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John Larchar House, 282 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

John Larchar House, 282 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County,...

Significance: This house, which was designed by John Holden Greene, has always been in the Larchar family. It preserves in excellent condition two sets of Joseph Dufour wallpaper. Unprocessed Field note mater... More

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between RI/MA State Line & South Station, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between RI/MA State Line & S...

Survey number: HAER MA-19 Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Louis Union Station Powerhouse, South Eighteenth Street, North of U.S. Highway 40, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

St. Louis Union Station Powerhouse, South Eighteenth Street, North of ...

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St. Louis Union Station Powerhouse, South Eighteenth Street, North of U.S. Highway 40, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

St. Louis Union Station Powerhouse, South Eighteenth Street, North of ...

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Frederick Douglass House, 1411 W Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Frederick Douglass House, 1411 W Street, Southeast, Washington, Distri...

See also HALS DC-2 and HALS DC-3 for related documentation. Significance: The house was the residence of the Marshal and Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, Minister to Haiti and runaway slave, Fred... More

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela Rive...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 55 through 158). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integ... More

Pawtucket Canal, Guard Locks, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Pawtucket Canal, Guard Locks, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Guard Locks were the first set of locks constructed in the Lowell System which are still in existence. They have, however, been altered and added to since first put into use. The Guard Locks... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Stewart Company Grain Elevator, 16 West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Stewart Company Grain Elevator, 16 West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, All...

Significance: The 1913 elevator replaced an earlier elevator on the same site and was the first concrete grain elevator in Pittsburgh. A rail siding connected the structure to the Panhandle Division of the Penn... More

St. Mary's Seminary, 600 North Paca Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

St. Mary's Seminary, 600 North Paca Street, Baltimore, Independent Cit...

Significance: Oldest Roman Catholic seminary in U.S. Founded in 1791 by four French Supicians, the order that established the seminary concept in France in 1642. Unprocessed Field note material exists for thi... More

St. Mary's Seminary, 600 North Paca Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

St. Mary's Seminary, 600 North Paca Street, Baltimore, Independent Cit...

Significance: Oldest Roman Catholic seminary in U.S. Founded in 1791 by four French Supicians, the order that established the seminary concept in France in 1642. Unprocessed Field note material exists for thi... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Street & Glenarm Place, Denver, Denver County, CO

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Rose Hill Manor, 1611 North Market Street, Frederick, Frederick County, MD

Rose Hill Manor, 1611 North Market Street, Frederick, Frederick County...

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Savage Mining Office, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Savage Mining Office, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland County, AR

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland County, AR

Bathhouse Row, Maurice Bathhouse, Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Garland...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AR-28-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000275

Charlestown Navy Yard, Central Power Plant, Attached to northeast end of Building 107 at intersection of Third Avenue & Ninth Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Central Power Plant, Attached to northeast end ...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: Building 108 was originally buil... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...

Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Street, Greensboro Avenue & East Street, Marion, Perry County, AL

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Stre...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57 Survey number: HABS AL-766 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Street, Greensboro Avenue & East Street, Marion, Perry County, AL

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Stre...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57 Survey number: HABS AL-766 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Oklahoma State University, Boys Dormitory, Northwest corner of Hester Street & Athletic Avenue, Stillwater, Payne County, OK

Oklahoma State University, Boys Dormitory, Northwest corner of Hester ...

Significance: Crutchfield Hall is the first permanent boy's dormitory in Oklahoma. During its existence it served as a dormitory, a School of Music building, and an office building serving the College of Engin... More

Boise Project, Boise Project Office, 214 Broadway, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise Project Office, 214 Broadway, Boise, Ada County, ...

Public domain photograph of village home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-second Street, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-second Street, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Governor Henry Lippitt House, 199 Hope Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Governor Henry Lippitt House, 199 Hope Street, Providence, Providence ...

Significance: This large, elaborately decorated house, was built for Henry Lippett, governor of Rhode Island in 1874-1875. Survey number: HABS RI-239 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction Build... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Significance: The site was acquired by Daniel Pratt in 1838, and he soon established grist and lumber and shingle mills there. By 1844, he had opened a cotton gin plant, the products of which were in great dem... More

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Significance: The site was acquired by Daniel Pratt in 1838, and he soon established grist and lumber and shingle mills there. By 1844, he had opened a cotton gin plant, the products of which were in great dem... More

Providence & Worcester Railroad, Freight House, Canal Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence & Worcester Railroad, Freight House, Canal Street, Providen...

Significance: The freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America. It was also one of the first structures built in the Romanesque style and one of the only surviving structures o... More

Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More

Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More

Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

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

Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

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 County, MA

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 County, MA

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 County, MA

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 County, MA

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, Providence, Providence County, RI

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 & Connecticut/Rhode Island State Lines, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of Louisville (Railroad) Road & West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of ...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Terminal and Trainshed at Savannah are part of one of the earliest attempts to build a comprehensive railroad terminal and shop complex in this country. The structure of th... More

Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington, District o...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

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