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A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Mot...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compan...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a living room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a living room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a kitchen. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a kitchen. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old black and white photo of a street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old black and white photo of a street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a crowd of people. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a crowd of people. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Coplay Cement Company, North Main Street, Coplay, Lehigh County, PA

Coplay Cement Company, North Main Street, Coplay, Lehigh County, PA

Significance: Built and operated by David Saylor; the first Portland cement in the United States was reputedly produced by these kilns in 1875. According to Paul A. Lentz, president of the Coplay Cement Manufa... More

Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Haselton Blast Furnaces, West of Center Street Viaduct, along Mahoning River, Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH

Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Haselton Blast Furnac...

Significance: Soon after its founding in 1899, the Republic Iron and Steel Company acquired the existing Haselton blast furnace and subsequently built four blast furnaces. These blast furnaces produced pig ir... More

Maine Lobster Boat Blue Angel, Jonesport Harbor, Jonesport, Washington County, ME

Maine Lobster Boat Blue Angel, Jonesport Harbor, Jonesport, Washington...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1243 Survey number: HAER ME-88

Master Placer Mining Camp, Goldcreek, Powell County, MT

Master Placer Mining Camp, Goldcreek, Powell County, MT

Significance: Since its establishment in 1939-1940, the mine has been one of the few large-scale gold placer mining outfits to have operated successfully, not only in the Pioneer/Goldcreek district, but in Mont... More

Lehigh Canal, Lock 25, 800 feet south of Walnutport-Slatington Bridge, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 25, 800 feet south of Walnutport-Slatington Bridge,...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot lock constructed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The third of seven locks (originally eight) in the four mile Section Three between the Lehigh Gap Dam and the outlet loc... More

LEATHERS YAWL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

LEATHERS YAWL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, ...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HAER CA-261 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Erie Railway, Collins Station, Collins, Erie County, NY

Erie Railway, Collins Station, Collins, Erie County, NY

Survey number: HAER NY-135 Public domain photograph of train station platform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Illinois & Michigan Canal Bridge, Spanning I&M Canal, west of Manville Corporation factory, Rockdale, Will County, IL

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Illinois & Michigan Canal Bri...

Significance: Of the two surviving plate-girder swing bridges built across the I & M Canal, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Canal Bridge is the only one which contains a center pivot pier. The others were b... More

Runabout Launch PARDON ME, Antique Boat Museum 750 Mary Street, Clayton, Jefferson County, NY

Runabout Launch PARDON ME, Antique Boat Museum 750 Mary Street, Clayto...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1541 Survey number: HAER NY-547

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north of Dickman Road, east of Clark Road, Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Lancaster & Chester Railway Building, 512 South Main Street, Lancaster, Lancaster County, SC

Lancaster & Chester Railway Building, 512 South Main Street, Lancaster...

Survey number: HABS SC-625 Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 2, League Island, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 2, Le...

Significance: Drydock No. 2 was built during the period of rapid technological change in naval shipbuilding. The original plan was for a timber drydock, but it gave the government an option of changing to requi... More

Old Medical College, 598 Telfair Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Old Medical College, 598 Telfair Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-2, FN-3, FN-4, FN-5 Survey number: HABS GA-14-70 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places N... More

John Hollis Bankhead Lock & Dam, On Warrior River below Port Birmingham, Kellerman, Tuscaloosa County, AL

John Hollis Bankhead Lock & Dam, On Warrior River below Port Birmingha...

Significance: The original 1915 dame (tone only one of the original 17) remains, though not easily accessible to the general public. The current dam is 1,400 feet wide, 77 feet high with a lift of 69 feet. Th... More

Dolphin Manufacturing Company, Spruce & Barbour Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Dolphin Manufacturing Company, Spruce & Barbour Streets, Paterson, Pas...

Significance: The Dolphin Mill building was constructed in the mid 1840's to house the American Hemp Co., a firm which spun hemp into rope. Following a reorganization in 1851, the Dolphin Manufacturing Co., wh... More

Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Par...

