Robert F. Beresford, architect, 810 18th St. N.W. Electric sign for Ma...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Architect of the Capitol. Detail of pedestal for Chief Justice Marshal...
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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Washington DC. Far...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Washington DC. Farm Securi...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
William Jones, architect on Southeast Missouri Farms Project
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Arab architect at Mosque el Aksa [i.e., al-Aqsa], Abdel Fatah Hilmi Be...
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First lady inspects war workers homes. On an inspection tour of federa...
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Louis Justement, architect. Law Library, Howard University
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[Floor plan for the Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero ...
Illus. in: The Architectural forum, the magazine of building, vol. 109, no. 3. New York : Time Inc., Sept. 1958, p. 129.
View of architect Mies van der Rohe's classic modernist Farnsworth Hou...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Now a property of the National Trust for Historic Prese... More
Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by modernist architect Ludw...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The one-room steel and glass house was commissioned by ... More
Building, globe, and grounds of the S.C. Johnson and son headquarters ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Chapel of St. Basil by architect Philip Johnson at the University of S...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Upper stories of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple, designe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building has strong Gothic influences, with its pinnacles, pointed arches and window tracery in terra cotta detailing. Credit line... More
Architect Stanley Bliss designed the brick Starr County Courthouse, wh...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Replicas of the famous "Sprite" statues at the historic Arizona Biltmo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright and sculpted by his student, Alfonso Ianelli, in 1914 for the Midw... More
Detail of the Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles,...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angele... More
Architect Philip Johnson's stained-glass "Glory Window" unfolds in the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei designed this modernist hom...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Architect Philip Johnson's stained-glass "Glory Window" unfolds in the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marke...
The building was the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere at the time of opening in 2011. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith ... More
Meyer S. May House, 450 Madison Avenue, Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI
Significance: Early house of this type in Michigan. / Date of construction: 1909. Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright. Prairie School. Brick with stone trim. Two stories, approx. 50' x 90'. Low hip roof, wide ov... More
Masonic Hall Chesnut St. Phila'a. erected A.D. 1813 destroyed by fire ...
Print shows the Masonic Hall from the street, with horse-drawn coach and pedestrians in the foreground. Includes "inscription on corner stone" at center, below image. Entered according to Act of Congress in th... More
Emil Bach House, 7415 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: This is one of the few houses in the Chicago area done by Frank Lloyd Wright after returning from Europe in 1911 and before going to Japan to supervise the work on the Imperial Hotel. It is a late... More
Barnsdall Park, Residence 'A', 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, ...
See also HABS CA-356, CA-1938 for additional & related documentation. Structure has been referred to stylistically as "Mayan Eclectic." Significance: Residence "A" is important mainly as one of two surviving st... More
Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The Robie House is one of the best known early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been cited as a Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the creation of... More
Avery Coonley House, 300 Scottswood Road, 281 Bloomingbank Road, River...
2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Coonley estate for Chicago industrialist Avery Coonley and his wife, Queene Ferry of the Detroit-based Ferry Seed Company on a... More
Avery Coonley House, 300 Scottswood Road, 281 Bloomingbank Road, River...
2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Coonley estate for Chicago industrialist Avery Coonley and his wife, Queene Ferry of the Detroit-based Ferry Seed Company on a... More
Avery Coonley House, 300 Scottswood Road, 281 Bloomingbank Road, River...
2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Coonley estate for Chicago industrialist Avery Coonley and his wife, Queene Ferry of the Detroit-based Ferry Seed Company on a... More
Chapin & Gore Building, 63 East Adams Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: The Chapin and Gore Building, 1904, was built for a Chicago firm which specialized in the making and distribution of wines and whiskies. The architect, Richard E. Schmidt, was one of a group of C... More
Francis Apartments, 4304 South Forestville Avenue, Chicago, Cook Count...
Address corrected from Forestville Avenue to Forrestville Avenue. Significance: The Francis Apartment Building is an early design by Frank Lloyd Wright. One of two middle-income housing projects executed by Wri... More
First Congregational Church, 1106 Chestnut Street, Western Springs, Co...
2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: In the 1920s, First Congregational Church of Western Springs was growing out of its original frame building and needed to expand. Seeking a new bu... More
Architect's Folly, 610 South Tenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan Coun...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
David M. Amberg House, 573 College Avenue, Grand Rapids, Kent County, ...
