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...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
...that the Taylor-Corwin House was one of the earliest houses built around 1840 in what is today Pine Bush, New York?
...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?

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...that Ka Lae (pictured) on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States?
...that, according to Eastman Kodak, the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?
...that Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island was used as a staging area by the Union Army during the American Civil War, and that more than 230 Union troops were buried there?
...that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
...that the Snake River Bridge, in the U.S. state of Washington, was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?

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...that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (pictured) in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
...that when the Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
...that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?

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...that when builders told Lou Henry Hoover, who designed her own house (pictured), that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she replied, "Well, it's time someone did"?
...that the F-111 fighter, the B-1 bomber, the Space Shuttle, and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel?
...that the Benicia Arsenal, in Benicia, California, was once home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?

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...that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park is the first national tribute to home front American women?
...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
...that Battery Chamberlin contains one of the last disappearing guns on the West Coast of the United States?
...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California—a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
...that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?

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...that the Old Sycamore Hospital (pictured), founded in 1899, was designed and funded by the first female doctor in Sycamore, Illinois?
...that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois?
...that the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo?
...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
...that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?

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...that the Egyptian Theater (pictured) in DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by ghosts?
...that two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House, home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
...that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
...that the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?
...that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in the same year?

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...that the Shell Service Station (pictured) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
...that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?
...that tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California, to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction? (29 January 2008)
...that there are over 2,300 local historic districts in the United States?

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...that the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans?
...that outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul?
...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
... that the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, built in 1891 by railroad magnate James J. Hill, has 36,000 square feet (3,300 m²) of living area and is the largest residence in Minnesota?
...that the prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?

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...that the Lumber Exchange Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City with 12 or more floors?
...that the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
...that despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?
...that the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
...that the Thomas Wilson (pictured), a whaleback freighter, was the last such freighter built without hatch coamings?

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...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that Croton Dam, on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that the Weinhard Brewery managed to survive Prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?

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...that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?
...that the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois?
...that Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold running water, gas lighting and a servant’s call system?
...Benjamin Stephenson's indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois?
...that Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse's home near Poughkeepsie, was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark?

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...that Florida State Hospital (pictured) at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's first penitentiary?
...that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
...that the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois?
...that the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream to the world?
...that the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

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...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library (pictured) remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
...that in Orangeville, Illinois, four of the five Registered Historic Places: Union House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
...that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed by a young African American architect for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
...that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?

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...that the Joseph Priestley House (pictured) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania was the site of the first and only laboratory Priestley designed, built and outfitted himself, as well as several American Chemical Society celebrations?
...that the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove, New York was a Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy?
...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?
...that Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that the Cogan House Covered Bridge in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit?

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...that the Hyde Park Railroad Station (pictured) in Hyde Park, New York was a day away from demolition when it was leased to a local rail historical society?
...that Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
...that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally oversaw the design of the post office in Poughkeepsie, New York?
...that though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?
...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?

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...that Madeleine L'Engle ran writers' workshops and retreats every January at Holy Cross Monastery (pictured) in West Park, New York?
...that the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?
...that the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States?
...that the Solomon Courthouse has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?
...that the T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington?

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...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
...that the East End Historic District in Newburgh, New York, has the most contributing properties of any Registered Historic District in the state?
...that the kitchen of the Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first courthouse and jail of Mobile, Alabama?
...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
...that the Society for Savings Building, a high-rise building in Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio?

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...that the largest private home in the U.S. in 1790, Hampton Mansion (pictured), was occupied by the same family until 1948 and is the first national historic site selected by the U.S. National Park Service for architectural significance?
...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
...that the Poughkeepsie YMCA building is the only one in the city using glazed terra cotta?
...that the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture?
...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?

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...that according to legend, George Washington personally stopped an angry mob from burning St. Philip's Church in the Highlands (pictured)?
...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
...that the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?

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...that Louisville's Union Station (pictured) was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States?
...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
...that Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park?
...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?

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...that Grey Towers (pictured) is the only U.S. National Historic Site managed by the U.S. Forest Service, since it was the home of its first director, Gifford Pinchot?
...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
...that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn in Chester, New York?
...that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?
...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?

