National Historic Landmark-Baltimore & Ohio RR Martinsburg Shops

The shops are a unique example of innovative 19th century engineering and industrial architecture. The roundhouse is supported by an early cast-iron framing system devised by renowned railroad engineer and manager, Albert Fink. These shops were also the center of ...

National Historic Landmark - Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church

From Philadelphia, Anna M. Jarvis sent 500 carnations to this church, which she had attended as a youth, to be distributed at morning services on Sunday, May 10, 1908 to honor mothers. Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker, who had joined her ...

National Historic Landmark - Wisconsin State Capitol

The Wisconsin State Capitol is nationally significant as an excellent example of Renaissance Revival architecture, as interpreted through American Beaux-Arts sensibilities. Reflecting the aesthetic of an era spanning from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century, the building is ...

National Historic Landmark-Second Ft. Crawford Military Hospital

The only remaining building of the fort which was the center of Federal authority in the Old Northwest, this structure is a reconstruction of the post hospital originally built c. 1835.

Archeological remains of the first Fort Crawford were found in ...

National Historic Landmark - Pabst Theater

This is the best preserved German-American theater in the United States, and is one of the most tangible reminders of the cultural role of Milwaukee, the "Deutsch Athen" (German Athens), as it was known to generations of German-Americans. Constructed in ...

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 - Administration Building and Research Tower, S.C. Johnson Company

Frank Lloyd Wright's Depression-era design for the Johnson Wax Company's Administration Building and Research Tower was so radical that local building commissioners refused to approve it without a test. At issue were Wright's novel "mushroom" columns, intended to carry loads ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyoming State Capitol

As a territory, Wyoming had been the first major jurisdiction in the United States where women had full suffrage, and in 1889, an all-male group drafted a State constitution that included Women's suffrage. When Wyoming Territory applied for Statehood in ...

National Historic Landmark - Wapiti Ranger Station

Built in 1903, this was the first forest ranger station erected at Federal expense. It is situated within the first national forest reserve (Shoshone National Forest), which was established by President Benjamin Harrison in 1891.

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National Historic Landmark - Upper Green River Rendezvous Site

Of the 15 annual meetings held by mountain men of the Rocky Mountain fur trade from 1825 to 1840, this was the most popular rendezvous site. The annual spring trading fair held here attracted Euro-American traders and trappers, including Kit ...