National Historic Landmark - John P. Parker House

National Historic Landmark - John P. Parker House

A former slave, John Parker's unflagging and oftentimes heroic efforts to rescue escaped slaves from the -borderlands- along the Ohio River underscores the major role played by African-Americans not only as slaves and ...

National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

Built in 1928, this massive Spanish Baroque structure was designed during the -Golden Age-of movie palace construction by Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942), one of the most prolific and well-known theater architects of the 1920s.

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National Historic Landmark - Tombstone Historic District

Tombstone is one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s. Site of one of the West's richest silver strikes and the "gunfight at the OK Corral", Tombstone epitomizes the legendary reputation of ...

National Historic Landmark - Taliesin West

This desert complex contains the winter home, office and school of architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Often acclaimed as one of his masterworks, this complex, along with Taliesin (East) near Spring Green, Wisconsin (also a NHL), expresses Wright's educational ...

National Historic Landmark - Snaketown

Excavations at Snaketown by Gila Pueblo revealed that the Hohokam of southern Arizona were strongly influenced by the more highly developed cultures of Mexico, particularly between AD 500 or 600 and 1150, and later. Not only did these excavations definitely ...

National Historic Landmark-Sierra Bonita Ranch

Founded in 1872 by Col. Henry C. Hooker to supply beef to Army posts, mining camps, and Indian agencies, this was the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona, as well as the first to introduce graded stock into the ...

National Historic Landmark - San Xavier del Bac Mission

Founded in 1700 by the Jesuits, Bac then formed the extreme northern thrust of Nueva Espana. The present structure is the third, perhaps the fourth, church on the site. Consecrated by Franciscans, it was begun in 1783 and completed in ...

National Historic Landmark - San Cayetano de Calabazas

An archeological site in southern Arizona, San Cayetano de Calabazas is the remains of a complex series of religious, government, and military occupations begun in 1756 by Spanish missionaries. Significant as the northernmost mission district of established by Jesuits, it ...

National Historic Landmark - San Bernardino ranch

The center of a cattle ranching empire that straddled the U.S.-Mexico border, this ranch illustrates the continuity of Spanish and American cattle ranching in the Southwest. Until late in the 19th century, the San Bernardino Valley, a well-watered area occupying ...

National Historic Landmark-Pueblo Grande Ruins Irrigation Sites

The prehistoric platform mound and associated archeological remains at Pueblo Grande represent one of the last surviving urban architectural sites of its kind in the Southwestern United States. There is evidence that between A.D. 1100 and 1400, Pueblo Grande served ...