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| Landmark name |
Image | Date of designation | Location | County | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Power
Plant Transformer House |
Niagara Falls |
Transformer house of the first large-scale,
alternating current electric generating plant in the world; tapped
power of Niagara
Falls |
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| Adirondack Park | All of and and parts of , , , , , , , , , and | Largest publicly protected area in the lower 48 United States; largest National Historic Landmark; largest and one of earliest areas protected by any state; established in 1885; later protected in "forever wild" section of New York state constitution | ||||
| Susan B. |
Rochester |
Home of Susan B. Anthony, prominent 19th century women's rights activist | ||||
| Armour-Stiner House |
Irvington |
Octagonal implementation of architectural ideas of Orson Squire Fowler | ||||
| Bennington Battlefield Bennington Battlefield SHS |
Walloomsac |
Site
of Battle of
Bennington |
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| Boston Post Road Historic
District |
Rye |
Three
mansions and grounds,including the 1838 Peter
Augustus Jay House |
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| Boughton Hill Ganondagan SHS |
Victor |
The site of a 17th century Seneca village known as the Town of Peace and birthplace of the Iroquois Confederacy | ||||
| Bronck House |
Coxsackie | Oldest structure in upstate New York; excellent example of Dutch colonial architecture | ||||
| Dr. Oliver Bronson House and
Estate |
Hudson |
Early example of the Hudson River bracketed style of Alexander Jackson Davis | ||||
| John Brown Farm and Gravesite John Brown Farm SHS |
Lake Placid |
Home and final resting place of famous abolitionist John Brown, executed for his raid on Harper's Ferry Armory before the Civil War | ||||
| Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Building |
Buffalo |
Parthenon |
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| Buffalo State Hospital |
Buffalo |
Architect H. H. Richardson's largest commission; advent of his characteristic Richardsonian Romanesque style; used to care for the mentally ill; grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted | ||||
| John
Burroughs' Riverby Study |
West Park |
Small frame structure built in 1881 by naturalist John Burroughs as a writing retreat; in this study, that looks east over the Hudson River, Burroughs wrote Fresh Fields (1884), Signs and Seasons (1886), Indoor Studies (1889), and Riverby (1894) | ||||
| Camp Pine Knot |
Raquette Lake |
First of the Adirondack Great Camps; designed and built by William West Durant | ||||
| Canfield Casino and Congress
Park |
Saratoga Springs |
Former resort and casino; now houses the Saratoga Springs History Museum | ||||
| Chautauqua Historic District |
Chautauqua |
Adult education and summer retreat; focuses on programs related to arts, education, religion and recreation; well-preserved 19th century architecture | ||||
| Christeen |
Oyster Bay |
Oldest oyster sloop in the U.S. | ||||
| Frederick E. Olana SHS |
Hudson |
Calvert Vaux-designed home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church; also known as Olana | ||||
| Clermont Clermont SHS |
Clermont |
Ancestral home of the Livingston family, prominent in colonial and early New York; known also as Clermont Manor | ||||
| Cobblestone Historic District |
Gaines |
Three buildings: a First Universalist Church, the Ward House, and a District 5 Schoolhouse; distinctive for having been built from round rocks, known as cobblestones | ||||
| Thomas Cole House Thomas Cole National Historic Site |
Catskill |
Home and studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting | ||||
| Roscoe Conkling House |
Utica |
Home of Roscoe Conkling, divisive U.S. senator in years after Civil War; leader of Stalwart faction of Republican Party; contributor to atmosphere that led to the assassination of James Garfield | ||||
| Croton Aqueduct Old Croton Aqueduct SHS |
Croton River to Manhattan | Large and complex water supply system for New York City; constructed between 1837 and 1842 | ||||
| Delaware and Hudson Canal | Kingston, NY |
Orange, NY |
Vital coal supply line for New York City in 19th century; shared with Pennsylvania | |||
| De Wint House |
