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

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, American Revolver Crane, 97 Eas...

Significance: Located on Pier 2, the oldest and primary outfitting pier in the shipyard, Structure 25S, a 37.5-ton American Revolver Crane, is significant for its association with the upgrading of the Quincy-Fo... More

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

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Shed A, 700 Henry Ford A...

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

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

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Shed A, 700 Henry Ford A...

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

Colt Fire Arms Company, Foundry Building, 36-150 Huyshope Avenue, 17-170 Van Dyke Avenue, 49 Vredendale Avenue, Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Colt Fire Arms Company, Foundry Building, 36-150 Huyshope Avenue, 17-1...

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Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 311, Arsenal Street, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 311, Arsenal Street, Watertown, Middle...

Significance: Building No. 311 is essential to understanding Watertown Arsenal activities from World War I to the present day. Reputed to be one of the largest structures in the world in 1917, it was designed ... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 139, Second Street between Ramsey Street & South Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 139, Second Street between Ramsey St...

Significance: The Artillery Wheel Stock Dry Kiln was one of a pair of almost identical buildings erected in 1917-1918 for seasoning lumber used in the arsenal's manufacturing program (see HAER No. IL-20X). The... More

Union Depot Area Study, Pacific Brewing & Malting Company, 2500 Holgate Street, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA

Union Depot Area Study, Pacific Brewing & Malting Company, 2500 Holgat...

Significance: The Pacific Brewing & Malting Company is a representative example of early 20th century industrial development in Tacoma. During prohibition it was converted to the manufacture of soap. Survey n... More

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union...

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Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union...

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Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union...

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Putnam Manufacturing Company Workers' Houses, 313 Church Street (House), Putnam, Windham County, CT

Putnam Manufacturing Company Workers' Houses, 313 Church Street (House...

Significance: Significant as a typical millworker tenement - it has characteristic multiple-entry, symmetric facade, and clapboarded exterior - and for its associations with Putnem Mfg. Co., one of Putnam's imp... More

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 100, Wooley Avenue, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 100, Wooley Avenue, Watertown, Middles...

Significance: Building No. 100, the Horace Hardy Lester Reactor, was the first nuclear reactor designed to meet the needs of the U.S. Army materials research programs. It continued a long history of nondestruc... More

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 138, Second Avenue between South Avenue & Ramsey Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 138, Second Avenue between South Ave...

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

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 138, Second Avenue between South Avenue & Ramsey Street, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 138, Second Avenue between South Ave...

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

Minneapolis Boiler Works Building, 121-129 Fifth Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Minneapolis Boiler Works Building, 121-129 Fifth Avenue, South, Minnea...

Significance: The Minneapolis Boiler Works Building is historically significant for its association with Minneapolis' "West Side Milling District." The West Side was the center of the Minneapolis flour industr... More

Tallassee Mills, 1844 Old Mill Road, Tallassee, Elmore County, AL

Tallassee Mills, 1844 Old Mill Road, Tallassee, Elmore County, AL

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: During the late 19th century, this was among the largest cotton textile manufacturing complexes in the South. It was the second mill in Alabama 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

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

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grenshaw Streets, Kedzie Avenue & Independence Boulevard, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grens...

Significance: The Merchandise Building was one of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons and Fellows, with add... More

Larrabee & Hingston Company, Lumber Drying Shed, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA

Larrabee & Hingston Company, Lumber Drying Shed, 19 Howley Street, Pea...

Significance: The Larrabee & Hingston Lumber Drying Shed (ca. 1903-ca. 1914) is significant for its association with Peabody's most important historic industry, the tanning of animal hides. The Lumber Drying S... More

Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Fitting Shop, Spruce & Market Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Fitting Shop, Spruce & Market Stree...

Significance: This Fitting Shop was constructed as part of a modernization project undertaken in 1881 by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. All the firm's land on the east side of Spruce Street had been ... More

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York, York County, PA

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York...

Significance: For almost sixty years these structures were a major manufacturing center for a large variety of chain products, including new techniques of welded and weldless products. Survey number: HAER PA-5... More

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York, York County, PA

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York...

Significance: For almost sixty years these structures were a major manufacturing center for a large variety of chain products, including new techniques of welded and weldless products. Survey number: HAER PA-5... More

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York, York County, PA

American Chain & Cable Company, East Princess Street (400 Block), York...

Significance: For almost sixty years these structures were a major manufacturing center for a large variety of chain products, including new techniques of welded and weldless products. Survey number: HAER PA-5... More

2503 North Fifteenth Street (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

2503 North Fifteenth Street (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building Nos. B-7 & B-8, 85-89 Hudson Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building Nos. B-7 & B-8, 85-89 Hu...

