National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan
Hillsdale County
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J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory

J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory

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August 1, 2012
(#12000456)

117 West St.
41°58′59″N 84°39′48″W﻿ / ﻿41.982958°N 84.663264°W﻿ / 41.982958; -84.663264﻿ (J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory)
Jonesville

The J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory was built in portions over the span of 1893–1909. The company produced multiple models of the Deal Automobile here from 1908 to 1911, but went out of business in 1915. It was later used by the Kiddie Brush & Toy Company. As of 2016 it houses the Heritage Lane Apartments.

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Grace Episcopal Church

Grace Episcopal Church

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May 6, 1971
(#71000391)

360 E. Chicago St.
41°59′03″N 84°39′37″W﻿ / ﻿41.984167°N 84.660278°W﻿ / 41.984167; -84.660278﻿ (Grace Episcopal Church)
Jonesville

Grace Episcopal Church is a 1-1/2 story rectangular Greek Revival frame structure covered in clapboard. Built in 1844–48, it is one of the first church buildings constructed in Michigan west of Detroit, and is one of the few surviving examples of indigenous church architecture in the state.

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E.O. Grosvenor House

E.O. Grosvenor House

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December 6, 1977
(#77000713)

211 Maumee St.
41°58′55″N 84°39′35″W﻿ / ﻿41.981944°N 84.659722°W﻿ / 41.981944; -84.659722﻿ (E.O. Grosvenor House)
Jonesville

This house was designed in 1874 by Elijah E. Myers for Ebenezer O. Grosvenor, a politician who served in the Michigan Senate, one term as the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, and two terms as the State Treasurer of Michigan. It now operates as the Grosvenor House Museum.

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Hillsdale County Courthouse

Hillsdale County Courthouse

August 11, 1982
(#82002835)

Howell St.
41°55′14″N 84°37′54″W﻿ / ﻿41.920556°N 84.631667°W﻿ / 41.920556; -84.631667﻿ (Hillsdale County Courthouse)
Hillsdale

The Hillsdale County Courthouse is the third permanent county building located at this site. The yellow sandstone courthouse was built in 1898–99 from a design by Jackson architect Claire Allen.

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Hillsdale Downtown Historic District

Hillsdale Downtown Historic District

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February 17, 1995
(#95000075)

Roughly bounded by Ferriss, Cook, E. Bacon, S. Howell, Waldron, N. Manning, Monroe and Hillsdale Sts. and Carlton Rd.
41°55′18″N 84°37′57″W﻿ / ﻿41.921667°N 84.6325°W﻿ / 41.921667; -84.6325﻿ (Hillsdale Downtown Historic District)
Hillsdale

The Hillsdale Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district containing 95 buildings constructed from the 1860s to the 1930s. These include structures associated with many of the city's oldest civic and commercial institutions, and structures that represent many of the broad trends in American and Midwestern architecture extant during Hillsdale's history.

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William R. Kirby Sr. House

William R. Kirby Sr. House

July 20, 1982
(#82002836)

377 State Rd.
41°55′36″N 84°34′41″W﻿ / ﻿41.926667°N 84.578056°W﻿ / 41.926667; -84.578056﻿ (William R. Kirby Sr. House)
Hillsdale

The William R. Kirby Sr. House, constructed in the 1840s, is one of the few early cobblestone houses extant in Michigan.

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W.H.L. McCourtie Estate

W.H.L. McCourtie Estate

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January 24, 1992
(#91001984)

Junction of US 12 and Jackson Rd.
42°03′08″N 84°24′30″W﻿ / ﻿42.052222°N 84.408333°W﻿ / 42.052222; -84.408333﻿ (W.H.L. McCourtie Estate)
Somerset Center

This estate was the birthplace of W.H.L McCourtie, a Somerset Center native who made his fortune in the Texas oil boom. McCourtie returned to Somerset Center in 1922 and built an estate as a social center of the town. Around 1930, McCourtie hired two itinerant Mexican artisans, George Cardoso and Ralph Corona, to build 17 concrete bridges here. Cardoso and Corona used a technique known as el trabejo rustico (known in French as faux bois), a Mexican folk art tradition where wet concrete is sculpted to look like wood. The cement constructions remain, and the estate is now McCourtie Park.

