Historic home built by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe in 1830, LaFayette Park, l...
This home was the social Center during the period and was called the "Little White House" by President McKinley. Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park. The Square and the surrounding structures were desi... More
The E.A. Durham House in Sistersville, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Also known as the Durham-Peters residence, the house was built in 1921 in the Italian Renaissance Revival-style. Credit line: West Vir... More
Graceland mansion on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1893, Graceland served as the summer home of Senator Henry Gassaway Davis. The mansion was acquired in 1941 by the West V... More
Gaineswood, a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama
Gaineswood, completed in 1861, is considered to be Alabama's finest neoclassical house. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... More
[Teague house,] Montgomery, Alabama
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ashton Villa, built in 1858-59, was the first of Galveston's Broadway...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The artistic and eccentric Bettie Brown was mistress of the manor, and her life-size paintings still adorn the showy Go... More
Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana
Shadows-on-the-Teche is an historic house and garden owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was built in 1831-1834 for sugarcane planter David Weeks and his wife Mary C. Weeks. A... More
Thimble Islands archipelago in the Long Island Sound, Branford, Connec...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Thimble Islands archipelago in the Long Island Sound, Branford, Connec...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
"Scotty's Castle" in Death Valley, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. An anomalous attraction in Death Valley, it is removed from most of the park in its far-northern reaches near the Nevada border. Death Valley Ranch, as th... More
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eur...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century building, Victorian architecture style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Pease Bedroom on the second floor of the Texas Governor's Mansion ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The room was named in 1982 in honor of the first occupants, Governor Elisha M. Pease and his wife, Lucadia. The beds belonged to the ... More
The Library in the southeast corner of the original portion of the Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The shouldered architrave moldings and possibly the mantel are original. Built in 1854, the mansion was designed by prominent archit... More
Main house at Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas, north of Dallas, where...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birdin...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason & Marcia Matthews, began building... More
Chester C. Bolton House, 1300 Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Palm Beach ...
Significance: Considered representative of an architectural era in South Florida, and bears the imprint of a well-known architect of the day, who was also the son of a President of the United States. It is als... More
Chester C. Bolton House, 1300 Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Palm Beach ...
Significance: Considered representative of an architectural era in South Florida, and bears the imprint of a well-known architect of the day, who was also the son of a President of the United States. It is als... More
Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...
Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More
Ivinson Mansion, 603 Ivinson Avenue, Laramie, Albany County, WY
Survey number: HABS WY-74 Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001295
Ivinson Mansion, 603 Ivinson Avenue, Laramie, Albany County, WY
Survey number: HABS WY-74 Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001295
Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virgini...
Significance: Notable Georgian/Federal 5-part house, designed by William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol. Woodlawn was built on part of the Mount Vernon estate for George Washington's adopted g... More
Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virgini...
Significance: Notable Georgian/Federal 5-part house, designed by William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol. Woodlawn was built on part of the Mount Vernon estate for George Washington's adopted g... More
Ravenswood Farm, Main House, Rural Route 1, Bunceton, Cooper County, M...
Significance: The house and outbuildings represent a rare survival of an intact late 19th century, gentleman's farm residence. Descendants of the original owners still occupy the farm, and many original records... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Direct...
Survey number: HABS TN-254-H Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Edmonston House, 21 East Battery Street, Charleston, Charlesto...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Number One (King's Palace), Main & Third Streets, Zoar, Tuscarawas Cou...
Survey number: HABS OH-297 Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Initial Construction
Ruins of San Francisco after earthquake and fire, April 18 - 21, 1906,...
Copyright deposit; Lester C. Guernsey; 1906. Landmarks labeled on image. Exhibited in: American treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004.
Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA
2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More
Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA
2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More
Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA
2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More
Henry M. Flagler Mansion, Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County...
Significance: The Mansion called "Whitehall" was designed for a wedding present to Mary Lily Kenan of North Carolina by her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the most important men in the early developmen... More
Convent of Mary Immaculate, 600 Truman Avenue, Key West, Monroe County...
Significance: The Convent of Mary Immaculate is the oldest educational institution in Southern Florida. The school opened in 1869 and has been located in the present building since 1875. The building is an ex... More
Richmond Hill Plantation, Ford Mansion, East of Richmond Hill on Ford ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic park, open terrace, world heritage landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Richmond Hill Plantation, Ford Mansion, East of Richmond Hill on Ford ...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Hundred Oaks, Oak Street near U.S. Route 64, Winchester, Franklin Coun...
Significance: Hundred Oaks was begun 1889-1892. It was built for Arthur Handly Marks, a local wealthy dilettante, of local materials, by local craftsmen. Its architecture, though based on Scottish precedents,... More
Abner Baker House, 318 West Mansion Street, Marshall, Calhoun County, ...
