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7 unusual facts about National Register of Historic Places


Columbia City, Seattle

The Columbia City business district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Columbia City Historic District, bounded on the north by S. Alaska Street, on the south by S. Hudson Street, on the east by Rainier Avenue S., and on the west by 35th Avenue S.

Eau Claire High School

The building which housed it from 1923-1949 is now on the National Register of Historic Places Building #83003379

Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Some of these safe havens are considered part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Log Cabin Inn Ensemble

The Log Cabin Inn Ensemble, located in McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mineral King

(All of these communities, including Silver City, would later become part of the National Register of Historic Places' Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape.)

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The settlements as a whole are referred to as the Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Taleyfac River

It is crossed by Taleyfac Spanish Bridge, a historic stone arch bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.


Alberton School

Alberton School is a three-story brick school located in Alberton, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1997.

Boltonville, Wisconsin

Just south of Boltonville is the St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School, a church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Cincinnati Work House and Hospital

Cincinnati Work House and Hospital was a registered historic building in the neighborhood of Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 3, 1980.

Cranberry Creek Archeological District

In addition to the Cranberry Creek Archeological District, Juneau County has two other related National Register of Historic Places: Gee's Slough Mound Group (ref: 78000108), which is also from the Woodland culture, and Lemonweir Glyphs (ref: 93001173).

Daniel Carroll

(Several acres are now associated with the house museum known as Darnall's Chance, listed on the National Register of Historic Places).

De Borgia Schoolhouse

De Borgia Schoolhouse is a two-story wood frame school located in De Borgia, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1979.

Dean Family Farm

The Dean Family Farm, listed since 1994 as a historic site on the National Register of Historic Places, has its origins with the immigration of Daniel Dean, a native of Tobermore,

Downtown San Jose

Many of the 19th century buildings in central downtown appear on the National Register of Historic Places, in particular the area surrounding St. James Park.

Embassy of Latvia in Washington, D.C.

In addition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building is a contributing property to the 'Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District' and Massachusetts Avenue Historic District.

Franklin Pierce House

Franklin Pierce House (South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire), at 52 South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1856-1869, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

George Austin McHenry

George McHenry's home is on the National Register of Historic Places in Stone County.

George H. Kelly House

Built in 1904 in the Neo-Classical Revival style, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and designated a City of Omaha architectural landmark that same year.

Harrison Square Historic District

Among the architects represented in the district are Luther Briggs, Jr., who also designed the Mount Wollaston Cemetery and John A. Fox, who also designed Tewksbury Hospital, both also on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hazel Hall

Hall's home, located at 106 NW 22nd Place in Portland, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Hazel Hall House.

Hiram Sibley

His home near Rochester, the Hiram Sibley Homestead, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and his Rochester home is included in the East Avenue Historic District.

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District is a registered historic site near Ross, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1975-10-21.

Hotel Union

The Hotel Union, formerly the Rhodema Hotel and the San Carlos Hotel, at 811 Geary Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, is a building listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex

The Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex is a historic district near Shaniko in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Jeriah Swetland

In 1871, Swetland and his wife built a house on London's east side; known as the Swetland House in the present day, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Julia Stockton Dinsmore

The main house of the farm she inherited from her father and managed for fifty-four years is now on the National Register of Historic Places and is known as the Dinsmore Homestead.

Kentucky Railway Museum

Four of the pieces are separately on the National Register of Historic Places: the Louisville and Nashville Steam Locomotive No. 152, the Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665, the Mt. Broderick Pullman Lounge-Obs-Sleeping Car, and the Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car.

King Opera House

The King Opera House is a contributing property to the Van Buren Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lawson Tower

The tower is listed as both an American Water Landmark and to the National Register of Historic Places - has become a popular touring site, featuring sweeping views of the South Shore, Old Scituate Light, Minot's Ledge Light and the nearby First Trinitarian Congregational Church.

Leelanau Transit Company

Two of the stations built for the line survive at least in part, and the Sutton Bay depot, constructed in 1920, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District

Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District is a registered historic district near West Chester, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1978-12-18.

Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

The Cold Spring Farm Springhouse, John Michael Farm, Schoonover Mountain House, Capt. Jacob Shoemaker House, John Turn Farm, Zion Lutheran Church are located in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davenport, Iowa

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davenport, Iowa, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts

There are 103 properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts, west of I-190 and the north-south section of I-290 and north of Massachusetts Route 122, which are listed here.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Obion County, Tennessee

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Obion County, Tennessee, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Peekskill, New York

This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Peekskill, New York.

National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis north and west of downtown

This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, north of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.

National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown

This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, south of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.

New York State Route 32A

Here, the route passes Palenville's fire department before ending at a signalized intersection with NY 23A across from the National Register of Historic Places-listed Rowena Memorial School.

Oregon Historic District

In 1974, Oregon was registered on the National Register of Historic Places, between Patterson Blvd. and Wayne Ave., north to Gates St. and south to U.S. Route 35, and Downtown Dayton (No. 75001506).

Palmer, Alaska

In 1971, the National Outdoor Leadership School started operating wilderness education courses in the nearby Talkeetna and Chugach mountain ranges from a local historic farmhouse, the Berry House, which is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Route of the Oregon Trail

Remnants of the trail in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the entire trail is a designated National Historic Trail (listed as the Oregon National Historic Trail).

