Nantucket Atheneum, Lower India & Federal Streets, Nantucket, Nantucke...
Significance: Intellectual center for Nantucket, originally built in 1825, it was rebuilt after the fire of 1846 with further embellishments to its Greek Revival design. The Nantucket Atheneum was erected in 18... More
Nantucket Atheneum, Lower India & Federal Streets, Nantucket, Nantucke...
Significance: Intellectual center for Nantucket, originally built in 1825, it was rebuilt after the fire of 1846 with further embellishments to its Greek Revival design. The Nantucket Atheneum was erected in 18... More
Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More
Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More
Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More
Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More
Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More
Spooner Hall, Fourteenth Street & Jayhawk Road, Lawrence, Douglas Coun...
1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Spooner Hall was financed by William B. Spooner, a Boston merchant, with a bequest of $91,000. In 1893, "Van Brunt & Howe Architects" of Kansas City we... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More
Malden Town Hall, Main & Pleasant Streets, Malden, Middlesex County, M...
Significance: The structure served as Malden's Town Hall (later City Hall) from 1857 until 1975. Designed by a Boston architect, it was the second brick building erected in the town. This prominent building, ... More
Blenheim Library, State Route 727, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, V...
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Army Medical Museum & Library, Seventh Street & Independence Avenue So...
Significance: Specially designed building, intended as the fireproof, permanent home of the Army Medical Museum, which was founded in 1862. Housed collection of surgical and medical specimens and a medical libr... More
Claflin College, Lee Library, College Avenue, Orangeburg, Orangeburg C...
Significance: The Lee Library has an unusual picturesque plan and classical details in its brickwork. It is a fine example of the inventive adaptations of classical precedents from the late Victorian period. It... More
Claflin College, Lee Library, College Avenue, Orangeburg, Orangeburg C...
Significance: The Lee Library has an unusual picturesque plan and classical details in its brickwork. It is a fine example of the inventive adaptations of classical precedents from the late Victorian period. It... More
Hieroglyphics, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Ross Memorial Library Building, Main Street between Sixth & Seventh Av...
Significance: Excellent example of Carnegiesque influence in civic architecture of the period. Small stone building with flat roof and pedimented portico. The roof edge is balustraded and the pediment features ... More
Ross Memorial Library Building, Main Street between Sixth & Seventh Av...
Significance: Excellent example of Carnegiesque influence in civic architecture of the period. Small stone building with flat roof and pedimented portico. The roof edge is balustraded and the pediment features ... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street,...
Significance: Oak Lane was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie's ... More
William A. Todd House, 330 East Lancaster Avenue, Downingtown, Chester...
Survey number: HABS PA-169 Building/structure dates: 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1817 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work
Harvard University Campus & Library, Panoramic Photograph
J207731 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill; October 21, 1915; DLC/PP-1915:45004. Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. M-68.
San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...
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Fort Vancouver, Post Library, Vancouver, Clark County, WA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS WA-41-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 06001216
Fort Vancouver, Officers' Club, Vancouver, Clark County, WA
Survey number: HABS WA-39-W-14 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 06001216
Clark Howell Homes, Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library, 538 Luckie S...
Significance: The Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library was the first branch library in Atlanta. Built in 1908, and named after the first librarian of the Carnegie Library System of Atlanta (predecessor to the F... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Branch, 1333 Wagner Avenue, Philad...
Significance: Completed in 1918, the Kingsessing Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the twenty-first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropi... More
220 Court Square (House), Sixth Street, Northeast, Charlottesville, Ch...
Significance: Court Square, in the early nineteenth century was a small courthouse community of two-story townhouses, taverns, storehouses and offices. The area has retained much of the original flavor through... More
220 Court Square (House), Sixth Street, Northeast, Charlottesville, Ch...
Significance: Court Square, in the early nineteenth century was a small courthouse community of two-story townhouses, taverns, storehouses and offices. The area has retained much of the original flavor through... More
220 Court Square (House), Sixth Street, Northeast, Charlottesville, Ch...
Significance: Court Square, in the early nineteenth century was a small courthouse community of two-story townhouses, taverns, storehouses and offices. The area has retained much of the original flavor through... More
Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul, Ramsey ...
Significance: Built in 1930 from a design by municipal staff architect James C. Niemeyer, the Merriam Park Branch Public Library is a fine local example of the Collegiate Gothic style of architecture. During i... More
Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul, Ramsey ...
