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U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exterior details

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt...

Designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer & Partners. Locals have named the building the "Borg Cube" after the Borg, the villanous alien race in the movie Star Trek. Photographed as part of an assignment for t... More

[Architectural details] - Public domain architectural drawing

[Architectural details] - Public domain architectural drawing

Title devised. Further interior sketches on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-108. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1035) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Detail of the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Detail of the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Masonic symbol on the 1926 Cincinnati Masonic Center, also called the "Ohio Consistory" building by Masons, in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio

Masonic symbol on the 1926 Cincinnati Masonic Center, also called the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is home to the Valley of Cincinnati, the local branch of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. It houses the... More

Architectural detail of the ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado

Architectural detail of the ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Roman Classical-style building, designed by New Yorker Albert Ross, and executed from 1908 to 1912 in brick and white sandstone, w... More

Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

This museum preserves a wide range of military artifacts in memory of fallen soldiers who served in the United States military. Featuring artifacts of all branches of the military, it serves as a constant remin... More

Detail of the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

Detail of the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, the capi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Swan House was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inmanon 28 acres in Buckhead, a northern Atlanta community. Noted architect Philip T... More

Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connecticut Ave. near intersection with Sedgwick St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Architectural detail at the Bronx Zoo in The Bronx, one of five county-level divisions within sprawling New York, New York

Architectural detail at the Bronx Zoo in The Bronx, one of five county...

The largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world, this zoo, which opened in 1899, has attracts more than two million visitors each year. It comprises 265 acres of parkland an... More

Architectural detail, interior, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama

Architectural detail, interior, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama

The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for Paramount films. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pagent ... More

Architectural details on apartments buildings, Connecticut Ave., NW, near downtown, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on apartments buildings, Connecticut Ave., NW, n...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Detail of the vacant, Egyptian-motif Al-Sihah Shrine Temple in Macon, Georgia

Detail of the vacant, Egyptian-motif Al-Sihah Shrine Temple in Macon, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Architect W. Elliot Dunwoody, Jr., designed the building with a distinctive camel-theme frieze beneath the roofline. It opened in 1931... More

Architectural details Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Architectural details Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania...

Also known as Old Post Office and Clock Tower and officially renamed the Nancy Hanks Center in 1983. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from ... More

Detail of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) Building, hosting Elks Club Lodge #90 in Pueblo, Colorado

Detail of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) Building,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Architectural detail from the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne

Architectural detail from the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, I...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

[Great Hall. Detail of cherubs representing America and Africa with putti (fisherman and farmer) on Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. Detail of cherubs representing America and Africa with pu...

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 devised by Library staff based on information pro... More

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Ma...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. America's first cathedral, it was built from 1806-1821.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Columns - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Carol M. Highsmith - Columns - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

The Sidney R. Yates Building, Washington, D.C

The Sidney R. Yates Building, Washington, D.C

Originally constructed to house the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, the Sidney R. Yates Building has served as home to many different federal agencies over the past hundred years. Placed on the National Registe... More

Courtroom details. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dothan, Alabama

Courtroom details. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dothan, Alaba...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built: 1909-1911. Credit line... More

Architectural details. U.S. Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Architectural details. U.S. Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Built in 1939 by Rudolph Stanley Brown. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association Bank building in Newark, Ohio

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed with liberal use of terra cotta tile and mosaics, rather than his usual red brick, by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan,... More

Architectural details at The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, South Bend, Indiana

Architectural details at The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. C...

Built in 1933 by architectural firm Austin & Shambleau, the building served its original purpose for fifty years. In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service moved from the building into a new facility. Photographed as pa... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a relief sculpture, panel, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018) called the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building in Baltimore, Maryland

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018)...

Formerly abandoned and left to decay, it was renovated and beautified and became the headquarters of Humanim Inc. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Detail above the door of the Aldrich Public Librry in Barre (pronounced "Barry"), Vermont. The free public library was completed in 1908 with funds bequeathed by Leonard Frost Aldrich, a local businessman

Detail above the door of the Aldrich Public Librry in Barre (pronounce...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Architectural details. U.S. Custom House, Portland, Maine

Architectural details. U.S. Custom House, Portland, Maine

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One might think this architectural detail on a city hall building could be found in Texas or Wyoming or another Old West state but, it stands atop the entrance to the civic bulding in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago, Illinois, along Lake Michigan

One might think this architectural detail on a city hall building coul...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Doorway detail in the Senate chambers of the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison

Doorway detail in the Senate chambers of the Wisconsin Capitol in Madi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Detail of the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, originally known as the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building, which is home to the elegant Mabel Tainter Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin

Detail of the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, originally known as t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens, Georgia

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1942. Credit line: Pho... More

Elaborate ornamentation on the New York Capitol in Albany

Elaborate ornamentation on the New York Capitol in Albany

So massive was work on the elegant building, including its five-foot-wide, load-bearing granite walls, took 32 years and three separate architects, including H.H. Richardson, before it was declared complete in ... More

Inlay at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Inlay at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

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 Baltimore Basilica, built from 1806-1821, was the f... More

The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Wyman Building, constructed of native red sandstone, was completed in 1902 by German immigrant Louis Wyman. He hand-carved the bur... More

Doorway of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple, designed by Charleston architect H. Rus Warne and constructed in 1915

Doorway of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple, designed by C...

