National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

Site of a battle (29 August 1779) that was a result an expedition lead by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and was the major American military effort of 1779.

General George Washington ordered the Sullivan expedition as ...

National Historic Landmark - The News Building

National Historic Landmark - The News Building

This was the first modernistic free-standing skyscraper designed by Raymond Hood.

Built in 1929-30, the vertical -soaring- quality of the exterior marks one of the high points of skyscraper design that was to change ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Yacht Club Building

National Historic Landmark - New York Yacht Club Building

The home of America's oldest and foremost yachting organization (1844).

Established as a private man's club and renowned as the long-time home of the AMERICA's Cup, the structure (1900) is a ...

National Historic Landmark-School of Drawing, Painting

National Historic Landmark - New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture

This was the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the first museum to be exclusively devoted to American art of the 20th century and the ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Stock Exchange

National Historic Landmark - New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange, virtually synonymous with -Wall Street- is the headquarters of the nation's largest securities market.

It began in 1792 under a buttonwood tree, and, after a number of ...

National Historic Landmark - New York State Inebriate Asylum

National Historic Landmark - New York State Inebriate Asylum

The New York State Inebriate Asylum was constructed between 1858 and 1866 as the United States Inebriate Asylum, the first single-purpose hospital in the country designed and built for the treatment ...

National Historic Landmark - New York State Capitol

National Historic Landmark - New York State Capitol

Erected between 1867 and 1899, this building marked a period of general prosperity and confidence in Post-Civil War New York.

Begun in the Second Empire style, it was completed in the French ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Public Library

National Historic Landmark - New York Public Library

Completed in 1911, the Library is a Beaux-Arts masterpiece designed by architects Carrere and Hastings.

On either side of a monumental stairway, two stone lions, sculpted by Edward Clark Potter, guard the ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Life Building

National Historic Landmark - New York Life Building

The New York Life Insurance Company, founded in 1841 as the Nautilus Insurance Company, has played a major role in the development of life insurance policies and practices.

One of the nation's ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Cotton Exchange

National Historic Landmark - New York Cotton Exchange

The founding of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870 marked the end of the factorage system for marketing America's most important 19th-century domestic crop and the beginning of today's futures trading ...