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Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Center Street Swing Bridge, Southwest of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Center Street Swing Bridge, Southwest of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuy...

Significance: The bridge is the last remaining swing bridge in Cleveland. The bridge is a rim-bearing bobtail through Pratt truss. It was fabricated and erected by the nationally-famous King Bridge Company of C... More

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More

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

Marconi Radio Sites, Receiving, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, CA

Marconi Radio Sites, Receiving, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, CA

Survey number: HAER CA-311-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100002109

Stroud Building, 31-33 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Stroud Building, 31-33 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Maricopa County,...

Significance: The Stroud Building, constructed in 1900 and 1901, typifies the Queen Anne-style commercial buildings built at the turn of the century. It is one of the last buildings constructed in the style in... More

Forth Wadsworth Battery Richmond, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York County, NY

Forth Wadsworth Battery Richmond, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New Y...

Significance: Battery Richmond is one of twelve batteries constructed at Fort Wadsworth during the reconstruction of U.S. Seacoast Defenses, known as the Endicott program, between 1890 and ca. 1905. It is sign... More

Dentville Road Bridge, Spanning Hiawassee River on Dentville Road, Benton, Polk County, TN

Dentville Road Bridge, Spanning Hiawassee River on Dentville Road, Ben...

Significance: The bridge is a representative example of both the through Parker and Pratt trusses. It is also significant due to its local historical associations and its association with the Joliet Bridge and ... More

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

Advance Base Depot Davisville, Building T-17, Ninth Street southeast of Davisville Road, Davisville, Washington County, RI

Advance Base Depot Davisville, Building T-17, Ninth Street southeast o...

Significance: Based on research conducted at Davisville, and the documentation contained in the United States Navy's own historical accounts of its construction activities during World War II, it is apparent th... More

National Road, Wilson Bridge, Spanning Conococheague Creek at Route 40 (Old), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

National Road, Wilson Bridge, Spanning Conococheague Creek at Route 40...

Significance: Wilson Bridge was built in 1819 by Silas Harry as part of an improvement of feeder roads leading to the National Road which began in Cumberland, Maryland and ended in Vandalia, Illinois. Its fiv... More

Dentville Road Bridge, Spanning Hiawassee River on Dentville Road, Benton, Polk County, TN

Dentville Road Bridge, Spanning Hiawassee River on Dentville Road, Ben...

Significance: The bridge is a representative example of both the through Parker and Pratt trusses. It is also significant due to its local historical associations and its association with the Joliet Bridge and ... More

Space Transportation System, Orbiter Endeavour (OV-105), Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX

Space Transportation System, Orbiter Endeavour (OV-105), Lyndon B. Joh...

Survey number: HAER TX-116-C Public domain photograph related to NASA Space Program, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waikele Canal Bridge and Highway Overpass, Farrington Highway and Waikele Stream, Waipahu, Honolulu County, HI

Waikele Canal Bridge and Highway Overpass, Farrington Highway and Waik...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Waikele Canal Bridge and Highway Overpass above the former railroad right-of-way of the Oahu Railway & Land Co. (hereafter caleed the OR&L Bridge) are significant for thei... More

Advance Base Depot Davisville, Building T-17, Ninth Street southeast of Davisville Road, Davisville, Washington County, RI

Advance Base Depot Davisville, Building T-17, Ninth Street southeast o...

Significance: Based on research conducted at Davisville, and the documentation contained in the United States Navy's own historical accounts of its construction activities during World War II, it is apparent th... More

Center Street Swing Bridge, Southwest of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Center Street Swing Bridge, Southwest of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuy...

Significance: The bridge is the last remaining swing bridge in Cleveland. The bridge is a rim-bearing bobtail through Pratt truss. It was fabricated and erected by the nationally-famous King Bridge Company of C... More

American Brass Foundry, 70 Sayre Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

American Brass Foundry, 70 Sayre Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Survey number: HAER NY-311 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 21, Upper Mississippi River, Quincy, Adams County, IL

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 21, Upper Mis...

Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More

Nuclear Ship Savannah, Various Ports operated by the U.S. Maritime Administration, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Nuclear Ship Savannah, Various Ports operated by the U.S. Maritime Adm...

The ship was documented in two locations. Dry dock photos were taken in Norfolk, Virginia, and in-water photos were taken while berthed at Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland. Significance: As stated ... More

Camp Butler National Cemetery, 5063 Camp Butler Road, Springfield, Sangamon County, IL

Camp Butler National Cemetery, 5063 Camp Butler Road, Springfield, San...

Survey number: HALS IL-7 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97000891

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More

Crater Lake National Park Roads, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR

Crater Lake National Park Roads, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR

Significance: The primary roads in Crater Lake National Park were designed and constructed to provide visitor access to the park's scenic features, which are largely concentrated along the rim of Crater Lake. ... More

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

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

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More

Rulo Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Rulo, Richardson County, NE

Rulo Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Rulo, Richardson County, NE

See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Survey number: HAER NE-4

Kahului Cannery, Quonset Hut Grouping, 120 Kane Street, Kahului, Maui County, HI

Kahului Cannery, Quonset Hut Grouping, 120 Kane Street, Kahului, Maui ...

Significance: The Quonset hut grouping is associated with the last operating pineapple cannery in Hawaii. The pineapple industry is significant as one of Hawaii's two great agricultural industries of the 20th c... More

Mount Ephraim, Bayside Road, Chincoteague Bay Vicinity, Snow Hill, Worcester County, MD

Mount Ephraim, Bayside Road, Chincoteague Bay Vicinity, Snow Hill, Wor...

Survey number: HABS MD-165 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NIKE Missile Base SL-40, Radar Pad No. 1, South end of base, Hecker, Monroe County, IL

NIKE Missile Base SL-40, Radar Pad No. 1, South end of base, Hecker, M...

Survey number: HAER IL-117-L Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Nystrom Village, Marina & Maine Streets, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Nystrom Village, Marina & ...

Survey number: HAER CA-326-O Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

38 Tradd Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC

38 Tradd Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-533 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 3, On northern shoreline of shipyard, west of Dry Dock Nos. 1 & 2, near the intersection of Avenue G and Sixth Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 3, On northern shoreline o...

Significance: This dry dock is associated with the expansion of waterfront facilities at Pearl Harbor in the 1940s. The dock was built using a distinctive method of construction and was built under "wartime" co... More

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission Line, West bank of the Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission L...

Significance: The transmission line played an integral role in the growth of Montana's electrical and mining industries in the first half of the twentieth century. Its construction enabled the transmission of h... More

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission Line, West bank of the Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission L...

Significance: The transmission line played an integral role in the growth of Montana's electrical and mining industries in the first half of the twentieth century. Its construction enabled the transmission of h... More

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission Line, West bank of the Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission L...

Significance: The transmission line played an integral role in the growth of Montana's electrical and mining industries in the first half of the twentieth century. Its construction enabled the transmission of h... More

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission Line, West bank of the Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission L...

Significance: The transmission line played an integral role in the growth of Montana's electrical and mining industries in the first half of the twentieth century. Its construction enabled the transmission of h... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 4, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive and Elm Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 4, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive and Elm Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 4, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive and Elm Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Senator Hotel Apartments, 1201 Collins Avenue, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL

Senator Hotel Apartments, 1201 Collins Avenue, Miami, Miami-Dade Count...

Survey number: HABS FL-322-V Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dubois County Bridge No. 3002, Spanning Hunley Creek on State Road 64, Huntingburg, Dubois County, IN

Dubois County Bridge No. 3002, Spanning Hunley Creek on State Road 64,...

Significance: The bridge is significant as one of the earliest and best examples of continuous concrete T-beam design undertaken by the Indiana State Highway Commission. Survey number: HAER IN-98

Central of Georgia Railway, Red (Administration) Building, 233 West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Red (Administration) Building, 233 West Br...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: The red brick structure was erected in 1887 to accommodate the expanding clerical staff of the Central... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Red (Administration) Building, 233 West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Red (Administration) Building, 233 West Br...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: The red brick structure was erected in 1887 to accommodate the expanding clerical staff of the Central... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie Avenue & First Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 102, Rodman Avenue between Gillespie...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufactur... More

Singer's Lake Crescent Tavern, Cabins 22-31, Barnes Point, Lake Crescent, Port Angeles, Clallam County, WA

Singer's Lake Crescent Tavern, Cabins 22-31, Barnes Point, Lake Cresce...

Significance: This building contributes to the integrity of design, workmanship, setting, and sense of time and place of Singer's Tavern group. / Cabin 22 and 23 is one of six sleeping cabins standing in a row ... More

Hill Field, Electrical Substation, East of Perimeter Road, near intersection with Foulois Road, Layton, Davis County, UT

Hill Field, Electrical Substation, East of Perimeter Road, near inters...

Significance: Building 756 provides particularly vivid images of the processes involved in supplying electricity to the vast network of buildings at Hill Field during and after World War II. Hill Field's overa... More

Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA

Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoos...

Significance: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park tour roads provide access to select areas of the park that commemorate and interpret the conflict between Union and Confederate forces over c... More

Davison Freeway, John R. Street Avenue Bridge, Spanning Davison Freeway, Highland Park, Wayne County, MI

Davison Freeway, John R. Street Avenue Bridge, Spanning Davison Freewa...

Significance: One of four identical single-span bridges designed to carry major north-south arterial streets over the Davison Limited Highway, built to speed crosstown traffic through Highland Park. The others... More

Merritt Parkway, Hillside Road Bridge, Spanning Hillside Road, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Hillside Road Bridge, Spanning Hillside Road, Fairfie...

Significance: The bridges of the Merritt Parkway were predominately inspired by the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles of the 1930s. Experimental forming techniques were employed to create the orname... More

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Giles County, Virginia

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Gil...

Significance: The New River Bridge at Pembroke is unusual in its combination of various truss types and engineering details, many of which are unique in the area and survive only rarely statewide. Built in 191... More

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Giles County, Virginia

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Gil...

Significance: The New River Bridge at Pembroke is unusual in its combination of various truss types and engineering details, many of which are unique in the area and survive only rarely statewide. Built in 191... More

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Giles County, Virginia

New River Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 623, Pembroke, Gil...

Significance: The New River Bridge at Pembroke is unusual in its combination of various truss types and engineering details, many of which are unique in the area and survive only rarely statewide. Built in 191... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI

American Brass Company, Kenosha Works, Hot Roll Mill, Kenosha, Kenosha...

Significance: Originally installed by the American Brass Company in 1917-18, this hand-operated rolling mill was placed on line in 1918. Workers manipulated hot billets through the rolling mill, producing copp... More

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: An early nineteenth-century town house with fine architectural details. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS SC-203 Building/structure dates: aft... More

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: An early nineteenth-century town house with fine architectural details. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS SC-203 Building/structure dates: aft... More

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Christopher Belser House, 2 Amherst Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: An early nineteenth-century town house with fine architectural details. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS SC-203 Building/structure dates: aft... More

Hitching Post Hill, 3308 Rosemary Lane, Hyattsville, Prince George's County, MD

Hitching Post Hill, 3308 Rosemary Lane, Hyattsville, Prince George's C...

Significance: Hitching Post Hill, built ca. 1840, is a good example of Greek revival architecture, a style not commonly found in Prince George's County. The property was purchased in 1875 by General Edward F. ... More

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Ro...

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and tru... More

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Ro...

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and tru... More

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Ro...

