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74 National Historic Landmarks
Landmark name Year of designation Locality Quadrant Description
Abbe, Cleveland, House
(also listed as Kate Choin House)
1975 Washington NW [1]
Administration Building, Carnegie Institution of Washington 1965 Washington NW [2]
American Federation of Labor Building 1974 Washington NW [3]
American Peace Society 1974 Washington NW [1] [4]
Anderson House 1996 Washington NW [5]
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, Founders Library, Howard University 2001 Washington NW [6]
Army Medical Museum and Library 1965 Washington NW??? [7]
Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution 1971 Washington SW [1] [8]
Ashburton House 1973 Washington NW [1] [9]
Baker, Newton D., House 1976 Washington NW [1] [10]
Blair House 1973 Washington NW [1] [11]
Borah, William E., Apartment, Windsor Lodge 1976 Washington NW [1] [12]
Bruce, Blanche K., House 1975 Washington NW [1] [13]
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1974 Washington NW [1] [14]
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, House 1976 Washington NW [1] [15]
City Hall/D.C. Courthouse 1960 Washington NW [16]
Constitution Hall 1985 Washington NW [1] [17]
Corcoran Gallery and School of Art 1992 Washington NW [18]
Coues, Elliott, House 1975 Washington NW [1] [19]
Decatur House 1960 Washington NW [20]
Franklin School 1996 Washington NW [1] [21]
Gallaudet College Historic District 1965 Washington NE [22]
General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters 1991 Washington NW [1] [23]
General Post Office (Washington, D.C.) 1971 Washington NW [1] This post office is a fine example of restrained Neoclassical design. Built in phases between 1839 and 1866, the building features beautiful scaling and fine details.
Georgetown Historic District 1967 Washington NW [citation needed] [24]
Gompers, Samuel, House 1974 Washington NW [1] Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924. Gompers helped found the AFL, and vigorously pursued its three goals of higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions for American workers. He lived in this three-story brick rowhouse from 1902 to 1917.
Grimke, Charlotte Forten, House 1976 Washington NW [1] [25]
Healy Hall, Georgetown University 1987 Washington NW [citation needed] This large-scale High Victorian Gothic structure is the most prominent building on the Georgetown University campus and a picturesque landmark for all Georgetown. Built from 1877 through 1879, its construction marked the evolution of the school toward true university status. It was designed by the architects Smithmeyer and Pelz, who also designed the Library of Congress.
Howard, General Oliver Otis, House 1974 Washington NW [26]
Hughes, Charles Evans, House 1972 Washington NW Charles Evans Hughes was a leader in the progressive movement, and 1916 presidential candidate. He held office as Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as well as multiple executive positions under several Presidents. He lived in this house from 1930 until his death in 1948.
Johnson, Hiram W., House 1976 Washington NE [27]
Lafayette Building 2005 Washington NW [28]
Lafayette Square Historic District 1970 Washington NW [citation needed] [29]
Library of Congress 1965 Washington SE [30]
Mellon, Andrew, Building 1976 Washington NW [31]
Memorial Continental Hall 1972 Washington NW [32]
Meridian Hill Park 1994 Washington NW [33]
National Training School for Women and Girls 1991 Washington NE [1] [34]
National War College 1972 Washington SW [citation needed] [35]
Octagon House 1960 Washington NW [36]
Old Naval Observatory 1965 Washington NW [37]
Old Patent Office 1964 Washington NW [38]
Pension Building 1985 Washington NW [39]
Perkins, Frances, House 1991 Washington NW [1] [40]
Philadelphia (gundelo) 1961 Washington NW [1] [41]
Red Cross (American National) Headquarters 1965 Washington NW [42]
Renwick Gallery 1971 Washington NW [43]
Richards, Zalmon, House 1965 Washington NW [1] [44]
St. Elizabeth's Hospital 1990 Washington SE [1] [45]
St. John's Church 1960 Washington NW [46]
St. Luke's Episcopal Church 1976 Washington NW [47]
Sequoia (presidential yacht) 1987 Washington SE [48]
Sewall-Belmont House 1974 Washington NE [49]
Smithsonian Institution Building 1965 Washington SW [50]
Sousa, John Phillip, Junior High School 2001 Washington SE [1] [51]
State, War, and Navy Building 1971 Washington NW [52]
Supreme Court Building 1987 Washington NE [53]
Terrell, Mary Church, House 1975 Washington NW [1] [54]
Tudor Place 1960 Washington NW [55]
Twelfth Street YMCA Building 1994 Washington NW [1] [56]
Underwood, Oscar W., House 1976 Washington NW [57]
United Mine Workers of America Building 2005 Washington NW [1] [58]
United States Capitol 1960 Washington NW, NE, SE, SW [citation needed] [59]
United States Department of the Treasury 1971 Washington NW [60]
United States Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant's House 1976 Washington SE [1] [61]
United States Soldier's Home 1973 Washington NW [1] [62]
Volta Bureau 1972 Washington NW The Volta Bureau was founded in 1887 by Alexander Graham Bell "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the Deaf". It merged with the American Association for the Promotion and Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1908, and operates today as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Washington Aqueduct 1973 Washington NW [1]
(and Montgomery County, Maryland)
[63]
Washington Navy Yard 1976 Washington SE [64]
White House 1960 Washington NW [65]
White, David, House 1976 Washington NW [1] Geologist David White of the United States Geological Survey lived in this house from 1910 to 1925. His researches into the distribution of petroleum resources became essential to the oil industry.
