National Historic Landmark - Boxwood Hall

National Historic Landmark - Boxwood Hall

Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), President of the Continental Congress (1782), purchased Boxwood Hall in 1772 and owned it until 1795.

In that year, he sold it to Jonathan Dayton, the youngest signer of the Constitution, who was ...

National Historic Landmark - Pietro and Maria Botto House

National Historic Landmark - Pietro and Maria Botto House

On January 27, 1913, 800 workers at one of the largest silk mills in the silk manufacturing capital of the country walked off the job, in a dispute over job security, low ...

National Historic Landmark - John Ballantine House

National Historic Landmark - John Ballantine House

One of the very few completely documented 19th-century -palaces--, this building (1884) vividly evokes a picture of Victorian life of the wealthy.

Built for a member of the Ballantine family, whose brewery in Newark was ...

National Historic Landmark - Atlantic City Convention Hall

National Historic Landmark - Atlantic City Convention Hall

The remaining edifice that best recalls the city's historic heyday as a seaside resort.

It is the largest structure on the Boardwalk and is significant in the history of large-span structures, containing, when it ...

National Historic Landmark - All Saints' Memorial Church

National Historic Landmark - All Saints' Memorial Church

Modeled on a chapel on the Isle of Wight in England, this small Gothic revival stone church was built in 1864 from designs by Richard Upjohn (1802-1878), then the most prestigious practitioner of ...

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm

Abbott Farm is the largest known Middle Woodland (ca. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.) village site in the coastal Mid-Atlantic/New England region.

This property became the focal point of a famous 40-year controversy about the antiquity of human ...

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

The Zuni-Cibola Complex is comprised of a series of sites on the Zuni Reservation, containing house ruins, kivas, pictographs, petroglyphs, trash mounds, and a mission church and convent.

They have proven to be an important source ...

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

Here, at the settlement of La Junta de los Rios Mara y Sapello, the Mountain and Cimarron Cutoff routes of the Santa Fe Trail joined.

Wagon trains organized here before entering hostile Indian territory. In ...

National Historic Landmark - Wagon Mound

National Historic Landmark - Wagon Mound

Wagon Mound, a lone stone butte, was the last great landmark on the westward journey across the plains of northeastern New Mexico.

It was a guidepost seen by all travelers on the High Plains section of ...

National Historic Landmark- Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

National Historic Landmark -Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

On March 9, 1916, approximately 485 Mexican revolutionaries under the command of Gen. Francisco --Pancho-- Villa (1877?-1923) crossed into the United States and attacked the sleeping border town of Columbus, killing 10 ...