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[Eskimo building a snow house south of Cape St. David, Cumberland Gulf, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada]

[Eskimo building a snow house south of Cape St. David, Cumberland Gulf...

Man in boat near igloo, mountain in background. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. No. 2078-1927-L.D.L.

[Eskimo boy wearing ragged clothing made from flour sacks, Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada]

[Eskimo boy wearing ragged clothing made from flour sacks, Belcher Isl...

No. 2498-27-L.T.B. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Photo from the Canadian Department of Interior

Ninth Street Northwest, 500 Block (Commercial Buildings), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Ninth Street Northwest, 500 Block (Commercial Buildings), Washington, ...

Survey number: HABS DC-445 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

635 & 637 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

635 & 637 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distr...

Significance: This building is a simple, unadorned brick commercial building of the late-nineteenth century. Permit information indicates that the building existed before 1879. Though there is little that is in... More

Susan Hart Shields House, 1401 Sixteenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Susan Hart Shields House, 1401 Sixteenth Street Northwest, Washington,...

Survey number: HABS DC-536 Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meridian House, 1630 Crescent Place Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Meridian House, 1630 Crescent Place Northwest, Washington, District of...

Survey number: HABS DC-540 Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

645 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

645 D Street, Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of...

Significance: A metal plaque beside the entrance to the Lincoln Inn proclaims the restaurant to be on "the site where Lincoln dined," although this act occurred in an earlier building. The Lincoln is an undisti... More

Twenty-first Street Northwest (1400 Block) (Houses), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Twenty-first Street Northwest (1400 Block) (Houses), Washington, Distr...

Survey number: HABS DC-472 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a flag in front of a house, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a flag in front of a house, New Jersey. Far...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a water tower, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a water tower, New Jersey. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. Circular relief of Summer by Bela L. Pratt. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. Circular relief of Summer by Bela L...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Dinosaur statue in Mountainburg, Arkansas, a thriving community during the pre-Interstate highway days when U.S. Highway 71 was the primary route between Fayetteville in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith  in the Arkansas River Valley the south

Dinosaur statue in Mountainburg, Arkansas, a thriving community during...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This T-rex stands in Mountainburg City Park, along with a brontosaurus. The reptiles were designed and constructed in 1... More

Ford's Theater, 511 Tenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Ford's Theater, 511 Tenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Survey number: HABS DC-82 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000034

Masonic Temple, F & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Masonic Temple, F & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: A post-Civil War fraternal and commercial building whose cornerstone-laying was honored by the presence of the President of the United States. This structure ranks among the most distinguished wo... More

The Lunch Connection  (Commercial Building), 1109 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

The Lunch Connection (Commercial Building), 1109 Pennsylvania Avenue,...

Survey number: HABS DC-547 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Stre...

Significance: Built as West End Branch for Washington Loan & Trust Co., which was founded in 1889 and which built its main bank at 9th & F Sts., NW, in 1890. When Washingotn Loan & Trust was absorbed by Riggs ... More

Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Washington Loan & Trust Company, West End Branch, Seventeenth & G Stre...

Significance: Built as West End Branch for Washington Loan & Trust Co., which was founded in 1889 and which built its main bank at 9th & F Sts., NW, in 1890. When Washingotn Loan & Trust was absorbed by Riggs ... More

812 F Street Northwest (Commercial Building), (previously recorded as 814 F Street, Northwest), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

812 F Street Northwest (Commercial Building), (previously recorded as ...

Significance: A post Civil War building illustrating the early commercial development of F Street. Survey number: HABS DC-213 Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates:... More

600 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

600 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, Distri...

Significance: Built in 1928, these building originally had a drive-in gasoline station on the ground level. At present, a storefront has been installed and the space has been adapted to office use.... (Archit... More

Eliphalet H.  Turner House, 731 Front Avenue Northwest, Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI

Eliphalet H. Turner House, 731 Front Avenue Northwest, Grand Rapids, ...

