305 Ninth Street Northwest (Commercial Building), Square 408, Lot 815,...
Significance: Originally built as a commercial building. At different times it has served as a dwelling, an office, a produce market and a bank. The building is now dwarfed by the monumentality of its modern ... More
Bexar County Courthouse, 20 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Bexar County...
Significance: The building is the latest in a series of courthouse buildings for Bexar County, and by its growth and size is indicative of the progress and development in the area since the last quarter of the ... More
Lawrence Machine Shop, Building No. 4, 70 General Street, Lawrence, Es...
Survey number: HABS MA-988-S Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anderson House, 1111 Myrtle Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH
Significance: A contributing element in a cluster of frame dwellings which dated from 1865-1885 and displayed ornamental wooden detailing. Survey number: HABS OH-2348 Building/structure dates: 1880 Initial Co... More
Dr. Joseph Glover House, 81 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, Charleston Co...
Significance: An antebellum town house of interesting architectural character. Survey number: HABS SC-320 Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Initial Construction
Joseph Sims House, 228 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
Significance: This house is the last survivor of Franklin Row, a group of ten houses built in 1809-1810 to the designs of Architect Robert Mills for John Meany and John Savage. The house was purchased from them... More
410-412 Armory Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton Coun...
Significance: Excellent example of commercial structure in the West End of Cincinnati, an affluent neighborhood which developed after the middle of the nineteenth century as the city expanded. Survey number: H... More
2000-2042 I Street (Commercial Buildings), Washington, District of Col...
Survey number: HABS DC-400 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...
Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More
431 South Duke Street (House), York, York County, PA
Significance: York vernacular, 2/3 Georgian form, but with a mansard roof with gable roof dormers. The rear extension with its second story porch is also typical of York vernacular architecture. Survey number... More
626 South Eighteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
Significance: 626 South Eighteenth Street is significant within the context of the Russell National District listed in 1980. This structure is typical of houses that were built throughout this particular neigh... More
Delancey Street Area Study I, 1800-1836 Delancey Street (Houses), Phil...
Survey number: HABS PA-1501 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Leiter I Building, 200-208 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: The first Leiter Building, built in 1879, has been cited as a Chicago Architectural Landmark, "In recognition of its contribution towards the development of skeleton construction. Cast iron pilast... More
Liddon Building, 405-409 Cruise Street, Corinth, Alcorn County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-235 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Colony Building, 407 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The building is an example of the work of the Chicago firm of Holabird and Roche. Since the high, narrow, slab-like structure is almost entirely freestanding and without masonry bearing walls, an ... More
106 Central Avenue (House), Newark, Essex County, NJ
Significance: Three story brick townhouse which contributes to the James Street Commons Historic District. Survey number: HABS NJ-940
Flatbush Town Hall, 35 Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
Significance: The Flatbush Town Hall, a handsome Victorian Gothic structure, is one of the best of its type in New York City. Built in 1875, it is a tangible symbol of civic government in Flatbush in the period... More
3001-3009 M Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbi...
Significance: Thomas Sim Lee in 1794 built the house and made his winter residence at the corner of 30th and "M" streets, now the two buildings 3001-3003 on "M" street. By 1800 he had acquired property at this ... More
45-47 Ward Street (House), 45-47 Ward Street, Paterson, Passaic County...
Significance: St. Michael's Sisters' Home is distinguished architecturally as a relatively rare survivor locally of a mid 19th century double rowhouse, built for middle class occupancy. The building is particul... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
National Hotel, 1713 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-116 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anthony Reintzel Building, 3258 M Street Northwest, Washington, Distri...
Significance: This building represents an early (c. 1810) Georgetown waterfront area two-and-a-half-story shop and dwelling type remodeled and raised to three full stories c. 1870-80. Survey number: HABS DC-1... More
G Street, Northwest, 1200 Block (Commercial Buildings), No. 1204, Wash...
