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Weekly List for December 30, 2011
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Fresno County Hall of Records, Fresno County, California
The Fresno County Hall of Records, in Fresno, California,
stands as a masterly example of PWA (Public Works Administration) Deco
Moderne architecture. Read
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Weekly List for December 23, 2011
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Argos Izaak Walton League
Historic District, Marshall County, Indiana
This
glacier stone Craftsman style building was completed in 1937 as a New Deal
work. The building, various stone structures, and 17 acres of land and fish
ponds make up this naturally beautiful historic district. It served as
clubhouse for a natural conservation league. Read more
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Weekly List for December 16, 2011
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Sunnydale, Polk County, North Carolina
Constructed around 1930 for Harold Shelnutt, Sunnydale is a Rustic
revival-style restaurant and entertainment building located in the small
town of Tryon in southern Polk County, North Carolina. Shelnutt operated Sunnydale
as a restaurant and entertainment venue, hosting dinners, dances and
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Weekly List for December 9, 2011
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Bear Tavern Road—Jacobs Creek Crossing Rural Historic District
Mercer County, New Jersey
Look back into the 18th and early 19th centuries while traveling this
important regional route near Trenton, New Jersey. This district was
travelled by George Washington and his troops during the War for
Independence, but also tells nearly 300 years of farming, transportation,
and architectural history in this rural community. Read
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Weekly List for December 2, 2011
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Peacock Brewery
Winnebago County, Illinois
Jonathan Peacock, a British immigrant, relocated to Rockford in 1849 and
began brewing beer in his home. Read
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Weekly List for November 25, 2011
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Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium, Prince George’s
County, Maryland
The Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium is located 15 miles
outside of the District of Columbia. During the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, this facility provided free medical care to those
suffering from tuberculosis. The fresh air and the contemporary
medical treatments lessened the serious health threat of tuberculosis in the
nearby city. The campus includes seventeen historic buildings that
demonstrate Glenn Dale's historical significance in medical and
architectural history. Read
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Weekly List for November 18, 2011
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Portland Public Service Building, Multnomah County, Oregon
Constructed in 1982, the 15-story Portland Public Service Building in
downtown Portland, Oregon, is one of the most notable works by
internationally-known master architect Michael Graves. Read
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Weekly List for November 10, 2011
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Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Residence, Washington, DC
Dr. Kameny led a newly militant activism in the fledgling gay civil rights
of the 1960s. He was a landmark figure in articulating and achieving
gay civil rights in federal employment and security clearance cases, and in
reversing the medical community’s view on homosexuality as a mental
disorder. Read
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Weekly List for November 4, 2011
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Gulfport Square Commercial Historic District
Gulfport Square Commercial Historic District contains 81 buildings in
various high architectural styles, such as Beaux Arts and Tudor Revival, in
many building types. Though originally a slightly different historic
district under another name, the commercial core of this bustling port town
needed to be relisted after Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed many of
the properties contributing to the historic district. Read
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Weekly List for October 28, 2011
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Parrot Junglie Historic District, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Minutes from downtown Miami, the former tropical bird oasis and tourist
attraction Parrot Jungle is now a local park. The property retains
beautiful landscape architecture, scenic trails, and buildings from its
tourism days. Read More…
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Weekly List for October 21, 2011
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B’nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery, Grand Forks,
North Dakota
A 1937 Art Deco synagogue stands as testament to Grand Forks' diversity and
its strong immigrant community of faith.
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Weekly List for October 14, 2011
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Chapel of the Holy Cross, Coconino County, Arizona
Built in 1955-56 in a Modernistic Style, the chapel stands as a highly
significant and outstanding example of mid-20th century modern architecture
that harmoniously blends a modern building of concrete, steel, and glass
into the natural rock bound desert environment for which Sedona is
known. Read
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Weekly List for October 7, 2011
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Residencia Luis Muñoz Marín, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Luis Muñoz Marín was the first popularly elected Governor of Puerto
Rico. This estate was his home for 40 years during his notable career
of journalism, activism, and leadership, as well as being the mastermind of
life-changing economic, political, and social projects while being governor.