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William Treadwell House

William Treadwell House

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(#74000984)

446 N. Meridian Rd.
41°51′47″N 84°21′53″W﻿ / ﻿41.863056°N 84.364722°W﻿ / 41.863056; -84.364722﻿ (William Treadwell House)
Hudson

This house is a two-story brick Italian Villa built for William Treadwell in the early 1860s. Before it was finished, Treadwell famously embezzled $66,000 from the bank he ran and fled town. He was caught, tried, and convicted, but escaped from jail and was finally murdered by an accomplice.

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Trunk Line Bridge No. 237

Trunk Line Bridge No. 237

January 14, 2000
(#99001672)

Burt Rd. over Silver Creek
41°46′11″N 84°34′24″W﻿ / ﻿41.769722°N 84.573333°W﻿ / 41.769722; -84.573333﻿ (Trunk Line Bridge No. 237)
Ransom Township

Trunk Line Bridge No. 237 was built in 1918 by the Michigan State Highway Department according to a standard plan on what was then State Highway 308. The bridge is a concrete, barrel vaulted deck arch bridge. Its single arch spans 31 feet (9.4 m) across Silver Creek. The parapet railings are constructed of solid concrete and have five rectangular recesses on the inside and outside faces. The bridge currently carries the unpaved Burt Road in a rural, wooded area of Ransom Township.

