Goucher College, Mary Fisher Hall, Towson, Maryland. Dining room, to f...
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Willamette National Forest, Lane County, Oregon. Outdoor fireplace bui...
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Trampas, New Mexico. The Lopez home is many generations old, and this ...
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Albert P. Armour, residence at 123 Greenway North, Forest Hills, New Y...
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Mrs. Ralph Umstead and Helen Van Pelt Wilson, residence at 104 E. Cliv...
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Mr. and Mrs. T. Ferdinand Wilcox, residence on Smith Ridge Rd., New Ca...
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David Israel, residence at 211 Central Park West, New York City. Livin...
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Mrs. Flagler Matthews, residence, Brookside, Rye, New York. Dining roo...
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Mrs. Sidney Ross, residence at 784 Park Ave., New York City. Living ro...
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Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Stern, residence at 11 Garden Ln., New Orleans, ...
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Mrs. Rebecca Sanders Miller, apartment at 18 E. 73rd St., New York Cit...
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Dr. Miller, residence in Niantic, Connecticut. Living room, to firepla...
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Richard Kops, residence at 2 Richbell Rd., Scarsdale, New York. Bedroo...
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Mrs. Artemas Holmes, residence in Charlestown, Pennsylvania. View to f...
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Katherine Prentiss Murphy, residence in Saybrook, Connecticut. Bedroom...
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Austrian Legation, 2340 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. Living...
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H. Wilmer Hoffman, residence at 35 Church St., Charleston, South Carol...
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Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. Main di...
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Patricia Murphy, apartment in Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Living...
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Breard, residence at 4650 Meadowood Rd., Dallas, Tex...
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Jay Te Winburn, residence at 393 Park Ave., Sharon House, New York Cit...
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Harold Bache, residence at 812 Park Ave. Living room, to fireplace
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Mr. and Mrs. Martin P. Rubin, residence at 35 Clem Conover, Deal, New ...
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Warburg, residence in Stamford, Connecticut....
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Mr. Carl Brauer, residence in Princeton, New Jersey. Living room, to f...
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President Grover Cleveland's birthplace, in Caldwell, New Jersey. Fire...
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Anthony Albanese, residence on Grist Mill Rd., Plandome Mills, Plandom...
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Raised-Hearth Fireplace in Cabin. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Col...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation pr... More
The Manship house, Jackson, Mississippi during American Civil War
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built in 1857 by Charles Henry Manship, Civil War mayor... More
Fireplace detail at the Indian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Fireplace, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina
Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Truman study, fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the W...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More
![[The Townsend house, home of Sumner Welles, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.- interior view of richly decorated and furnished residence]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTMvdGhlLXRvd25zZW5kLWhvdXNlLWhvbWUtb2Ytc3VtbmVyLXdlbGxlcy1ub3ctdGhlLWNvc21vcy1jbHViLTIxMjEtbWFzc2FjaHVzZXR0cy04OTZiZTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/50/webp "[The Townsend house, home of Sumner Welles, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.- interior view of richly decorated and furnished residence]")
[The Townsend house, home of Sumner Welles, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 ...
Photograph shows fireplace with decorative mantel and overmantel containing mirror in the ground floor reception room (called the den in the original plans) at the Townsend house, later home of Mathilde and B. ... More
Brownsville, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1806-8. Related names: Mrs. T.T. Upshur. Original "Old Hall" built in 1691 by Thomas Brown, father of Sarah who married Arthur Upshur 2nd. His desc... More
Aspendale, Route 300 (Downs Chapel), Kenton, Kent County, DE
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS DE-143 Building/structure dates: 1773 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000170
Fort Hill, Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, SC
Significance: Fort Hill was the home of the nineteenth-century statesman John C. Calhoun and his son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University. The house began in 1803 as a small, two-story... More
Betty McLemore House, 342 North Lafayette Street, Lafayette, Chambers ...
Survey number: HABS AL-530 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction
Rich-Higgins House, Longnook Road, Truro, Barnstable County, MA
Significance: This residence consists of two houses - a Cape Cod "double house" of the 18th century on the west, and a Cape Cod "house and a half" of the 19th century on the east, and are joined together to mak... More
Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-76 Survey number: HABS MA-2-23 Building/structure dates: 1794 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000126
Mrs. David Greenough House, 42 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Middlesex Cou...
Significance: This dwelling was the earliest known house designed by Henry Greenough. It was built by him for his mother, Mrs. David Greenough, and was Italianate in style. Survey number: HABS MA-1020 Buildi... More
Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY
Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction
Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY
Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction
Frederick Fraser House, 901 Prince Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, ...
