montgomery county

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 27, Vertical Win...

Significance: The Vertical Wind Tunnel was built during World War II to test parachute performance and aircraft spin characteristics. Despite a remarkably simple design and relatively low operating cost, the t... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Protest...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-X National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

National Institutes of Health, Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, 9000 Roc...

Significance: The Industrial Hygeine Laboratory, constructed in 1938, is one of the original laboratory buildings built for the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, and the first laboratory built sol... More

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The service buildings were essential for the operations of the school. Some of them, including the power plant and fire house, still are. Even though the buildings were utilitarian in function, ... More

Stone Barn, Germantown Pike vicinity, Lower Providence Township, Port ...

Survey number: HABS PA-5258 Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Norris-Higgins House, 10806 Keswick Street, Garrett Park, Montgomery C...

1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Built ca. 1892, the house is one of the original homes in the railroad suburb of Garrett Park. More modest than some of the other original houses, it is repr... More

Philadelphia & Western Railway, Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning Schulykill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wilson Estate, The Lodge, 9100 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Montgomery Co...

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National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

Belmont, Georgia Avenue (State Route 97) Vicinity, Olney, Montgomery C...

Survey number: HABS MD-579 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City of Dayton Municipal Building, 101 West Third Street, Dayton, Mont...

Significance: The structure is both architecturally significant as an excellent example of Neo-classic architecture typical in its massing and attention to detail, and historically significant as the second lar... More

Dawson House, 15200 Sugarland Road, Dawsonville, Montgomery County, MD

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-34 Survey number: HABS MD-55 Building/structure dates: 1808

Western Railway of Alabama Montgomery Rail Shops, 701 North Perry Stre...

Significance: When built, the Western Railway of Alabama shops at Montgomery were hailed as the largest in Alabama and the best equipped in the South. Their connection with the second oldest railroad in Alabam... More

First White House of the Confederacy, 625 Washington Street (moved fro...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-52 Survey number: HABS AL-624 Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1920 National Register of His... More

Polychrome House No. 1, 9900 Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29), Silver S...

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 12, Technical Da...

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Gilmer-Shorter-Lomax House, 235 South Court Street, Montgomery, Montgo...

Survey number: HABS AL-607 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction

Nodaway River Bridge, Pilot Grove County Park (moved from Nodaway Rive...

Significance: The Nodaway River bridge is an example of what was once a common bridge form: the bowstring arch-truss. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used extensively because of their great ... More

National Park Seminary, Swiss Chalet, 2802 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Swiss chalet was the home of the Zeta Eta Theta sorority. The Swiss chalet was a common form of bungalow design. The form appeared in A.J. Downing's "Architecture of Country Houses," 1850, a... More

Cayadutta Creek Bridge, Spanning Cayadutta Creek at private road, Fond...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lindenwold, Castle, 701 Bethlehem Pike & Lindenwold Terrace, Ambler, M...

Survey number: HABS PA-6050-A Public domain photograph decorative panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Figh-Pickett House, 14 Clayton Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, ...

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Figh-Pickett House, 14 Clayton Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, ...

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 14, Materiel Command...

Significance: Building 14, along with Building 15, was constructed in 1943 to house the headquarters of the Materiel Command on its transfer from Washington, D.C. to Wright Field. Unprocessed Field note materi... More

Oliver-Housman House, Wilkerson & Montgomery Streets, Montgomery, Mont...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51, FN-53 Survey number: HABS AL-635 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Demolished

Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Union Station Train Shed, Water Stree...

Significance: The Union Station Trainshed in Montgomery, Alabama is a rare survival of a once common building type. It was the outgrowth of a desire by railroad companies to improve passenger comfort, which th... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 32, Original Wright ...

Significance: This structure was the original site of the Wright Field engineering shops, supporting the vital research being conducted in Building 31. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 32, Original Wright ...

Significance: This structure was the original site of the Wright Field engineering shops, supporting the vital research being conducted in Building 31. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More

Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike,...

Significance: Constructed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and opened in 1936, the Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant is significant for its unique filter assembly designed by Chief Engineer R... More

Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike,...

