National Historic Landmark-Christ Church-Philadelphia

National Historic Landmark-Christ Church Philadelphia

Constructed between 1727 and 1754, the present ornate Georgian structure, used by a congregation organized in 1695, is the third building on the site.

Its most striking exterior features are a Palladian window and Doric ...

National Historic Landmark-Chatham Village

National Historic Landmark-Chatham Village

Chatham Village is an internationally acclaimed model of community design based on Garden City planning, innovative methods of cost analysis, and pioneering efforts to reduce housing construction costs.

It was designed by local architects under the supervision ...

National Historic Landmark-Cedarcroft

National Historic Landmark-Cedarcroft

From 1859 to 1874, this was the residence of James Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), poet, novelist, and Civil War correspondent.

Taylor did much of his writing in this house, which he built himself.

Courtesy National Park Service Historic Landmarks

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National Historic Landmark-Carrie Blast Furnace

National Historic Landmark- Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and

Built in 1906-1907, Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and 7 are the only remaining pre-World War II era blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh District, the nation's largest iron and steel production district for much ...

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

Erected in 1770-71 as a guild hall for the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, this is a fine example of late Georgian public architecture.

The building served as a meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774, ...

Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church began when the congregation sought to join the U.S Presbyterian denomination because English ministers stopped coming from the Bahamas to serve Trinity, then the only English Wesleyan Methodist Church in America. George Allen, Sr., became an ...

Cornish Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

This wood-frame, Gothic Revival structure is one of the oldest AME churches in Florida. Built in 1903, it is named in honor of Sandy Cornish, an early Bahamian immigrant who founded the congregation.

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The Church of God of Prophecy

Constructed in the late 1920s, this building began as an 800-square-foot family dwelling. Brother Kemp, a black Bahamian, and his protege, John Bruce Knowles, Sr. remodeled it. This church was also called the Jumper Church.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Key West

The original church building was first established in 1878, in the 700 block of Duval Street. The Ku Klux Klan claimed responsibility for burning it down in 1922, saying it was tired of the noise of church services.

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