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Dining-room tapestries in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905- 1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

Dining-room tapestries in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More

The Homer Building, a downtown office building, Washington, D.C.

The Homer Building, a downtown office building, Washington, D.C.

A Neo-Classical concrete structure with a glazed terra cotta facade, it was designed in 1913 by Washington D.C., architect Appleton Prentiss Clark as an expression of the Beaux Arts aesthetic in the nation's ca... More

Interior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Interior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constituti...

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More

Exterior detail, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More

Stevenson Street façade, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Stevenson Street façade, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Build...

Building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century federal buildings. Steel-framed structure clad in white Sierra granite. Architect: James Knox Tayl... More

Exterior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Exterior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More

Round room, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Round room, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Mahan, Maury & Sampson Halls, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Mahan, Maury & Sampson Halls, Annapolis, Anne Arun...

Significance: The Academic Group is one of the three centerpieces of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The interconnected group of three buildings closes off the northwest end of the quadran... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barracks No. 2, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barrac...

Significance: Barracks No. 2 was designed to house over 400 veterans and serve as a prominent architectural symbol of their care by the Federal government at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabl... More

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County,...

Significance: Was one of the few extant examples of Beaux Arts Classicism in Atlanta. When built, was the first free public library supported by a Georgia city. Name derives from a $100,000 donation from Andrew... More

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County,...

Significance: Was one of the few extant examples of Beaux Arts Classicism in Atlanta. When built, was the first free public library supported by a Georgia city. Name derives from a $100,000 donation from Andrew... More

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County,...

Significance: Was one of the few extant examples of Beaux Arts Classicism in Atlanta. When built, was the first free public library supported by a Georgia city. Name derives from a $100,000 donation from Andrew... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Kingsessing Branch, 1201 South 51st Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Kingsessing Branch, 1201 South 51st Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1919, the Kingsessing Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was among the last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Passyunk Branch, 1935 Shunk Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Passyunk Branch, 1935 Shunk Street, Phil...

Significance: When the cornerstone of the Passyunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was laid in 1913, it was one of seven branches concurrently under construction through an endowment from industriali... More

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County...

Significance: The Saratoga Foothill Club, erected 1914-15, is a modestly scaled redwood building which, because of the bungalow style design and low, horizontal massing, blends in nicely with its residential su... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Mess Hall, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Mess H...

Significance: The Mess Hall was the visual and practical centerpiece of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), a Beaux Arts campus of French Renaissance Revival struct... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Mess Hall, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Mess H...

Significance: The Mess Hall was the visual and practical centerpiece of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), a Beaux Arts campus of French Renaissance Revival struct... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, West Philadelphia Branch, 201 South 40th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, West Philadelphia Branch, 201 South 40th...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the West Philadelphia Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connell Roads, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connel...

Significance: The "Gift" Chapel was the first permanent religious institution built expressly for the servicemen and their families at Fort Sam Houston. The property was donated by the City of San Antonio and c... More

Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connell Roads, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Gift Chapel, Wilson Street, between Hancock & Connel...

Significance: The "Gift" Chapel was the first permanent religious institution built expressly for the servicemen and their families at Fort Sam Houston. The property was donated by the City of San Antonio and c... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Griffin Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Griffin Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: Griffin Hall was built in 1917 as an extension to Isherwood Hall by Flagg's disciple Jules de Sibour who had become consulting architect to the Academy. Griffin is a skinny rectangle (56' x 181')... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Chapel, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Chapel...

Significance: The Chapel was constructed in 1904-05 as part of the original Beaux-Arts campus ensemble for the Mountain Branch the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS). The NHDVS was a federal... More

Agnews State Hospital, 4000 Lafayette Road, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Agnews State Hospital, 4000 Lafayette Road, Santa Clara, Santa Clara C...

Significance: Agnews was the first state hospital in the California system to adopt modern methods of treating mental patients on a large scale and was a widely recognized model of a progressive hospital. Dr. ... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...

Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...

Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Lamont Street & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Lamont...

For additional documentation, see HAER TN-1 & HAER TN-1-A Significance: The Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was built between 1901 and 1905. The NHDVS was a federal... More

World War I Monument, Memorial Square, Providence, Providence County, RI

World War I Monument, Memorial Square, Providence, Providence County, ...

Significance: The World War I Monument (1929), designed by noted architect Paul P. Cret and sculpted by Carl P. Jennewien, reflects the late 1920's popularity of Greek Revivalism in the use of a Doric column as... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Cobbs Creek Branch, 5800 Cobbs Creek Parkway, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Cobbs Creek Branch, 5800 Cobbs Creek Par...

Significance: Completed in 1925, the Cobbs Creek Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the next to last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropi... More

Tucker Building, 1516 Jefferson Street & 595 Sixteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Tucker Building, 1516 Jefferson Street & 595 Sixteenth Street, Oakland...

