Heavy Metal Rules: Image of Saugus Iron Works Wins 2012 NHL Photo Contest
WASHINGTON: The National Park Service today announced the winner of the 13th annual National Historic Landmark Photo Contest. This year’s winning image of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site in Saugus, Massachusetts is evocative of the early industry of the 17th century, represented by scenic waterwheels and forge. Here, European iron makers brought their much needed skills to a young Massachusetts Bay colony. Today, visitors to this nine-acre site explore working waterwheels, hot forges, mills, a historic 17th-century home and a lush river basin. The winning photo was taken by Don Woods of North Clarendon, Vermont.
This year’s 13 honorable mention photographs range from a detail of the elaborately ornate window of Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company storefront in downtown Chicago, to grand vistas such as the distant mountain of Pike’s Peak, framed by a rock formation in the Garden of the Gods Park. These places root us in our shared history and allow us to straddle past and present.
“Once again this year, the National Historic Landmark Photo Contest has captured the width and breadth of America’s historic sites,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “The tradition has grown over the past 13 years and each year I look forward to the results and seeing how people view our nation's national landmarks.”
The annual National Historic Landmark Photo Contest encourages people to discover and explore landmark sites throughout the country – urban and rural, while traveling or exploring their own communities. Both professional and amateur photographers entered hundreds of images into this year’s contest creating a portfolio of photographs that offer an extraordinary glimpse of the stories and places waiting to be discovered.
See the contest photos at http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/2012photocontest/index.html
National historic landmark status is the highest recognition accorded by the Secretary of the Interior to historic properties possessing "exceptional value or quality in illustrating and interpreting the heritage of the United States." Since the program began in 1935, fewer than 2,500 properties nationwide have achieved NHL designation.
Winner of the 2012 National Historic Landmarks Photo Contest
Saugus Iron Works (part of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site), Saugus, Massachusetts
photo by Don Woods, North Clarendon, Vermont
Honorable Mentions
Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, Kenai, Alaska
photo by Dawn Wilson, Fort Collins, Colorado
Bodie Historic District, Bodie, California
photo by Joe Wenninger, Laguna Niguel, California
Manzanar War Relocation Center (part of Manzanar National Historic Site), Inyo County, California
photo by Bill Griswold, San Diego, California
Schooner Alma, San Francisco, California
photo by John Conway, Vallejo, California
Pikes Peak (as seen from Garden of the Gods), El Paso County, Colorado
photo by Dawn Wilson, Fort Collins, Colorado
Bear River Massacre Site, Preston, Idaho
photo by Roxie Crouch, Willard, Utah
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Store, Chicago, Illinois
photo by Cate Bainton, Richmond, California
Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky
photo by Sayre Hutchison, Lakewood, Colorado
Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts
photo by Roxie Crouch, Willard, Utah
Lightship No. 103, Huron, Port Huron, Michigan
photo by Jason Steel, New Baltimore, Michigan
Stanton Hall, Natchez, Mississippi
photo by Mike Talplacido, Houston, Texas
Nevada Northern Railway, East Ely Yards, Ely, Nevada
photo by Jen Dalley, Ely, Nevada
Charleston Market Hall and Sheds, Charleston, South Carolina
photo by Steven Hyatt, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
For more information about the National Historic Landmark Photo Contest, visit www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/2012photocontest/index8.html
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