Significance: This is one of more than a dozen small bridges built to carry traffic across the lagoons and canals which crisscross Belle Isle, Detroit's major public park in the late nineteenth and early twenti... More

Colt Fire Arms Company, East Armory Building, 36-150 Huyshope Avenue, 17-170 Van Dyke Avenue, 49 Vredendale Avenue, Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Colt Fire Arms Company, East Armory Building, 36-150 Huyshope Avenue, ...

Survey number: HAER CT-189-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76001987, 03000171

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tray Run Viaduct, Spanning Tray Run, Rowlesburg, Preston County, WV

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tray Run Viaduct, Spanning Tray Run, Rowles...

Significance: The original bridge on this site was designed by Albert Fink and utilized his patented truss type. It was replaced by a wrought iron trestle in 1887. This structure was replaced by a masonry arc... More

Pioneer Steel Elevator, 2547 Fifth Street Northeast, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Pioneer Steel Elevator, 2547 Fifth Street Northeast, Minneapolis, Henn...

Survey number: HAER MN-50 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Shed, 851 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Shed, 851 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hager...

Significance: The "little green shed" survives as the oldest structure associated with aviation pioneers Ammon H. Kreider and Lewis E. Reisner, who formed the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company (KRA) in 1926, a y... More

Robert Mills Manor (Public Housing), 6 Wilson Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Robert Mills Manor (Public Housing), 6 Wilson Street, Charleston, Char...

Significance: The Robert Mills Manor Remains as Charleston's earliest and most intact example of a locally initiated public low-income housing project. During the 1930s, the Federal government began a subsidy p... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, M...

Significance: Constructed over the Salt River on the Pheonix-Tempe Highway, the Ash Avenue Bridge is the first concrete multi-arch bridge erected in Arizona. The structure is comprised of eleven spans of two-ri... More

New Eagle Lake Road Bridge, Spanning New Eagle Lake Road on Paradise Hill Road, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME

New Eagle Lake Road Bridge, Spanning New Eagle Lake Road on Paradise H...

Significance: This structure provides a grade separation between the Paradise Hill Road and the New Eagle Lake Road. The New Eagle Lake Road curves underneath the bridge while the bridge itself crosses the ro... More

Morris Canal, Inclined Plane 10 West, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ

Morris Canal, Inclined Plane 10 West, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ

Significance: The Inclined Plane known as 10 West of the Morris Canal is one of the few remaining salvageable planes of the system. The Morris Canal was the first to utilize this system of canal navigation in ... More

Brandywine Pumping Station, Sixteenth & Market Streets, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Brandywine Pumping Station, Sixteenth & Market Streets, Wilmington, Ne...

Significance: It has historically been difficult for American cities to meet the ever-increasing demands of their citizens for water. The Brandywine Station represents an attempt made by one major city in the ... More

Lanneau-Norwood House, 417 Belmont Avenue, Greenville, Greenville, SC

Lanneau-Norwood House, 417 Belmont Avenue, Greenville, Greenville, SC

Significance: Outstanding example of the Second Empire style and for association with prominent residents of Greenville; Charles Lanneau had the house built for him c. 1877; purchased by John W. Norwood in 1907... More

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works,...

See also HAER PA-200-F for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Rated with an annual capacity of six hundred thous... More

Fort Riley, Building No. 24, 24 Sheridan Avenue, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Building No. 24, 24 Sheridan Avenue, Riley, Riley County, ...

Significance: Quarters #24 is one of only four buildings remaining from the initial phase of construction at Fort Riley in the 1850s. Constructed in 1855, this was one of the six double quarters built to house ... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Open Hearth Plant, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Open Hearth Plant, Donner Av...

Significance: The open hearth steelmaking plant of the Monessen Works was built in 1908. Pittsburgh Steel installed eight 95 ton, basic open hearth furnaces in a 1,055 x 280 feet steel-frame, metal-clad buildi... More

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Saratoga Foothill Club, 20399 Park Place, Saratoga, Santa Clara County...

Significance: The Saratoga Foothill Club, erected 1914-15, is a modestly scaled redwood building which, because of the bungalow style design and low, horizontal massing, blends in nicely with its residential su... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-14, 54-58 Grand Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-14, 54-58 Grand St...

