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Whittinsville  Brick Mill, 56 Douglas Road, Northbridge, Worcester County, MA

Whittinsville Brick Mill, 56 Douglas Road, Northbridge, Worcester Cou...

Significance: This is the earliest of 3 cotton manufacturing complexes found in this prototypical New England Mill village. It was built in 1826 by Col. Paul Whitin & Sons and is one of the most significant ex... More

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord...

Significance: In service from 1888-1952, is the last structure of its kind in the U.S. still containing its original gasholder. Similar structures were a common feature in the urban areas of New England and upp... More

Boston & Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany Railroad on Marion Street, Natick, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Alba...

Significance: The Marion Street Bridge is one of only twelve known surviving double-intersection Warren pony trusses in New England. It was one of many bridges manufactured and erected for the Boston & Albany ... More

Boston & Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany Railroad on Marion Street, Natick, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Albany Railroad, Marion Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Alba...

Significance: The Marion Street Bridge is one of only twelve known surviving double-intersection Warren pony trusses in New England. It was one of many bridges manufactured and erected for the Boston & Albany ... More

Boston & Albany Railroad, Weston Road Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany Railroad on Weston Road, Wellesley, Norfolk County, MA

Boston & Albany Railroad, Weston Road Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany...

Significance: The Weston Road Bridge is the oldest of twelve known surviving double-intersection Warren pony truss bridges in New England. It was one of many bridges manufactured and erected for the Boston & A... More

Boston & Albany Railroad, Weston Road Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany Railroad on Weston Road, Wellesley, Norfolk County, MA

Boston & Albany Railroad, Weston Road Bridge, Spanning Boston & Albany...

Significance: The Weston Road Bridge is the oldest of twelve known surviving double-intersection Warren pony truss bridges in New England. It was one of many bridges manufactured and erected for the Boston & A... More

Brick Block, Dutton Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Brick Block, Dutton Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The early, typical boardinghouse was erected during Lowell's rapid development as the nation's first great manufacturing center that began in the early 19th century. The structure was a part of t... More

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry Road, Shelburne, Franklin County, MA

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry ...

Significance: The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William Douglas's 1878 patent for a wrought-rion lenticular truss bridge. It is one of approximately fifty lenticular ... More

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry Road, Shelburne, Franklin County, MA

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry ...

Significance: The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William Douglas's 1878 patent for a wrought-rion lenticular truss bridge. It is one of approximately fifty lenticular ... More

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry Road, Shelburne, Franklin County, MA

Bardwell's Ferry Bridge, Spanning Deerfield River on Bardwell's Ferry ...

Significance: The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William Douglas's 1878 patent for a wrought-rion lenticular truss bridge. It is one of approximately fifty lenticular ... More

"Taking the stump" or Stephen in search of his mother

"Taking the stump" or Stephen in search of his mother

A satire on Douglas's July 1860 campaign tour of upstate New York and New England. (See also "Stephen Finding His Mother," no. 1860-35.) Here a double-entendre in the use of the word "stump," playing on its use... More

Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill Number 3, 100 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill Number 3, 100 North Mohawk Street,...

Photogrammetric images were incorporated into the HABS/HAER collections in the summers of 1985 and 1986. Since the glass photogrammetric plates are not reproducible except with special permission, a reference p... More

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, ...

Significance: St. Anne Rectory (1895) has architectural significance as an early and well-preserved example of the Colonial Revival style, a popular movement at the turn of the century because of its connotatio... More

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, ...

Significance: St. Anne Rectory (1895) has architectural significance as an early and well-preserved example of the Colonial Revival style, a popular movement at the turn of the century because of its connotatio... More

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

St. Anne Rectory, 515 South Main Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, ...

Significance: St. Anne Rectory (1895) has architectural significance as an early and well-preserved example of the Colonial Revival style, a popular movement at the turn of the century because of its connotatio... More

Laroque Bridge, Spanning New Haven River at State Route 116, Bristol, Addison County, VT

Laroque Bridge, Spanning New Haven River at State Route 116, Bristol, ...

Significance: This bridge is typical of the engineering practice of the early 20th Century. By that time, two basic truss designs Warren and Pratt had replaced the variety of types which characterized the 19th... More

Jonathan Eames House, Union Avenue (moved to Prospect Street), Framingham, Middlesex County, MA

Jonathan Eames House, Union Avenue (moved to Prospect Street), Framing...

