National Historic Landmark- Northeast Entrance Station

Designed following the parameters of the rustic design ethic, it is not only a physical, but also a psychological boundary between the rest of the world and the area set aside as a permanent wild place. The best of its ...

National Historic Landmark- Great Northern Railway Buildings

The Great Northern Railway Buildings National Historic Landmark is comprised of five building complexes: Belton Chalet, Granite Park Chalet, Many Glacier Hotel, Sperry Chalet, and Two Medicine Store. Together they exemplify a distinct architectural style being used on a massive ...

National Historic Landmark- Going-to-the-Sun Road

An essential step in making large scenic reservations accessible to the motoring public without unduly marring landscape scenery or natural systems was the initiation of "landscape engineering." When it was begun, Going-to-the-Sun Road was the most ambitious road construction project ...

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

Constructed about 1881 on the Margate waterfront, this seventy-five foot long wood and tin pachyderm is the last survivor of what one historian calls --zoomorphic architecture--.

Built as an architectural folly to ...

National Historic Landmark - Great Falls of the Passaic Society

National Historic Landmark - Great Falls of the Passaic Society for Useful Manufacturing HD

Developed by Alexander Hamilton and Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Great Falls district is the site of the first attempt in the United States to harness the entire ...

National Historic Landmark - The Speedwell Village Factory

National Historic Landmark - The Speedwell Village Factory

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) developed and successfully demonstrated the telegraph in the Vail Factory in 1838.

The Village is the site of a 19th century ironworks complex, including the Vail Homestead, Factory, and ...

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

Erected (1610-12) as the fortress of the royal presidio of Santa Fe, the Palacio Real is the oldest public building built by European settlers in the continental United States.

It served as the residence ...

National Historic Landmark -The Voorlezer's House

National Historic Landmark -The Voorlezer's House

This house was constructed by the early Dutch settlers before 1696 to serve as a church, a school, and the residence of the Voorlezer, the layman chosen to assist the Pastor in the church services ...

National Historic Landmark - Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged

National Historic Landmark -Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Harriet Tubman Residence, Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church

Tubman (1821-1913),the most famous -conductor-on the Underground Railroad, personally led more than 300 slaves to freedom.

She established this home for aged and indigent African Americans ...

National Historic Landmark - St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo)

National Historic Landmark - St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo)

Constructed between 1849 and 1851, St. Paul's Cathedral is the premier church in Western New York.

Designed by Richard Upjohn, the leading American Gothic Revival architect of the 19th century, St. Paul's is an ...