Tappan |
Oldest building in Rockland County; outstanding example of Dutch colonial architecture; used by George Washington as headquarters during final negotiations for British withdrawal from New York City | ||||
| John William Draper House |
Hastings-on-Hudson |
Home and observatory of John William Draper, astrophotography pioneer and first person to have photographed the Moon with recognizable surface features | ||||
| Dutch Reformed Church |
Newburgh |
Church designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1835 in the Greek Revival style | ||||
| Dutch Reformed Church |
Sleepy Hollow |
Well-preserved Dutch Colonial church | ||||
| Eagle Island Camp |
Saranac Inn |
One of the original Adirondack Great Camps, on Upper Saranac Lake; used as a Girl Scout camp today | ||||
| George Eastman House |
Rochester |
The home of George Eastman, founder of Kodak, now an internationally known photography museum | ||||
| Edward M. |
Buffalo |
In use for 107 years; oldest active fireboat in the world | ||||
| Elephant Hotel |
Somers |
"Cradle of the American circus" when it was used as headquarters by Hachaliah Bailey in the 1830s; today serves as both a museum and Somers Town Hall | ||||
| Erie
Canal National Historic Landmark Schoharie Crossing SHS |
Glen |
Aqueduct for Erie
Canal over Schoharie
Creek |
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| Millard Fillmore House |
East Aurora |
Only surviving home of 13th U.S. President Millard Fillmore, besides the White House | ||||
| First Presbyterian Church |
Sag Harbor |
Egyptian Revival style church | ||||
| First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston | Kingston |
1850 "Old Dutch Church" is third home to congregation established in 1659. Nearby graves include George Clinton. One of the few Minard Lefever churches whose original steeple has survived. His only intact Renaissance Revival church, and his only known one in stone. | ||||
| Gen. |
Westernville | Upstate home of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence | ||||
| Fort Corchaug Archeological
Site |
Southold |
Site of a Native American fort | ||||
| Fort Crailo Crailo SHS |
Rensselaer |
Dutch colonial patroonship house; may be place where "Yankee Doodle" was written | ||||
| Fort Crown Point Crown Point SHS |
Crown Point |
Built
by British to secure Lake Champlain |
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| Fort Johnson |
Fort Johnson |
Home of Sir William Johnson, and later his son Sir John Johnson. | ||||
| Fort
Klock |
St. Johnsville | Mid-18th century fortified stone homestead in the Mohawk River Valley | ||||
| Fort Massapeag Archeological
Site |
Oyster Bay |
Archaeological site in Oyster Bay,
New York |
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| Fort Montgomery Fort Montgomery SHS |
Highlands |
Built by Continental Army in an attempt to control Hudson River; later taken and destroyed by British | ||||
| Fort Niagara Old Fort Niagara SHS |
Youngstown |
Originally built by British during French and Indian War; served as US post in War of 1812 until retaken by British; ceded back at war's end | ||||
| Fort Orange Archeological
Site |
Albany |
Archaeological site at first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland | ||||
| Fort St. Frédéric Crown Point SHS |
Crown Point |
Mostly destroyed by French forces in French
and Indian War; British used site for Fort Crown Point |
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| Fort Stanwix Fort Stanwix National Monument |
Rome |
Modern reconstruction of colonial fort on original site | ||||
| Fort Ticonderoga |
Ticonderoga |
Site of important battles in both French and Indian War and American Revolution | ||||
| General
Electric Research Laboratory |
Schenectady |
First industrial research facility in the U.S. | ||||
| Geneseo Historic District |
Geneseo |
Well-preserved 19th century upstate village | ||||
| Jay Gould Estate |
Tarrytown |
Alexander Jackson Davis-designed Gothic Revival mansion named Lyndhurst; became home to rail baron Jay Gould | ||||
| W. |
Troy |
Classical Revival structure; built in 1862; housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments | ||||
| James Hall Office |
Albany |
Office of paleontologist James Hall, a leader in research on the geology of North America during the 19th century; designed by Vaux and Olmsted | ||||