Significance: This building is a contributing structure to the Oakland Downtown district. The Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey describes the district as, "...an architecturally, historically, and functionally ... More

U. S. Post Office & Courthouse, 25 South Third Street, Yakima, Yakima County, WA

U. S. Post Office & Courthouse, 25 South Third Street, Yakima, Yakima ...

Significance: Historically the monumental Beaux Arts Structure has always served as Yakima Main Post Office and Federal Courthouse. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalizati... More

West Virginia Capitol, 1800 Washington Street, East, Charleston, Kanawha County, WV

West Virginia Capitol, 1800 Washington Street, East, Charleston, Kanaw...

Significance: The last in the long series of domes beaux-arts state capitols built in America, this late work of the distinguished architect Cass Gilbert, assisted by his son, is notable for its restrained neo-... More

Square Shadows, 6024 Butler Pike, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA

Square Shadows, 6024 Butler Pike, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: This home, designed by renowned architect George Howe in the 1930s, was one of the earliest successful attempts to combine the materials of traditional home construction with elements of the Inter... More

Square Shadows, 6024 Butler Pike, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA

Square Shadows, 6024 Butler Pike, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: This home, designed by renowned architect George Howe in the 1930s, was one of the earliest successful attempts to combine the materials of traditional home construction with elements of the Inter... More

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Parkway, Seattle, King County, WA

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...

Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Parkway, Seattle, King County, WA

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...

Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramen...

Significance: One of a symmetrical pair of monumental buildings designed in the Beaux Arts tradition to serve as an extension of the State Capitol and help prevent key State department functions from leaving Sa... More

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramen...

Significance: One of a symmetrical pair of monumental buildings designed in the Beaux Arts tradition to serve as an extension of the State Capitol and help prevent key State department functions from leaving Sa... More

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

California State Library & Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramen...

Significance: One of a symmetrical pair of monumental buildings designed in the Beaux Arts tradition to serve as an extension of the State Capitol and help prevent key State department functions from leaving Sa... More

Basso Building, 7338 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Basso Building, 7338 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: This is a significant example of the kind of speculative commercial construction commonplace in Detroit during the city's period of rapid growth brought about by the success of the automobile indu... More

University Avenue Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at University Avenue (State Route 3003), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

University Avenue Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at University Aven...

Significance: The bridge is significant for its association with noted Philadelphia architect Paul Phillipe Cret, who designed the bridge in collaboration with city engineers. Its exterior treatment reflects Cr... More

University Avenue Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at University Avenue (State Route 3003), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

University Avenue Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at University Aven...

Significance: The bridge is significant for its association with noted Philadelphia architect Paul Phillipe Cret, who designed the bridge in collaboration with city engineers. Its exterior treatment reflects Cr... More

California State Office Building No. 1, 915 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

California State Office Building No. 1, 915 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, ...

Significance: One of a symmetrical pair of monumental buildings designed in the Beaux Arts tradition to serve as an extension of the State Capitol and help prevent key State department functions from leaving Sa... More

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, between Charles Street & Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, b...

Significance: The Baltimore Union Station Driveways are an intrinsic component of a notable early twentieth century Beaux-Arts monument. Designed by New York architect Kenneth W. Murchison, Baltimore Union Sta... More

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, between Charles Street & Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, b...

Significance: The Baltimore Union Station Driveways are an intrinsic component of a notable early twentieth century Beaux-Arts monument. Designed by New York architect Kenneth W. Murchison, Baltimore Union Sta... More

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, between Charles Street & Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Union Station, Driveways, North of Jones Falls Expressway, b...

Significance: The Baltimore Union Station Driveways are an intrinsic component of a notable early twentieth century Beaux-Arts monument. Designed by New York architect Kenneth W. Murchison, Baltimore Union Sta... More

Samuel Findley School, Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Streets, Akron, Summit County, OH

Samuel Findley School, Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Streets, Akron, Summit C...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Findley Academy carries elements of the Beaux Arts style with additional Classical Revival details, evident throughout the exterior and interior. These... More

Gilroy Free Public Library, 195 Fifth Street, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, CA

Gilroy Free Public Library, 195 Fifth Street, Gilroy, Santa Clara Coun...

Significance: A good example of an early 20th-century Beaux-Arts-classical small town Carnegie Library, the building served its original purpose from 1910 until 1975. In 1976 it was entirely occupied by the lo... More

Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church, 518 Thirty-second Street, South, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church, 518 Thirty-second Street, South, ...

Significance: The Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church was organized in the early 20th Century as the Rising Star Baptist Church. Since 1910, the church has been located on 32nd Street (Lots 23 and 24 in Block 4... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company Headquarters Building, 2 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company Headquarters Building, 2 North Charl...

