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National Historic Landmark - Ponce de Leon Hotel

The Hotel Ponce de Leon (Flagler College since 1968) was the first Florida's great winter luxury hotels and the flagship of Henry M. Flagler's railroad-hotel-land development empire in Florida. Henry Flagler made his fortune during the period immediately following the ...

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National Historic Landmark - Ernest Hemingway House

Winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature, Hemingway lived in this large, eclectic two-story masonry house from 1931 to 1940. Among the works he wrote here is To Have and Have Not. The 1930s swimming pool was ...

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National Historic Landmark - Governor Stone (Schooner)

Built in 1877, STONE is the oldest surviving Gulf schooner, a type which was important to maritime commerce of the South and Gulf Coast, where shallows and sandbars made the employment of shoal centerboard schooners essential to the transfer of ...

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National Historic Landmark-Carnegie Mansion

National Historic Landmark- Carnegie Mansion

Andrew Carnegie, who arrived in the United States from Scotland at age 13, became a steel industrialist and philanthropist, and one of the nation's richest men.

His empire included coal mines, steel mills and steamship and ...

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National Historic Landmark-Carnegie Hall

National Historic Landmark- Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall was built by Andrew Carnegie and designed principally by William Burnett Tuthill with additions by Henry J. Hardenburgh.

Originally named Music Hall, the facility was among the first performing arts complexes and quickly helped establish ...

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National Historic Landmark-Canfield Casino and Congress Park

National Historic Landmark- Canfield Casino and Congress Park

These two important sites, at the center of the community, established the international fame of Saratoga Springs--the Queen of the Spas--as a health resort and gambling center for much of the 19th century. ...

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National Historic Landmark - Gonzalez-Alvarez House

A "St. Augustine-style" townhouse, adapted to Florida's unique climatic conditions. The original one-story house (c. 1723) had coquina (broken coral and shell) walls and floors of tabby (oyster shells mixed with lime).

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, ...

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National Historic Landmark-Camp Uncas

National Historic Landmark- Camp Uncas

Camp Uncas remains one of the preeminent and best preserved cultural resources chronicling the nationally-significant development of Adirondack camp architecture.

William West Durant, a real-estate investor and proponent of the region, devised the camps to promote ...

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National Historic Landmark-Camp Pine Knot

National Historic Landmark- Camp Pine Knot

Designed by William West Durant, an innovator in the field of Adirondack Camp design and one of the promoters of the Adirondack area, Camp Pine Knot is an exceptional and highly influential example of rustic ...

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National Historic Landmark-John Burroughs Riverby Study

National Historic Landmark- John Burroughs Riverby Study

This small one-story frame structure was built in 1881 by John Burroughs, noted naturalist and conservationist, within the yard of his Riverby estate overlooking the Hudson.

It served as his retreat, a place where ...

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