The address used in the survey was updated from 573 College Avenue to 505 College Avenue Southeast. Significance: Built in 1909 for a prosperous liquor wholesaler. This is the only surviving example of the wor... More
Samuel Freeman House, 1962 Glencoe Way, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...
Structure incorporates FLW's "Textile Blocks." Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright textile block house (California). / The Samuel Freeman House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's California textile block houses, was des... More
Ernest J. Magerstadt House, 4930 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, Cook...
Significance: This house is probably one of the finest works of George W. Maher, a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of the Prairie School. It shows a relationship to Wright's work of the time in its ... More
[Design drawing for stained glass window with Moses and the Ten Comman...
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James Charnley House, 1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: The Charnley House, probably designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during the time he worked for Adler and Sullivan, was recognized in February 1960 by the Commission of Chicago Architectural Landmark. ... More
James Charnley House, 1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: The Charnley House, probably designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during the time he worked for Adler and Sullivan, was recognized in February 1960 by the Commission of Chicago Architectural Landmark. ... More
Susan Lawrence Dana House, 301 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Sang...
Significance: The Susan Lawrence Dana House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1904, is an early and excellent example of Wright's mature Prairie Style. This Prairie house encases an earlier Itali... More
Susan Lawrence Dana House, 301 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Sang...
Significance: The Susan Lawrence Dana House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1904, is an early and excellent example of Wright's mature Prairie Style. This Prairie house encases an earlier Itali... More
Susan Lawrence Dana House, 301 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Sang...
Significance: The Susan Lawrence Dana House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1904, is an early and excellent example of Wright's mature Prairie Style. This Prairie house encases an earlier Itali... More
William Allen White House, Main House, 927 North Exchange Street, Empo...
Significance: "Red Rocks" was the home of newspaper editor and writer William Allen White from 1899 until his death in 1944. White was national known and revered as the editor of the Emporia Gazette, a frequen... More
Reverend Jessie R. Ziegler House, 509 Shelby Street, Frankfort, Frankl...
Significance: While on passage to Italy in the summer of 1910, Frank Lloyd Wright met and prepared sketches for the house at 509 Shelby Street in Frankfort, KY for Jesse R. Ziegler, a young Presbyterian ministe... More
O'Brien House, 4740 Richmond Avenue, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The O'Brien House, located in the South Highlands Historic District of Shreveport, was built in 1950 for Mr. and Mrs. J.C. O'Brien. Their goal was to simplify... More
O'Brien House, 4740 Richmond Avenue, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The O'Brien House, located in the South Highlands Historic District of Shreveport, was built in 1950 for Mr. and Mrs. J.C. O'Brien. Their goal was to simplify... More
O'Brien House, 4740 Richmond Avenue, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The O'Brien House, located in the South Highlands Historic District of Shreveport, was built in 1950 for Mr. and Mrs. J.C. O'Brien. Their goal was to simplify... More
Pope-Leighey House, 9000 Richmond Highway (moved from Falls Church, Vi...
Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed this house, which was built in 1940 for Loren B. Pope. An example of Wright's "Usonian House," the structure, in danger of demolition in 1965 for a highway right-of-wa... More
A.B. Young (of Boston) Supervising Architect, Treasury Department.
Photograph shows portrait of Ammi B. Young. Attributed to Walker based on date, subject matter, and size of print. Purchase; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:057).
James G. Hill Architect. Glass Plate Negative, American Civil War time...
A black and white photo of a man with a mustache. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Paul Johannes Pelz (1841-1918), architect]
Photograph by T.W. Smillie, Smithsonian Institution. Title from Ten First Street, Southeast: Congress Builds a Library, 1886-1897 / Helen-Anne Hilker. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980, p. 62, no. 25
[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...
Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:100 no. 80:5786
[Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. William Binder, architect / / John Pa...
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Amsterdam, Netherlands. Workers' apartments of the "Eigen Haard" Housi...
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Architect of the Capitol. U.S. Capitol model XII
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Architect of the Capitol. U.S. Capitol model III
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mayor Walker of New York confers with Secretary Mellon and other membe...
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. XI
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. XII...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Architect of the Capitol. Cave-in 1st and C St. where gas main and Cap...
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Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. Stairs down and up from ground in Congr...
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Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. Library
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Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. End view of telephone exchange at 1420 ...
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A black and white photo of a man eating, Washington DC. Farm Security ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Vallejo, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housin...
