Washington, D.C. Listed: 06/01/2005 Built ca. 1892, the stone residence known as Glen Hurst was one of the first houses built in the present-day Palisades neighborhood; it was built by John C. Hurst, one of the original promoters of the early Palisades subdivision in the 1890s. Glen Hurst is an intact vestige of a late nineteenth-century transitional period of the development between 1890 and 1897 in western outreaches of Washington, D.C., along the north bank of the Potomac River. Most likely designed around 1892 by architect Richard Ough, Glen Hurst represents the leading edge of speculative residential development of the Palisades neighborhood when the Palisades of the Potomac Land Improvement Company sought to transform the rural farmland into a bucolic and elegant exurban neighborhood for prominent city residents. Working alongside the Palisades company, Hurst and his associates built their own grand homes within their new subdivision in an effort to generate interest in the area. Glen Hurst meets National Register Criterion A, as an unusual survivor of this brief period of early suburban development in the District of Columbia, and Criterion C, as a building exhibiting a high degree of the distinctive architectural characteristics of the Queen Anne style. The house and its landscape provides formidable insight into the development of the city of Washington and the late nineteenth century's evolving real estate trends, and is an example of Hurst's vision for the residential neighborhood he sought to develop. The five Queen Anne residences from the 1890s, including Glen Hurst, stand out in their environs as vestiges of their early speculative period of development. After over 100 years, the bucolic setting surrounding these structures, along with their distinctive architectural style, have been retained and serve as physical reminders of the aspirations held by John C. Hurst, Richard Ough, and the directors Palisades of the Potomac Land Improvement Company. Visual analysis reveals that only three of the buildings, including Glen Hurst, have retained a high degree of historic integrity, making these dwellings even more of a rarity. The house's visibility at this location, combined with its outstanding architectural integrity, represents the setting and feeling of the late-nineteenth-century history of Glen Hurst and the Palisades to an exceptional degree within the neighborhood. Through careful stewardship and meticulous restoration over the past century, John C. Hurst's Glen Hurst remains an outstanding survivor of the Palisades earliest development.

Nassau County, FL Listed: 01/28/2002 American Beach is nominated to the National Register for significance at the local level under Criterion A in the areas of Ethnic Heritage: Black, and Community Planning and Development. The Pension Bureau of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company developed American Beach as an ocean front resort for African-Americans. The company acquired the property in three parcels between 1935 and 1946. In addition to providing an open pavilion for company outings, and guest houses for company officials and employees, the Pension Bureau under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln Lewis had the parcels subdivided into lots to be sold for vacation homes. Around 125 acres of the platted sections of American Beach were eventually developed. American Beach meets Criterion Consideration G as the largest of several segregated beaches that developed in Florida as a result of legislated segregation that lasted until the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the initial effects of which were felt in American Beach in 1965. The period of significance therefore, is 1935-1965. American Beach was the most prominent of the Florida segregated beaches; was the most extensively developed; and retains the greatest concentration of historic resources of Florida's Black beaches. American Beach was created as a very specialized community; a segregated planned beach resort. It thrived as one of the premier such resorts until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the social changes that followed. Despite these social changes, the harsh coastal environment, and local developmental and economic pressures on the community, it survives with a high degree of physical integrity and its unique environmental setting is intact. The historic resources associated with other such beach resorts have largely been lost to similar pressures, making the American Beach community uniquely associated with and representative of an earlier period of African American life.