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
Springfield City Hall, 1890, 117 South Fountain Avenue, Springfield, C...
Significance: Completed in 1890, the large city office building was designed by a well-known local architect, who also did many other large downtown buildings. The building represented Springfield's move into m... More
[Official residence ("Executive Mansion") for Mary Newton Foote Hender...
Proposed design for an Executive Mansion to be located on Meridian Hill, designed for Mrs. Mary Newton Foote Henderson. Inscription: "Proposed Executive Mansion." Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Buildin... More
[Official residence ("Executive Mansion") for Mary Newton Foote Hender...
Proposed design for an Executive Mansion to be located on Meridian Hill, designed for Mrs. Mary Newton Foote Henderson. Inscription: "Proposed Executive Mansion." Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Buildin... More
[Design drawing for stained glass Rose window with Lamb of God, and mo...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). Extension. South Wing. Hall...
Scaled. No. 929. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was complete... More
Architect of the Capitol. U.S. Capitol model XVII
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[Facade of the Town Hall, Littleton, Colorado which was designed by th...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). On item: "Town Hall, Colorado, J.B. Benedict, Arch." The building is now the Town Hall Arts Center, located at 2450 West Main Street.
[Facade of the Town Hall, Littleton, Colorado which was designed by th...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). The building is now the Town Hall Arts Center, located at 2450 West Main Street. On item: "J.B. Benedict, Arch. Littleton?".
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Amsterdam, Netherlands. Workers' houses of the "Het We Westen" Housing...
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. VI
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Washington Gas Light Co. Architect rendering of Washington Gas Light C...
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. X
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Architect of the Capitol. Cave-in 1st and C St. where gas main and Cap...
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Architect of the Capitol. Sculptural grouping for Library of Congress ...
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Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. Exterior of boys club at 810 16th St., ...
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Leon Chatelain Jr., architect. Interior of main chapel in Westmoreland...
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A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Washington DC. Farm Securi...
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A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Washington DC. Farm Securi...
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A black and white photo of a man eating a sandwich, Washington DC. Far...
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Open arcade downside of drafting room at winter quarters of Frank Lloy...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
The "Winged Mercury" bas-relief atop the entrance to the 1940 Air Term...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2014, the terminal and nearby 1928 Carter Field Hangar are being restored and operated by the nonprofit Houston Aeronautical He... More
New York, New York. Architect Candella, who designed the Red Hook hous...
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Louis Justement, architect. Inaugural stand for President Truman V
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Louis Justement, architect. Gallinger Municipal Hospital
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Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...
Box. no. 3. No. 544. 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
IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...
Box. no. 3. No. 495. 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
Rosenbaum House, one of the residences created by Frank Lloyd Wright, ...
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
Grounds of Taliesin East, home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring...
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Majestic Capitol by architect Cass Gilbert, St. Paul, Minnesota
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
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
Jules Leffland was the architect for this Victorian structure, built a...
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The Winship Building on Main Street in Napa, California, was designed ...
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Architect Hugh Kaptur's low-slung, modernist Fire Station No. 3, compl...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Interior view of the Garden Room at Taliesin West, renowned architect ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today Taliesin West is the main campus of the School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Open to... More
The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama
This house, an American architectural treasure, was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state o... More
The 1908 Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, New York, built in an e...
Acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright won agreement from Boynton, a successful lantern manufacturer, to not only design the house but also design the landscape and furnishings as well. It's the furthest east o... 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
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
Sculpture on the grounds of a house designed by acclaimed internationa...
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 modernist Jack Cohen House in Montgomery County, Maryland
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... 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
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
Hollyhock House, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co...
See also HABS CA-1938 drawing sheet 4 of 5 for "Hilltop Plot Plan." Structure has been referred to stylistically as "Mayan Eclectic." Significance: The Hollyhock House was considered by Frank Lloyd Wright to be... More
Hollyhock House, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co...
See also HABS CA-1938 drawing sheet 4 of 5 for "Hilltop Plot Plan." Structure has been referred to stylistically as "Mayan Eclectic." Significance: The Hollyhock House was considered by Frank Lloyd Wright to be... More
Hollyhock House, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co...
See also HABS CA-1938 drawing sheet 4 of 5 for "Hilltop Plot Plan." Structure has been referred to stylistically as "Mayan Eclectic." Significance: The Hollyhock House was considered by Frank Lloyd Wright to be... More
Peerless Motor Company Plant No. 1, Quincy Avenue & 93, Cleveland, Cuy...
Significance: The design and detailing of the Peerless Motor Company Building suggests a derivation from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School architects. More specifically, the exterior main en... More
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
William H. Winslow House, Auvergne Place, River Forest, Cook County, I...
Significance: The house built in 1893 is considered to be the first significant structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright after establishing an independent practice. Unprocessed Field note material exists for t... More
William H. Winslow House, Auvergne Place, River Forest, Cook County, I...
Significance: The house built in 1893 is considered to be the first significant structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright after establishing an independent practice. Unprocessed Field note material exists for t... More
Peter E. Col House, 1163 Martin Avenue, San Jose, Santa Clara County, ...
Significance: The Peter E. Col house is an especially notable example of the work of San Jose architects Wolfe & Wolfe. During the early 20th century this father and son team was one of the most prominent and ... More
Peter E. Col House, 1163 Martin Avenue, San Jose, Santa Clara County, ...
Significance: The Peter E. Col house is an especially notable example of the work of San Jose architects Wolfe & Wolfe. During the early 20th century this father and son team was one of the most prominent and ... 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
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
American System-Built Homes, 2720-22 West Burnham Street, Milwaukee, M...
1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: During the early part of his career Frank Lloyd Wright began working on a scheme of low-cost housing for the city dweller called the American System-Built Hom... 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
Old U. S. Post Office, K & Seventh Streets, Sacramento, Sacramento Cou...
Significance: The Old Post Office of 1894 at the corner of 7th and K Streets is an important example of Romanesque Revival architecture in Sacramento. This building with its massive arched entrance and tall re... More
[Design drawing for stained glass Rose window with Lamb of God, and mo...
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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
Barnsdall Park, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Cou...
Significance: Intended as a major arts and cultural center, Barnsdall Park was never completed as planned by its donor - Aline Barnsdall, or by its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. What was built, and what remai... 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 Plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666;...
Engraving by Sparrow after Ch. Wren. Illus. in: John Knox, A New Collection of Voyages..., London, 1676, v. 7. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI WORKS; Arch.... More
[Union League Club, New York City (project). Elevation. Rendering] / R...
Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2010:100, 78.958.
[Large, brick residence at 4050 Mt. View Blvd., Denver, Colorado, desi...
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Arthur Brown, Coliseum Architect, Chicago
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A. Gustave Eiffel, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), a French civil engineer known for the Garabit Viaduct, the Eiffel Tower, and contributions to building the Statue of Liberty. (Source: Flickr Commons proje... More
Architect of the Capitol. U.S. Capitol model XXVIII
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Architect of the Capitol. U.S. Capitol model XII
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. IX
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Louis Justement, architect. Drawing of U.S. Court for D.C. I
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Robert F. Beresford, architect, 810 18th St. N.W. Entire building on F...
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. XIV
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Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. I
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Washington Gas Light Co. Architect rendering of Washington Gas Light C...
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Architect's sketch of administration building for Greendale, Wisconsin
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