National Historic Landmark-Ralph Johnson Bunche House

National Historic Landmark- Ralph Johnson Bunche House

This was the home of the distinguished Afro-American diplomat and scholar who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He negotiated the Israeli-Arab Truce of 1949 and was consequently awarded the Nobel Peace ...

National Historic Landmark-Buffalo State Hospital

National Historic Landmark- Buffalo State Hospital

Begun in 1872, this is an important transitional building in the developing style of H. H. Richardson. It is the first major work on which he collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner, ...

National Historic Landmark - Freedom Tower

The Freedom Tower is considered the Ellis Island of the South for its role during a twelve year period between 1962 and 1974, as the Cuban Assistance Center, offering nationally sanctioned relief to the Cuban refugees who sought political asylum ...

National Historic Landmark-Buffalo and Erie Historical Society

National Historic Landmark- Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building

The only surviving structure from the popular Pan-American Exposition of 1901, which hoped to encourage economic ties between North and South America after the Spanish American War.

The classic, white ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Zachary Taylor

The fort was a strong Union outpost in the South throughout the Civil War and provided a defense for the Key West naval station during the Spanish-American War (1898).

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

National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark-John Brown Farm and Gravesite

Few of those who have sung John Brown's body lies a-moldering in his grave, know that his grave is here in upstate New York.

It was from his small, plain, unpainted frame farmhouse ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Walton Mound

A type site for the Indian culture present along the northwest Florida coast at the time of European contact in the sixteenth century.

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National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society Building

This building (1881) is one of the very few remaining intact examples of the work of George B. Post (1837-1913).

Aside from being the first major building on the East Coast to use locally made terra ...

Fort San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park

Located at the confluence of the St. Marks and Wakulla Rivers, Native Americans used the site of Fort San Marcos de Apalache for thousands of years. The fort was built by the Spanish in the 1600s to protect Spanish missions ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Heights Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights, with its phenomenal views of Lower Manhattan across the East River, was one of New York's most prestigious 19th-century addresses.

Houses and churches remain in excellent condition and present an almost complete architectural catalog of ...