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Techwood Homes, Building No. 15, 476-480 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, Building No. 15, 476-480 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fult...

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locust Grove, 749 Middletown-Odessa Road (Delaware State Route 299), Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Locust Grove, 749 Middletown-Odessa Road (Delaware State Route 299), M...

Significance: The farmhouse at Locust Grove was built in two phases during a prosperous and dynamic period in the history of southern New Castle County and, specifically, St. Georges Hundred. The first section... 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

Eden Publishing House, 1712-1724 Chouteau Avenue, Lafayette Square, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Eden Publishing House, 1712-1724 Chouteau Avenue, Lafayette Square, Sa...

Significance: The building served as headquarters for retail and printing operations of the Eden Publishing Company from 1869 to 1979. Several expansions occurred throughout the company's time of occupation. ... More

Old Saybrook Railroad Station, Interlocking Tower, 455 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, CT

Old Saybrook Railroad Station, Interlocking Tower, 455 Boston Post Roa...

Significance: The Old Saybrook Railroad Station Interlocking Tower (1912) is significant as it is a rare, surviving example of a railroad interlocking, or switch tower. The Tower is one of three remaining timb... More

Schopper-Guerrera House, 518 Kuenzli Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV

Schopper-Guerrera House, 518 Kuenzli Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV

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M. T. Marcello Company Building, 105 Harris Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

M. T. Marcello Company Building, 105 Harris Avenue, Providence, Provid...

Significance: The M.T. Marcello Company Building is significant for its associations with the history of the Providence food provisions industry. Established in 1918, the company was one of the leading local p... More

Eglin Air Force Base, Motor Repair Shop, Northwest of Flager Road, Chisk Lane & southern edge of Weekly Bayou, Valparaiso, Okaloosa County, FL

Eglin Air Force Base, Motor Repair Shop, Northwest of Flager Road, Chi...

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1143-1167 Elm Street (Commercial Buildings), Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

1143-1167 Elm Street (Commercial Buildings), Manchester, Hillsborough ...

Significance: The several structures that comprised the Ferretti Building were constructed during the early development of Manchester on lots laid out by the Amoskeag Company. As originally designed, Ferretti ... More

Hitchens Store, State Route 62, Whaleys Crossroads, Sussex County, DE

Hitchens Store, State Route 62, Whaleys Crossroads, Sussex County, DE

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Hitchens Store is an excellent example of a small-scale southern Delaware commercial structure with an exceptional degree of integrity. Unprocessed Field... More

Mulberry Hill, Sound Shore Road, Edenton, Chowan County, NC

Mulberry Hill, Sound Shore Road, Edenton, Chowan County, NC

Survey number: HABS NC-81 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Covered Wooden Bridge, Spanning Salt Fork River, State Route 49, Homer, Champaign County, IL

Covered Wooden Bridge, Spanning Salt Fork River, State Route 49, Homer...

Nitrate negative. Significance: The bridge was measured on March 10, 1934, and collapsed on April 5, 1934. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7, FN-37, FN-38 Survey number: HABS IL-... More

George Washington Junior High School, 707 Columbus Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

George Washington Junior High School, 707 Columbus Drive, Tampa, Hills...

Significance: George Washington Junior High School is historically significant as one of the first two junior high schools constructed in the nation. The school helped change the organizational structure of sc... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert County, GA

Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...

Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eighth Street, northwest corner of North Twenty-eighth & Master Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eigh...

Significance: The parish buildings of St. Ludwig's Roman Catholic Church are important landmarks to both a disappeared urban community and another that endures. The structures are located in an area of Philade... More

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eighth Street, northwest corner of North Twenty-eighth & Master Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eigh...

Significance: The parish buildings of St. Ludwig's Roman Catholic Church are important landmarks to both a disappeared urban community and another that endures. The structures are located in an area of Philade... More

Hotel Palomar Courts, 3975 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA

Hotel Palomar Courts, 3975 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, L...

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: The Hotel Palomar Courts (currently known as the Palomar Motel) is an early example of a motor court (or tourist court) building type. Motor courts are... More

Old Fort Randall Church, Right Bank, Missouri River, Pickstown, Charles Mix County, SD

Old Fort Randall Church, Right Bank, Missouri River, Pickstown, Charle...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS SD-4 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1896 Subsequent Work

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 1, Southfiel...

