National Historic Landmark-Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

National Historical Landmark- Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

As Commandant of the Navy Yard (1841-43), Commodore Matthew C. Perry occupied Quarters A, residence of the Yard's commanding officers since its construction.

Perry's mission to Japan (1854) opened that country to Western ...

National Historic Landmark-Pupin Physics Laboratory

National Historical Landmark- Pupin Physics Laboratory, Columbia University

Initial experiments on the nuclear fission of uranium were conducted here by Enrico Fermi. The uranium atom was split here on January 25, 1939, ten days after the world's first atom-splitting in Copenhagen, ...

National Historic Landmark-Prudential (Guaranty) Building

National Historical Landmark- Prudential (Guaranty) Building

The last collaborative effort of its architects, the Prudential (1895) is a triumph of early skyscraper design.

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Image courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey

Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building

Park visitor centers were the central planning and design element of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program. The Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building (1967) was one of the most important commissions (other than those initiated by Wright himself) ...

Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #6

This is the oldest carousel, extant in virtually unaltered condition, built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company; it was the sixth of 89 manufactured by the company. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Monster Military Band Organ, Style 155, installed on the carousel in ...

National Historic Landmark-Players Club

National Historical Landmark-Players Club

This handsome brownstone residence was purchased in 1888 and donated by Edwin Booth, founder and first president of the Players Club, to be a clubhouse for his fellow thespians.

He commissioned architect Stanford White to transform it ...

National Historic Landmark-Plattsburgh Bay

National Historical Landmark-Plattsburgh Bay

An American naval victory here on September 11, 1814, in the War of 1812, resulted in the destruction of the British fleet on Lake Champlain and compelled British invading troops to withdraw to Canada.

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National Historic Landmark-Philipsburg Manor

National Historical Landmark- Philipsburg Manor

Philipsburg Manor is a late 17th and early 18th century milling and trading complex that was headquarters for a 52,000 acre estate.

It was owned by an Anglo-Dutch family of merchants and operated by a community ...

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 - 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 ...