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Weekly List for April 26, 2013
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Weekly List for April 19, 2013
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Weekly List for April 12, 2013
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Judaculla Rock, Cullowhee,
North Carolina
Judaculla Rock and the surrounding 0.49 acres
of land belonging to Jackson County are significant not only due to the
physical evidence of soapstone quarry and bowl-manufacturing activities,
but also due to the unusually dense concentration of over a thousand
petroglyph motifs on the main boulder. Read more . . .
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Weekly List for April 5, 2013
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Bennes, John Virginius
and Annice, House, Portland, Oregon
is significant as a remarkable example of a
mix of Mediterranean and Prairie School style of architecture. The house
embodies the Prairie Style through its strong horizontal lines, stucco
finish, low pitched hip roof, and open floor plan. The house also qualifies
for listing under National Register Criterion B, as it was the personal
home of John Virginius Bennes,
a highly regarded Oregon architect who has been credited with introducing
the Prairie School style to Portland. Read more .
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Weekly List for March 29, 2013
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Meridian
Road, Tallahassee, Florida
The road
served as one of the major local conduits to move agricultural products
from the county's plantations and farms to market in the capital city ofTallahassee and to shipping points on the Gulf of
Mexico. In 1824, as a new territory of the United States, a Prime Meridian
Marker was placed at the southeast corner of Tallahassee, from which all
land surveys in Florida derive their origin. Read
more . .
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Weekly List for March 22, 2013
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Space Shuttle Enterprise, Manhattan, New York
"[The] shuttle, to me, represents a triumph and
remains to this day a technological marvel. We learned so much from the
program, not only in the advancement of science and international
relations, but also from what works and what doesn't on a reusable
vehicle. The lessons learned from shuttle will make future US spacecraft
more reliable, safer, and cost effective." - Leroy Chiao, NASA astronaut
Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for March 15, 2013
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Halprin Open Space
Sequence, Portland, Oregon
"The Portland Open Space Sequence . . . is an acknowledged
masterpiece of modern design. Halprin is one of
the great landscape architects of the twentieth century . . . “
Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for March 8, 2013
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Charlottesville
Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Charlottesville, Virginia
Platt's design powerfully united
modern form with national brand marketing; here, the canons of
utilitarian industrial architecture broadened so as to encourage the
consumption of the product being manufactured. Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for March 1, 2013
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McMillan Park
Reservoir Historic District, Washington, DC
The park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. as a public park and
memorial to the late Senator James McMillan whose
McMillan Park Plan of 1901-1902 was instrumental in the establishment of
the park at McMillan Reservoir. Upon its completion in 1905, water was
pumped from the reservoir to the twentynine
slow filtration beds-vaulted and sand-filled structures built of
unreinforced concrete-where the water was cleansed and piped to an
underground clear reservoir before being distributed. Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for February 22, 2013
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El Cortez Hotel
and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
When the
El Cortez Hotel and Casino opened in 1941,
it became the largest and most fashionable hotel/casino on Fremont Street
in Las Vegas and would remain so for the next decade. Although additions
were added, the exterior of the original El Cortez Hotel still retains
its original appearance. Read
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Weekly List
for February 15, 2013
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Jack Kerouac House, Orlando, Florida
It was while living
in this house in Orlando, Florida, that American author and Beat
Generation founder Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) received instant
fame for the publication of his bestselling novel, On the Road. Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for February 8, 2013
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Alfred L. Tubbs Winery, Napa County, California
The chardonnay
produced here beat their French counterparts in a 1976 tasting contest
that put Californian wines on the map for world consumption. Built into
the hillside, the 1888 two-story stone winery was designed to resemble an
English Gothic castle gatehouse with rusticated stone walls, narrow
arched windows and bartizans with faux arrow slits. Read
more . . .
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Weekly List
for February 1, 2013
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Chicano Park, San Diego, California
Chicano Park, in
San Diego, California, was the site of a powerful protest in 1970 by
members of the local San Diego Hispanic community over the planned
redevelopment of a vacant site within the Barrio Logan community that had
been previously promised to the community as public open space.
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Weekly List for
January 25, 2013
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Pelican Lake Hotel, Schoepke,
Wisconsin
The Pelican Lake
Hotel, beautifully sited on a 3,585 acre pristine lake, was constructed
in 1928 on the spot of the 1898-built Beach Hotel, which was destroyed by
fire in 1926.
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Weekly List
for January 18, 2013
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Monte Vista and Diamond Mountain Vineyard, Napa
County, California
The Monte Vista and
Diamond Mountain Vineyard is a six-building farm complex and 26 acre
vineyard located in the mountains above Napa Valley in Calistoga,
California. Read more . .
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Weekly List
for January 11, 2013
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Austin Hall, Walker County, Texas
Austin Hall, the
oldest building on the campus of Sam Houston State University, located in
Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, was designed in the Greek revival style
and built in 1852. The building accommodated the state’s first law
school, as well as the first tax-supported teacher training institute,
and has served the state’s various educational interests for 160
years. Read more . . .
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Weekly List
for January 4, 2013
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Grand Ronde Rail Depot,
Polk County, Oregon
Since completion in
1922, the Grand Ronde Rail
Depot, designed and built by John Albert Schuerch,
has served as a hub for transportation, economic and social activity
within the community. Today the Grand Ronde rail
Depot serves as a social and storage center for the Restored Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde. Read
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