National Historic Landmark -Armour-Stiner House

National Historic Landmark -Armour-Stiner House

Built (1859-60) on the theories of Orson Squire Fowler, the Armour-Stiner House is the only fully domed octagonal residence in America.

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National Historic Landmark - Arden (E.H. Harriman Estate)

National Historic Landmark - Arden (E.H. Harriman Estate)

Harriman was a preeminent organizer and builder of railroads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He lived here, a home which he had planned since 1905, for only a few months ...

National Historic Landmark - Susan B. Anthony House

National Historic Landmark - Susan B. Anthony House

Active in numerous reform movements, Susan B. Anthony entered the fight for women's rights in 1851 after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

She was especially effective in garnering legislative petitions and in accompanying them ...

National Historic Landmark - American Stock Exchange

National Historic Landmark - American Stock Exchange

This handsome Art Deco building, erected in 1921 and enlarged 1929-1931, houses one of the nation's most important securities exchanges.

Tracing its origins to 1849, when the discovery of gold in California precipitated an increase ...

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

Excavations for new construction in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s revealed the presence of burials dating as early as 1712.

Throughout the 18th century, the city's free and enslaved Africans buried their dead ...

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

This huge area became the first state forest preserve in the nation when New York State established it as a wilderness area in 1885.

The act of establishment encompassed all state-owned lands in the Adirondack ...

National Historic Landmar -Adams Power Plant Transformer House

National Historic Landmark - Adams Power Plant Transformer House

Until well into the 20th century, this electric-power generating facility retained its position as the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.

The transformer house, built in 1895 from designs by McKim, Mead ...

National Historic Landmark - 69th Regiment Armory

National Historic Landmark - 69th Regiment Armory

This formidable brick mass represents a type of building that served in the dual capacity of military facility and social clubhouse for units of the National Guard, particularly the -Fighting 69th- the renowned local ...

National Historic Landmark-Wright Bros Visitor Center

National Historic Landmark - Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

The Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center is one of four nationally significant buildings built by the National Park Service as part of its Mission 66 program.

Highly acclaimed, it became ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

Wolfe, a major American novelist, used his boyhood experiences in this rambling frame house in his novels, the first of which was LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.

Wolfe's mother bought the house in 1906, and he ...