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National Register of Historic Places

Weekly List 2013

List of actions taken by the Register each week
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Weekly List for April 26, 2013

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Weekly List for April 12, 2013

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 . . .

Weekly List for April 5, 2013

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 . .

Weekly List for March 29, 2013


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.
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Weekly List for March 22, 2013

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

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

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 . . .

Weekly List for March 1, 2013

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 . . .

Weekly List for February 22, 2013

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 more . . .

Weekly List for February 15, 2013

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 . . .

Weekly List for February 8, 2013

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 . . .

Weekly List for February 1, 2013

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

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

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 . . .

Weekly List for January 11, 2013

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 . . .

Weekly List for January 4, 2013

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 more . . .

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