Significance: B-14 was the Colgate's principal facility for toilet soap manufacture in Jersey City c1903-86, along with adjacent B-15 (HAER No. NJ-71-O), and also housed plant maintenance shops. Although not a... More

Russian-American Company Magazin, 101 Marine Way East, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, AK

Russian-American Company Magazin, 101 Marine Way East, Kodiak, Kodiak ...

Significance: The Russian-American Company Magazin is thought to have been constructed after 1804, but prior to the removal of the Company's headquarters to Sitka (originally New Archangel) in 1808. The Magazin... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela Riv...

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 76 through 94). Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the na... More

Wichita, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

Wichita, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Wichita is significant as the first of seven ships designed as auxiliary replenishment oilers (AOR) that served in the U.S. Navy. The Wichita class design was based on th... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

United States Radium Corporation, Paint Application Building, 422 Alden Street, Orange, Essex County, NJ

United States Radium Corporation, Paint Application Building, 422 Alde...

Significance: The U.S. Radium Corporation site, including the surviving structural components dating to the period 1917-1926, were associated with nationally significant developments in health and safety standa... More

International Smelting & Refining Company, Tooele Smelter, State Route 178, Tooele, Tooele County, UT

International Smelting & Refining Company, Tooele Smelter, State Route...

Significance: The International Smelting and Refining Company, a subsidiary of the Anaconda Company, began construction of a copper smelting 9 December 1908. On 25 July 1910 the first fire was kindled by the St... More

Ford Motor Company, Cleveland Branch Assembly Plant, Euclid Avenue & East 116th Street, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Ford Motor Company, Cleveland Branch Assembly Plant, Euclid Avenue & E...

Significance: Influenced Cleveland's factory design by being one of the first multi-story reinforced concrete auto plants in the city. The first Detroit-owned automobile plant in Cleveland and the last auto as... More

Chrysler Center, Plant No. 4, Highland Park, Wayne County, MI

Chrysler Center, Plant No. 4, Highland Park, Wayne County, MI

Significance: The oldest segment of this building was an assembly plant for the Maxwell automobile in 1916-1925. The Chrysler Corporation assembled Chrysler automobiles here in 1925-1928, along with the company... More

Yellow River Bridge, Spanning Chippewa River on County Trunk T, Arthur, Grant County, WI

Yellow River Bridge, Spanning Chippewa River on County Trunk T, Arthur...

Significance: The Modern Steel Structures Company of Waukesha constructed the Yellow River Bridge across the Chippewa River in 1908. The firm, incorporated in 1900, developed the most modern and complete steel... More

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Building No. 523, Delaware Avenue between East Fourth Street & Webster Avenue, League Island, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Building No. 523,...

Significance: It is representative of infrastructure built to service the Naval Aircraft Factor constructed in 1919, as the valve house for the water tower located directly above it. Building 523 helped maintai... More

Erie Canal (Original), Locks 37 & 38, 84 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

Erie Canal (Original), Locks 37 & 38, 84 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, ...

See also HAER NY-5, Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill No. 3, and HAER NY-9, Cohoes Company Power Canal System, for related documentation. Significance: The state of New York built the Erie Canal between 1817 ... More

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Significance: The Canon Ranch "Eclipse" Windmill, "Texas Pattern" type, is the largest functional turbine-wheel style American windmill known to be in existence today, and the only known working model of its si... More

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Significance: The Canon Ranch "Eclipse" Windmill, "Texas Pattern" type, is the largest functional turbine-wheel style American windmill known to be in existence today, and the only known working model of its si... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River between Groton & Stonington, Groton, New London County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Mystic River Bridge, Spanning...

Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is a center bearing, through truss swing bridge. It is significant as part of the transportation link in the shoreline route of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railro... More

Headen Bridge, County Road 87, spanning Hiawassee River, Hiawassee, Towns County, GA

Headen Bridge, County Road 87, spanning Hiawassee River, Hiawassee, To...

Significance: Despite the corrosive forces of the natural elements, the Headen Bridge retains intact its original architectural configuration and functional components, and is an excellent example of an early t... More

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow R...