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Weekly List for September 30, 2011
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Barrio Santa Rosa, Pima County, Arizona
The earlier buildings in Barrio Santa Rosa generally followed the
traditional Hispanic urban model, in the form of Sonoran row houses. The
Sonoran style consisted of homes built of earth and timber with walls built
of adobe brick and mud mortar
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Weekly List for September 23, 2011
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Threemile Gulch, Park County, Colorado
The Threemile Gulch Prehistoric Archaeological District in Colorado is
historically important due to the minimally disturbed and distinctive record
of prehistoric human settlement found here. Read
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Weekly List for September 16, 2011
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Weekly List for September 9, 2011
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Liggett Building, King County, Washington
The Liggett Building in downtown Seattle, Washington is a "cathedral of
commerce." Built in the 1920s by a local architectural firm, it
represents the national trends present during Seattle's building boom. Read
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Weekly List for September 2, 2011
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Downtown Boca Grande Historic District, Lee County, Florida
With no gas stations on Gasparilla Island, a barrier island in southwest
Florida, residents in the Downtown Grande Historic District walk or use
electronic golf carts for local travel and shopping errands, with only two
streets designated for cars. Read
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Weekly List for August 26, 2011
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Weekly List for August 19, 2011
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Peep O Day Park, Larimer County, Colorado
Renaissance Revival Estate of intrepid entrepreneur Alfred Wild tells the
history of Wild’s wide variety of business endeavors, including the growing
and introduction of hops to the Colorado brewing industry. Read More…
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Weekly List for August 12, 2011
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Halstead and Emily Lindsley House, Lee County, Florida
Mediterranean Revival Style home in Boca Grande retains high historic
integrity. It is listed for its outstanding architectural design by F.
Burnall Hoffman, Jr., workmanship, and elaborate details. Read
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Weekly List for August 5, 2011
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Valley of the Moon, Pima County, Arizona
This whimsical garden in Tucson evokes mysticism and Hollywood fairy-tale
structures. It is nominated for local history and its unique
landscape architecture. Read
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Weekly List for July 29, 2011
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Wild Goose, Orange County, California
The Wild Goose was purchased by American film star John Wayne
(1907-1979) in 1962 for $116,000. The ship had initially been constructed in
1943 as YMS-328 by the Ballard Maritime Railroad Company under contract with
the U.S. Navy. Read
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Weekly List for July 22, 2011
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Weekly List for July 15, 2011
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Weekly List for July 08, 2011
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U.S. Naval Reserve Training Building, Davidson County, Tennessee
U.S. Naval Reserve Training Building (RTB) is a rare surviving example of
“programmatic” or “mimetic” architecture in Davidson County. It’s
shaped like a ship. Read
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Weekly List for July 01, 2011
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Hampton County Jail, Hampton County, South Carolina
The Hampton Jail, located at 702 First Street West in the town of Hampton,
South Carolina, was completed c. 1880, following the completion of a nearby
courthouse for the newly established Hampton County. Today it houses the
Hampton County Historical Society. Read
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Weekly List for
June 24, 2011
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Krippendorf Estate, Clermont County, Ohio
A 175-acre estate with a grand main house – the Lodge – numerous
outbuildings and a designed landscape reflect the Arts and Crafts movement
at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century. The Krippendorf Estate now
serves the public as the Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC). Read
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Weekly List for
June 17, 2011
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Town of Halifax Historic District, Halifax County, North Carolina
The historic town of Halifax has it all – diverse architectural styles,
different building types, and 200 years of history. Halifax, at the
mouth of the Roanoke River, is the county seat. Originating in 1757,
Halifax’s early history typified wealthy plantation culture and the
importance associated with a county seat. Read
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Weekly List for
June 10, 2011
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Schoolhouse No. 5, Delaware County, New York
Schoolhouse No. 5 is a valuable record of a century of educational history
in the town of Hamden, New York. The distinctive one-room schoolhouse served
the children of Hamden from 1858 to 1954. Historical integrity of this
once rural community’s the schoolhouse and grounds remains intact.
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Weekly List for June
3, 2011
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United States Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The United States Custom House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built between
1932 and 1934 to the Art Deco designs of the architectural firm Ritter &
Shay, occupies an entire block between Second, Chestnut, and Samson Streets
and the former Exchange Place in the heart of the oldest section of the
city. Read
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Weekly List for
May 27, 2011
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Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station, Montgomery County, Alabama
The Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station, located at 210 S. Court Street in
Montgomery, Alabama, was made famous world-wide on May 20, 1961, when the
Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists and students who wanted to
test the validity and enforcement of segregation on the nation’s new
interstate system in the south, were attacked by a white mob awaiting their
arrival at the station. Read
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Weekly List for
May 20, 2011
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Allen, John B., School, King County, Washington
The two buildings that make up the school show the shift from the simple,
easily constructed wood-frame structure to a new technique of masonry and
concrete “fire-proof construction” adopted only 13 years later as a safer
construction type. Read
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Weekly List for
May 13, 2011
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Prentis Building and Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium, Wayne County,
Michigan
Constructed in the early 1960s, these two Wayne State University
buildings represent a crucial moment in the acclaimed career of architect
Minoru Yamasaki. Read
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Weekly List for
May 6, 2011
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Federal Office Building, Travis County, Texas
The presidential suite on the ninth floor of the Federal Office Building
served as an office for President Johnson during the considerable amount of
time he spent in central Texas during his presidency. Read
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Weekly List for
April 29, 2011
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Quakertown Historic District, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
The Quakertown Historic District is deemed historically important from 1734,
when the earliest buildings and seeds of the town clustered around Main
Street, through the mid-twentieth century when trolley service ceased and
passenger rail service diminished. Read More
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Weekly List for
April 22, 2011
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Historic Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver
1940-1965, Colorado
The five-county Denver region in Colorado experienced a 146 percent
increase in its population between 1940 and the end of 1965, growing from
407,962 to just over a million.
