The
National Historic Landmarks Program gives distinction to properties that "possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States."
The author is an historian with the Historic American Buildings Survey and the
National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service of the United States.
"'And we've never done an actual crash site,' said Alexandra Lord, branch chief of the
National Historic Landmarks Program in Washington.
This 50th anniversary of the
National Historic Landmarks program reminds us that evidence of those who have come to New England over four centuries can be found all around us.
Well informed by the author's work with the National Park Service, the
National Historic Landmarks Program, and the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, The First American Women Architects will be an asset to public and academic reference collections.
Historians are employed in the
National Historic Landmarks program. We have a number of historians who work in the preservation services branch of this office who work with local groups on preservation issues.