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The J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory was the largest factory built in Jonesville , Michigan . It is the only 19th century factory remaining in the City . It is located at 117 West Street . On August 1 , 2012 , the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places . The building was redeveloped into the Heritage Lane Apartments in 2015 .
Jonesville is a city in Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan . The population was 2,258 at the 2010 census .
The Deal was an automobile manufactured at the J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory in Jonesville , Michigan from 1905-11 . The vehicle was a small four-seater motor buggy that had solid rubber tires .
Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 360 East Chicago Street in Jonesville , Michigan . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 . It is one of the first church buildings constructed in Michigan west of Detroit , and is one of the few surviving examples of indigenous church architecture in the state .
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries , predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States . It revived the style of ancient Greek architecture , in particular the Greek temple , with varying degrees of thoroughness and consistency . A product of Hellenism , it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture , which had for long mainly drawn from Roman architecture . The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts , London in 1842 . With a newfound access to Greece , or initially the books produced by the few who had actually been able to visit the sites , archaeologist-architects of the period studied the Doric and Ionic orders . In each country it touched , the style was looked on as the expression of local nationalism and civic virtue , and freedom from the lax detail and frivolity that was thought to characterize the architecture of France and Italy , two countries where the style never really took hold . This was especially the case in Britain , Germany and the United States , where the idiom was regarded as being free from ecclesiastical and aristocratic associations . The taste for all things Greek in furniture and interior design , sometimes called Neo-Grec , was at its peak by the beginning of the 19th century , when the designs of Thomas Hope had influenced a number of decorative styles known variously as Neoclassical , Empire , Russian Empire , and Regency architecture in Britain . Greek Revival architecture took a different course in a number of countries , lasting until the Civil War in America ( 1860s ) and even later in Scotland .
Clapboard /ˈklæbərd/ , also called bevel siding , lap siding , and weatherboard , with regional variation in the definition of these terms , is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards , often overlapping .
Michigan ( /ˈmɪʃɪɡən/ ( listen ) ) is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States . Its name originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa , meaning large water or large lake . With a population of just under 10 million , Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States , with the 11th most extensive total area , and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River . [ b ] Its capital is Lansing , and its largest city is Detroit . Metro Detroit is among the nation 's most populous and largest metropolitan economies . Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas . The Lower Peninsula is often noted as being shaped like a mitten . The Upper Peninsula ( often called the U.P . ) is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac , a five-mile ( 8 km ) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan . The Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas . The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world , being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes , plus Lake Saint Clair . Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds .
Detroit ( /dɪˈtrɔɪt/ , locally also /ˈdiːtrɔɪt/ ; French : Détroit , lit . 'strait ' ) is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan , the largest U.S. city on the United States-Canada border , and the seat of Wayne County . The municipality of Detroit had a 2018 estimated population of 672,662 , making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States . The metropolitan area , known as Metro Detroit , is home to 4.3 million people , making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area . Regarded as a major cultural center , Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art , architecture and design . Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River , one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway . The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States . The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest , behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis-Saint Paul , and the 13th-largest in the United States . Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a highway tunnel , railway tunnel , and the Ambassador Bridge , which is the second busiest international crossing in North America , after San Diego-Tijuana . Detroit is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry , and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors , Ford , and Fiat Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit . In 1701 , Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit , the future city of Detroit . During the 19th century , it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region .
The E. O. Grosvenor House , also known as the Gamble House , is located at 211 Maumee Street in Jonesville , Michigan . It was built as a private home for Ebenezer O. Grosvenor , and now operates as the Grosvenor House Museum . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 . It is considered one of the most magnificent residences in Michigan .
Elijah E. Myers ( December 29 , 1832 - March 5 , 1909 ) was a leading architect of government buildings in the latter half of the 19th century , and the only architect to design the capitol buildings of three U.S. states , the Michigan State Capitol , the Texas State Capitol , and the Colorado State Capitol . He also designed buildings in Mexico and Brazil . Myers ' designs favored Victorian Gothic and Neo-Classical styles , but he worked in other styles as well .
Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor , Jr. ( January 26 , 1820 - March 10 , 1910 ) was a politician from the U. S. state of Michigan .
The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Legislature of the U.S. State of Michigan . Along with the House of Representatives , it composes the Michigan Legislature . Article IV of the Michigan Constitution , adopted in 1963 , defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted . The primary purpose of the Legislature is to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws . The Michigan Senate is composed of 38 members , each elected from a single-member district with a population of between approximately 212,400 to 263,500 residents . Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures , provided by the federal decennial census . Senators ' terms begin immediately upon their election . As of 2018 , Republicans hold the majority in the State Senate with twenty-two seats ; Democrats hold the minority with sixteen seats . The Senate chamber is located in the State Capitol building .
