National Historic Landmark-Baltimore & Ohio RR Martinsburg Shops

The shops are a unique example of innovative 19th century engineering and industrial architecture. The roundhouse is supported by an early cast-iron framing system devised by renowned railroad engineer and manager, Albert Fink. These shops were also the center of ...

National Historic Landmark - Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church

From Philadelphia, Anna M. Jarvis sent 500 carnations to this church, which she had attended as a youth, to be distributed at morning services on Sunday, May 10, 1908 to honor mothers. Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker, who had joined her ...

National Historic Landmark - Wisconsin State Capitol

The Wisconsin State Capitol is nationally significant as an excellent example of Renaissance Revival architecture, as interpreted through American Beaux-Arts sensibilities. Reflecting the aesthetic of an era spanning from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century, the building is ...

National Historic Landmark-Villa Louis Mansion

National Historic Site: Villa Louis Mansion

Hercules Louis Dousman I (1800-1868), prominent fur agent for the American Fur Company, advisor to the government on matters ranging from Indian affairs to land surveys, owner of river steamboats and a proponent of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Van Hise Rock

This small outcrop provides an inordinate amount of geologic information about metamorphism, Precambrian rocks, and structural geology, all subjects to which Charles Van Hise, for whom the rock is named, made early and significant contributions. Van Hise Rock is still ...

National Historic Landmark-University of Wisconsin Science Hall

Science Hall is associated with Charles R. Van Hise (1857-1918), who was the first geologist in the Nation to apply microscopic lithology to the extensive study of crystalline rocks, and to use those results in the formulation of geological principles. ...

National Historic Landmark - University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn

Located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, an internationally recognized leader in agricultural research, this barn complex was the site of the "single grain" experiment that called into question the prevailing nineteenth century "chemical" model of nutrition. This ...

National Historic Landmark-Univ. of Wisconsin Armory & Gynmasium

This was the site of the 1904 Wisconsin Republican Convention, a seminal event in the history of the Progressive Movement. At this convention, Robert M. La Follette's Progressives defeated the Stalwarts for control of the Wisconsin Republican Party. Widespread favorable ...

National Historic Landmark - Turner Hall

Milwaukee Turner Hall, built in 1882, is among the few surviving 19th-century historic buildings associated with the American Turners, a very influential organization of German Americans. The last Turner clubhouse in Milwaukee, the "German Athens" of America, it exemplifies the ...

National Historic Landmark - Ten Chimneys

Ten Chimneys is nationally significant in the area of performing arts for its association with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. From 1922 until their deaths in 1977 and 1983, the property was the primary residence for Lunt and Fontanne and ...