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7 unusual facts about National Register of Historic Places


Bestwick's Market

Bestwick's Market is a wood-framed false-fronted commercial building located in Alberton, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1997.

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.

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.

Downtown Brandon Historic District

The district includes two other places listed on the NRHP: the Rankin County Confederate Monument and the Rankin County Courthouse.

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.

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).

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


Amos Eno

After settling his son's debts, Amos retreated to the family summer residence in Simsbury, the Amos Eno House (1820, on the National Register of Historic Places) which had been erected by Eno's father-in-law, Elisha Phelps.

Benjamin Harvey Hill

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1972 and designated as a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973.

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.

Colerain Works Archeological District

Colerain Works Archeological District is a registered historic district near Dunlap, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1976.

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,

Delaware City, Delaware

The Delaware City Historic District, Chelsea, Eastern Lock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Fairview, and Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Eau Claire High School

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

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Embassy of Sierra Leone in Washington, D.C.

Built in 1917 to the designs of noted architect Jules Henri de Sibour, the 21-room Beaux-Arts building was formerly a private residence is designated as a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Emery County, Utah

Evidence of these people can still be found in numerous pictograph and petroglyph panels, such as those in Temple Mountain Wash, Muddy Creek, Ferron Box, Black Dragon Canyon, and Buckhorn Wash-all sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

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.

John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS

The following buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS Multiple Property Submission (or MPS).

John Uri Lloyd House

John Uri Lloyd House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 7, 1973.

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.

Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building

The Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building is a building located in Lewisburg, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lookout tree

Many of the surviving lookout trees in Arizona have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lummus Park, Miami

On October 25, 2006, the park and the buildings on its northern boundary were added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as Lummus Park Historic District.

Lyle F. Schoenfeldt

From June 1, 1996 until February 1, 2006 he and his wife Wanda Hinshaw (a North Carolina native) owned the Mast Farm Inn, a preserved 19th century farm in Valle Crucis, North Carolina that has been listed since 1972 in the National Register of Historic Places.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Millwood, Washington

The Rosebush House, located in the center of Millwood, "is one of Millwood's best preserved homes" and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Monongahela, Pennsylvania

The Edward G. Acheson House, Bethel African American Episcopal Church of Monongahela City, David Longwell House, and Monongahela Cemetery are 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 Webster Parish, Louisiana

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

Nels H. Smith

Ranch A in Crook County, bought by Smith and two partners from the estate of Moses Annenberg in 1942 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

It is the location of, or nearest community to, the Ojo Caliente Hot Springs Round Barn, built in 1924, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rancho Los Laureles

A row of Eucalyptus globulus trees planted by Nathan Spaulding along the Rancho's entrance road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 as a prominent example of the species' use in California's landscape architecture.

River Street Historic District

River Street Historic District can be one of three listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Shedd, Oregon

East of Shedd at the former site of Boston Mills, on the Calapooia River, is the National Register of Historic Places-listed Boston Flour Mill (aka Thompson's Flouring Mill), Oregon's oldest continuously operating water powered mill, part of Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site.

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.

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.

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.

The Ave

Ye College Inn, a Tudor Revival building at the northeast corner of NE 40th Street near the "lower" (south) end of The Ave, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

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.

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

Ankeny

Ankeny Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, Iowa

Anna James

Anna James, a notable Connecticut person whose James Pharmacy is listed on the U.S. 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

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

Cranch

Duncanson-Cranch House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Delaplane, Virginia

In addition to fox hunting, Delaplane's close proximity to Washington, D.C. juxtaposed with a remarkably well preserved 19th century agricultural heritage, gave rise to numerous and expansive country estates; many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places such as Mount Bleak House, Moreland, and Oak Hill, an early home of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

Dodd House

Dodd Homestead, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, 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

Gustavus Adolphus Neumann

His body was interred in the cemetery of the Ten Mile River Baptist Church, a historic building that was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Hall's Tavern

Hall Tavern, Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Hibernian Hall

Wonder Ballroom, Portland, Oregon, also known and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hibernian Hall

Hope School

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

Isaac Lewis House

Isaac C. Lewis Cottage, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Branford, Connecticut

John Baker House

John S. Baker House, Cincinnati, Ohio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

John Clark House

Capt. John Clark House, Canterbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

John Gray House

Rev. John H. Gray House, Eutaw, Alabama, listed on the 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

Livestock Exchange Building

Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City, Missouri, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Locust Lawn

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

Londershausen House

Gottlieb Londershausen House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

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

Myrtle Hill

Boligee Hill, a house on the National Register of Historic Places, now known as Myrtle Hill.

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 Providence Stone Church, Spottswood, Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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

Olmsted Park System

Olmsted Park, Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, also known as Olmsted Park System (and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under that name)

Painted Rocks

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, archaeological site and BLM facility listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, located in Arizona and formerly part of Painted Rock State Park

Purnell House

George Washington Purnell House, Snow Hill, Maryland, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

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

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

Samuel Parker House

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

Saunders Hall

Goode-Hall House, a plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places

Sedgwick House

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

St. Joseph Church

Saint Joseph of the Lake Church and Cemetery, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Menominee County, Wisconsin

St. Marys, Pennsylvania

The Decker's Chapel and John E. Weidenboerner House are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sweetser House

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

Michael 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

Tyson House

McBryde-Screws-Tyson House, Montgomery, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Montgomery County

Union Meetinghouse

Old Union Meetinghouse, Farmington, Maine, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Franklin County

Van den Berg

Hendrik J. and Wilhelmina H. Van Den Berg Cottage, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Iowa

William Lewis House

William H. Lewis Model House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Portland, Oregon

Woodlawn Station

Aliquippa Station, a defunct station on the National Register of Historic Places near that town in western Pennsylvania, also sometimes known as Woodlawn Station.