| Harmony Mills |
Cohoes |
Largest cotton mill complex in the world when it opened in 1872; one of the finest examples of a large-scale textile mill complex outside of New England | ||||
| E.H. |
Harriman |
Estate of railroad magnate Edward Harriman; also known as Arden | ||||
| John Hartford House |
Valhalla |
Home of John Hartford, whose family built A & P into the first nationwide retail chain | ||||
| Jean Hasbrouck House |
New Paltz |
Early eighteenth century example of
Hudson Valley Dutch |
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| Lemuel Haynes House |
South Granville |
Last home of Lemuel Haynes, first African-American preacher ordained in America. | ||||
| Historic Track |
Goshen |
Oldest continuously operated horse racing facility in U.S. | ||||
| Holland Land Office |
Batavia |
Main office of Holland Land Company, early owners of Western New York. | ||||
| Franklin Hough House |
Lowville |
Home of Franklin Hough, considered the father of American forestry | ||||
| Hudson River Historic District | East
bank of river between Staatsburg |
and | View of Catskills across river from here inspired Hudson River School artists; small towns with much land use and architecture preserved from past eras | |||
| Hudson River State Hospital |
Poughkeepsie |
Frederick Clarke Withers-designed first institutional building in the U.S. in High Victorian Gothic style. Grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux | ||||
| Huguenot
Street Historic District |
New Paltz |
One
of the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhoods in the current
United States of America (Taos Pueblo |
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| Hurley Historic District |
Hurley |
Ten stone Dutch Colonial houses; served as the capitol of NY for two months during the American Revolution | ||||
| Hyde
Hall Hyde Hall SHS |
Glimmerglass State Park |
One of the finest American houses that combines the architectural traditions of England and America; one of the few surviving works of Philip Hooker. | ||||
| John Jay Homestead John Jay Homestead SHS |
Katonah |
Home of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States | ||||
| Johnson Hall Johnson Hall SHS |
Johnstown |
Later home of Sir William Johnson; Johnson Hall was seized by the rebel government during the American Revolution and was subsequently acquired by Silas Talbot. | ||||
| Kleinhans Music Hall |
Buffalo |
Home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen. | ||||
| Knox
Headquarters Knox's Headquarters SHS |
Vails Gate |
Headquarters of Gen. Henry Knox during the American Revolution | ||||
| Lake Mohonk Mountain House |
New Paltz |
Distinctive resort on Shawangunk Ridge; site of 1895-1916
conference
that led to establishment of Permanent Court of
Arbitration at The
Hague |
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| Lamoka Site |
Tyrone |
First archeological evidence of an Archaic (c. 3,500 B.C.E.) hunter-gatherer culture in the U.S. | ||||
| Land Tortoise |
Bottom of Lake George |
Only known example of a radeau (simple flat-bottomed ship with cannon), sunk under 100 feet (30 m) of water during French and Indian War | ||||
| Irving Langmuir House |
Schenectady |
Home of physicist-chemist Irving Langmuir, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize during his research career with General Electric | ||||
| Lindenwald Martin Van Buren National Historic Site |
Kinderhook |
Home of U.S. President Martin Van Buren; designed in part by Richard Upjohn | ||||
| Macedonia Baptist Church |
Buffalo |
African-American church built in 1845 and used as a "station" on the Underground Railroad. | ||||
| Manitoga |
Garrison |
House and studio of industrial designer Russel Wright. Designed by Wright and his wife to be sustainable and blend in with surrounding environment | ||||
| Darwin D. David Martin House SHS |
Buffalo |
Considered the most important building of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's early career. | ||||
| Lewis Miller Cottage, Chautauqua
Institution |
Chautauqua |
Home
of Lewis Miller,
founder of Chautauqua Institution |
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| Modesty |
West Sayville |
Example of a Long Island oyster dredging sloop, and only extant one that operated purely on sail power | ||||
| Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District | Danube |
Historic district including the Indian Castle Church as well as archaeological site areas | ||||
| Montgomery Place |
Annandale |
Federal-style house, with expansion designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis | ||||
| Thomas Moran House |
East Hampton |
Home of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran who helped inspire the creation of the National Park system | ||||
| Morrill
Hall |
Ithaca |
First building of Cornell
University |
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| Samuel F. Locust Grove |
Poughkeepsie |
Home of telegraph inventor Samuel F. B. Morse in his later years; preserved by subsequent owners | ||||
| William Sidney Mount House |
Stony Brook |
Home and studio of painter William Sidney Mount | ||||
| Mount Lebanon Shaker
Society |
New Lebanon |
Main Shaker community established in U.S. | ||||
| Kate Mullany House |
Troy |
Home of Kate Mullany, early female labor organizer andfounder of Collar Laundry Union | ||||
| Nantucket |
Oyster Bay |
Largest lightship ever built | ||||
| Nash |
Oswego |
Last surviving U.S. Army vessel that participated in World War II's D-Day Normandy
landing |
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| New York State Capitol |
Albany |
Built in two different architectural styles; one of ten U.S. state capitol buildings without a dome | ||||
| New York State Inebriate
Asylum |
Binghamton |
First hospital built to treat alcoholism and view it as a medical problem rather than a character flaw | ||||
| Newtown Battlefield Newtown Battlefield State Park |
Elmira |
Site of only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, a decisive victory by General John Sullivan over of Loyalist-Indian forces led by Joseph Brant, in August 1779 | ||||
| Niagara Reservation |
Niagara Falls |
Oldest U.S. state park (1885); built around
U.S. side of Niagara
Falls |
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| Nott Memorial Hall |
Schenectady |
Sixteen-sided building on Union
College |
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| Old Blenheim Bridge |
North Blenheim |
Longest single span covered bridge in Eastern
United States |
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| Old Main, Vassar College |
Poughkeepsie |
Second Empire building was the second building of one of America's first women's colleges | ||||
| Old House |
Cutchogue |
Built in 1649; asserted to be "one of the finest surviving examples of English domestic architecture in America" | ||||
| Oneida Community Mansion
House |
Oneida |
Built in 1848 for the Oneida Community | ||||
| Oriskany Battlefield Oriskany Battlefield SHS |
Oriskany |
Local militias held off pro-British Indians
and Loyalists in Battle of Oriskany |
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| Owl's Nest |
Lake George |
Home of author Edward Eggleston, one of America's first realist novelists | ||||
| Thomas Paine Cottage |
New Rochelle |
Home and gravesite of Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense | ||||
| Palisades Interstate Park | Hudson River shoreline; shared with New Jersey | Rockland, NY |
Joint effort by two states to preserve
scenic beauty of west Hudson Palisades |
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| Petrified Sea Gardens |
Saratoga Springs |
First stromatolites in North America discovered here; fossils of marine algae were fully described by pioneering female paleontologist Winifred Goldring | ||||
| Philipsburg Manor |
Sleepy Hollow |
Historic house, water mill, and trading site; at one time, one of the largest slave holdings in the colonial North | ||||
| Philpse Manor Hall Philpse Manor Hall SHS |
Yonkers |
Historic house museum; Westchester County's oldest standing building | ||||
| Plattsburgh Bay |
Lake Champlain |
Site
of Battle
of Plattsburgh |
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| Playland Amusement Park |
Rye |
The only publicly-owned amusement park in the U.S.; rides and attractions were designed in the Art Deco style | ||||
| Jackson Pollock House and
Studio |
East Hampton |
Home and studio of painter Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner beginning in 1945 | ||||
| Priscilla |
West Sayville |
Example of a classic Long Island oyster dredging sloop | ||||
