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Abe Lincoln Trading Company
Oklahoma, Reference number: 100009607Areas and Periods of Significance: Ethnic Heritage/Black, Commerce (period of significance c. 1903–1973) and Community Planning and Development (period of significance c. 1903–1910); and Criterion C: Architecture (period of significance c. 1903)
Funding for the Abe Lincoln Trading Company nomination was provided by an Underrepresented Communities Grant administered by the National Park Service.
The Abe Lincoln Trading Company building served as the offices of the Lincoln Townsite Company which established, planned, and promoted the all-Black community of Clearview. This one-time all-Black town is located within Muscogee (Creek) Nation territory, and the nomination was supported by both the Muscogee Nation THPO and the Oklahoma SHPO. The building represents the successful efforts of the Lincoln Townsite Company to develop “an environment of respect, support, and self-sufficiency in Clearview. This building is evidence of a distinctive landscape of racial fulfillment and self-realization, and it was part of the social movement to establish and maintain all-Black towns” in Oklahoma and the Midwest during the Jim Crow era (Registration Form, p. 25).
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The Furies Collective
Washington, DC, Reference number: 16000211Area of Significance: Criterion A for Social History, and Criteria Consideration G for properties less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years
Period of Significance: 1971–1973
The Furies was recommended for designation as a National Historic Landmark by the National Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Park Service Advisory Board at its November 2023 meeting.
When the Capitol Hill Historic District (76002127) in Washington, DC, was listed in 1976 for its significance in architecture and community planning, this 1913 rowhouse was included as a contributing resource. Only three to five years earlier, the building had been home to The Furies, a lesbian feminist separatist collective who fought for recognition within the women’s movement, and whose publications gave voice to their dynamic social and political agendas on a national scale. Rather than add this social and cultural history as additional documentation to the existing district listing, this building was individually listed in 2016 expressly for its direct associations with The Furies under Criterion A in the area of Social History.
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Yoshiko Yamanouchi House
California, Reference number: 100009653
Area of Significance: Criterion A for Ethnic Heritage/Japanese, Social History/Women’s History; and Criterion B for its association with Yoshiko Yamanouchi
Period of significance: 1957–1973
The Yoshiko Yamanouchi House is listed the National Register for its association with a prominent member of the Issei (immigrant) generation in San Mateo’s Japanese American community. Yoshiko Yamanouchi frequently used her home and its gardens to strengthen relationships among the Japanese American community and San Mateo, hosting many events here.
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Last updated: February 11, 2024