Susie Tolbert House

This house on the Edward Waters College campus is named for Susie Ella Middelton Tolbert. Born in Chicago, Mrs. Tolbert made her home in Jacksonville and pursued her life's work there. The mother of seven developed the Willing Workers Club ...

Old Stanton High School (Private)

The Trustees of Florida Institute established Stanton High School in 1868 as the first public black school in Jacksonville. It was named for Edwin M. Stanton, an outspoken abolitionist and Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln. This masonry vernacular-style structure, ...

Old Jacksonville Beach Elementary School

Mother Rhoda Martin founded the Jacksonville Beach Elementary School for Colored People. In 1939 the county built a four-room brick school structure, which also served as a community center, well-baby clinic and recreational area for the community. The building was ...

National Historic Landmark-Emma Willard House

National Historical Landmark-Emma Willard House

This two-story brick structure was from 1809 until 1819 the home of Emma Hart Willard, an influential pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States.

It is now used as the admissions office ...

National Historic Landmark-Vermont Statehouse

National Historical Landmark- Vermont Statehouse

Erected in 1833-38, this building is probably the least-altered example of a noted architect's monumentally-scaled public building in the Greek Revival style.

Though the timber interior was damaged by fire in 1857, the granite exterior walls ...

National Historic Landmark-Ticonderoga (Steamboat)

National Historical Landmark- TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat)

Only extant and basically unchanged side-paddle-wheel lakeboat in the U.S. Used as a Lake Champlain excursion boat from 1906 to 1953.

National Historic Landmark-Stellafane

National Historical Landmark- Stellafane Observatory

Stellafane Observatory played a pioneering role in the development of amateur telescope making and popular astronomy in the United States.

The site contains the original clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc. (1924), and the first large ...

National Historic Landmark-St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

National Historical Landmarks- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The Athenanaeum's construction (1868-1873), its collection of American landscape paintings and books, its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and the industrial origins of the fortune that provided it, all contribute ...

National Historic Landmark-Shelburne Farms

National Historical Landmarks- Shelburne Farms

One of the many estate properties built for wealthy American industrialists during the Gilded Age period, Shelburne Farms was considered an ideal country place for its exemplary model stock farm and horse breeding service, architectural and ...

National Historic Landmark-Round Church

National Historical Landmarks- The Round Church

The Round Church, built in 1812-1813, is a rare, well-preserved example of a sixteen-sided meetinghouse. Richmond architect and builder William Rhodes displayed a level of skill and imagination that is normally reserved for high style ...