Thursday, March 15, 2007

America's Top 50 Architectural Buildings


Here is a neat list of the top 50 of America's best architectural buildings. The list has a few places that I have visited and Fallingwater is about an hour from our home. How can Yankee Stadium be higher than Fenway Park?


1. Empire State Building


2. The White House


3. Washington National Cathedral


4. Thomas Jefferson Memorial


5. Golden Gate Bridge


6. U.S. Capitol


7. Lincoln Memorial


8. Biltmore Estates/Vanderbilt Residence


9. Chrysler Building


10. Vietnam Veterans Memorial


11. St. Patrick's Cathedral


12. Washington Monument


13. Grand Central Terminal


14. Gateway Arch


15. Supreme Court of the United States


16. St. Regis Hotel


17. Metropolitan Museum of Art


18. Hotel Del Coronado


19. World Trade Center


20. Brooklyn Bridge


21. Philadelphia City Hall


22. Bellagio Hotel and Casino


23. Cathedral of St. John the Divine


24. Philadelphia Museum of Art


25. Trinity Church


26. Ahwahnee Hotel


27. Monticello


28. Library of Congress


29. Fallingwater


30. Taliesin


31. Wrigley Field


32. Wanamaker's Department Store


33. Rose Center for Earth and Space


34. National Gallery of Art, West Building


35. Allegheny County Courthouse


36. Old Faithful Inn


37. Union Station


38. Tribune Tower


39. Delano Hotel


40. Union Station


41. Hearst Residence (Hearst Castle)


42. Sears Tower


43. Crane Library


44. Woolworth Building


45. Cincinnati Union Terminal


46. Waldorf Astoria


47. New York Public Library


48. Carnegie Hall


49. San Francisco City Hall


50. Virginia State Capitol


HONORABLE MENTION:


64. Faneuil Hall Marketplace


56. Rockefeller Center


84. Yankee Stadium


100. Radio City Music Hall


104. AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants Stadium)


106. Washington, D.C., Metro


113. Fenway Park


122. Oriole Park at Camden Yards


124. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum






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