Significance: Historically, this structure was the headquarters of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad. The B&O was significant not only as America's first railroad (founded 1827) but also as the pre-eminent ... More

U.S. Naval Academy, McDonough Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, McDonough Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: MacDonough and Dahlgren Halls are virtually identical buildings that flank Bancroft Hall. Although their uses have been changed from the original intent, both buildings remain largely intact. Th... More

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana State University, Tower Drive, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana Stat...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The LSU Livestock Judging Pavilion was constructed in 1923 at a cost of $62,000. It was one of the first group of 21 buildings built on the campus, all... More

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana State University, Tower Drive, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana Stat...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The LSU Livestock Judging Pavilion was constructed in 1923 at a cost of $62,000. It was one of the first group of 21 buildings built on the campus, all... More

Dimling-Bolan Building, 428 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Dimling-Bolan Building, 428 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,...

Significance: The Dimling-Bolan Building is a rare example of a commercial building designed in the Beaux Arts style in downtown Pittsburgh. After first housing a German restaurant, it housed Dimling's Candy C... More

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Junction of State Route 141 & Rockland Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Junction of State Route 141 & Rockland Road, Wil...

Significance: The A.I. du Pont estate, known as Nemours, was constructed in 1909-1910 by Alfred I. du Pont (1864-1935), great-grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, the founder of the Du Pont Company in America.... More

Army & Navy Young Mens' Christian Association (YMCA), 50 Washington Street, Newport, Newport County, RI

Army & Navy Young Mens' Christian Association (YMCA), 50 Washington St...

Significance: The Army and Navy Young Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building, Newport (1911, Louis E. Jallade, architect) stands as an important local expression of the Beaux-Arts architectural style... More

Army & Navy Young Mens' Christian Association (YMCA), 50 Washington Street, Newport, Newport County, RI

Army & Navy Young Mens' Christian Association (YMCA), 50 Washington St...

Significance: The Army and Navy Young Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building, Newport (1911, Louis E. Jallade, architect) stands as an important local expression of the Beaux-Arts architectural style... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson Count...

Significance: The Hudson County Courthouse was completed and opened on September 20, 1910 at a cost of $3,328,016.56. It was designed by Hugh Roberts, architect, a native of Jersey City. The ground breaking was... More

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson Count...

Significance: The Hudson County Courthouse was completed and opened on September 20, 1910 at a cost of $3,328,016.56. It was designed by Hugh Roberts, architect, a native of Jersey City. The ground breaking was... More

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Hudson County Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson Count...

Significance: The Hudson County Courthouse was completed and opened on September 20, 1910 at a cost of $3,328,016.56. It was designed by Hugh Roberts, architect, a native of Jersey City. The ground breaking was... More

International Exposition of 1876, Memorial Hall, Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

International Exposition of 1876, Memorial Hall, Belmont Avenue, Phila...

Significance: Historically, the structure was one of the significant buildings built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Architecturally, it was an early monumental building in the United States and one of Amer... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Huey P. Long Bridge, Administration Building, 5100 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, LA

Huey P. Long Bridge, Administration Building, 5100 Jefferson Highway, ...

Significance: The Huey P. Long Bridge, Administration was built as part of the Huey P. Long Bridge project and designated as Contract No. 10. It was built to house the administrative offices of the Louisiana Hi... More

Birmingham Realty Company Building, 2118 First Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Birmingham Realty Company Building, 2118 First Avenue North, Birmingha...

Significance: This building houses the Birmingham Realty Company whose financing and planning created the city of Birmingham. This finely-detailed Beaux Arts building also houses and exceptional collection of ... More

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Isl...

Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More

Courtroom ceiling, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

Courtroom ceiling, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, R...

Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More

Courtroom, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Courtroom, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Franc...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More

Exterior door detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior door detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

Exterior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Exterior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constituti...

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More

The Kinney County Courthouse in Bracketville, Texas. It was built in 1910 and is an example of Beaux Arts Classicism architecture

The Kinney County Courthouse in Bracketville, Texas. It was built in 1...

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

U.S. Naval Academy, Mahan, Maury & Sampson Halls, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Mahan, Maury & Sampson Halls, Annapolis, Anne Arun...

Significance: The Academic Group is one of the three centerpieces of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The interconnected group of three buildings closes off the northwest end of the quadran... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barracks No. 2, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barrac...

Significance: Barracks No. 2 was designed to house over 400 veterans and serve as a prominent architectural symbol of their care by the Federal government at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabl... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barracks No. 2, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Barrac...

Significance: Barracks No. 2 was designed to house over 400 veterans and serve as a prominent architectural symbol of their care by the Federal government at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabl... More

Binghamton City Hall, Collier Street, Binghamton, Broome County, NY

Binghamton City Hall, Collier Street, Binghamton, Broome County, NY

Significance: The Binghamton City Hall is a fine example of the Beaux Arts style in the United States at the turn of the century. Survey number: HABS NY-5568 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County...

Significance: The Saratoga Foothill Club, erected 1914-15, is a modestly scaled redwood building which, because of the bungalow style design and low, horizontal massing, blends in nicely with its residential su... More

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County...

Significance: The Saratoga Foothill Club, erected 1914-15, is a modestly scaled redwood building which, because of the bungalow style design and low, horizontal massing, blends in nicely with its residential su... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

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