Town of Locke, Commercial Building, 13952 Main Street, Locke, Sacramen...
Significance: This is one of the group of buildings that forms the Main Street and River Road street facades, separated by narrow alleyways and displaying a second floor balcony on the Main Street facade. Surv... More
Singer Tower, 149 Broadway, New York, New York County, NY
Significance: One of the outstanding works of architect Frank Flagg, the Singer Tower was for sixty years a familiar silhouette on the New York skyline. Ironically, the height of the building had established tw... More
Mosque, 2551 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: The building was originally sponsored by diplomatic mission heads from Moslem countries to promote international understanding, and in keeping with this concept, President Eisenhower dedicated the... More
Photographs of architectural monuments in Jerusalem, Syria, and Egypt
Photographs show architectural monuments in Jerusalem, Syria, and Egypt. Album page image number: 1-19: (p. 1-21) Photographs in Jerusalem include: the Damascus Gate, St. Stephen's Gate, Saracenic arch at Bab E... More
Pan American Union Building. Exterior of Pan American Union Building I
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Washington Hotel, Corner Main & Telegraph Streets, Clarksville, Montgo...
Significance: The Washington Hotel is an extensively altered structure dating from the mid-1820s. It has association with Clarksville's mid-19th century prominence as a port on the Cumberland River. The hotel... More
Merchants' National Bank, Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue & Broad St...
1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: One of the three best preserved of the small midwestern banks built by Sullivan. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-153 Survey nu... More
Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...
Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More
Cherry Mansion, 101 Main Street, Savannah, Hardin County, TN
Significance: This attractive residence, situated high above the Tennessee River, was built in 1849 by David Robinson for his son-in-law, William H. Cherry. The house is famous for its use as a Federal Headqua... More
Iolani Palace, King & Richards Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
Significance: Residence of the last two royal rulers of Hawaii. Scene of transfer of government to the United States in 1898. From 1898 to 1960s, the palace served as the capitol of Hawaii. When built, the p... More
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Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More
Convention Center Site, I Street, 900 & 1000 Block, Tenth Street, 800 ...
Significance: Included in the Convention Center Site were many examples of 19th and 20th century residential, commercial, and mixed use buildings, such as: the American Mosaic Company Building (DC-387), Pepco P... More
Niobrara Valley Bank, Fifth Avenue & Maple Street, Niobrara, Knox Coun...
Significance: The Niobrara Valley Bank, organized in the early 1880s was Niobrara's first banking institution. It served the community for more than forty years before closing its doors in the mid 1920s. The ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Navy Exchange, Pierce Street at Shane S...
Significance: The U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964; due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the devastating... More
Scott-Grant House, 3238 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This house is most notable as a mid nineteenth-century stylistically transitional house that combines the symmetrical massing of the first half of the nineteenth century with the picturesque, orna... More
Central National Bank, Hampton & Main Streets, Columbia, Richland Coun...
Significance: The Central National Bank is an important late nineteenth-century Columbia commercial building, which was probably designed by the nationally prominent architect, Samuel Sloan. Survey number: HAB... More
East Machias Post Office, Bridge Street at head of High Street, East M...
Survey number: HABS ME-225 Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1970 Subsequent Work
MacDill Air Force Base, Library, 2313 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hill...
Significance: The Base Library, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of the MacDill Air Force Base's historic character. The b... More
Abolition Church, 8 Smith Court, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Sallie Zetterower House, 331 South Main Street, Statesboro, Bulloch Co...
Significance: Part of the South Main Street Residential Historic District. The district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in September 6, 1989 as part of the Downtown Statesboro Multiple Pr... More
Walton H. Hopkins House, 15 Maryland Avenue & King George Street, Anna...
Significance: A very restrained Italianate townhouse, which, though altered through years of additions, still retains many of the original materials specified by its original owner, Thomas O. Walton, and fits i... More
1214 Reddour Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: 1214 Reddour Street is representative of the larger scale brick houses that were built after a devastating fire leveled the surrou... More
The White House, Washington, D.C.. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th...
Stereograph showing exterior view of front of White House, fountain and shrubs in foreground. 9882 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1898, by B.L. Singley. No. 8025.
Kimball Block Rowhouses, A Avenue West side, between Ninth & Tenth Str...
Significance: A two-story, ten-unit row house, the Kimball Block is unique in the San Diego area, though its prototype is typical of east-coast urban design. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
U.S. Post Office, Customs House & Sub-Treasury, 218 South Dearborn Str...
Significance: The building was one of the few examples in Chicago of a large public building designed in the Beaux Arts classical style, which became increasingly popular after the World's Columbian Exposition ... More
John Karns House, 900 North Canal Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County...