Survey number: HABS DC-333-B Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Jersey Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Significance: This avenue developed according to the L'Enfant/Ellicott plans of the city. It is interrupted by the Capitol Grounds, and most places on the avenue in both Northwest and Southeast quadrants offer ... More
Bear Block, 404 South Palafox Street, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL
Significance: This structure is an excellent example of Pensacola's late nineteenth century commercial architecture, which retains its original sheet metal finish materials, timber and cast iron structural elem... More
Isaac Chase House, 14 1/2 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: Early dwelling erected in the Fish Lot Shares on Wesco Hill; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-251... More
St. Augustine School, 923 Bank Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH
Significance: This is a large, three story school building whose architectural character evidences the last phases of the vernacular nineteenth century classical revival. It is the only such building in what is... More
Hotel Glendon, 18-28 Cazenove Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: This structure is a fine example of a small Queen Anne pressed brick apartment house of the type commonly built by land speculators in Boston between 1875 and 1890. The building is also included ... More
Christ Church (Episcopal), 3116 O Street Northwest, Washington, Distri...
Significance: Christ Church was founded in 1817 by a small group of prominent Georgetown citizens. Throughout the nineteenth century, many of Georgetown's business-men, merchants and government officials worsh... More
North Eutaw Street, No. 211 (Commercial Building), Baltimore, Independ...
Significance: Fair example of commercial/loft building with good three part projecting window unit running full height of upper three stories. Was Goodyear raincoat manufacturing (1928), Great A&P Tea Co. (193... More
1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton C...
Significance: The four-story commercial/residential structure is located at the corner of Central Avenue and John Street. It is part of a cohesive cluster of other commercial/residential structures which are re... More
St. George Tabernacle, Main Street and Tabernacle Streets, Saint Georg...
Significance: This is probably the finest remaining pioneer Tabernacle in the state, immaculately maintained, located in the central city of the Southern Utah Cotton Mission. Unprocessed Field note material e... More
Walnut-Dollison Historic District, Hardrick House, 300-302 South Dolli...
Significance: Built in 1908-09, this massive duplex house was first occupied by Burton A. & James S. Hardrick, black businessmen who owned Hardrick Brothers Grocery on St. Louis Street. It is a contemporary of ... More
North George Street Historic District, York, York County, PA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-150 Survey number: HABS PA-573
Main Street Crescent, 209-217 Main Street, Ossining, Westchester Count...
Significance: The Main Street Crescent is one of the main parts of the downtown district of the City of Ossining, The "Crescent" refers to a crescent shaped portion of Main Street. The Crescent consists of thre... More
Main Street Crescent, 209-217 Main Street, Ossining, Westchester Count...
Significance: The Main Street Crescent is one of the main parts of the downtown district of the City of Ossining, The "Crescent" refers to a crescent shaped portion of Main Street. The Crescent consists of thre... More
Workingmen's Houses, 31-35 Locust Street, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA
Significance: Greatly altered through subsequent facade remodelings and construction of two large additions, this building has suffered architecturally in recent years. Nevertheless, it is a typically scaled a... More
The Times Building, Georgia Avenue & East Eighth Street, Chattanooga, ...
Significance: The Times Building was built 1888-1892 by Adolph S. Ochs, De Lemos and Cordes of New York, architects. In 1880 Ochs became owner of the Chattanooga Times which he continued to publish after he ac... More
Poletown Historic District, Chene Street Commercial District, Chene St...
Significance: The Chene Street Commercial District achieves its significance from its role as an early Polish immigrant community in Detroit. Polish settlement along the street began in the 1860's and was grea... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
Aluminum Building, 215 Governor Street, Richmond, Independent City, Vi...
Survey number: HABS VA-652 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pipestone Historic District, Old Masonic Temple, Main Street, Pipeston...
Survey number: HABS MN-115-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000761
413 West Eighth Street (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton Cou...
Significance: This structure is a relatively small residential/commercial building, somewhat unusual in its decorative treatment compared to others in the West End section of Cincinnati. Survey number: HABS OH-649
Outing Park, Bounded by Adams, Richelieu, Marble, & Main Streets, Spri...
Significance: In 1913 one of Springfield's most notable construction firms, Gagnier and Angers Inc., began building "Outing Park." Fourteen years later, forty-four, three and four-story brick apartment blocks ... More
Marquette Building, 140 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: A typical Chicago School building, the Marquette stands as an artistically-conceived expression of its underlying steel frame. Not only was the building a pioneering effort in the use of the steel... More
1008 Cleveland Street (House), Durham, Durham County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-368 Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Initial Construction
Syracuse City Hall, Washington Street, Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY
Significance: The site of Syracuse City Hall has been the center of Syracuse's municipal government since 1846. At that time municipal offices were housed in a portion of the old "Market Hall" (ca. 1845). The b... More
F. D. Stout House, 1105 Locust Street, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA
Survey number: HABS IA-110 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
21-23 West Market Street (Commercial Building), York, York County, PA
Significance: 21-23 West Market Street, built circa 1879, has had a long history of varied commercial uses. The building, notable for its simple ornamentation is an integral part of the West Market Streetscape.... More
North Third Street Area Study, 17-63 North Third Street (Commercial Bu...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS PA-1450
Thomas Sully House, 530 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Coun...