Significance: A mid-19th century town house of Greek Revival type with an exceptionally fine entrance and a unique stair rail. / Date of construction: 1846. Architect: Gideon Colton. Stone. Rectangular with ... More

Henrietta M. Halliday House, 2234 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Henrietta M. Halliday House, 2234 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Wash...

Significance: This semidetached limestone residence in the Louis XVI manner has two major facades (Massachusetts Avenue and Sheridan Circle). The structure covers most of the fan-shaped lot except for a small ... More

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Winder Building, Seventeenth & F Streets, Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of few pre-Civil War office buildings in Washington and certainly the least altered, the Winder Building was built for William H. Winder who leased most of the space to the U.S. government, an... More

Engine Company Number Two, Firehouse, 719 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Engine Company Number Two, Firehouse, 719 Twelfth Street Northwest, Wa...

Significance: Interesting example of firehouse design from the early 20th Century. Survey number: HABS DC-350

Selfridge Field, Building No. 1050, Northwest corner of Doolittle Avenue & D Street; Harrison Township, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 1050, Northwest corner of Doolittle Aven...

Significance: Building No. 1050 is a blast proof and electromagnetic-shielded structure that served as the command node of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) regional launch and interceptor center p... More

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141 & San Miguel River, Naturita, Montrose County, CO

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, 3 miles Northwest...

Significance: From the early 1940s to the end of the Cold War, the mill played a prominent role in national and international events related initially to the U.S. Army's WWII Manhattan Project, and later to the... More

U.S. Military Academy, West Academic Building, Northwest corner of Brewerton Roads, West Point, Orange County, NY

U.S. Military Academy, West Academic Building, Northwest corner of Bre...

Significance: The West Academic Building is the largest surviving 19th century building at the Academy. It was the first of the modern academic buildings at the Academy and foreshadowed the great architectural ... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 20, Propeller Laboratory, Northwest corner of Seventh & E Streets, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 20, Propeller Labora...

Significance: Built incrementally from 1927 until 1942, this structure has specialized construction designed to accommodate the testing of propellers and drive motors as well as containing space for supporting ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...

Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More

First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Twenty-Seventh Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Twenty-Seventh Street Northwest, W...

Significance: This Church is the first Church of the Baptist denomination in Georgetown. It was founded in 1862 by former slave. Survey number: HABS DC-241 Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Power House, Northwest Corner of East Harlow Avenue & North Page Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Power House, Northwest Corner of East Har...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AR Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: This detached residence is a good example of Louis XV exterior detailing. As reputedly stipulated by the Townsends, he present building incorporates parts of an earlier home (apparently only a po... More

2817 N Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

2817 N Street Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Survey number: HABS DC-157 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's o... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capitol Beltway (I-495), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capitol Beltway (I-495), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

Grafton Tyler Double House, 1314 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Grafton Tyler Double House, 1314 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This double mansarded residence is an example of a particularly formal treatment of a mid-Victorian dwelling. It is conceived sculpturally with the heavy hood molds, cornice and mansard carried a... More

Oak Hill Cemetery, Gatehouse, 3001 R Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Oak Hill Cemetery, Gatehouse, 3001 R Street Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Significance: This handsome brick Victorian building forms an impressive entry to the spacious wooded grounds of Oak Hill Cemetery. Survey number: HABS DC-249 Building/structure dates: 1850-1853 Initial Cons... More

Z. D. Gilman's Drug Store, 627 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Z. D. Gilman's Drug Store, 627 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washingt...

Significance: This small Italianate commercial building is a fine example of pre-Civil War commercial Washington architecture. From 1843 through 1965, this site bore the name of Gilman's Drugstore, thus making... More

Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District o...

Significance: 3017 O Street is a handsome example of a large free-standing Federal house. Documents as early as 1818 refer to the house as a "mansion." It is one of the few houses in Georgetown that still reta... More

Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Crawford-Cassin House, 3017 O Street Northwest, Washington, District o...

Significance: 3017 O Street is a handsome example of a large free-standing Federal house. Documents as early as 1818 refer to the house as a "mansion." It is one of the few houses in Georgetown that still reta... More

Tudor Place Tulip Poplar, 1644 31st Street, Northwest, Tudor Place, Southeast corner of south lawn, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Tudor Place Tulip Poplar, 1644 31st Street, Northwest, Tudor Place, So...

