National Historic Landmark - Hurley Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Hurley Historic District

The district's ten stone houses illustrate the 17th and 18th century Dutch heritage of the town, originally called Nieuw Dorp.

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National Historic Landmark - Huguenot Street Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Huguenot Street Historic District

This historic district consists of five stone houses that reflect the 17th and 18th century Walloon and French Hugenot heritage of the settlers.

In 1677, refugees from Flanders and the Lower Rhine purchased ...

National Historic Landmark - Hudson River State Hospital

National Historic Landmark - Hudson River State Hospital, Main Building

The Hudson River State Hospital is the first significant example of the high Victorian Gothic style applied to institutional construction in the United States.

Designed by Frederick C. Withers, it represents the ...

National Historic Landmark - Hudson River Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Hudson River Historic District

This 30-square-mile cultural landscape on the eastern shore of the Hudson River is composed of several villages that are traditional rural communities.

With its singular origins as a Dutch colony, its peculiar semi-feudal system ...

National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

Residence (1863-85) of Dr. Hough, the father of American forestry.

He was the first Federal forestry official and the author of the first American book on forestry.

In 1855, Hough wrote the bill ...

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

National Historic Landmark - Holland Land Office

The Holland Land Company, created by Dutch investors in 1796, helped develop western New York and northern Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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National Historic Landmark - Historic Track

National Historic Landmark - Historic Track

Harness racing developed in the United States, and early races in Goshen took place on its main street.

Established in 1838, this is one of the older harness racing courses in the country that is ...

National Historic Landmark - Matthew Henson Residence

National Historic Landmark - Matthew Henson Residence

On April 6, 1909, Mathew Henson, an African-American trailblazer on Robert Peary's expedition, became the first man known to reach the North Pole.

On the trip, he saved Peary's life on several occasions, conversed with ...

National Historic Landmark - Henry Street Settlement

National Historic Landmark - Henry Street Settlement And Neighborhood Playhouse

Founded in 1895, this was one of the leading institutions in the settlement house movement in the U.S.

Lillian Wald, suffragist and pacifist, lived and worked here for nearly 40 years. ...

National Historic Landmark - Lemuel Haynes House

National Historic Landmark - Lemuel Haynes House

Latter-day (1822-33) home of the first ordained African-American minister in the United States, who was also the first Black minister to a white congregation.

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