Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/35

... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
... that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?

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