National Historic Landmark - Joseph Taylor Robinson House

From 1930 to 1937, this little-altered 2 1/2-story frame-and-granite dwelling was the home of Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872-1937), Senate Majority Leader during the early part of the New Deal. Robinson's ability to keep the "Senate's nose to the grindstone" played ...

National Historic Landmark-Nash-Hooper House

National Historic Landmark- Nash-Hooper House

Built by Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero and general. Home, from 1782 until his death in 1790, of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina and a delegate to the Continental ...

National Historic Landmark - Old State House Little Rock

From 1912 to 1916, the Arkansas State Board of Health, in partnership with the University of Arkansas Medical School, worked from this building on successful campaigns to control or eradicate hookworm, a scourge of the South, and malaria, a disease ...

National Historic Landmark - Bathhouse Row

This, the largest grouping of bathhouses in the country, illustrates the popularity of the spa movement in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also an excellent collection of turn-of-the-century eclectic buildings in the Neoclassical, Renaissance Revival, ...

National Historic Landmark - Daisy Bates House

The Daisy Bates House is nationally significant for its role as the de facto command post for the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas during 1957-1958. The house served as a haven for the nine African American ...

National Historic Landmark -Chowan County Courthouse

National Historic Landmark -Chowan County Courthouse

Magnificently sited at the head of a broad lawn facing Edenton Bay, this beautifully preserved late Colonial courthouse is one of the most impressive Georgian public buildings in the south.

Built in 1767, the structure ...

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

Built c. 1725 and remodeled in 1756-58, this structure is an outstanding example of a timber-framed residence illustrating the transition from 17th century Jacobean to 18th century Georgian architectural styles.

In all the southern colonies, it is ...

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

Residence (1829-49) of Helper, author of THE IMPENDING CRISIS (1857), a book which condemned the institution of slavery for economic, though not moral, reasons.

The publication was used for political purposes by the Republicans ...

National Historic Landmark -Market House

National Historic Landmark -Market House

Built in 1838, this structure is unique in that it is one of the few structures in America which employs the town hall-market scheme found in England.

Meat and produce were sold under the open first-floor arcade ...