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10 unusual facts about National Register of Historic Places


Bestwick's Market

Bestwick's Market is a wood-framed false-fronted commercial building located in Alberton, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1997.

Columbia City, Seattle

The Columbia City business district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Columbia City Historic District, bounded on the north by S. Alaska Street, on the south by S. Hudson Street, on the east by Rainier Avenue S., and on the west by 35th Avenue S.

Downtown Brandon Historic District

The district includes two other places listed on the NRHP: the Rankin County Confederate Monument and the Rankin County Courthouse.

Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Some of these safe havens are considered part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building

The Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building is a building located in Lewisburg, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Log Cabin Inn Ensemble

The Log Cabin Inn Ensemble, located in McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mineral King

(All of these communities, including Silver City, would later become part of the National Register of Historic Places' Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape.)

The settlements as a whole are referred to as the Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Peekskill, New York

This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Peekskill, New York.

Wade Hampton II

The Hampton family summer retreat, High Hampton, which they had built in the western mountains of North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are their mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, the Hampton-Preston House; and the ruins of their plantation house Millwoods in Richland County, South Carolina.


Alberton School

Alberton School is a three-story brick school located in Alberton, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1997.

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.

Boltonville, Wisconsin

Just south of Boltonville is the St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School, a church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Cashiers, North Carolina

Five properties near Cashiers are listed on the National Register of Historic PlacesCamp Merrie-Woode, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Fairfield Inn, the High Hampton Inn Historic District, and the Mordecai Zachary House.

Cortland Rural Cemetery

Adjacent to the State University of New York at Cortland, located at 110 Tompkins Street, and a included in the Tompkins Street-Main Street Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places, the cemetery has over 19,000 individual graves on its grounds, including those of many notable figures in Cortland's history.

Daniel Carroll

(Several acres are now associated with the house museum known as Darnall's Chance, listed on the National Register of Historic Places).

De Borgia Schoolhouse

De Borgia Schoolhouse is a two-story wood frame school located in De Borgia, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1979.

Delaware City, Delaware

The Delaware City Historic District, Chelsea, Eastern Lock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Fairview, and Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Embassy of Latvia in Washington, D.C.

In addition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building is a contributing property to the 'Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District' and Massachusetts Avenue Historic District.

Embassy of Sierra Leone in Washington, D.C.

Built in 1917 to the designs of noted architect Jules Henri de Sibour, the 21-room Beaux-Arts building was formerly a private residence is designated as a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Emery County, Utah

Evidence of these people can still be found in numerous pictograph and petroglyph panels, such as those in Temple Mountain Wash, Muddy Creek, Ferron Box, Black Dragon Canyon, and Buckhorn Wash-all sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Franklin Pierce House

Franklin Pierce House (South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire), at 52 South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1856-1869, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

George H. Kelly House

Built in 1904 in the Neo-Classical Revival style, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and designated a City of Omaha architectural landmark that same year.

Glasco, Kansas

This small town has two items of interest on the National Register of Historic Places: Pott's Ford Bridge is located just 1/2 mile south of the city limits, and the entire downtown business district has also earned a listing on the register.

Harrison Square Historic District

Among the architects represented in the district are Luther Briggs, Jr., who also designed the Mount Wollaston Cemetery and John A. Fox, who also designed Tewksbury Hospital, both also on the National Register of Historic Places.

Jeriah Swetland

In 1871, Swetland and his wife built a house on London's east side; known as the Swetland House in the present day, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

John Uri Lloyd House

John Uri Lloyd House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 7, 1973.

King Opera House

The King Opera House is a contributing property to the Van Buren Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lawson Tower

The tower is listed as both an American Water Landmark and to the National Register of Historic Places - has become a popular touring site, featuring sweeping views of the South Shore, Old Scituate Light, Minot's Ledge Light and the nearby First Trinitarian Congregational Church.

