Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/8


 * ...that the Shell Service Station (pictured) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
 * ...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
 * ...that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?
 * ...that tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California, to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction? (29 January 2008)
 * ...that there are over 2,300 local historic districts in the United States?