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Buildings, as defined by the National Register, are structures intended to shelter some sort of human activity. Examples include a house, barn, hotel, church or similar construction. The term building, as in outbuilding, can be used to refer to historically and functionally related units, such as a courthouse and a jail, or a barn and a house. [1]
A landmark is a recognizable [1] natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern-day use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or features that have become local or national symbols .
Beginning in the mid-1950s, controls that once applied only to buildings within historic districts were extended to individual landmark structures. [3] The United States Congress adopted legislation in 1950 that declared the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. a historic district and protected. [ 1 ]
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A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is generally a building, district, object, site, or structure, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its national historical significance. A National Historic Landmark District (NHLD) is a historic district that is recognized as an NHL.
Landmark Yes Flatiron Building: 84 Peachtree St., NW 1991-12-23 Landmark Fountain Hall: 643 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr., SW 1989-10-14 Landmark Yes Fox Theater: 660 Peachtree St., NW 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes Gentry-McClinton House 132 East Lake Dr., SE 1989-10-14 Landmark Georgia Hall (Original Grady Hospital) 36 Butler St., NE 1989-10-23 Landmark
Five-story Beaux Arts building designed by Sumner Hunt, built in 1895 596: Petroleum Building: April 26, 1994: 700–714 W. Olympic Blvd./1001-1013 S. Flower St. Downtown Los Angeles: Meyer & Holler designed the 1925 building with the feeling of Florentine palaces of the early Renaissance period 615: San Pedro Firm Building: January 18, 1995
Two-foot high marble surface stones, using an equal number of stretchers and headers, were backed by granite blocks from the 152-foot level (the first course above the rubble) to the 218-foot level, where marble headers become increasingly visible on the internal surface of the walls up to the 450-foot level, above which only marble stones are ...