Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 70, Des Moines, Polk Co...
Significance: This Classical Revival style structure, raised according to standardized plan 139 of the Quartermaster General's office, and essentially the same as Building No. 68, was finished on February 24, 1... More
Vowles Townhouses, 1111-1113 West Main Street, Charlottesville, Charlo...
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The first of these townhouses was most likely built by James Dinsmore, one of the craftsmen recruited by Thomas Jefferson to work on the University of Virgini... More
First National Bank, 503-507 King Street, Alexandria, Independent City...
Significance: An early twentieth century bank building of the classical-revival style, the structure housed a conservative banking institution. Survey number: HABS VA-672 Building/structure dates: 1909 Initia... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
Paxton Carnegie Library, 254 South Market Street, Paxton, Ford County,...
STORED ON SITE. mchr 2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Paxton Carnegie Library is locally significant under Criterion A and C. It is significant for educational purposes in its role in pr... More
Paxton Carnegie Library, 254 South Market Street, Paxton, Ford County,...
STORED ON SITE. mchr 2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Paxton Carnegie Library is locally significant under Criterion A and C. It is significant for educational purposes in its role in pr... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...
Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...
Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...
Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More
Amherst Street, Winchester, Winchester, Virginia
Significance: This section of Amherst Street appears as it was over 100 years ago. It contains five buildings built over a period of about forty-five years in the mid-nineteenth century. This group is signifi... More
Massie-Wills House, Fourth Street, Northeast, Charlottesville, Charlot...
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N133 Survey number: HABS VA-1337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure da... More
North Little Rock City Hall, Third & Main, North Little Rock, Pulaski ...
Survey number: HABS AR-15 Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1960 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75000414
National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...
Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More
Buffum House, Main & Middle Streets, Walpole, Cheshire County, NH
Significance: An example of a frame house built c. 1785, remodeled in the 1820's. The original house with the long, north side the main facade with Georgian detail, became a Classic Revival house with a new po... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Richard D. Bayly House, Back Street, Accomac, Accomack County, Virgini...
Significance: This is a handsome, early-19th century, brick house used as headquarters for General Lockwood, of the Union Army, during the Civil War. Survey number: HABS VA-622 Building/structure dates: 1811 ... More
Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historic District, Twenty-second & Woolworth...
Significance: The Omaha Quartermaster Depot has gained its significance by being associated with, and a part of, the Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historical District (listed as an Historic District by the National... More
Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historic District, Twenty-second & Woolworth...
Significance: The Omaha Quartermaster Depot has gained its significance by being associated with, and a part of, the Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historical District (listed as an Historic District by the National... More
Ashland Belle Helene Plantation, Highway 75, Geismar, Ascension Parish...
1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Ashland-Belle Helene exemplifies the massiveness, extreme simplicity, and dignity which are generally held to epitomize the Classical Revival style of archite... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Ordnance Storehouse, Third Street, north s...
Significance: Building 77 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant as one of the least modified of the brick Classical Revival shops that were built in great numbers in... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
See also HAER No. CA-233-A for additional documentation of this structure (KEY 2/5/2004). Significance: Quarters 1 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a tra... More
Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloh...
Significance: Housing the gymnasium in one of the campus' most prominent and ornate building illustrated the importance of athletics at the school. It was, perhaps, an attempt to relate the ancient world's cel... More
National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloh...
Significance: Housing the gymnasium in one of the campus' most prominent and ornate building illustrated the importance of athletics at the school. It was, perhaps, an attempt to relate the ancient world's cel... More
Washington & Lee University, Washington Hall, Jefferson Street, Lexing...
Significance: The central building of the university complex, this building was erected in 1822-1824 and probably designed by John Jordan, prominent local builder who introduced the Classical Revival style to t... More
Temelec Hall, 20750 Arnold Avenue, Sonoma, Sonoma County, CA
Significance: Built in 1858. Its builder and first owner, "Captain" Granville P. Swift, can west with the Kelsey Party in 1843; and was a member of the Bear Flag Party that seized Sonoma and proclaimed Californ... More
Old U.S. Customs House & Post Office, 129-141 North Union Street, Pete...
Significance: This building was designed by Ammi B. Young, first Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, in the Italian Renaissance style. During the War between the States, it housed the Confeder... More
Old U.S. Customs House & Post Office, 129-141 North Union Street, Pete...
Significance: This building was designed by Ammi B. Young, first Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, in the Italian Renaissance style. During the War between the States, it housed the Confeder... More
First Church of Deerfield, Old Deerfield Street, Deerfield, Franklin C...
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First Church of Deerfield, Old Deerfield Street, Deerfield, Franklin C...
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First Church of Deerfield, Old Deerfield Street, Deerfield, Franklin C...
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Sunny Bank, State Route 712 vicinity, North Garden, Albemarle County, ...
Significance: This house which was built circa 1797 by Andrew Hart, is a fine example of eighteenth century domestic architecture in Virginia. Six generations of this name have lived here. Unprocessed Field n... More
Samuel Findley School, Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Streets, Akron, Summit C...
