Photograph by Evelyn D. Causey, courtesy of Alabama State Historic Preservation Office
Bricklayer’s Hall
Alabama, Reference number: 100005355
Area of Significance: Ethnic Heritage: Black, Social History: Civil Rights, Law, Politics/Government
Period of Significance: 1956-1965
Bricklayers Hall is significant at the national, state, and local levels, for its association with the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). As MIA headquarters, it was the location of organizational efforts for the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott. The property is also significant for its association with Charles S. Conley, Jr., an African American civil rights lawyer who had his office in the Bricklayers Hall. Conley worked on several cases that led to federal court orders directing state and local authorities to end discriminatory practices.
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Photograph courtesy of Alabama State Historic Preservation Office
Florence, Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Recording Studios
Alabama, Reference number: 16000397
Area of Significance: Performing Arts
Period of Significance: 1950-1974
FAME Recording Studio is nationally significant for performing arts for the role it played in the development mid-twentieth century American popular music. As the first purpose-built studio building in the Muscle Shoals region of Alabama, FAME is significantly associated with the rise of the “Muscle Shoals Sound” and “Southern Soul” music in the mid-1960s to early 1970s. The property is also nationally significant for its association with Roe Erister “Rick” Hall, who built the property in 1962, launched the studio’s music publishing arm, directed its most significant musical sessions and artists, and has been recognized as a nationally significant producer of American popular music.
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Photograph by Vanessa Adams-Harris
Greenwood Historic District
Oklahoma, Reference number: 100008199Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning and Development, Ethnic Heritage: African American
Period of Significance: 1905-1967
The Greenwood Historic District is nationally significant, in part, as the location of one of the largest and most devastating examples of race-related violence and destruction in American 20th century history.
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Powars II Paleoindian Hematite Quarry
Wyoming, Reference number: 100006494This archeological site located in Platte County demonstrates how scholarly context and national-scale research questions support national level of significance. It is the only Paleoindian-aged hematite quarry in the United States (and one of only four such sites in the Americas) and is the source of one of the largest Paleoindian artifact assemblages in North America.
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Photograph by Nika Faulkner
Ursula K. Le Guin House
Oregon, Reference number: 100013139Area of Significance: Literature, Social History: Women’s History
Period of Significance: 1960-1974
The house at 3321 N.W. Thurman Street in Portland, Oregon, is nationally significant for its association with Ursula K. Le Guin, a multiple-award-winning author and “one of the most influential female literary figures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, particularly in the genres of science fiction and fantasy” (Le Guin House Registration Form, p. 11). As documented in this thorough nomination, the circa 1908 house was Le Guin’s primary home and creative workspace from 1960 until her death, encompassing the most productive decades of her career.
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Last updated: July 23, 2026