Tieton Dam, South & East of State Highway 12, Naches, Yakima County, W...
Significance: At the time of its completion in 1925, the Tieton Dam was the highest earthfill dam in the world. "Two of the foremost engineers in Western water development, Frank Crowe and Frank Weymouth, were... More
Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...
Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System, SAR-2 Powerhouse, Redlands, San ...
Survey number: HAER CA-130-Q Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work
Crosscut Steam Plant, North side Salt River near Mill Avenue & Washing...
Significance: The diesel plant housed unique large engines; both the diesel and steam units provided power to the cities of the Salt River Valley during WWII and the very high growth period following. The pump ... More
Fort Ord, Soldiers' Club, California State Highway 1 near Eighth Stree...
Significance: Stilwell Hall was the largest soldiers' club constructed in the west. It was also one of the last Works Progress Administration (WPA) buildings to be built and was noted for its collection of WPA... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Union Ranger District Compound, Warehouse, Fronting State Highway 203,...
Survey number: HABS OR-139-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy...
Significance: These four vehicle sheds were built in 1940, and designed according to the Army's 700-series standard plans. They represent the mobilization of the Army for World War II, an Army that had not com... More
California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...
Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More
California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...
Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More
Nine Mile Hydroelectric Development, Cottage No. 2, State Highway 291 ...
Survey number: HAER WA-84-D Public domain photograph of hydroelectric power station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Van Duzen River Bridge, Spanning Van Duzen River at CA State Highway 1...
Significance: The Van Duzen River Bridge, also known as the Alton Bridge, was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It represents a transitional design in the evo... More
Agnews State Hospital, Female Wards 32, 34, 36 & 38, Between Horseshoe...
Survey number: HABS CA-2710-R Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1998 Demolished
Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound, Main Residence & Workshop, 9553 Highlan...
Survey number: HABS CA-2708-A Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1966... More
Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound, Main Residence & Workshop, 9553 Highlan...
Survey number: HABS CA-2708-A Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1966... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Angle Two-...
Significance: This housing type is significant as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a grouping of related types. The design is notable for the use of new materials and minima... More
Rock Wall, North side of Battle Creek Canyon, Shingletown, Shasta Coun...
Significance: The Pacific Power Company Rock Wall is representative of early hydroelectric development efforts along the Battle Creek drainage system of Shasta County, California. The massive native basalt cob... More
St. Catherine's Academy, 1520 Grande Avenue, San Rafael, Marin County,...
Significance: Considered "one of the most impressive structures in all Marin county," the Dominican Convent Motherhouse is significant for its historical associations to California's settlement period, through ... More
Kiel Ranch, 200 West Carey Avenue, North Las Vegas, Clark County, NV
Significance: The Kiel Ranch, established as an "Indian Farm" in 1856 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) missionaries, has reflected the life and times of the Las Vegas Valley, as shown by... More
Madigan Hospital, Chapel, Bounded by Wilson & McKinley Avenues & Garfi...
Survey number: HABS WA-202-5 Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Agnews State Hospital, 4000 Lafayette Road, Santa Clara, Santa Clara C...
Significance: Agnews was the first state hospital in the California system to adopt modern methods of treating mental patients on a large scale and was a widely recognized model of a progressive hospital. Dr. ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Northeast ...
Significance: The Makalapa neighborhood is significant as an example of military housing built just before the United States' entry into World War II, reflecting the build-up of defenses and the related need fo... More
Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, Los Angeles County,...
Significance: The Rose Bowl stadium is of outstanding significant in the history of American recreation as the long-term site of the oldest and most renowned post-season college football "bowl" game. The Rose ... More
Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System, Control Station, Operations Buildin...
Significance: Building 102 Control Station (formerly Operations Building #1, Control Station) was constructed as the first operations building at the control station for the Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System in... More
Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System, SAR-1 Powerhouse, Redlands, San ...
Survey number: HAER CA-130-J Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work
Curtis Wharf, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, WA
Significance: Curtis Wharf is significant both in its contribution to history at the local and regional levels as a maritime commercial and industrial complex and in its illustration of a type of vernacular arc... More
Medford Service Center, Radio Shop, 1319 McAndrews Road, Medford, Jack...
Survey number: HABS OR-160-D Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type D, Maritime Street at Seve...