| Prudential Building |
Buffalo |
Early skyscraper design; collaboration between Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler | ||||
| John
D. |
Pocantico Hills |
Estate of the oil tycoons, the Rockefeller family; also known as Kykuit | ||||
| Elihu Root House |
Clinton |
Home of Elihu Root, U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and recipient of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize | ||||
| Rose Hill Mansion | Fayette |
Large-scale Greek Revival house | ||||
| Roycroft Campus |
East Aurora |
Elbert Hubbard-founded home of a key community in the Arts and crafts movement | ||||
| Rudolph Oyster House |
West Sayville |
Early 20th century seafood processing plant | ||||
| Sagamore Camp |
Raquette Lake |
Designed by William West Durant; one of the most sophisticated and evolved examples of the Adirondack Great Camps | ||||
| St. Paul's Cathedral |
Buffalo |
Gothic Revival church designed by Richard Upjohn | ||||
| St. Peter's Episcopal
Church |
Albany |
Gothic church by architect Richard Upjohn | ||||
| Santanoni Preserve |
Newcomb |
One of the earliest Adirondack Great Camps; a major influence on later ones | ||||
| Saratoga Spa State Park |
Saratoga Springs |
Site of only active geysers in Eastern U.S.; popular resort for wealthy in early 20th century | ||||
| Philip Schuyler Mansion Schuyler Mansion SHS |
Albany |
Home of Philip Schuyler, general in the Continental Army and early U.S. Senator | ||||
| Schuyler Flatts Archaeological District | Albany |
Archeological district with artifacts from 6,000 years of human habitation | ||||
| William Seward House |
Auburn |
Home of William Henry Seward, statesman whose long career was capped by the purchase of Alaska as Secretary of State, for most of his life | ||||
| Slabsides |
West Park |
Log cabin built by John Burroughs and son as nature retreat | ||||
| Gerrit Smith Estate |
Peterboro |
Home of Gerrit Smith, 19th century social reformer and presidential candidate | ||||
| John Philip Sousa House |
Port Washington |
Home of legendary bandleader and composer John Philip Sousa | ||||
| Springside |
Poughkeepsie |
Only surviving landscape designed by Andrew Jackson Downing; also known as Matthew Vassar Estate | ||||
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton House | Seneca Falls |
Home of 19th century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||||
| Steepletop |
Austerlitz |
Home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay | ||||
| Stony Point Battlefield Stony Point Battlefield SHS |
Stony Point |
Site of Anthony Wayne's victory over the British in the Battle of Stony Point | ||||
| Sunnyside |
Tarrytown |
Estate of writer Washington Irving, best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" | ||||
| USS The Sullivans |
Buffalo |
Excellent example of a Fletcher class destroyer; saw
service in World War II and Korea; now in the Buffalo and Erie County Naval &
Military Park |
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| Top Cottage |
Hyde Park |
Fieldstone cottage built as retreat for Franklin D. Roosevelt, with his input; one of the first American buildings designed to be fully wheelchair accessible | ||||
| Troy Savings Bank |
Troy |
Designed by George B. Post to accommodate both a functioning bank on the first floor and an auditorium | ||||
| Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged,
Harriet Tubman Residence, Thompson A.M.E. |
Auburn |
Properties associated with Harriet Tubman, a conductor on the Underground Railroad | ||||
| United States Military
Academy |
Highlands |
Commonly known as West Point; oldest continuously occupied military post in the nation and alma mater of many U.S. Army leaders | ||||
| Utica State Hospital | Utica |
First hospital for the "insane poor"; archetypal Greek Revival building | ||||
| Valcour Bay | Lake Champlain |
Site
of Battle
of Valcour Island |
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| Van Alen House |
Kinderhook |
Exemplary Dutch colonial farmhouse, built in 1737 and preserved largely intact | ||||
| Van Cortlandt Manor |
Croton-On-Hudson |
Colonial manor house from early 18th century | ||||
| Vassar College Observatory |
Poughkeepsie |
Workplace and home of Maria Mitchell, important 19th century astronomer and pioneering woman in the science | ||||
