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Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eureka, Juab County, UT

Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley...

Significance: The Eureka Post Office was the first federal building erected in the city. The building was constructed at the peak of the Tintic Mining District's Prosperity and has continuously housed Eureka's ... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 3, 903 South Fourth Street, south front, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 3, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Significance: Building in 1725. Begun by Mann Page. Ruinous. Brick, Portland Stone trim. Survey number: HABS VA-61 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Significance: Building in 1725. Begun by Mann Page. Ruinous. Brick, Portland Stone trim. Survey number: HABS VA-61 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

Significance: Designed and constructed between 1959 and 1962, the Margaret Esherick House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania is a masterwork of modern architecture and craftsmanship. Internationally renowned Philad... More

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Dist...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...

Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More

Teller House, Central City, Gilpin County, CO

Teller House, Central City, Gilpin County, CO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS CO-36-C-4 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000246

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Clinchport Masonic Lodge No. 267, Second Avenue, Clinchport, Scott County, Virginia

Clinchport Masonic Lodge No. 267, Second Avenue, Clinchport, Scott Cou...

Significance: The Clinchport Masonic Lodge, No. 267, constructed c. 1890, was taken over by the lodge in December of 1897. This high quality wood frame rural commercial structure is an excellent example of ver... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lanvale & North Carrollton streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lan...

Significance: One of a number of urban squares established in West Baltimore in the nineteenth century to encourage new residential development west of the city center, Lafayette Square defined fashionable city... More

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Significance: Building in 1725. Begun by Mann Page. Ruinous. Brick, Portland Stone trim. Survey number: HABS VA-61 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

May Company Department Store Building, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

May Company Department Store Building, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los An...

Significance: The May Company Department Store on Wilhsire openly indicates how the building's location at the busy corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Fairfax Ave. is to be exploited as a sign in this case as gold ... More

Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, 925 Bloomfieldwoods Court, Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, MI

Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, 925 Bloomfieldwoods Court, B...

2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize Significance: The Affleck House is the first Frank-Lloyd Wright-designed house in the Detroit metropolitan area. It is one of the finest examples of the architect's Usonian style,... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Birch Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue...

For an overview of the Food Service Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CB Significance: The Old Storeroom (Building 44) was constructed as a storage facility to supplement the General Kitchen (Building 45) and Bakery (... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchan...

Significance: Although the architectural integrity of the residential structure located at 301-305 South 15th Street has been impacted by alteration, the building retains enough of its integrity to be considere... More

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lanvale & North Carrollton streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lan...

Significance: One of a number of urban squares established in West Baltimore in the nineteenth century to encourage new residential development west of the city center, Lafayette Square defined fashionable city... More

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lanvale & North Carrollton streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lan...

Significance: One of a number of urban squares established in West Baltimore in the nineteenth century to encourage new residential development west of the city center, Lafayette Square defined fashionable city... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

Significance: Designed and constructed between 1959 and 1962, the Margaret Esherick House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania is a masterwork of modern architecture and craftsmanship. Internationally renowned Philad... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coulter's Department Store, 5600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Coulter's Department Store, 5600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los ...

Significance: A serene, streamlined box as a machine for merchandising. Glass blocks are here exploited for their greatest functional and decorative possibilities. As with many Wilshire Blvd. buildings of its t... More

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchan...

Significance: Although the architectural integrity of the residential structure located at 301-305 South 15th Street has been impacted by alteration, the building retains enough of its integrity to be considere... More

Fairbanks Company, 202 Division Street, Rome, Floyd County, GA

Fairbanks Company, 202 Division Street, Rome, Floyd County, GA

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Carter G. Woodson House, 1538 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, Dist...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an Italian architectural drawing, design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...

Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...

Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...

Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Birch Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue...

For an overview of the Food Service Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CB Significance: The Old Storeroom (Building 44) was constructed as a storage facility to supplement the General Kitchen (Building 45) and Bakery (... More

Aluminum City Terrace, Twin House Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, Twin House Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensingto...

Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, was built by the federal government to house defense workers duri... More

National Park Seminary, Gymnasium, North of Linden Lane, south of Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Aloha House, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia

Significance: Building in 1725. Begun by Mann Page. Ruinous. Brick, Portland Stone trim. Survey number: HABS VA-61 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

Fairbanks Company, 202 Division Street, Rome, Floyd County, GA

Fairbanks Company, 202 Division Street, Rome, Floyd County, GA

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wheaton & Anthony Building (Second), 75 Westminster Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Wheaton & Anthony Building (Second), 75 Westminster Street, Providence...

Significance: Built in 1872, the Second Wheaton and Anthony Building was designed by the locally prominent architectural firm of Stone and Carpenter in the Second Empire style. One of the earliest cast iron fa... More

Morocco Temple, 219 Newnan Street, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Morocco Temple, 219 Newnan Street, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Significance: Designed in 1910 by M.J. Klutho, Jacksonville's most prominent early twentieth-century architect, the Morocco Temple has a blending of Egyptian Revival detailing and Wrightian massing unique in hi... More

Morocco Temple, 219 Newnan Street, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Morocco Temple, 219 Newnan Street, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Significance: Designed in 1910 by M.J. Klutho, Jacksonville's most prominent early twentieth-century architect, the Morocco Temple has a blending of Egyptian Revival detailing and Wrightian massing unique in hi... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Colonial House, 2745 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Colonial House was the Phi Delta Psi sorority house. Its Classical or Colonial Revival design was popular in the late nineteenth century because of the nationalism stirred up by the Bicentenn... More

Northern views. Safad and the Mission compound. Flat roofs covered with drying wheat

Northern views. Safad and the Mission compound. Flat roofs covered wit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coulter's Department Store, 5600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Coulter's Department Store, 5600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los ...

Significance: A serene, streamlined box as a machine for merchandising. Glass blocks are here exploited for their greatest functional and decorative possibilities. As with many Wilshire Blvd. buildings of its t... More

Woodstock Street Shopping Center, 4500-4550 Lee Highway, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Woodstock Street Shopping Center, 4500-4550 Lee Highway, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: This low-scale shopping center was built beginning in 1946, and expanded several times until 1962, to serve the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Arlington County. It was constructed of load-bearing m... More

Aluminum City Terrace, Twin House Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, Twin House Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensingto...

Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, was built by the federal government to house defense workers duri... More

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Kendall County, IL

Address was originally recorded as "Fox River & Milbrook Roads" it was changed to "14520 River Road" in 2010 to more precisely record its location. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Designed by In... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchan...

Significance: Although the architectural integrity of the residential structure located at 301-305 South 15th Street has been impacted by alteration, the building retains enough of its integrity to be considere... More

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

Rufus K. Allen House, 305 South Fifteenth Street, Saint Joseph, Buchan...

Significance: Although the architectural integrity of the residential structure located at 301-305 South 15th Street has been impacted by alteration, the building retains enough of its integrity to be considere... More

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lanvale & North Carrollton streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lan...

Significance: One of a number of urban squares established in West Baltimore in the nineteenth century to encourage new residential development west of the city center, Lafayette Square defined fashionable city... More

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

Significance: Designed and constructed between 1959 and 1962, the Margaret Esherick House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania is a masterwork of modern architecture and craftsmanship. Internationally renowned Philad... More

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States General Post Office, Between Seventh, Eighth, E, & F Str...

Significance: A mid-nineteenth century federal office building with important historical associations and notable architectural character; a landmark of the national capital. Survey number: HABS DC-219 Buil... More

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Road, Richmond (historical), Providence County, RI

Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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