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McGraw Hill Building
This Manhattan building was the first in the U.S. to be built in Art Deco style. -
Hollyhock House
Frank Lloyd Wright completes his Hollyhock House for Aline Barnsdall in Los Angeles, begun in 1917. -
Lincoln Memorial
Approximately six million people visit this memorial in Washington, D.C. every year, making it one of the country's most popular. -
Hollywood Sign
The Hollywood Sign is a famous landmark in the Hollywood Hills area of Mount Lee, Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles, California -
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. -
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941 under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln, the sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The site also features a museum with interactive exhibits. -
Holland Tunnel
This tunnel connects Manhattan to New Jersey. It is one of the earliest ventilated tunnels and is considered a civil engineering landmark -
Chrysler Building
William Van Alen completes the Chrysler Building, an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, USA. -
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The first casino to be built on Highway 91 was the Pair-o-Dice Club in 1931, but the first on what is currently the Strip was the El Rancho Vegas, opening on April 3, 1941 -
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, becomes the tallest building in the world. -
Gettysburg National Military Park
Since 1933, this park has been in the care of the National Park Service, which continues to preserve the park and present the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address to visitors. -
Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. -
Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory is a facility in Los Angeles, California, sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. -
Hoover Dam
When this dam was completed in 1935, it was the world's largest concrete structure and the largest hydroelectric power producing facility. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the dam in a ceremony on Sept. 30, 1935 as seen in the photo below. -
Golden Gate Bridge
Designated a California Historical Landmark, this suspension bridge connects San Francisco to Marin County across the mile-wide Golden Gate strait. -
Taliesin
Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 91. Today it is the main campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. -
Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when armed policemen attacked civil rights demonstrators with billy clubs and tear gas as they were attempting to march to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery. -
Eames House
The Eames House completed in Santa Monica, California, designed by Charles and Ray Eames. -
United Nations Building
Completion of the United Nations Headquarters in New York by a design team headed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramowitz -
Iwo Jima Memorial
The Iwo Jima Memorial is a national monument located in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. Dedicated 63 years ago in 1954. The war memorial is dedicated to all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who died in the defense of the United States since 1775. -
Crown Hall
Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is finished. -
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building in New York designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson is -
Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York City is finished after 16 years of work on the project -
Space Needle
Seattle Space needle is opened. -
Kennedy Space Museum
Since December 1968, Kennedy Space Center has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. -
Skylon Tower
the Niagara Skylon Tower is opened in 1965. -
Love Park
Philadelphia's LOVE Park opens in 1965 -
Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is finished in St. Louis, Missouri. -
Sears Tower
Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan -
Rothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson is completed -
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, designed by William Pereira, is completed -
World Trade Center
The World Trade Center towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, are opened in New York. -
Piazza d'Italia
Charles Moore designs the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. -
Tilted Arc
Richard Serra installs Tilted Arc in the Federal Plaza in New York City. The sculpture was removed in 1989. -
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
This national monument honors U.S. service members who fought in the Vietnam War. Completed in 1982, it is located in Washington D.C., northeast of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. -
Korean War Veterans Memorial
This memorial honors all who served in the Korean War. It is located in Washington D.C.'s West Potomac Park. -
Alcatraz Island
One of the most visited landmarks in the U.S., this former Federal prison is where Frank Morris escaped, but not many others. -
USS Arizona
The remains of the USS Arizona, attacked by the Japanese during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, is the centerpiece for a memorial, located on the island of Oahu, just west of Honolulu. -
Bank of America Corporate Center
The Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is completed. -
St. Ignatius Chapel
Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University. -
Aronoff Center
Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati completed by Peter Eisenman -
Oklahoma City National Memorial
The Oklahoma City National Memorial is a memorial in the United States that honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. -
Simmons Hall Dormitory
Simmons Hall dormitory, designed by architect Steven Holl, completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
World Was II Memorial
The World War II Memorial is a memorial of national significance dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of small triumphal arches surrounding a plaza and fountain, it sits on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. -
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the Center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people." -
CityCenter
CityCenter opens on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. This project is the largest privately funded construction project in the history of the United States. -
High Trestle Trail Bridge
The recreation trail opened on April 30, 2011. It is a paved recreational trail that runs through the counties of Polk, Story, Boone, and Dallas in Iowa. The trail's name is derived from a former 1913 bridge that spanned the Des Moines River between the towns of Madrid and Woodward. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
This sculpture is a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King carved by sculptor Lei Yixin. The memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fund-raising, and construction. -
World Trade Center Dedication
One World Trade Center dedicated in New York City.