Significance: Built in 1930 from a design by municipal staff architect James C. Niemeyer, the Merriam Park Branch Public Library is a fine local example of the Collegiate Gothic style of architecture. During i... More
Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul, Ramsey ...
Significance: Built in 1930 from a design by municipal staff architect James C. Niemeyer, the Merriam Park Branch Public Library is a fine local example of the Collegiate Gothic style of architecture. During i... More
Minnesota Veterans Home Complex, Administration Building, 5101 Minneha...
1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Administration Building No. 10 was erected for the Minnesota Soldiers' Home to serve as accommodations for the offices of the commandant, adjutant and qua... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Danville Branch, Carneg...
Survey number: HABS IL-1232-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 91001973
Free Library of Philadelphia, Lehigh Avenue Branch, 601 West Lehigh Av...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Lehigh Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of the first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist An... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Lehigh Avenue Branch, 601 West Lehigh Av...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Lehigh Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of the first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist An... More
Alcove of the Society Library, New York
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Recent Architecture in America," Century, 28:66 (May 1884).
Carriage Factory, Main & East Fourth Streets, Tuscumbia, Colbert Count...
Survey number: HABS AL-315 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction
Florida Southern College, E. T. Roux Library, McDonald & Johnson Avenu...
See HABS No. FL-323 for written data. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-82 Survey number: HABS FL-323-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1957 Initial Construction
Library Hall, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Champaign County, IL
2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Library Hall, built in 1896, was one of the first buildings on the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana's Quadrangle and remains its corners... More
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928
Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...
Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...
Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More
Cyclorama Building, 369 Franklin Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY
Significance: Cyclorama is a 16-sided regular polygon originally constructed to house "cycloramas," or panoramic art displays popular in the United States in the late 1800s. The building is one of the few survi... More
Cyclorama Building, 369 Franklin Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY
Significance: Cyclorama is a 16-sided regular polygon originally constructed to house "cycloramas," or panoramic art displays popular in the United States in the late 1800s. The building is one of the few survi... More
Cyclorama Building, 369 Franklin Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY
Significance: Cyclorama is a 16-sided regular polygon originally constructed to house "cycloramas," or panoramic art displays popular in the United States in the late 1800s. The building is one of the few survi... More
![[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Blueprint set]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NzUvMDEvMDEvbmV3LWhhdmVuLWdvdmVybm1lbnQtY2VudGVyLW5ldy1oYXZlbi1jb25uZWN0aWN1dC1ibHVlcHJpbnQtc2V0LTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Blueprint set]")
[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Blueprint set]
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University of California Los Angeles, Powell Library, Westwood, Los An...
Significance: Of the four core buildings of the UCLA campus historic district, the 1927-1929 Powell Library, designed by George Kelham, was the first campus building constructed. It is northern Italian Romaneq... More
University of California Los Angeles, Powell Library, Westwood, Los An...
Significance: Of the four core buildings of the UCLA campus historic district, the 1927-1929 Powell Library, designed by George Kelham, was the first campus building constructed. It is northern Italian Romaneq... More
University of California Los Angeles, Powell Library, Westwood, Los An...
Significance: Of the four core buildings of the UCLA campus historic district, the 1927-1929 Powell Library, designed by George Kelham, was the first campus building constructed. It is northern Italian Romaneq... More
University of California Los Angeles, Powell Library, Westwood, Los An...
Significance: Of the four core buildings of the UCLA campus historic district, the 1927-1929 Powell Library, designed by George Kelham, was the first campus building constructed. It is northern Italian Romaneq... More
San Bernardino Valley College, Library, 701 South Mount Vernon Avenue,...
Significance: The San Bernadino Valley College contains the core complex of the first junior college in California, built under 1921 legislative guidelines and standards established for junior colleges. These ... More
San Bernardino Valley College, Library, 701 South Mount Vernon Avenue,...
Significance: The San Bernadino Valley College contains the core complex of the first junior college in California, built under 1921 legislative guidelines and standards established for junior colleges. These ... More
San Bernardino Valley College, Library, 701 South Mount Vernon Avenue,...
Significance: The San Bernadino Valley College contains the core complex of the first junior college in California, built under 1921 legislative guidelines and standards established for junior colleges. These ... More
Sacramento Junior College, Library, 3835 Freeport Boulevard, Sacrament...
