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National Historic District

Historic district, a section of a city considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons


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.

Boonsboro Historic District

Boonsboro Historic District is a national historic district at Boonsboro, Washington County, Maryland, United States.

Bowmansville Roller Mill

Bowmansville Roller Mill, also known as the Von Nieda Mill, is a historic roller mill and national historic district located at Bowmansville, Brecknock Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Camp Quinipet

Camp Quinipet is a Methodist camp, retreat center, and national historic district located at Shelter Island Heights in Suffolk County, New York.

Church Hill Industrial District

The Church Hill Industrial District is a historic district bounded by South Union, Pine, Baley, Commerce, Main, and Hill Streets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Clermont Estates Historic District

Clermont Estates Historic District was a national historic district located near Germantown in Columbia County, New York.

Colerain Works Archeological District

Colerain Works Archeological District is a registered historic district near Dunlap, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1976.

Commercial buildings in Sycamore Historic District

It stands close to the George's Block and across the street from the Waterman Block and the National Bank & Trust Co. Building, all significant structures within the historic district.

DePauw Avenue Historic District

The DePauw Avenue Historic District is a registered historic district just northeast of downtown New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.

Dunlap Archeological District

Dunlap Archeological District is a registered historic district near Dunlap, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1975.

Emmitsburg Historic District

The Emmitsburg Historic District is a national historic district in Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland.

Exchange Street Historic District

Exchange Street Historic District is a historic district roughly along Exchange, Front and Fountain Streets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Fort Meade, Florida

Located within the historic district, the house was used for the HBO motion picture The Judgement featuring Blythe Danner, Keith Carradine and Jack Warden (1990).

Glastonbury – Rocky Hill Ferry Historic District

The historic district encompasses farmscapes of the Great Meadows in South Glastonbury that preserve 17th-century land use patterns and Colonial and Greek Revival farmhouses, as well as the homes of shipbuilders and merchant traders near the two landings, including several examples of Colonial and Italianate architecture.

Irving Langmuir House

It is located at 1176 Stratford Road in Schenectady, in the middle of a suburban area east of Union College known as the General Electric Realty Plot, a historic district to which it is a contributing property.

Lincoln Historic Site

Lincoln State Monument was established in 1937 as a New Mexico State Monument, and is a part of a historic district in the tiny hamlet of Lincoln, New Mexico.

Lower West Side, Buffalo, New York

On the east Allentown with its historic district which ends approximately at Plymouth Avenue.

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.

Mountain Lake Park Historic District

Mountain Lake Park Historic District is a national historic district in Mountain Lake Park, Garrett County, Maryland.

National Register of Historic Places listings in White County, Georgia

This is a list of properties and districts in White County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

North Maumee Bay Archeological District

The North Maumee Bay Archeological District is a historic district located in the southeasternmost corner of Erie Township in Monroe County, Michigan.

Poolesville Historic District

The Poolesville Historic District is a national historic district located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District

The Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District is a historic district in East Providence, Rhode Island on North Broadway Avenue.

Shelby Place Historic District

Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company

William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures is a historic district in Charleston, South Carolina, that contains structures of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and the home of the company's founder, William Aiken.

State Farm Downtown Building

The building is listed as a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places listed Bloomington Central Business District, a historic district encompassing much of downtown Bloomington, Illinois.

Takoma Avenue Historic District

The Takoma Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Takoma Park, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Unionville Historic District

Unionville Historic District is a national historic district located at Unionville, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Willborough, Burlingame Terrace, Burlingame, California

Burlingame's Historic Willborough neighborhood, located in Burlingame Terrace, is a block-long strip of early 20th century Tudor revival homes.

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery is a national historic district comprising a historic Episcopal church complex and cemetery located at Morris in Otsego County, New York.


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Astor Historic District

The Astor Historic District is made up of what was once the Town of Astor, founded in 1835 by John Jacob Astor.

Atkinson Avenue Historic District

One of the thoroughfare's most well-known residents was the renowned baseball player Ty Cobb who resided in a brick dwelling at the intersection of Atkinson and Third (not within the boundaries of the historic district).

Automobile Alley

Automobile Alley Historic District is an upscale Urban neighborhood in Oklahoma City, located roughly along North Broadway Avenue in Downtown Oklahoma City.

Bluff Park, Long Beach, California

The historic district includes a variety of architectural styles, including Greene and Greene, American Craftsman, California Bungalow, Spanish Revival, Prairie Style, American Colonial Revival, Tudor and Mediterranean from the early 1900s.

Branford Center, Connecticut

Architectural styles represented in the Branford Center Historic District include Greek Revival architecture, Queen Anne architecture, and Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Federal architecture, Gothic Revival architecture, Second Empire architecture, Colonial architecture, Tudor Revival architecture and Bungalow architecture.

