Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/35


 * ... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
 * ... that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
 * ... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
 * ... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
 * ... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?