DeBaliviere Station Garage, 577 DeBaliviere, Saint Louis, Independent ...
Significance: The buildings were part of a branch transportation system which provided street car service to the 1904 World's Fair held in St. Louis, Missouri. Survey number: HAER MO-6 Building/structure date... More
U. S. Border Inspection Station, 103 Cherry Street, Sumas, Whatcom Cou...
Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Sumas is one of the early small buildings built by the federal government in Washington State. It is also an example of a prototypical "northern type" United Stat... More
Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, Newport County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-33 Building/structure dates: 1739 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1932 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000014
Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851
Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851
Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...
Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical im... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New York/Connecticut...
Survey number: HAER CT-11 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New York/Connecticut...
Survey number: HAER CT-11 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Great Falls S. U. M. Historic District, Oliver Street, Paterson, Passa...
Significance: In 1791 Alexander Hamilton and others founded an industrial venture known as the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.). The formation of this Society embodied the theory pr... More
Great Falls S. U. M. Historic District, Oliver Street, Paterson, Passa...
Significance: In 1791 Alexander Hamilton and others founded an industrial venture known as the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.). The formation of this Society embodied the theory pr... More
Hardin City Water Works, 101 East Fourth Street, Hardin, Big Horn Coun...
Significance: The Hardin City Water Works building is significant as a physical representation of the relatively rapid growth of Hardin. Within several years of its founding in 1907 and incorporation in 1911, ... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington, District o...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington, District o...
Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Le Pretre Mansion, 716 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-38 Survey number: HABS LA-53 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000377
A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...
Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More
An old black and white photo of a baseball field. Dodge Brothers Motor...
Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More
1900 East Milwaukee (Industrial Building), Detroit, Wayne County, MI
See HAER MI-416, Detroit's Milwaukee Junction Survey, for additional information. Significance: This factory is part of a large complex on East Milwaukee. Detroit White Lead Works began construction of a one-st... More
Prairie settlement - House in Kearney, Nebraska
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wilson House, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Significance: The house echoes the work of New England architect Charles Bulfinch by imitating the four-square, three story domestic image popular in late 18th century New England. Survey number: HABS PA-1250 ... More
Lincoln Park Homes, Type B Residential Building, West Colfax Avenue & ...
Significance: The Lincoln Park Homes complex is one of Colorado's earliest public housing projects. One of three such projects planned by the Denver Housing Authority soon after the agency's formation in 1938, ... More
Edward Pearce House, 2 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This house, built in 1853, was an example of the work of the Providence architect, Thomas Tefft. It was a large, yet compact, three-story, brick building with brownstone trim, typical of Tefft's ... More
Dartmouth College, Shattuck Observatory, Hanover, Grafton County, NH
Significance: This building, one of the earlier buildings at Dartmouth, is a largely unchanged example of a small, simple observatory. It was built for Dartmouth's prominent astronomer, Professor Ira Young, an... More
Garrison Dam, Project Administration Building, 201 1st Street, Riverda...
Significance: The Project Administration Building was built to supply office space for staff managing the construction of Garrison Dam, and it serves as administrative offices for the dam today. Its symmetrical... More
New Center Stamping, 950 East Milwaukee Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...
See HAER MI-416, Detroit's Milwaukee Junction Survey, for additional information. Significance: This building has the distinction of being one of the few in Milwaukee Junction that is still used for its origina... More
Freemansburg-Steel City Bridge, Spanning Lehigh River between Freemans...
Significance: Two span Parker truss steel bridge across the Lehigh River and Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks. The bridge is 22 feet wide and 360 feet long with a perforated steel deck and one cantilevered sidewa... More
Salem College, Old Chapel Annex, 601 South Church Street, Winston-Sale...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
St. Elizabeths Hospital, A Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...
For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The A Building (Building 74) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Staff Residence No. 2, 2700 Martin Luther Kin...
For an overview of the Staff Residences, see HABS DC-349-BV Significance: Staff Residence No. 2 (Building 17) is one of seven staff residences built in the American Foursquare style and based on a standardized ... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Staff Residence No. 1, 2700 Martin Luther Kin...
For an overview of the Staff Residences, see HABS DC-349-BV Significance: Staff Residence No. 1 (Building 15) is one of seven staff residences built in the American Foursquare style and based on a standardized ... More
William & Mary College, Brafferton Hall, College Yard, Williamsburg, I...
Significance: This brick structure was built in 1723 to house a school intended to convert to Christianity and instruct Indian boys. The funds for its erection and operation came from a bequest by Robert Boyle... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, East Lodge Detached Nurses Home, 2700 Martin ...
For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: The East Lodge/Detached Nurses Home (Building 30) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Curved Building, 2 Main Street, Cameron, Marshall County, WV
Significance: Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1917, the Curved Building was constructed to accommodate the curve of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad turnaround. The building is architecturally signi... More
St. Anthony's Orphanage, Classroom & Dormitory, 1500 Indian School Roa...
Significance: In summation, the Classroom-Dormitory exemplifies the Institutional Mission Style which is rare in New Mexico. The most significant architectural features of the building's exterior include the b... More
Casa Vives, 88 Calle Paseo Atocha, Ponce, Ponce Municipio, PR
2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: Casa Vives was constructed during the second half of the nineteenth century, a period when the urban center of Ponce was undergoing myriad transformatio... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Western State Normal School, East Hall, Western Michigan University, b...
