Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/21

...that Louisville's Union Station (pictured) was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States?
...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
...that Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park?
...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?

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