National Historic Landmark · National Historic Site · Tuskegee, Alabama

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site

75 acres in Alabama (US) managed by the National Park Service in Tuskegee, Alabama. Added to the National Register in 1966, and a National Historic Landmark.

"Birds eye view," Tuskegee Inst., Ala. LCCN2009633563(Left to right) Robert C. Ogden, Senator William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie, standing on the steps of a building, at the Tuskegee Institute's 25th anniversary LCCN201166089725th anniversary celebration of Tuskegee Institute, April, 1906 LCCN9650974725th anniversary of Tuskegee Inst., Ala., 1906- Assembly with banner reading "Welcome Our Guests" LCCN2004668169
Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeHistoric district
Address1 mi. NW of Tuskegee on U.S. 80, Tuskegee vicinity, AL
CountyMacon County
ListedOct 15, 1966
Reference number66000151
Type of placeNational Historic Site
Visitors per year10,102
Contributing resources3 buildings, 1 sites

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
Address1 mi. NW of Tuskegee on U.S. 80, Tuskegee, AL
Websitenps.gov/tuin/index.htm
Coordinates32.42898, -85.70407 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitTuskegee Institute National Historic Site · 0 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyCamping 33 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.
Limited data for this unit

No photograph, no construction date or encyclopedia article for this listing yet. The Register record above is complete; the enrichment is not.

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Why you would stay

Reference

Exists because it is true

Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 66000151. Nothing here is transcribed by hand.