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The District, the Plant, and the Churches as Buildings
The Walkerton Historic District: the National Register record
ARC-1 DUG · THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND STATE DHPA RECORDS
Walkerton holds exactly one National Register listing, and it is the whole downtown: the Walkerton Historic District, entered November 17, 2021, reference number 100007175. The listing's geography is the original town in one…
The industrial buildings, surveyed
ARC-4 DUG · ASSEMBLED FROM THE RECORDS THIS WAVE READ
The checklist asks for the town's industrial buildings as a survey; the wave's reads supply four structures across a century, and the survey prints them in order. First, the grain elevator of Howard's 1907 street — "a grain…
The churches as buildings: a survey in dated walls
ARC-10 DUG · CHAPMAN, HOWARD, AND THE DENOMINATION'S HISTORY
Read as buildings rather than congregations, Walkerton's churches form the town's most completely dated building series — eight walls across 133 years, every one of them placed by a record this wave read. 1859: the Methodist…
The two oldest houses, and the architects' empty chair
ARC-2 / ARC-11 MIXED · THE HOUSES ANCHORED, THE NAMES STANDING
Two checklist items close together, one at anchor strength and one as an honest vacancy. The houses: the survey's first anchor is C. W. N. Between the anchors the survey's method prints: the 1875 atlas plates show the town's…
Two pointers: the Tyler Street parish block, and the Carnegie question
ARC-9 / ARC-5 · CARRIED AT POINTER SIZE BY THE DISCIPLINE
Two items of this section close as pointers, and the pointers are printed so the assembly can find the whole cloth. The Tyler Street parish block — St. Patrick's church and school ground — stands in this build at the combined…