National Historic Landmark - Palmer-Marsh House

National Historic Landmark - Palmer-Marsh House

A well-preserved example of a substantial Colonial town house designed as both a place of business and a residence.

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National Historic Landmark-Kirtland Temple

National Historic Landmark- Kirtland Temple

Built in 1834 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latterday Saints during their brief sojourn in Ohio, this structure combines Federal and Gothic Revival design elements.

The result is individualistic and typical ...

National Historic Landmark-Johnson's Island Civil War Prison

National Historic Landmark- Johnson's Island Civil War Prison

Johnson's Island, the site of an important Confederate prisoners-of-war camp during much of the Civil War, is located 2.5 miles northwest of Sandusky, Ohio, in Sandusky Bay.

Johnson's Island was chosen because of ...

National Historic Landmark-Huffman Prairie Flying Field

National Historic Landmark- Huffman Prairie Flying Field

The Huffman Prairie Flying Field is the site used by the Wright Brothers from 1904 to 1905 to develop and test the world's first practical airplane, the Wright Flyer III.

It was on this ...

National Historic Landmark-Thomas Edison Birthplace

National Historic Landmark- Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace

This small brick cottage was the birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), one of America's most illustrious inventors.

Although he left here in 1854, Edison cherished the memory of this house; in 1906, he ...

National Historic Landmark-Paul Laurence Dunbar

National Historic Landmark- Paul Laurence Dunbar House

From 1903 until his death, this modest two-story red brick structure was the residence of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the distinguished black poet.

His poetic use of black dialect to convey both the joys ...

National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

Built during the Great Depression, this hotel complex is one of the finest examples of skyscraper modernism in America.

The complex of the hotel and tower is a particularly coherent series of ...

National Historic Landmark -Beginning U.S. Public Land Survey

National Historic Landmark -Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

This is the point from which a rectangular-grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785, which provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old ...

National Historic Landmark-Price Tower

National Historic Landmark-Price Tower

The Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two completed designs for high-rise buildings during Frank Lloyd Wright's long career, and the only one that might be appropriately termed a skyscraper.

It was one of a ...

National Historic Landmark-Creek Capitol

National Historic Landmark- Creek National Capitol

Victorian-style structure, used by the Creeks from 1878 to 1907, after their adoption of a representative form of government modeled on the United States Congress.

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