The lieutenant governor of Michigan is the second-ranking official in U.S. state of Michigan , behind the governor . The holder of this office is afforded the courtesy title of the Honorable for life . The current lieutenant governor is Garlin Gilchrist , a Democrat , who has held the office since January 1 , 2019 .
The State Treasurer of Michigan functions as the chief financial officer for the U.S. state of Michigan . The State Treasurer oversees the collection , investment , and disbursement of all state monies , and also administers major tax laws , safeguards the credit of the state , and distributes revenue sharing monies to local units of government . It is an unelected office within the executive branch . The current state treasurer is Rachael A. Eubanks , who was appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in January 2019 .
The Hillsdale County Courthouse is a government building located at 29 North Howell Street in Hillsdale , Michigan . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1969 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 .
Hillsdale is a city in the state of Michigan . As of the 2010 census , the city population was 8,305 . It is the county seat of Hillsdale County , which is located in the center of the southern border of the state . The city is the home of Hillsdale College , a private liberal arts college noted for its academics and its influence in politics and education .
Jackson is a city in the south central area of the U.S. state of Michigan , about 40 miles ( 64 km ) west of Ann Arbor and 35 miles ( 56 km ) south of Lansing . It is the county seat of Jackson County . As of the 2010 census , the city population was 33,534 , down from 36,316 at the 2000 census . Served by Interstate 94 , it is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area , which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160,248 . Founded in 1829 , it was named after President Andrew Jackson . By the late 19th century , it had developed as a railroad hub and was known as the crossroads of Michigan . By 1910 it had strong manufacturing of a variety of automobiles and parts and was also a center of corset manufacturing into the 1920s . As an industrial city , it attracted numerous migrants from the American South , both white and black , and European immigrants who were seeking better economic opportunity . The first state prison was built here . By 1882 it had developed as the largest walled prison in the world , containing both factory facilities and farmland . A new prison was built in 1934 north of the city limits .
Claire Allen ( July 29 , 1853 - December 22 , 1942 ) was an American architect prominent in southern Michigan in the early twentieth century , and best known for designing several county courthouses . He was considered a master regional architect . Allen moved to Jackson as a young man , and practiced architecture there for 52 years . He established the architectural firm of Claire Allen & Sons . Some 100 structures are attributed to him . His firm designed numerous examples of American neoclassical architecture and colonial revival buildings in Michigan and Iowa , but had a range that encompassed Beaux-Arts Classical and Jacobean Revival style as well .
The Hillsdale Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located in Hillsdale , Michigan and roughly bounded by Will Carleton Road to the north , Ferris Street on the east , Waldron Street on the south , and West Street on the west . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 .
The William R. Kirby Sr. House ( also known as the Kirby-Keefer House ) is a private house located at 377 State Road in Hillsdale , Michigan . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 . It is one of the few early cobblestone houses extant in Michigan .
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones , and is used for pavement roads , streets , and buildings . Setts , also called Belgian blocks , are often casually referred to as cobbles , although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried or shaped to a regular form , whereas cobblestone is generally of a naturally occurring form and is less uniform in size .
The W. H. L. McCourtie Estate , originally called Aiden Lair and now known as McCourtie Park , is a recreational park located at 10426 South Jackson Road ( at US 12 ) in Somerset Center , Michigan . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 . The site may contain the country 's largest collection of el trabejo rustico ( known in French as faux bois ) , the Mexican folk art tradition where wet concrete is sculpted to look like wood .
US Highway 12 ( US 12 ) is an east-west US Highway that runs from Aberdeen , Washington , to Detroit , Michigan . In Michigan it runs for 210 miles ( 338 km ) between New Buffalo and Detroit as a state trunkline highway and Pure Michigan Byway . On its western end , the highway is mostly a two-lane road that runs through the southern tier of counties roughly parallel to the Indiana state line . It forms part of the Niles Bypass , a four-lane expressway south of Niles in the southwestern part of the state , and it runs concurrently with the Interstate 94 ( I-94 ) freeway around the south side of Ypsilanti in the southeastern . In between Coldwater and the Ann Arbor area , the highway angles northeasterly and passes the Michigan International Speedway . East of Ypsilanti , US 12 follows a divided highway routing on Michigan Avenue into Detroit , where it terminates at an intersection with Cass Avenue . When US 12 was designated in Michigan on November 11 , 1926 , along with the other original US Highways , it ran along a more northerly course . It originally replaced sections of the original M-11 and M-17 along Michigan Avenue in the state , the route of the much older St. Joseph Trail , a footpath used by Native Americans before European settlement in the area . It entered from Indiana as it does now , but it followed the Lake Michigan shoreline farther north to Benton Harbor-St. Joseph before turning eastward to run through Kalamazoo , Battle Creek and Jackson . In the Ann Arbor area , it followed a more northerly path into Detroit before terminating downtown . In the 1940s and 1950s , sections of the highway were converted into expressways and freeways . Starting in 1959 , these freeway segments were renumbered as part of I-94 , and in January 1962 , US 12 was shifted to replace US Highway 112 ( US 112 ) .
Somerset Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan . The population was 4,277 at the 2000 census . The Grand River , Michigan 's longest river , begins at natural springs within the township .
Faux bois ( from the French for false wood ) refers to the artistic imitation of wood or wood grains in various media . The craft has roots in the Renaissance with trompe-l'œil . It was probably first crafted with concrete using an iron armature by garden craftsmen in France called rocailleurs using common iron materials : rods , barrel bands , and chicken wire . Early examples of the craft survive at Parc des Buttes-Chaumont opened for an exposition in Paris in 1867 . In 1873 , the inventor of ferrocement , Joseph Monier expanded his patents to include bridges . He designed the first bridge of reinforced concrete , crossing the moat at the Chateau Chazelet , in France . It was sculpted to resemble timbers and logs . Ferrocement faux bois uses a combination of concrete , mortar and grout applied to a steel frame or armature to sculpt lifelike representations of wooden objects . Final sculpting can be done while the mixture is wet , in a putty state , or slightly stiff . Techniques vary among artisans . Most popular in the late 19th century through the 1940s , ferrocement faux bois has largely disappeared with the passing of those most expert in its practice . What few objects remain from that peak period ( mostly in the form of garden art , such as planters and birdbaths ) are now highly prized by collectors .
