National Historic Landmark-Benjamin Lundy House

National Historic Landmark-Benjamin Lundy House

In 1820, this was the residence of the abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839). Here, in this brick row house, Lundy established his influential antislavery newspaper, GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION, one of the germinal chronicles of the antislavery ...

National Historic Landmark-Edward D.Libbey House

National Historic Landmark-Edward D.Libbey House

From 1895 until his death, this was the home of Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), who revolutionized the glass industry.

It is the best-preserved structure associated with the early development of Libbey Glass, Owens Bottle, and Libbey-Owens ...

National Historic Landmark-Langstroth Cottage

National Historic Landmark-Langstroth Cottage

From 1858 to 1887, this was the home of Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810-1895), American Congregational minister, teacher, and apiarist, who in 1851 discovered the principle of the bee space.

This discovery led him to invent a moveable ...

National Historic Landmark-First Presbyterian Church

National Historic Landmark-First Presbyterian (Old Whaler's) Church

The architectural heritage of Sag Harbor dates largely from the first half of the 19th century when it was a booming whaling town.

Old Whaler's Church (1843-1844) was built with the support of wealthy ...

National Historic Landmark-FIREFIGHTER Fire Boat

National Historic Landmark- FIREFIGHTER Fire Boat

FIREFIGHTER is one of ten surviving fireboats in the U.S. 50 years of age or older and is the second oldest, but best known, fireboat associated with the Port of New York, the most significant ...

National Historic Landmark-Millard Fillmore House

National Historic Landmark-Millard Fillmore

Only remaining residence of Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, who built this house and resided here in 1826-30.

Fillmore was a conservative president during a time of rising sectional differences in the decade before the Civil ...

National Historic Landmark-Erie Canal

National Historic Landmark-Erie Canal

In the early 19th century, this waterway opened the Old Northwest to settlement and gave Western agriculture access to Eastern markets.

A remarkable engineering feat for the period, it helped to make New York City one of the ...

National Historic Landmark-Equitable Building

National Historic Landmark-Equitable Building

Headquarters of one of the insurance industry's earliest leaders, and built (1914-15) on the site of Equitable's first home office.

This is a forty-story steel-and-masonry building in Second Renaissance Revival style.

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National Historic Landmark-Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is the symbol of New York, just as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris and Big Ben is to London. It is still the biggest tourist attraction in the biggest tourist city in

the world.

Beautifully finished in ...

National Historic Landmark - Phelps Dodge General Office Bldg.

From 1896 to 1961, this building served as the headquarters of this mining company and is the only important early Phelps Dodge office existing in the U.S. This structure symbolizes the company's pioneer role in western copper mining, as well ...