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Weekly List for
April 15, 2011
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Japanese Jail Historic and Archeological District, Saipan,
Northern Marianas Islands
The jail complex (gokusha) illustrates the significant early twentieth
century efforts of the Japanese government to establish oversight and
administrative control on the island of Saipan.
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Weekly List for
April 8, 2011
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Quarters 1 at Fort Monroe, Hampton County, Virginia
Built in 1819, it is probably the oldest housing now in the Army. This
elegantly detailed and stately 190 year old Federal style beauty witnessed
important Civil War history and hosted famous guests. Read More . . .
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Weekly List for
April 1, 2011
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Nelson, Gus, Homestead, Fergus County, Montana
The Gus Nelson Homestead is one of the best preserved of the eight or
nine remaining homesteads along the Missouri River in the Missouri River
Breaks in Fergus County. Read
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Weekly List for
March25, 2011
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Henry Cool Park, Charles Mix County, South Dakota
The majority of Henry Cool Park in Platte, South Dakota is located on a
seven acre island in Lake Platte. The park was used as a summer
recreation center by the people of Platte for many years. Read More . . .
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Weekly List for
March18, 2011
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Ringgold Gap Battlefield, Catoosa County, Georgia
Major General Patrick Cleburne, leader of the Confederate Army of Tennessee,
successfully halted Union Army advances through Georgia. The outcome of this
November 1863 battle prolonged the Civil War and significantly delayed
Federal troops from reaching the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta. Read
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Weekly List for
March11, 2011
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John and Carolena Heimuller Farmstead, Columbia County, Oregon
Historically important locally as an example of an early 20th century
agricultural buildings and architecturally as a distinct group of buildings
in a rural setting, the farmstead was established by John Heimuller (1871-1949)
and his wife Carolena Heimuller (1872-1938), both first-generation
German-Americans from Missouri. Read
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Weekly List for
March 4, 2011
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Castle Ballroom, St. Louis, Missouri
Built in 1908 in the Renaissance style, the Castle Ballroom in St.
Louis, Missouri was designed as a dance hall and dancing academy. The dance
hall was one of the major venues for social dancing and dance instruction in
St. Louis prior to the dawn of the Jazz Age. Read
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Weekly List for
February 25, 2011
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Women’s Club of Ocoee, Orange County, Florida
The Women’s Club of Ocoee, in Orange County, Florida, completed in 1938, is
significant as the meeting place for the oldest formally organized women’s
social service organization in the city of Ocoee. Read
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Weekly List for
February 18, 2011
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Mayhew Cabin, Otoe County, Nebraska
Although the Mayhew family's role in helping slaves escape to freedom
was never proven, the cabin and cave were intended to provide the public
with an avenue to experience the more legendary aspects of the Underground
Railroad firsthand.
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Weekly List for
February 11, 2011
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Greer Post Office, Greensville County, South Carolina
The Greer Post Office constructed in 1935 stands as an excellent example of
a New Deal-era Colonial Revival Post Office produced by the Public Works
Branch of the United States Department of the Treasury. The building now
serves as the Greer Heritage Museum. Read
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Weekly List for
February 4, 2011
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Charity Hospital of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Lousiana
Since its establishment as a medical institution in 1736, the New Orleans
Charity Hospital continually served for 279 years as the only hospital in
the city of New Orleans and the parishes of southwestern Louisiana that was
dedicated to the treatment of indigent and low-income patients. This ended
in 2005 due to damages suffered from Hurricane Katrina. Read
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Weekly List for
January 28, 2011
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St. John's Lutheran College--Baden Hall, Cowley County, Kansas
Built in 1883-1894, Baden Hall at St. John’s Lutheran College, in Winfield,
Kansas, derives its significance from its role as a locally prominent
educational facility. Read
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Weekly List for
January 21, 2011
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Dougherty Heights Historic District, Buncombe County, North
Carolina
The district’s historic homes reflect the growth of the mountain town of
Black Mountain from 1910-1930, when the railroad connected the town to
transportation routes. The district contains houses designed in a mix of
nationally popular architectural styles-Craftsmen, Colonial Revival, and
Minimal Traditional. Read
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Weekly List for
January 14, 2011
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Rialto Building, San Francisco, California
The Rialto Building, located in the Financial District of San Francisco at
the intersection of New Montgomery and Mission Streets, was originally
constructed in 1902, and reconstructed in 1910 after the 1906 earthquake and
Fire in San Francisco. More . .
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Weekly List for
January 7, 2011
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Matchless Mine, Lake County, Colorado
The Matchless Mine is significant for its contribution to the social
history of Leadville and the state of Colorado, for its contributions made
to industry, architecture, and engineering . . . more
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