National Historic Landmark-Modesty (sloop)

National Historical Landmark-MODESTY(Sloop)

MODESTY is a classic Long Island Sound shellfish dredging sloop. Although built at the end of the age of commercial vessels working under sail, and after the peak of the local shellfish industry, she is a rare unaltered ...

National Historic Landmark-Steepletop St.Vincent Millay Home

National Historical Landmark-Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)

From 1925 until 1950, Steepletop was the home of Pulitzer-Prize poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) one of America's most important literary figures of the 20th century.

Feminist, agnostic, and ...

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- RH Macy Company Store

National Historical Landmark-R. H. Macy and Company Store

Built in 1901-02, this was long the world's largest department store under one roof. The story of Macy's is a major chapter in American retail history.

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National Historic Landmark-LIGHTSHIP NO. 87 AMBROSE

National Historic Landmark- LIGHTSHIP Number 87 AMBROSE

Now known by her last official designation Ambrose, NO. 87 was built (1907) to serve as the first lightship on the newly established Nantucket station, where she served to guide mariners into the nation's ...

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 - Hudson River State Hospital

National Historic Landmark - Hudson River State Hospital, Main Building

The Hudson River State Hospital is the first significant example of the high Victorian Gothic style applied to institutional construction in the United States.

Designed by Frederick C. Withers, it represents the ...

National Historic Landmark -Cape Hatteras Light Station

National Historic Landmark -Cape Hatteras Light Station

Cape Hatteras is a prominent projection on North Carolina's famous OuterBanks--the long, low stretches of sandy beaches that protect the state's mainland, but that have been the bane of existence for mariners for centuries.

Protection ...

National Historic Landmark-Fort Crown Point

National Historic Landmark-Fort Crown Point

Fort Crown Point is the architectural and archeological type specimen for further study of 18th-century military engineering, in a ruined but otherwise undisturbed state.

The fort played a major role in the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ ...

National Historic Landmark-1st Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

National Historic Landmark-First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston

Completed in 1852, the Renaissance Revival First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, is a nationally significant religious building by noted architect Minard Lafever that encapsulates both the maturation of ...