National Historic Landmark-Owl's Nest (Edward Eggleston Estate)

National Historical Landmark- Owl's Nest (Edward Eggleston Estate)

Eggleston, one of America's earliest realistic novelists, was among the first to tap the literary potential of the country's frontier experience.

He grew up along the Ohio River and became a Methodist circuit ...

National Historic Landmark-Oriskany Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Oriskany Battlefield

Site of a fierce battle between American militiamen attempting to relieve Fort Stanwix and a combined force of British Loyalists and Indians.

Although the American patriot force failed to raise the siege at that time, the ...

National Historic Landmark-Oneida Community Mansion House

National Historical Landmark- Oneida Community Mansion House

Oneida, founded in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes as a 19th-century communitarian experiment, was one of America's most radical and most successful experimental communities.

Perfectionism governed its activities, and the community practiced complex marriages ...

National Historic Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

National Historical Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

Only surviving example in New York of a typical 17th-century ecclesiastical frame building. Proportions and framing system are prime examples of the survival of medieval techniques.

Used continuously as a meeting house since 1696, except ...

National Historic Landmark - Old New York County Courthouse

National Historic Landmark - Old New York County Courthouse

The Old New York County Courthouse symbolizes a classic episode in the annals of American graft and corruption.

It is a monument to the machinations of William Marcy (-Boss-) Tweed, who ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Merchant's House

National Historic Landmark - Old Merchant's House (Seabury Tredwell House)

Owned by an urban merchant, Seabury Tredwell, this three-story brick townhouse (1832) is representative of the transition from the Federal to the Greek Revival period in architecture.

It provides a ...

National Historic Landmark - The Old House (Cutchogue)

National Historic Landmark - The Old House (Cutchogue)

Erected in 1649 by John Budd, who later gave it to his daughter as a wedding present, this house is notable as one of the most distinguished surviving examples of English domestic architecture ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

Appearing as if it belonged in a Currier and Ives print, this is one of the longest single-span wooden covered bridges in the world, stretching 210 feet across Schoharie Creek.

The bridge was constructed ...

National Historic Landmark - Nott Memorial Hall

National Historic Landmark - Nott Memorial Hall

Completed in 1876, this is representative of the High Victorian Gothic Style which was made popular from the early 1860s until the 1870s by the writings of English critic John Ruskin (1819-1900).

With an ...

National Historic Landmark - Niagara Reservation

National Historic Landmark - Niagara Reservation

Established in 1885 to reclaim the natural setting of the Falls from exploitation, Niagara Reservation was the first State park created under the power of eminent domain.

Renowned landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the landscape ...