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Appearance
- 74 National Historic Landmarks
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M Street in the Georgetown Historic District.
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The Great Hall at the Library of Congress.
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The Supreme Court Building at dusk.
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Early lithograph of the Washington Aqueduct, ca. 1865.
- 33 National Historic Landmarks
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The wreck of the USS Arizona and its memorial.
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Father Damien's church at the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement.
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The ruins at Puʻu o Mahuka Heiau.
- 15 National Historic Landmarks
- In addition: 1 withdrawn designation, 1 site listed primarily under another state
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The Bonneville Dam and the Columbia River Highway.
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The lightship Columbia.
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The Oregon Caves Chateau.
Landmark name | Year of designation | Locality | County | Description |
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Bonneville Dam Historic District | 1987 | na | Multnomah (and Skamania County, Washington) |
Built in the 1930s to harness the Columbia River for power generation, this was the first hydroelectric dam with a hydraulic drop sufficient to produce 500,000 kW of hydropower. The NHL district covers the dam and other elements of the federal dam project, including the #1 powerhouse, navigation lock, fish ladder, and hatchery. |
Columbia River Highway | 2000 | na | Multnomah, Hood River, and Wasco | Constructed between 1913 and 1922, this was the first scenic highway in the United States. Designed specifically to provide visitors access to the most outstanding of the scenic features of the Columbia River Gorge, the highway is also an outstanding example of modern highway development for its pioneering advances in road engineering, and is the single most important contribution to the fields of civil engineering and landscape architecture by Samuel C. Lancaster. |
Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence | 1987 | Crater Lake National Park | Klamath | The Munson Valley development was originally one of the best-designed |
Deady and Villard Halls, University of Oregon | 1977 | Eugene | Lane | Completed in 1876 and 1886, respectively, Deady and Villard Halls are the first and second buildings of the University of Oregon. Deady Hall is simplified Italianate in design with mansarded main roof and towers; Villard Hall has Second Empire touches, and is one of the few surviving academic buildings of its era in the Western United States. |
Fort Astoria Site | 1961 | Astoria | Clatsop | John Jacob Astor attempted to break the British |
Fort Rock Cave | 1961 | Fort Rock | Lake | |
Jacksonville Historic District | 1966 | Jacksonville | Jackson | |
Kam Wah Chung Company Building | 2005 | John Day | Grant | |
Lightship WAL-604, "Columbia" | 1989 | Astoria | Clatsop | Retired in 1979 as the last lightship to be stationed at the Columbia River Bar - or anywhere on the Pacific coast of the United States - WAL-604 retains the best historic integrity of the last generation of U.S. Coast Guard lightships after 1939. WAL-604, built in 1950, and its relatives closely resembled earlier lightship types in external appearance, but were a distinct departure in their overall design. |
Oregon Caves Chateau | 1987 | Oregon Caves National Monument | Josephine | |
Pioneer Courthouse | 1977 | Portland | Multnomah | |
Skidmore/Old Town Historic District | 1977 | Portland | Multnomah | |
Sunken Village Archeological Site | 1989 | na | Multnomah | |
Timberline Lodge | 1977 | Government Camp | Clackamas | President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated this lodge at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,830 m) on the south slope of Mount Hood in 1937. It is considered the finest example of 1930s-era "mountain architecture" by the Works Progress Administration. |
Wallowa Lake Site | 1989 | Joseph | Wallowa | |
Elmore, Samuel, Cannery [2] | 1966, withdrawn 1993 |
Astoria | Clatsop | |
Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge | 1965 | na | Klamath | See main listing under California. |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae National Park Service. "National Register Information System". Retrieved 2007-06-19.
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