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
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
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...
Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...
Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More
Cooke's Row, Villa No. 7, 3027 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, Distri...
See HABS No. DC-182, Cooke's Row, Villa No. 3 for related information. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N675 Survey number: HABS DC-829 Building/structure dates: ca. 1868 Initial Con... More
Cooke's Row, Villa No. 7, 3027 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, Distri...
See HABS No. DC-182, Cooke's Row, Villa No. 3 for related information. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N675 Survey number: HABS DC-829 Building/structure dates: ca. 1868 Initial Con... More
John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...
Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More
Mount Hope, 3308 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia...
1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Built around 1830, this Georgetown mansion was originally known as "Mount Hope" when built by Col. William Robinson. The estate was much admired for its sweep... More
Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...
Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More
Roulette Farm, Barn, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N943 Survey number: HABS MD-85-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038
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
Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...
Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area - Cabin Camp 1, Unit Lodge...
Significance: Unit Lodge D (Building D12) served as the communal building for approximately 26 campers housed in the D Unit cabins. Each cabin unit had a lodge to encourage smaller group activities within the ... More
Green Hill Presbyterian Church, 1617 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Phil...
Significance: Though much altered, Green Hill Presbyterian Church was designed by well-known Philadelphia architect John Notman. Originally situated in a rural environment, it belonged to a group of early inst... More
Green Hill Presbyterian Church, 1617 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Phil...
Significance: Though much altered, Green Hill Presbyterian Church was designed by well-known Philadelphia architect John Notman. Originally situated in a rural environment, it belonged to a group of early inst... More
3337 N Street, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Survey number: HABS DC-826 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
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
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
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...
Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... More
Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...
Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... 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
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
Mackall Square, 1633 Twenty-ninth Street, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: Mackall Square conveys better than any other property the rural,isolated nature of residences in Georgetown Heights - the northern portion of Georgetown that was outside the early boundaries of th... More
Mackall Square, 1633 Twenty-ninth Street, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: Mackall Square conveys better than any other property the rural,isolated nature of residences in Georgetown Heights - the northern portion of Georgetown that was outside the early boundaries of th... More
Mackall Square, 1633 Twenty-ninth Street, Northwest, Washington, Distr...
Significance: Mackall Square conveys better than any other property the rural,isolated nature of residences in Georgetown Heights - the northern portion of Georgetown that was outside the early boundaries of th... More
Whitesbog Village & Cranberry Bog, Suningive House & Garden, 120-34 Wh...
Significance: Suningive was built during 1922-1923 by Elizabeth C. White in Whitesbog Village, an agricultural company town owned and operated by her family since the mid-nineteenth century. The house was loca... More
Whitesbog Village & Cranberry Bog, Suningive House & Garden, 120-34 Wh...
Significance: Suningive was built during 1922-1923 by Elizabeth C. White in Whitesbog Village, an agricultural company town owned and operated by her family since the mid-nineteenth century. The house was loca... More
Whitesbog Village & Cranberry Bog, Suningive House & Garden, 120-34 Wh...
Significance: Suningive was built during 1922-1923 by Elizabeth C. White in Whitesbog Village, an agricultural company town owned and operated by her family since the mid-nineteenth century. The house was loca... 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
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
Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More
Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More
Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More
Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More
Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...
Significance: The Kitchen 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 1907-... More
1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...
Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More
1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...
Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More
1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...
Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More
Ellis Island, New Immigration Building, New York Harbor, New York, New...
Significance: The New Immigration Building is one of three major New Deal-era buildings at Ellis Island created to meet the changing scope of immigration services at the facility. Constructed on fill joining I... More
Ellis Island, New Immigration Building, New York Harbor, New York, New...
Significance: The New Immigration Building is one of three major New Deal-era buildings at Ellis Island created to meet the changing scope of immigration services at the facility. Constructed on fill joining I... More
Ellis Island, New Immigration Building, New York Harbor, New York, New...
Significance: The New Immigration Building is one of three major New Deal-era buildings at Ellis Island created to meet the changing scope of immigration services at the facility. Constructed on fill joining I... More
Ellis Island, New Immigration Building, New York Harbor, New York, New...
Significance: The New Immigration Building is one of three major New Deal-era buildings at Ellis Island created to meet the changing scope of immigration services at the facility. Constructed on fill joining I... More
W. Taylor Birch House, 3099 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District ...
Significance: This home is a good example of the "baronial" type residence that was so often built by wealthy businessmen of the period to proclaim their new status. The heavy fortress-like expression of the e... 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
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