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Louis Justement, architect. Capitol Power Plant, New Jersey Ave. and E...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Louis Justement, architect. Inaugural stand for President Truman II
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Louis Justement, architect. Inaugural stand for President Truman IV
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University of Michigan, School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1952-58....
Box. no. 2. No. 255. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Open area at the Johnson Wax Building, headquarters of the S.C. Johnso...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The building and its furnishings were designed by Frank... More
Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by modernist architect Ludw...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The one-room steel and glass house was commissioned by ... More
Robie House, created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hyde Park ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Building, globe, and grounds of the S.C. Johnson and son headquarters ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Seattle Music Project by architect Frank O. Gehry, Seattle, Washington
The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (abbreviation rendered with a pipe as EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fic... More
Detail of the Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles,...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angele... More
Detail of the Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles,...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angele... More
Sculpture on the grounds of a house designed by acclaimed internationa...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dod...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dod...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei designed this modernist hom...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Eliminate crime in the slums through housing
Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter crime in the slums, showing stylized man holding a gun against a backdrop of tenement buildings. Date stamped on verso: Sep 12 1936. New York City Housing ... More
Frederick B. Carter, Jr. House, 1024 Judson Street, Evanston, Cook Cou...
Significance: The Carter house was designed by Walter Burley Griffin in 1909-1910. At a time when he was apparently still under the influence of his former employer, Frank Lloyd Wright; this is suggested in his... More
Storer House, 8161 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...
Structure incorporates FLW's "Textile Blocks." Significance: One of several of Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete block houses built in southern California. The John Storer residence, built in 1923, is one of severa... More
Storer House, 8161 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...
Structure incorporates FLW's "Textile Blocks." Significance: One of several of Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete block houses built in southern California. The John Storer residence, built in 1923, is one of severa... More
Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The Robie House is one of the best known early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been cited as a Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the creation of... More
Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The Robie House is one of the best known early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been cited as a Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the creation of... More
Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The Robie House is one of the best known early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been cited as a Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the creation of... More
Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Significance: The Robie House is one of the best known early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been cited as a Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the creation of... More
Avery Coonley House, 300 Scottswood Road, 281 Bloomingbank Road, River...
2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Coonley estate for Chicago industrialist Avery Coonley and his wife, Queene Ferry of the Detroit-based Ferry Seed Company on a... More
Chapin & Gore Building, 63 East Adams Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: The Chapin and Gore Building, 1904, was built for a Chicago firm which specialized in the making and distribution of wines and whiskies. The architect, Richard E. Schmidt, was one of a group of C... More
Francis Apartments, 4304 South Forestville Avenue, Chicago, Cook Count...
Address corrected from Forestville Avenue to Forrestville Avenue. Significance: The Francis Apartment Building is an early design by Frank Lloyd Wright. One of two middle-income housing projects executed by Wri... More
First Congregational Church, 1106 Chestnut Street, Western Springs, Co...
2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: In the 1920s, First Congregational Church of Western Springs was growing out of its original frame building and needed to expand. Seeking a new bu... More
William Allen White House, 923-927 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyo...
Significance: This site was the home of William Allen White, nationally revered and internationally influential editor of The Emporia Gazette, from 1899 until his death in 1944. It was here that White and his ... More
Beth Sholom Synagogue, Old York & Foxcroft Roads, Elkins Park, Montgom...
Significance: Beth Sholom Synagogue represents the later work of nationally recognized architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It is among the designs that the American Institute of Architects has suggested be preserved ... More
Rose Pauson House (Ruins), Thirty-Second Street, Phoenix, Maricopa Cou...
Significance: The Pauson House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1940. Three photographs and two floor plans of the house were published in Henry-Russel Hitchcock's "In the Nature of Material... More
Warren Segraves Residence, 217 Oklahoma Way, Fayetteville, Washington ...
2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Completed in 1959, the Warren Segraves Residence was designed by Warren Segraves and was one of the first houses in the Northwest Arkansas region to have an e... More
Warren Segraves Residence, 217 Oklahoma Way, Fayetteville, Washington ...
2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Completed in 1959, the Warren Segraves Residence was designed by Warren Segraves and was one of the first houses in the Northwest Arkansas region to have an e... More
Samuel Freeman House, 1962 Glencoe Way, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...
Structure incorporates FLW's "Textile Blocks." Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright textile block house (California). / The Samuel Freeman House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's California textile block houses, was des... More