Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

hannah sears

public
516 media by topicpage 6 of 6
Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Significance: The town of Rock Run, primarily built to house and support the employees of the Rock Run furnace, is typical of the industrial towns scattered through the South at the turn of the century. While ... More

Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX

Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood Coun...

Significance: One of the remaining vernacular suspension bridges in Texas, the Rock Church bridge is an example of a combination cable and stayed truss, an obsolete engineering design. Unprocessed Field note m... More

Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN

Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip,...

Survey number: HAER MN-96 Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1930 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1980 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 199... More

Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator, 1901 Annex, South side of first slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN

Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator, 1901 Annex, South side of first slip,...

Survey number: HAER MN-97-B Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1998 Demolished

Burnside Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Burnside Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Burnside Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Burnside Street, Portlan...

Significance: Burnside Bridge is one in an ensemble of twelve monumental highway bridges across the lower Willamette River, and one of five Portland span bridges (with Ross Island Bridge, Sellwood Bridge, Lovej... More

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County, AL

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County...

Significance: With various frame outbuildings (including a seed house, a corn crib and two other storage buildings) and the plantation store extent, J.A. Minter & Son's farm is representative of the plantation ... More

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N773 Survey number: HAER MI-325 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001516

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N773 Survey number: HAER MI-325 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001516

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41), Chicago, Cook County, IL

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (...

Significance: In 1894, the South Park Commission, administrator of Chicago's south side park system, retained the Boston-area landscape architecture firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to refurbish Jackson Park,... More

Pittsburgh Wool Company, 1230 River Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh Wool Company, 1230 River Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Coun...

Significance: Occupying a historic former tannery in a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania once defined by the leather industry, the Pittsburgh Wool Company was the last operational wool pullery in the U.S. Unpro... More

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, Calumet River Bridge, Spanning Calumet River, east of Chicago Skyway (I-90), Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, Calumet River Bridge, Spanni...

See also HAER IL-161 for additional documentation. Significance: The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway's two parallel vertical-lift spans over the Calumet River (of which one survives), and two neighbori... More

North Avenue Bridge, Spanning North Branch of Chicago River at West North Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

North Avenue Bridge, Spanning North Branch of Chicago River at West No...

Significance: When Chicago became a major commercial and industrial center after the Civil War, the most common American drawbridge was the swing bridge, horizontally rotating on a center pier to open two navig... More

Burnside Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Burnside Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Burnside Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Burnside Street, Portlan...

Significance: Burnside Bridge is one in an ensemble of twelve monumental highway bridges across the lower Willamette River, and one of five Portland span bridges (with Ross Island Bridge, Sellwood Bridge, Lovej... More

Kelley Crossing Bridge, Spanning Plum Creek at County Route 186, Lockhart, Caldwell County, TX

Kelley Crossing Bridge, Spanning Plum Creek at County Route 186, Lockh...

Biography of William Payson is included as addendum to original documentation. Significance: The Kelley Crossing Bridge is one of two lenticular trusses that survive in Caldwell County and one of a cluster of e... More

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41), Chicago, Cook County, IL

South Bridge, Spanning Jackson Park Lagoon at South Lake Shore Drive (...

Significance: In 1894, the South Park Commission, administrator of Chicago's south side park system, retained the Boston-area landscape architecture firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to refurbish Jackson Park,... More

North Bosque River Bridge, Spanning North Bosque River at State Highway 6, Clairette, Erath County, TX

North Bosque River Bridge, Spanning North Bosque River at State Highwa...

Significance: The North Bosque River bridge is a fine example of the Texas Highway Department's development of standard bridge designs. The rise of state highway departments marks the decline of the entreprene... More

Previous

of 6

Next