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture . Definitions vary , but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind , rather than being exclusively decorative . The makers of folk art are normally trained within a popular tradition , rather than in the fine art tradition of the culture . There is often overlap , or contested ground , with naive art , but in traditional societies where ethnographic art is still made , that term is normally used instead of folk art . The types of object covered by the term varies considerably and in particular divergent categories of cultural production are comprehended by its usage in Europe , where the term originated , and in the United States , where it developed for the most part along very different lines .
The William Treadwell House , also known as the Bruce Coleman House , is a private house located at 446 North Meridian Road in Hudson , Michigan . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 .
Hudson is a city in Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan . The population was 2,307 at the 2010 census . The city is mostly surrounded by Hudson Township , but the two are administered autonomously .
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture . In the Italianate style , the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture , which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism , were synthesised with picturesque aesthetics . The style of architecture that was thus created , though also characterised as Neo-Renaissance , was essentially of its own time . The backward look transforms its object , Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles ; every spectator at every period - at every moment , indeed - inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature . The Italianate style was first developed in Britain in about 1802 by John Nash , with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire . This small country house is generally accepted to be the first Italianate villa in England , from which is derived the Italianate architecture of the late Regency and early Victorian eras . The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s . Barry 's Italianate style ( occasionally termed Barryesque ) drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance , though sometimes at odds with Nash 's semi-rustic Italianate villas . The style was not confined to England and was employed in varying forms , long after its decline in popularity in Britain , throughout Northern Europe and the British Empire . From the late 1840s to 1890 it achieved huge popularity in the United States , where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis .
Trunk Line Bridge No . 237 is a concrete arch bridge in Ransom Township , Michigan , that carries Burt Road over Silver Creek . Built in 1918 , it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Ransom Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan . The population was 982 at the 2000 census .
The Michigan Department of Transportation ( MDOT ) is a constitutional government principal department of the US state of Michigan . The primary purpose of MDOT is to maintain the Michigan State Trunkline Highway System which includes all Interstate , US and state highways in Michigan with the exception of the Mackinac Bridge . [ b ] Other responsibilities that fall under MDOT 's mandate include airports , shipping and rail in Michigan . The predecessor to today 's MDOT was the Michigan State Highway Department ( MSHD ) that was formed on July 1 , 1905 after a constitutional amendment was approved that year . The first activities of the department were to distribute rewards payments to local units of government for road construction and maintenance . In 1913 , the state legislature authorized the creation of the state trunkline highway system , and the MSHD paid double rewards for those roads . These trunklines were signed in 1919 , making Michigan the second state to post numbers on its highways . The department continued to improve roadways under its control through the Great Depression and into World War II . During the war , the state built its first freeways . These freeways became the start of Michigan 's section of the Interstate Highway System . Since the mid-1960s , the department was reorganized . It was renamed the Michigan Department of State Highways for a time .
A barrel vault , also known as a tunnel vault or a wagon vault , is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve ( or pair of curves , in the case of a pointed barrel vault ) along a given distance . The curves are typically circular in shape , lending a semi-cylindrical appearance to the total design . The barrel vault is the simplest form of a vault : effectively a series of arches placed side by side ( i.e. , one after another ) . It is a form of barrel roof . As with all arch-based constructions , there is an outward thrust generated against the walls underneath a barrel vault . There are several mechanisms for absorbing this thrust . One is to make the walls exceedingly thick and strong - this is a primitive and sometimes unacceptable method . A more elegant method is to build two or more vaults parallel to each other ; the forces of their outward thrusts will thus negate each other . This method was most often used in construction of churches , where several vaulted naves ran parallel down the length of the building . However , the outer walls of the outermost vault would still have to be quite strong or reinforced by buttressing . The third and most elegant mechanism to resist the lateral thrust was to create an intersection of two barrel vaults at right angles , thus forming a groin vault . Barrel vaults are known from Ancient Egypt , and were used extensively in Roman architecture .
An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch . Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side . A viaduct ( a long bridge ) may be made from a series of arches , although other more economical structures are typically used today .
A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof , terrace , balcony , walkway or other structure . The word comes ultimately from the Italian parapetto ( parare to cover/defend and petto breast ) . The German equivalent Brüstung has the same meaning . Where extending above a roof , a parapet may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the edge line of the roof surface , or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a fire wall or party wall . Parapets were originally used to defend buildings from military attack , but today they are primarily used as guard rails and to prevent the spread of fires . In the Bible the Hebrews are obligated to build a parapet on the roof of their houses to prevent people falling .