Significance: Constructed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and opened in 1936, the Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant is significant for its unique filter assembly designed by Chief Engineer R... More

Glencairn, 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: Glencairn, constructed in the Romanesque style, reflects the religious, civic, business, and family ideas of Raymond Pitcairn and his interest in the medieval arts and crafts. It was the second a... More

Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge, MacArthur Boulevard, spanning Cabin John C...

Significance: The 220-foot span of its single arch made it the longest of masonry construction until the concrete arches of the twentieth century. Survey number: HAER MD-53 Building/structure dates: 1863 Init... More

National Park Seminary, Japanese Bungalow, 2801 Linden Lane, Silver Sp...

Significance: The Japanese bungalow is one of the oldest buildings on campus. It was begun in 1898, the first year of the Cassedys' building campaign, and completed in 1899. The clubhouse has a combination of... More

Darnall House, Whites Ferry Road (State Route 107), Dawsonville, Montg...

Survey number: HABS MD-570 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Gaither House, 3101 Mount Carmel Cemetery Road, Unity, Montgome...

Survey number: HABS MD-96 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Broad Run Aqueduct, 31.9 miles above tidewate...

Significance: The present aqueduct over Broad Run Creek is the only aqueduct with a wooden flume still in existence along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The existing structure was built during the winter month... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, B Building, One Mound Road, Miam...

Significance: Mound's B "Biology" Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importan... More

Narbrook Park, Bounded by Windsor, Service, Conway, & Price Roads, Nar...

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Garrett-Hatchett House, 313 Catoma Street, Montgomery, Montgomery Coun...

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John Murphy House, 22 Bibb Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51 Survey number: HABS AL-603 Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction

Allentown Road Bridge, Spanning Skippack Creek on Allentown Road, Fran...

Significance: The Allentown Road Bridge is a representative example of a small span masonry arch bridge built for 19th century highway traffic in Pennsylvania. It exhibits a regional stylistic variation, simil... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 4, Modification Hang...

Significance: This southernmost anchor of the Wright Field flightline complex provided a multi-bay facility for aircraft modification and flight research functions during World War II. Unprocessed Field note m... More

Coggins Gold Mine, Rich-Cog Mining Company, Eldorado, Montgomery Count...

Significance: Representative example of gold stamp mill. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HAER NC-4 Building/structure dates: 1913-1925 Initial Construction

Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...

Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More

Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY

Significance: Built in 1770, this is one of the churches built by the Germans from the Rhine Valley who settled this area, and is maintained as a shrine to them by the owners. Unprocessed Field note material ... More

Bibb-Goldthwaithe-Arrington House, 203 Church Street, Montgomery, Mont...

Survey number: HABS AL-611 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1870 Subsequent Work

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded ...

Significance: The Transonic Wind Tunnel Building is an aviation testing facility contained within the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division Historic District. Naval Surface Warfare Center is a... More

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded ...

Significance: The Transonic Wind Tunnel Building is an aviation testing facility contained within the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division Historic District. Naval Surface Warfare Center is a... More

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Four-Square House Type, 43 Hendricks Stree...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-Y Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Montgomery County Courthouse, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, Montgo...

Significance: This Greek Revival building, erected 1847-1850, is of architectural interest because of its handsome interior and exterior features. The Court House lawn was the scene of an address by Abraham Lin... More

WCAU-TV Station, 393 City Line Avenue, Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery County,...

Public domain photograph of office, official meeting, reception, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...

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Glen Echo Park, Dentzel Carousel & Building, 7300 MacArthur Boulevard,...

Significance: Built in 1921, the carousel at Glen Echo Park is one of sixteen carousels on its original site, out of approximately 200 in the country. It represents the later work of the William H. Dentzel Com... More

Glen Echo Park, Dentzel Carousel & Building, 7300 MacArthur Boulevard,...

Significance: Built in 1921, the carousel at Glen Echo Park is one of sixteen carousels on its original site, out of approximately 200 in the country. It represents the later work of the William H. Dentzel Com... More

Sir William Johnson House, State Routes 5 & 67, Fort Johnson, Montgome...

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Valley Forge National Historical Park, Bounded by Schuykill River, Rou...

Significance: Valley Forge National Historic Park is a landmark in American history as the site of the Revolutionary War era winter encampment of General George Washington and the Continental Army. From Decembe... More

Valley Forge National Historical Park, Bounded by Schuykill River, Rou...