State Farm Downtown Building

The building is listed as a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places listed Bloomington Central Business District, a historic district encompassing much of downtown Bloomington, Illinois.

Stone Windmill

Stone Windmill (Morristown, New York), also known as McConnell's Windmill, listed as "Stone Windmill" in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Sutro District

An attempt by the National Park Service to have the district listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was unsuccessful, though the Camera Obscura on the property of the Cliff House was successfully added to the National Register on its own.

Thomaston Colored Institute

It was included on the Alabama Historical Commission's Places in Peril listing in 2000, the same year that it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wade Hampton II

The Hampton family summer retreat, High Hampton, which they had built in the western mountains of North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are their mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, the Hampton-Preston House; and the ruins of their plantation house Millwoods in Richland County, South Carolina.

Walking Box Ranch

Listing on the National Register of Historic Places was one of the goals set out in April 2006 by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Bureau of Land Management, co-managers of the property.

Washington Square Historic District

Washington Square Historic District (Nacogdoches, Texas), in Nacogdoches County, Texas, US, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Washoe County Library

The Washoe County Library, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada, is a public library and is a historic Modern-style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

West Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana

Woodland Plantation, the plantation depicted on the label of Southern Comfort since the 1930s, is an antebellum mansion in the town, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Youngstown, New York

The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Fort Niagara Light, John Carter Farmstead, St. John's Episcopal Church, and the Old Fort Niagara-Colonial Niagara Historic District.

Yuko Nii

In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.


see also

Academy Hall

Academy Hall (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania), oldest building at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Austin High School

Austin High School, Austin, Nevada, formerly known as Lander County High School, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Bass Mansion

John H. Bass Mansion, Fort Wayne, Indiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Old Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, Eugene, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon

Bishop's

Bishop's Block, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dubuque County, Iowa (USA)

Brown Hall

Brown's Hall-Thompson's Opera House, Pioche, Nevada, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada

Charcoal Kilns

Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns, Leadore, Idaho — listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Charcoal Kilns"

Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth Monument and Grave

The monument to Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first casualty of the American Civil War, was built in 1874 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Collett

Collett Park, on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana

Deerfield School

Deerfield Beach Elementary School in Deerfield Beach, Florida, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Broward County, Florida

East Side Historic District

Near East Side Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rock County, Wisconsin

Emanuel United Church of Christ

Church whose Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery, in Thomasville, North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Funk House

Joseph Funk House, Singers Glen, Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County

Glassell

Glassell Park Elementary School, elementary school listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Goose River Bridge

Northwood Bridge, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, also known as Goose River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Grace Baptist

Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, which is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Henry Covered Bridge

Burt Henry Covered Bridge, also known as "Henry Covered Bridge", listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bennington County, Vermont

Holy Hill

Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, Erin, Wisconsin, also known as Holy Hill and listed as that on the National Register of Historic Places

Hope School

Hope Rosenwald School, also known as Hope School, near Pomaria, South Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

James Marshall House

James W. Marshall House, Lambertville, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

John C. Austin

Hollywood Masonic Temple, Hollywood Boulevard, directly across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1921, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985

John Palmer House

John Denham Palmer House in Fernandia Beach, Florida, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida

John W. Daniel

His birthplace, the John Marshall Warwick House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Larson House

Swan Larson Three-Decker, a house in Worcester, Massachusetts, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Linden House

Ricards House-Linden Hall, Bridgeville, Delaware, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Sussex County

Locust Lawn

Locust Lawn, now Borden Oaks, a plantation on the National Register of Historic Places near Greensboro, Alabama

Miller Brothers

Miller Brothers Farm, a house in the US state of Georgia on the National Register of Historic Places

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery, Woolwich, New Jersey, listed on National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Mud Spring

a location in Garrison, Utah that is on the National Register of Historic Places

Muir House

John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, California, a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Contra Costa County, California

Niloak Pottery

Charles "Bullet" Dean Hyten House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Norge, Virginia

Other landmarks in Norge include the former Doll Factory, the former Williamsburg Soap and Candle Factory, Our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Norge Train Depot, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Old Dutch Church Parsonage

It was built in 1725, in the Colonial and Dutch Colonial Revival architectural styles, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Old Stone Church

Old Stone Church and Cemetery, Clemson, South Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Old Stone Church or Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter, Rhinebeck, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Porter Military Academy

Charleston Arsenal, on the peninsula in Charleston, South Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Porter Military Academy

Richardson Building

Richardson Block, Boston, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Massachusetts

Russian Village

Russian Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

Samuel Parker House

Samuel Parker House, Coventry, Connecticut, of Parker-Hutchinson Farm, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in Tolland County

Sedgwick House

Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick House, Cornwall, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Shiloh Church

Shiloh Temple, Lisbon Falls, Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places

Shorey House

Charles Shorey House, Hillsboro, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

South End Historic District

South End District, Boston, Massachusetts, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

St. Joseph Church

Saint Joseph Church and Shrine, Cambridge Township, Michigan, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lenawee County, Michigan

Sweetser House

Warren Sweetser House, Stoneham, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Daniel Sweetser House, Wakefield, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Thomas Jones House

Thomas W. Jones House, Stoneham, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Tower Building

Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Pulaski County, Arkansas

William Martin House

William H. Martin House, Hot Springs, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Woodward Building

Woodward Building (Birmingham, Alabama), one of the "Heaviest Corner on Earth" buildings, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Alabama