National Historic Landmark-Camp Uncas

National Historic Landmark- Camp Uncas

Camp Uncas remains one of the preeminent and best preserved cultural resources chronicling the nationally-significant development of Adirondack camp architecture.

William West Durant, a real-estate investor and proponent of the region, devised the camps to promote ...

National Historic Landmark-Camp Pine Knot

National Historic Landmark- Camp Pine Knot

Designed by William West Durant, an innovator in the field of Adirondack Camp design and one of the promoters of the Adirondack area, Camp Pine Knot is an exceptional and highly influential example of rustic ...

National Historic Landmark-John Burroughs Riverby Study

National Historic Landmark- John Burroughs Riverby Study

This small one-story frame structure was built in 1881 by John Burroughs, noted naturalist and conservationist, within the yard of his Riverby estate overlooking the Hudson.

It served as his retreat, a place where ...

National Historic Landmark-Ralph Johnson Bunche House

National Historic Landmark- Ralph Johnson Bunche House

This was the home of the distinguished Afro-American diplomat and scholar who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He negotiated the Israeli-Arab Truce of 1949 and was consequently awarded the Nobel Peace ...

National Historic Landmark-Buffalo State Hospital

National Historic Landmark- Buffalo State Hospital

Begun in 1872, this is an important transitional building in the developing style of H. H. Richardson. It is the first major work on which he collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner, ...

National Historic Landmark - Freedom Tower

The Freedom Tower is considered the Ellis Island of the South for its role during a twelve year period between 1962 and 1974, as the Cuban Assistance Center, offering nationally sanctioned relief to the Cuban refugees who sought political asylum ...

National Historic Landmark-Buffalo and Erie Historical Society

National Historic Landmark- Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building

The only surviving structure from the popular Pan-American Exposition of 1901, which hoped to encourage economic ties between North and South America after the Spanish American War.

The classic, white ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Zachary Taylor

The fort was a strong Union outpost in the South throughout the Civil War and provided a defense for the Key West naval station during the Spanish-American War (1898).

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of ...

National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark-John Brown Farm and Gravesite

Few of those who have sung John Brown's body lies a-moldering in his grave, know that his grave is here in upstate New York.

It was from his small, plain, unpainted frame farmhouse ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Walton Mound

A type site for the Indian culture present along the northwest Florida coast at the time of European contact in the sixteenth century.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service