Results for Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark - Milwaukee City Hall
Milwaukee City Hall is nationally significant as the most ...
National Historic Landmark - Milton House
This tall hexagonal building, constructed of concrete grou...
National Historic Landmark - Little White Schoolhouse
A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame sc...
National Historic Landmark - Robert M. La Follette home
From 1905 until his death, this was the residence of Rober...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert Johnson House
Built in 1937-1938 for the President of Johnson's Wax Comp...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 2nd House
This was the first house to be built under Wright's concep...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 1st House
The Jacobs house is the first Usonian home designed by Fra...
National Historic Landmark - Thomas A. Green Memorial Museum
Amateur naturalists played a crucial role in the developme...
National Historic Landmark - Hamlin Garland House
This rambling, nondescript structure is associated with au...
National Historic Landmark - Fourth Street (Meir) School
Milwaukee's Fourth Street School is the only surviving str...
Results for Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark - Milwaukee City Hall
Milwaukee City Hall is nationally significant as the most outstanding extant example of German Renaissance Revival architecture in the country and for its central role in the history of Socialism in the United States prior to World War I. The ...
National Historic Landmark - Milton House
This tall hexagonal building, constructed of concrete grout and covered with plaster, is nationally significant not because of its unusual shape and construction, but because of its ante-bellum usage. Built as a hotel, it and the nearby log Goodrich Cabin ...
National Historic Landmark - Little White Schoolhouse
A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the extension of slavery beyond the limits of ...
National Historic Landmark - Robert M. La Follette home
From 1905 until his death, this was the residence of Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925). La Follette served in the House of Representatives (1885-91), but did not emerge as a major force in governmental reform until his service as Governor ...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert Johnson House
Built in 1937-1938 for the President of Johnson's Wax Company, this large house was considered by its architect the finest (and most expensive) house he had built up to that date. Frank Lloyd Wright's design is so completely wedded to ...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 2nd House
This was the first house to be built under Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle." Rooms were largely circular or semi circular, oriented towards the sun and protected from the north wind by berms. Wright's use of passive energy to ...
National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 1st House
The Jacobs house is the first Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was built based on the principle of providing an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen. The Jacobs house stands out in Wright’s work ...
National Historic Landmark - Thomas A. Green Memorial Museum
Amateur naturalists played a crucial role in the development of 19th-century science by assembling extensive collections of natural history specimens. From 1878 to 1894, Thomas A. Greene assembled a comprehensive collection of minerals from around the world, as well as ...
National Historic Landmark - Hamlin Garland House
This rambling, nondescript structure is associated with author Hamlin Garland (1860-1940). Garland's early work exploded the romantic myths of the West, exposing the hard lot of the pioneers and frontiersmen; his later, more romantic novels--one of which brought him the ...
National Historic Landmark - Fourth Street (Meir) School
Milwaukee's Fourth Street School is the only surviving structure in America associated with Mrs. Golda Meir (1898-1978), who from 1967 to 1974 was Prime Minister of Israel. Fleeing the pogroms of their native Russia, Mrs. Meir's family came to this ...