Burkittsville Historic District

The Burkittsville Historic District comprises the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland.

Burlingame, San Diego

Burlingame is a historic district recognized by the City of San Diego for its Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Prairie School, Art Deco and California Ranch architectural styles as well as properties that are hybrids of several styles.

Central Park Historic District

Central Park, New York, NY, listed as a historic district on the NRHP in New York City

Charleroi Historic District

Charleroi Historic District is a historic district in Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Cobleskill

Cobleskill Historic District, a national historic district located at Cobleskill in Schoharie County, New York

Conway Residential Historic District

Four properties in this historic district were previously listed: the Beaty-Little House, the Burroughs School, the J.W. Holliday Jr. House, and the W. H. Winborne House.

Cumberland Gap Historic District

The Cumberland Gap, also designated as the Cumberland Gap Historic District

Downtown Brandon Historic District

The Downtown Brandon Historic District is a ten acre district consisting of the downtown square of Brandon, Mississippi, mainly located along a section of East and West Government Street.

Downtown Columbia Historic District

Downtown Columbia, Missouri, which includes a Downtown Columbia Historic District listed on the NRHP in Missouri

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.

Emory Grove

Emory Grove Historic District, historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Druid Hills, Georgia

Enfield Shaker Historic District

The Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire, and its historic district

Falmouth, Virginia

Chatham Manor, the 1771 home of William Fitzhugh and a Union headquarters during the Civil War, is located downstream from Falmouth, opposite the historic district of Fredericksburg.

George Owen Squier

General Squier Park, a historic district and waterpark in his hometown of Dryden, Michigan, is named in his honor.

Harvard Houses Historic District

Harvard College uses the House system, and has 12 residential colleges, 9 of which are on the river and comprise the historic district.

Highlands Historic District

Original Highlands, Louisville, Kentucky, listed as Highlands Historic District on the NRHP in Kentucky

Hockanum

Hockanum Rural Historic District, a historic district in the town of Hadley, Massachusetts

Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex

The Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex is a historic district near Shaniko in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Jekyll Island Museum

The Jekyll Island Museum is a history center in the historic district of Jekyll Island of Georgia, USA.

Lanai City, Hawaii

The corporation Castle & Cooke, which owns the Dole Food Company had intended in 2009 to demolish much of what remains of the historic district, including homes, a laundromat, and a jailhouse all dating back to the 1920s, in order to build new commercial structures.

Liddesdale

Liddesdale was also an historic district of Scotland, bordering Teviotdale to the east, Annandale to the west and Tweeddale to the north, with the English county of Cumberland across the border to the south.

National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side Chicago

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Historic District extends through Cook County west of Chicago, DuPage County and Will County to Lockport.

Nicolás Urquiza

Since 2007 he has teamed with other designers to lead several renovation projects, mainly in private residences of the Northeastern United States and Buenos Aires historic district.

North Hill

North Hill Preservation District, an historic district of Pensacola, Florida, United States

Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm

The Oxon Cove Farm historic district is located on the crest of a ridge overlooking the Potomac River, north of I-95.

Pleasant Hill Historic District

Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, also known as Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Historic District, Shakertown and vicinity, KY, listed on the NRHP in Kentucky

Redstone Coke Oven Historic District

The Redstone Coke Oven Historic District is located at the intersection of State Highway 133 and Chair Mountain Stables Road outside Redstone, Colorado, United States.

River Street Historic District

River Street Historic District can be one of three listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Savannah Historic District

Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities, Savannah, Georgia, a historic district listed on the NRHP in Georgia

Sela Dingay

According to Antonio Cecchi, Sela Dingay was founded by Wossen Seged in 1804, naming the town after the historic district of Sela Dingay, although the local Debre Mitmaq church had been founded by Emperor Zara Yaqob, where he convened the Council of Debre Mitmaq in 1450 which resolved a rift in the Ethiopian Church over the observance of the Sabbath.

South End Historic District

South End District, Boston, Massachusetts, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Southold

Southold Historic District, a national historic district located at the hamlet of Southold in Suffolk County, New York

St. Elmo Historic District

Elmo Historic District, St. Elmo, Colorado, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed ghost town district that makes up part or all of St. Elmo, Colorado

Sutro District

An attempt by the National Park Service to have the district listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was unsuccessful, though the Camera Obscura on the property of the Cliff House was successfully added to the National Register on its own.

Twin Mounds

Twin Mounds Archeological District, a U.S. historic district east of Sorrento, Florida

Wilder Street Historic District

Wilder Street Historic District is a historic district at 284-360 Wilder Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

William Tubby

The house that Tubby designed for Charles Millard Pratt at 241 Clinton Avenue (1893, located in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill Historic District) is one of the city’s finest examples of Romanesque revival architecture.