Significance: Valley Forge National Historic Park is a landmark in American history as the site of the Revolutionary War era winter encampment of General George Washington and the Continental Army. From Decembe... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 11, Cabin John, Montgomery ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-40 Survey number: HABS MD-56-G

Glen Echo Park, Spanish Ballroom, 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo,...

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National Memorial Arch, King of Prussia, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: Designed by prominent Philadelphia architect Paul Phillippe Cret, was erected in Valley Forge State Park in 1912-16 to commemorate the suffering endured by General George Washington and the Contin... More

Upper Providence Friends Meetinghouse, 8207 Black Rock Road, Oaks, Mon...

Significance: Upper Providence Meeting House, built in 1828, reflects the early single-cell meeting house form, including the use of the rear carriage or mounting door that had long fallen out of use. The resur... More

Upper Providence Friends Meetinghouse, 8207 Black Rock Road, Oaks, Mon...

Significance: Upper Providence Meeting House, built in 1828, reflects the early single-cell meeting house form, including the use of the rear carriage or mounting door that had long fallen out of use. The resur... More

Jenkins Brick Company, Plant No. 2, Furnace Street, Montgomery, Montgo...

Significance: The most distinctive feature of the site today is the set of twelve remaining Minter System down draft kilns. Constructed in 1923, 1925, and 1941, the kilns are part of a waste-heat reuse system ... More

Hayes Manor, 4101 Manor Road, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, MD

Significance: The original (1767) portion of the house is one of the oldest, well-preserved examples of the Georgian mansion in this section of Maryland; it is a good example of the design and craftsmanship of ... More

National Park Seminary, Chateau Causeways, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The causeways' design echoed the forms of Main. The design is vaguely Gothic. It is another fantasyland-like feature on the campus. Its rather large girth and length made it a prominent part of... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the county of Mont...

Phillips 1501 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy deacidified and rebound with each leaf encapsulated. Map of Maryland and Delaware on p. [86]-[87] and map of the ... More

Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the county of Mont...

Phillips 1501 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy deacidified and rebound with each leaf encapsulated. Map of Maryland and Delaware on p. [86]-[87] and map of the ... More

Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the county of Mont...

Phillips 1501 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy deacidified and rebound with each leaf encapsulated. Map of Maryland and Delaware on p. [86]-[87] and map of the ... More

Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the county of Mont...

Phillips 1501 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy deacidified and rebound with each leaf encapsulated. Map of Maryland and Delaware on p. [86]-[87] and map of the ... More

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

Sketch book of Jed. Hotchkiss, Capt. & Top. Eng., Hd. Qrs., 2nd Corps,...

[Maps of the environs of forts Franklin, Alexander, and Ripley, in Mon...

Four fort vicinity sketch maps, each covering the same area, but in various stages of completion. The map with the most detail includes roads, drainage, vegetation, and fortifications. Relief shown by contours ... More

Map of Montgomery County, Maryland /

General-content military map; also shows rural buildings with householders' names and extensive delineation of ravines (only in Montgomery County in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia). Also cov... More

Map of Montgomery County. - Public domain vintage map

"Drawn by J. Innes Randolph, Lt. Engrs. Octr. 19th 1864."--handwritten note on map. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Hi... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Vir...

Dec 1885. 1 Sheet(s). Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Mount Vernon, Montgomery County, Georg...

Jun 1893. 1 Sheet(s). Georgia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability.... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ohlman, Montgomery County, Illinois

Aug 1912. 1 Sheet(s). Illinois fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. House 5008, Greenacres

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Warren G. Harding - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Caption from caption list: The Republican nominee for the Presidency photographed on the links at Chevy Ch... More

Georgetown Preparatory School. Boys ice skating at Georgetown Preparat...

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Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Interiors of Greenacres ho...

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Georgetown Preparatory School. View of Georgetown Preparatory School r...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Houses in Woodmoor, on Col...

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Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Entrance to Greenacres hou...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Schreier & Patterson, architects. Four Corners shopping center I

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Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Houses in Greenacres III

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Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Schreier & Patterson house...

Subject card annotation: for Mr. Walker. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C.... More

Warren G. Harding - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Georgetown Preparatory School. Bells and tower at Georgetown Preparato...

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Georgetown Preparatory School. Interior of chapel at Georgetown Prepar...

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