A Place in History

Examine the photo and the clues we've provided below to pinpoint this location. Choose right and you could win a $100 BSA Supply Group gift card.

It’s the final Day of my trip to this amazing city, and it’s been a vacation for the history books. I checked out some museums, saw a Broadway show, and ate some delicious pizza.

But now I’ve become somewhat turned around. With all these numbered streets, it’s hard to be truly lost, but I haven’t been paying attention. I toy with the idea of asking the guy at the hot-dog stand how to get back to my hotel. But just then, a familiar-looking building catches my eye.

I know I’ve seen that building in a picture somewhere. It’s had a few renovations since then—the photograph was probably a century old—but it’s still recognizable. I find a bench at the park across the street and try to iron out the details of this building’s significance in my mind. Then I wonder: Where Am I?

DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? If the scene shown and described looks familiar, enter our “Where Am I?” reader contest. We’ll take all of the correct answers and select one entrant at random to receive a $100 gift card to the BSA’s Supply Group. But be specific. Simply telling us the address of the location above won't do it—we need to know why it’s noteworthy.

Ready to enter? Use this form to send us your guess. The deadline is March 1, 2010. Good luck!

Congratulations to our November-December 2009 Where Am I? winner, Gregory Schadt of Arlington, Tex. Gregory correctly told us that the mystery location was Boot Canyon/Boot Spring in Big Bend National Park in South Texas. Gregory will receive a $100 BSA Supply Group gift card. The winner was selected at random from a pool of 133 correct responses.