This 1788 house was the setting for a novel by local author Sarah Orne Jewett, who was instrumental in its preservation.

Home of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran who helped inspire the creation of the National Park system.

Building located on Jackson Square.

Stephen Tyng Mather, the wealthy first director of the National Park Service personally donated this building to house the newly hired rangers covering Yosemite National Park. Its rustic architecture inspired all National Park...

Designed by William West Durant; one of the most sophisticated and evolved examples of the Adirondack Great Camps.

Site of the 1777 Battle of Saratoga, the first significant American military victory of the American Revolutionary War.

Palatial home built for the president of the F.W. Woolworth Company. After the Depression, it became part of Monmouth College.

An image of the Colonial Annapolis Historic District.

This house is a rare example of a 17th-century stone house in New England. Relatively unchanged despite additions over the centuries, it is now owned by Historic New England, who operate the site as a farm and museum.

Home and studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting.

Lightship Portsmouth, commissioned as Lightship 101, was first stationed at Cape Charles, Virginia.

First Spanish capitol of New Mexico.

Benjamin Harrison lived in this Italianate house from 1875 until his death there in 1901, except from 1889 to 1893 while he was the 23rd President. He was also a Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887. Harrison accepted the Republican...

An image of the Biltmore Estate.

Francis Costigan designed this Classical Revival house for merchant Charles L. Shrewsbury. It was completed in 1849 and is an example of Regency architecture.

Home of Dr. Charles R. Drew, an African American physician and researcher whose leadership on stockpiling blood plasma saved lives in World War II.

Preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851; also ruins of the third; visible network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail.

Final resting place of many Yale and New Haven notables including Roger Sherman, Noah Webster and Eli Whitney.

Patrick Henry delivered his "Liberty or Death" speech here.

Home of George Read, signer of the Declaration of Independence and advocate for Delaware's earliest ratification.

A submarine that was in training when World War II ended.

Birthplace of the blues style of music, Beale Street produced significant developments in African-American music and the music of the United States generally. W.C. Handy was a prominent Beale Street figure from when this was a lively...

Home of Colonel John Stuart.

Oldest church building in state dates to 1685; figures prominently in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".