince David Kawānanakoa, Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa, Prince Edward Abner Keli'iahonui, and Prince Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole.
Queen Lili'uokalani (September 2, 1838 - November 11, 1917), born Lydia Kamaka'eha Kaola Mali'i Liliʻuokalani, and also known as Lydia Kamaka'eha Pākī or Kaolupoloni K. Dominis, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Her husband, John Owen Dominis, would became Governor of O'ahu and Maui.
When Lunalilo, the elected successor to Kamehameha V to the Hawaiian thrown died and left no heir, Lili'u's sided with brother, David Kalākaua, in an election against Queen Emma. When David's younger brother died in 1876, he chose Lili'u as heir apparent and Crown Princess. She inherited the throne on January 29, 1891.
One of her first acts was to abrogate teh existing 1887 Bayonet Constitution that Kalākaua was forced to sign, under the threat of death. American and European business interests, threatened by the act, organized a coup d'état with ultimate goal of annexation. The Queen was deposed in 1893 and she temporarily relinquished her throne to a provisional government. On July 4, 1894 the Republic of Hawai'i was proclaimed. The Queen was later arrested for her perceived role in the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution and sentecned to five years in prison, which was later commuted to house arrest.
National Register #72000422 (1972)
