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Mount Rainier National Park

Paradise Inn
  • Type: Place

If you enjoy historic architecture, a good meal or place to relax than the Paradise Inn is the place for you! Built in 1917, the Paradise Inn is open generally from May through September and features a large dining room and gift shop.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Inn Garages
  • Type: Place

Six years after Day's death, his daughter Marion and her husband Louis Warnes began running Dunesmobile rides out of Glen Haven. It started with a 1934 Ford which took four people out to the crest of the dunes and back. It was a thrilling 35-minute ride that took passengers to the crest of the dunes and back for 25 cents each. By the time the rides ended in 1978, there were 13 dunes wagons each carrying 14 passengers on a 12 mile, 35-minute excursion.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Inn
  • Type: Place

Originally known as the Sleeping Bear House, this inn with bright geraniums filling its window boxes welcomed the guests of the little village for nearly one hundred years. D.H. Day himself married the daughter of the innkeeper and lived in the second story for a while. In addition to Day and his family, the inn hosted an eclectic mix of lumberjacks, dock workers, businessmen and posh passengers.

Chesapeake Bay

Menokin
  • Type: Place

Explore Menokin, a National Historic Landmark where history, architecture, and conservation meet. See the 1769 home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, witness innovative preservation in action, and walk trails through a protected Chesapeake Bay watershed landscape. Engage with exhibits, hands-on activities, and the powerful stories of those who shaped this place. Paddle Cat Point Creek, connect with nature, and uncover the past in a truly unique setting.

Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful Inn
  • Type: Place

Lowell National Historical Park

Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center
  • Type: Place

Greenwich Village Historic District
  • Type: Place

Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.

A Framework for Advancing Historic Preservation Research and Education through Partnership
  • Type: Article

Tumacácori National Historical Park is testing new materials and innovative techniques for preserving earthen architecture. This article summarizes the procedures and outcomes of laboratory and in-situ evaluations on the effectiveness of these new methods since 2014. While the generated information is primarily for earthen architecture, the methodology is equally valuable for rendered masonry. NPS Intermountain Park Science, 2025

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

The JN-4 Jenny: The Plane that Taught America to Fly
  • Type: Article

The Curtiss JN-4 Jenny is synonymous with the “barn storming” era of aviation, and is truly the airplane that taught American pilots of the 1916-1925 era how to fly. This training airplane, designed by a team working for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in 1914-1915, was built in the thousands in during World War I to train US servicemen how to fly.

Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Type: Person

Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson was an evangelist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker. She innovated new ways to deliver religious messages through mass media.

Christopher Park: In 1969, a Refuge for LGB Street Youth
  • Type: Article

During the first night of the rebellion at least, a small city park across the street from the Stonewall Inn provided refuge for street youths. Christopher Park was their refuge during the day as well from a hard life on the streets.

Stonewall National Monument

LGBTQ Activism: The Stonewall Inn, New York City, NY
  • Type: Article

Probably the most well-known event in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City brought the issue of queer rights into the spotlight. It helped to build solidarity among queer groups that were ready to take a stand against police harassment and violence.

Stonewall National Monument

Stonewall National Monument: Rising for Equality
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Stonewall National Monument commemorates an important site and historic event in the the movement for LGBTQ rights. The Stonewall Inn was popular with the African American and Latinx LGBTQ community, and the crowd that gathered to demonstrate in the early hours of June 28, 1969 included many people of color. Today the site is recognized for its connection to LGBTQ history, African American history, and the history of civil rights for all in America.

Stonewall National Monument Cultural Landscape
  • Type: Article

The Stonewall National Monument cultural landscape includes the streets and locations of the Stonewall Uprising, which took place from June 28 and July 3, 1969. While it was not the start or end of the fight for gay rights, the events at the Stonewall Inn and the surrounding streets of Greenwich Village in New York City were a major catalyst in organizing the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement. The streets, parks, and buildings of the landscape help reflect this history.

LGB Activism
  • Type: Article

Over the years, queer activism has taken many shapes. Private organizations have formed to support community members and take up political causes; artists, writers, and speakers disseminate their ideas on civil justice through every medium imaginable. On some occasions, like the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn, oppressive, discriminatory circumstances ferment to a bursting point and acts of unintentional activism become the catalyst for a broader movement for civil rights.

Groundwork

From the Ground Up: Five Groundwork Trusts Awarded Land Use Innovation Grants to Engage Residents in the Creation of New Green Spaces
  • Type: Article

In partnership with Groundwork USA, NPS is thrilled to announce that five Groundwork Trusts have been awarded $430,000 to engage community members in the transformation of brownfield sites into vibrant community assets through the Land Use Innovation Initiative.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Van Campen Inn
  • Type: Place

The Van Campen Inn is a historic home on Old Mine Road that is opened by Walpack Historical Society docents on select days throughout the year for educational tours.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Dayton, OH
  • Type: Article

Dayton, Ohio is known for cash registers, Cheez-It crackers, pop top cans, and being the Birthplace of Aviation. However, the city has another important but widely unknown accolade on its long list of innovations and inventions: the scientific work done during the top-secret Dayton Project. The work done throughout the city in the 1940s culminated in the polonium initiators used in the atomic bombs developed by the Manhattan Project during WWII.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

Fort Andrews
  • Type: Place

Constructed at the beginning of the 1900s and active throughout both World Wars, Fort Andrews on Peddocks Island served as a key component of Boston Harbor’s defense system.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Ken-Tuck-U-Inn
  • Type: Place

As logging in the area faded, many local entrepreneurs looked for other ways to earn a living. Bertie Bancroft, who grew up in Aral, saw the growing tourist trade and built the Ken-Tuck-U-Inn. Bertie and his wife Donna operated the inn. Other farm inns were developing as the local economy was turning to serve the growing tourist industry. Produce grown on the farm was used to make meals for the guests, which was more valuable than selling it wholesale to local markets.