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Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before putting it into service

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before pu...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Detail of the prisoners numbers at the Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts

Detail of the prisoners numbers at the Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Mas...

The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the Jews that lost their lives in the Holocaust during World War II, located in Boston, Massachusetts.Designed by Stanley Saitowitz and erected in 1... More

A classic c. 1800 New England "saltbox"-style house at Pettengill Farm, a nineteenth-century saltwater farm on the estuary of the Harraseeket River, near Freeport, Maine

A classic c. 1800 New England "saltbox"-style house at Pettengill Farm...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The estate's 140 acres, now owned by the Freeport Historical Society, include fields and woods, antique apple orchards, and the salt m... More

Mailbox, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island; Wickford, Rhode Island; Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island

Mailbox, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island; Wickford, Rhode Island; Pow Wow,...

Index data: 1-4, Mailbox at Bonnet Shores; 5-7, Wickford; 8-10, Crafts stand, van had Massachusetts license plates; 11-16, Craft stands; 17-20, Visitors photograph Indian children from New Mexico and show them ... More

Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island, Carl Fleischhauer

Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island, Carl Fleischhauer

Index data: 1-2, The drum with dancers in background; 3-4, Dance with audience. Man with beaded black costume is Paul Bullock; 6-7, Dance; 8-9, Two Indians (Micmac is a New England tribe); 10-15, Dancers; 16-19... More

Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main Street, Avon, Hartford County, CT

Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main Street, Avon, Hartford County,...

Significance: The Avon Congregational Church Meeting House, built in 1819, is considered to be among the finest works of skilled local architect/builder David Hoadley. He designed numerous churches and residenc... More

Curtis Freewill Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Curtis Freewill Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: The Curtis Freewill Baptist Church served as both a religious building for students of Storer College and as its own congregational church for African American residents of Harpers Ferry and nearb... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abutting Choate Bridge), Ipswich, Essex County, MA

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abut...

Significance: Now part of the Ross Tavern site, the Proctor House represents early New England architectural expression. Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings cites "the cyma molded overhanging girt, the crease mol... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More

Cabot Station Electric Generating Plant, Gantry Crane, Montague City Road, Turners Falls vicinity, Montague, Franklin County, MA

Cabot Station Electric Generating Plant, Gantry Crane, Montague City R...

Significance: The gantry crane is an integral part of Cabot Station, an early and substantial example of American hydroelectric engineering. When built, the plant as the largest hydroelectric facility in New E... More

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Clinton Mill is typical of the large stone cotton textile mills of Rhode I... More

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County, ME

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County...

Significance: This is the third "Gothick" church built in New England and one of the earliest built in America. Christ Church played a pioneering role, introducing a new architectural style to America. This sty... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Song of New England - Public domain American sheet music

Song of New England - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

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)

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