Significance: An attractive representative mid-19th century "Gothic Cottage," retaining many original features and with a carriage house. / This attractive "Gothic Cottage" was built c. 1855-1858. It retains a... More
Hawkwood, Route 15, Zion Crossroads, Louisa County, Virginia
The location was changed from Gordonsville vicinity to Zion Crossroads vicinity because the historic site is located in Louisa County, not Orange County. Significance: Designed by A.J. Davis, who is widely rega... More
Hawkwood, Route 15, Zion Crossroads, Louisa County, Virginia
The location was changed from Gordonsville vicinity to Zion Crossroads vicinity because the historic site is located in Louisa County, not Orange County. Significance: Designed by A.J. Davis, who is widely rega... More
Milford, Wedgefield-Rimini Road, Pinewood, Sumter County, SC
Significance: "Milford," the residence of Governor John L. Manning, is one of the finest country mansions in South Carolina. Survey number: HABS SC-257 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction ... More
Old Mansion, State Route 2 vicinity, Bowling Green, Caroline County, V...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51, FN-52, FN-53, FN-54, FN-55 Survey number: HABS VA-128 Building/structure dates: ca. 1669 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1... More
Old Mansion, State Route 2 vicinity, Bowling Green, Caroline County, V...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51, FN-52, FN-53, FN-54, FN-55 Survey number: HABS VA-128 Building/structure dates: ca. 1669 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1... More
Cox House, Old Aberdeen Road, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-264 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80002285
Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More
Belmont Mansion, Belmont Mansion Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Survey number: HABS PA-1649 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Belmont Mansion, Belmont Mansion Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Survey number: HABS PA-1649 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...
Significance: This set if quarters is the oldest extant building at the Academy. The house retains much of its original Federal style details and has been the quarters of the academy superintendent since its co... More
Germantown Cricket Club, 5140 Morris Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...
Survey number: HABS PA-1693 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87000758
Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos & Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, ...
Survey number: HABS CA-1238 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
W. E. Warren House, 196 Grand Street, Newburgh, Orange County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-6235 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Hospit...
Survey number: HABS TN-254-D Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...
Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More
Keasbey & Mattison Company, Executive's House, Ambler, Montgomery Coun...
Survey number: HABS PA-6048-L Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
James A. Allison Mansion, 3200 Coldspring Road, Indianapolis, Marion C...
Significance: Built over a three year period, 1911-1914, this house was constructed of reinforced concrete with an exterior veneer of red brick. The house remains much as it was in 1914 when Indianapolis busin... More
James A. Allison Mansion, 3200 Coldspring Road, Indianapolis, Marion C...
Significance: Built over a three year period, 1911-1914, this house was constructed of reinforced concrete with an exterior veneer of red brick. The house remains much as it was in 1914 when Indianapolis busin... More
Hope Lodge, Bethlehem & Skippack Pikes, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57, FN-58, FN-59, FN-60 Survey number: HABS PA-18 Building/structure dates: 1723 Initial Construction
Bourne Mansion, Bourne Street, Kennebunk, York County, ME
Suggested address, Bourne Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-15 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction
Chamounix Mansion, Chamounix Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
E. L. Smoot House, 705 Mansion Street, Wetumpka, Elmore County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gracie Mansion, Carl Schurz Park, East Eighty-Sixth Street, New York, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Stanford University Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Santa Cla...
Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Palmer Mansion, 808 Brady Street, Davenport, Scott County, IA
Significance: The Palmer Mansion was constructed in 1874 in the then-popular Mansard Style by Louis C. Dessaint, owner of a local lumber mill. It was sold to F.H. Handcock in 1886 and to William D. Petersen in... More
Weston, Old Crain Highway Vicinity, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's Co...
Significance: Weston is an excellent example of a large, early 19th-century Prince Geroge's County brick plantation house with refined decorative details in the late-Federal and Greek Revival styles. The house... More
Washington Mansion House Tavern, Main Street & Washington Place, Hacke...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-105 Survey number: HABS NJ-117 Building/structure dates: 1751 Initial Construction
Washington Mansion House Tavern, Main Street & Washington Place, Hacke...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-105 Survey number: HABS NJ-117 Building/structure dates: 1751 Initial Construction
Washington Mansion House Tavern, Main Street & Washington Place, Hacke...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-105 Survey number: HABS NJ-117 Building/structure dates: 1751 Initial Construction
Key Mansion, Washington, D.C. - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Governo...
Survey number: HABS CA-2802-B Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hatton Mansion, Fort Washington, Prince George's County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-111 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Waverley, Waverley Road, West Point, Clay County, MS
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Begun in the 1840s and completed in 1852, Waverly is distinguished by the immense octagonal rotunda which projects through the roof as a cupola. This structure co... More
Mansion House, 214 East Main Street, Centerville, Wayne County, IN
Significance: This Federal style building is a fine example of an inn that serviced the old National Road. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-63 Survey number: HABS IN-104
Alaska's Governor's Mansion, 716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Juneau Boroug...
