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Quincy Mills, Calumet, MI. The mill began to decline after the end of the war. In 1922, the expansion mills were closed. Additional equipment was installed in the first mill as technology improved, including labor-saving devices installed in 1929 and 1930. However, the Great Depression hit the mining industry hard, and the Quincy Mine closed in 1931, shuttering the Stamp Mills. As the Depression wound onward, copper prices rebounded, and the mine and mills were refurbished in late 1937 and re-opened on a limited scale in early 1938. However, the mine was only barely profitable, and after World War II ended, and with it the price guarantees from the federal government, the mine and stamp mills closed permanently. Mill number two was demolished early, as well as the original portions of mill number one, but the later additions to mill number one remain today.

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McLeod House (Deakle Law Firm) Hattiesburg, MS. Built in 1897, The McLeod home is on the National Register of Historic Places. It originally belonged to the John McLeod family. Two of his descendants were still living in the house when attorney John Deakle bought it in the early 1980s.McLeod was a businessman who moved from Purvis to Hattiesburg in 1896 and built the house at 802 N. Main St. It is known as a "Barber house," so-called because it was designed by an architect, George Barber, from Knoxville, Tennessee. McLeod served as president of Citizens Bank (now Trustmark) from 1902-24. He also operated a string of mercantile stores, including the John A. McLeod Department Store at the corner of Main and Pine. The store sold general merchandise like groceries, hardware, piece goods, clothing and farm supplies. It was also authorized to participate in the logging and timber business; purchase, manufacture and sell turpentine and rosin; operate saw and planing mills; and own and operate branch offices throughout Mississippi.

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Georgia Queen, Savannah, GA. Savannah Riverboat Cruises was established in Savannah, Georgia in 1991 under the direction of experienced Captain, Jonathan H. Claughton.  A later expansion in 2016 led to the arrival of a new riverboat, the Georgia Queen.  The Georgia Queen measures an impressive 230 ft long,64 ft wide and a towering 68 ft tall and features three grand ballrooms with over 15,000 square feet of dining space, a 5,000 square foot, fully open-air top deck with patio seating.  The entire boat encompasses a total of 38,000 square feet.  She can carry 1,000 passengers plus 200 crew, which makes her the size of a small cruise ship.

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Beauregard Parish Jail, Deridder, LA. The walls are 13 to 21 inches thick, made of reinforced concrete with a blasted finish. This didn't stop this second floor carving of a chess board for the prisoner's entertainment.

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City Skyline, Dayton, OH. Unlike many Midwestern cities its age, Dayton has very broad and straight downtown streets (generally two or three full lanes in each direction) that improved access to the downtown even after the automobile became popular. The main reason for the broad streets was that Dayton was a marketing and shipping center from its beginning; streets were broad to enable wagons drawn by teams of three to four pairs of oxen to turn around. Also, some of today's streets were once barge canals flanked by draw-paths. Dayton's two tallest buildings are the Kettering Tower at 408 ft and the KeyBank Tower at 385 ft. Kettering Tower was originally Winters Tower, the headquarters of Winters Bank. The building was renamed after Virginia Kettering when Winters was merged into Bank One. KeyBank Tower was known as the MeadWestvaco Tower before KeyBank gained naming rights to the building in 2008. [Wikipedia]

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Boyce Elementary / High School School, Boyce, LA. Completed in 1927 it replaced the previous school building located where the water tower now stands. The school building started as an elementary school, but in 1971 became the town's high school. In 1974, the school saw its last graduating class and shuttered its doors shortly after. The building fell into decline. Parts of the original building still exist and have been repurposed as the town hall and the utilities department of Boyce.

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Abandoned House, New Orleans, La. The FEMA markings form an X shape, with four blocks to be written in. The top block shows the date that the house was checked. The left block is signed by the task force that inspected the house. In the right quadrant are special instructions, anything from "Gas Off" to "F/W" (food and water left) to any pets or other issues the houses might have had. The bottom block records how many people were found in the house. Often, the solitary number counts those who have died. But sometimes, the block contains two numbers, one with an A ("alive"), another with a D ("dead").The markings were drawn by task forces deployed to New Orleans in the aftermath of the levee breach. Despite being spray-painted on the exteriors of houses, and despite the resurgence parts of New Orleans have seen since, the Xs are still visible around town.  [NOLA Curbed]

