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Eliz[abeth] Gardiner - Public domain portrait print

Eliz[abeth] Gardiner - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows Elizabeth Gardiner at the Venetian pageant which was part of the fine arts ball arranged by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, held at the Hotel Astor, New York City on February 20, 1914. (Source... 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

Stair, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Stair, 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

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

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West Virginia

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907-1908, it is is a four-story, rectangular brick and limestone building in the Beaux-Arts-style. Passenger service there c... 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

A monument and fountain honoring explorer Christopher Columbus, paid for by the city's Italian-American community, stand before what locals call the "Fourth County Courthouse" in Syracuse, New York

A monument and fountain honoring explorer Christopher Columbus, paid f...

Archimedes Russell and Melvin King designed the Beaux-Arts gem, which opened in 1907. It is still in use (as of 2018) as the Onondaga County Courthouse. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by... 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 Mississippi House of Representatives Chamber in the State Capitol in Jackson

The Mississippi House of Representatives Chamber in the State Capitol ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The third state house to be located in Jackson, this Beaux-Arts-style building, completed in 1901, was designed to house all branches ... More

Stained-glass window at the top of the grand staircase at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson

Stained-glass window at the top of the grand staircase at the Mississi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The third state house to be located in Jackson, this Beaux-Arts-style building, completed in 1901, was designed to house all branches ... 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

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More

Depiction of European explorers on one of four medallions dedicated to Mississippi history painted inside the central dome of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson in 1935

Depiction of European explorers on one of four medallions dedicated to...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The third state house to be located in Jackson, this Beaux-Arts-style building, completed in 1901, was designed to house all branches ... 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

Flagstaff Park, Massachusetts Avenue & Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA

Flagstaff Park, Massachusetts Avenue & Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mid...

Significance: Flagstaff Park, originally part of the Cambridge Common, was landscaped at the time of subway construction in 1909-1913. It contains a flagstaff base designed by prominent architects Peabody and ... More

R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson Count...

Significance: Building is architecturally significant as a particularly grand local example of a Beaux-Arts residence. Its original owner, R.A. Long, symbolized the late-19th century ideal of coming from a poor... More

R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson Count...

Significance: Building is architecturally significant as a particularly grand local example of a Beaux-Arts residence. Its original owner, R.A. Long, symbolized the late-19th century ideal of coming from a poor... More

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More

Kansas City City Hall, 414 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Kansas City City Hall, 414 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: The City Hall is the tallest and most obvious of a three building construction program passed in 1931 by the people of Kansas City. The overall bond program was labeled the "Ten-Year-Plan," and of... 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

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

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

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

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York C...

Significance: The municipal Ferry pier is the last remaining ferry terminal on the East River and shows the expression of the beaux arts style in structural steel. Survey number: HAER NY-90 Building/structure... More

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York C...

Significance: The municipal Ferry pier is the last remaining ferry terminal on the East River and shows the expression of the beaux arts style in structural steel. Survey number: HAER NY-90 Building/structure... 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

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

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

Union Station, 50 East Jefferson Street, Joliet, Will County, IL

Union Station, 50 East Jefferson Street, Joliet, Will County, IL

Significance: This impressive Beaux-Arts railroad station was designed by the architect Jarvis Hunt in 1912; at its peak, the station accommodated one hundred trains daily. Survey number: HAER IL-63 Building/... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel...

Significance: With the companion Administration Building on the opposite side of the Chapel, the Superintendent's Quarters forms an important part of Ernest Flagg's Beaux-Arts scheme for the United States Naval... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel...

Significance: With the companion Administration Building on the opposite side of the Chapel, the Superintendent's Quarters forms an important part of Ernest Flagg's Beaux-Arts scheme for the United States Naval... More

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Blue Ball Dairy Barn, Junction of U.S. Route 202 & Rockland Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Blue Ball Dairy Barn, Junction of U.S. Route 202...

Significance: The Blue Ball Dairy barn and milk house were constructed in 1914 as part of the A.I. du Pont estate, known as Nemours. They were part of the estate farm complex, which existed to provide food and... 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

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1908, the Manayunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the tenth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew ... More

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

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

Significance: Melville Hall, built in 1937 along the line of Griffin Hall in the direction of Dorsey Creek copies the scale and materials of the earlier buildings of the Isherwood Complex in a rudimentary way t... More

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

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

Significance: Melville Hall, built in 1937 along the line of Griffin Hall in the direction of Dorsey Creek copies the scale and materials of the earlier buildings of the Isherwood Complex in a rudimentary way t... 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

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

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41), Chicago, Cook County, IL

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (...

Significance: In 1894, the South Park Commission, administrator of Chicago's south side park system, retained the Boston-area landscape architecture firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to refurbish Jackson Park,... More

Tremaine-Gallagher House, 3001 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, OH

Tremaine-Gallagher House, 3001 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights,...

