National Historic Landmark -NASH (Harbor Tug)

National Historic Landmark -NASH (Harbor Tug)

Built as the MAJ. ELISHA K. HENSON in 1943 for the U.S. Army, this vessel is typical of the several hundred large harbor tugs (LTs) sent to every theater of World War II operations.

As HENSON, ...

National Historic Landmark - Mount Lebanon Shaker Society

National Historic Landmark - Mount Lebanon Shaker Society

Founded in 1787, this was the first and most influential of the 19 Shaker communities that were established in this country.

Numerous buildings in the complex survive, including the original meeting house, a five-story ...

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

Morse purchased this house in 1847, three years after his successful telegraphic transmission of a message from Washington to Baltimore.

He used it as his summer residence and enlarged it into the present octagon-shaped ...

National Historic Landmark - J. Pierpont Morgan Librar

National Historic Landmark - J. Pierpont Morgan Library

Morgan, an important financier, organized U.S. Steel and was influential in the railroad industry.

This Renaissance-style library (1902-1907) contains literary and artistic collections.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

Hankins Building

In 1947 Dr. I.S. Hankins, one of Orlando's leading African American physicians and an active civic leader, commissioned a building for African American professionals. Completed in 1952, it accommodated small businesses and offices at the corner of West South Street ...

Wells' Built Hotel

The Well's Built Museum of African American History is the site that was the Well's Built Hotel in the 1920s. Dr. William Monroe Wells was Orlando's first African American physician. Wells moved to Orlando in 1917 and constructed his home ...

National Historic Landmark-McGraw Hill Building

National Historical Landmark-McGraw-Hill Building

The McGraw-Hill Building (1930-31) is the last of the pace-setting skyscrapers in New York by Raymond Hood.

The blue-green glazed terra-cotta blocks that give the building its distinct character represented the largest application of this material ever ...

National Historic Landmark-Main Building Vassar College

National Historical Landmark- Main Building, Vassar College

Constructed between 1861-65, this is one of the earliest and most successful expressions of the Second Empire style in the United States, and one of the few remaining grand-scale examples of the style.

It was ...

National Historic Landmark-Low Memorial Library

National Historical Landmark-Low Memorial Library

Built in 1895-97, this building is one of the most important Neo-Classical structures in America and is one of architect Charles Folen McKim's masterpieces.

The Library was the first major building erected on the present Columbia ...

National Historic Landmark-Lindenwald Martin Van Buren Home

National Historic Landmark- Lindenwald (Martin Van Buren Home)

Home for 21 years, until his death in 1862, of Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States.

Courtesy National Historic Landmarks

Image Courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey