Five New National Historic Landmarks Highlight America's Diverse Heritage

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of five new national historic landmarks, ranging from a 19th century reservoir in Massachusetts to a home in Indiana designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to provide affordable housing for average Americans.

“These sites join more than 2,500 other landmarks that tell America's story,” said Secretary Jewell. “From the remarkable strides made in engineering during the 19th century to the vision of our great architects, they are an important part of the tapestry of our nation's heritage.”

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    Samara (John E. and Catherine E. Christian House), West Lafayette, Indiana Completed in 1956, Samara is an outstanding and mature example of a Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during his late period (1941-59). It is a remarkably complete Usonian design, incorporating over forty Wrightian design elements, including character-defining Usonian features such as modular design, indoor-outdoor connections, slab floor construction, flat roofs, and open-plan public spaces conducive to simple living for average middle-class families. Photo: Camille B. Fife

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    Lake Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming Initially constructed in 1891, the Lake Hotel was entirely reconceived in the first decades of the twentieth century as a grand resort hotel displaying the Colonial Revival style as adapted to the context of a national park in the western United States. Located on the north shore of Yellowstone Lake, the hotel expansion and redesign was spearheaded by noted architect Robert C. Reamer. Photo: National Park Service, June 2008

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    California Powder Works Bridge, Santa Cruz County, California Constructed in 1872, this covered bridge is one of the most outstanding surviving examples of a Smith Truss, a nationally significant timber truss type developed and patented in 1867 by Robert W. Smith in Toledo, Ohio. This truss type features diagonal truss web members that resulted in a light, strong, and efficient design whose components could be mass-produced at a factory and shipped to distant sites. Photo: Jet Lowe, 2004

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    McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Detroit, Michigan The McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University, completed in 1958, is a benchmark work in the career of Japanese-American Minoru Yamasaki, one of the twentieth century's most important Modern architects. The building's design represents a key turning point in Yamasaki's career as he moved away from International Style orthodoxy into his own distinct vision of Modernism, later considered part of the stylistic trend “New Formalism.” Photo: Ruth E. Mills, 2013

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    Brookline Reservoir of the Cochituate Aqueduct, Brookline, Massachusetts Constructed in 1848, the Brookline Reservoir represents one of the most publicly-accessible and architecturally-distinguished components of early nineteenth-century public water supply technology. Its Principal Gatehouse is also consequential for the technical development of wrought iron as a structural and building envelope material in architecture, and the cultural acceptance of iron technology in public architecture. Photo: Dennis J. DeWitt, 2012

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