National Historic Landmark-Jackson Pollock House and Studio

National Historical Landmark- Jackson Pollock House & Studio

From 1945 until his death, this was the home and workplace of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), considered one of the most revolutionary figures in the history of 20th-century art and a key ingredient ...

National Historic Landmark-Oneida Community Mansion House

National Historical Landmark- Oneida Community Mansion House

Oneida, founded in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes as a 19th-century communitarian experiment, was one of America's most radical and most successful experimental communities.

Perfectionism governed its activities, and the community practiced complex marriages ...

National Historic Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

National Historical Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

Only surviving example in New York of a typical 17th-century ecclesiastical frame building. Proportions and framing system are prime examples of the survival of medieval techniques.

Used continuously as a meeting house since 1696, except ...

National Historic Landmark - Old New York County Courthouse

National Historic Landmark - Old New York County Courthouse

The Old New York County Courthouse symbolizes a classic episode in the annals of American graft and corruption.

It is a monument to the machinations of William Marcy (-Boss-) Tweed, who ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Merchant's House

National Historic Landmark - Old Merchant's House (Seabury Tredwell House)

Owned by an urban merchant, Seabury Tredwell, this three-story brick townhouse (1832) is representative of the transition from the Federal to the Greek Revival period in architecture.

It provides a ...

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 - Kate Mullany House

National Historic Landmark - Kate Mullany House

Kate Mullany, who organized and led Troy's all-female Collar Laundry Union in the 1860s, was America's most prominent female labor leader.

Male unionists recognized her group as the only bona fide female union in ...

National Historic Landmark - William Sydney Mount House

National Historic Landmark - William Sydney Mount House

Mount (1807-68) produced most of his genre paintings in this large farmhouse.

His genre scenes reflect his individualism, insistence on realistic portrayals, and his reliance on his own region and its people for ...

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

Morse purchased this house in 1847, three years after his successful telegraphic transmission of a message from Washington to Baltimore.

He used it as his summer residence and enlarged it into the present octagon-shaped ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Moran House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Moran House

Moran produced notable paintings of the West, two of which, -The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone- and -The Chasm of the Colorado- hang in the United States Capitol.

He built this two-story shingled house ...