UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the USA
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Created by Teitur on Feb 23, 2007.
Representation — 2 years ago
I want to try and not over-represent sites on the list. I don’t think it is reasonable to list sites twice on a list like this just because the site crosses some state boarders. The map they have at the WHC doesn’t even have any boarders (to show that these belong to the world)..
Over-representation of certain sites gives a false image of the “percentage completed” and it gives them a false importance.
World heritage properties such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park should therefore only be represented on the list in one state. In this case I’ve listed it “in” Tennessee, rather than North Carolina
Multi-entity properties such as the Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek site should also only be listed once. In this case of course only Wrangell-St. Elias and the Glacier Bay National Parks are in the US
Of Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville I’ve only added Monticello, since it’s a more important building.
Properties submitted on the Tentative List — 2 years ago
- Pecos National Monument (1990)
- Moundville site (1990)
- Casa Grande National Monument (1990)
- Hohokam Pima National Monument (1990)
- Ocmulgee National Monument (1990)
- Poverty Point (1990)
- Mound City Group National Monument (1990)
- Cape Krusenstern Archaeological District (1990)
- Ventana Cave (1990)
- Lindenmeier Site (1990)
- Pu’uhonua Honaunau National Historical Park (1990)
- San Xavier del Bac (1990)
- Savannah Historic District (1990)
- Auditorium Building (1990)
- Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store (1990)
- Leiter II Building (1990)
- Marquette Building (1990)
- Reliance Building (1990)
- Rookery Building (1990)
- South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row North Historic District (1990)
- Prudential (Guaranty) Building (1990)
- Wainwright Building (1990)
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (1990)
- Unity Temple (1990)
- Robie House (1990)
- Taliesin (1990)
- Taliesin West (1990)
- Fallingwater (1990)
- Brooklyn Bridge (1990)
- Eads Bridge (1990)
- Washington Monument (1990)
- McCormick Farm and Workshop (1990)
- Original Bell Telephone Laboratories (1990)
- General Electric Research Laboratory (1990)
- Goddard Rocket Launching Site (1990)
- Lowell Observatory (1990)
- Pupin Physics Laboratories (1990)
- Trinity Site (1990)
- New Harmony Historic District (1990)
- Chapell Hall, Gallaudet College (1990)
- Warm Springs Historic District (1990)
- Aleutian Islands Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (1990)
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (1990)
- Virginia Coast Reserve (1990)
- Artic National Wildlife Refuge (1990)
- Gates of the Artic National Park (1990)
- Crater Lake National Park (1990)
- Mount Rainier National Park (1990)
- North Cascades National Park (1990)
- Big Bend National Park (1990)
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park (1990)
- Arches National Park (1990)
- Bryce Canyon Park (1990)
- Canyonlands National Park (1990)
- Capitol Reef National Park (1990)
- Colorado National Monument (1990)
- Rainbow Bridge National Monument (1990)
- Zion National Park (1990)
- Death Valley National Monument (1990)
- Joshua Tree National Monument (1990)
- Acadia National Park (1990)
- Point Reyes National Seashore / Farallon IslandsNational Wildlife Refuge (1990)
- Aleutian Islands Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (1990)
- Denali National Park (1990)
- Katmai National Park (1990)
- Glacier National Park (1990)
- Grand Teton National Park (1990)
- Rocky Mountain National Park (1990)
- Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Parks (1990)
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (1990)
- Sanguaro National Monument (1990)
- Haleakala National Park (1990)
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