National Historic Landmark - Conference House

National Historic Landmark - Conference House

On 11 September, 1776, this was the scene of a meeting between Lord Richard Howe and a committee of the Continental Congress.

The British Admiral offered amnesty in exchange for withdrawal of the Declaration of ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Cole House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Cole House

Between 1836 and 1848 this substantial, early 19th century, 2-story brick residence was the home of Thomas Cole, one of America's most prominent landscape and allegorical painters and a principal figure in the Hudson ...

National Historic Landmark- Marjorie Kennan Rawlings House

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House was the home of the acclaimed writer and her first husband, Charles Rawlings, from 1928 to 1953. It was in this house that Rawlings wrote all seven of the books published during her lifetime, including ...

National Historic Landmark - Llambias House

Among the few extant structures in Saint Augustine that dates from the first Spanish period, this house reached its final form by 1788. A restored example of organic growth of a dwelling built on a variation of the "St. Augustine ...

National Historic Landmark - Ernest Hemingway House

Winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature, Hemingway lived in this large, eclectic two-story masonry house from 1931 to 1940. Among the works he wrote here is To Have and Have Not. The 1930s swimming pool was ...

National Historic Landmark - Gonzalez-Alvarez House

A "St. Augustine-style" townhouse, adapted to Florida's unique climatic conditions. The original one-story house (c. 1723) had coquina (broken coral and shell) walls and floors of tabby (oyster shells mixed with lime).

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, ...

National Historic Landmark-Ralph Johnson Bunche House

National Historic Landmark- Ralph Johnson Bunche House

This was the home of the distinguished Afro-American diplomat and scholar who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He negotiated the Israeli-Arab Truce of 1949 and was consequently awarded the Nobel Peace ...

National Historic Landmark- Dr. Oliver Bronson House

National Historic Landmark- Dr. Oliver Bronson House

The Dr. Oliver Bronson house is the oldest known extant example of the bracketed style of American architect Alexander Jackson Davis, who was a leader in the development of the Romantic and Picturesque philosophies ...

National Historic Landmark-Bronck House

National Historic Landmark- Bronck House

Built in three stages, this manor house illustrates the architectural development of Dutch Colonial dwellings from the earliest periods of settlement to the years immediately following the American Revolution.

The first section, of stone, was built ...

National Historic Landmark-Alice Austin House

National Historic Landmark- Elizabeth Alice Austen House

For 78 years, this was the home Elizabeth Alice Austen (1866-1952), a remarkable photographer whose work predates in subject matter and technique the photographs of other giants in the field.

Austen began her career ...