Survey number: HABS AK-112 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Duddington Mansion, First & Second & E & F Streets, Southeast, Washing...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Somers Mansion, Shore Road & Goll Street, Somers Point, Atlantic Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS NJ-281 Building/structure dates: 1730 Initial Construction
Somers Mansion, Shore Road & Goll Street, Somers Point, Atlantic Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS NJ-281 Building/structure dates: 1730 Initial Construction
Somers Mansion, Shore Road & Goll Street, Somers Point, Atlantic Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS NJ-281 Building/structure dates: 1730 Initial Construction
Cooke's Row, Villa No. 3, 3013 Q Street Northwest, Washington, Distric...
Significance: In its park-like setting, Cooke's Row forms and impressive series of large scale, formal Victorian mansions. Of the four double villas, 3013 and 3015 Q Street specifically represent the Italianat... More
J. O. Banks House & Smokehouse, Springfield Avenue & Pickens Street, E...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-68 Survey number: HABS AL-246 Building/structure dates: 1856 Initial Construction
Fort Hill Farm, Mansion, West of Staunton (Roanoke) River between Turk...
Significance: The Fort Hill Mansion is an example of a post-bellum, rural "manor," built circa 1880 for John, eldest son of William H. Sims of Black Walnut Farm. The house displays the stylistic influences of ... More
Tremaine-Gallagher House, 3001 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights,...
Significance: Primarily derived from 18th-century French sources, with interior decoration based also on 17th- and 18th-century English precedent, the house and grounds are considered to be an outstanding examp... More
Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction
Wagener-Randolph House, 179 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, Charleston Co...
Survey number: HABS SC-469 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mayfield, 600 North New Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA
Significance: A handsome Classic Revival mansion, built by a Pittsburgh industrialist and lived in by his descendants for many years. Survey number: HABS PA-1104 Building/structure dates: 1848-1851 Initial C... More
Governor Brady Mansion, 140 Main Street, Boise, Ada County, ID
Survey number: HABS ID-28 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Governor Brady Mansion, 140 Main Street, Boise, Ada County, ID
Survey number: HABS ID-28 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Campbell Mansion, Route 67, Bethany, Brooke County, WV
Significance: The Campbell Mansion and its accompanying landscape is significant not only as the home of Alexander Campbell, a guiding light in the founding of the Christian church movement, but as an important... More
Vanderbilt Mansion, Blacksmith Shop, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, NY
Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Pomeroy House, 658 Pequot Road, Southport, Fairfield County, ...
Significance: The Pomeroy house was designed by the locally prominent architect Lambert & Bunnell and erected 1868-69. Patterned in the nineteenth-century Second Empire style, the handsome facade is symmetrica... More
Ferris Mansion, Ferris Avenue, Bronx, Bronx County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29, FN-52 Survey number: HABS NY-432 Building/structure dates: 1687 Initial Construction
Ferris Mansion, Ferris Avenue, Bronx, Bronx County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29, FN-52 Survey number: HABS NY-432 Building/structure dates: 1687 Initial Construction
Granite Mansion Smokehouse, 292 West Main Street, Newark, New Castle C...
Significance: Unusually formal style of smokehouse. Only known smokehouse with Gothic windows in New Castle County. Part of one of the oldest architectural complexes in Newark. Originally used as a smokehous... More
Kykuit, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. House, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N258 Survey number: HABS NY-6334-A
Kykuit, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. House, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N258 Survey number: HABS NY-6334-A
Arlington Place, 331 Cotton Avenue, Southwest, Birmingham, Jefferson C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
English-Oliver House, 845 Ridge Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ...
Significance: Originally built in 1871-74, the house was remodeled in 1892-93 after the designs of the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. One of the finest of the Pittsburgh millionaires'' mansions, i... More
Ingelside, Gibson Avenue, Lexington, Fayette County, KY
Significance: Year of erection: "For more than 10 years the work went on, until in 1852 the house was completed at a cost of twenty-nine thousand dollars..." Built for (first owner): Joseph Bruen. Architect o... More
Buena Vista, U.S. Route 13, South of U.S. Route 40, Tybouts Corner, Ne...
Significance: Buena Vista was built as the country home of John M. Clayton who was secretary of State under President Zachary Taylor. He negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. Previous and subsequent to this h... More
Parson Thorne Mansion, 501 Northwest Front Street, Milford, Sussex Cou...
Significance: This house, clearly altered in the late nineteenth century, features exquisite Georgian paneling on the interior. An early owner was Rev. Sydenham Thorne, a co-founder of the town of Milford and ... More
Preston School, 1251 Seventeenth Street, between Fort & Porter Streets...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2119 Survey number: HABS MI-402