Vietnam Veterans Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington, District of ...
Significance: It was built to honor the veterans of the Vietnam War (1959-1975). As a memorial for a controversial and unpopular war, it was intended both to commemorate those who served, as well as provide a v... More
Roulette Farm, House, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Significance: The Roulette farm is significant both as an example of the area's early architecture and due to its relationship to the Civil War Battle of Antietam. Unprocessed Field note material exists for th... More
Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...
Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More
Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...
Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More
The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...
Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More
Lazareto Isla de Cabras, Parque Nacional Isla de Cabras, Toa Baja, Toa...
2016 Leicester B. Holland Prize, First Place Significance: The lazaretto's original purpose was to house yellow fever and cholera victims, but few remember that noble commitment today. Instead, for over a centu... More
Boston Architectural College, Terra Cotta Mantel, 951 Boylston Street,...
2015 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: The terra cotta over mantel centerpiece located on a first-floor brick wall was discovered during renovations to the Boston Architectural College's newly acq... More
Forty Acres, Roy Reuther Administration Building, 30168 Garces Highway...
See HABS CA-2878, Forty Acres, for additional information about the site. Significance: The Roy Reuther Administration Building is one of four buildings at Forty Acres, a property closely associated with the li... More
Mississippi Test Operations, Central Control Building, South side of S...
Significance: The Central Control Building was the location for communications between all systems and structures for the static rocket test firings at the Mississippi Test Operations facility. The structure, w... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I, New York H...
Significance: Isolation Ward I, later known as Wards 27 and 28, was one of three freestanding Isolation Ward pavilions built as part of the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U.... More
Cherry Walk, Dairy and Smoke House Complex, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620)...
Significance: Erected ca. 1810-1830, this connected group of frame buildings including the North Dairy, Smokehouse, and South Dairy represent an excellent, intact example of the types of outbuildings found on w... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I, New York H...
Significance: Isolation Ward I, later known as Wards 27 and 28, was one of three freestanding Isolation Ward pavilions built as part of the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U.... More
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
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
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, Simmontown Road, .25 mile east of Rout...
Significance: Among the earliest extant meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, Sadsbury is a rare example of an early meeting house form. Sadsbury's square shaped plan and three-by-three bay elevations with cen... More
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
Fort Davis, Captain's Quarters, Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-3368 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000045
San Francisco National Cemetery, 1 Lincoln Boulevard, San Francisco, S...
Leicester B. Holland Prize Significance: When the San Francisco National Cemetery was established in 1884, it was the first national cemetery on the Pacific Coast, and it remained the only national cemetery on ... More
San Francisco National Cemetery, 1 Lincoln Boulevard, San Francisco, S...
Leicester B. Holland Prize Significance: When the San Francisco National Cemetery was established in 1884, it was the first national cemetery on the Pacific Coast, and it remained the only national cemetery on ... More
3331 O Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Significance: This house is a good example of post-Civil War Second Empire-style domestic architecture, as seen in the intact Mansard roof. The house's architectural significance is further enhanced by the twen... More
Laird-Dunlop-Lincoln House, 3014 N Street, Northwest, Washington, Dist...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: With the original, middle block built before 1798, this house represents a subset of the Federal period houses of Georgetown that were more ambitious that tho... More
Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...
Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More
Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...
Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
Colonel John Cox House, 3339 N Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: The Colonel John Cox House, constructed in 1816-17 at 3339 N Street in Georgetown, is a handsome and imposing federal-era town house on a substantial corner lot. The house was built as the wester... More
Evermay, 1623 Twenty-eighth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of...
Significance: The formality and elegance Evermay's architecture and landscaping create an ensemble of unparalleled beauty. The estate reflects twentieth-century aesthetics, rooted in and continuing Evermay's e... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...
Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More
Whitesbog Village & Cranberry Bog, Whitesbog Road, Pemberton, Burlingt...
Significance: Whitesbog Village and Cranberry Bog is an agricultural company town founded by J.J. White in the Pine Barrens region of central New Jersey. Whitesbog began as wild cranberry bogs converted to com... More
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Washington Monument, High ground West of Fifteenth Street, Northwest, ...
See also HAER DC-5 for additional documentation. Significance: Built to commemorate the first president of the United States, the monument has also become a hallowed symbol of the nation's government and the ci... More
Washington Monument, High ground West of Fifteenth Street, Northwest, ...
See also HAER DC-5 for additional documentation. Significance: Built to commemorate the first president of the United States, the monument has also become a hallowed symbol of the nation's government and the ci... More
Washington Monument, High ground West of Fifteenth Street, Northwest, ...
See also HAER DC-5 for additional documentation. Significance: Built to commemorate the first president of the United States, the monument has also become a hallowed symbol of the nation's government and the ci... More
Washington Monument, High ground West of Fifteenth Street, Northwest, ...
See also HAER DC-5 for additional documentation. Significance: Built to commemorate the first president of the United States, the monument has also become a hallowed symbol of the nation's government and the ci... More
Dumbarton Oaks Park, Thirty-second & R Streets Northwest, Washington, ...
See also HALS DC-13 for related documentation. Significance: Dumbarton Oaks Park is not a native woods; rather, it was designed as a ''naturalistic" landscape in the pastoral landscape tradition to include the ... More
Dumbarton Oaks Park, Thirty-second & R Streets Northwest, Washington, ...
See also HALS DC-13 for related documentation. Significance: Dumbarton Oaks Park is not a native woods; rather, it was designed as a ''naturalistic" landscape in the pastoral landscape tradition to include the ... More
Jeremiah Williams House, 3035 Dumbarton Street, Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: The Jeremiah Williams House is outstanding example of the mid-nineteenth century picturesque architectural style made popular by A.J. Downing and A.J. Davis through their publications and projects... More
Scott-Grant House, 3238 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This house is most notable as a mid nineteenth-century stylistically transitional house that combines the symmetrical massing of the first half of the nineteenth century with the picturesque, orna... More
Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & ...
Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between 1775 and 1776, represents a particularly domestic-looking meeting house form. The development of this form was likely a... More
Theodore Dominic House, 3210 Reservoir Road, Northwest, Washington, Di...
Survey number: HABS DC-846 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025
John Bartram House & Garden, 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard, Philad...
Significance: Bartram's Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States. John Bartram (1699 1777), the well-known early American botanist, explorer, and plant collector founded the garden in ... More
Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA
See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More
Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA
See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More
Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...
Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More
Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...
Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More
Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...
Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More
John Thomson Mason House, 3425 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the hoe of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More
John Thomson Mason House, 3425 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the hoe of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More
William Allen White House, Main House, 927 North Exchange Street, Empo...
Significance: "Red Rocks" was the home of newspaper editor and writer William Allen White from 1899 until his death in 1944. White was national known and revered as the editor of the Emporia Gazette, a frequen... More
Girard College, Founder's Hall, Girard & Corinthian Avenues, Philadelp...
Significance: Founder's Hall at Girard College is one of the greatest expressions of nineteenth-century Greek Revival architecture in the United States. As a civic ensemble, it ranks among the most notable in ... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...
Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...
Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More
Bodisco House, 3322 O Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: A federal period house, with a unique, early twentieth century first floor plan, the Bodisco House is included in virtually every book on Georgetown because of the mid-nineteenth century romance a... 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
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
Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...
Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More
Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...
Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...
Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...
Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More
The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More
The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More
The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More
The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...
Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More