National Historic Landmark-Metropolitan Museum of Art

National Historical Landmark- Metropolitan Museum of Art

Built in several stages beginning in 1874 and extending over four city blocks on the East side of Central Park, this is one of the most prestigious museums in the world for its imposing ...

National Historic Landmark-Lorillard Snuff Mill

National Historic Landmark- Lorillard Snuff Mill

Constructed 1840 in by the P. Lorillard Company, the Lorillard Snuff Mill is the nation's oldest extant tobacco factory and a symbol of the importance of tobacco in the development of commerce and industry in ...

National Historic Landmark - INTREPID, USS (Aircraft Carrier)

National Historic Landmark - INTREPID, USS (Aircraft Carrier)

The third ESSEX class aircraft carrier built (1943) by the U.S., INTREPID is representative of the ESSEX class that formed the core of the fast carrier task forces in the Pacific war. ...

National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

Residence (1863-85) of Dr. Hough, the father of American forestry.

He was the first Federal forestry official and the author of the first American book on forestry.

In 1855, Hough wrote the bill ...

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

The Holland Land Company, created by Dutch investors in 1796, helped develop western New York and northern Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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National Historic Landmark - John A. Hartford House

National Historic Landmark - John A. Hartford House

Home (1930-51) of the merchandising genius of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), the first nationwide chain-store company.

Under Hartford's leadership, the firm expanded to become the largest retailer in the ...

National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

In this office, James Hall conducted the geological research which made him one of the country's best-known 19th-century geologists.

The expertise he showed in his 1830s survey of New York state led to other ...

National Historic Landmark -Founder's Hall

National Historic Landmark -Founder's Hall

Chartered in 1901, this institute was founded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to conduct research into the treatment and prevention of disease.

It was the first of his great philanthropic foundations.

With it, Rockefeller sought not ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

For most of the second half of the 18th century, this Landmark was the military key to the Champlain Valley, New York City, the Hudson River Valley and western New England and Montreal.

This strategic location made ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

Resistance by the Fort's American garrison in August 1777 was chiefly responsible for the repulse of the western wing of a British invasion from Canada.

Also the site of a major treaty involving the Iroquois in ...