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Curved Building, 2 Main Street, Cameron, Marshall County, WV

Significance: Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1917, the Curved Building was constructed to accommodate the curve of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad turnaround. The building is architecturally signi... More

11 East Pleasant Street (House), Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-43-B Building/structure dates: before 1817 Building/structure dates: before 1936 Demolished

Trenton House Hotel, 20-24 North Warren Street & 1-19 East Hanover Str...

Significance: The Trenton House was one of Trenton's most famous and prestigious hotels in the 19th century, serving politicians in town for the work of the state legislature and travelers who arrive at the nea... More

St. Joachim's Church, Old Mines, Washington County, MO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-168 Survey number: HABS MO-1129 Building/structure dates: 18q1 Initial Construction

Trinity Episcopal Church, Gorrie Square, Apalachicola, Franklin County...

Significance: Consecrated on February 15, 1841, Trinity is one of the oldest churches in Florida. This structure was prefabricated in New York and brought to Apalachicola to be assembled in 1839. Survey numbe... More

Interior of Castle St. Marcus, St. Augustine, Florida

Photograph shows an interior view of Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, which would later be known as Fort Marion. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Photographer and date based ... More

Union Pacific Passenger Station, 121 West Fifteenth Street, Cheyenne, ...

Survey number: HABS WY-80 Building/structure dates: 1887 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1929 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001934

Central Union Telephone Company Building, 311 North Wayne Street, Piqu...

Significance: The structure was begun on April 16, 1918 and finished in late June of 1919. The new structure combined and consolidated the offices and telephone switching boards of the Central Union Telephone C... More

Washington Loan & Trust Company, F & Ninth Streets, Washington, Distri...

Significance: This late nineteenth-century commercial building, of highly attractive architectural design, occupies a commanding position on F Street, N.W., a major historic thoroughfare devoted to business pur... More

St. Sergius of Radonezh Russian Orthodox Church, Chuathbaluk, Bethel C...

Significance: A number of historic Russian Orthodox churches survive in Alaska, built by Native congregations in traditional forms. Although built in 1955, St. Sergius of Radonezh displays a traditional form, ... More

Dennis Apartments, 433-447 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: The Chaille Block and Dennis Apartments is one of the few commercial buildings remaining in Miami from the period before the development boom of the 1920s. Built in the masonry vernacular style, t... More

Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince Georg...

Significance: Hyattsville Hardware is an intact turn-of-the-century hardware store with original interior features such as a pressed-tin ceiling, shelving, cases and bins. It is also of interest as one of few ... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Crew Readiness Building, Perimeter Road & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Interior of Fort Sumpter [i.e. Sumter], Charleston Harbor, S.C. April ...

Stereograph shows flag-festooned stage and benches within Fort Sumter with crowd waiting for ceremony to raise the American flag in triumph. Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-3139A, left, and LC-B811-3139... More

St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, North Paca Street & Druid Hill Avenue, Bal...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21, FN-22 Survey number: HABS MD-13 Building/structure dates: 1806-1808 Building/structure dates: 1840 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates... More

St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, North Paca Street & Druid Hill Avenue, Bal...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21, FN-22 Survey number: HABS MD-13 Building/structure dates: 1806-1808 Building/structure dates: 1840 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates... More

Girard-Peterson House, 332 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: No. 332 Spruce is one of a row of houses built by Stephen Girard around 1820; today it is home to Charles Peterson, one of the founders and early leaders of the Historic American Buildings Survey... More

Korn & Wisemiller Building, 202 South Saint Asaph & 502 Prince Streets...

Significance: A late eighteenth century merchant's house built for business and residential needs, this four-square structure invites comparison with Alexandria's best. The "row-end" pediment and the Doric doo... More

Tuller Hotel, 501-521 Park Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: The Tuller Hotel was one of the largest luxury hotels in Detroit in the early twentieth century, with 800 rooms, each with a private bath. It was also the first hotel built in Detroit's Grand Cir... More

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: Tradition associates Calvin T.S. Brent (1854-1899), Washington's earliest known black architect, with the design of this church. St. Luke's rivals Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Georgetown... More

Lewis Bollman to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, September 05, 1863 (Payme...

Wallach Building, 88 East State Street, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Wallach Building is a commercial building erected on the corner of State and Broad Streets, the heart of downtown Trenton. The modern steel frame building with greatly simplified classical det... More

Victor Block, 202 West Harrison Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: The Victor was among the most handsome and celebrated business blocks of early Guthrie, as well as the largest. Erected for one of the most successful developers of the commercial district, the b... More

Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. commercial kitchens, restaurants and lighti...

Public domain photograph of commerce and advertising, 1920s-1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

121-125 North Main Street (Commercial Building), Mishawaka, St. Joseph...

