A Queen Anne home infused with Eastlake-style architecture once served as the residence to the great-grandson of a founder of Monroe. 

The Roland M. Filhiol House, located at 111 Stone Ave., Monroe, served as the residence of the great-grandson of Don Juan Filhiol, commander of the soldiers who built Fort Miro and thus founded the City of Monroe.  

Fort Miro was a Spanish outpost during the late 18th century that proceeded the City of Monroe. Don Juan Filhiol, an officer at the well-established Opelousas post, was selected by Louisiana’s Spanish Governor, Esteban Rodriguez Miro, to found and command a new post in the remote Ouachita District, in what is today part of northeast Louisiana.

The outpost that sprang up around that fort, which was founded in 1791, was renamed Monroe in 1820 to commemorate the first arrival of the steamboat James Monroe.

Filhiol was charged with grouping the scattered inhabitants

A memorial was placed near the fountains at Springfield City Hall Plaza on East Main Street, where mourners placed flowers on a sheriff’s cruiser and several deputies laid hands on it.

Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday ordered that all flags of the U.S. and the state of Ohio be flown at half-staff on all public buildings and grounds throughout Clark County and at the Ohio Statehouse, Vern Riffe Center and Rhodes Tower until sunset on the day of his funeral.

Lifelong Clark County resident Loletta McGowan paid her respects at the city plaza memorial following the procession. She said Deputy Yates made a powerful impact on her 12-year-old granddaughter, encouraging her to keep up with her school attendance and attend school on time. She said her granddaughter was devastated by

Is a ruin a beginning or an end in itself? Or is it endurance that it silently embraces? A state in which the notion of something being born or lost forever doesn’t exist. What is essentially a reminder of architecture’s persistence, a ruin is an entity that thrives on the foundation of memory and meaning. When Brisbane-based builder-turned-architect Christopher Furminger was tasked to reframe an old weatherboard home near the Chelmer River, he sought a contested projection of a dwelling – alluding to a ruin – to shape his design. A lover of landscape and materiality, Furminger converted the home into a large walled garden that sets course for new journeys and connections of architecture with its site.

Furminger’s approach to the materiality of the Chelmer River House traversed the

When it comes to luxury real estate, projects rooted in historic preservation can often be tricky. While authenticity is always essentially, stray too authentic and the result can feel like kitsch. But if the end result is not authentic enough, the project can lose its core historic appeal. Which is why London’s new Westminster Fire Station development feels like such a triumph. 

Set in the heart of the British capital’s historic—and super-central—Victoria neighborhood, the recently launched 17-residence project gives new life to a retired Grade II fire station originally built back in 1906. With its imposing Baroque exterior, the original fire station sat at the heart of the Victoria community and was part of London’s storied firefighting history until it closed in 2014.  In 1921, for instance, the station saw the end of horse-drawn engines; in 1940, the station’s crew was part of the team that saved Westminster Abbey from

True to Wright’s nature-inspired “organic architecture” ethos, furniture, built-in cabinets, and drawers at the home are all constructed of similar wood, achieving the visual and spatial harmony for which his signature aesthetic is known. (Although the dining room furniture is said to be Frank Lloyd Wright–designed, according to TulsaWorld.com, it is not the home’s original).

Walls of the two-story house seamlessly integrate concrete blocks with a salient use of glass panes (5,200 to be exact) arranged in pillar-like forms, creating a vertical rhythm that permits ample natural light into the interiors while keeping dwellers connected to the outside environment. According to PriceTower.org, Westhope is Wright’s only home outside of California, built in the architect’s original Textile

Hidden behind a strip mall and a row of towering trees along a busy stretch of Orange Turnpike in Sloatsburg, it’s easy to overlook the stately mid-19th century manor that was once home to a prosperous industrialist whose family gave this tidy village its name.

Nowadays, the Jacob Sloat House is also known as Harmony Hall, a Greek Revival mansion spared from development by an ardent band of supporters whose numbers include two of Jacob’s descendants. The task of peeling away decades of modern contrivances to reveal its original beauty has been an arduous one for these volunteers, with only one of the three main floors close to completion.

But entering from the veranda of the clapboard and brick home into the foyer provides a glorious welcome for visitors arriving for the diverse music and art shows presented year-round here.

Light pours into the expansive double parlor and dining room

Sparks Funeral Home on North Street in Cape Girardeau.

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Dying, as a person of African descent, meant the segregation experienced in life followed in death. Through the late 1800s and early 1900s, Cape Girardeau County “colored” and paupers grave sites, in city and church cemeteries, were allowed only in sections along outer perimeters. Graves were designated with little more than field stones or hand-poured cement markers. In rural areas, enslaved were buried a discrete distance from enslaver family cemeteries, along tree lines of farm fields.

With Emancipation, the burden of expense for final illness and a grave for a loved one fell to survivors, without accumulated wealth beyond subsistence,

In December 1867, “The Union Aid Benevolent Society of The Cape Girardeau Colored Citizens” filed incorporation papers, naming 34 original petitioners. The society’s purpose was to associate for mutual benevolent purposes in times of sickness, disability and death,