Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/14

...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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