Wright Brothers National Memorial

Wright Brothers National Memorial
Monument at Wright Brothers National Memorial.
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Location	Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA
Coordinates	36°00′51″N 75°40′04″W / 36.0143°N 75.6679°W / 36.0143; -75.6679
Area	428 acres (173 ha)[1]
Authorized	March 2, 1927 (1927-March-02)
Visitors	482,191 (in 2021)[2]
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Wright Brothers National Memorial
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Official name	Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center
Designated	January 3, 2001[3]
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated	October 15, 1966
Reference no.	66000071[4]
Architects	Rogers & Poor; National Park Service
Architecture	Art Deco
U.S. National Memorial
Designated	December 4, 1953

Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds. They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers.