National Historic Landmark - Fourth Street (Meir) School

Milwaukee's Fourth Street School is the only surviving structure in America associated with Mrs. Golda Meir (1898-1978), who from 1967 to 1974 was Prime Minister of Israel. Fleeing the pogroms of their native Russia, Mrs. Meir's family came to this ...

National Historic Landmark - Fountain Lake Farm Home

John Muir (1838-1914), pioneering advocate of natural preservation, lived at Fountain Lake Farm from 1849 to 1856, during his early teens, and periodically between 1862-1864. Late in life he traced the formation of his conservation philosophy to the years he ...

National Historic Landmark - Farmers & Merchants Union Bank

Built in 1919, this small, compact bank, for all its elaborate and beautiful ornamentation, has the look of soundness and solidity and imparts the feeling of permanence and safety befitting a bank. Louis Sullivan designed and also supervised construction of ...

National Historic Landmark - Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House

The Day house, architecturally a wonderful example of Victorian ecelecticism, is important for its association with amateur geologist Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day. Day and other naturalists of his time unselfishly assembled large collections of natural history specimens, made detailed observations ...

National Historic Landmark - Astor Fur Warehouse

Constructed c. 1828, this stone building, one of the American Fur Company's principal establishments, recalls the Astor empire and Prairie du Chien's prominence as a fur trading center.

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National Historic Landmark - Aldo Leopold Shack & Farm

In the early 1930s, Aldo Leopold, a forester, writer, professor, and influential conservationist, purchased a small farm and rehabilitated a chicken coop, lovingly referred to as the Shack, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to function as a location in which his conservation ...

National Historic Landmark - Union Pacific Railroad Depot

The depot is the last of the grand 19th-century depots remaining on the transcontinental railroad. It formed a strategic point along the Union Pacific Railroad, America's first transcontinental rail line, and was easily the Union Pacific's most grandiose facility west ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Faithful Inn

This Landmark was the first building in a National Park constructed in an architectural style harmonious with the grandeur of the surrounding landscape. Old Faithful Inn reflects Adirondack Rustic architectural idiom, but blown up to enormous proportions. Its seven-story high ...

National Historic Landmark - Obsidian Cliff

Obsidian Cliff occupies a unique position in national prehistory as a singularly important source of lithic materials for prehistoric peoples of interior western North America. It is recognized as an exceptionally well preserved, heavily utilized lithic source that served the ...

National Historic Landmark - Fishing Bridge Museum

Fishing Bridge Museum

Built between 1929-31, the architect tried to make his designs harmonize with their surrounding landscapes. They are the best structures of rustic design in the National Park System and they served as the models for hundreds of State ...