Significance: An eighteenth-century example of New England frame house (salt-box) growing by accretion, and in step with successive generations of the Eames family, over a period of two hundred and forty-eight ... More

Allendale Mill, 494 Woonasquatucket Avenue, Centerdale, Providence County, RI

Allendale Mill, 494 Woonasquatucket Avenue, Centerdale, Providence Cou...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Allendale Mill was built in 1822 by Zachariah Allen for the manufacture of... More

Windmill at Water Mill, Montauk Highway & Halsey Lane, Water Mill, Suffolk County, NY

Windmill at Water Mill, Montauk Highway & Halsey Lane, Water Mill, Suf...

Significance: The Windmill at Water Mill is one of 11 extant late 18th and early 19th century wind-driven gristmills on eastern Long Island; it served the milling needs of local farmers when eastern Long Island... More

Harris Mill, Main & Prospect Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Harris Mill, Main & Prospect Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The earliest surviving woolen mill in the village, it was built by Milan Harri... More

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI

Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Meetinghouse of the First Baptist Society, Pompey, Delphi Falls, Onondaga County, NY

Meetinghouse of the First Baptist Society, Pompey, Delphi Falls, Onond...

Significance: The oldest church remaining in Onondaga County, built in 1815-1818. This is a typical post-Colonial meeting house of the New England type, substantially in its original state. Unprocessed Field n... More

John Adams Birthplace, 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

John Adams Birthplace, 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

Significance: This house was the original homestead of the Adams family and the birthplace of John Adams. The original portion of the house exhibits typical New England saltbox architecture. Unprocessed Field... More

First Congregational Church of Blandford, North Street, Blandford, Hampden County, MA

First Congregational Church of Blandford, North Street, Blandford, Ham...

Significance: A well preserved example of Federal style New England Meetinghouse. It is a distinctive example of the work of Isaac Damon, a prominent Federal period architect/builder who worked primarily in th... More

First Congregational Church of Blandford, North Street, Blandford, Hampden County, MA

First Congregational Church of Blandford, North Street, Blandford, Ham...

Significance: A well preserved example of Federal style New England Meetinghouse. It is a distinctive example of the work of Isaac Damon, a prominent Federal period architect/builder who worked primarily in th... More

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This building is the oldest existing mill in Fall River. It was built in 1847... More

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This building is the oldest existing mill in Fall River. It was built in 1847... More

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Metacomet Mill, Davol & Anawan Streets, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This building is the oldest existing mill in Fall River. It was built in 1847... More

Aiken Street Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Aiken Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Aiken Street Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Aiken Street, Lowell,...

Significance: The Aiken Street Bridge is the longest lenticular bridge surviving in the United States, and is the only remaining example having more than three spans. It is the second oldest of the eight lenti... More

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning South Branch of Raritan River, Neshanic Station, Somerset County, NJ

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning So...

Significance: Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge is significant because it was built by a prominent 19th century bridge building company; the lenticular truss, of which it is an example, is an unusual tru... More

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning South Branch of Raritan River, Neshanic Station, Somerset County, NJ

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning So...

Significance: Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge is significant because it was built by a prominent 19th century bridge building company; the lenticular truss, of which it is an example, is an unusual tru... More

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning South Branch of Raritan River, Neshanic Station, Somerset County, NJ

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning So...

Significance: Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge is significant because it was built by a prominent 19th century bridge building company; the lenticular truss, of which it is an example, is an unusual tru... More

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning South Branch of Raritan River, Neshanic Station, Somerset County, NJ

Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge, State Route 567, spanning So...

Significance: Neshanic Station Lenticular Truss Bridge is significant because it was built by a prominent 19th century bridge building company; the lenticular truss, of which it is an example, is an unusual tru... More

Lower Rollstone Street Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Rollstone Street, Fitchburg, Worcester County, MA

Lower Rollstone Street Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Rollstone Stre...

Significance: The (Lower) Rollstone Street Bridge is one of only five known surviving Parker patent trusses in the United States, and the oldest of the three located in Massachusetts. It is also one of the two... More

Blakeslee House, 1211 Barnes Road, Wallingford, New Haven County, CT

Blakeslee House, 1211 Barnes Road, Wallingford, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Blakeslee House is significant as a relatively well-preserved example of 18th-century New England domestic architecture. Its post-and-beam framing, central-chimney plan, clapboarded exterior,... More

Winter Street Church, 880 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County, ME

Winter Street Church, 880 Washington Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County, M...

