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National Historic Landmark-People's Federal Savings and Loan

National Historic Landmark - People's Federal Savings and Loan Association

Completed in 1918, this architectural gem, small in scale, exquisite in detail, makes a strong individualistic statement in a busy small town Midwestern setting.

Executed late in the career of ...

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National Historic Landmark - George Hunt Pendleton House

National Historic Landmark - George Hunt Pendleton House

From 1879 until his death, this was the residence of George Hunt Pendleton (1825-1889), lawyer and politician.

As a U.S. Senator (1879-1885), Pendleton spearheaded civil service reform.

He and his committee met here ...

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National Historic Landmark - Tumacacori Museum

Built (1937-39) on a plan mimicking, in part, the spatial layout of a mission complex, the museum is a handsome example of Mission Revival architecture. Certain architectural elements, such as the entrance doors, were replicas of similar features from missions ...

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National Historic Landmark - John P. Parker House

National Historic Landmark - John P. Parker House

A former slave, John Parker's unflagging and oftentimes heroic efforts to rescue escaped slaves from the -borderlands- along the Ohio River underscores the major role played by African-Americans not only as slaves and ...

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National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

Built in 1928, this massive Spanish Baroque structure was designed during the -Golden Age-of movie palace construction by Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942), one of the most prolific and well-known theater architects of the 1920s.

Fully ...

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National Historic Landmark - Tombstone Historic District

Tombstone is one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s. Site of one of the West's richest silver strikes and the "gunfight at the OK Corral", Tombstone epitomizes the legendary reputation of ...

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National Historic Landmark - Taliesin West

This desert complex contains the winter home, office and school of architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Often acclaimed as one of his masterworks, this complex, along with Taliesin (East) near Spring Green, Wisconsin (also a NHL), expresses Wright's educational ...

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National Historic Landmark - Snaketown

Excavations at Snaketown by Gila Pueblo revealed that the Hohokam of southern Arizona were strongly influenced by the more highly developed cultures of Mexico, particularly between AD 500 or 600 and 1150, and later. Not only did these excavations definitely ...

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National Historic Landmark-Sierra Bonita Ranch

Founded in 1872 by Col. Henry C. Hooker to supply beef to Army posts, mining camps, and Indian agencies, this was the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona, as well as the first to introduce graded stock into the ...

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National Historic Landmark - San Xavier del Bac Mission

Founded in 1700 by the Jesuits, Bac then formed the extreme northern thrust of Nueva Espana. The present structure is the third, perhaps the fourth, church on the site. Consecrated by Franciscans, it was begun in 1783 and completed in ...

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