Survey number: HABS PA-1372 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000691
Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 141, 463 Arsenal Street, Watertown, Mi...
Significance: A good example of late 19th century architecture which has undergone a number of inappropriate modifications. It was originally a guardhouse for the arsenal. Survey number: HABS MA-1009 Buildin... More
Cordova Apartments, 1908 Florida Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distric...
Survey number: HABS DC-422 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
South Main Street, Block 43 (Commercial Buildings), South Main & Washi...
Significance: The buildings of South Main Street as a unit form a very harmonious and decorative street facade, relative to a pedestrian scale and representative of the late 19th century style. Individually th... More
U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...
Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324
James Street Commons Historic District, Halsey, Warren, Boyden, Bleeke...
Survey number: HABS NJ-335 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Simon Oppenheimer & Brother Building, 800 E Street, Northwest, Washing...
Significance: With its flat pilasters and stylized details such as the capitals, the facade is suggestive of the stripped classicism popular in the early 20th century and best seen in the work of Paul Cret. S... More
Liddon Building, 405-409 Cruise Street, Corinth, Alcorn County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-235 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gas Station, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
Survey number: HABS KY-154 Building/structure dates: after. 1930- before. 1940 Initial Construction
128 Wentworth Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-554 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Campbell Building, 102-124 Eighth Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA
Significance: This two-story brick building is located on the southeast corner of Eighth and Reynolds Street and is a good example of commercial structures built in downtown Augusta following the devastating fi... More
214 Madison Street (House), Fairmont, Marion County, WV
Significance: 214 Madison Street is architecturally significant as a surviving example of a late 19th Century Italianate style house. Survey number: HABS WV-134
Jackson Avenue Warehouse District, 101-131 & 120-122 Jackson Avenue, K...
Significance: The Jackson Avenue Warehouses area group of three, four and five story commercial structures. These Romanesque buildings were primarily built 1888-1894 (Others have been added later). The unifor... More
Betts-Longworth (Houses & Commercial Buildings), Ezzard Charles Drive,...
Significance: the Betts-Longworth section of Cincinnati is one of the oldest western subdivisions of the city and reflects the architectural and sociological development of the city in the nineteenth century. ... More
School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood, Bounded on north by Quincy &...
Significance: The School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood is centered on the School Street Apartments and St. Joseph's Polish Church and School. The School Street Apartments are a group of eleven matching bric... More
Exchange Block, 108-150 Main Street, Middletown, Middlesex County, CT
Significance: The Exchange Block, largely constructed in 1827, is a notable example of a nineteenth century urban streetscape. Survey number: HABS CT-326 Building/structure dates: 1827 Initial Construction B... More
1156-1158 East Rich Street (Houses), Columbus, Franklin County, OH
Significance: The building contributes to the Near East Side Historic District, a predominately residential area containing those architectural styles typical of affluent neighborhoods from the 1880s to the 193... More
Cyclorama Building, 369 Franklin Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY
Significance: Cyclorama is a 16-sided regular polygon originally constructed to house "cycloramas," or panoramic art displays popular in the United States in the late 1800s. The building is one of the few survi... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
700-714 Spruce Street (Houses), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Significance: The four-story brick townhouses were constructed between 1835 and 1839. 704-714 were built and occupied by Philadelphia tradespeople. 700-702 and eventually 704 were owned by the Roman Catholic So... More
Judge & Nunan's Saddlery, 165 East California Street, Jacksonville, Ja...
Significance: The site of Judge and Nunan's Saddlery was part of the Union Hotel lot until C.C. Beekman took title to the land in 1858. In 1860, Beekman sold a fifty-by-two-hundred-foot lot near the middle of ... More
38 Broad Street (Commercial Building), Charleston, Charleston County, ...
Survey number: HABS SC-419 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
102 Central Avenue (House), Newark, Essex County, NJ
Significance: Somewhat later than other similar townhouses in the area. Common ownership with #79 Bleeker Street to about 1900. Private residence typical of three-story brick townhouses in District, City, and N... More
Harbor Hills Housing Project, 26607 Western Avenue, Lomita, Los Angele...
