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Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's County, MD

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Techwood Homes, Building No. 4, 489-499 Techwood Drive & 115-119 Pine Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, Building No. 4, 489-499 Techwood Drive & 115-119 Pine ...

Significance: Techwood Homes, Building 4 is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Homes is associated with even... More

West Rim Drive, Between Grand Canyon Village & Hermit Rest, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

West Rim Drive, Between Grand Canyon Village & Hermit Rest, Grand Cany...

Significance: The scenic drive is an early example of the cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and Bureau of Public Roads (then part of the Department of Agriculture) to build quality automot... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Kaiser Center, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Kaiser Center, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Significance: First private roof garden built after WWII, largest continuous roof garden in the world in 1960; first major example of post-war modernism on a rooftop; technological innovations in roof garden de... More

Skyline Drive, From Front Royal, Virginia to Rockfish Gap, Virginia , Luray, Page County, Virginia

Skyline Drive, From Front Royal, Virginia to Rockfish Gap, Virginia , ...

Significance: Over seventy miles long and varying in width from less than one mile to just over 13 miles, Shenandoah National Park straddles the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Here the ancient and narrow fr... More

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George'...

Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance ... More

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George'...

Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance ... More

Rowdy Creek Bridge, Spanning Rowdy Creek at Fred Haight Drive, Smith River, Del Norte County, CA

Rowdy Creek Bridge, Spanning Rowdy Creek at Fred Haight Drive, Smith R...

Significance: At the time the bridge was demolished in 1989, the north span that remained from the original 1913 bridge represented the only known example of a reinforced concrete girder type bridge designed by... More

U.S. Coast Guard Sandy Hook Station, Western Docking Structure, West of intersection of Canfield Road & Hartshorne Drive, Highlands, Monmouth County, NJ

U.S. Coast Guard Sandy Hook Station, Western Docking Structure, West o...

Significance: The Western Docking Structure is a functional component of the area used by the U.S. Coast Guard prior to and following WW II as a boat housing, boat launching, and maintenance facility primarily ... More

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New York County, NY

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New Y...

Significance: Designed by John H. Duncan, this monument to honor General Ulysses S. Grant, who had served his country as president, was constructed from 1891-1897. Funds for the building were raised through pub... More

Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN

Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL),...

Significance: The Rostone House is one of five houses from the Home and Industrial Arts Group moved at the end of the fair by Robert Bartlett to his lakeside subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. Rostone, a ... More

Techwood Homes, Building No. 1, 575-579 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, Building No. 1, 575-579 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulto...

Significance: Techwood Homes Building 1 is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The building is significant for its rol... More

Techwood Homes, Building No. 1, 575-579 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, Building No. 1, 575-579 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulto...

Significance: Techwood Homes Building 1 is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The building is significant for its rol... More

Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC

Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC

Significance: The Barbour Boat Works produced a variety of wooden water craft for recreational use from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Intermittently, the shipyard constructed larger vessels for military a... More

Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC

Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC

Significance: The Barbour Boat Works produced a variety of wooden water craft for recreational use from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Intermittently, the shipyard constructed larger vessels for military a... More

House of Tomorrow, 241 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN

House of Tomorrow, 241 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beve...

Significance: The House of Tomorrow is important as an artifact of the 1933-34 Century of Progress exposition, as an early example of the work of architect George Fred Keck, and as a record of the effects of Eu... More

House of Tomorrow, 241 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN

House of Tomorrow, 241 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beve...

Significance: The House of Tomorrow is important as an artifact of the 1933-34 Century of Progress exposition, as an early example of the work of architect George Fred Keck, and as a record of the effects of Eu... More

Drive to Jerome - Public domain American sheet music, 1874

Drive to Jerome - Public domain American sheet music, 1874

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

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