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?