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A comprehensive restoration program for the San Esteban del Rey Mission requires investment and remains long overdue.

The Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity is one of the most important monuments of the Gothic Revival in America.

Mesa Verde, a large, gently sloping plateau etched with deep canyons, was occupied by the Ancestral Puebloan civilization between the 6th and 13th centuries AD.

In 1625, Dutch settlers founded New Amsterdam on a stretch of land that would eventually grow into one of the world's most famous and populous cities.

Beyond cuisine and music, New Orleans is known for its unique built environment of Franco-Creole.

In the 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright built a series of textile-block houses based on the idea that buildings should draw materials from their natural environments.

Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the principle point of entry for immigrants to America from 1892 until 1924, during which period an estimated 12 million people were processed.

Ellis Island's Baggage and Dormitory Building (1908- 1913) was built to accommodate an ever-growing population of immigrants, most often detained on the island for health or legal reasons.

The Dutch Reformed Church in Newburgh, New York, sits on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River and is a reminder of the wealth that came early to settlements in New York.

The adobe churches of New Mexico were built as part of the Franciscan missionary campaign in the New World.

When the A. Conger Goodyear House was completed in 1938, Edward Durell Stone was already well-known as one of the country's leading architects working in the International Style.

The San José Church, originally known as the Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Aquino, is considered by many scholars to be one of the finest and oldest examples of Gothic-influenced religious architecture.