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Weekly List for June 21, 2013
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Weekly List for June 14, 2013
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Cherry Grove Community House &
Theater, Cherry Grove, New York
The Community House and Theatre is exceptionally significant in social
history for the enormous role it played in shaping what gradually evolved
into "America's First Gay and Lesbian Town". This integration
of homosexual residents into daily life and events at its community house
afforded Cherry Grove a singular status; it became one of the first and,
for many years, the only gay and lesbian influenced community in the
United States. Read More . . .
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Weekly List for June 7, 2013
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Hyde Park, Nottoway
County, Virginia
The property's successful operation provided the opportunity for
agriculturally skilled Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Immigrate to
America and expand the farm's productivity during the 1930s and early
1940s. During and after World War II, Hyde Park continued to provide
refuge and agricultural opportunities after the Gross Breesen
families left, specifically for families of soldiers from nearby Fort
Pickett and Polish refugees Tadeusz and Stanislawa Glowinski, who
maintained the house and grounds for thirty years. Read more . . .
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Weekly List for May 31, 2013
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Dodge
County Jail,
Dodge County, Georgia
The jail is significant in the area
of architecture as a good and intact example of a late Victorianera building constructed to serve as a
county jail and sheriff's residence. The two-story brick building retains
its original plan and materials, with an intact residential area and
pre-fabricated jail works by the Pauly Jail
Building Company of St. Louis, a major jail design firm. Read more . . .
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Weekly List for May 24, 2013
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Gautier
Beachfront Historic District, Jackson County, Mississippi
The Gautier Beachfront Historic
District contains a residential enclave of historic homes along
Pascagoula Bay, most built by descendants of Gautier settlers. The
houses, built between 1896 and 1907, are generally vernacular in style
built of high quality materials and generally well maintained.
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Weekly List for May 17, 2013
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Snow Train Rolling Stock, Laramie,
Wyoming
Snow trains were not preassembled, standing in readiness for heavy snow.
Instead, as a weather emergency developed, trains to plow the lines were
put together from available rolling stock. Read more . . .
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Weekly List for May 10, 2013
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Joe Frazier’s
Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Built c.1895 as a window sash and blind warehouse, Joe Frazier's Gym is
significant under Criterion B for its association with the career and life
of Joe Frazier, the Olympic and Heavyweight Champion boxer who defeated
Muhammad Ali in the "Fight of the Century" in 1971. Read more . . .
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Weekly List for May 3, 2013
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Hakone Historic
District, Saratoga, California
Hakone was built during a period of renewed trade and communication
between Japan and the United States during the Meiji era that began in
the 1870s and peaked during the early years of the twentieth century.
Hakone was designed and built by talented Japanese designers and
craftsmen, and during the late 1930s and early 1940s, a second generation
of Japanese talent modified and added to the gardens. Read more .
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Weekly List for April 26, 2013
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Bingham Homestead
Rural Historic Landscape, Bellvue, Washington
The Bingham Homestead is locally significant under Criterion A for exploration/settlement
for its association with the pioneer settlement and early development of
Pleasant Valley and Larimer County during the period from the 1860s
through 1881. Read more . .
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Weekly List for April 19, 2013
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Irene Burns House, Auburn, California
The Irene Burns House is eligible for the National Register at the local
level of significance for its association with educator Irene Burns, a
schoolteacher who became the first woman elected to political office in
Placer County, California. Read
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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
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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
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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 . . . “
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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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