Prairie

A year-round palette of colors

A sea of grasses and wildflowers - the tallgrass prairie - once covered America's heartland. It is now one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, and many of its inhabitants are struggling to survive.

Thousands ...

Rapp School

A One-Room, Eight Grade, Country School

Rapp School District No. 50 was organized on June 10, 1870. The school and the town, ¼ mile east and ½ mile south along the railroad tracks, were named after an early settler in the ...

The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus

This painting by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), entitled "The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus" was a companion piece to one of Lindsay's poems. Lindsay recited the poem in 1915 for President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet to commemorate the opening ...

Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.

Henry E. Dummer---Stuart;s partner at the time---recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he did ...

Florville's Barber Shop

William Florville was Lincoln's barber for twenty-four years.

Florville, or de Fleurville ("Billy the Barber" to his white customers), was born in Haiti of French ancestry. He came to America at age fifteen and was a barber's apprentice in Baltimore.He moved ...

James Vandenburgh’s Home

1821

Master Mason

Trinity Church

Marker is on Bedford Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

70 Bedford Street

Landmark New York

About 1807 this house was built by John P. Broome, sailmaker and “crier of the courts of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol delivery and of the general session of the peace.” Although altered over the years, the ...

36 Commerce Street

This three-story brick house was built in 1841 for Alexander McLachlan, the owner of a brewery at No. 38 on land originally part of the Hendricks-Gomez property. In the 1920’s, when the brewery became the Cherry Lane Theater, this house ...

No. 48 Commerce Street

No. 48, one of two houses echoing the turn in Commerce Street and designed in the Greek Revival style, was erected in 1844 for Alexander T. Stewart on land he had leased from Trinity Church. He was an early merchant ...

38 Commerce Street

In 1924 Edna St. Vincent Millay and a group of theatre artists converted a box factory into what would become the Cherry Lane Theatre. Through the years, it has become a showcase for the early works of Edward Albee, Lanford ...