city planning

Woodstock Street Shopping Center, 4500-4550 Lee Highway, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: This low-scale shopping center was built beginning in 1946, and expanded several times until 1962, to serve the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Arlington County. It was constructed of load-bearing m... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Administration Offi...

Significance: Building 100, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Town of Kistler, Kistler, Mifflin County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations, & floor plans. Significance: Kistler was built by the Mount Union Refr... More

Town of Kistler, Kistler, Mifflin County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations, & floor plans. Significance: Kistler was built by the Mount Union Refr... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Downtown Providence, Roughley bounded by Woonasquatucket River, Provid...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan for prop...

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[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Bird's-eye perspective dra...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model under construction i...

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[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model A. Façades...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Orange Street el...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation control number 2.08.1940.9.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. View to Williamsburg Bridg...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation number 2.14.3324.1. Conservation number not on item, possibly 8.10.2396.20 or 21.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Study. Perspective sketch]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.14.

[East Coast Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia. Master plan. Study, phase 1...

P. Rudolph, Urban Design Consultant. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School building...

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Miscellany, 1837-1952; Drawings, sketche...

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Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Correspondence, 1838-1928; General Corre...

Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA

Written data includes location maps, site plans, & floor plans. Significance: The Town of Penn-Craft was developed as part of a broad reaching effort of the New Deal era intended to relieve the dire economic ru... More

Downtown Neighborhood, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps. Survey number: HABS PA-5670

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Annex, Date Street ...

Significance: Building 800, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

David Pulsifer Inn, Route 103, Rockingham, Windham County, VT

Significance: There are records of local town meetings held in this house in 1775. Local legend says that the town of Concord, Vermont, was planned in this house. Survey number: HABS VT-41 Building/structure... More

Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums.

Poster promoting better housing as a solution for high rates of infant mortality in the slums, showing a planned housing community and in the background a crossed-out telescopic view of tenement housing. New Y... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Merrimack Canal, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Merrimack Canal was the first of the series of power canals constructed at Lowell. At the end of it, the Merrimack Mills produced textiles using the process developed by Francis Cabot Lowell ... More

Merrimack Canal, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Merrimack Canal was the first of the series of power canals constructed at Lowell. At the end of it, the Merrimack Mills produced textiles using the process developed by Francis Cabot Lowell ... More

Town of Kistler, Kistler, Mifflin County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations, & floor plans. Significance: Kistler was built by the Mount Union Refr... More

Town of Kistler, Kistler, Mifflin County, PA

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information on the refractories industry. Written data includes photocopies of location maps, elevations, & floor plans. Significance: Kistler was built by the Mount Union Refr... More

Cure juvenile delinquency in the slums by planned housing

Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter juvenile delinquency, showing silhouettes of a child stealing a piece of fruit and a child involved in armed robbery. Date stamped on verso: Oct 20 1936. Wo... More

Abraham Curry House, 406 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson City...

Significance: This house was built and lived in by the founder of Carson City, who was also the first Superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Carson. The house resembles much earlier prototypes and is largely in it... More

Abraham Curry House, 406 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson City...

Significance: This house was built and lived in by the founder of Carson City, who was also the first Superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Carson. The house resembles much earlier prototypes and is largely in it... More

[Church Street Redevelopment, New Haven, Connecticut. Drawing set]

Drawing set includes plans, sections, elevations, and renderings. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

West Branch Bridge, South Carolina Road S-569 spanning West Branch of ...

Significance: The State Road 569 bridge, built by the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, was an integral part of a designed landscape known as "Victor Park" created by Earle Sumner Draper. Draper is considered to ... More

West Branch Bridge, South Carolina Road S-569 spanning West Branch of ...

Significance: The State Road 569 bridge, built by the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, was an integral part of a designed landscape known as "Victor Park" created by Earle Sumner Draper. Draper is considered to ... More

Shinkyō toshi kensetsu keikaku yōto chiiki haibun narabini jigyō daiic...

Sheets individually numbered, e.g. Dai 1-an. Sheets individually subtitled, e.g Shinkyō toshi chiikisei keikakuzu, tsuketari kōen keitō. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Downtown Providence, Roughley bounded by Woonasquatucket River, Provid...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Downtown Providence, Roughley bounded by Woonasquatucket River, Provid...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Titanium Research B...

Significance: Building 400, as part of the Date Street Complex, was a component of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Bould... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More