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Free! - theatrical performance poster

Free! - theatrical performance poster

Free! Free! Free! Federal Theatre Project Division of Works Progress Administration Invite you to attend the following theatres Beaux Arts Theatre Beacon near 8th Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights at ... More

Marble revetment, front, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Marble revetment, front, 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

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

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

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

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

Bridge, 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

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

West lobby, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue...

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

Dome above the Senate Chamber of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson

Dome above the Senate Chamber of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jack...

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

Locals call this building in Syracuse, New York, the "Fourth County Courthouse"

Locals call this building in Syracuse, New York, the "Fourth County Co...

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

Stairway pedestal at the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Stairway pedestal at the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Hall of State (originally the State of Texas Building) commemorates the history of Texas. Built in 1936 at the astronomical (espec... More

The 1924 Cortland County Courthouse in Cortland New York It was built of Indiana limestone in the shape of a Latin cross

The 1924 Cortland County Courthouse in Cortland New York It was built ...

The courthouse features a distinctive cupola and corresponding rotunda that rests on an octagonal base, above which rise 24 Corinthian columns. It was designed by James Riely Gordon in the Beaux-Arts style. Tit... More

The 1902 McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas

The 1902 McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by J. Riely Gordon, the courthouse is on a cruciform plan with corridors extending lengthwise through each arm. On the upper... More

Highland Hospital, 1411 East 31st Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Highland Hospital, 1411 East 31st Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Significance: The Highland Hospital landscape is a relatively intact example of Beaux-Arts public landscape architecture from the 1920s and appears to be significant as an example of the application of Beaux-Ar... More

Hansel and Gretel - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Congress

Hansel and Gretel - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of C...

Text on Poster: Beaux Arts Theatre 8th at Beacon Near Union Now Playing "Hansel and Gretel" Adults 40c Children 25c Thurs. to Sun. 8:30p.m. Matinees Sat. & Sun. 3:00 p.m. Federal Theatre Project Divisi... More

For Business Reasons - theatrical playbill, public domain image

For Business Reasons - theatrical playbill, public domain image

Beaux Arts Theatre (venue) A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other... More

Flanders Field American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Wortegemseweg 117, Waregem, West Flanders (Belgium), BEL

Flanders Field American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Wortegemseweg 117...

Significance: Flanders Field American Cemetery & Memorial is one of eight overseas World War I cemeteries designed and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a federal agency created i... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, ...

Significance: Constructed 1900-1908 on a hill above the Susquehanna River just outside Port Deposit, Maryland, the Tome School for Boys played an important role in private school, naval, and vocational educatio... 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

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

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

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

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

1600 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

1600 Block Monument Avenue, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Significance: Between Stuart Circle at Lombardy Street and Lee Circle at Allen Avenue lies the first block of Monument Avenue, anchored on the east by the equestrian statue of J.E.B. Stuart and on the west by t... More

William Dorsheimer House, 438 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

William Dorsheimer House, 438 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, N...

Significance: The William Dorsheimer House of 1868 although not constructed in H.H. Richardson's identifiable Romanesque Revival Style presents a severe dignified facade which perhaps illustrates the influenc... 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

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

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Headquarters, Johnson Lane, west side at intersection of Johnson Lane & Cossey Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Hospital Headquarters, Johnson Lane, west ...

Significance: Building H1 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. The building is an excellent example of Beaux Arts classicism, favored in its time for prominent public buildings such ... 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

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

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

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

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

Drumthwacket, Italianate Garden, 344 Stockton Street (U.S. Route 206), Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Drumthwacket, Italianate Garden, 344 Stockton Street (U.S. Route 206),...

Significance: The Italianate Garden at Drumthwacket is an early example of a movement in garden design that existed in the United States at the turn of the century and lasted throughout World War I. This moveme... 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

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

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