Question: The Jacob Straus House is a historic home open to visitors by one of the few surviving 19th-century what?

full_context: Document 1: Monson Historical Society Museum: The Monson Historical Society Museum is located on Main Street in the center of Monson, Maine. It is housed in a former municipal building, built in 1889 to house firefighting equipment and a fraternal lodge, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Monson Engine House (Former) on August 5, 2005, as one of a small number of surviving 19th-century fire stations in rural interior Maine. The museum is open on Saturdays in the summer, showing items of local historical interest.
Document 2: Ligonier Historical Museum: The Ligonier Historical Museum is a museum in Ligonier, Indiana that is housed in the 1889 building of Congregation Ahavas Sholem (Lovers of Peace). The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 503 Main Street. It is one of the few surviving 19th-century synagogues in the United States.
Document 3: Temple Jacob: Temple Jacob is a small historic synagogue in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It owes its origins to the copper boom in the Keweenaw Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th century. The first Jewish synagogue in the Copper Country, it is also the oldest, continuously active Jewish House of Worship in the Upper Peninsula and the only active synagogue in Michigan listed on the National Historic Register as part of the East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District. The synagogue, which is located near the north end of the lift bridge which connects the two towns of Houghton and Hancock, celebrates its Centennial anniversary in August, 2012. It was built on land purchased from the Quincy Mining Company and was dedicated in September 1912. The cornerstone inscribes the building in memory of Jacob, son of Israel Gartner, who was a generous contributor and fundraiser. He died shortly before the building was completed.
Document 4: Ligonier Historic District (Ligonier, Indiana): Ligonier Historic District is a national historic district located at Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. The district encompasses 253 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in Ligonier. It developed between about 1835 and 1937, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple and Jacob Straus House. Other notable buildings include the Dr. Enos Fenton Residence (c. 1855), Silas Shobe Residence (c. 1870), Eli Gerber Residence (1874), Oscar Parks Residence (1892), Solomon Mier Residence (1906), Simon Schloss Residence (1912), Gentry Hotel (1870), Straus Brothers Block (1888), Zimmerman Block (1870, 1906), former Universalist Church (1856), Firs Presbyterian Church (1890), Ligonier Public Library (1908), Ligonier City Building (1914), U.S. Post Office (1935), Lyon and Greenleaf Flour Mill (1886), and former Mier Carriage Factory (1891).
Document 5: Jacob Straus House: Jacob Straus House, also known as the Louis Levy House, is a historic home located at Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. It was built in 1898-1899, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with Neoclassical and Colonial Revival style design elements. It has a truncated hipped roof with dormers. The front facade features a two-story pedimented portico with Ionic order columns and pilasters. Also on the property is a contributing complimentary garage. It is open to visitors by the Ligonier Historical Museum.
Document 6: B'nai Abraham Synagogue: The B'nai Abraham Synagogue is a former synagogue in Virginia, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1909-10, it was the last remaining active synagogue on the Iron Range, and its once-robust congregation dwindled to a handful of members who could no longer maintain the handsome brick structure. It closed its doors in the mid-1990s. Many religious places such as B'nai Abraham slowly become vacant in areas where scant resources are available to continue serving their communities or rekindle new purposes. It was acquired in 2004 by a not-for-profit organization, The Friends of B'nai Abraham, who raised funds, and continue to do so, for the building's restoration. Its restoration is underway and reuse of this unique religious, cultural and historical building is ongoing. It has been rededicated as the B'nai Abraham Museum and Cultural Center in order to serve the citizens of Virginia, Minnesota and surrounding areas, and to preserve the history of its Jewish community, of which it was so much a part. The building reopened in the summer of 2008, and is jointly managed by the Friends organization and the Virginia Area Historical Society. It is used as a cultural center and museum and includes a permanent exhibit documenting the history of Jewish settlement on the Iron Range.
Document 7: Ohev Sholom Temple: Ohev Sholom Temple, now known as B'Nai Sholom Congregation, is an historic synagogue located at 949 10th Avenue in Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. Designed by the Charleston, West Virginia architectural firm of Meanor and Handloser, it was built in 1925 for Congregation Ohev Shalom, which had been formed in 1887. In 1978 B'Nai Sholom Congregation was formed by the merger of Ohev Shalom and B’nai Israel, an Orthodox synagogue which had been formed in 1910. On March 17, 1994, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. B'Nai Sholom continues today as an active congregation affiliated with both the Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism.
