Charles Thompson sold a portion of his land in Sarasota to Charles Ringling.  This land was used for the Charles Ringling Estate.  The building was finished in 1926.  Construction costs were $880,000.  Architects were Clas, Shepherd, and Clas.

     Exterior.of the house was pink, Etowah Georgia marble.

     Robertson Hall was designed by Alfred Clas.  It was  constructed in the mid 1920’s.  It was originally used as carriage house and chauffeurs residence for the Charles Ringling Estate.

     It has been used as the Financial Aid Office for New College. It handles such issues as student loans and work study.

     This was the caretaker’s house for the Charles Ringling Estate.  It was built in 1900.  It was built by brothers George and Karl Isenberg from Baraboo, Wisconsin.  It is now used for faculty n offices and previously Social Sciences.  It was replaced by a new building in 2011.

  The Ruskin Family Drive In Theater is located at 5011 North U.S. 41, Ruskin, Florida. The current screen measures 64 X 28 feet. The theater capacity is 200 cars.

     The Ruskin Family Drive In Theater opened on April.16, 1952. The first movie was Singing in the Rain.   The first owner was Ted Freiwald. In April.of 1960, it was taken.over by by the Floyd Theater Chain.

     Current owner is Karen.Freiwald.

     The screen was damaged in late 2024 by Hurricane Milton. 5 months later, it as replaced.

     This drive in theater opened on 5/12/1949.  It had a capacity of 781 cars.  The movie screen was 50 feet wide.  The theater was originally operated by Cal-Pac theaters. Movies shown at the debut were Red Stallion in the  Rockies with Arthur Franz and Lucky Stiff with Dorothy Lamour.

     The Pickwick closed on 9/10/1989.  It was torn down in 10/1989. The site is now occupied by Rancho Markerplace               The Pickwick theater site was a prime location for filmimg due to.its location near Burbank studios Walt Disney, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Brothers.  The theater was used in movies Blue Thunder, Christine, and Saint Ives.

.This building is located at 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

     The house at 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme Connecticut was built for David Morley in 1817.  The builder was Samuel Belcher.  It is a two story Georgian style house on a 14 acre lot.

     In 1841, the house and lot were purchased for 3 thousand dollars by Captain Robert Griswold.  He bought it for his wife Helene Powers.

     Florence Griswold and her sisters and her mother converted their home into a school for girls in 1878.  This school closed 14 years later due to competition from other areas schools.

     In 1890, the house was converted into a boarding house for summer vacationers.  One of the boarders in in 1899 was landscaper painter Henry Ward Ranger.  He was able to bring several other painters to.the Griswold house to establish the old Lyme Art Colony.  Some.of the artists were Lewis Cohen, Henry Rankin Poore, Lewis Paul Dresser and William Henry Howe.  The art colony was in existence from 1899 to the 1930’s.

     In 1936, the house was converted into a museum. It features an extensive original art collection and period furniture collection.

    Outside of the house there are extensive gardens.

     Robert Stephenson and other British engineers were hired to build an iron tubular girder bridge across the Saint Lawrence River.  Construction took place between 1854 and 1859.  It was a single track railroad bridge.Total length of the entire bridge was 9144 feet.  Total length of the iron bridge was 6592 feet.  There were 24 approach spans 242–247 feet in length.  There was a main span of 330 feet.  Construction costs were 6 million dollars.

     In 1897 to 1898 this tubular bridge was replaced with a new truss bridge.  The existing stone piers were reused.  New stone work was added  to upstream side to support the wider truss bridge. The single track girder bridge was replaced with a double track truss bridge.

  This building is located at 262 Bernard Avenue Kelowna British Columbia. It was built in 1910 –1911.  It is a solid 2 story commercial style building.   Architect is unknown.

     The Old Royal Bank remained at this location until 1960s..  It was replaced by Montreal Trust another national financial institution.  After this, in 1981, the bank building was occupied by a restaurant operated under various names. It currently is known as Kelly O’Bryan’s.