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From the National Park Service in the Northeast

Marie Rust
Regional Director

  

 

Northeast Regional Winners
Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

The Northeast Region of the National Park Service received 56 entries from our National Historic Landmark Stewards in 7 of the 16 states in the region.

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1st Place Winner

Grand entrance of Grey Towers on a sunny day

Grey Towers

Arcadia College, Glenside
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Photographed by Anita Washington

This castle, the centerpiece of Arcadia University, was designed by Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer in 1893 for William Welsh Harrison, a wealthy sugar refinery owner. This symbol of strength and prosperity was the image that Harrison and other wealthy Americans sought to display in the late 19th century. Grey Towers was purchased by Beaver College, now Arcadia University, in 1929, two years after Harrison's death.

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2nd Place Winner

An early American kitchen table setting in the kitchen of the Jay Homestead

John Jay Homestead
An early American kitchen table setting in the kitchen of the Jay Homestead

Jay Street, Katonah
Westchester County, New York
Photographed by Janet Asteroff

In 1801, after twenty-seven years of service to his state and nation, John Jay completed his retirement home in New York on 750 acres. John Jay served the nation as President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain during the Revolution, and Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Articles of the Confederationthe. George Washington appointed John Jay first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The homestead is owned by the State of New York and open to the public.

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3rd Place Winner

A view of the Mount from the garden fountain

The Mount
The Mount
A view from the garden fountain

South of Lenox on U.S. Route 7
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Photographed by David Anderson

The Mount, a Georgian revival mansion, was built in 1902 and served as the home of Pulitzer Prize wining author Edith Wharton. Wharton lived here until 1911, a time during which two of her works were published, The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome. The Mount served for a time as a girls school and was purchased in the 1990s by a non-profit group and is being restored, a restoration supported in part by the Save America's Treasures Program.

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Honorable Mention

The Noah Webster House is a two and half story, red, wooden structure

Noah Webster Birthplace

227 South Main Street, Hartford
Hartford County, Connecticut
Photographed by Vivian Zoe

The Noah Webster House, an early Connecticut saltbox built in 1748, was the birthplace and childhood home of the creator of the first American dictionary. Today, the house is open to the public as a museum.

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Last Updated:
September 29, 2003