This documentation also includes the 345-kilovolt transformers and the Terry Turbine Building (HAER CT-185-E). Significance: The Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant was one of the earliest commercial scale nuclear ... More

Crews Farm, Macclenny, Baker County, FL

Crews Farm, Macclenny, Baker County, FL

These drawings were donated to the H/H collection by the University of Florida's College of Architecture; the drawings were produced by architecture students at the University of Florida who chose to participat... More

Waddell "A" Truss Bridge, Spanning Lin Branch Creek, Trimble, Clinton County, MO

Waddell "A" Truss Bridge, Spanning Lin Branch Creek, Trimble, Clinton ...

The address was changed to reflect that the bridge was moved from its original location (Spanning Linn Branch Creek, Trimble vicinity, Clinton County, Missouri) to Parkville, Missouri, in 1987. (March 2016) Si... More

Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Test Stand 1-5, Test Area 1-115, northwest end of Saturn Boulevard, Boron, Kern County, CA

Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Test S...

Survey number: HAER CA-236-K Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...

Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...

Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...

Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...

Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad, Calumet River Bridge, Spanning Calumet River, north of Ewing Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad, Calumet River Bridge, Spanning Calum...

Survey number: HAER IL-149 Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nuttallburg Mine Complex, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream from Fayette Landing, Lookout, Fayette County, WV

Nuttallburg Mine Complex, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream ...

Significance: The Nuttallburg Mine was one of the earliest mines to open in the New River Field. The Retarding Conveyor is one of the longest ever constructed and perhaps one of the few still extant. The Nutt... More

Nuttallburg Mine Complex, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream from Fayette Landing, Lookout, Fayette County, WV

Nuttallburg Mine Complex, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream ...

Significance: The Nuttallburg Mine was one of the earliest mines to open in the New River Field. The Retarding Conveyor is one of the longest ever constructed and perhaps one of the few still extant. The Nutt... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

East Broad Top Railroad & Company, Water Tank at Coles Station, East Broad Top Railroad & Company  (at Milepost 24.3), 0.5 miles east of Coles Valley Road, Saltillo, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad & Company, Water Tank at Coles Station, East B...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1150 Survey number: HAER PA-644 Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

Shoshone Falls Hydroelectric Project, 1907 Powerhouse, North Bank of Snake River, at West end of penstock, Tipperary Corner, Jerome County, ID

Shoshone Falls Hydroelectric Project, 1907 Powerhouse, North Bank of S...

Significance: The powerhouse, with its two horizontal shaft systems, was the focal point of the first hydroelectric development at Shoshone Falls. In 1907, the powerhouse generated 500 kilowatts of power. With ... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Kentucky Route 49 Bridge, Spanning Rolling Fork River, Bradfordsville, Marion County, KY

Kentucky Route 49 Bridge, Spanning Rolling Fork River, Bradfordsville,...

Significance: In January 1982, there were six Whipple-Murphy trusses in the State. The Kentucky Route 49 Bridge is the oldest Whipple-Murphy bridge in Kentucky. Survey number: HAER KY-17 Building/structure d... More

Blue Ridge Sanatorium, Building No. 1916, East side of State Route 20, .25 mile south of I-64, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, Virginia

Blue Ridge Sanatorium, Building No. 1916, East side of State Route 20,...

Survey number: HABS VA-1408-O Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Society of Friends Meetinghouse, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, New York County, NY

Society of Friends Meetinghouse, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, New Yo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Survey number: HABS NY-4-1

Mission Motel, South Court, 9235 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Mission Motel, South Court, 9235 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, Alameda...

Survey number: HABS CA-2651-B Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mile point 18.6, along State Route 65, Ambridge, Beaver County, PA

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mi...

Significance: Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock and Dam No. 4, HAER No. PA-227-A was part of the fifty-two slackwater locks and dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Ohio River, between 1877-191... More

Frank's Island Lighthouse, North East Pass, Mississippi River, Boothville, Plaquemines Parish, LA

Frank's Island Lighthouse, North East Pass, Mississippi River, Boothvi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N735 Survey number: HABS LA-19 Building/structure dates: 1823 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 18q2 Subsequent Work

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-2, 53-55 York Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-2, 53-55 York Stre...