Significance: The eight-story industrial structure at 85-99 Hudson Street was significant as the first reinforced concrete structure built in Jersey City, and ad the base of the two great Colgate clocks erected... More

Union Works, Spruce & Market Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Union Works, Spruce & Market Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Significance: The Union Works building is one of the older mill sites in Paterson, having housed Aaron King's facility before King built the "Stone Mill." In the first half of the nineteenth century, the mill ... More

Delray Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek, Delrey, Iroquois County, IL

Delray Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek, Delrey, Iroquois County, IL

Significance: This single span truss is one of three remaining Whipple trusses on the Illinois inventory. The bridge was fabricated by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Survey... More

Delray Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek, Delrey, Iroquois County, IL

Delray Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek, Delrey, Iroquois County, IL

Significance: This single span truss is one of three remaining Whipple trusses on the Illinois inventory. The bridge was fabricated by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Survey... More

2001 East Fifteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

2001 East Fifteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

2001 East Fifteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

2001 East Fifteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar, Polk County, MO

Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar, Polk County, MO

Significance: This bridge holds the unofficial honor of being the first "iron" bridge to be built in Polk County. It is remarkable that although it is frail, by present standards, it has carried tremendous loa... More

Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar, Polk County, MO

Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar, Polk County, MO

Significance: This bridge holds the unofficial honor of being the first "iron" bridge to be built in Polk County. It is remarkable that although it is frail, by present standards, it has carried tremendous loa... More

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Arsenal, Office Building, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, ...

Significance: Office Building 17 played an important support role in the shops complex, which formed the industrial core of the Arsenal. The building is significant as a contributing structure in the developmen... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Boston Manufacturing Company, 144-190 Moody Street, Waltham, Middlesex...

Significance: The Boston Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial corporation in the United States. Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick T. Jackson, and others, the Boston Manufacturing... More

Lawrence Machine Shop, Union & Canal Streets, Lawrence, Essex County, MA

Lawrence Machine Shop, Union & Canal Streets, Lawrence, Essex County, ...

Significance: This building was built over a two year interval beginning in 1846 for the purpose of manufacturing and repairing textile machinery for the newly established mills of Lawrence. It is one of the t... More

1808 East Fourteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

1808 East Fourteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

1219 East Thirteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

1219 East Thirteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

1219 East Thirteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

1219 East Thirteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built ... More

J. E. Rhoads & Sons, 2100 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

J. E. Rhoads & Sons, 2100 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington, New Castle...

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Charles F. Johnson Pool, Charles F. Johnson Park, Johnson City, Broome County, NY

Charles F. Johnson Pool, Charles F. Johnson Park, Johnson City, Broome...

Significance: The C.F.J. Pool is significant in American recreational, technological, and labor history. It was designed in 1926 by civil engineer Wesley Bintz during a period of major change in the philosophy... More

Charles F. Johnson Pool, Charles F. Johnson Park, Johnson City, Broome County, NY

Charles F. Johnson Pool, Charles F. Johnson Park, Johnson City, Broome...

Significance: The C.F.J. Pool is significant in American recreational, technological, and labor history. It was designed in 1926 by civil engineer Wesley Bintz during a period of major change in the philosophy... More

Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fitchburg, Worcester County, MA

Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fit...

Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simonds Manufacturing Company, a maker of saws and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company has been one of Fitch... More

Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fitchburg, Worcester County, MA

Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fit...

Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simonds Manufacturing Company, a maker of saws and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company has been one of Fitch... More

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Building, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Building, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Uni...

Significance: This brick, rectangular, four-story structure is architecturally significant as a relatively intact textile mill building from the turn of the century. It has a twin pyramidal-capped clock and be... More

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Building, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Building, SC Route 215, Buffalo, Uni...

Significance: This brick, rectangular, four-story structure is architecturally significant as a relatively intact textile mill building from the turn of the century. It has a twin pyramidal-capped clock and be... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... 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

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Eagle & Phenix Mills, Front Street (1200-1300 Blocks), Columbus, Musco...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: From its inception in 1851 the dynamic growth of the Eagle Mill represented the most important factor in Columbus's industrial development. In 1860 the Eagle Mil... More

Merrill Silk Mill, 233 Canisteo Street, Hornell, Steuben County, NY

Merrill Silk Mill, 233 Canisteo Street, Hornell, Steuben County, NY

Significance: Textile manufacturing was one of the principal industries in the City of Hornell. The complex is representative of early 20th century industrial buildings. Survey number: HAER NY-126 Building/s... More

Merrill Silk Mill, 233 Canisteo Street, Hornell, Steuben County, NY

Merrill Silk Mill, 233 Canisteo Street, Hornell, Steuben County, NY

Significance: Textile manufacturing was one of the principal industries in the City of Hornell. The complex is representative of early 20th century industrial buildings. Survey number: HAER NY-126 Building/s... More

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 60, Arsenal Street, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 60, Arsenal Street, Watertown, Middles...