Survey number: HABS CA-2614-D Building/structure dates: 1942- 1944 Initial Construction
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Angle Thre...
Significance: This housing type is significant as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a grouping of related types. The design is notable for the use of new materials and minima... More
Curtis Wharf, Creamery, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, ...
Survey number: HABS WA-198-I Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nine Mile Hydroelectric Development, Powerhouse, State Highway 291 alo...
Survey number: HAER WA-84-B Public domain photograph of hydroelectric power station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System, Sandbox at Breakneck Creek, Redl...
Survey number: HAER CA-130-F Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work
Latimer Packing House, 321 South San Antonio Avenue, Ontario, San Bern...
Significance: This building is one of two packing houses on the property that was the site of The San Antonio Orchard Company. It sits to the east of the main packing house structure at 321 South San Antonio A... More
Oakland Naval Supply Center, Cold Storage Warehouse, South of C Street...
Survey number: HABS CA-2614-N Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
National City Depot, 900 West Twenty-third Street, National City, San ...
Significance: The California Southern Transcontinental Railroad Terminus is the last original transcontinental terminus depot in the United States. It is listed on the local register as a Designated Significan... More
Cedar Canyon Bridge, Spanning Cedar Canyon at Highway 60, Show Low, Na...
Significance: The Cedar Canyon Bridge & Corduroy Creek Bridge - two almost identical steel girder-ribbed arches - were the last links completed on U.S. Highway 60 between Globe and Springerville in 1937, and am... More
U.S. Forest Service Chelan Ranger Station, Annex, 428 West Woodin Aven...
Survey number: HABS WA-188-C Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...
Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More
Frank-Jensen Summer Home, 17423 North Lake Shore Drive, Telma, Chelan ...
Significance: The Frank-Jensen summer home is an early manifestation of the recreation incentive newly fostered by the National Forest Service in the late 1910s. Its simple vernacular construction is illustrat... More
Frank-Jensen Summer Home, 17423 North Lake Shore Drive, Telma, Chelan ...
Significance: The Frank-Jensen summer home is an early manifestation of the recreation incentive newly fostered by the National Forest Service in the late 1910s. Its simple vernacular construction is illustrat... More
Gunnarson Farmstead, Granary, U.S. Highway 20 at New Sweden, Idaho Fal...
Survey number: HABS ID-112-C Building/structure dates: 1920 Initial Construction
Beverly Vista School, Manual Arts & Classroom Building, 200 South Elm ...
Significance: At Beverly Vista, the Auditorium/Manual Arts Building (Building B) is a fine example of public school design. Building B, was designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Gable and Wyant in ... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
Huntington Beach Municipal Pier, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street,...
Significance: The Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is locally important because it was constructed for the express purpose of establishing the city of Huntington Beach as a West Coast resort community. As such,... More
Huntington Beach Municipal Pier, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street,...
Significance: The Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is locally important because it was constructed for the express purpose of establishing the city of Huntington Beach as a West Coast resort community. As such,... More
Huntington Beach Municipal Pier, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street,...
Significance: The Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is locally important because it was constructed for the express purpose of establishing the city of Huntington Beach as a West Coast resort community. As such,... More
Huntington Beach Municipal Pier, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street,...
Significance: The Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is locally important because it was constructed for the express purpose of establishing the city of Huntington Beach as a West Coast resort community. As such,... More
Huntington Beach Municipal Pier, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street,...
Significance: The Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is locally important because it was constructed for the express purpose of establishing the city of Huntington Beach as a West Coast resort community. As such,... More
Oakland Army Base, Transit Shed, East of Dunkirk Street & South of Bur...
Significance: Oakland Army Base (OARB) was planned and constructed a a time when military planners recognized that the West Coast would have a vital role in responding to Japanese aggression during World War II... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
U.S.S. HORNET, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, ...
Significance: Subsequent to the unsuccessful efforts of the U.S.S. HORNET Historical Museum Association to obtain the ship as a donation, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1991 on t... More
Crosscut Steam Plant, North side Salt River near Mill Avenue & Washing...
Significance: The diesel plant housed unique large engines; both the diesel and steam units provided power to the cities of the Salt River Valley during WWII and the very high growth period following. The pump ... More