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Independence Hall is the birthplace of America.
The Declaration of Independence

and U.S. Constitution were both debated and signed inside this building. The legacy
of the nation's founding documents - universal principles of freedom and democracy -
has influenced lawmakers around the world and distinguished Independence Hall as
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Construction on the building started in 1732. Built to be the Pennsylvania State

House, the building originally housed all three branches of Pennsylvania's colonial
government. The Pennsylvania legislature loaned their Assembly Room out for the
meetings of the Second Continental Congress and later, the Constitutional
Convention. Here, George Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the
Continental Army in 1775, the Articles of Confederation were adopted in 1781, and
Benjamin Franklin gazed upon the "Rising Sun" chair in 1787.
A chapel of the Parish of Trinity Church, St. Paul's was built on land granted by Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
Construction on the building's main body began in 1764 and was completed in 1766. The church's spire was added
between 1794 and 1796.
Built of Manhattan mica-schist with brownstone quoins, St. Paul's has the classical portico, boxy proportions and
domestic details that are characteristic of Georgian churches including James Gibbs' St Martin-in-the-Fields in
London. The church's octagonal spire rises from a square base and is topped by a replica of the Athenian Choragic
Monument of Lysicrates (c. 335 BC). Inside, the chapel's simple elegant hall has the pale colors, flat ceiling and cut
glass chandeliers reminiscent of contemporary domestic interiors.
The church has historically been attributed to Thomas McBean, a Scottish architect and student of James Gibbs.
Recent documentation published by historian John Fitzhugh Millar suggests architect Peter Harrison may have
instead been responsible for the structure's design. Master craftsman and furniture maker Andrew Gautier produced
the church's interior fixtures.[5]
Upon completion in 1766, the church was the tallest building in New York City. It stood in a field some distance from
the growing port city to the south and was built as a "chapel-of-ease" for parishioners who thought the mother
church inconvenient to access.
On the Broadway side of the chapel's exterior is an oak statue of the church's namesake, Saint Paul, carved by an
unknown sculptor and installed in 1790.[6] Below the east window is the monument to Brigadier General Richard
Montgomery, who died at the Battle of Quebec (1775) during the American Revolutionary War. In the spire, the first
bell is inscribed "Mears London, Fecit [Made] 1797." The second bell, made in 1866, was added in celebration of the
chapel's 100th anniversary.
Biltmore Estate is the residual holding that comprises the core home estate of the vast Gilded Age
establishment created by George Washington Vanderbilt between 1888 and ca. 1902 and held by his
grandson and two of his great-grandchildren to the present. The acreage within the revised National
Historic Landmark boundary includes 3,758 acres held by The Biltmore Company (William A.V. Cecil) in
two tracts flanking the path of Interstate 40, which crosses the north edge of the estate, together with
the 124.48 acres comprising its path and rights of way, and 3,067 acres on the west side of the French
Broad River held by West Range, LLC (William A.V. Cecil Jr. and Diana Cecil Pickering). The total acreage
is 6,949.48 acres.
Today the battle-scarred, submerged remains of the battleship USS Arizona rest on the silt of Pearl Harbor, just as
they settled on December 7, 1941. The ship was one of many casualties from the deadly attack by the Japanese on
a quiet Sunday that President Franklin Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy." The Arizona's burning
bridge and listing mast and superstructure were photographed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack, and news
of her sinking was emblazoned on the front page of newspapers across the land. The photograph symbolized the
destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the start of a war that was to take many
thousands of American lives. Indelibly impressed into the national memory, the image could be recalled by most
Americans when they heard the battle cry, "Remember Pearl Harbor." More than a million people visit the USS
Arizona Memorial each year. They file quietly through the building and toss flower wreaths and leis into the water.
They watch the iridescent slick of oil that still leaks, a drop at a time, from ruptured bunkers after more than 50
years at the bottom of the sea, and they read the names of the dead carved in marble on the Memorial's walls
The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island,
US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a
member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m2) and 62,482 square
feet (5,804.8 m2) of living area on five floors, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in
the Renaissance Revival style; the interior decor was by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman
Jr.
The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and the 30-foot-high (9.1 m)
walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) limestone-and-iron fence that borders the property
on all but the ocean side. The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre (4,000 m2) or
43,000 square feet of the 14 acres (5.7 ha) estate on the cliffs overlooking Easton Bay of the Atlantic
Ocean.[3]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated
a National Historic Landmark in 1994. It is also a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue
Historic District. The property is owned and operated by the Newport Preservation Society as a
museum and is open for visits all year.
Hearst Castle, officially known as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "Enchanted Hill"), is a historic and stately estate in San
Simeon, California, located on the Central Coast of California. Created by William Randolph Hearst, a publishing tycoon, and
the architect Julia Morgan, the castle was built between 1919-47. Today, Hearst Castle is a museum open to the public as a
California State Park and registered as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark.
George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, had purchased the original 40,000 acres (162 km 2 ) estate in 1865 and Camp
Hill, the site for the future Hearst Castle, was used for family camping holidays during Hearst's youth. In 1919 Hearst inherited
approximately $11 million (equivalent to $164,197,697 in 2020) and estates including land in San Simeon. He used his wealth to
further develop a media empire of newspapers, magazines and radio stations, the profits from which supported a lifetime of
building and collecting. Within months of Phoebe Hearst's death, he had commissioned Morgan to build "something a little more
comfortable up on the hill", the origins of the current castle.

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Independence Hall is the birthplace of America.

The Declaration of Independence

Construction on the building started in 1732. Built to be the Pennsylvania State

comfortable up on the hill", the origins of the current castle.

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