Survey number: HABS SC-487 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Feed Store-School, Route 29 & Route 631, Madison, Madison County, Virg...
Significance: The James City Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as an example of a community that remains a time-capsule of late 18th to early 20th century domestic, commercial, a... More
Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-209 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82002014
Virginian Havre-Daingerfield House, 608 Cameron Street, Alexandria, In...
Significance: This house is a significant Federal town house of the late eighteenth century (1798) with an exceptionally well-documented early history, which relates the residence to persons of consequence, his... More
Virginian Havre-Daingerfield House, 608 Cameron Street, Alexandria, In...
Significance: This house is a significant Federal town house of the late eighteenth century (1798) with an exceptionally well-documented early history, which relates the residence to persons of consequence, his... More
John Branford House, Lafayette & Wyckoff, Wyckoff, Bergen County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-383 Survey number: HABS NJ-391 Building/structure dates: 1742 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1775 Subsequent Work
Malden Historic District, Richard E. Putney House, 4406 Malden Drive, ...
Significance: The oldest residence is Malden, the Richard E. Putney House is also one of the most imposing and least altered among Malden dwellings. Built circa 1836, the house ranks locally as a mansion. The... More
Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS TN-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work Buildin... More
Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia
Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More
General William Brattle House, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Middlesex...
Significance: Built in ca. 1730 for Cambridge lawyer and politician William Brattle, the house is popularly known for its owner's British sympathies rather than for its architectural significance. In Cambridge... More
William Moore House, State Route 23 & Reading Railroad Tracks vicinity...
Significance: The Moore House is a fine example of a mid-eighteenth century stone house which retains much of its original woodwork. It was the home of the most prominent of the Chester County Loyalists and a m... More
Fireplace House, Entrance "A" Road to Lincoln Woods Reservation, Sayle...
Significance: Although no longer extant, the Fireplace House was an example of the regional building type, the "stone-ender" wherein the masonry of the chimney is exposed and forms a majority of one end wall. I... More
Robert McMullin House, 411 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
William S. Townsend House, 96 Delsea Drive (State Route 47), Dennisvil...
Significance: The house was the home of William S. Townsend, a prominent merchant, farmer, and community leader in Dennisville. Architecturally, the house is an interesting example of the Vernacular Neoclassica... More
4755 Guernsey Street (house), Forty-eighth & Guernsey Streets, Bellair...
Significance: Constructed in an area of residential structures in an elite section of the City of Bellaire. The 4755 Guernsey Street (House) is significant for its impressive architectural and details. This wel... More
U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...
Significance: These quarters are a classic example of the Gothic Revival cottage as advocated and popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis. It is one of the earliest remaining sets of q... More
Watkins House, State Highway 30, Burnt Corn, Conecuh County, AL
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24 Survey number: HABS AL-112 Building/structure dates: 18t1 Initial Construction
54 Queen Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cole-Kingsley House, 110 East Liberty Street, Rome, Oneida County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-5512 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA
2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More
Stony Point, Northeast corner of SC 246 & SC 39, Greenwood, Greenwood ...
Significance: Architecturally significant as a style more common to the Middle Atlantic States and relatively unusual as far south as South Carolina, constructed of flemish-bond brick with a jerkin-head roof; a... More
James Hood House, County Road 14 & Savannah Highway, Florence, Lauderd...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Library Company of Philadelphia, Ridgway Branch, 900 South Broad Stree...
Significance: The structure is one of America's last Greek Revival building built in the late 19th century. Survey number: HABS PA-1616
Elmwood, Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, WV
Survey number: HABS WV-25 Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jonathan Brooks House, Woburn & High Streets, West Medford, Middlesex ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-79 Survey number: HABS MA-144 Building/structure dates: 1786 Initial Construction
Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Peers Griffen House, 224 College Avenue, Webster Groves, St. Louis Cou...