Significance: This wooden church, a vernacular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style, is one of the finest examples of American Gothic Revival church architecture surviving in New England today. Survey n... More

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More

Tuttle Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road, Lee, Berkshire County, MA

Tuttle Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road, Lee, Ber...

Significance: The Tuttle Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William O. Douglas's 1885 patent, which he claimed improved upon his earlier (1878) patent for a lenticular truss bridge. The Tu... More

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu Coun...

Significance: The house is credited as the oldest frame house in the Hawaiian Islands, built during the reign of King Kamehameha II. It gains additional distinction from the fact that it represents one of the... More

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsbu...

Significance: This structure was first built in 1802, "new-modeled" with Gothic exterior detailing added when the pews were replaced, the gallery removed, and the entry relocated. New windows were added in 1909... More

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County, NH

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County,...

Significance: The Mechanic Street Bridge is an excellent example of the bridge truss developed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. The design features a multiple kingpost truss with l... More

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County, NH

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County,...

Significance: The Mechanic Street Bridge is an excellent example of the bridge truss developed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. The design features a multiple kingpost truss with l... More

Hampton Lillibridge House, No. 2, 312 East Bryan Street (demolished), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Hampton Lillibridge House, No. 2, 312 East Bryan Street (demolished), ...

Significance: This building, together with the adjacent building (Lillibridge House No. 1, HABS-GA-1185) are structures unique in Savannah in that the gambrel roof is essentially a New England form. The buildin... More

Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co.

Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. L...

C3414A2 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire ...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The mill was built in 1847 and was operated continuously as a woolen textile m... More

Coleman Bridge, Spanning Phelps Brook, on Windsor Bush Road, at eastern edge of  Windsor State Forest, Windsor, Berkshire County, MA

Coleman Bridge, Spanning Phelps Brook, on Windsor Bush Road, at easter...

Significance: In 1893 Charles H. Ball, a mechanic and inventor from East Windsor, Massachusetts, patented a design for a small truss bridge constructed of iron pipes, which he described as "a strong, cheap brid... More

Hudson Library & Historical Society, 49 East Main Street, Hudson, Summit County, OH

Hudson Library & Historical Society, 49 East Main Street, Hudson, Summ...

Significance: Built in 1832 by Fredrick Baldwin, one of Hudson's earliest merchants. He had New England journeymen, imported to work on Western Reserve Academy buildings, construct his house of black walnut. On... More

First Congregational Church, South Main & West Main Streets, Vermontville, Eaton County, MI

First Congregational Church, South Main & West Main Streets, Vermontvi...

Significance: The First Congregational Church of Vermontville was constructed during the Civil War and dedicated on November 30, 1864. It was built to meet the needs of the Union Colony, a religiously bonded g... More

Cheshire Mills Company Boarding House, Main Street, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Cheshire Mills Company Boarding House, Main Street, Harrisville, Chesh...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This building, constructed ca. 1860, served as a residence for single mill ope... More

Cheshire Mills Company Boarding House, Main Street, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Cheshire Mills Company Boarding House, Main Street, Harrisville, Chesh...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This building, constructed ca. 1860, served as a residence for single mill ope... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of entrance drive, .2 mile south of Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of ent...

Significance: The Officer's Quarters exterior retains its integrity of location, setting, materials, and workmanship. Its construction was associated with the installation of Fort Rodman of Endicott Period bat... More

American Woolen Company, East Canal Street, Winooski, Chittenden County, VT

American Woolen Company, East Canal Street, Winooski, Chittenden Count...

Significance: The Champlain Mill is a good representative example of late nineteenth century New England mill architecture. The structure is a four-story brick building, with slightly arched windows and corbel... More

Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI

Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Lippitt Mill has continuously produced cotton textiles since it began oper... More

Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI

Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Lippitt Mill has continuously produced cotton textiles since it began oper... More

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Significance: Graniteville Mill was one of the largest mills in the South during the antebellum period. The original mill, canal, school house, and a number of original Gothic Revival houses are still extant a... More

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Significance: Graniteville Mill was one of the largest mills in the South during the antebellum period. The original mill, canal, school house, and a number of original Gothic Revival houses are still extant a... More

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Significance: Graniteville Mill was one of the largest mills in the South during the antebellum period. The original mill, canal, school house, and a number of original Gothic Revival houses are still extant a... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Canal Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Ca...

