First National Bank Building

The First National Bank Building dating from 1913 is the first skyscraper in Richmond, and a wonderful example of turn-of-the-century Neoclassical Revival architecture. Nineteen stories tall, the building crowned the city’s skyline until its height was surpassed in 1930. Constructed ...

D.C.'s First Building Block

Jones Point Park

In 1791, surveyors on Jones Point began to lay out the ten-mile square that would become Washington, D.C. The first marker for the survey—the south cornerstone—was set in place on this spot. Although the stone within this protective ...

The Settling of Santa Clara / First Public Buildings / Missionar

[Side A:]The Settling of Santa ClaraThomas Carlyle said of the Switzers, "They are honest people... they are not philosophers or tribunes; but frank, honest landsmen."

In April 1861 a company of Mormon converts from Switzerland, under the direction of mission ...

The First High Rise Concrete Frame Building in the United States

Commemorating the first high rise concrete frame building in the United States

Erected 1903

Marker is at the intersection of E 4th St and Vine St, on the right when traveling west on E 4th St.

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First Public Building

1877

When Hettie Austin came to this community from Indiana in 1876, she immediately began roaming about in her "sad little mule-drawn cart" soliciting contributions for a Methodist Church. Henry DeLand convinced her that the greater need was for a ...

First Building

Erected in this settlement stood here in 1767. It was the home of Count Charles de Fredenburgh.

Marker is on Bridge Street.

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Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

First School Building

Site of

First School Building

in Findlay 1827

[Dedicated June 1937]

Marker is on East Street, on the right when traveling south.

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First Presbyterian Church Building

Designed by pioneer architects R.H. Daly and Theodore Eisen, this church is an outstanding example of late Victorian Gothic architectural styling. It is the best surviving example in this region of early works associated with Eisen, who later became an ...

First State Office Building

Built 1817. Housed offices of State Treasurer and Auditor until Fall of 1824. The cellar was the Treasury vault. Building used by Harrison County Seminary, 1829-51. Since 1871, home of Amzi Brewster heirs.

Marker is at the intersection of North Mulberry ...