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2 unusual facts about National Historic Landmark


Designated landmark

U.S. National Historic Landmarks are buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects that have been determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be nationally significant in American history and culture.

Hey Arnold!: The Movie

Arnold soon realize that, if the neighborhood's involvement in the Tomato Incident is true, then it should be declared a National Historic Landmark, meaning that it cannot be torn down.


Actors Theatre of Louisville

The building that became Actors Theatre was a merging of two buildings: the 1837 James H. Dakin-designed Old Bank of Louisville (which is a National Historic Landmark) and the Myers-Thompson Display Building.

Arrow Rock Historic District

Arrow Rock Historic District, or Arrow Rock, is a historic district in Arrow Rock, Missouri that was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Auburn Theological Seminary

The only remaining buildings from that campus, called Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall built in 1892 are listed as a National Historic Landmark.

Benjamin Harvey Hill

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1972 and designated as a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973.

Buildings of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Prominent buildings include the BOK Tower, the second tallest building in Oklahoma; the futurist Oral Roberts University campus and adjacent Cityplex Towers, a group of towers that includes the third tallest building in Oklahoma; Boston Avenue Methodist Church, an Art Deco church designated as a National Historic Landmark; and the BOK Center, a 18,000 seat arena in downtown Tulsa.

Camden Expedition

Nine historic sites associated with the expedition were, as a set, designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1994.

Espada Acequia

The acequia is still in use today and is an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.

Harmony Society

Today, many of the Society's remaining buildings are preserved; all three of their settlements in the United States have been declared National Historic Landmark Districts by the National Park Service.

Holmdel Horn Antenna

It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1988 because of its association with the research work of two radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.

Homestead Strike

In 1999 the Bost Building in downtown Homestead, AA headquarters throughout the strike, was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Lemuel Haynes

Lemuel Haynes House, his home for the last 11 years of his life in South Granville, New York, when he was pastor of South Granville Congregational Church was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

Louisiana Purchase State Park

Louisiana Purchase State Park, in Arkansas near Blackton, Arkansas, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993 under the title Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey.

Low Memorial Library

Low Library was officially named a New York City landmark in 1967, then a National Historic Landmark twenty years later.

Mansfield, Missouri

Today, their unique 10-room farmhouse is a National Historic Landmark, and the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum, which attracts thousands of visitors to Mansfield each year.

Mary Nimmo Moran

The Moran home in East Hampton became the center of a productive artists' colony and is today a National Historic Landmark.

Montauk Point Light

On March 2, 2012 United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar officially designated the lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark; it is the 14th site on Long Island and the 11th lighthouse in the country to be so recognized.

Moose, Wyoming

Olaus and Margaret Murie and Olaus' brother Adolph lived in Moose for much of their lives, and today the family ranch is an educational retreat center, designated a National Historic Landmark.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia, South Carolina

There are 156 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Richland County, including 5 National Historic Landmarks.

Peter A. Jay

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs.

Richard Austin House

A decade afterwards, in 1837, the Old Croton Aqueduct, no longer in use today but a National Historic Landmark, was built through downtown, to provide water to New York.

Rocky Mountain National Park

The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.

Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den

Constructed in 1841, the Church of the Ascension is a National Historic Landmark, located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street.

S bridge

The fourth bridge is located between Old Washington, Ohio and Middlebourne, Ohio along Blend Road, at the intersection of Bridgewater Road, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

South Carolina Highway 261

Three U.S. National Historic Landmark, the Millford Plantation, Borough House Plantation and Church of the Holy Cross, are located on the highway in the High Hills of Santee region of Sumter County.

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark.

Webster–Ashburton Treaty

Ten months of negotiations for the treaty were held largely at the Ashburton House, home of the British legation on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. The house has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.


see also

Alsop House

Richard Alsop IV House, Middletown, Connecticut, also known as Alsop House and designated a National Historic Landmark under that name

Arrow Rock

Arrow Rock Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark district in Arrow Rock, Missouri

Bronson House

Oliver Bronson House, Hudson, NY, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, also known as Dr.

Chicopee, Massachusetts

The Edward Bellamy House - is a National Historic Landmark at 91-93 Church Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

In 1987, parts of the zoo were designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Cincinnati Zoo Historic Structures, due to their significant architecture featured in the Elephant House, the Reptile House, and the Passenger Pigeon Memorial.

Colony House

Old Colony House, Newport, Rhode Island, a National Historic Landmark and listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

Devils Tower

In 2005, a proposal to recognize several American Indian ties through the additional designation of the monolith as Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark met with opposition from the United States Representative Barbara Cubin, arguing that a "name change will harm the tourist trade and bring economic hardship to area communities".

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Fort Benton

Fort Benton, Montana, a Montana town which includes a National Historic Landmark district

Forty Acres

The Forty Acres, the United Farm Workers compound founded by Caesar Chavez and designated a National Historic Landmark

Frederick Ayer

His home in Lowell is now the Franco American School, a Catholic school, and the Frederick Ayer Mansion on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts is a National Historic Landmark.

Griswold House

John N. A. Griswold House, Newport, Rhode Island, a National Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed in Newport County, Rhode Island

Ives House

Thomas P. Ives House, Providence, Rhode Island, a National Historic Landmark

James Moore House

House on Ellicott's Hill, Natchez, Mississippi, also known as James Moore House, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

John Parker House

John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Loretto

Villa Loretto, Peekskill, New York, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Marsh Hall

Marsh Hall (Yale University), a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also known as the Othniel C. Marsh House.

Mother Jones

Mother Jones' Prison, formerly a National Historic Landmark in West Virginia

Mount Airy, Virginia

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian plantation house built for Col. John Tayloe, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Richmond County and a National Historic Landmark

Muir House

John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, California, a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Contra Costa County, California

National Register of Historic Places listings in Denton County, Texas

The National Historic Landmark Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior.

New York Life Insurance Building

the New York Life Building, also in New York City, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, headquarters of New York Life from 1928 to the present day

the Former New York Life Insurance Company Building in New York City, which served as New York Life's headquarters from 1870 until 1928, and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Opana

Opana Radar Site, a National Historic Landmark commemorating the first use of radar, located near Oahu, Hawaii

Ormsbee

Caleb Ormsbee, American architect who designed at least two National Historic Landmark homes

Parque Prado

Established in 1930, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum is situated in the Palladian villa, a National Historic Landmark since 1975 and includes a Japanese garden.

Quincy House

Josiah Quincy House, a National Historic Landmark home built by Josiah Quincy

Ralph Bunche House

Ralph Johnson Bunche House, Queens, New York, a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York

Seth Ledyard Phelps

Additionally, his home at 15 Logan Circle in Washington still stands and has been designated a national Historic Landmark.

The Glebe of Fairfax Parish

Cushing House Museum and Garden, Rehobeth, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed and a National Historic Landmark

Timberline

Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark mountain lodge and ski area in Oregon, U.S.

William Halsey Wood

Church of the Good Shepherd (National Historic Landmark), Hazelwood, PA (1891)

WYCK

For the National Historic Landmark museum mansion in Philadelphia, see Wyck House.