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11 unusual facts about National Register of Historic Places


Bestwick's Market

Bestwick's Market is a wood-framed false-fronted commercial building located in Alberton, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1997.

Columbia City, Seattle

The Columbia City business district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Columbia City Historic District, bounded on the north by S. Alaska Street, on the south by S. Hudson Street, on the east by Rainier Avenue S., and on the west by 35th Avenue S.

Downtown Brandon Historic District

The district includes two other places listed on the NRHP: the Rankin County Confederate Monument and the Rankin County Courthouse.

Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Some of these safe havens are considered part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Henry G. Harrison

Several of his works in the United States are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building

The Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building is a building located in Lewisburg, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Peekskill, New York

This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Peekskill, New York.

River Street Historic District

River Street Historic District can be one of three listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Route of the Oregon Trail

Remnants of the trail in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the entire trail is a designated National Historic Trail (listed as the Oregon National Historic Trail).

Stone Windmill

Stone Windmill (Morristown, New York), also known as McConnell's Windmill, listed as "Stone Windmill" in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Taleyfac River

It is crossed by Taleyfac Spanish Bridge, a historic stone arch bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.


Amos Eno

After settling his son's debts, Amos retreated to the family summer residence in Simsbury, the Amos Eno House (1820, on the National Register of Historic Places) which had been erected by Eno's father-in-law, Elisha Phelps.

Ansel T. Walling

Walling's house in Circleville has been well preserved to the present day; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Benjamin N. Duke House

Benjamin's brother James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925) also built a townhouse on Fifth Avenue, the James B. Duke House, which was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Colerain Works Archeological District

Colerain Works Archeological District is a registered historic district near Dunlap, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1976.

De Borgia Schoolhouse

De Borgia Schoolhouse is a two-story wood frame school located in De Borgia, Montana, United States which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1979.

Dean Family Farm

The Dean Family Farm, listed since 1994 as a historic site on the National Register of Historic Places, has its origins with the immigration of Daniel Dean, a native of Tobermore,

Downtown San Jose

Many of the 19th century buildings in central downtown appear on the National Register of Historic Places, in particular the area surrounding St. James Park.

Embassy of Latvia in Washington, D.C.

In addition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building is a contributing property to the 'Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District' and Massachusetts Avenue Historic District.

Emery County, Utah

Evidence of these people can still be found in numerous pictograph and petroglyph panels, such as those in Temple Mountain Wash, Muddy Creek, Ferron Box, Black Dragon Canyon, and Buckhorn Wash-all sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Glasco, Kansas

This small town has two items of interest on the National Register of Historic Places: Pott's Ford Bridge is located just 1/2 mile south of the city limits, and the entire downtown business district has also earned a listing on the register.

Hampden Bank

Originally chartered to serve railroad employees - one of Hampden Bank's first locations, built in 1918, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places - and is located two blocks south of Springfield Union Station.

Harrison Square Historic District

Among the architects represented in the district are Luther Briggs, Jr., who also designed the Mount Wollaston Cemetery and John A. Fox, who also designed Tewksbury Hospital, both also on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hazel Hall

Hall's home, located at 106 NW 22nd Place in Portland, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Hazel Hall House.

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District is a registered historic site near Ross, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1975-10-21.

Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex

The Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex is a historic district near Shaniko in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Jeriah Swetland

In 1871, Swetland and his wife built a house on London's east side; known as the Swetland House in the present day, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

John Uri Lloyd House

John Uri Lloyd House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 7, 1973.

King Opera House

The King Opera House is a contributing property to the Van Buren Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lawson Tower

The tower is listed as both an American Water Landmark and to the National Register of Historic Places - has become a popular touring site, featuring sweeping views of the South Shore, Old Scituate Light, Minot's Ledge Light and the nearby First Trinitarian Congregational Church.

Log Cabin Inn Ensemble

The Log Cabin Inn Ensemble, located in McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lorenzo Snow Young

Two of his early works are some of his most notable, namely the Kingsbury Hall in the University of Utah Circle and the Granite Stake Tabernacle, which are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Lummus Park, Miami

On October 25, 2006, the park and the buildings on its northern boundary were added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as Lummus Park Historic District.

Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

The Cold Spring Farm Springhouse, John Michael Farm, Schoonover Mountain House, Capt. Jacob Shoemaker House, John Turn Farm, Zion Lutheran Church are located in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Monongahela, Pennsylvania

The Edward G. Acheson House, Bethel African American Episcopal Church of Monongahela City, David Longwell House, and Monongahela Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davenport, Iowa

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davenport, Iowa, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Hardeman County, Tennessee

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Lucas County, Ohio

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lucas County, Ohio, United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis north and west of downtown

This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, north of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Webster Parish, Louisiana

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.

New York State Route 32A

Here, the route passes Palenville's fire department before ending at a signalized intersection with NY 23A across from the National Register of Historic Places-listed Rowena Memorial School.

Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

It is the location of, or nearest community to, the Ojo Caliente Hot Springs Round Barn, built in 1924, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oswego Lake

With the relative scarcity of building easements, lakefront property remains prestigious, and a number of architecturally significant homes have been built along its shores, including the Carl C. Jantzen Estate, a Tudor-style estate on the National Register of Historic Places, built on an island on the lake's north shore by the founder of the Jantzen swimwear company in 1930.

Pocahontas School

Pocahontas School is a historic school building in Pocahontas, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pokagon State Park

During the ensuing 8 years, the CCC constructed many of the best-known buildings at Pokagon, including the Gate House, the Spring Shelter, the Saddle Barn, the first three editions of the toboggan run, and the CCC Shelter, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Schnull-Rauch House

The Schnull-Rauch House, sometimes referred to as the Victorian Manor and now also branded as The Manor at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, is a National Register of Historic Places-designated Romanesque Revival historic home constructed in the early 20th century at 3050 North Meridian Street, in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood north of downtown Indianapolis.

Shedd, Oregon

East of Shedd at the former site of Boston Mills, on the Calapooia River, is the National Register of Historic Places-listed Boston Flour Mill (aka Thompson's Flouring Mill), Oregon's oldest continuously operating water powered mill, part of Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site.

The Ave

Ye College Inn, a Tudor Revival building at the northeast corner of NE 40th Street near the "lower" (south) end of The Ave, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Thomaston Colored Institute

It was included on the Alabama Historical Commission's Places in Peril listing in 2000, the same year that it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Verona Island, Maine

The Waldo–Hancock Bridge (carrying U.S. 1), which opened November 16, 1931 to connect Verona Island and Prospect in Waldo County, is on the National Register of Historic Places but was in such bad condition that it was replaced.

Wade Hampton II

The Hampton family summer retreat, High Hampton, which they had built in the western mountains of North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are their mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, the Hampton-Preston House; and the ruins of their plantation house Millwoods in Richland County, South Carolina.

West Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana

Woodland Plantation, the plantation depicted on the label of Southern Comfort since the 1930s, is an antebellum mansion in the town, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Youngstown, New York

The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Fort Niagara Light, John Carter Farmstead, St. John's Episcopal Church, and the Old Fort Niagara-Colonial Niagara Historic District.