Survey number: HABS IN-143 Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

T. L. Thorpe Building, 19 Traction Street, Manchester, Hillsborough Co...

Significance: The T.L. Thorpe Building is significant for its association with a well-known local Manchester merchant in the textile trade and for its architectural design, which employed an arcaded facade of a... More

T. L. Thorpe Building, 19 Traction Street, Manchester, Hillsborough Co...

Significance: The T.L. Thorpe Building is significant for its association with a well-known local Manchester merchant in the textile trade and for its architectural design, which employed an arcaded facade of a... More

Eastern Bank of Alabama, 201 Broad Street, Eufaula, Barbour County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-592 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oldwick Methodist Church, Main Street, Oldwick, Hunterdon County, NJ

Survey number: HABS NJ-783 Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ionic columns defining ballustraded galleries. Interior sectional ele...

Ionic columns defining ballustraded galleries framing draped Venetian window with Corinthian colonettes.

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Roa...

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Roa...

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Louisiana State Bank, 403 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8 Survey number: HABS LA-18-8 Building/structure dates: 1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 83004387

Louisiana State Bank, 403 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8 Survey number: HABS LA-18-8 Building/structure dates: 1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 83004387

Anglo & London Paris National Bank, One Sansome Street, San Francisco,...

Significance: One of a group of historically and architecturally important bank buildings in downtown San Francisco. Within this group, it is particularly notable for is monumental size, prominent location, and... More

67-69 Government Street (Commercial Building), Mobile, Mobile County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey number: HABS AL-67 Building/structure dates: 1837 Initial Construction

Fort Sheridan, Post Hospital, Bradley Loop, Lake Forest, Lake County, ...

Significance: The hospital, completed in 1893, was one of the original buildings at Fort Sheridan. It was constructed from standardized plans issued by the Office of Surgeon General in 1888 and is an excellent ... More

Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Hospital Building, Rixey Place, bounded by ...

Significance: The Greek Revival-style Naval Hospital, built in 1827-33, is the first Naval Hospital built in America. The first of six or seven medical facilities constructed for the Navy during the 1820s and ... More

Post Office Arcade, 2118 First Street, Fort Myers, Lee County, FL

Significance: The Post Office Arcade was the first building in Fort Myers specifically built to serve the Fort Myers Post Office. The Arcade was the first building constructed on the new Broadway Street block ... More

Photographs of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Secon...

Images show exterior and interior views of the old post office and U.S. courthouse, 300 West Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. Details include the courtroom, the visitors' gallery, the elevator, stairways,... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Climatron, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint L...

Significance: The world's first completely air-conditioned greenhouse and the first geodesic dome to be enclosed in rigid Plexiglass panels. The broad climactic range within the dome (from the Amazonian rain fo... More

Isaac N. Morris to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, September 17, 1863 (Ill...

Westlake Public School, 900 Lorenz Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Count...

Photo caption pages include a site plan. Written data includes floor plans & photocopies of location maps & site plans. Survey number: HABS PA-6640 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction Building... More

Greenbank Mill, Greenbank Road, Marshallton, New Castle County, DE

Public domain photograph of castle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Charleston, S.C. Interior view of Fort Moultrie, looking eastward]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Missouri Valley Trust Company, Fourth & Felix Streets, Saint Joseph, B...

Significance: Is a significant local example of 19th century commercial architecture, and one of the few surviving examples from the early commercial district of St. Joseph. It also played an important part in ... More

John H. Smith's Row, 209-215 High Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virg...

Significance: These four fine Federal row houses were built c. 1837-1838 and are notable on the exterior for the wooden door light and iron fence remaining on and along the south facade of the 209 house. On th... More

Interior of the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the rebel soldiers "For...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing on the gabion fortifications in Fort Sedgwick, Petersburg, Va. No. 3213, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Capt... More

George Spangerberger Farmstead, Barn, 2012 West Illinois Avenue, South...

Significance: The barn contributes to the historic and agrarian character of the George Spangerberger Farmstead. Survey number: HABS KS-77-I Building/structure dates: ca. 1880- ca. 1900 Initial Construction ... More

El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, 111 North Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway ...

Significance: It was designed by Dwight James Baum and constructed in 1926 by the Burns Construction Company. From the beginning, the hotel was the center of glamour and activity in Sarasota. Although construct... More

El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, 111 North Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway ...

Significance: It was designed by Dwight James Baum and constructed in 1926 by the Burns Construction Company. From the beginning, the hotel was the center of glamour and activity in Sarasota. Although construct... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Nester Hotel, 529-533 Exchange Street, Geneva, Ontario County, NY

Significance: From its opening date until the post-World War II years, the Nestor Hotel, later re-named Hotel Seneca, was the most imposing building in the downtown district of Geneva. During its early years th... More

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Churches, Old Church, Eklutna, Anchorage...

