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Pickering House (other)
Pickering House may refer to: * I. O. Pickering House, Olathe, Kansas * Pickering House (Salem, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed *Pickering House (Victoria, Texas), NRHP-listed * Pickering Farm, Issaquah, Washington See also * Adams-Pickering Block, Bangor, Maine, NRHP-listed *Fort Pickering Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification f ..., Salem, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed * Middle Pickering Rural Historic District, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania {{disambig ...
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Pickering House (Salem, Massachusetts)
The Pickering House (circa 1664) is a First Period Colonial house at 18 Broad Street, in Salem, Massachusetts' McIntire Historic District. The house was owned and occupied by ten successive generations of the Pickering family including Colonel Timothy Pickering. This house is believed to have been the oldest house in the United States continuously occupied by one family. However, in 1998, the Goodhue family moved into the house, with Albert Goodhue as the primary caretaker. It is located at 18 Broad Street, Salem, Massachusetts and is open to the public under the auspices of the nonprofit Pickering Foundation. Across the street is the Broad Street Cemetery, one of the three oldest in Salem. History Although the core house is first period, it has evolved considerably over the years. The original house was two stories tall, with a single room on each floor, and an entry bay. The left side was then added circa 1682 by his son, John Pickering II. In 1751, Deacon Timothy Pickering rai ...
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Pickering House (Victoria, Texas)
The Pickering House, at 403 N. Glass in Victoria, Texas, was built c.1850s. In about 1911 it was remodelled to a Classical Revival design by architect Jules Leffland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The listing included four contributing buildings. The house has an asymmetrical plan and a two-story porch across its front. The original house was built for sea captain A. F. Higgs, entrepreneur of the Texas Continental Meat Co., possibly in the 1850s. Joe M. Pickering, a businessman and co-founder of the Anchor Lumber Co., bought the house in 1908. (accessible by searching withiNational Archives Catalog It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete ...
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Pickering Farm
Pickering Farm is a former farm located in Issaquah, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places."Pickering Barn"
City of Issaquah Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 2015-08-05. It has been the site for a farmer's market since the late 1990s. Pickering Barn is available for rental.


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Adams-Pickering Block
The Adams-Pickering Block is a historic commercial building at Main and Middle Streets in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1873, it is one of the major surviving works of local architect George W. Orff in the city, and one of the few of the period to survive Bangor's Great Fire of 1911. Description and history The Adams-Pickering Block is located in central Bangor, just south of West Market Square, at the northwest corner of Main and Middle Streets. It is a four-story, Second Empire-style building, which is distinctive for its granite facade, cast iron trim, and mansard roof. The Pickering Block, at the corner with Middle Street, is six bays wide, while the Adams Block, to its right, is seven. Windows on the second and third floors are set in segmented-arch openings, with decorative key-stoned hoods. When built in 1871, its ground floor had mostly cast iron elements, but the storefronts have been modernized, and only fragments of the original trim remain. The twin blocks were built in 1871 ...
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Fort Pickering
Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification from the Anglo-Dutch Wars through World War II. Construction of the original fort began in 1643 and it saw use as a military installation into the 20th century. Fort Miller (Fort Darby prior to the Civil War) in Marblehead also defended Salem's harbor from the 1630s through the American Civil War. Fort Pickering is a First System fortification named for Colonel Timothy Pickering, born in Salem, adjutant general of the Continental Army and secretary of war in 1795.Roberts, pp. 407–408 Today, the remains of the fort are open to the public as part of the Winter Island Maritime Park, operated by the City of Salem. 17th century Winter Island at the time of English settlement in the early 17th century was an island separated from the mainl ...
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