Significance: Building 60, constructed in 1913 and enlarged several times, is significant as an important utility support building to the former Watertown Arsenal operations in the twentieth century. It is a c... More

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Wing & Fuselage Assembly Building, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Wing & Fuselage As...

Significance: Building No. 12 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

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Wing & Fuselage Assembly Building, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Wing & Fuselage As...

Significance: Building No. 12 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

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho Avenue, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho A...

Significance: The building was a requirement for Air Force installations situated in cold climates. The building provided heated parking facilities for certain assigned vehicles needing to be maintained in "rea... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho Avenue, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho A...

Significance: The building was a requirement for Air Force installations situated in cold climates. The building provided heated parking facilities for certain assigned vehicles needing to be maintained in "rea... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Significance: The Augusta power and navigation canal was projected in order to make Augusta a manufacturing center. By the 1880's, the canal was a success. It supplied water power for eight textile mills, thr... More

Railroad Reservation, Bounded by Thirty-eighth Street on the east, Sixteenth Street on the west, First Avenue on the north, & First Avenue on the south, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Railroad Reservation, Bounded by Thirty-eighth Street on the east, Six...

Significance: The beginning of city planning in Birmingham, the Railroad Reservation symbolized the centrality of the railroad to the District, forming the main artery of transportation into the early city and ... More

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 160, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 160, Sylvan Drive, Rock Island, Rock...

Significance: Replacing a waterpower telodynamic system on the same site, the hydroelectric Powerhouse was completed in 1901 to meet the increased power demands of a small arms plant established at the arsenal ... More

Hale Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River, Oxford Junction, Jones County, IA

Hale Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River, Oxford Junction, Jones Count...

Significance: The three-span Hale Bridge is a striking, and extremely rare, example of what was once a common bridge form: the bowstring arch-truss. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used exte... More

Hale Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River, Oxford Junction, Jones County, IA

Hale Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River, Oxford Junction, Jones Count...

Significance: The three-span Hale Bridge is a striking, and extremely rare, example of what was once a common bridge form: the bowstring arch-truss. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used exte... More

McDowell Bridge, Spanning North Skunk River, Montezuma, Poweshiek County, IA

McDowell Bridge, Spanning North Skunk River, Montezuma, Poweshiek Coun...

Significance: The McDowell bridge was was built in 1883, towards the end of the heyday of the use of bowstring arch-trusses. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used extensively because of their... More

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA

Significance: The mill complex on the Canoe River was in continuous use from the time of its construction about 1730 until the mid-twentieth century. Originally established as a sawmill, a grist mill was added... More

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA

Canoe River Mill, Norton, Bristol County, MA

Significance: The mill complex on the Canoe River was in continuous use from the time of its construction about 1730 until the mid-twentieth century. Originally established as a sawmill, a grist mill was added... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Lumber Warehouse, Eighth & Washington Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Co...

Significance: This lumber warehouse is historically significant for its association with one of Dubuque's largest industrial houses, the Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company. It is architecturally signif... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Lumber Warehouse, Eighth & Washington Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Co...

Significance: This lumber warehouse is historically significant for its association with one of Dubuque's largest industrial houses, the Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company. It is architecturally signif... More

Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company, West Second Street & Sycamore, Anderson, Madison County, IN

Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company, West Second Street & Sycamore, Anderson...

Significance: The Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company was one of the last firms brought to Anderson by the Commercial Club, a civic group which attempted to meet regional economic decline with local initiatives. The... More

Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company, West Second Street & Sycamore, Anderson, Madison County, IN

Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company, West Second Street & Sycamore, Anderson...

Significance: The Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company was one of the last firms brought to Anderson by the Commercial Club, a civic group which attempted to meet regional economic decline with local initiatives. The... More

1021-1025 East Fourteenth Avenue (Warehouse), 1021-1025 East Fourteenth Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

1021-1025 East Fourteenth Avenue (Warehouse), 1021-1025 East Fourteent...

Significance: It's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the Ybor City National Historic Landmark District. Ybor City is a section of Tampa founded and built by Vicente M... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewoo...

Significance: Building 11 consists of 7 different buildings that were constructed throughout 1929 - 1942 all brought together to form one building by 1942. All of the various buildings making up Building 11 had... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewoo...

Significance: Building 11 consists of 7 different buildings that were constructed throughout 1929 - 1942 all brought together to form one building by 1942. All of the various buildings making up Building 11 had... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

NASA Industrial Plant, Manufacturing & Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewoo...

Significance: Building 11 consists of 7 different buildings that were constructed throughout 1929 - 1942 all brought together to form one building by 1942. All of the various buildings making up Building 11 had... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 ...

Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1929 and 1939, the Joiner and Sheet Metal Shops is significant as the location of important components of the shipbuilding design and fabrication processes at t... More

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Mu...

Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind wit... More

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Mu...

Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind wit... More

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Mu...

Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind wit... More

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Mu...

Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind wit... More

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