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St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J suppl. (1906). "684" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09034. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Main banking room, Second National Bank, Boston, Massachusetts.]

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OWEN, F.D., PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS CUSTODIAN OF THE FLAGS, LEFT,...

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Hammerstein Theatre, New York City

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Public Buildings and Churches and Misc., Georgetown, Georgetown County...

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Interior parlor, Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama

Sturdivant Hall, also known as the Watts-Parkman-Gillman Home, is a historic Greek Revival mansion and house museum in Selma, Alabama. Completed in 1856, it was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Colonel Edward T.... More

Belmont, Belmont Boulevard & Wedgewood, Nashville, Davidson County, TN

Significance: Built in 1850 by Col. J.A.S. Acklen and his wife, Adelicia, Belmont was considered at that time to be one of the finest private residences in the south. Designed in the manner of an Italian Renai... More

R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson Count...

Significance: Building is architecturally significant as a particularly grand local example of a Beaux-Arts residence. Its original owner, R.A. Long, symbolized the late-19th century ideal of coming from a poor... More

John Bartram House & Garden, House, 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard,...

Significance: The John Bartram House was the sole residence of John Bartram (1699-1777), the well-known early American botanist, explorer, and plant collector between 1731 and his death. William Bartram (1739-... More

John Bartram House & Garden, House, 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard,...

Wellesley Town Hall, 525 Washington Street, Wellesley, Norfolk County,...

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Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Monroe County Courthouse, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, Monroe Count...

Significance: Designed by the locally noted architect J. Foster Warner, this third Monroe County Courthouse is reputed to be the first public building in western New York in the Renaissance Revival style. It is... More

Hollyhock House, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co...

See also HABS CA-1938 drawing sheet 4 of 5 for "Hilltop Plot Plan." Structure has been referred to stylistically as "Mayan Eclectic." Significance: The Hollyhock House was considered by Frank Lloyd Wright to be... More

Hamilton Grange, (Moved From) 237 West 141 Street to 141st Street & Am...

Significance: From the NHL nomination: Built in 1801-02, Hamilton Grange was the only home Alexander Hamilton owned and here he lived from 1802 until his death on July 11, 1804. Although not of the Revolutionar... More

Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Los An...

Significance: Designed by noted architect Bertram G. Goodhue, in 1924, the Los Angeles Public Library shows influences from the beaux-arts, the art deco idiom of the time, and of the California missions. Along... More

Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Los An...

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Vir...

See also HALS VA-60 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS VA-339 Building/structure dates: 1771 Initial Construction

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

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, New York Count...

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Henry W. Longfellow Place, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Middlesex Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27 Survey number: HABS MA-169 Building/structure dates: 1759 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1793 Subsequent Work Building/struct... More

Robinson-Aiken House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston Coun...

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Robinson-Aiken House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston Coun...

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Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...

Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More

Stephen Hopkins House, 12 Hopkins Street, Providence, Providence Count...

Significance: Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Chancellor of Brown University, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Indepen... More

Samuel Cupples House, 3673 West Pine Boulevard, Saint Louis, Independe...

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Bethany College, "Old Main" Building, Route 67, Bethany, Brooke County...

Significance: "Old Main" at Bethany College is an outstanding example of a single building designed to accommodate the entire range of college functions and to stand as an imposing piece of architecture on its ... More

Granite Paper Mill, 6900 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, S...

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St. Vincent's Hospital, Elizabeth Seton Building, 151-167 West Elevent...

Significance: St. Vincent's Hospital, which includes this building, was founded in 1849 by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. It is the third oldest, and first Catholic, hospital in the city. This i... More

New Whatcom City Hall, 121 Prospect Street, Bellingham, Whatcom County...

Significance: The New Whatcom City Hall building is historically significant as a symbol of its community's past and the ideas, actions and philosophies of its builders. It is architecturally significant as on... More

Iolani Palace, King & Richards Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Significance: Residence of the last two royal rulers of Hawaii. Scene of transfer of government to the United States in 1898. From 1898 to 1960s, the palace served as the capitol of Hawaii. When built, the p... More

St. Thomas Reformed Church, Nye Gade 4B, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas,...

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J. B. Watkins Land Company, 1047 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Dougl...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS KS-50 Building/structure dates: ca. 1885- 1888 Initial Construction

East India Marine Hall, 161 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Nineteenth century public museum building with large hall on second floor. Survey number: HABS MA-798

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Shaker Meetinghouse, South side of Village Road, North of U.S. Route 6...

Survey number: HABS KY-78 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000353

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

Market Hall, 188 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

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Ronald-Brennan House, 631 South Fifth Street, Louisville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Ronald-Brennan House, a good example of Italianate design, has been carefully preserved by the Brennan family, who have left the house with its excellent late 19th century and early 20th centu... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

Derby House, 168 Derby Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Presently owned by the National Park Service, the house is administered by a superintendent with offices in the Custom House, 178 Derby Street. It functions as a completely furnished early Americ... More

Washington Place, 320 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Honolulu Count...

Significance: Washington Place, built between 1841 and 1847, has an eclectic mix of Greek Revival and indigenous tropical architectural components. The original central portion is a good example of the classica... More

Hegeler Carus Mansion, 1307 Seventh Street, La Salle, La Salle County,...

Significance: The Hegeler Carus Mansion, constructed in 1874-76, is a seven level Second Empire Style residence in La Salle, Illinois, approximately six blocks north of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, a Nation... More

Louisana State Capitol, North Boulevard, Saint Philip, America & Front...

Significance: The Old Louisiana State Capitol is a sham castle, belonging to the early picturesque, or romantic, phase of the Gothic Revival. It represents the castle type, which rarely occurred in the America... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

Decatur House, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 748 Jackson P...

Significance: Decatur is unique in this country: the work of a great architect Benjamin H. Latrobe, built for a great American naval commander Commodore Stephen Decatur, preserved the original drawings. This is... More

Carter's Grove, U.S. Route 60 vicinity, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Vi...

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-75. Significance: Carter's Grove was built by Carter Burwell, grandson of Robert "King" Carter, between 1749 and 1756. David Minetree, a Williamsburg brick mason,... More

Magnolia Mound, 2161 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Pa...

Significance: Magnolia Mound is one of the few extant examples of a late eighteenth century settler's house and one of the earliest surviving structures in the Baton Rouge vicinity. Built in the late 1790s on ... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, 500 Chestnut Street, Phi...

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Interior of armory, U.S. Naval Academy, Anapolis [sic], Md.

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The Royal Gallery House of Lords, [interior, London, England]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Parliament.

LOEW'S PALACE THEATRE - Public domain historic place photograph

A black and white photo of a long hallway, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Har... More

National Museum, Washington, D.C., interior

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Lanza Motors Co., interior - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Library of Congress (John Adams Building). North reading room, Library...

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Dalecarlia Reservoir. Isle in fellering room, Dalecarlia Reservoir I

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Public Buildings and Churches and Misc., Georgetown, Georgetown County...

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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Powell Room

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Classic waiting room inside the historic Utica New York, train station...

The station became a union station a year later the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad moved their services to the riverside facility as well. Amtrak passengers... More

Fort Hill, Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, SC

Significance: Fort Hill was the home of the nineteenth-century statesman John C. Calhoun and his son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University. The house began in 1803 as a small, two-story... More

Thames Street Area Survey, Thames Street, between Washington Square & ...

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Alexandria Market House & City Hall (Masonic Hall), 301 King Street, A...

Significance: From the earliest days in Alexandria's history to the present, the Market Square has been the established center of the city. In 1749, two half-acre lots were set aside for a Town Hall-Court Hous... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Dahlgren Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132 Survey number: HABS MD-329-4 Building/structure dates: 1898-1903 Building/structure dates: 1974 Subsequent Work National Register of Histor... More

Freeman-Marks House, 112 North Third Street, Albemarle, Stanly County,...

Significance: The 1 story frame cottage, built ca. 1847, is the oldest extant structure in Albemarle, which was established in 1842 as the County seat of the newly formed Stanly County. The house has had a vari... More

Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth ...

Significance: First building of the Smithsonian Institution and a foremost example of medieval revivalism. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-71 Survey number: HABS DC-141 Buildin... More

Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth ...

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Vir...

See also HALS VA-60 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS VA-339 Building/structure dates: 1771 Initial Construction

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Vir...

See also HALS VA-60 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS VA-339 Building/structure dates: 1771 Initial Construction

Departmental Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between Twelfth and Fourt...

Significance: The Departmental Auditorium is part of a three-building ensemble facing the National Mall. The building was renamed in 1987 in honor of Andrew W. Mellon, who oversaw the development of the Federal... More

Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, New York Count...

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Staircase in the Capitol, Albany, N.Y.

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Robinson-Aiken House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston Coun...

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Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

National Park Seminary, Chapel, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery...

Significance: The chapel was one of the first buildings constructed on the campus. Its rustic, shingle-style form complimented the Queen Anne inn and the natural surroundings. The structure's bell tower, stai... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Mount Clare Shops, South side of Pratt Stre...

Significance: Mount Clare Shops were the earliest railroad shops in the western hemisphere, if not the world. The B & O had a facility at this site since 1829. At its height, it was the most comprehensive, se... More

Sweetbriar, 1 Sweetbriar Drive, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Phi...

Significance: Samuel Breck, a merchant with a future in state and national politics, built Sweetbrier in 1797. Like other Philadelphians in his social and financial position, Breck wished to escape the city's l... More

The Mansion, Old Fort Harrod State Park, formerly Pioneer Memorial Sta...

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York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Penn School Historic District, Cafeteria, SC Route 37, 1 mile South of...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Survey number: HABS SC-588-E Building/structure dates: 1917 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 194... More

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Pavilion Hotel, State Street, Montpelier, Washington County, VT

Significance: The Pavilion Hotel, erected partly on the foundations of the original hotel of 1808, is a fine example of American hotel architecture of the post-Civil War period with a particularly handsome two-... More

General Phineas Banning Residence, 401 East M Street, Wilmington, Los ...

Significance: The General Phineas Banning Residence consists of a 23 room house built in 1864 in the Greek Revival style. The residence is set in 20 acres of parkland and gardens. The property is located in t... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

National Park Seminary, Ballroom, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgome...

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Georgia State Capitol, Capitol Square, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: This is the fourth capitol building owned by the State and has been in continuous use since its completion in 1889. Located atop a hill near downtown Atlanta, it previously contained the Atlanta C... More