Windows, Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More
Close up of painting "Law Guides Florida Progress" at David W. Dyer Fe...
Artist: Denman Fink, 1941. Oil, dimensions: 25' 3" x 11' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Fe...
Built between 1928-1936 by architect Louis Simon. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...
Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... More
East courtroom, rear view, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, ...
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Bos...
Built in 1931-1933 by Architect Cram & Ferguson. The 16-story main mass rises to a height of 258' on Post Office Square. Restored by General Services Administration in 2009. Photographed as part of an assignmen... More
Grant Christian mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat- roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central c... More
Elevator doors, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colora...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built 1931-1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More
Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.
Built 1928-1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arc... More
Exterior, Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah
Architect: Hodgson & McClenahan. Built in 1933-34. Art Deco style originally built to provide offices for the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Serv... More
Mural with animals at Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
The golden-domed Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver houses the ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, intentionally reminiscent of the United States Capitol, was designed by Elijah E. Myers and constructed in the 1890s fro... More
Interior office space, Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More
Door detail, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Four story building designed in the Beaux Art Classicism style of architecture and clad in buff-colored limestone veneer. Built 1929-1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for ... More
2nd floor corridor, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Sculpture "Young American Woman" at Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Artist: Henry Kreis, 1939. Aluminum, dimensions: 4' 6" x 18" x 12". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photo... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Entrance to the Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Miss...
Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Interior lobby, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Laredo, Texas
Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1906-1907 and 1933. The building originally housed the customs service. The 1930's expansion more than doubled the space to the rear of the building. Photographed as part ... More
LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street ...
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park. The Square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. Originally planned as part of the pleasure grounds surround... More
Rear exterior. Sidney L. Christie Federal Building, Huntington, West V...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: Parker & Thomas. Built in 1905-1910. Credit line... More
Farmhouse kitchen at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Amish are a simple-living, plain-dressing, mostly rural people, originating in Central Europe, whose society spread from Pennsylva... More
Columns, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado
Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
The Pollock-Capps House, a Victorian mansion built in 1898 for Dr. Jos...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mansion was sold to William Capps and wife Sallie, whose family lived here 1909 to 1971. On the grounds were a golf... More
Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitutio...
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
Exterior eagle detail, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia,...
Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Interior corridor, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More
Turret of "Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
The Huntington Advertiser Building in downtown Huntington, West Virgin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Advertiser merged with the Herald-Dispatch in 1979, and both relocated into the Huntington Advertiser Building, whose facade took ... More
Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...
Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More
Sculpture: "Providence as Independent Thought, Flanked by Industry and...
GSA Fine Arts Program. 1908. Dimensions: 13' x 7' x 7'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More
Courtroom at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building
Built in 1915-1917. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line:... More
Cabin and a few farm implements in South Pass City, a mining boomtown ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. South Pass City has an unrelated and important role in history. One of the first arrivals to South Pass City, in 1869, was Esther Hoba... More
Stairs at Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located ...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
Mural: National Park Service, North Country, Gifford Beal at the Depar...
Date: 1941; dimensions: 105" x 224 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Clock. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...
Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More
Exterior detail, Federal Building, San Francisco, California
Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More
Rear door, Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois
Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
City Hall in Pueblo, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1915 a bond issue of $300,000 was approved for the construction of the massive building and its adjacent auditorium, called Memoria... More
Covered wagon at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
Fireplace. The Old Post Office and Clock Tower, Washington, D.C
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower and located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Construction began in 1892, and completed in 1899. The bui... More
Inside an officer's quarters at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historic...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
The 1875-76 Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The 1897 Vance Memorial Presbyterian (originally United Presbyterian) ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More
Postal detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Isl...
Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More
Mural "National Park Service: Tropical Country," by Gifford Beal at th...
Date: 1941; dimensions: 105" x 224 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credi... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
The "infinity room" at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
Stairs at the Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Missis...
Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Lodge below the ski slope at the annual Winter Carnival in Steamboat S...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Marker at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini found the property, which had two barns and a springhouse but no reliable source of water, on the side o... More
Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907, it is a 2-1/2 story brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Classical Revival style. The brick used is a pressed, glaz... More
Exterior. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Asheville, North Carol...