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

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association Bank building in Newark, Ohio

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed with liberal use of terra cotta tile and mosaics, rather than his usual red brick, by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan,... More

Pediment of the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne

Pediment of the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, design...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. When the cornerstone was laid in 1897, the oldest man in the county, Louis Peltier, was present; he remembered Fort Wayne when it was ... More

Architectural details at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Architectural details at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and ...

Built in 1906, the building is one of the finest Neoclassical Revival style federal buildings in the state of North Carolina. There was an addition in 1937. Architect is James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part ... More

Courtroom detail. Sidney L. Christie Federal Building, Huntington, West Virginia

Courtroom detail. Sidney L. Christie Federal Building, Huntington, Wes...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: Parker & Thomas. Built in 1905-1910. Credit line... More

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018) called the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building in Baltimore, Maryland

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018)...

Formerly abandoned and left to decay, it was renovated and beautified and became the headquarters of Humanim Inc. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Detail of the vacant, Egyptian-motif Al-Sihah Shrine Temple in Macon, Georgia

Detail of the vacant, Egyptian-motif Al-Sihah Shrine Temple in Macon, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Architect W. Elliot Dunwoody, Jr., designed the building with a distinctive camel-theme frieze beneath the roofline. It opened in 1931... More

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, Texas

One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in dow...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Two of the friezes are inscribed with the dates 1885 and 1915. Between them is a frieze with the name Joseph Nalle. The theater was b... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

Details from the Alabama Power Company building, Birmingham, Alabama

Details from the Alabama Power Company building, Birmingham, Alabama

Built in 1925, this art deco/art moderne building has been hailed by the London Daily Express as "One of the three most beautiful public utility buildings in the world." These 8-feet tall figures represent Powe... More

Exterior door details on the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Exterior door details on the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic libr...

It is one of the most visible and recognizable landmarks on the university's River Campus. Dedicated in 1930, it is named after Benjamin Rush Rhees, the university's third president. Title, date and keywords ba... More

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known locally as the "Old Red Courthouse," now a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known loc...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of red sandstone rusticated marble accents, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by ar... More

Architectural detail at the Bronx Zoo in The Bronx, one of five county-level divisions within sprawling New York, New York

Architectural detail at the Bronx Zoo in The Bronx, one of five county...

The largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world, this zoo, which opened in 1899, has attracts more than two million visitors each year. It comprises 265 acres of parkland an... More

Details over interior door. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Details over interior door. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Architectural details. The Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House, named for District Court Judge Charles Earl Simons Jr. in 1986, located in Aiken, South Carolina

Architectural details. The Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House, ...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. As an example of a Georgian Revival Building, it was associ... More

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exterior details

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt...

Designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer & Partners. Locals have named the building the "Borg Cube" after the Borg, the villanous alien race in the movie Star Trek. Photographed as part of an assignment for t... More

View from roof. The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., located across 12th Street from the Old Post Office and houses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters

View from roof. The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in the ...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The Clinton Building was originally known as the New Post O... More

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens, Georgia

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1942. Credit line: Pho... More

Window detail of a stone barn in the historic village of Batsto in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey

Window detail of a stone barn in the historic village of Batsto in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

View toward Washington Monument from roof. The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., located across 12th Street from the Old Post Office and houses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters

View toward Washington Monument from roof. The William Jefferson Clint...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The Clinton Building was originally known as the New Post O... More

Elaborate ornamentation on the New York Capitol in Albany

Elaborate ornamentation on the New York Capitol in Albany

So massive was work on the elegant building, including its five-foot-wide, load-bearing granite walls, took 32 years and three separate architects, including H.H. Richardson, before it was declared complete in ... More

Detail of the entry gate to Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Detail of the entry gate to Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

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

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Ma...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. America's first cathedral, it was built from 1806-1821.... More

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals B...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Originally the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. In 1908, th... More

Exterior. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Exterior. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by Architect Moise Goldstein in Neoclassicism... More

Courtroom wall detail. U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Statesville, North Carolina

Courtroom wall detail. U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Statesvi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: R. Stanley Brown, 1939. Neoclassical design. Cre... More