Significance: One of the older Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska, the Eklutna church features simple log construction and a straightforward form, with nave and sanctuary incorporated into one gable-roofed blo... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Interior view of Confederate fort, east of W. & A. R...

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Caleb Crosby Threshing Barn, Noeton (moved to Norris Dam State Park, L...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-38 Survey number: HABS TN-159-A Building/structure dates: 1974

Christ Episcopal Church, 605 Twenty-fifth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloo...

Significance: Established January 7, 1828, Christ Church is the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alabama. / Portions of the present Gothic style structure date to the original 1829 sanctuary. Interior f... More

Barnes Building, 477 Cotton Avenue, Macon, Bibb County, GA

Significance: The Barnes and Barnes Building was constructed in 1884 and was part of a commercial manufacturing strip along First Street. By 1908, Cotton Avenue was cut across the corner of First Street. An add... More

[Portrait of Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, officer of the U...

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

Immanuel Church (Episcopal), The Green, New Castle, New Castle County,...

Survey number: HABS DE-79 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1727 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1822 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1860... More

Bower Building, 409-413 East Weber Avenue, Stockton, San Joaquin Count...

Significance: The Bower Building is an excellent example of Victorian commercial architecture in Stockton. The polychromatic and ornamental brickwork and the second-floor proportions and details remain intact, ... More

Abolition Church, 8 Smith Court, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

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Abolition Church, 8 Smith Court, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, cathedral, religious building, 17th,18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Medical Supply Depot Storehouse, Railroad ...

Significance: Building 417 was constructed in 1922 to store the vast quantities of surplus medical supplies that were returned to shore facilities from ships after World War I. The building continued to serve ... More

M. E. Smith Building, 201 South Tenth Street, Omaha, Douglas County, N...

Significance: Built in 1919-20, the M.E. Smith Building is significant as an unusually well-designed industrial structure in which new structural advancements and architectural styling were used to produce a be... More

C. W. Post Office Building, 63-65 West Michigan Avenue, Battle Creek, ...

Significance: The C.W. Post Office Building was constructed for C.W. Post as part of his complex known as the "Post Block." The original building was constructed in conjunction with the Post Tavern, both desig... More

Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Fabrication, Central section of Plant, Go...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA

See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More

Main Street Crescent, 209-217 Main Street, Ossining, Westchester Count...

Significance: The Main Street Crescent is one of the main parts of the downtown district of the City of Ossining, The "Crescent" refers to a crescent shaped portion of Main Street. The Crescent consists of thre... More

Atlantic City Post Office, 1011 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlanti...

Significance: First Federal Government owned Post Office Building in Atlantic City, and a good example of Beaux Arts/ Neoclassical Civil architecture of this period. Survey number: HABS NJ-1208

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, One-Story Storehouse, Avenue A near Eig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ingot & Ore Storehouse, Seventh Street ...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It is one of the most intact examples of the type of storehouses built during WWII. The building is of a distinctive type and peri... More

El Arsenal, Chapel, Calle Arsenal, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Survey number: HABS PR-99-A Public domain photograph of a chamber, vaults, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of men seated on rugs, praying, under hanging candalabras, insi...

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Phillips House, Tower Hill Road (U.S. Route 1), Belleville, Was...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS RI-50 Building/structure dates: 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1960 Demolished

St. James Episcopal Church, 833 West Wiconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwa...

Significance: St. James', considered one of Wisconsin's finest Gothic Revival buildings, is reported to be the city's first stone church, and is now the denomination's oldest surviving church edifice in Milwauk... More

A Tampa, Fla., cigarmaker adolescent. Many beautiful girls and women i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 H...

Significance: Ford Motor Company built the Long Beach Assembly Plant during 1929-1930 as one of six contemporaneous assembly plants constructed in the United States. The overall purpose of these plants was to ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Trinity Church (P. E.), 651 Pequot Road, Southport, Fairfield County, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of liturgy, ceremony, church, Christianity religion, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

Breakwater Hotel, 940 Ocean Drive, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL

Survey number: HABS FL-322-I Public domain photograph of river bank, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Raka Prep. Kirilla. [Kirillo-Belozerskiĭ monastyrʹ, Kirillov, Rossiĭsk...

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City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, M...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church, 146 Church Street, Charlesto...

Survey number: HABS SC-75 Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001695

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Simcoe, Commandant's House & Blockhouse, Fort Simcoe Road, White ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...

Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More

Wainwright Building, Seventh & Chestnut Streets, Saint Louis, Independ...

Survey number: HABS MO-1140 Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000054