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and tru... More

Wapsipinicon River Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River at State Highway 150, Independence, Buchanan County, IA

Wapsipinicon River Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River at State Highwa...

Significance: Significant as an unaltered, well preserved four-span, closed spandrel, reinforced concrete arch bridge with original railing that was a standard bridge type designed by the Iowa State Highway Com... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

Selfridge Field, Building No. 1514, Schoolhouse Road north of South Perimeter Road, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 1514, Schoolhouse Road north of South Pe...

Significance: Building 1514 was erected to serve as the chapel for the self-contained U.S. Army regional Nike headquarters, command structures and missile batteries, that occupied the southwest portion of Selfr... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV

Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebling, Burlington County, NJ

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebl...

Survey number: HAER NJ-122-E Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebling, Burlington County, NJ

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebl...

Survey number: HAER NJ-122-E Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebling, Burlington County, NJ

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Support Systems, Roebl...

Survey number: HAER NJ-122-E Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: North Spring Street Viaduct is one of the twelve historic bridges over the Los Angeles River determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed to provide a bypass ... More

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: North Spring Street Viaduct is one of the twelve historic bridges over the Los Angeles River determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed to provide a bypass ... More

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: North Spring Street Viaduct is one of the twelve historic bridges over the Los Angeles River determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed to provide a bypass ... More

Lakeshore Road, Boulder Basin, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Lakeshore Road, Boulder Basin, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Significance: Lakeshore Road and associated road features have been determined locally significant under National Register Criteria A and C. Construction of the road opened Lake Mead NRA, an early and major so... More

Mission San Juan Bautista, Monastery, Second Street, San Juan Bautista Plaza, San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, CA

Mission San Juan Bautista, Monastery, Second Street, San Juan Bautista...

See also HALS CA-84 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-38-4-B Building/structure dates: HABS CA-38-4-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000038

Bush Terminal Company, Pier 5, Opposite end of Forty-first Street on Upper New York Bay, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Bush Terminal Company, Pier 5, Opposite end of Forty-first Street on U...

Significance: Pier 5 was typical of the substructures and piersheds built by Irving Bush c. 1902-09, sheet-piling-retained fill. It survives partly intact, and retains the best evidence of late attempts to mod... More

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

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Great Falls/S. U. M. Power Canal System, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Great Falls/S. U. M. Power Canal System, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Significance: Begun by the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufacturers under the supervision of Pierre L'Enfant, the Canal System was first completed in 1794. Later alterations and improvements were ... More

Great Falls/S. U. M. Power Canal System, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Great Falls/S. U. M. Power Canal System, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Significance: Begun by the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufacturers under the supervision of Pierre L'Enfant, the Canal System was first completed in 1794. Later alterations and improvements were ... More

Wilson's Oil House, Lard Refinery, & Edible Fats Factory, Oil House, 2801 Southwest Fifteenth Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK

Wilson's Oil House, Lard Refinery, & Edible Fats Factory, Oil House, 2...

Survey number: HAER OK-4-B Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Memphis & Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Huntsville, Madison County, AL

Memphis & Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Hunts...

Significance: The freight depot, erected in 1856, is one of the oldest surviving rail facilities in Alabama. Its Italianate architecture is typical of other commercial buildings of the era. / The depot compris... More

Memphis & Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Huntsville, Madison County, AL

Memphis & Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Hunts...

Significance: The freight depot, erected in 1856, is one of the oldest surviving rail facilities in Alabama. Its Italianate architecture is typical of other commercial buildings of the era. / The depot compris... More

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Utica, La Salle County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Ut...

Survey number: HAER IL-164-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000166

Consolidated Building, 1328 North Main Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Consolidated Building, 1328 North Main Street, Columbia, Richland Coun...

Significance: The Consolidated Building has an intricately detailed glazed and colored terra cotta facade that is unique in Columbia, South Carolina. It is constructed of polychrome terra cotta and has a cartou... More

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