National Historic Landmark - Bathhouse Row

This, the largest grouping of bathhouses in the country, illustrates the popularity of the spa movement in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also an excellent collection of turn-of-the-century eclectic buildings in the Neoclassical, Renaissance Revival, ...

National Historic Landmark - Daisy Bates House

The Daisy Bates House is nationally significant for its role as the de facto command post for the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas during 1957-1958. The house served as a haven for the nine African American ...

National Historic Landmark - Arkansas Post

Established in 1686 by Henri de Tonti, a lieutenant of La Salle, this trading post near the mouth of the Arkansas River was the first successful French settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Apparently abandoned and later reclaimed by the ...

National Historic Landmark - Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites

First used by Native Americans, this natural crossing served as a significant transportation gateway on the Colorado River during the Spanish Colonial and U.S. westward expansion periods. The surviving buildings of the Yuma Quartermaster Depot and Arizona Territorial Prison are ...

National Historic Landmark - Winona Site

This site has yielded considerable detail on cultural developments in the Flagstaff area immediately following the eruption of Sunset Crater in 1066 AD. Between 1070 and 1130 AD, a span of a little over two generations, new ideas injected into ...

National Historic Landmark -Capitol (North Carolina)

National Historic Landmark -Capitol (North Carolina)

An example of Greek Revival architecture (1833-1840) in its most sophisticated form; designed by three major 19th century architects - Ithiel Town, Alexander Jackson Davis, and David Paton.

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National Historic Landmark -Chowan County Courthouse

National Historic Landmark -Chowan County Courthouse

Magnificently sited at the head of a broad lawn facing Edenton Bay, this beautifully preserved late Colonial courthouse is one of the most impressive Georgian public buildings in the south.

Built in 1767, the structure ...

National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

Begun in 1846, this edifice is one of the first Gothic Revival churches in the Southern states.

Designed by Richard Upjohn, this modest asymmetrical building with a steeply pitched roof was derived from a rural ...

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

Sandburg, the poet, novelist, and writer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1967.

C.G. Memminger, the builder of the house, was Secretary of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Cooleemee

National Historic Landmark - Cooleemee

Constructed in 1850-55, this is a monumental example of the villas that became popular in America as a result of architectural pattern books of the 1850s (in this case, W.H. Ranlett's THE ARCHITECT, Vol. I, Plate ...