Significance: This facility, constructed between 1936 and 1937, was the first building of the multi-component Sacramento Junior College Annex, a Public Works Administration project. The library was built as cl... More
Sacramento Junior College, Library, 3835 Freeport Boulevard, Sacrament...
Significance: This facility, constructed between 1936 and 1937, was the first building of the multi-component Sacramento Junior College Annex, a Public Works Administration project. The library was built as cl... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Significance: The Ives Memorial Building of the Free Public Library is New Haven's most important example of architecture and design influenced by the early twentieth century civic improvement, or "City Beautif... More
Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Wash...
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Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Wash...
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Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Wash...
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Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, Alameda Coun...
Significance: As a major civic work designed by distinguished local architect James Plachek, the Berkeley Public Library is both architecturally and culturally significant. The building, which is sited promine... More
Library of Congress, Northeast corner of First Street & Independence A...
Significance: The nation's "main" library, the Library of Congress serves not only Congress but also acts as central source for resources collection and for copyright. Building is one of the world's largest an... More
Library of Congress, Northeast corner of First Street & Independence A...
Significance: The nation's "main" library, the Library of Congress serves not only Congress but also acts as central source for resources collection and for copyright. Building is one of the world's largest an... More
Lewis Library, Glasgow, Howard County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-111 Survey number: HABS MO-1471 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction
Apprentices' library / A. Anderson sc.
Print shows an elderly man, holding a walking stick, directing two young boys to a library that glows on the top of a hill in the distance. Possibly a membership card or bookplate for Colonel James Anderson's M... More
Principal floor. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows a floor plan for the Boston Public Library. Illus. in: Proceedings at the dedication of the building for the Public library of the city of Boston. Boston : prepared and printed by authority of the c... More
The Book-worm painted by C. Spitzweg ; lith. by Thielley
Print shows a man in a library reading a book atop a library-ladder, with books in hand, between his legs, and under his arm. No. 45474. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Stamped on lower ... More
Loganian Library, 1745-'50 - Public domain book illustration
Illus. in: Public libraries in the United States of America, their history, condition, and management. Special report, part I. Washington [D.C.] : Government Printing Office,1876, p. 7-8.
Extension of library of Harvard College. Ware and Van Brunt architects...
Print shows sectional views and the floor plan for the library extension Harvard University. Illus. in: American architect and building news, vol. 4, no. 152. Boston : J. R. Osgod & Co., Nov. 23, 1878, opposite p. 173.
Plan of the main library floor - Public domain book illustration
Print shows the flor plan for the University of Pennsylvania library. Illus. in: Library Journal, vol. 13, no. 8, August 1888 / editors C.A. Cutter, R. R. Bowker. New York : [American Library Association], 188... More
![[Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Attic. Brickwork. Plans, sections, and elevations. Working drawing] / Paul F. Pelz, architect.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTUvbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWRjLWF0dGljLWJyaWNrd29yay1wbGFucy1zZWN0aW9ucy1hbmQtZWxldmF0aW9ucy1jNmRlMjQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "[Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Attic. Brickwork. Plans, sections, and elevations. Working drawing] / Paul F. Pelz, architect.")
[Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Attic. Brickwork. Plans, sect...
Working drawing showing brickwork of attic as plans, sections, and elevations. Signed: "Bernard R. Green, Superintendent & Engineer", "E.P.S.", "V.S.F.Gr." No. 395.
Malta. Biblioteca e Caffé della Regina
Image shows Misrah̳ ir-Repubblika (Republic Square), as well as the Bibljoteka Nazzjonali ta' Malta (National Library of Malta). Title in General-Photochrom-Katalog, 30. Ausgabe 1911. Photoglob-Abteilung der V... More
The delivery room / Boston Photogravure Co.
Print shows the Woburn (Mass.) Public Library delivery room. Illus. in: New England Magazine, an illustrated monthly, new series vol. 1, no. 6. Boston : New England Magazine Company, Feb.1890, p. 620.
Congressional Library, the entrance pavilion / Handy phot.
Photograph shows an exterior view from 1st Street near Independence Ave. of the front entrance pavilion of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U... More
Main entrance. Boston Public Library
Photograph shows the staircase corridor at the main entrance of the Boston Public Library. 26619 U.S. Copyright Office. 69479-B-1 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1895 by Charles Pollock, Boston.