National Historic Landmark - St. Patrick's Cathedral

National Historic Landmark - St. Patrick's Cathedral, Lady Chapel, Rectory and Cardinal's Residence

Climaxing Renwick's career, this cathedral is the first large-scale Medieval-style church in America. Begun in 1858, its spires were completed in 1888.

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National Historic Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

National Historical Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher, noted abolitionist and minister of Plymouth Church, made the church a center of antislavery sentiment.

William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier ...

National Historic Landmark - The Old House (Cutchogue)

National Historic Landmark - The Old House (Cutchogue)

Erected in 1649 by John Budd, who later gave it to his daughter as a wedding present, this house is notable as one of the most distinguished surviving examples of English domestic architecture ...

National Historic Landmark - The News Building

National Historic Landmark - The News Building

This was the first modernistic free-standing skyscraper designed by Raymond Hood.

Built in 1929-30, the vertical -soaring- quality of the exterior marks one of the high points of skyscraper design that was to change ...

National Historic Landmark - Matthew Henson Residence

National Historic Landmark - Matthew Henson Residence

On April 6, 1909, Mathew Henson, an African-American trailblazer on Robert Peary's expedition, became the first man known to reach the North Pole.

On the trip, he saved Peary's life on several occasions, conversed with ...

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

Sandburg, the poet, novelist, and writer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1967.

C.G. Memminger, the builder of the house, was Secretary of the ...

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 ...

National Historic Landmark-Church of the Ascension

National Historic Landmark- Church of the Ascension

Built in 1840-41, this is one of the earliest churches designed by Richard Upjohn, at about the same time as Trinity Church on Wall Street.

A smaller and more austere English Gothic plan, this ...

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

Restored example of Germanic half-timbered construction (1768-86) in the Moravian planned community of Salem.

Used as a trade school for Moravian boys and as a dormitory for master craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices.

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National Historic Landmark - Playmakers Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Playmakers Theatre

Completed in 1850, this is a small finely-executed example of the Neoclassical style thought to have been designed by New York architect A.J. Davis.

One of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University ...