Built as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in 1929, the building is currently occupied by the U.S. Courthouse and other government agencies, including Social Security Administration, the U.S. Forestry Commiss... More
Cabin rented by fishermen and women at the Sheriff Ranch at the headwa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once a vast cattle spread, the ranch has downsized in recent years. Registered in 1881 with 1,350 acres with as many as 250 head of He... More
Door detail in front entrance hall, Blair House, located across from t...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More
Sculpture "Majesty of Justice" Great Hall, 2nd floor, Department of Ju...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 12' 6" x 41". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More
Door, Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Originally constructed as a post office, this neoclassical style building was built in 1915 by architect James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
Gilded entrance doorway at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, h...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Harry Hake, the building began its life in 1932 as an office building for the fast-expanding state government, a... More
The Woolworth Building in New York City
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
Construction on what was originally known as "the Ladies Hall" at West...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was given the name Agnes Howard Hall in 1920 in honor of Mrs. Agnes Howard, who was a student at the college in the early... More
West courtroom, entry door, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis,...
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Interior clock, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More
Lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More
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
Interior details at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More
Detail in the interior of the Capitol building "El Capitolio," Havana,...
This beautiful room, once used when congress was in session, now sits empty and unused. The Havana Capitol was built from April 1, 1926-1929; the building cost 17 million Pesos and is bigger than the U.S. Capit... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
Aerial view of Cincinnati, Ohio trainyards along the 1933 Cincinnati M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. During its heyday as a passenger rail facility in the 1930s and '40s, Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and ... More
Interiors, 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. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in...
Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More
Interior details, 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
Interior, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
Artist Omri Amrany's sculpture, "The Fusion," installed in 2006 to mar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Monument to a Confederate soldier, dedicated in 1901 in the town of Un...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. More than 10,000 people attended the dedication. Although West Virginia was created in 1863 as a Union state, it began the war as Virg... More
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam engine prepares to hook up wi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The C&TS is a three-foot narrow gauge heritage railroad running between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito. It runs over 10,015-foot Cumbr... More
U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
Interior, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
The Pemberton Coal Camp Church, one of the original coal-town building...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church was built in the Coal Camp of Pemberton, West Virginia, in 1921 by coal baron Thomas Hurst Wickham as a gift. This church, ... More
Hallway. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatta...
Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More
A building in Newark, Ohio, that was saved from demolition and, in 201...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was originally built in 1902 and served as the Crystal Ballroom and a meeting space for Oddfellows frateral organization.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Federal office building, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Designed by architect William Dubois in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: ... More
The Campbell-Hicks House in Huntington, West Virginia, notable for its...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house was built in 1896 for lawyer and mayor Charles W. Campbell and was later the home of state senator Ira Clay Hicks. Credit li... More
Exterior lamp post. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge,...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by Architect Moise Goldstein in Neoclassicism... More
The restored post surgeon's quarters at Fort Laramie National Historic...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1849, the U.S. Army took over Fort Laramie, established as Fort John, a private fur-trading fort in 1834, in order to protect westw... More
Front view, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska
Architect: Louis A. Simon and Gilbert. Stanley Underwood. Built in 1939. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
St. Peter's Lutheran Church, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, was built in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure's 186-foot copper-clad spire rises above the sanctuary of reinforced concrete, clad in brick and copper. Credit line: Ph... More
Stairway at the Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinoi...
Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Exterior, Herbert C. Hoover Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, Was...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More
Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas
Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
Interior lobby detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More
Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. America's first declared national monument (in 1906), the formation is an "igneous intrusion," formed when molten lava deep beneath th... More
Exterior view of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New...
An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More
Architectural detail at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U...
Built in 1906, the building is one of the finest Neoclassical Revival style federal buildings in the state of North Carolina. There was an addition in 1937. Architect is James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part... More
University of Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.
In 1927, Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, Raul Osero, and Cesar Guerra collaborated on the eighty-step entrance fronting the University of Havana. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest universit... More