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A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Niagara Falls, New York, United States.The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
The Cataract House was a hotel in the neighborhood of Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York. The hotel was established in 1825 but destroyed by fire in 1945. It was a major stop on the Underground Railroad and it was the largest hotel in Niagara Falls. The hotel's name refers to the large and powerful waterfall next to property.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Niagara County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
A generating station to supply hydro-electric power to Toronto, it was the first wholly Canadian-owned hydro-electric facility at Niagara Falls; an elegant and unusual application of Beaux-Arts design to an industrial site in Canada Willowbank [51] [52] 1836 (completed) 2003 Niagara-on-the-Lake
The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center is a museum in Niagara Falls, New York, based on the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad.Opened in 2018, it is located on the first floor of a historic former U.S. Customhouse built in 1863 at the Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center.
Thomas Barnett (December 4, 1799 – 1890) was a museum proprietor, collector and innkeeper who managed museums and other tourist attractions in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Barnett was born near Birmingham, England and moved to Canada in the 1820s.
Both were built by individuals among the approximately 800 immigrants in 1843 to a Western New York collection of settlements in Niagara and Erie counties, near Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. The immigrants traveled to this part of New York State from New York City by way of the Erie Canal (which was completed in 1825) after crossing the ...