Significance: East Hall is the first educational building constructed for Michigan's Western State Normal School (the present-day Western Michigan University). The building was site and landscaped by the nation... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I, New York H...
Significance: Isolation Ward I, later known as Wards 27 and 28, was one of three freestanding Isolation Ward pavilions built as part of the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U.... More
Madigan Hospital, Gymnasium & Swimming Pool, DuPont, Pierce County, WA
Survey number: HABS WA-202-27 Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fort Totten, Hospital, 12 miles southwest of Devils Lake City off Rout...
Significance: An excellent, well-preserved example of a military post of the Indian War period in the trans-Mississippi West. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HAB... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 5, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Shaker West Family Sisters' Shop, North side of Village Road, North of...
Survey number: HABS KY-80 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000353
Elgin Fire Barn No. 5, 533 Saint Charles Street, Elgin, Kane County, I...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Built in 1903 after designs by local architect Smith Hoag, Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 was one of a series of public firehouses built in Elgin, Illinois in the late... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Casa Vives, 88 Calle Paseo Atocha, Ponce, Ponce Municipio, PR
2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: Casa Vives was constructed during the second half of the nineteenth century, a period when the urban center of Ponce was undergoing myriad transformatio... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 5, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Bicknell's public buildings. Containing twenty-one plates (90 to 108 a...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 5, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Bevin Brothers Bell Shops, Bevin Court, East Hampton, Middlesex County...
Significance: The Bevin Brothers Bell Factory is the best preserved of the East Hampton bell works, and the only one still used for its original purpose. Survey number: HAER CT-12 Building/structure dates: 18... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Casa Vives, 88 Calle Paseo Atocha, Ponce, Ponce Municipio, PR
2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: Casa Vives was constructed during the second half of the nineteenth century, a period when the urban center of Ponce was undergoing myriad transformatio... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, Warwick & Church Roads, Warw...
Significance: St. Francis Xavier Church, founded in 1704 as a Society of Jesus mission, is the site of the oldest Roman Catholic institution on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Jesuits of the mission founded oth... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Bicknell's public buildings. Containing twenty-one plates (90 to 108 a...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Bicknell's public buildings. Containing twenty-one plates (90 to 108 a...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Bicknell's public buildings. Containing twenty-one plates (90 to 108 a...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...
Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...
Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More
Savage Tire Factory, Original Brick Warehouse, Main Street, San Diego,...
Survey number: HAER CA-79-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work
Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, 1711-1735 Nineteenth Street, Denver,...
Significance: The Union Pacific Railroad warehouse represents the height of the railroad involvement in the bustling freight business in Denver and the positive impact of that business on the growth of Denver. ... More
J. C. Penney Department Store, 5403-5407 1/2 Ballard Avenue, Seattle,...
Significance: Category 1 building in the Ballard Avenue Landmark District, a well preserved commercial section of an historic neighborhood community. / The J.C. Penney Department Store is a typical brick buildi... More
London Britain Meeting House, Route 896, .5 mile south of Kemblesville...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N333 Survey number: HABS PA-6231
Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...
Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More
Thames Street Area Survey, Thames Street, between Washington Square & ...
Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Standard Distillers Products, Incorporated Building, 306-310 East Lomb...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
First Presbyterian Church, West Innis & Jackson Streets, Salisbury, Ro...
Significance: The church was organized on August 4, 1821, with 13 members. The corner stone of the original church was laid in 1826. This original structure was built in the Classic Revival style with 4 wooden ... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Gatehouse No. 1, 2695 Martin Luther King Jr. ...
For an overview of the Gateshouses and Comfort Stations, see HABS DC-349-BZ Significance: Gatehouse No. 1 is significant for its association with the overall function of the St. Elizabeths Campus. As the public... More
Boise County Courthouse, Northeast corner, Main & Wall Streets, Idaho ...
Significance: As an excellent example of fire prevention measure, the "brick" was built to be fireproof in 1873 following Idaho City's most destructive fires in 1865, 1867, 1868 and 1871. It is also the most f... More
Boise County Courthouse, Northeast corner, Main & Wall Streets, Idaho ...
Significance: As an excellent example of fire prevention measure, the "brick" was built to be fireproof in 1873 following Idaho City's most destructive fires in 1865, 1867, 1868 and 1871. It is also the most f... More
Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS TN-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work Buildin... More
Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourte...
Significance: The nearly continuous eight block facade along the west side of Front Avenue (4,300 feet) represents a rare survival of the late 19th century commercial and industrial architecture. The integrity... More
Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourte...
Significance: The nearly continuous eight block facade along the west side of Front Avenue (4,300 feet) represents a rare survival of the late 19th century commercial and industrial architecture. The integrity... More
Speed Changing Pulley Company Factory, Thirty-second Street, Anderson,...
Significance: In order to offset a regional economic decline, Anderson's business community organized the Commercial Club in 1905. The Speed-Changing Pulley Company (later DeTamble Motors) was the first firm a... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
S. C. Ashby House, 642 Dearborn Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County...
Significance: Shirley C. Ashby was one of the leading financiers and citizens of early-day Helena. He came to Montana in 1867, and was employed by I.G. Baker & Bros. of Fort Benton to help in their Indian trad... More