Document 8: Historic Congregation B'nai Abraham: Historic Congregation B’nai Abraham is a synagogue located in the Society Hill section of Center City Philadelphia. It is an active congregation with daily, Shabbat, and holy day services. B'nai Abraham is home to a Jewish Preschool, as well as Lubavitch of Center City.
Document 9: Silas M. Clark House: Silas M. Clark House, also known as Clark Memorial Hall and History House, is a historic home located at Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1869-1870, and is a three-story, brick building with a cross-gable roof in Italian Villa-style. It features round headed windows, a central tower, and arched entryway. It housed the local chapter of the American Red Cross from 1918 to 1930. The building has housed the Indiana County Historical and Genealogical Society since 1951.
Document 10: Charles Dugan House: Charles Dugan House, also known as the Adams County Historical Society Museum, is a historic home located at Decatur, Adams County, Indiana. It was designed by the prominent architectural firm of Wing & Mahurin and built in 1902. It is a two-story, Classical Revival style yellow brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The house features a semicircular portico, Doric order corner pilasters, and porte cochere. Also on the property is a contributing frame garage. It was purchased by the Adams County Historical Society Museum in 1968 for $17,250.
Document 11: Covington Residential Historic District: Covington Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Covington, Fountain County, Indiana. The district encompasses 109 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Covington. It developed between about 1830 and 1958, and includes notable examples of Gothic Revival, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Carnegie Library of Covington, Fountain County Clerk's Building, and William C.B. Sewell House. Other notable contributing buildings include the Senator Daniel W. Voorhees House (c. 1880), Ward House (c. 1890), Kid & Mary DeHaven House (1880), Bisland House (1910), Spinning House (c. 1898), Mayer House (1907), Johnson House (c. 1915), Ristine-Savage House (1852), J. D. Fine Boggs House (1923-1924, Livengood House (c. 1930), Enos H. Nebecker House (1894), Hamilton-Reed House (c. 1835, 1886), Covington Methodist Church (1889), Clark House (c. 1865), and Allen-Cates House (c. 1870).
Document 12: L. Haas Store: The L. Haas Store is a historic commercial building located at 219 E. Main St. in Carmi, Illinois. The store was built in 1896 for merchant Louis Haas, a Jewish immigrant from Germany. Though the store was named for and run by Haas, he did not actually own the building, which was the property of local businessman John Storms. The store was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The first floor of the store has a cast iron storefront manufactured by the J. B. Mesker Company; the company also made the building's ornate iron cornice and the iron grilles above the second floor. The second floor features six tall, arched windows, which are topped by a thin strip of curved limestone. The store now houses a history museum run by the White County Historical Society.
Document 13: Downtown Indiana Historic District: Downtown Indiana Historic District is a national historic district located at Indiana in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 86 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Indiana. The district includes notable examples of buildings in the Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne styles. Notable buildings include the Federal-style William Houston House (c. 1805), Clawson Hotel (c. 1850-1874), Thomas Sutton House, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Zion Lutheran Church, First United Presbyterian Church, and First Methodist Episcopal Church. The contributing site is Memorial Park, established as a burial ground in the early 19th century. Located in the district and listed separately are the Silas M. Clark House, James Mitchell House, Old Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building, Indiana Armory, and Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff's Office.
Document 14: Julius and Anine Oversen House: The Julius and Anine Oversen House is a historic building located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. In 1888 D.T. and Mary Hedges sold the property on which this house and surrounding neighborhood sits to the city for development. This was in a period of economic expansion that saw Sioux City grow to become the second largest city in Iowa. Julius Oversen worked as a brick mason. He worked on the Sergeant Floyd Monument (1901) in Sioux City. He may have served as contractor for this house, which he had built for his family from 1899 to 1900. This section of the city is called Morningside, and at the time this house was built, the street in front was called Live Oak Street. It was changed to South Lemon Street in 1911 when Sioux City adjusted the names on the streets and addresses in Morningside to correlate with the rest of the city. The two-story brick Italianate house features a wraparound porch, segmental-arched windows, bracketed eaves, and a low-pitched hip roof. In addition to the house, the historic designation of this property includes a two-story frame carriage house, a cistern, an inground
Document 15: Ohave Shalom Synagogue: Ohave Shalom Synagogue is located on Maurice Rose Street in Woodridge, New York, United States. It is a brick building erected in 1930 by a splinter group from what was then the village's only synagogue, later absorbed into Ohave Shalom itself.
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