2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Findley Academy carries elements of the Beaux Arts style with additional Classical Revival details, evident throughout the exterior and interior. These... More
Stono, Institute Hill, Lexington, Lexington, Virginia
Significance: Home of John Jordan, prominent Lexington builder and industrialist of the early nineteenth century. Built by Jordan in 1818, it is one of the earliest examples of the Classical Revival in western... More
U.S. Custom House & Post Office, Royal & Saint Francis Streets, Mobile...
Significance: Notable example of work of leading nineteenth-century Federal architect. 1853-56. Ammi B. Young, architect; Danville Leadbetter, superintendent of construction. Classical Revival. Ashlar over b... More
U.S. Custom House & Post Office, Royal & Saint Francis Streets, Mobile...
Significance: Notable example of work of leading nineteenth-century Federal architect. 1853-56. Ammi B. Young, architect; Danville Leadbetter, superintendent of construction. Classical Revival. Ashlar over b... More
Albemarle County Courthouse, Court Square, Charlottesville, Charlottes...
Significance: Built in 1803, the Georgian north portion is typical of Virginia Courthouses of the period. The 1859 south portion has seen many revisions, but survives as an example of Roman Revival Style. In ... More
Taunton State Hospital, Danforth Street, Taunton, Bristol County, MA
Significance: As the second insane asylum in Massachusetts, the Taunton State Hospital represents a superb example of the mid-19th century Classical Revival design and a turning point in the care of the mentall... More
City & County Building, Nineteenth & Carey Avenue, Cheyenne, Laramie C...
Significance: The City/County Building, completed in 1919, is significant for its historic associations with the development and cooperation of the City of Cheyenne and Laramie County Governments. The building... More
Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...
Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More
Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...
Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More
Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Significance: Poplar Forest, one of Thomas Jefferson's most accomplished architectural essays, was built from 1806-19. It was described by its designer-builder as "...the best dwelling in the state, except th... More
Elgin Fire Barn No. 5, 533 Saint Charles Street, Elgin, Kane County, I...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Built in 1903 after designs by local architect Smith Hoag, Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 was one of a series of public firehouses built in Elgin, Illinois in the late... More
Hustings Courthouse, Courthouse Avenue & North Sycamore Street, Peters...
Significance: This Classic Revival Courthouse, designed by Calvin Pollard of New York and built 1838-1840, is architecturally noteworthy because of its improvisations on, and combinations of, different classica... More
First National Bank, 503-507 King Street, Alexandria, Independent City...
Significance: An early twentieth century bank building of the classical-revival style, the structure housed a conservative banking institution. Survey number: HABS VA-672 Building/structure dates: 1909 Initia... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
Buckhorn Manor, State Route 603, Bacova, Bath County, Virginia
Significance: Buckhorn Manor, with its outbuildings, is a good example of the plantations that flourished in the Jackson River valley before the Civil War. The plantation buildings, three of which remain intac... More
Paxton Carnegie Library, 254 South Market Street, Paxton, Ford County,...
STORED ON SITE. mchr 2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Paxton Carnegie Library is locally significant under Criterion A and C. It is significant for educational purposes in its role in pr... More
Cedar Hall, Plantersville, Grimes County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-225 Building/structure dates: 1860 Initial Construction
Cedar Hall, Plantersville, Grimes County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-225 Building/structure dates: 1860 Initial Construction
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...
Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More
Amherst Street, Winchester, Winchester, Virginia
Significance: This section of Amherst Street appears as it was over 100 years ago. It contains five buildings built over a period of about forty-five years in the mid-nineteenth century. This group is signifi... More
Massie-Wills House, Fourth Street, Northeast, Charlottesville, Charlot...
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N133 Survey number: HABS VA-1337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure da... More
National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...
Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More
Buffum House, Main & Middle Streets, Walpole, Cheshire County, NH
Significance: An example of a frame house built c. 1785, remodeled in the 1820's. The original house with the long, north side the main facade with Georgian detail, became a Classic Revival house with a new po... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Richard D. Bayly House, Back Street, Accomac, Accomack County, Virgini...
Significance: This is a handsome, early-19th century, brick house used as headquarters for General Lockwood, of the Union Army, during the Civil War. Survey number: HABS VA-622 Building/structure dates: 1811 ... More
Ashland Belle Helene Plantation, Highway 75, Geismar, Ascension Parish...
1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Ashland-Belle Helene exemplifies the massiveness, extreme simplicity, and dignity which are generally held to epitomize the Classical Revival style of archite... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...
Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Ordnance Storehouse, Third Street, north s...
Significance: Building 77 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant as one of the least modified of the brick Classical Revival shops that were built in great numbers in... More
Holy Cross Parish Hall, Eddy Street (moved from Market & Second Street...
Significance: The original St. Patrick's Church, said to have been prefabricated and shipped around the Horn ca. 1851; and erected on Market Street. It was moved in 1891 to its present site on Eddy Street and b... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
See also HAER No. CA-233-A for additional documentation of this structure (KEY 2/5/2004). Significance: Quarters 1 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a tra... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
See also HAER No. CA-233-A for additional documentation of this structure (KEY 2/5/2004). Significance: Quarters 1 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a tra... More
Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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Monticello, State Route 53 vicinity, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...
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