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1968 Oldsmobile 442 Convertible, New Orleans, LA. The Oldsmobile 4-4-2, later rebounded as 442 without the hyphens, is a muscle car produced by Oldsmobile between the 1964 and 1987 model years. The "4-4-2" name (pronounced "Four-four-two") derives from the original car's four-barrel carburetor, four-speed manual transmission, and dual exhausts.Introduced as an option package for US-sold F-85 and Cutlass models, it became a model in its own right from 1968 to 1971, then reverted to an option through the mid-1970s. The name was revived in the 1980s on the rear-wheel drive Cutlass Supreme and early 1990s as an option package for the new front-wheel drive Cutlass Calais. Beginning in 1965, the 4-4-2s standard transmission was a 3 speed manual along with optional 2 speed automatic and 4 speed manual, but were still badged as "4-4-2"s.

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Cherry Espresso, Laurel Street Firehouse, New Orleans, LA. The former 1910 firehouse, which was a community center up until Hurricane Katrina, sold at a city surplus property auction for $280K. As long as the zoning lords okay everything, the coffee shop will take over the ground floor with two apartments above it. There will also be an efficiency apartment in the rear building, which was once stables. The new owners, John and Sylvi Beaumont, are no strangers to renovations. Their home was once the Tulane frat house of Delta Kappa Epsilon.  This former firehouse was designed by noted New Orleans architect E. A. Christie. He designed more than 50 public schools, as well as fire stations and other works in the city. He also designed numerous expansions of existing schools. Several of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [Nola Curbed & Wikipedia]

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John R. Taylor Drugstore, New Iberia, LA. The drugstore's corner location provides an opportunity for a recessed corner entrance, as well as for two of the building's exterior walls to be styled. The resulting design is meant to be viewed from a three-quarter angle. The two styled walls are composed of glazed white brick, while the rear wall is a less expensive plain brick. The structure's fourth side consists of a party wall shared with the building next door. 

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Aloft Hotels, Houston, TX. The Stowers Building is a building named for G. A. Stowers Furniture Company and George Arthur Stowers, who developed the property for its retail store in 1913 at the corner of Fannin and Walker streets in downtown Houston. The architecture firm of Green & Finger composed its structure from reinforced concrete, clad the building in white brick, and capped it with a pressed metal cornice. Drawing some of its inspiration from the Chicago style, the facades are rectangular, with pilasters defining vertical bay structures, with seven of these vertical modules facing south and five modules facing east to the Fannin side. As of 2016, the Stowers Building was under the ownership and management of Trend Hospitality, a hotel operator with an agreement to brand the facility with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, a division of Marriott International. It named the Hotel Aloft, one of two in Houston. [Wikipedia] 

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Glen Helen, Yellow Springs, OH. Glen Helen is the legacy of alumnus Hugh Taylor Birch, who, in 1929, donated the wooded glen to Antioch College in memory of his daughter, Helen. With this gift, the College accepted the responsibility of preserving the land in perpetuity. Additional gifts have expanded the preserve, which now encompasses 1000 acres, all accessible from a 20-mile network of footpaths. [GlenHelen.org]

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Weller Avenue Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, LA. 

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Abandoned House, Deridder, LA   The July 26, 1924, the DeRidder Enterprise stated: "The first house in DeRidder was made of logs and covered with board shingles, split by hand from the logs of the forest. It was constructed in 1893 and was the old homestead house of Calvin Shirley, who was the original owner of the land upon which the first business house and residence of DeRidder were built."

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St. Charles Ave Baptist Church, New Orleans, LA. On April 16, 1885, a Baptist mission of Coliseum Baptist Church was begun in unused servants' quarters of the corner of Maple and Cherokee Streets. On November 16, 1898, twenty-six charter members created the Carrollton Baptist Church. In 1901, the city of Carrollton was annexed by the city of New Orleans. The small congregation of Carrollton Baptist Church purchased property on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Hillary Street and changed the church name to Saint Charles Avenue Baptist Church. The lot on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Audubon Street was purchased in 1924, and in 1926 the church moved to its present location.

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Natchez, MS

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Royal Street, Mobile, AL. Royal Street, between Conti and St. Francis. When Mobile was laid out, this was the city's northeast boundary point. Royal Street ran along a bluff overlooking the Mobile River. There were no streets between Royal and the river, only marshland. [ Historical Marker Number 16: Mobile City Limits - 1711]