National Historic Landmark- Fort Bayard Historic District

National Historical Landmark-Fort Bayard Historic District

Established as an army post on August 21, 1866, by troops of Company B, 25th U.S. Colored Infantry under the command of Lt. James M. Kerr to protect the area of Silver City until 1899.

Buffalo ...

Big Four House

Built in 1852, the Big Four House was named after the "big four"--Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker--who planned, financed, and built the Western end of America's first transcontinental railway. It was in this structure that the ...

BERKELEY (Ferry)

Built in 1898, BERKELEY is the oldest essentially unmodified passenger and car ferry in the United States, and is the best example of the 3 surviving propeller-driven ferries of the double-ended type, the best known American ferry type. In her ...

Bank of Italy Building

From 1908 to 1921, this eight story, Second Renaissance Revival structure in San Francisco's financial district served as headquarters for Bank of Italy (later renamed Bank of America). Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), the son of Italian immigrants, built the tiny ...

Hubert H. Bancroft, Ranch House

From 1885 until his death in 1918, this one story adobe house was the home of Hubert Howe Bancroft, noted historian of the West. Bancroft's 39 fact-packed volumes, published in San Francisco between 1882 and 1890, maintain their preeminence as ...

Asilomar Conference Grounds

Established in 1913, this was designed as the Young Women's Christian Association's national camp and conference grounds in the West. It is significant for its role in the work of the Association and in the development of the Monterey Peninsula ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

A superb example of the Dutch Colonial style.

Modest in size, it has survived with little or no change, and has been continuously occupied since its construction (c. 1766) as the main house of a working ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff House

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff House

This house is a major and little-altered example of a type of frame house much used by Dutch settlers on western Long Island.

The original section was constructed approximately 1652, with later enlargements.

It is the earliest ...

National Historic Landmark - Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged

National Historic Landmark -Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Harriet Tubman Residence, Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church

Tubman (1821-1913),the most famous -conductor-on the Underground Railroad, personally led more than 300 slaves to freedom.

She established this home for aged and indigent African Americans ...

National Historic Landmark-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

National Historical Landmark- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (Brown Building)

On the afternoon of March 25, 1911, one of the worst industrial disasters in American history took place: Fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, resulting in the deaths of 146 workers, most ...