city planning

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

Proposed drawing for Independence Square, Washington Memorial and grou...

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a plan, map, park, birds' eye view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Mall and vicinity, Washington, proposed development /

Also shows planned and existing government buildings, government lands, and block numbers. LC copies fold-lined. Copy 2 missing edge section. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

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

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

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Plan. Study sket...

Original slide showing study sketch by Rudolph. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Planning drawing for a park for the Senate Park Commission, Washington...

Preliminary drawing showing site and park as bird's-eye view; rendering; landscape architecture drawing. H50477 U.S. Copyright Office UNIT title devised. Notations on verso. Copyright deposit. Finding aid (unpu... More

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

Euclid Avenue, Upland, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: Euclid Avenue is significant in three areas: community planning, landscape architecture, and transportation. Each reflect the vision of George and William Chaffey, who designed the avenue and ove... More

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

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

Choate Bridge, Spanning Ipswich River at South Main Street, Ipswich, E...

Significance: The Choate Bridge is an example of early stone construction in the history of American road building. The Essex County Court voted in December, 1764 to name the bridge in honor of Col. John Choat... More

Proposed urban design concepts, Washington DC

Scale ca. 1:40,000. Covers riverside areas of Washington (D.C.) and adjacent part of Arlington (Va.). Accompanied by text: The urban river, a staff proposal for waterfront development in the District of Columbi... More

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

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

Hyōgo chikutō hitobashira no zu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man presenting a city plan to the emperor at court with many ministers seated nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Tr... 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

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

Mountain Home Veterans Administration Medical Center, Johnson City, W...

For additional documentation see HABS TN-254. Significance: It was established in 1901 as the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The establishment of the Mountain Branch was b... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, 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 Boulder City Experimental Station, Electrolytic Mangan...

Significance: Building 500, 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

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Alon...

Significance: The Hospital Point neighborhood was built in association with the development of the naval hospital at Pearl Harbor and the adjacent Radio Station, the navy's first radio installation in Pearl Har... 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

[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.

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

Buckingham Apartment Complex, Bounded by George Mason Drive, Henderson...

Significance: Buckingham, a garden apartment complex constructed between 1937 and 1953 in Arlington, Virginia, is a nationally significant example of the application of pioneering principles of garden city plan... More

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 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

Washington, D.C. with projected improvements

Print showing bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C., with proposed Washington Monument. Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2011-May 2012. Conservation control number 8.89.811.

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

The ultimate Washington. Historic map, Library of Congress

Low-angle bird's-eye view of planned buildings in central Washington. "The plan laid out by the Commission of 1901 for the national capital of the future ..." "From the original rendering by F.V.L. Hoppin." "Su... More

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Film crew with model in st...

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

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model C. View to...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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. Model C. 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. Model B. Library...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Plan]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.17.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Sketch] / P.M.R. 5/8/72.

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Exhibited: "Never Built New York" at the Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, N.Y., September 2017 - February 2018. Unprocessed ... More

Memorials and museums master plan : [Washington D.C.] /

Shows existing and planned museums/memorials/monuments and the official designated areas for their sites. Relief shown by shading on some maps. Title from panel. Includes text, index of plan framework sites, in... More

Design of the federal city, comparative plans of L'Enfant and Ellicott...

Shows major streets and avenues, plazas, and government buildings. "Ellicott's engraved plan superimposed on the plan of L'Enfant showing the changes made in the engraved plan under the direction of President W... More

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

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: Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903; c...

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

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, 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 Boulder City Experimental Station, Electrolytic Mangan...

Significance: Building 500, 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

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

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

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...

Public domain photograph of construction site, 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

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