National Historic Landmark - Milton House

This tall hexagonal building, constructed of concrete grout and covered with plaster, is nationally significant not because of its unusual shape and construction, but because of its ante-bellum usage. Built as a hotel, it and the nearby log Goodrich Cabin ...

National Historic Landmark - Little White Schoolhouse

A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the extension of slavery beyond the limits of ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert Johnson House

Built in 1937-1938 for the President of Johnson's Wax Company, this large house was considered by its architect the finest (and most expensive) house he had built up to that date. Frank Lloyd Wright's design is so completely wedded to ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 2nd House

This was the first house to be built under Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle." Rooms were largely circular or semi circular, oriented towards the sun and protected from the north wind by berms. Wright's use of passive energy to ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 1st House

The Jacobs house is the first Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was built based on the principle of providing an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen. The Jacobs house stands out in Wright’s work ...

National Historic Landmark - Hamlin Garland House

This rambling, nondescript structure is associated with author Hamlin Garland (1860-1940). Garland's early work exploded the romantic myths of the West, exposing the hard lot of the pioneers and frontiersmen; his later, more romantic novels--one of which brought him the ...

National Historic Landmark - 1st Unitarian Soc. Meeting House

An internationally recognized premier example of Frank Lloyd Wright's late Usonian architecture, unusual for its nonresidential application. Usonian design refers to what Wright termed as an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen of the United States. Considered ...

National Historic Landmark - Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House

The Day house, architecturally a wonderful example of Victorian ecelecticism, is important for its association with amateur geologist Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day. Day and other naturalists of his time unselfishly assembled large collections of natural history specimens, made detailed observations ...

National Historic Landmark - Brisbois House

Built about 1840 by the son of Michail Brisbois, a French-Canadian who had been one of the town's first permanent settler in 1781, this 2-1/2 story house shows the prosperity brought by the fur trading industry.

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National Historic Landmark - Harold C. Bradley House

Constructed in 1909, this is one of two residences to which Sullivan contributed (the other being the Babson House in Riverside, Illinois) just after his peak as a skyscraper architect. It is an excellent example of Prairie School design. It ...