National Historic Landmark -W. and L.E. Gurley Building

National Historic Landmark - W. & L.E. Gurley Building

This factory (1862), as enlarged, has housed the W & L. E. Gurley Company, which is known worldwide for the design and manufacture of precision mathematical and engineering instruments.

Gurley company ...

National Historic Landmark -Grand Central Terminal

National Historic Landmark -Grand Central Terminal

Constructed in the first two decades of the 20th century, it is a triumph of planning and engineering. It remains the greatest head station in America.

National Historic Landmark -Grace Church

National Historic Landmark -Grace Church

Constructed from 1843-46, this is the first masterpiece of James Renwick, Jr., who would become, after Richard Upjohn, one of the foremost practitioners of the Gothic Revival style.

This commission, executed when he was only 25, ...

National Historic Landmark -Governors Island

National Historic Landmark -Governors Island

From the time of the Revolution, Governors Island has been a major component of the coastal fortification system for the nation's largest harbor.

The present fortifications, Fort Jay, a square four bastioned fort, and Castle Williams, ...

National Historic Landmark -Jay Gould Estate (Lyndhurst)

National Historic Landmark -Jay Gould Estate (Lyndhurst)

Gould was a freewheeling financier notable even in the era of unrestrained capitalism after the Civil War.

Gould is still remembered, and still vilified, for his attempt to corner the nation's gold market.

Lyndhurst, ...

National Historic Landmark -Geneseo Historic District

National Historic Landmark -Geneseo Historic District

One of the most remarkably preserved villages in northwestern New York, Geneseo is one of the best examples of -Picturesque- architecture and town planning as expounded by American landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) in ...

National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Laboratory

National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Laboratory

Established in 1900, this is recognized as the first industrial research facility in the United States.

The General Electric Research Laboratory has made major contributions to scientific knowledge, especially in the areas of physics ...

National Historic Landmark -Founder's Hall

National Historic Landmark -Founder's Hall

Chartered in 1901, this institute was founded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to conduct research into the treatment and prevention of disease.

It was the first of his great philanthropic foundations.

With it, Rockefeller sought not ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

For most of the second half of the 18th century, this Landmark was the military key to the Champlain Valley, New York City, the Hudson River Valley and western New England and Montreal.

This strategic location made ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

Resistance by the Fort's American garrison in August 1777 was chiefly responsible for the repulse of the western wing of a British invasion from Canada.

Also the site of a major treaty involving the Iroquois in ...