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Bell Laboratories-Holmdel
Holmdel, New Jersey, Reference number: 16000223
Area of Significance: Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Period of Significance: 1959-1985
Bell Laboratories-Holmdel—now a mixed-use complex known as Bell Works—is well known to viewers of the popular series “Severance” as the headquarters of the mysterious Lumon Industries. The property was designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates in partnership with Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker of Sasaki, Walker and Associates. In this nomination, the “site” is a contributing resource and the authors choose to include the parking lots and roads as features of the sites as opposed to identifying them as “structures."
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Kansas City, Missouri, Reference number: 10001650
Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning and Development
Period of Significance: 1917-1950
The East Plaza Apartments Historic District occupies approximately 7.51 acres in Kansas City, Missouri, and is comprised of 29 resources, including 20 apartment buildings, 2 garages, 6 parking lots, and 1 retaining wall, all built between 1917 and 1950. The registration form admirably documents what is too often easily overlooked: the numerous parking lots associated with the many buildings in this district.
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Reston, Virginia, Reference number: 100001041
Area of Significance: Art, Architecture, Community Planning and Development, Social History
Period of Significance: 1963-1967
The Lake Anne Village Center Historic District is a mid-century mixed-use planned development described in the nomination as “Brutalism on a human scale." The sizeable surface parking lot that supports both the retail and residential components of the district is one of the district’s 101 contributing resources and is classified as a “structure.”
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Illinois, Reference number: 06000778
Area of Significance: Commerce, Architecture, and Community Planning and Development
Period of Significance: 1923-1964
The nationally significant Urbana-Lincoln Hotel/Lincoln Square Mall is comprised of one building and one structure. It was built in two distinct phases: the Tudor Revival style Urbana-Lincoln Hotel was constructed in 1923 from a design by noted local architect, Joseph Royer; and the adjoining shopping mall was erected in 1964 from plans by nationally known architect and planner, Victor Gruen. Section 7 of the nomination carefully and clearly describes the surface parking lot, counted as a contributing structure, in approximately one page.
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Last updated: May 1, 2025