Significance: Primarily derived from 18th-century French sources, with interior decoration based also on 17th- and 18th-century English precedent, the house and grounds are considered to be an outstanding examp... 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

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

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

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

2300 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

2300 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Significance: The 2300 block of Monument Avenue is bounded by Strawberry Street (formerly Addison) on the east and Davis Avenue (formerly Cedar) on the west. This block has fewer buildings and wider lots than ... More

2300 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

2300 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Significance: The 2300 block of Monument Avenue is bounded by Strawberry Street (formerly Addison) on the east and Davis Avenue (formerly Cedar) on the west. This block has fewer buildings and wider lots than ... More

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a two-span, earth filled, reinforced concrete, closed spandrel deck arch bridge with Beaux Arts-influenced balustrades. It is one of only two earth-filled concrete arch ... More

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a two-span, earth filled, reinforced concrete, closed spandrel deck arch bridge with Beaux Arts-influenced balustrades. It is one of only two earth-filled concrete arch ... More

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a two-span, earth filled, reinforced concrete, closed spandrel deck arch bridge with Beaux Arts-influenced balustrades. It is one of only two earth-filled concrete arch ... More

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provo, Utah County, UT

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a two-span, earth filled, reinforced concrete, closed spandrel deck arch bridge with Beaux Arts-influenced balustrades. It is one of only two earth-filled concrete arch ... 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

Berkeley City Hall, 2134 Grove Street, Berkeley, Alameda County, CA

Berkeley City Hall, 2134 Grove Street, Berkeley, Alameda County, CA

Significance: The Berkeley City Hall has architectural significance as a notable example of Beaux-Arts design and as an early work by the firm of Bakewell and Brown, who were leaders in Beaux-Arts designs, espe... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Marine Barracks, Cedar Avenue, west side between Twelfth & Fourteenth Streets, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Marine Barracks, Cedar Avenue, west side b...

Significance: Building M37 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is the focal point of the Marine Corps compound at Mare Island and is among the most impressive buildings anywhere ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The B Building (Building 75) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... 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

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

Illinois Supreme Court Building, 200 East Capitol Avenue, Springfield, Sangamon County, IL

Illinois Supreme Court Building, 200 East Capitol Avenue, Springfield,...

2013 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: The Illinois Supreme Court Building is determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It embodies significant and distinctive charact... More

Illinois Supreme Court Building, 200 East Capitol Avenue, Springfield, Sangamon County, IL

Illinois Supreme Court Building, 200 East Capitol Avenue, Springfield,...

2013 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: The Illinois Supreme Court Building is determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It embodies significant and distinctive charact... 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

Beaux Arts Apartments, 307-317 & 308-320 East Forty-fourth Street, New York, New York County, NY

Beaux Arts Apartments, 307-317 & 308-320 East Forty-fourth Street, New...

Significance: An interesting grouping of two apartment buildings, one on each side of 44th Stret, which were named for the Beaux Arts Building adjacent to the site. Survey number: HABS NY-6059

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

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

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

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

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

Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent C...

Significance: The Police Department Headquarters is significant for its association with the Municipal Historic District, Baltimore City, Maryland. The district consists of a linear area with an east-west axis... More

McCormick Apartments, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

McCormick Apartments, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington,...

Significance: Built as a one of the first Washington apartment buildings for luxury living, the structure was designed to complement a surrounding Beaux-Arts neighborhood. The composition of three principal ele... More

U.S. Post Office, Customs House & Sub-Treasury, 218 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

U.S. Post Office, Customs House & Sub-Treasury, 218 South Dearborn Str...

Significance: The building was one of the few examples in Chicago of a large public building designed in the Beaux Arts classical style, which became increasingly popular after the World's Columbian Exposition ... 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

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

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

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

Significance: The Morgue was constructed as part of the original Beaux-Arts campus for the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS). This federal veterans' institution held ... More

Japanese Embassy, 2516 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Japanese Embassy, 2516 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Significance: This building, in the Georgian manner, was designed as an embassy. It exemplifies the last stage of Beaux-Arts influence in Washington and is one of the few full-scale, formal estates in the city... More

Atlantic City Post Office, 1011 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ

Atlantic City Post Office, 1011 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlanti...

Significance: First Federal Government owned Post Office Building in Atlantic City, and a good example of Beaux Arts/ Neoclassical Civil architecture of this period. Survey number: HABS NJ-1208

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Street...

For additional documentation, see also HALS DC-55 (Meridian Hill Park, Noyes Armillary Sphere) Significance: Located between 15th, 16th W, and Euclid Streets, NW is one of the most distinguished examples of Lan... More

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Street...

For additional documentation, see also HALS DC-55 (Meridian Hill Park, Noyes Armillary Sphere) Significance: Located between 15th, 16th W, and Euclid Streets, NW is one of the most distinguished examples of Lan... More

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Street...

For additional documentation, see also HALS DC-55 (Meridian Hill Park, Noyes Armillary Sphere) Significance: Located between 15th, 16th W, and Euclid Streets, NW is one of the most distinguished examples of Lan... More

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Meridian Hill Park, Bounded by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Euclid & W Street...

For additional documentation, see also HALS DC-55 (Meridian Hill Park, Noyes Armillary Sphere) Significance: Located between 15th, 16th W, and Euclid Streets, NW is one of the most distinguished examples of Lan... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Wards, Cedar Avenue, eat side between Fourteenth Avenue & Cossey Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Wards, Cedar Avenue, eat side bet...

Significance: Building H72 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is one of two "bookend" additions to the main hospital building (Building H1); the other is Building H80. Together... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Wards, Cedar Avenue, eat side between Fourteenth Avenue & Cossey Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Wards, Cedar Avenue, eat side bet...

Significance: Building H72 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is one of two "bookend" additions to the main hospital building (Building H1); the other is Building H80. Together... 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

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