Significance: Although much of the paper mill complex is not longer extant, the surviving structures represent the chronology of several important New England paper manufacturing companies, from the pioneering ... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Orthodox Congregational Church, Central & Church Streets, Manchester, Essex County, MA

Orthodox Congregational Church, Central & Church Streets, Manchester, ...

Significance: Copied from the Country Builder's Assistant, America's first architectural treatise, this classical form became the archetype of early American ecclesiastical architectural practices. Tall steepl... More

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guar...

Significance: The station house was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a si... More

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence & East Providence, Providence, Providence County, RI

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...

Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The  New-England psalm-singer, or, American chorister containing a number of psalm-tunes, anthems, and canons : in four and five parts : (never before published)

The New-England psalm-singer, or, American chorister containing a num...

composed by William Billings ... (statement of responsibility) Includes index. RISM, A/I/1, B 2646 (citation/reference)

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula : multis in locis emendata

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula : multis in ...

Covers New England and Middle Atlantic region southward to Hampton Roads. Shows colony names, colonial town names, and names of Amerindian tribes. Relief shown pictorially. Meridians numbered 297 to 312 from we... More

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...

Scale ca. 1:900,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. "This is a copy of the first map engraved in New England. Taken from one in Hubbard's Narrative of the t... More

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on the river Ohio.

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on...

Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241 LC maps of North America, 1750-1789, 707 Av... More

Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle Yorck, et Pensilvanie.

Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle Yorck, et Pensilvanie.

Covers the area from Penobscot Bay to Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie. Relief shown pictorially. Shows Indian tribal territory. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tom. XIV. in 4⁰, no. 9. Tome 14. in 8⁰, page 97"-- In... More

[Congressional Resolve, Jan. 30, 1776, to assist New England in procuring arms]

[Congressional Resolve, Jan. 30, 1776, to assist New England in procur...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Shelf.

A New England kitchen. A hundred years ago / H. W. P.

A New England kitchen. A hundred years ago / H. W. P.

Image shows women, children and a man working at various activities in a colonial-era kitchen. Copyright by H. W. Pierce.

The delivery room / Boston Photogravure Co.

The delivery room / Boston Photogravure Co.

Print shows the Woburn (Mass.) Public Library delivery room. Illus. in: New England Magazine, an illustrated monthly, new series vol. 1, no. 6. Boston : New England Magazine Company, Feb.1890, p. 620.

Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock ...

Title from jacket. "82" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068112. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Embarkation of New England troops under Governor Pepperell during the expedition against Louisburg, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia

Embarkation of New England troops under Governor Pepperell during the ...

Reproduction of painting by Charles Delort. Public domain photograph - engraving of a sailing ship, sea battle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker inspects American Red Cross activities in England. The Secretary was very much interested in watching the men adjusting their cumbersome kits, and suggested to one of the sergeants that he would like to try one of them on himself. Colonel Samuel Jones, was an interested spectator as Mr. Baker, in the midst of a group of the enlisted men, lifted up a full pack and adjusted it on his shoulders

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker inspects American Red Cross activitie...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Eng. Group title: General, Eng. Data: Pacific Div. 10/28/18. New England Div.... More

The Red Cross day in London. The Queen gave a pig from the royal farm at Windsor Castle as part of her contribution to the annual Red Cross drive in London. The pig was exhibited in Trafalgar Square, and was finally sold at auction for 1600 dollars

The Red Cross day in London. The Queen gave a pig from the royal farm ...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Red Cross Drive. Eng. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Data: Pa. Central, Atlantic, Lake, Potomac, S.W., Mt., N.W., Pacific, Ne... More

New England group George U. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

New England group George U. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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12500 Swirl Lane (House), Bowie, Prince George's County, MD

12500 Swirl Lane (House), Bowie, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The house at 12500 Swirl Lane is a representative example of the four-bedroom variation of The Colonial model constructed at Belair. It occupies a high-profile corner lot in the Somerset section ... More

Federal art in New England

Federal art in New England

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of WPA art at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass., showing map of New England. Date stamped on verso: Jul 1 1939. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Connecticut

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England hurricane. Chicken house between Worcester and Amherst, Massachusetts

New England hurricane. Chicken house between Worcester and Amherst, Ma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Vestibule II

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Church St. facade from left, sharp

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Wall St. facade, sharp II

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, water way, maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, Unite... More

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Wall St. faccade, sharp I

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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