Significance: One of the few extant examples of a Greek Revival Pittsburgh town house. With exception of interior alterations, the general plan of the building has not changed. Survey number: HABS PA-424 Bui... More
2-6 East State Street (Commercial Building), 2-6 East State Street, Tr...
Significance: This building was for two decades the office of the New Jersey State Gazette, one of Trenton's two most important 19th century newspapers. It was here, in 1847, that the State Gazette began publi... More
William Allen White House, Main House, 927 North Exchange Street, Empo...
Significance: "Red Rocks" was the home of newspaper editor and writer William Allen White from 1899 until his death in 1944. White was national known and revered as the editor of the Emporia Gazette, a frequen... More
Mosquée et Kiosk Impérial à Top-Hané / Sébah & Joaillier.
Nusretiye Camii (mosque) and Imperial Kiosk at Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey. No. 126.
Johnson Wax Corporation Building, 1525 Howe Street, Racine, Racine Cou...
Significance: Corporate complex, noted example of Wright's commercial design. Survey number: HABS WI-284
Cullinan Building, 415 Seventh Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: A late nineteenth century building on a historic commercial street, with attractive architectural features. Survey number: HABS DC-225 Building/structure dates: ca. 1883 Initial Construction
Ray's Warehouse & Office, 3260-3262 K Street Northwest, Washington, Di...
Significance: 3262 K St. Was one of the original dock buildings of the important Georgetown milling firm of A. Rose Ray & Bro. during the second half of the 19th century. Survey number: HABS DC-148 Building... More
Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY
Significance: Built in 1770, this is one of the churches built by the Germans from the Rhine Valley who settled this area, and is maintained as a shrine to them by the owners. Unprocessed Field note material ... More
McConaughey Building, 1 Waynesburg Avenue, Cameron, Marshall County, W...
Significance: Constructed circa 1870, the McConaughey Building survived the Cameron fire of 1894, making it the earliest extant building within the corporate limits of Cameron. Survey number: HABS WV-294 Buil... More
First Courthouse, Main & Crockett Streets, Fredericksburg, Gillespie C...
Survey number: HABS TX-33-A-7 Building/structure dates: 18t2 Initial Construction
Arrington-Chapman House, 207 West Main Street, Livingston, Sumter Coun...
Survey number: HABS AL-285 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sweet Springs Hotel, State Route 311, Sweet Springs, Monroe County, WV
Significance: Built in 1833, it contained ballroom and dining room, but little of the original interior trim now remains. Used as hotel until ca. 1926. Sold to state in 1941 as tuberculosis sanitarium, which ... More
Sweet Springs Hotel, State Route 311, Sweet Springs, Monroe County, WV
Significance: Built in 1833, it contained ballroom and dining room, but little of the original interior trim now remains. Used as hotel until ca. 1926. Sold to state in 1941 as tuberculosis sanitarium, which ... More
Poletown Historic District, Chene Street Commercial District, Chene St...
Significance: The Chene Street Commercial District achieves its significance from its role as an early Polish immigrant community in Detroit. Polish settlement along the street began in the 1860's and was grea... More
St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalaw...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HABS HI-69 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1876 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1888 Subsequent Work ... More
St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalaw...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HABS HI-69 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1876 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1888 Subsequent Work ... More
Dennis Hotel, Michigan Avenue & Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Atlantic Cou...
Significance: Important as an architectural monument of a gracious and opulent era, and as a major element in the principal surviving portion of Atlantic City's Boardwalk front. Architecturally, the Dennis was ... More
Southern Hotel, 53-65 Water Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-12 Survey number: HABS AL-11 Building/structure dates: 1837 Initial Construction
Field-Stevens House, Delaware River, Fieldsboro, Burlington County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS NJ-203 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction
Photographs of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Photographs show locations in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Also shown are Bedouins and other indigenous people. (p. 1-20) Photographs include: arched street from Damascus Gate, Co... More
Fort Amador, Administration Building, Rear Admiral Nimitz Circle, Pana...
Survey number: HABS CZ-3-A Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gaineswood, 805 South Cedar Street, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS AL-211 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work National R... More
Lakeview Downtown Historic District, E, F & G Streets between Second S...
Significance: The district is locally significant as a commercial and social center in south central Oregon. The district is a reflection of Lakeview's growth and economic conditions during the first half of th... More
North Washington Street (Brick Row Houses), Easton, Talbot County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-704 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Library of Congress, Northeast corner of First Street & Independence A...
Significance: The nation's "main" library, the Library of Congress serves not only Congress but also acts as central source for resources collection and for copyright. Building is one of the world's largest an... More
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...
Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More