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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: John Brown Farm and Gravesite

For Students 9th - 10th
Home and final resting place of famous abolitionist John Brown, executed for his raid on Harper's Ferry Armory before the Civil War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Morrill Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
First building of Cornell University.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Elizabeth Cady Stanton House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of 19th century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Camp Pine Knot

For Students 9th - 10th
First of the Adirondack Great Camps; designed and built by William West Durant.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: New York State Inebriate Asylum

For Students 9th - 10th
First hospital built to treat alcoholism and view it as a medical problem rather than a character flaw.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Philip Schuyler Mansion

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of Philip Schuyler, general in the Continental Army and early U.S. Senator.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Thomas Moran House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran who helped inspire the creation of the National Park system.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Sagamore Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed by William West Durant; one of the most sophisticated and evolved examples of the Adirondack Great Camps.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Saratoga Natl Historical Park

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of the 1777 Battle of Saratoga, the first significant American military victory of the American Revolutionary War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Thomas Cole House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home and studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Utica State Hospital (Main Building)

For Students 9th - 10th
First hospital for the "insane poor"; archetypal Greek Revival building.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Van Alen House

For Students 9th - 10th
Exemplary Dutch colonial farmhouse, built in 1737 and preserved largely intact.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Old House

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in 1649; asserted to be "one of the finest surviving examples of English domestic architecture in America".
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Adams Power Plant Transformer House

For Students 9th - 10th
Transformer house of the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world; tapped power of Niagara Falls via a 7,500 foot (2,286 m) tail-race tunnel.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Gen. William Floyd House

For Students 9th - 10th
Upstate home of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Martin Van Buren Natl Historic Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of U.S. President Martin Van Buren; designed in part by Richard Upjohn.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: United States Military Academy

For Students 9th - 10th
Commonly known as West Point; oldest continuously occupied military post in the nation and alma mater of many U.S. Army leaders.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Kleinhans Music Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Van Cortlandt Manor

For Students 9th - 10th
Colonial manor house from early 18th century.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Plattsburgh Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of Battle of Plattsburgh, where U.S. land and naval forces repulsed the last foreign invasion attempt on the northern states during the War of 1812.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Armour Stiner House

For Students 9th - 10th
Octagonal implementation of architectural ideas of Orson Squire Fowler.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Oneida Community Mansion House

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in 1848 for the Oneida Community.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Aaron Copland House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of composer Aaron Copland for last 30 years of his life.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: St. Peter's Episcopal Church

For Students 9th - 10th
Gothic church by architect Richard Upjohn.