National Historic Landmark-Prudential (Guaranty) Building

National Historical Landmark- Prudential (Guaranty) Building

The last collaborative effort of its architects, the Prudential (1895) is a triumph of early skyscraper design.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

Image courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey

National Historic Landmark-PRISCILLA (Oyster Sloop)

National Historical Landmark-PRISCILLA (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)

Priscilla is a classic Long Island Sound and Great South Bay oyster dredging sloop. Built in 1888 during the peak of the United States oyster industry, she is the oldest and only sailing ...

Telluride Historic District

The district's boom-period as a gold camp came after a narrow-gauge railroad was built to Telluride in 1890. Its buildings as a whole represent a 19th century mining frontier "boom town."

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a ...

Silverton Historic District

Silverton, one of the two principal mining towns in southwestern Colorado, was an important silver-producing area. The town, established in 1874, the same year that mining began in the vicinity, was important in the economic development of the Rocky Mountain ...

Shenandoah-Dives (Mayflower) Mill

The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an intact and fully functional mill and includes all of its original equipment from the early 20th century. Constructed in 1929, the Shenandoah-Dives Mill is the finest extant example of a selective flotation mill. This property ...

Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building

Park visitor centers were the central planning and design element of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program. The Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building (1967) was one of the most important commissions (other than those initiated by Wright himself) ...

Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #6

This is the oldest carousel, extant in virtually unaltered condition, built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company; it was the sixth of 89 manufactured by the company. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Monster Military Band Organ, Style 155, installed on the carousel in ...

National Historic Landmark-Jackson Pollock House and Studio

National Historical Landmark- Jackson Pollock House & Studio

From 1945 until his death, this was the home and workplace of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), considered one of the most revolutionary figures in the history of 20th-century art and a key ingredient ...

National Historic Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

National Historical Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher, noted abolitionist and minister of Plymouth Church, made the church a center of antislavery sentiment.

William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier ...

National Historic Landmark-Plaza Hotel

National Historical Landmark-Plaza Hotel

Designed in the French Renaissance style and constructed from 1905-07, this massive 18-story white brick and marble structure is an outstanding example of American hotel architecture.

Located at the northern end of Fifth Avenue, and facing Central ...