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

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge Brothe...

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

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

A black and white photo of a hospital room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

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

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

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

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

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

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Dodge Brothers...

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

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia County, NY

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany Cou...

Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Sp... More

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Blacksmith Shop, State Route 994, West of U.S. Route 522, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Blacksmith Shop, State Route 9...

Significance: The Blacksmith Shop, along with the Machine Shop and Foundry, was one of the three primary metalworking facilities at the East Broad Top Shop complex. Built prior to 1882, and enlarged after a fi... More

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Blacksmith Shop, State Route 994, West of U.S. Route 522, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Blacksmith Shop, State Route 9...

Significance: The Blacksmith Shop, along with the Machine Shop and Foundry, was one of the three primary metalworking facilities at the East Broad Top Shop complex. Built prior to 1882, and enlarged after a fi... More

Torpedo Assembly Building, Eastern end of Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Torpedo Assembly Building, Eastern end of Yerba Buena Island, San Fran...

Significance: Building 262 has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places at the state level of significance under Criteria A and C, in the areas of military history and ar... More

Champion Ice Manufacturing & Cold Storage Company, 40 East Second Street, Covington, Kenton County, KY

Champion Ice Manufacturing & Cold Storage Company, 40 East Second Stre...

Significance: This complex is important to the industrial development of the city of Covington, as it relates to the manufacturing of ice and the storage of perishable foods. Surviving machinery adds to our un... More

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse M-4, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Warehouse M-4, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Mi...

Significance: With the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917, the War Department chose a site on the Raritan River in New Jersey as the U.S. Army's primary base for the storage and transshipmen... More

Edward Carrington House, 66 Williams Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Edward Carrington House, 66 Williams Street, Providence, Providence Co...

Significance: This brick mansion was the home of General Edward Carrington, a very successful merchant and trader who assembled an outstanding collection of furnishings, including many Chinese things, for this ... More

Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Pa...

Significance: The Silver King Mining Company became one of the major producers in the Park City district of Utah and attained a brief reputation as the richest silver mine in the known world. One of the smalle... More

Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Pa...

Significance: The Silver King Mining Company became one of the major producers in the Park City district of Utah and attained a brief reputation as the richest silver mine in the known world. One of the smalle... More

Langdale Cotton Mill, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley, Chambers County, AL

Langdale Cotton Mill, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley, Chambers County,...

Significance: The Langdale Cotton Mill is part of the Langdale Historic District. According to the National Register nomination, the mill consists of an "excellent group of mill buildings from the late-nineteet... More

Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, 309 River Road, Edgewater, Bergen County, NJ

Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, 309 River Road, Edgewater...

Significance: This complex is an excellent example of Albert Kahn's achievement in industrial architecture, standing midway between the early multi-story plants built in Detroit for Ford and Dodge, and the late... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford & New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...

Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Between 1931 Pierhead Line, Essex, York, & Montgomery Streets, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Between 1931 Pierhead Line, Essex...

Significance: The Colgate-Palmolive Company is one of the oldest and largest companies in the world making soap, detergents, and personal care products, with corporate origins beginning in 1806. The Jersey Cit... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whittemore Roads, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 110, Hagner Road between Schull & Whi...

Significance: The building is significant for its historic role as America's center for large caliber weapons manufacture since the late nineteenth century and because of its distinction as a work of nineteenth... More

Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent C...

Significance: The Police Department Headquarters is significant for its association with the Municipal Historic District, Baltimore City, Maryland. The district consists of a linear area with an east-west axis... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-5, 39 York Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-5, 39 York Street,...

Significance: B-5 was significant as one of the oldest and most decorative Colgate & Company structures surviving in 1988 with original fabric, and as the oldest surviving structure built for laundry soap manuf... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-5, 39 York Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-5, 39 York Street,...

Significance: B-5 was significant as one of the oldest and most decorative Colgate & Company structures surviving in 1988 with original fabric, and as the oldest surviving structure built for laundry soap manuf... More

Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV

Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, C...

Significance: The buildings and structures of Copper Canyon Camp represent the remaining elements of a facility constructed by the International Smelting and Refining Company (ISARCO), a Utah-based copper minin... More

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

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

Stan Hywet Hall, 714 North Portage Path, Akron, Summit County, OH

Stan Hywet Hall, 714 North Portage Path, Akron, Summit County, OH

Significance: Stan Hywet Hall is one of the most outstanding examples of Tudor Revival architecture in the United States. As a house museum, it is notable for its high degree of architectural integrity and for ... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

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

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela Rive...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 55 through 158). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integ... More

Fisher-Fallgatter Mill, Waupaca, Waupaca County, WI

Fisher-Fallgatter Mill, Waupaca, Waupaca County, WI

Significance: The Fisher-Fallgatter Mill stands as one of the few surviving flour mills in Wisconsin. Less than a century ago, hundreds of flour and gristmills were scattered across the state as settlers found ... More

U.S. Capitol, Statue of Freedom, Intersection of North, South, & East Capitol Streets & Capitol Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Capitol, Statue of Freedom, Intersection of North, South, & East ...