Public domain photograph of hospital laboratory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Significance: Fort Pulaski was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century by U.S. military engineers who hoped to guard against unwanted river approaches to the nearby port city of Savannah. It was p... More

Trump-Lilly Farm, Hinton, Summers County, WV

Trump-Lilly Farm, Hinton, Summers County, WV

Survey number: HABS WV-302 Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, MD

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, M...

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Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, MD

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, M...

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Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, MD

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, M...

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Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne Coun...

Significance: The Detroit Edison Hart Substation is typical of the kind of electrical substations built for the Detroit Edison Company in the early 20th century to step down (reduce) high voltage incoming elect... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Techwood Homes, Building No. 5, 467 Techwood Drive & 114-120  Pine Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, Building No. 5, 467 Techwood Drive & 114-120 Pine Str...

Significance: Techwood Homes, Building 5 is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Homes is associated with even... More

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...

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Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from Fisher Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County, PA

Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from ...

Significance: Built in 1836, Abington Friends Meeting House reflects patterns of design found in the single-cell meeting house built during the period of early settlement in the Delaware Valley, but not frequen... 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

Ziegler Farm, Milking Barn, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west of Hudson Road, Denver, Denver County, CO

Ziegler Farm, Milking Barn, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west ...

Significance: The Ziegler Farm is an example of 1920s and 1930s vernacular farm architecture. The farm buildings provide examples of Colorado plains dairy farm architecture during the period. As a complex, the ... More

Fort Point, Gun Emplacement Number 2, 25 Wentworth Road, New Castle, Rockingham County, NH

Fort Point, Gun Emplacement Number 2, 25 Wentworth Road, New Castle, R...

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Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Main Hospital Building, North end of Ramp A, north of Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Main Hospital Building, North end of Ramp...

Significance: Building 1, constructed between 1933 and 1935 as Naval Hospital Philadelphia's main hospital building, forms part of the original hospital complex built during the early 1930s. Incorporating the s... More

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Main Hospital Building, North end of Ramp A, north of Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Main Hospital Building, North end of Ramp...

Significance: Building 1, constructed between 1933 and 1935 as Naval Hospital Philadelphia's main hospital building, forms part of the original hospital complex built during the early 1930s. Incorporating the s... More

Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio,...

Significance: It was built 1779-1783 by military engineer Thomas O'Daly, Chief of the Spanish Corps of Engineers in San Juan. It is a bastion-fort in the outer works of Castillo San Cristobal, a fan-shpaed desi... More

Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio,...

Significance: It was built 1779-1783 by military engineer Thomas O'Daly, Chief of the Spanish Corps of Engineers in San Juan. It is a bastion-fort in the outer works of Castillo San Cristobal, a fan-shpaed desi... More

Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, ...

The Schooner was moved from Sausalito, California to Richmond, California Significance: The last surviving example afloat of some 225 steam schooners specially designed for use in the 19th and 20th century Paci... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Hangar, Kenny Road, southeast corner of interstction with G Avenue, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Hangar, Kenny Road, southeast corn...

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Hangar, Kenny Road, southeast corner of interstction with G Avenue, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Hangar, Kenny Road, southeast corn...

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Hershberger Farm, Outbuilding, .4 mile East of Business Route 220, .35 mile Southeast of Cessna, Cessna, Bedford County, PA

Hershberger Farm, Outbuilding, .4 mile East of Business Route 220, .35...

Photo caption pages include a site plan. Written data includes floor plans. Survey number: HABS PA-5392-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1820 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1911 Subsequen... More

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Officers' Quarters, Menoher Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Officers' Quarte...

Significance: Constructed in 1952, the Rushmore Air Force Station Officers' Quarters is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During this er... More

Ammendale Normal Institute, 6101 Ammendale Road, Beltsville, Prince George's County, MD

Ammendale Normal Institute, 6101 Ammendale Road, Beltsville, Prince Ge...

Significance: Ammendale is an excellent example of institutional and/or ecclesiastical architecture executed in Victorian-era eclectic. It was used as a Catholic novitiate and school, operated by the Christian... More

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