National Register of Historic Places

Affairs Olin E. Teague and Governor John A. Burns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. While the wreck of USS Arizona was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989, the memorial does not share this status. Rather, it is listed separately from the wreck on the National Register of Historic Places. The joint administration of the memorial by the United States Navy and the National Park Service was established on September 9, 1980. Oil leaking from the…

19, 2015 I joined the class on the trip to Puvungna, which is also known as the “Gathering Place” for Native Americans. I have known that Puvungna was located on campus but I have never gone to look around. The site is located right along Earl Warren Drive on campus and behind the Japanese Garden which was populated by the Tongva tribe. In 1974 Puvungna was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This museum is very different to a museum that we all know of. The artifacts that are on…

west bank of the Mississippi River. Officially it is the Fifth Municipal District and Fifteenth ward of the Orleans Parish. Algiers Point resides within Algiers, the only part of New Orleans located on the West Bank. According to the National Register Historic Places, Algiers Point is the second oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, the first being the French Quarter (Bronston 171). Algiers Point is boarder by the curve of the Mississippi River on the north and west, by Atlantic Avenue on the…

Wallace Dickinson (2004, Jan 8). The tower was built by an architect named Frederick Law Olmstead. The tower is built upon Iron Mountain, one of the highest points of peninsular Florida, estimated to be 295 ft (90m) above sea level. National Register of Historic Places (2007, 22 09). The Bok Tower is a grand structure of remarkable songs and extravagant art. The music is made of a 60 carillon. The largest of the bells weighs more than 11 lbs. It plays every hour on the hour, it plays a sensual…

If anyone takes a minute or two to glance at the architecture around town, it might become apparent that some of the buildings are influenced by earlier time periods. Frierson House in Jonesboro, Arkansas is a historic townhouse modeled after the Parthenon which was built in the Classical Greek period. It is specifically located on 1112 South Main Street. Its construction date is uncertain, but is placed between 1870 and 1910 based on architectural evidence. It is a two story wood house. The…

use cemetery space as multi-functional space for leisure, recreation, environmental preservation, and for healthy burial practices (Lundgren). "In a country sorely lacking in public green spaces, these cemeteries provided these graceful, elegant places…They were all around recreational and artistic centers for people. They became seen as major urban amenities” (Williams). The Rural Cemetery Movement greatly expanded green urban space during the mid-1800’s and was instrumental in the…

“The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.”- Frank Lloyd Wright. An architect is a person who is trained and experienced in the design of buildings and in the coordination and supervision of all aspects of the construction of buildings. Architects are artists whose art are sometimes overlooked, but will be viewed until the end of time. Their creations are ageless and helps define the history…

economic prowess within the city of Austin. As of today, the 126 year-old neighborhood, which has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1990, is still quite alive, however, it exhibits a much quieter presence than ever before. In recent decades residents have fought battles against the city and organizations that attempted erase what remains of the historic character of the neighborhood; and four years ago the city council…

So I need to wait until the Marathon finished. The Marathon gave me a surprise. I knew there is Marathon going on every year, but I didn’t know is one of the most famous marathons in the world. The course has produced four world records, several national records, and countless personal bests. It started and ended at the Grant Park, also pass through 29 neighborhoods in the city of Chicago.…

first is the governments need to preserve national security. Consider this example, the U.S. military could not locate an un-detonated nuclear warhead, and thus abandoned the search. A private party then locates this warhead and puts it on the open market for sale. The U.S. government would consider this a case of national, and maybe world, security. Just the same, mislaid, lost, or otherwise abandoned material, though not necessarily directly a case of national security could be material that…