Significance: The bronze Statue of Freedom by Thomas Crawford is the crowning feature of the dome of the United States Capitol. The statue is a classical female figure of Freedom wearing flowing draperies. Her ... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More

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

A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

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

A black and white photo of an industrial area. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of an industrial area. Dodge Brothers Motor Ca...

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

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

A black and white photo of a train yard. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

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

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

A black and white map of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company ...

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

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

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

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

A black and white photo of people in a car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

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

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

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

Phoenix Mill, Van Houten & Cianci Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Phoenix Mill, Van Houten & Cianci Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, N...

Significance: The Phoenix Mill is the oldest extant structure in the Historic District of Paterson. An 1821 deed describes the original structure on the site which is similar to the existing mill in height and... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

Burks' Makers Mark Distillery, Loretto, Marion County, KY

Burks' Makers Mark Distillery, Loretto, Marion County, KY

Significance: Represents the growth of distilling as a major industry in Kentucky, after the Pinckney Treaty gave U.S. citizens to unhampered passage down the Mississippi to New Orleans. It also marks the deve... More

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State ...

Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integrated steel producing ventures in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania. Constructed af... More

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsvil...

Significance: The Hillman Barge facility is significant in the commercial and industrial development of southwestern Pennsylvania as a fabricator of shipping vessels. Beginning as a distribution facility for c... More

Butte Mineyards, Stewart Mine, Intersection of Main & Woolman Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Mineyards, Stewart Mine, Intersection of Main & Woolman Streets,...

Significance: The Stewart represents one of Butte's oldest and most productive mines. It is historically significant for its association with William A. Clark and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The mine's ... More

Waverley, Waverley Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

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

Waverley, Waverley Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

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

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

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

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

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Track Scales, 500 feet Southeast of Bridge No. 60, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Track Scales,...

Significance: The D,L & W scale was made by the Fairbanks Company, one of the oldest manufacturers of platform scales in the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Sur... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford & New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...

Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Significance: Rock Island Arsenal is one of only two "old-line," nineteenth-century arsenals still in operation for munitions production. Established in 1862 as a military storage and repair depot, the arsenal... More

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Ford Assembly Plant, 1400 Harbour Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Ford Assembly Plant, 1400 ...

Significance: The Ford Assembly Plant is historically significant because of its association with several individuals and historical developments important to the history of the United States, especially the mo... More

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

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

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virgi...

Significance: A unique complex of structures which document the transition from antebellum agricultural economy to industrial development in the South following the Civil War. It is also one of the most comple... More

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virgi...

Significance: A unique complex of structures which document the transition from antebellum agricultural economy to industrial development in the South following the Civil War. It is also one of the most comple... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake,...

The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construct... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake,...

The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construct... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States is right outside of Montgomery, Alabama

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States ...

This $1.4 billion automotive plant is one of the most advanced assembly plants in North America. This plant is spotless. Not one speck of dust anywhere. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: The Eames House is significant as an exemplary and influential example of post-World War II modern architecture and for its association with the lives of notable designers and residents Charles an... More

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

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

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

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: Building 197 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace, Opossum Creek vicinity, Woodward, Jefferson County, AL

Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace, Opossum Creek vicinity, Woodward...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Woodward Iron Company established the first iron furnace in the Bessemer area, and began operation of its first furnace in 1883. The Company later expanded t... More

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Cafeteria, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Cafeteria, 3855 Lakewood Bo...

Significance: Building No. 8 is one of 18 contributing buildings and two features to the Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant historic district. Activities associated with the district significantly contr... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 40, Broadway between Dalliba & Watervliet Avenues, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building No. 40, Broadway between Dalliba & Waterv...

Significance: As Watervliet's center of manufacture between about 1840 and 1886, the building served an important role in the arsenal's history. The different components, built over a period of 100 years, refl... More

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Appomattox Iron Works, 20-28 Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virgi...

Significance: A unique complex of structures which document the transition from antebellum agricultural economy to industrial development in the South following the Civil War. It is also one of the most comple... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

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

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

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

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

A black and white photo of a water tower. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

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

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

A black and white photo of an empty room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

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

A black and white photo of men working on cars. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of men working on cars. Dodge Brothers Motor C...

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

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia County, NY

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... 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

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 197, Tingey Street, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: Building 197 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

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

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

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

Butte Mineyards, Stewart Mine, Intersection of Main & Woolman Streets, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT

Butte Mineyards, Stewart Mine, Intersection of Main & Woolman Streets,...

Significance: The Stewart represents one of Butte's oldest and most productive mines. It is historically significant for its association with William A. Clark and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The mine's ... More

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