Significance: Although one of the oldest structures on B Block in 1988, B-2 was not individually significant because of physical alterations and changes in function. It was significant as a component of the Co... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge Over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER PR-1-C Building/structure dates: ca. 18t2 Initial Construction

Fishing Vessel Lola Catherine, Bushwood, St. Mary's County, MD

Fishing Vessel Lola Catherine, Bushwood, St. Mary's County, MD

Significance: Fishing Vessel (F/V) Lola Catherine is a representative example of the wooden boat-building tradition in southern Maryland. The design and construction reflect an evolution of tradition from nine... More

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Bethlehem Station, South side of Lehigh Street, east of Main Street, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Bethlehem Station, South side of Lehig...

Significance: This one and one-half story brick mansard roofed station with canopy skirt supported by elaborate brackets on all four sides stands on the north side of the Central Railroad of New Jersey tracks i... More

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Canal at Nerska Junction, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Ca...

Significance: This bridge is one of the seven surviving 1899 wing bridges built across the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Survey number: HAER IL-79 Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Michoud Assembly Facility, 13800 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Michoud Assembly Facility, 13800 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, Orlea...

Significance: The significance of the Michoud Assembly Complex lies in its architectural heritage, as a structure designed by Albert Kahn, Architects and Engineers, Inc., the foremost factory architectural firm... More

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Engineering Office Building, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Engineering Office Building...

Significance: Building No. 18 is one of 18 contributing buildings and two features to the Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant historic district. Activities associated with the district significantly cont... More

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams...

Significance: The Old Croton Aqueduct is an outstanding example of 19th century civil engineering and was New York City's first municipal water project. The Quarry Railroad Bridge is a representative example o... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, OR

Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, 23837 Dawson Road, Monroe, Benton County, O...

Significance: The Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a rare, operating, steam-powered sawmill processing large-diameter Douglas fir trees. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N459 Survey number: ... More

Wollenberg Grain & Seed Elevator, 133 Goodyear Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Wollenberg Grain & Seed Elevator, 133 Goodyear Avenue, Buffalo, Erie C...

Significance: The grain elevators of Buffalo comprise the most outstanding collection of extant grain elevators in the United States, and collectively represent the variety of construction materials, building f... More

Waverly Terrace, North Carey Street & Franklin Square, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Waverly Terrace, North Carey Street & Franklin Square, Baltimore, Inde...

Survey number: HABS MD-414 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mark Twain House, Carriage House, 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, Carriage House, 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Har...

Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain Carriage House is a multi-purpose barn with a coachman's apartment designed by architects Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp as a companion structure to ... More

Hunnewell Iron Furnace, Junction of State Routes 2 & 1773, Hunnewell, Greenup County, KY

Hunnewell Iron Furnace, Junction of State Routes 2 & 1773, Hunnewell, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1353 Survey number: HAER KY-42 Building/structure dates: 1987

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 3, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 3, Donner ...

Significance: No. 3 Blast Furnace, also known as "Jane," was blown-in in 1948. This furnace was considerably larger than either Blast Furnace No. 1 or No. 2, with a hearth diameter of 28 feet, and 18 tuyeres. ... More

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

East Boston Steam Pump Station, 20 Addison Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

East Boston Steam Pump Station, 20 Addison Street, Boston, Suffolk Cou...

Significance: The East Boston Steam Pumping Station was constructed in 1894 and was one of three state-of-the-art pumping stations in the Metropolitan Sewerage System. The station is significant as one of the ... More

Independence Mine, Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK

Independence Mine, Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-8 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000440

Tivoli Theater, 709-713 Broad Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

Tivoli Theater, 709-713 Broad Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

Significance: The Tivoli Theater, built in 1920-21, is a well preserved and excellent example of the downtown Grand Palace Theater built throughout America in the 1920s. Its elaborate and exotic architectural ... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning T...

Significance: At Wilson Dam, two manufacturers, Westinghouse and General Electric, each supplied 4 of the dam's first turbine and generator sets to the 18 unit-capacity powerhouse. Illustrated here is one of t... More

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