Battery Pensacola

Positioned in the middle of Fort Pickens, Battery Pensacola represents the transition in coastal defenses from brick and mortar to more modern reinforced concrete.

Built in 1898, the emplacement featured two 12-inch disappearing guns, each capable of firing 1,070 pound ...

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 ...

National Historic Landmark - Painted Desert Inn

Constructed between 1937 and 1940 in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style, the interior spaces have unusually high quality of design. Particularly notable is the former Trading Post Room, illuminated by a translucent skylight with multiple panes of glass painted in designs ...

National Historic Landmark - Old Oraibi

Located on the westernmost of the Hopi mesas, this is probably the oldest continuously inhabited pueblo in the Southwest. Old Oraibi documents Hopi culture and history from before European contact to the present day. The village is on the present ...

National Historic Landmark - Navajo Nation Council Chamber

The Navajo Nation Council Chamber, Window Rock, Arizona stands today as a symbol of the New Deal revolution in federal Indian policy during the 1930s, advocating reconstitution of tribal organizations, restoration of tribal land base and promotion of traditional Indian ...

National Historic Landmark-Mission Los Santos Angeles de Guevavi

The site of Mission Los Santos Angeles de Guavavi, which presently consists of the ruins of an adobe church and "convento", is associated with the 17th and 18th century Society of Jesus (Jesuit) missionary efforts to Christianize and acculturate the ...

National Historic Landmark - Merriam C. Hart, Base Camp Site

Operating from this camp in the San Francisco Mountains, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, America's first bio-ecologist, conducted the investigations that led to his formulation of the Life Zone concept (1889). His work was seminal in the development of the modern ...

National Historic Landmark - Lowell Observatory

Founded in 1894 by Percival Lowell, this relatively small observatory was at the time the one significant center of pure scientific research in the Southwest. Here, Lowell studied Mars (and theorized that it was inhabited by intelligent beings) and performed ...

National Historic Landmark - Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

Located on the Lehner Ranch and excavated in 1955-56 by the Arizona State Museum, the site showed that about 11,000 years ago hunters, probably over a period of several months, killed and butchered nine immature mammoths which were watering at ...

National Historic Landmark - Kinishba Ruins

Kinishba is the ruins of a pueblo capable of housing up to 1000 people, abandoned about 1400 AD. The culture of the inhabitants represented a blend of Mogollon and Anasazi ancestry.

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