National Historic Landmark-Erie Canal

National Historic Landmark-Erie Canal

In the early 19th century, this waterway opened the Old Northwest to settlement and gave Western agriculture access to Eastern markets.

A remarkable engineering feat for the period, it helped to make New York City one of the ...

National Historic Landmark-Equitable Building

National Historic Landmark-Equitable Building

Headquarters of one of the insurance industry's earliest leaders, and built (1914-15) on the site of Equitable's first home office.

This is a forty-story steel-and-masonry building in Second Renaissance Revival style.

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National Historic Landmark-Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is the symbol of New York, just as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris and Big Ben is to London. It is still the biggest tourist attraction in the biggest tourist city in

the world.

Beautifully finished in ...

National Historic Landmark - Phelps Dodge General Office Bldg.

From 1896 to 1961, this building served as the headquarters of this mining company and is the only important early Phelps Dodge office existing in the U.S. This structure symbolizes the company's pioneer role in western copper mining, as well ...

National Historic Landmark - Painted Desert Inn

Constructed between 1937 and 1940 in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style, the interior spaces have unusually high quality of design. Particularly notable is the former Trading Post Room, illuminated by a translucent skylight with multiple panes of glass painted in designs ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Oraibi

Located on the westernmost of the Hopi mesas, this is probably the oldest continuously inhabited pueblo in the Southwest. Old Oraibi documents Hopi culture and history from before European contact to the present day. The village is on the present ...

National Historic Landmark - Navajo Nation Council Chamber

The Navajo Nation Council Chamber, Window Rock, Arizona stands today as a symbol of the New Deal revolution in federal Indian policy during the 1930s, advocating reconstitution of tribal organizations, restoration of tribal land base and promotion of traditional Indian ...

National Historic Landmark-Mission Los Santos Angeles de Guevavi

The site of Mission Los Santos Angeles de Guavavi, which presently consists of the ruins of an adobe church and "convento", is associated with the 17th and 18th century Society of Jesus (Jesuit) missionary efforts to Christianize and acculturate the ...

National Historic Landmark - Merriam C. Hart, Base Camp Site

Operating from this camp in the San Francisco Mountains, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, America's first bio-ecologist, conducted the investigations that led to his formulation of the Life Zone concept (1889). His work was seminal in the development of the modern ...

National Historic Landmark - Lowell Observatory

Founded in 1894 by Percival Lowell, this relatively small observatory was at the time the one significant center of pure scientific research in the Southwest. Here, Lowell studied Mars (and theorized that it was inhabited by intelligent beings) and performed ...