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National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

Appearing as if it belonged in a Currier and Ives print, this is one of the longest single-span wooden covered bridges in the world, stretching 210 feet across Schoharie Creek.

The bridge was constructed ...

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National Historic Landmark - Nott Memorial Hall

National Historic Landmark - Nott Memorial Hall

Completed in 1876, this is representative of the High Victorian Gothic Style which was made popular from the early 1860s until the 1870s by the writings of English critic John Ruskin (1819-1900).

With an ...

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National Historic Landmark - Niagara Reservation

National Historic Landmark - Niagara Reservation

Established in 1885 to reclaim the natural setting of the Falls from exploitation, Niagara Reservation was the first State park created under the power of eminent domain.

Renowned landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the landscape ...

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National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

Site of a battle (29 August 1779) that was a result an expedition lead by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and was the major American military effort of 1779.

General George Washington ordered the Sullivan expedition as ...

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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 ...

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National Historic Landmark - New York Yacht Club Building

National Historic Landmark - New York Yacht Club Building

The home of America's oldest and foremost yachting organization (1844).

Established as a private man's club and renowned as the long-time home of the AMERICA's Cup, the structure (1900) is a ...

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National Historic Landmark-School of Drawing, Painting

National Historic Landmark - New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture

This was the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the first museum to be exclusively devoted to American art of the 20th century and the ...

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National Historic Landmark - New York Stock Exchange

National Historic Landmark - New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange, virtually synonymous with -Wall Street- is the headquarters of the nation's largest securities market.

It began in 1792 under a buttonwood tree, and, after a number of ...

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National Historic Landmark - New York State Inebriate Asylum

National Historic Landmark - New York State Inebriate Asylum

The New York State Inebriate Asylum was constructed between 1858 and 1866 as the United States Inebriate Asylum, the first single-purpose hospital in the country designed and built for the treatment ...

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National Historic Landmark - New York State Capitol

National Historic Landmark - New York State Capitol

Erected between 1867 and 1899, this building marked a period of general prosperity and confidence in Post-Civil War New York.

Begun in the Second Empire style, it was completed in the French ...

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