Wilson, Woodrow, House 1964 Washington NW [66]
Woodson, Carter G., House 1976 Washington NW [1] [67]
Woodward, Robert Simpson, House 1976 Washington NW [1] From 1904 to 1914, this was the home of Robert Simpson Woodward, the first President of the Carnegie Institution during the same period. Woodward had made his name as a leading geologist and mathematician.
33 National Historic Landmarks
Landmark name Year of designation Locality Island Description
Arizona, USS (shipwreck) 1989 Pearl Harbor Oʻahu
Bowfin, USS (shipwreck) 1986 Pearl Harbor Oʻahu
CINCPAC Headquarters 1987 Pearl Harbor Oʻahu
Cook Landing Site 1962 Waimea Kauaʻi Captain James Cook landed here at the mouth of the Waimea River on January 20, 1778. Cook is the first European known to have sighted the Hawaiʻian Islands, and the January 20 landfall in southwestern Kauaʻi was his first arrival upon Hawaiʻian soil.
Falls of Clyde (four-masted oil tanker) 1989 Honolulu Oʻahu
Hickam Field 1985 Honolulu Oʻahu
Hokukano-Ualapue Complex 1962 Ualapue Molokaʻi
Honokohau Settlement 1962 na Hawaiʻi
Huilua Fishpond 1962 Kāneʻohe Oʻahu
Iolani Palace 1962 Honolulu Oʻahu
Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement 1976 Kalaupapa Molokaʻi Hansen's disease was epidemic in Hawaiʻi between 1866 and the 1940s. In response to this major public health

Kalaupapa was founded in 1866 as a colony for the isolation of Hawaiians afflicted with Hansen's Disease. During that time wooden residences, churches and auxiliary buildings were constructed to accommodate the increasing numbers of sufferers. Various religious groups provided aid, including most notably the Belgian priest Father Joseph Damien, who eventually succumbed to the disease himself.

Kamakahonu 1962 Kailua-Kona Hawaiʻi
Kaneohe Naval Air Station 1987 Kailua Oʻahu
Kaunolu Village Site 1962 na Lānaʻi
Kawaiahao Church and Mission Houses 1962 Honolulu Oʻahu
Keauhou Holua Slide 1962 Keauhou Hawaiʻi
Lahaina Historic District 1962 Lāhainā Maui
Loaloa Heiau 1962 Kaupo Maui This is one of the few remaining intact examples of a large luakini heiau (state level temple where human sacrifice was performed). Once the center of an important cultural complex around Kaupo, oral tradition attributes the construction of the temple at about 1730 AD to Kekaulike, King of Maui, who lived at Kaupo and died in 1736.
Mauna Kea Adz Quarry 1962 na Hawaiʻi This quarry was used by prehistoric Hawaiʻians to obtain basalt for stone tools. Located at an elevation of 12,000' (3,657 m), this is the largest primitive quarry in the world. The archaeological complex also includes religious shrines, trails, rockshelters, and petroglyphs.
Mookini Heiau 1962 Hāwī Hawaiʻi
Old Sugar Mill of Koloa 1962 Kōloa Kauaʻi
Opana Radar Site 1994 Kawela Oʻahu
Palm Circle 1987 Honolulu Oʻahu
Piilanihale Heiau 1964 Hāna Maui
Puu O Mahuka Heiau 1962 Haleʻiwa Oʻahu
Puukohola Heiau 1962 Kawaihae Hawaiʻi
Russian Fort 1962 Waimea Kauaʻi
South Point Complex 1962 Nāʻālehu Hawaiʻi
United States Naval Base, Pearl Harbor 1964 Pearl Harbor Oʻahu
Utah, USS (shipwreck) 1989 Pearl Harbor Oʻahu
Wailua Complex of Heiaus 1962 Wailuā Kauaʻi
Washington Place 2007 Honolulu Oʻahu
Wheeler Field 1987 Honolulu Oʻahu
15 National Historic Landmarks
In addition: 1 withdrawn designation, 1 site listed primarily under another state
Landmark name Year of designation Locality County Description
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.
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