See also HABS DC-97 for related documentation. Significance: The Tudor Place Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is significant due to its association with the Peter family and their development of the Tudor... More

National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...

Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More

National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

National Archives, Constitution Avenue, between Seventh & Ninth Street...

Significance: Serves as central archival repository of most important United States documents. Survey number: HABS DC-296 Building/structure dates: 1931-1937 Initial Construction National Register of Histor... More

Robert P.  Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More

Robert P.  Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More

McCleery House, 1068 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

McCleery House, 1068 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washington, District ...

1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: A Georgetown residence of about 1800 with many fine interior details, reputedly designed by James Hoban. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Significance: Built in the early 1870's by the Reverend John Henry Grogan, an itinerant Methodist minister, this house was of mortise and tenon construction. Known as the Grogan Home Place and owned by the Grog... More

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Significance: Built in the early 1870's by the Reverend John Henry Grogan, an itinerant Methodist minister, this house was of mortise and tenon construction. Known as the Grogan Home Place and owned by the Grog... More

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Significance: Built in the early 1870's by the Reverend John Henry Grogan, an itinerant Methodist minister, this house was of mortise and tenon construction. Known as the Grogan Home Place and owned by the Grog... More

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Grogan House, Northwest Side County Road, Middleton, Elbert County, GA

Significance: Built in the early 1870's by the Reverend John Henry Grogan, an itinerant Methodist minister, this house was of mortise and tenon construction. Known as the Grogan Home Place and owned by the Grog... More

Hillyer Place, Between Q & R & Twentieth & Twenty-first Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Hillyer Place, Between Q & R & Twentieth & Twenty-first Streets Northw...

Significance: Relatively undisturbed block of late 19th century rowhouses, presenting a well-maintained period streetscape. #2030 was the home of Washington architect Joseph Hornblower. Street named for Curti... More

1300-1322 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest (Houses), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1300-1322 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest (Houses), Washington, District...

Survey number: HABS DC-527 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washingt...

Significance: For many years served as city hall for the District of Columbia and later served as U.S. courthouse and D.C. Superior Court. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-47 Sur... More

District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

District of Columbia City Hall, 451 Indiana Avenue Northwest, Washingt...

Significance: For many years served as city hall for the District of Columbia and later served as U.S. courthouse and D.C. Superior Court. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-47 Sur... More

Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G & Eleventh Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G & Eleventh Streets Northwest, W...

Survey number: HABS DC-310 Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Theater, Northwest Corner of East McAfee Avenue & South Page Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Theater, Northwest Corner of East McAfee ...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-BZ Building/structure dates: 1947 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Lighthouse, Northwest corner of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Lighthouse, Northwest corner of San ...

See also HAER No. PR-23. Survey number: HABS PR-48-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000930

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Twelfth Street YMCA Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: Designed for the black community by a black architect, W. Sidney Pittman, the costly and well-equipped YMCA became a vital community center. Organizations such as the NAACP, Negro Medical Aid Soci... More

Samuel Probst Farm, Summer Kitchen, Farrandsville Road, approximately 2.1 miles Northwest of Jay Street Bridge, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA

Samuel Probst Farm, Summer Kitchen, Farrandsville Road, approximately ...

Photo caption pages include a site plan & written data includes floor plans. Significance: As a domestic outbuilding constructed ca. 1916, this summer kitchen contributes to the character of the Samuel Probst F... More

S. Kann & Sons, Market Space, between Seventh & Eighth Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

S. Kann & Sons, Market Space, between Seventh & Eighth Streets, Northw...

Significance: At one time, the second largest department store in Washington. Block also site of the beginnings of Saks Company as well as Woodward and Lothrop. Housed in four principle buildings of interesti... More

Edward H. Everett House, 1606 Twenty-third Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Edward H. Everett House, 1606 Twenty-third Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This limestone structure reflects the more eclectic variations which influenced Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism. With its size and setting on 23rd Street, the building takes visual command of the easter... More

Zalmon Richards House, 1301 Corcoran Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Zalmon Richards House, 1301 Corcoran Street Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Significance: Home of Zalmon Richards, who was an important 19th century educator, first president of the National Teachers' Association (which became the National Education Association), instrumental in establ... More

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S. HIghway 278 & State Route 46, Bluffton, Beaufort County, SC

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S...

