National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society Building

This building (1881) is one of the very few remaining intact examples of the work of George B. Post (1837-1913).

Aside from being the first major building on the East Coast to use locally made terra ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Heights Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights, with its phenomenal views of Lower Manhattan across the East River, was one of New York's most prestigious 19th-century addresses.

Houses and churches remain in excellent condition and present an almost complete architectural catalog of ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Mose

Fort Mose, a free Black military and residential community, officially known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was the first legally sanctioned free Black community within the present boundaries of the United States. Its inhabitants were mainly runaway ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Bridge

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Bridge

Completed in 1883, this is among the world's first wire cable suspension bridges. Established a number of engineering precedents in bridge-building.

National Historic Landmark- Dr. Oliver Bronson House

National Historic Landmark- Dr. Oliver Bronson House

The Dr. Oliver Bronson house is the oldest known extant example of the bracketed style of American architect Alexander Jackson Davis, who was a leader in the development of the Romantic and Picturesque philosophies ...

National Historic Landmark-Bronck House

National Historic Landmark- Bronck House

Built in three stages, this manor house illustrates the architectural development of Dutch Colonial dwellings from the earliest periods of settlement to the years immediately following the American Revolution.

The first section, of stone, was built ...

National Historic Landmark-Boston Post Road Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Boston Post Road Historic District

This unusually quiet, undeveloped area along the old Boston Post Road contains three architecturally significant houses as well as the Jay family cemetery and a conservation area along the shore of Long Island ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort King Site

As the council site and central location where Seminoles, Black Seminoles, and the U.S. government met to discuss the terms of President Jackson's Indian Removal Policy, the events at Fort King represent the escalating state of relations between these groups ...

National Historic Landmark - Ferdinand Magellan , US Car No. 1

Built in 1928 as the Pullman Company's FERDINAND MAGELLAN, this car was armor plated and donated for use by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. Subsequently used by Harry S Truman and Ronald Reagan in presidential reelection campaigns.

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National Historic Landmark - El Centro Espanol de Tampa

An impressive example of Spanish, Moorish and French Renaissance influenced architecture, this massive masonry building dramatically illustrates the role of ethnic social and mutual assistance organizations in the daily life of immigrant populations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...