National Historic Landmark - Port Gamble Historic District

One of the earliest and most important lumber-producing centers on the Pacific Coast. Still active, with a variety of architectural styles, Port Gamble exemplifies the mid-19th century company-owned town.

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National Historic Landmark - Pioneer Bldg, Pergola, & Totem Pole

The Pioneer Building, completed in 1892 and built on the site of the home of one of the city's founding father's, is Richardsonian Romanesque in style. It is one of the best preserved buildings in Pioneer Square, the heart of ...

National Historic Landmark - Paradise Inn

A rustic hotel with furnishings in the lobby that have a hand-crafted artistry and Gothic feeling reminiscent of northern European woodwork. Built in 1916 on a smaller scale than the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, it was part ...

National Historic Landmark - Panama Hotel

The Panama Hotel is an example of the single-room occupancy hotels that characterized Seattle's historic nihomachi, today a part of the city's International District. The basement of the building includes the Hasidate Yu, the best surviving example of an urban ...

National Historic Landmark - Lightship No. 83 RELIEF

Known by her last official designation, "Relief," NO. 83 was built (1905) to serve as one of the first four lightships on the Pacific coast. She served to guide mariners to three major ports--Eureka on Humboldt Bay, San Francisco, and ...

National Historic Landmark - Chinook Point

Capt. Robert Grey's May 1792 discovery of the Columbia River at Chinook Point gave the United States a strong claim to the Pacific Northwest; a claim which was long disputed by Great Britain.

National Historic Landmark-San Juan Island National Historical Park

These sites are associated with the mid-19th century conflict about the water boundary between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and the U.S. Oregon Territory. Events came to a head in 1859, when an American settler shot a British pig. Words were ...

National Historic Landmark - Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Oldest major long-span suspension bridge in the world, with a span of more than 1,000 feet. This bridge is possibly the Nation's most significant extant ante-bellum engineering structure. Its construction established American leadership in the building of suspension bridges.

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National Historic Landmark - Reber Radio Telescope

Designed and built in 1937 by Grote Reber, this is the first parabolic antenna specifically designed and built to do research in the newly emerging field of radio astronomy. An amateur astronomer and electronics expert, Reber was from 1937 until ...

National Historic Landmark - Campbell Mansion

From 1811 until his death, this was the home of Alexander Campbell (1788-1866), founder of Bethany College, and the leading influence in America's largest indigenous religious movement. Campbell, called the "Sage of Bethany," was an educational pioneer, renowned debater, political ...