Many famous buildings and other architectural landmarks have been constructed during the United States’ first 250 years. See if you identify a dozen of them from these clues. The answers appear below
1. What architectural masterpiece in Virginia is the only presidential home to be designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site?
2. Maya Lin, a 21-year-old attending Yale University, was the winner of a national competition to design what war memorial?
3. What stainless steel monument in St. Louis stands 630 feet tall and is 630 feet wide at its base, making it the tallest monument in the U.S.?
4. What Art Deco transportation link and iconic landmark links Marin County, Calif., with San Francisco?
5. What New York City skyscraper is an iconic filming location featured in over 250 movies, most famously in King Kong and Sleepless in Seattle?
6. What religious landmark on Mount Saint Alban took 83 years to complete and features 112 gargoyles, 231 stained glass windows and massive stone buttresses?
7. What estate features a historic house and museum in Asheville, N.C., currently thought to be the largest privately owned home in the U.S.?
8. What observation tower in Seattle was built for the 1962 World’s Fair and offers panoramic views of the area?
9. What world-renowned house museum in Mill Run, Penn., was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright who integrated the house with a waterfall?
10. What 555-foot-tall obelisk on the National Mall was built to honor the first U.S. President?
11. What Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral sits across from Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan and spans an entire city block?
12. What official residence in Washington, D.C., was first occupied by John Adams before it was completely finished?
Answers:
1. Monticello
2. Vietnam War Memorial
3. The Gateway Arch
4. Golden Gate Bridge
5. Empire State Building
6. Washington National Cathedral
7. Biltmore Estate
8. Space Needle
9. Fallingwater
10. Washington Monument
11. St. Patrick’s Cathedral
12. The White House
