Chateau-sur-Mer & Its Neighbors: A Victorian District Preserved

The buildings surrounding Chateau-sur-Mer capture the spirit of Newport in the High Victorian era. This block preserves one of the greatest concentrations of Victorian architecture and landscape design in Newport from the period 1850 to 1890. The residents of ...

The Gorgas-Manly Historic District

includes

The Gorgas House (1829)

First structure built on the original campus

The Round House (1860)

Used by cadets on guard duty, and another of the four buildings to survive the fires set by Federal troops in 1865.

Woods Hall (1868)

First building constructed after the ...

Hempstead Historic District

Free African Americans have lived and worked in this neighborhood since colonial times. In the 1840s both blacks and whites bought home (some still standing) through the efforts of abolitionist and developer, Savillion Haley. Travelers on the Underground Railroad were ...

Historic McGee-Spaulding District

Berkeley History

The District was part of the land granted by the king of Spain in 1820 to the Luis Peralta Family. The land was later purchased from Jose Domingo Peralta by four San Francisco businessmen. In 1855, James McGee (1814-1899), ...

The White Chapel District

The White Chapel District:

In the depression of 1893 there stood on opposite corners of Washington Street and Third Avenue, at the foot of “profanity hill,” what was referred to as the most financially solvent institution in Seattle: The ...

Wood Avenue Historic District

A Residential neighborhood primarily developed between 1880 and 1930.

The district contains elaborate Queen Anne, classic Georgian Revival and the more modest Bungalow styles of architecture as well as two homes of the Plantation Cotton style dating from the 1820's.

Notable residents ...

Greenwich Ninth District Veterans Memorial

Erected In Memory Of The

Men From The Ninth District

Greenwich, Connecticut

Who Served In The Armed

Forces And Paid The Supreme

Sacrifice For Their Country

Anthony J. Balco • Joseph T. Borowiec • Domenico S. Crucitti • Harold A. Granholm • John T. ...

Mansion Hill Historic District

Known variously as Yankee Hill, Aristocrat Hill and Big Bug Hill, the area north of the Capitol Square near Lake Mendota was selected by Madison's business, political, and academic elites in the 19th century for their homes. Successuful bankers, timber ...

Newport Historic District

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1968

Marker is at the intersection of Thames ...

Clover Hill Mining District

Coal mines, including Brighthope, Raccoon, Cox, Hill, Vaden, and others, were located a mile west of here. As early as 1822 coal was sold for local use. By 1845 the Clover Hill Railroad was constructed to transport the coal to ...