Leelanau Transit Company

Two of the stations built for the line survive at least in part, and the Sutton Bay depot, constructed in 1920, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Little Creek, Delaware

The Cherbourg Round Barn, Little Creek Hundred Rural Historic District, Little Creek Methodist Church, Old Stone Tavern, Port Mahon Lighthouse, Elizabeth Stubbs House, and Jonathan Woodley House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lorenzo Snow Young

Two of his early works are some of his most notable, namely the Kingsbury Hall in the University of Utah Circle and the Granite Stake Tabernacle, which are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District is a registered historic district near West Chester, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1978-12-18.

Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

The Cold Spring Farm Springhouse, John Michael Farm, Schoonover Mountain House, Capt. Jacob Shoemaker House, John Turn Farm, Zion Lutheran Church are located in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Bryce Canyon National Park

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts

There are 103 properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts, west of I-190 and the north-south section of I-290 and north of Massachusetts Route 122, which are listed here.

National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown

This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, south of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.

Nels H. Smith

Ranch A in Crook County, bought by Smith and two partners from the estate of Moses Annenberg in 1942 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia

The community also lies in a region of historic architecture, with notable buildings including Wirtland at Oak Grove, a Gothic Revival plantation house listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

It is the location of, or nearest community to, the Ojo Caliente Hot Springs Round Barn, built in 1924, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oswego Lake

With the relative scarcity of building easements, lakefront property remains prestigious, and a number of architecturally significant homes have been built along its shores, including the Carl C. Jantzen Estate, a Tudor-style estate on the National Register of Historic Places, built on an island on the lake's north shore by the founder of the Jantzen swimwear company in 1930.

Palmer, Alaska

In 1971, the National Outdoor Leadership School started operating wilderness education courses in the nearby Talkeetna and Chugach mountain ranges from a local historic farmhouse, the Berry House, which is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pocahontas School

Pocahontas School is a historic school building in Pocahontas, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pokagon State Park

During the ensuing 8 years, the CCC constructed many of the best-known buildings at Pokagon, including the Gate House, the Spring Shelter, the Saddle Barn, the first three editions of the toboggan run, and the CCC Shelter, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rancho Los Laureles

A row of Eucalyptus globulus trees planted by Nathan Spaulding along the Rancho's entrance road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 as a prominent example of the species' use in California's landscape architecture.

Schnull-Rauch House

The Schnull-Rauch House, sometimes referred to as the Victorian Manor and now also branded as The Manor at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, is a National Register of Historic Places-designated Romanesque Revival historic home constructed in the early 20th century at 3050 North Meridian Street, in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood north of downtown Indianapolis.

Shedd, Oregon

East of Shedd at the former site of Boston Mills, on the Calapooia River, is the National Register of Historic Places-listed Boston Flour Mill (aka Thompson's Flouring Mill), Oregon's oldest continuously operating water powered mill, part of Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site.

Strang School District No. 36

Strang School District No. 36, or the Strang Public School, is a Registered Historic Place located in Fillmore County, Nebraska, in the village of Strang.

The Ave

Ye College Inn, a Tudor Revival building at the northeast corner of NE 40th Street near the "lower" (south) end of The Ave, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tichnor, Arkansas

It is the location of the Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Building, and is the nearest community to the Roland Site (address restricted), both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Vantage, Washington

The original bridge was dismantled, and moved to the crossing at Lyons Ferry, where it still stands today as the oldest extant steel cantilever bridge in Washington, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Verona Island, Maine

The Waldo–Hancock Bridge (carrying U.S. 1), which opened November 16, 1931 to connect Verona Island and Prospect in Waldo County, is on the National Register of Historic Places but was in such bad condition that it was replaced.

Washington Square Historic District

Washington Square Historic District (Nacogdoches, Texas), in Nacogdoches County, Texas, US, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Youngstown, New York

The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Fort Niagara Light, John Carter Farmstead, St. John's Episcopal Church, and the Old Fort Niagara-Colonial Niagara Historic District.

Yuko Nii

In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.