| Villa Lewaro |
Irvington |
Home of Madam C.J. Walker, first known African-American millionaire | ||||
| Washington's Headquarters Washington's Headquarters SHS |
Newburgh |
Headquarters of Washington during the final years of the Revolutionary War; Dutch stone house; oldest building in Newburgh; first-ever property designated as a historic site by a U.S. state | ||||
| Watervliet Arsenal |
Watervliet |
Oldest arsenal in U.S. | ||||
| Elkanah Watson House |
Port Kent |
Home of Elkanah Watson, Revolutionary-era diplomat, founder of the county fair and early promoter of canals | ||||
| Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial
Hall |
Auburn |
Last remaining Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass installation in its original form | ||||
| Jethro Wood House |
Poplar Ridge |
Home of Jethro Wood, inventor of the first commercially successful cast-iron plow, patented in 1814 | ||||
| Woodchuck Lodge John Burroughs Memorial SHS |
Roxbury |
Summer retreat of naturalist John Burroughs, near his boyhood home, and gravesite |
| Landmark name |
Image | Date established | Location | County | Description | |
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| Castle Clinton National
Monument |
New York |
New York |
Circular sandstone fort
in Battery
Park |
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| 2 | Statue
of Liberty National Monument |
Liberty Island |
New York |
Monument presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886 | ||
| Saratoga
National Historical Park |
Stillwater, Schuylerville |
Saratoga |
Site
of the 1777 Battle
of Saratoga |
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| 4 | Women's Rights National Historical
Park |
Seneca Falls |
Seneca |
Established in 1980 in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic
Site |
Hyde Park |
Dutchess |
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 Eleanor's home after Franklin's death | |||
| 6 | Home of Franklin D. |
Hyde Park |
Dutchess |
Birthplace, life-long home, and burial place of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ||
| 7 | Sagamore
Hill National Historic Site |
Cove Neck |
Nassau |
Home of the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt from 1886 until his death in 1919 | ||
| 8 | Saint Paul's Church National Historic
Site |
Mount Vernon |
Westchester |
Colonial church used as a military hospital during the American Revolutionary War | ||
| 9 | Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National
Historic Site |
New York |
New York |
Theodore Roosevelt born on this site on October 27, 1858 | ||
| 10 | Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National
Historic Site |
Buffalo |
Erie |
Site of Theodore Roosevelt's oath of office as President of the United States on September 14, 1901 | ||
| 11 | Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic
Site |
Hyde Park |
Dutchess |
Includes pleasure grounds with views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, formal gardens, natural woodlands, and numerous support structures as well as a 54 room mansion; completed in 1898; perfect example of the Beaux-Arts architecture style | ||
| Federal Hall National
Memorial |
New York |
New York |
First capitol of the United
States of America |
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| 13 | General Grant National
Memorial |
New York |
New York |
Mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902) | ||
| Landmark name |
Image | Date of designation | Location | County | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edwin H. Armstrong House | Yonkers |
Westchester |
Home of scientist and FM radio inventor Edwin H. Armstrong; demolished in 1983 and subsequently de-designated | ||
| USS Edson | Manhattan |
New York |
One of two surviving Forrest Sherman-class destroyers; saw action from World War II to Vietnam; In NYC from 1989-2004; now in Philadelphia; soon to be moved to Wisconsin | |||
| Fir | Staten Island |
Richmond |
Lighthouse tender that served on west coast; last working vessel in the fleet of the United States Lighthouse Service, ancestors of today's Coast Guard buoy tenders; at NHL designation it was intended to become a museum ship in New York, but it is unclear if the ship ever visited; recently sold in California |
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