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 ...

National Historic Landmark -Coolmore

National Historic Landmark -Coolmore

This plantation complex incorporates one of the largest, finest, and best-documented examples of a mid-19th-century Italian villa in the South.

The interior of the Italianate edifice is particularly elaborate with a profusion of wooden and plaster ...

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

Built c. 1725 and remodeled in 1756-58, this structure is an outstanding example of a timber-framed residence illustrating the transition from 17th century Jacobean to 18th century Georgian architectural styles.

In all the southern colonies, it is ...

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

In 1890 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, organized the American Tobacco Company, preeminent in its time.

The family's frame house, reconstructed small tobacco factory of log construction, and frame third factory (c. ...