National Historic Landmark-Rudolph Oyster House

National Historical Landmark- Rudolph Oyster House

The Rudolph Oyster House is a substantially unaltered marine industrial building overlooking the Great South Bay on Long Island, New York. While most successful seafood processing plants underwent a series of alterations and additions throughout ...

National Historic Landmark-Roycroft Campus

National Historical Landmark-Roycroft Campus

An Arts and Crafts movement community founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1895 as an artistic revolt against the mass production of applied arts. The theory was that in its medieval craft guild setting, craftsmen could live and ...

National Historic Landmark-Rose Hill

National Historical Landmark-Rose Hill

One of the finest examples of the Greek Revival Style in the United States.

Built (1837-39) on a monumental scale, it reflects the prosperity of Western New York as a result of the Erie Canal.

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National Historic Landmark-Elihu Root House

National Historical Landmark- Elihu Root

Elihu Root was Secretary of War (1899-1903) under President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and Secretary of State (1905-1909) under Theodore Roosevelt.

Military organization was one of his many talents, and he has been called the father ...

National Historic Landmark-Rockefeller Center

National Historical Landmark- Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center changed the form of mid-town Manhattan.

It became one of the most successful urban planning projects in the history of American architecture, and integrated the arts of architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and sculpture ...

National Historic Landmark-Jackie Robinson House

National Historical Landmark-John Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson House

Home (1947-50) of the baseball player who in 1947 became the first African-American to play in the major leagues, thus breaking the color barrier to full integration in professional team sports.

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National Historic Landmark-Paul Robeson Residence

National Historical Landmark-Paul Robeson Residence

Residence (1939-41) of the famous African-American actor, singer, scholar, and athlete, who in the 1940s and 1950s suffered public condemnation for his political sympathies, but was widely acclaimed for his artistic talent.

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National Historic Landmark-Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

National Historical Landmark- Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

As Commandant of the Navy Yard (1841-43), Commodore Matthew C. Perry occupied Quarters A, residence of the Yard's commanding officers since its construction.

Perry's mission to Japan (1854) opened that country to Western ...

National Historic Landmark-Pupin Physics Laboratory

National Historical Landmark- Pupin Physics Laboratory, Columbia University

Initial experiments on the nuclear fission of uranium were conducted here by Enrico Fermi. The uranium atom was split here on January 25, 1939, ten days after the world's first atom-splitting in Copenhagen, ...

National Historic Landmark-Prudential (Guaranty) Building

National Historical Landmark- Prudential (Guaranty) Building

The last collaborative effort of its architects, the Prudential (1895) is a triumph of early skyscraper design.

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Image courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey