Rousby Hall, Solomons Island vic., Calvert County, Maryland
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1750. Overlooks the harbor at Solomon's Landing. Solomon's Landing. A very early type of farm house replaced the first dwelling built about 174... More
Tankard's Rest, Exmore vic., Northampton County, Virginia
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1690. Brick wing dates from 1690. Name Tankard is a corruption of the English name Tancred. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-66. Credit l... More
Plain Dealing, Charlottesville vic., Albemarle County, Virginia
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1783. Related names: Mrs. Robert Hancock. Original Staples patent 1783. Purchased from Thomas Staples in 1787 by Samuel Dyer. He enlarged the h... More
Old Tavern, Piscataway, Prince George's County, Maryland
Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11837-17. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More
Kathleen S. Flanary House, Second Avenue, Clinchport, Scott County, Vi...
Significance: One of the oldest houses in Clinchport, Virginia is the Kathleen S. Flanary House. Occupied by her father, E.T. Sproles, in 1907, the Flanary House is located in the flood plain of the Clinch Riv... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Battle Mountain Sanita...
The name of the overall site and some individual buildings were edited after the initial photographic survey was transmitted. Previously the site was incompletely called Battle Mountain Sanitarium, and this str... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Battle Mountain Sanita...
The name of the overall site and some individual buildings were edited after the initial photographic survey was transmitted. Previously the site was incompletely called Battle Mountain Sanitarium, and this str... More
Daniel P. Higgins House, Higgins Hollow Road, Truro, Barnstable County...
Significance: This is a traditional "one-and-a-half story" Cape Cod. A house with Greek Revival details. It is classified a historic structure in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Survey number: HABS MA-747 B... More
Mary Pache House, 144 Poplar Street, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA
Significance: This one-story house is a contributor to the 1985 Magnolia Historic Preservation District. It contains vernacular Greek Revival design elements, but it is lacking in significant architectural cha... More
Old Stone Church, U.S. Route 11, Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virgin...
Significance: The Old Stone Church was constructed in 1747 to 1749 for the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian congregation led by the Reverend John Craig from its beginnings in 1740 until his death in 1774. The original... More
Storer College, Anthony Hall, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Coun...
Significance: From 1881 to 1955, Anthony Hall served as the main building for Harpers Ferry's Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionaries of the Freewill Baptist Church. In addit... More
Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merri...
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Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merri...
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1928 West Laurel Street (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL
Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the West Tampa National Register Historic District. It is a fairly good example of the frame vernacul... More
1928 West Laurel Street (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL
Significance: This building's architectural and historical significance is derived from its contribution to the West Tampa National Register Historic District. It is a fairly good example of the frame vernacul... More
Mangohick Village house, Mangohick Village, King William County, Virgi...
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Samuel H. Smith House, Salt River vicinity, Goss, Monroe County, MO
Significance: The house and farm illustrate an evolutionary development which spans 140 years. The original two-story, double-pen log house constructed about 1830 was by the late 1840s extended, with the additi... More
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Principal Keeper's Dwelling, Point of Cape H...
Significance: Following the completion of the new Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in 1870, the construction of a dwelling for the lighthouse's third keeper was approved, making use of the surplus of 50,000 bricks at t... More
Kenmore, 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virgi...
Significance: Kenmore was built as a plantation house by Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, soon after they acquired the property in 1752. The original 863-acre plantation extended to the wes... More
Four Mile Tree, Spring Grove vic., Surry County, Virginia
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Edward Carrington House, 66 Williams Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: This brick mansion was the home of General Edward Carrington, a very successful merchant and trader who assembled an outstanding collection of furnishings, including many Chinese things, for this ... More
Hawes House, 506 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virgin...
Significance: This house was at one time the home of Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, who wrote under the pen-name of Marion Harland. The following is a description taken from Marion Harland's Autobiography: "In t... More
Bellmont, State Route 667 vicinity, Dillwyn, Buckingham County, Virgin...
Significance: Frances Benjamin Johnston and HABS both recorded the house known as Bellmont because it was said to have belonged to Archibald Cary and to have been the first dwelling not built with log construct... More
Bellmont, State Route 667 vicinity, Dillwyn, Buckingham County, Virgin...
Significance: Frances Benjamin Johnston and HABS both recorded the house known as Bellmont because it was said to have belonged to Archibald Cary and to have been the first dwelling not built with log construct... More
Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME
Significance: The Samuel P. Grindle House is significant as a mid nineteenth-century, Greek Revival, domestic structure contributing to the cultural landscape of the Town Common in the coastal village of Castin... More
Zane Grey House, West side of Scenic Drive, Lackawaxen, Pike County, P...
Significance: Zane Grey (1872-1939), a noted fisherman and author of novels about the American West, began his professional writing career in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania where he lived from 1906 until 1918. The ho... More
General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...
Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More
General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...
Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More
1907 North Lamar Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL
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Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
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Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
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Prestwould Plantation, U.S. Route 15 vicinity, Clarksville, Mecklenbur...
Significance: Sir Peyton Skipwith VII Baronet moved his family from his "Elm Hill" plantation to the newly completed mansion at "Prestwould" Plantation in 1797. The mansion is situated on land that Sir Peyton ... More
Stone House and Quarters, Berryville vic., Clarke County, Virginia
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Fitzsimons General Hospital, Semi-Infirmary Turbercular Ward, Northwes...
Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Isaac Bell House, 70 Perry Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This large house, built as a summer "cottage" in 1882-1883, is an early work of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. It is a typical example of the Shingle Style, and it is distinguished by the... More
Ash Grove, 8900 Ash Grove Lane, Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia
Significance: "Ash Grove" is said to have been named for an older Fairfax house in England. Some historians state that the nucleus of the structure began as a hunting lodge, built either by Lord Fairfax of Gre... More
Greenway, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia
Significance: Birthplace of John Tyler (1790-1862), U.S. President and Virginia Governor. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS VA-11-23 Building/structure date... More
Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...
Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More
Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...
Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More
Camden, Rappahannock River, Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia
Significance: Camden is one of the most complete and best-preserved Italianate country houses in America. Except for the elaborate upper stage of the tower, which was removed after damage by military action in... More
Camden, Rappahannock River, Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia
Significance: Camden is one of the most complete and best-preserved Italianate country houses in America. Except for the elaborate upper stage of the tower, which was removed after damage by military action in... More
Stietenroth House, 504 South Canal Street, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Significance: The Stietenroth House was constructed circa 1871-74. It was built in the form of a traditional story-and-a-half "Creole Cottage," with gable ends on the sides and a porch across the front of the ... More
Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...
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Chateau-sur-Mer, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "Chateau-sur-Mer," its lodge, entrance arch, and greenhouse were built in 1851-1852 by the Newport contractor Seth C. Bradford for William Shepard Wetmore, merchant in the China trade. His son, Ge... More
Chateau-sur-Mer, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: "Chateau-sur-Mer," its lodge, entrance arch, and greenhouse were built in 1851-1852 by the Newport contractor Seth C. Bradford for William Shepard Wetmore, merchant in the China trade. His son, Ge... More
Harry S. Truman House, 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Jackso...
Photograph #67 was not received. Significance: Home of President Harry S. Truman Survey number: HABS MO-1175 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001650