Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/8

...that the Shell Service Station (pictured) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
...that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?
...that tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California, to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction? (29 January 2008)
...that there are over 2,300 local historic districts in the United States?