Survey number: HABS MO-1181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lanrick Manor, 137 South River Road, Yardley, Bucks County, PA
Significance: A well-preserved example of an early 19th century Federal-style residence, executed in Bucks County field stone. This formal, finely detailed style of architecture was popular among the County's w... More
Lanrick Manor, 137 South River Road, Yardley, Bucks County, PA
Significance: A well-preserved example of an early 19th century Federal-style residence, executed in Bucks County field stone. This formal, finely detailed style of architecture was popular among the County's w... More
Fosberg-Sisco House, 3 Edgemont Road, Wayne, Passaic County, NJ
Significance: The house is locally significant as a representative example of early to mid 19th century residential architecture. Survey number: HABS NJ-870
Prospect Hill, Kanes Road, Long Green, Baltimore County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-325 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Grafton House, 65 Poplar Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: The Buildings of Rhode Island catalogue entry for this house (p. 524) describes it as being more compact than its across-the-street neighbor, the Robinson House. The central chimney was embellishe... More
Atwood-Higgins House, Bound Brook Island Road, Wellfleet, Barnstable C...
Significance: This is a fine specimen of a Cape Cod "double house," and Dr. Ernest Allen Connally, HABS Architect and historian, in his survey of Cape Cod houses in the summer of 1959, reported that this was lo... More
Wayne-Gordon House, 10 East Oglethorpe Street, Savannah, Chatham Count...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Granville Spaulding House, North Street, Chester, Windsor County, VT
Significance: Different type from the rest of the unusual stone houses in Chester Depot. Built as a mocassin shop with tannery behind. Survey number: HABS VT-45 Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction
McCleery House, 1068 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washington, District ...
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: A Georgetown residence of about 1800 with many fine interior details, reputedly designed by James Hoban. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
The Tavern, 800 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS NC-12-C-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1784 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1832 Subsequent Work Buildi... More
Thomas Robinson House, 64 Washington Street, Newport, Newport County, ...
Significance: This broad, gambrel-roofed house is one of the best examples of Newport's merchant residences of the 18th century . Due to continuous family ownership since 1761, the interior and exterior retain ... More
Bye Estate, House, Byecroft Lane, South of Route 202, Holicong, Bucks ...
Significance: This is a very good example of a Bucks County farmhouse with the additive feature it was built in four parts which typifies the early dwelling of this region. The house includes a number of intere... More
Jarathmael Bowers House, 55 Main Street, Somerset, Bristol County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS MA-2-17 Building/structure dates: 1770 Initial Construction
Jarathmael Bowers House, 55 Main Street, Somerset, Bristol County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS MA-2-17 Building/structure dates: 1770 Initial Construction
Spanish Custom House, 1300 Moss Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS LA-18-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1784 Initial Construction
Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...
Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More
Oxon Hill Manor, 6701 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, Prince George's Count...
Significance: This notable neo-Georgian country mansion was designed in 1928 by Jules Henri de Sibour for Sumner Welles, career diplomat and Under Secretary of State in the administration of Franklin D. Rooseve... More
Charles L. Wilson Residence, 307 Forty-second Street, Campion, Larimer...
Survey number: HABS CO-199 Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1917 Subsequent Work
Edwin H. Abbot House, 1 Follen Street, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
Significance: The Edwin H. Abbot House is Cambridge's most substantial dwelling, unusual in being built of stone. It is a typical mansion of the Richardsonian period, and is well preserved and serving an appro... More
Davis House, King George Street (moved from Main & Conduit Streets), A...
Survey number: HABS MD-258 Building/structure dates: ca. 1722 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1957 Subsequent Work
Robert A. Grinnan House, 2221 Prytania Street, New Orleans, Orleans Pa...
Significance: The building is significant as one of the best works of Henry Howard, the architect who later designed the more famous Belle Grove Plantation, in which he used the same Greek Corinthian order. ...... More
Shaker North Family Dwelling House (second), State Route 22 & U.S. Rou...
Survey number: HABS NY-3321 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bourne Mansion, Bourne Street, Kennebunk, York County, ME
Suggested address, Bourne Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-15 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction
Nathan Mason House, 34 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Significance: This is a small frame house, typical of the 1840s. Survey number: HABS RI-215 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction
Sophia Rollins House, Farm Route F vicinity, Smithville, Clay County, ...
Significance: One of the few remaining mid-19th century brick structures in the Smithville vicinity. Patented in 1836, the property was owned by Sophia Rollins and her family for the next 45 years. Although it ... More
Drury Vinson House, County Road 63, Leighton, Colbert County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-381 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glenwood, 800 Orchard Street, Charleston, Kanawha County, WV
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jacob Fox House, Mannington Mills, Salem County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-62, FN-377 Survey number: HABS NJ-248 Building/structure dates: 1813 Initial Construction
Cassena (House), 315 Federal Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-540 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, B...
Significance: Built in the mid-19th century, the Dashiell House was then one of the more pretentious houses in the Villita area of San Antonio and was, in general, characteristic of this type of dwelling. Today... More