Historic Locust Grove Mansion in early spring outside of Louisville, Kentucky. Locust Grove was an 18th century farm founded by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy Clark was the sister of George Rogers Clark a military officer and explorer who played an important part in the early history of Kentucky and Louisville. She is also the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to America’s Pacific Northwest. The farm is notable as the place George Rogers Clark spent his final years, and for being adjacent to the property where Zachery Taylor, America’s 12th president grew up.
The Salt Lake City Mormon LDS Temple and Temple Square as seen from the 26th floor observation deck on the Church Office Building. Built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated in 1893, and took nearly 40 years to construct. The Church’s walls are made of quartz monzonite, quarried from Little Cottonwood Canyon to the south in the Wasatch Mountain Range that runs along the east side of the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. The temple was the 6th temple constructed following the exodus of the Mormon’s from Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846.
A historic two-story red brick mansion in Madison, Indiana, with painted wooden shutters, on a beautiful and scenic tree-lined street.
With more than 130 blocks of historic buildings, Madison boasts one of the largest historic districts of any city in the United States. Buildings within its historic downtown cover every era of its history, from its founding in 1809, through 1939. Its architecture includes shotgun houses, Federal style and Greek Revival mansions, and various industrial buildings and commercial storefronts along Main Street.
