National Historic Landmark-Philipsburg Manor

National Historical Landmark- Philipsburg Manor

Philipsburg Manor is a late 17th and early 18th century milling and trading complex that was headquarters for a 52,000 acre estate.

It was owned by an Anglo-Dutch family of merchants and operated by a community ...

National Historic Landmark-Petrified Sea Gardens

National Historical Landmark- Petrified Sea Gardens

Petrified Sea Gardens is significant in the history of geology as the area where stromatolites were first recognized, described, and interpreted in North America, resolving questions about the origin of these organisms that puzzled geologists ...

National Historic Landmark-Thomas Paine Cottage

National Historical Landmark-Thomas Paine Cottage

Paine, propagandist for the American and French Revolutions and author of COMMON SENSE and THE AGE OF REASON, occupied this saltbox cottage from 1802 until 1806. He was buried here in 1809.

Courtesy National Park Service National ...

National Historic Landmark-Owl's Nest (Edward Eggleston Estate)

National Historical Landmark- Owl's Nest (Edward Eggleston Estate)

Eggleston, one of America's earliest realistic novelists, was among the first to tap the literary potential of the country's frontier experience.

He grew up along the Ohio River and became a Methodist circuit ...

National Historic Landmark-Oriskany Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Oriskany Battlefield

Site of a fierce battle between American militiamen attempting to relieve Fort Stanwix and a combined force of British Loyalists and Indians.

Although the American patriot force failed to raise the siege at that time, the ...

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 ...