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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1920/06/00 Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard William J Simmons hires Clarke and Tyler, giving them 80 percent of the profits ($2.50) from the dues of the new members, to aggressively promote a Klu Lux Klan that is rabidly anti-black, anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic.
1921/04/00 Mary Elizabeth Tyler Home Mary Elizabeth Tyler buys 20 acres on fashionable Howell Mill Road and builds Classical Revival mansion.
1921/09/00 Mary Elizabeth Tyler Work By the late summer, nearly 100,000 people have enrolled in the Klan and, at $10 a head (tax-free since the Klan is a "benevolent" society) Clarke and Tyler take in $800,000.
1921/09/00 Ku Klux Klan By the late summer, nearly 100,000 people have enrolled in the Klan and, at $10 a head (tax-free since the Klan is a "benevolent" society) Clarke and Tyler take in $800,000.

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Particulars for Mary Elizabeth Tyler House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 30th January 2006

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Tyler, Mary Elizabeth, House
Registry Address: 2887 Howell Mill Rd.
Registry Number: 05001598
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: Classical revival
Area in Acres: 4
Contributing Buildings: 2
Non-Contributing Buildings: 1
Non-Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Social history, Other, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1921, 1924
Associated People: Tyler, Mary Elizabeth
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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