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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Utica State Hospital (Main Building)
First hospital for the "insane poor"; archetypal Greek Revival building.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Larkin House
This house, part of the larger NHLD Monterey State Historic Park, combined Spanish building techniques with New England features, creating the Monterey Colonial style of architecture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: General Lew Wallace Study
Lew Wallace was a Civil War general, governor of the New Mexico Territory, and minister to the Ottoman Empire, and he is best known for writing Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He used this building as his study from 1895 until his death...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Old Queens, Rutgers University
Oldest building at Rutgers University and considered one of the finest examples of Federal architecture.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Cobblestone Historic District
Three buildings: a First Universalist Church, the Ward House, and schoolhouse exemplifying 19th-century U.S. cobblestone architecture at its highest.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Abel and Mary Nicholson House
A rare pristine example of a Delaware Valley patterned brick building.
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Royal British Columbia Museum: Thunderbird Park
This online exhibit explores the transformation of British Columbia's Thunderbird Park, a park established to display totem poles and other carvings by the First Nations' people. Interactive "maps" documenting the park's history from...
Digital History
Digital History: Conquering Space
A good review of how the rise of nationalism led to western expansion, support for federal funds to build infrastructure, and the protection of new American industry.
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History.com: What Was Flight 93's Target?
When the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, it was 20 minutes flying time from the nation's capital. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46 minutes into United Airlines Flight 93, a nonstop flight from Newark, New...
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South African Large Telescope Project
South African Large Telescope (SALT) homepage describes a multi-national project sponsored by the South African Astronomical Observatory to build a large telescope in South Africa. Visually appealing and written for the lay person.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: W. & L. E. Gurley Building
Classical Revival structure; built in 1862; housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Prudential (Guaranty) Building
Early skyscraper design; collaboration between Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.
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Employment Spot: Peace Corps
You've earned a 4-year degree, have grand plans to build a career and are ready to face the world. For many, the next step is simple: begin the job search or grad school. Looking for another option? If you're interested in seeing a new...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Eleanor Roosevelt Natl Historic Site
Eleanor Roosevelt developed property; place that she could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women; includes a large two-story stuccoed building that housed Val-Kill Industries; would become...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Nm: Bandelier Ccc Historic District
Civilian Conservation Corps buildings.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: Portland Brownstone Quarries
These quarries, active since 1690, were the source of vast quantities of brownstone for New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other urban areas' buildings.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow)
Oldest church building in state dates to 1685; figures prominently in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Iroquois Country, 1768
A map of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York showing the Iroquois Six Nations lands as established by the Fort Stanwix treaty of 1768. The map show the expansion of English colonial settlers into the upper Hudson River Valley...