Significance: Exceptional example of antebellum Gothic Revival residential architecture. Believed to have been constructed for Dr. John Kirk and his wife Carolina c. 1858-60. Remained unfinished until c. 1946. ... More

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S. HIghway 278 & State Route 46, Bluffton, Beaufort County, SC

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S...

Significance: Exceptional example of antebellum Gothic Revival residential architecture. Believed to have been constructed for Dr. John Kirk and his wife Carolina c. 1858-60. Remained unfinished until c. 1946. ... More

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S. HIghway 278 & State Route 46, Bluffton, Beaufort County, SC

Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S...

Significance: Exceptional example of antebellum Gothic Revival residential architecture. Believed to have been constructed for Dr. John Kirk and his wife Carolina c. 1858-60. Remained unfinished until c. 1946. ... More

St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with Horsehead Road, Baden, Prince George's County, MD

St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with...

Significance: St. Paul's at Baden is the oldest church in Prince George's County, and one of only six churches extant from the colonial period. In May of 1692, the Governor's Council and the Maryland Assembly ... More

Citizen's State Bank, Northwest corner of Main & Seminole Streets, Marble City, Sequoyah County, OK

Citizen's State Bank, Northwest corner of Main & Seminole Streets, Mar...

Significance: The vernacular commercial building built during Marble City's boom years is the most pretentious building in the town, having rock-faced stone walls. An unusual front entrance was built into the ... More

Kosai Farm, B Street north of Northwest Twenty-ninth Street, Auburn, King County, WA

Kosai Farm, B Street north of Northwest Twenty-ninth Street, Auburn, K...

Significance: Participation by Japanese immigrants in the economic, cultural and political life of the Pacific Northwest in the early twentieth century is part of a larger pattern of relocation, settlement and ... More

920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Distri...

Significance: The Schwartz Building at 920 F Street, NW was designed in 1911 by local architect Samuel R. Turner, and is a significant example of the Federal Revival style popular in Washington commercial archi... More

920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, District of Columbia, DC

920-926 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Distri...

Significance: The Schwartz Building at 920 F Street, NW was designed in 1911 by local architect Samuel R. Turner, and is a significant example of the Federal Revival style popular in Washington commercial archi... More

Apartment Building, Nineteenth & Vernon Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Apartment Building, Nineteenth & Vernon Streets Northwest, Washington,...

Survey number: HABS DC-425 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vigilant Firehouse, 1066 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Vigilant Firehouse, 1066 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: One of the eldest firehouses standing in the District of Columbia. Started as a private fire company in 1817, the Vigilants built this structure on 10 August 1844 as the second firehouse on the s... More

Brickyard Hill House, 3134 South Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Brickyard Hill House, 3134 South Street Northwest, Washington, Distric...

Significance: A well preserved detached frame house of early date (ca. 1800) now very rare in the Waterfront district. Owned and probably built by the Peter family. Survey number: HABS DC-158 Building/struc... More

Georgetown University, Old North Building, Thirty-Seventh & O Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Georgetown University, Old North Building, Thirty-Seventh & O Streets ...

Significance: Oldest building remaining on Georgetown University Campus. Survey number: HABS DC-170

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...

Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...

Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

John R. McLean House, 1500 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of...

Survey number: HABS DC-24 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished

Francis Scott Key House, 3518 M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Francis Scott Key House, 3518 M Street Northwest, Washington, District...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS DC-23 Building/structure dates: ca. 1814 Initial Construction

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, H...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N243 Survey number: HABS WV-229-A

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, H...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N243 Survey number: HABS WV-229-A

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, H...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N243 Survey number: HABS WV-229-A

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

John G. Wilson Building, Privy, Northwest side of Shenandoah Street, H...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N243 Survey number: HABS WV-229-A

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