National Historic Landmark-Athenaeum

National Historical Landmark- Athenaeum

Completed in 1847, this is one of the first Italian-style palazzo designs in America.

Architect John Notman (1810-1865) designed this structure; his design was the winner in a competition in which Strickland, Haviland, and Walter all took ...

National Historic Landmark-American Philosophical Society Hall

National Historical Landmark- American Philosophical Society Hall

Since 1789 this two-story late-Georgian brick building has housed the fortnightly meetings of one of America's oldest and most honorable learned societies.

The organization traces its origins to 1743, when Benjamin Franklin publicly urged ...

National Historic Landmark-Allegheny Portage Railroad

National Historical Landmark- Allegheny Portage Railroad of the Pennsylvania Canal

This first railroad over the Allegheny Mountains operated from 1834 to 1854 and was considered a technological marvel of its time.

An inclined plane, it carried canal boats over a 36-mile ...

National Historic Landmark-Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

National Historical Landmark-Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

When architect Henry Hobson Richardson realized his days were numbered, he wrote, Let me have time to finish Pittsburgh and I should be content without another day.

He was referring to the massive buildings ...

Booker T. Washington School

Construction of Booker T. Washington School began in 1926 amid protests from white citizens living in the area. Men in the community took turns standing guard at night and working during the day, until the school was built. Officially opened ...

Black Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida

Founded by Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields and incorporated in 1977, this research center contains documents, photographs and artifacts documenting the black experience in Miami-Dade County from 1896 to the present. Artworks showcase Overtown's Little Broadway and local historic sites.

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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Situated on the southern tip of Key Biscayne, Cape Florida was the point from which many black Seminoles and escaped slaves sought passage south to the Bahamas when Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821. Those ...

MacFarlane Homestead Subdivision Historic District

Bounded by Oak Avenue, Grand Avenue, Brooke Street and Jefferson Street.

Developed by Coral Gables founder George Merrick as a black residential neighborhood, the early homes of this district were built in the late 1920s and 1930s in the vernacular style ...

National Historic Landmark-Alfred N. Richards/David Goddard

National Historical Landmark- Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Laboratories and David Goddard Laboratories Buildings

Laboratories (the latter named Biology Building before 1983) are nationally significant as one of the most important works of mid-twentieth-century American modernism and of Louis Isadore ...

National Historic Landmark-Edward G. Acheson House

National Historical Landmark- Edward G. Acheson House

From 1890 to 1895 this brick house was the home of scientist Edward G. Acheson (1856-1931). In all probability it is also the site where, in 1891, he conducted experiments that led to ...