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...that the Cray House (pictured) is a rare surviving example of post-and-plank style, once common across the Eastern Shore of Maryland?
...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
...that the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
...that Nihon Go Gakko, a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington, later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II, being sent to internment camps?
...that despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?

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...that the Marshall Field and Company Building (pictured) has three separate atria?
... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
...that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
...that after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?

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...that Meeker's Hardware (pictured), a hardware store in Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sold Coca-Colas for five cents until 2005?
...that a 1970 bomb caused US$170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon, but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
...that Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
...that the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee?
...that Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

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...that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that the Somers Hamlet Historic District in Westchester County, New York includes the Elephant Hotel considered the birthplace of the American circus?
...that the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
...that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
...that the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?

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...that the historical landmark U-Drop Inn (pictured), located on Route 66 in Shamrock, Texas, was the inspiration for the fictional Ramone's body shop in the 2006 Disney and Pixar film Cars?
...that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana?
...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
...that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?

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...that the O. H. Booth Hose Company (pictured) in Poughkeepsie was named after the fire chief who formed it after a previous company of volunteer firefighters quit because they were jealous of other companies' facilities?
...that Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the Burlington Headquarters Building in Omaha to make it resemble the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in Chicago?
...that exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on Maui include a 33-foot fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes (pictured)?
...that the Decker Building, an 1892 Moorish-influenced design, is where Andy Warhol had his Factory from 1967 to 1973, and was shot in 1968?
...that Comfort Stations No. 68 and No. 72 in the Rim Village Historic District of Oregon, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1988, are public restrooms built in the 1930s?

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...that the Hasbrouck House (pictured) is an unusually large Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of Poughkeepsie?
...that Poughkeepsie's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
...that Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
...that Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie?
...that the former Lady Washington Hose Company firehouse in Poughkeepsie incorporates both Japanese and Gothic Revival elements in its design?

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...that the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (pictured) was renovated in different styles to depict the evolution of the oldest house in Newport, Rhode Island?
...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?
... that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles?
...that the Main Building of Peace College was first used as a Confederate military hospital and regional headquarters for the Freedmen's Bureau?
...that the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?

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...that McDonald's signs (pictured) once had only one golden arch?
...that the Philadelphia Lazaretto is the oldest surviving quarantine hospital in the United States?
... that the Rhode Island state legislature met regularly at the Old Colony House (pictured) in Newport until 1900?
...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
...that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome (pictured), is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?

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...that the Capitol Center (pictured) has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon, since its completion in 1926?
... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
... that the Art Deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
... that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?

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.. that the Old Stone House (pictured) is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C.?
... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
... that the Galena Historic District in Illinois, United States, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
... that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
... that the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?

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... that McCarty Church (pictured) in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
... that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
... that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County?

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... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
... that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?

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... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument (pictured) were former Union officers?
... that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish–American War?
... that the Gottlieb Storz House in Omaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial to Adele and Fred Astaire in their home city?
... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument?

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... that the Pickle Barrel House (pictured), a cabin built of two large barrels, is based on comic strip characters that were two inches (5 cm) tall and lived in a pickle barrel?
... that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
... that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoor well pump, but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway?
... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?

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... that Fire Station No. 19 (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball?
... that the Confederate Monument in Danville, Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
... that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
... that the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. is located inside a National Historic Landmark building that was patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter?
... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?

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... that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement?
... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
... that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas?

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... that the Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
... that the Portland Armory in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House, located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?

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... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York Post Office, features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
... that the Pasco–Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?

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...that the distinctive pagodas created for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee (pictured) are among the earliest examples of architecture used to forge a brand identity?
... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?
...that the John Coltrane Home is where the saxophonist composed many of his later works including the masterwork, A Love Supreme?
... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?

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... that the Thomas T. Gaff House (pictured) is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States?
... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his millin Florida, New York?
... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
... that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan building in Washington, D.C. died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic?

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... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans (pictured) was a public drinking fountain?
... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?

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... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House (pictured) in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
... that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions?
... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?

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... that the El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
... that Virginia City, Nevada was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns?
... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
... that the historic district in Warwick, New York reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?

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... that the real-life Hollywood Tower (pictured) is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown?
... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York?
... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
... that the Millersburg Ferry in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle boat operating in the United States?

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... that the historic Rosecroft mansion in San Diego, California played host at various times to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, and Dr. Seuss?

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