Masonic symbol on the 1926 Cincinnati Masonic Center, also called the "Ohio Consistory" building by Masons, in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio

Masonic symbol on the 1926 Cincinnati Masonic Center, also called the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is home to the Valley of Cincinnati, the local branch of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. It houses the... More

Owl detail on an exterior wall of the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, home of the Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio, designed by architect Harry Hake

Owl detail on an exterior wall of the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Ce...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building began its life in 1932 as an office building for the fast-expanding state government, after a natural-gas explosion that ... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Detail of the historic barn at the Samuel Gilbert Smith Farmstead in West Brattleboro, Vermont

Detail of the historic barn at the Samuel Gilbert Smith Farmstead in W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property now consists of 20 acres, although the farm originally associated with the property spanned 1,000 acres in the 18th centu... More

Architectural detail on a building in Old Havana, Cuba

Architectural detail on a building in Old Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018) called the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building in Baltimore, Maryland

A portion of the historic (1887) American Brewery building, now (2018)...

Formerly abandoned and left to decay, it was renovated and beautified and became the headquarters of Humanim Inc. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Façades and details in residential neighborhoods in Old Havana, Cuba

Façades and details in residential neighborhoods in Old Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Beautiful architectural details can still be found in mostly decaying facades in Old Havana, Cuba

Beautiful architectural details can still be found in mostly decaying ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Architectural details on the National Bank of Washington at the corner of 14th and G St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on the National Bank of Washington at the corner...

The building, completed in 1926 and designed by Jules Henri de Sibour, is also known as the Federal-American National Bank or Hamilton National Bank. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the phot... More

Architectural details in Old Lyme, Connecticut

Architectural details in Old Lyme, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Interior doorway art detail. Art Deco style Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Monroe, Louisiana

Interior doorway art detail. Art Deco style Federal Building & U.S. Co...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: James A. Wetmore. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

Architectural detail from the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne

Architectural detail from the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, I...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens, Georgia

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1942. Credit line: Pho... More

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Ma...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. America's first cathedral, it was built from 1806-1821.... More

Architectural details in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Wa...

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 Hammond House was built in 1910 by architect J. Hen... More

A corner of the Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata County Historical Society in the 1904 City School Building, a three-story sandstone structure constructed in 1904-1905 in what was then Animas City above what is now Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

A corner of the Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association Bank building in Newark, Ohio

Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed with liberal use of terra cotta tile and mosaics, rather than his usual red brick, by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan,... More

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals B...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Originally the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. In 1908, th... More

Architectural detail from building, New York, New York

Architectural detail from building, New York, New York

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Stair detail at the United States Trade Representative's Winder Building, Washington, D.C.

Stair detail at the United States Trade Representative's Winder Buildi...

Built in 1848 by proprietor, William H. Winder, and supervising architects, Richard A. Gilpin and H.D. Cooper of Philadelphia. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Titl... More

Exterior fence detail. U.S. Custom House, East Bay and Bull Streets, Savannah, Georgia

Exterior fence detail. U.S. Custom House, East Bay and Bull Streets, S...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior detail from the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Exterior detail from the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More

Column design flourish on Battle Hall at the University of Texas, Austin

Column design flourish on Battle Hall at the University of Texas, Aust...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Artistic and architectural detail inside the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison

Artistic and architectural detail inside the Wisconsin Capitol in Madi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural details inside the Saint Peter in Chains Catholic Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio

Architectural details inside the Saint Peter in Chains Catholic Cathed...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural detail of the United States' first president, George Washington, from the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne

Architectural detail of the United States' first president, George Was...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens, Georgia

Architectural detail. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Athens...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1942. Credit line: Pho... More

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exterior details

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt...

Designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer & Partners. Locals have named the building the "Borg Cube" after the Borg, the villanous alien race in the movie Star Trek. Photographed as part of an assignment for t... More

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exterior details

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah, opened in April 2014 in Salt...

Designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer & Partners. Locals have named the building the "Borg Cube" after the Borg, the villanous alien race in the movie Star Trek. Photographed as part of an assignment for t... More

Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado

Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Frank V. Newell and built by Puebloans Henry Thatcher and Mahlon Thatcher in the Richardsonian Romanesque style ... More

Architectural details at ground level of the historic Hamilton Hotel, the tallest building in Laredo, Texas

Architectural details at ground level of the historic Hamilton Hotel, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Hamilton was built in 1900 as a three-story building, a tornado in 1906 destroyed its overhanging balconies. In 1923 an additiona... More

Architectural details of Lobby at the Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Architectural details of Lobby at the Federal Building and U.S. Court ...

Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Architectural details. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Architectural details. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, T...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More

Courtroom wall detail, Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Anniston, Alabama

Courtroom wall detail, Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Anniston, A...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1906; designed by James Knox Taylor. Credit line: ... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

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