Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/100 top importance

This is a page to discuss the 100 NRHP or NHL sites that are subjectively rated as TOP importance in project WP:NRHP. We can start simply by trying to find the 2 "most important" sites in each of the 50 states, realizing that NHL sites may NOT always be more important than NRHP sites and that the "final" list need not have 2 per state.

TOP importance

This section should only contain sites that are firmly agreed upon.

Possibilities

Place comments/!votes below the proposed site. If there is general agreement on a certain site, promote it to the above section. Examples should ideally cover a variety of types, not just government buildings and homes of famous people.

Cahokia Illinois
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Chaco Culture National Historical Park New Mexico
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Taos Pueblo New Mexico
- Support Smallbones (talk) 20:47, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Statue of Liberty New York
- Support Smallbones (talk) 20:47, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mesa Verde National Park Colorado
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Eleutherian Mills, Delaware
Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Delaware
Rookery Building, Illinois
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Illinois
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Gateway Arch, Missouri
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Missouri
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Edison National Historic Site, New Jersey
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site, New Jersey
Lucy the Margate Elephant, New Jersey
United States Military Academy, New York
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Niagara Mohawk Building, New York
People's Federal Savings and Loan Association Ohio
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge Ohio and Kentucky
Forks of the Ohio, Pennsylvania
Independence Hall Pennsylvania
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
La Fortaleza Puerto Rico
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
San Juan National Historic Site
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Monticello, Virginia
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
United States Capitol, Washington, DC
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
White House, Washington, DC
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

California

Royal Presidio Chapel, Monterey
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District
United States Immigration Station, Angel Island
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sutter's Fort
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
SS Jeremiah O'Brien (Liberty Ship), San Francisco
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Presidio of San Francisco
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Smallbones (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sonoma Plaza
- Support --Hjal (talk) 07:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

from most popular listings

Niagara Falls, New York
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Empire State Building, New York
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support because it was long-ago chosen for pic in wp:NRHP banner. --do ncr am 22:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hoover Dam,
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Dakota, New York
The Pentagon, Virginia
Jack Daniel's, Tennessee
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Trail of Tears
Alcatraz Island, California
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wounded Knee Massacre, South Dakota
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment What we should focus on instead is new article Wounded Knee Battlefield (NRHP listing name for site) rather than the massacre event article. There are incredible historic pics from 1890/1891 available within the NRHP nom, in public domain presumably! --do ncr am 22:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree with the creation of this article. While yes, it would be beneficial to add more about the NHL listing itself, I think this information would better be served in the Remembrance section of the massacre article. There are already too many stubby NHL articles that should more than likely be merged with bigger articles (e.g Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Site/Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek); one more is not going to solve this. If, however, there ends up being tons of information about the site specifically (I suspect much of the NHL nom is about the massacre itself), it can be split out dude to WP:Summary Style, but until we get that much information, that new article should remain a redirect. Not every NRHP listing needs its own article, you know...--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New York Stock Exchange, NY
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
University of California, Berkeley
USS Arizona (BB-39)
Rockefeller Center, NY
Central Park, NY
Chrysler Building, NY
- Support --do ncr am 22:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Washington Monument, DC
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Greenwich Village, NY
Plymouth Rock, Mass
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Brooklyn Bridge, NY
- Support Smallbones (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --do ncr am 22:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Kent State shootings, Ohio
Library of Congress, DC