Significance: The Harbor Hill Housing Project is significant as an important representative example of the role the federal and local government played in providing low income rental housing during the Great De... More
479 & 481 South Convent Avenue (House), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: Standing in an isolated situation, this adobe duplex is connected to its northern neighbor (473 Convent Ave., (AZ-73-52)) by an archway and gate. The two structures were probably joined when the ... More
Tyler Block, 319 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, ...
Significance: The five-part facade of this commercial block is a fully expressed example of the Italianate style of architecture applied to an urban structure. Survey number: HABS KY-151
Columbia Street Clock, On Hampton Street, near the intersection of Mai...
Significance: One of two street clocks in Columbia; both clocks have four faces ornamented with lions' heads and standing atop a fluted column with a Corinthian capital. The clock faces are round with roman num... More
408 Eighth Street (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: Building lacks any architectural detailing or historical association that would make it significant. It apparently dates to 1848 when the tax books how a structure built by Thomas McGuire, blacks... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Key City Gas Company Warehouse, 10 ...
Significance: Though greatly altered, this building is historically important in its association with one of Dubuque's earliest public utilities. Survey number: HABS IA-160-AY Building/structure dates: 1868 I... More
70-72 Monroe Avenue (Commercial Building), Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Significance: This building contributes to the last intact pre-Civil War commercial block remaining in Detroit, and was the site of the Casino Theater. / Hiram R. Johnson (1825-1894), a prominent Detroit busine... More
Eighth Street District, West Eighth, John & West Seventh Streets, Cinc...
Significance: The buildings represent a good concentrated row of late 19th century buildings indicative of Cincinnati's wealth and importance in the development of Ohio. These buildings are all that remain of t... More
Eighth Street District, West Eighth, John & West Seventh Streets, Cinc...
Significance: The buildings represent a good concentrated row of late 19th century buildings indicative of Cincinnati's wealth and importance in the development of Ohio. These buildings are all that remain of t... More
Arch Street Opera House, 1003-1005 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadel...
Survey number: HABS PA-1495 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ralph Izard House, Carriage House, 110 Broad Street, Charleston, Charl...
Survey number: HABS SC-65-B Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Delancey Street Area Study I, 1800-1836 Delancey Street (Houses), Phil...
Survey number: HABS PA-1501 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Commerce Avenue Fire Hall, 201-205 Commerce Avenue, Knoxville, Knox Co...
Significance: The Commerce Avenue Fire Hall was built in 1904. Its impressive size and design reflects the pre-occupation of growing 19th century urban centers with the threat of fire. Its Renaissance Revival... More
101-111 Tenth Street (Rowhouse), Charleroi, Washington County, PA
Significance: Typical two story frame residential block (6 units)- occupied by industrial workers. Survey number: HABS PA-5391
106 Central Avenue (House), Newark, Essex County, NJ
Significance: Three story brick townhouse which contributes to the James Street Commons Historic District. Survey number: HABS NJ-940
19 Wentworth Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-747 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Keith-Albee Building, Fifteenth & G Streets Northwest, Washington, Dis...
Significance: Initially designed for vaudeville and silent films, the 1,850 seat theatre was incorporated into a large, mixed usage office building in the heart of Washington's financial district. The elegant ... More
Botany Worsted Mills, Waste Picker House, 176 Parker Avenue, Passaic, ...
Significance: With its "sawtooth" roofline and brick construction, the building is a good surviving example of an early 20th century industrial building. Originally part of the Botany Worsted Mills, this buildi... More
Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk...
Significance: This building is included in the South End Historic District. Survey number: HABS MA-1114 Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction
Rhodes Tavern, 601-603 Fifteenth Street & 1431 F Street Northwest, Was...
Significance: Earliest commercial building (built as a tavern) remaining in downtown Washington; headquarters for British officers directing the burning of the White House; home of one of the first banks in the... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More
South El Paso Street Historic District, South El Paso, South Oregon & ...
Significance: The historic district is the oldest, continuously-used commercial area in the city, and as such, is important to El Paso's history. The first settlement dates to February 1827 when Ponce de Leon r... More