National Historic Landmark - Lowell Observatory

Founded in 1894 by Percival Lowell, this relatively small observatory was at the time the one significant center of pure scientific research in the Southwest. Here, Lowell studied Mars (and theorized that it was inhabited by intelligent beings) and performed ...

National Historic Landmark - Kinishba Ruins

Kinishba is the ruins of a pueblo capable of housing up to 1000 people, abandoned about 1400 AD. The culture of the inhabitants represented a blend of Mogollon and Anasazi ancestry.

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National Historic Landmark - Hubbell Trading Post

Still active trading post representing the varied interactions of Navajos and the white traders who ran trading posts on the Navajo reservation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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National Historic Landmark - EDWARD M. COTTER (Fireboat)

National Historic Landmark - EDWARD M. COTTER (Fireboat)

The fireboat/icebreaker EDWARD M. COTTER, built in 1900 as W.S. GRATTAN, later renamed FIREFIGHTER, and known by her present name since 1954, is the oldest fireboat operating on the Great Lakes.

While conforming to ...

National Historic Landmark - Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh

National Historic Landmark - Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh

The Dutch Reformed Church is nationally significant as an outstanding, largely intact Greek Revival style church designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the style's foremost practitioners.

Begun in 1835 and completed in ...

National Historic Landmark-Cobblestone Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Cobblestone Historic District

Cobblestone construction is one of the more interesting of American vernacular building types.

Originating in the area of Rochester, most of these structures were built between 1825 and 1860 from the Ice Age residue of ...

National Historic Landmark-Chrysler Building

National Historic Landmark-Chrysler Building

This extraordinary Art Moderne skyscraper, designed by William Van Alen, was built in 1928-1930 for Walter Chrysler, who dedicated it to world commerce and industry.

Until the Empire State building was completed a few blocks away, the Chrysler ...

National Historic Landmark - Grand Canyon Park Operations Bldg.

This 1929 structure took its shape from the surrounding landscape and is subtly connected to its natural environment by natural feeling forms in its style and the native materials used to construct it. The texture of the stonework and its ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Bowie and Apache Pass

Commanding the eastern entrance of Apache Pass, Fort Bowie (1862) was a focal point in Army operations against the Chiricahua Apache in the 1860s and 1870s. A much-traveled mountain crossing of strategic value due to the presence of spring water, ...

National Historic Landmark - Double Adobe Site

The site where the distinctive pre-ceramic Cochise Culture, the base from which a number of ceramic cultures, particularly the Mogollon, developed, Double Adobe has yielded information on southern Arizona's prehistoric climate, ecology, and animal life.

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