[United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). North wing. Principal story...
In album: Engineering projects directed by Montgomery Meigs, Washington, D.C. ca. 1852-ca. 1860, p. 147, no. 256. Inscription: Details of western stairway. North wing. Principal story. "Scale one inch to a fo... More
[Alabaster lamps, vestibule, stairs, Chicago & North Western Railway s...
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Touchstone Garden, 118-120 East 30th Street, New York, New York. ...
Site History. House Architecture: George E. Fowler, architect for The Touchstone magazine. Landscape: Eloise Roorbach, garden editor of The Touchstone magazine, from 1917. Associated Name: Hartmann-Sanders sup... More
Chicago Ironwork, 1149 West Washington Boulevard (Cast Iron Stair Rail...
Nitrate negatives. Survey number: HABS IL-155-V Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hayes, Edenton vic., Chowan County, North Carolina
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
136 Meeting St., Parish House, Congregational Church, Charleston, Char...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
City Hall Erectheum, St. Charles & Lafayette St., New Orleans, Orleans...
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1853. James Gallier, architect. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11836-36. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Libra... More
Scarborough Mansion, West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Geor...
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1818. Built for William Scarborough by the architect William Jay. Now the West Broad Street Colored Pulic School. Corresponding reference print in ... More
Davenport house, Columbus Square, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1815. Built by Isaiah Davenport, a native of Rhode Island and a house carpenter by trade, who came to Savannah in 1800 and until his death in 1822 ... More
Saint Louis Gateway Arch (originally Jefferson National Expansion Memo...
Box. no. 1. No. 131. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Vidal Apartment Houses, Stamford, Connecticut. Exterior VIII
Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Stair detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina
Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Stairway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by architect Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More
Stairway, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More
Interior stairway, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
Stairway. U.S. Custom House, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The New Bedford Custom House is an excellent example of a s... More
Stairway. The Robert S. Vance Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 9, 908 South Fourth Street, ...
Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 11 North 4th Street, Saint Loui...
When this survey was carried out, the park was called Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. It was changed to Gateway Arch National Park in 2018. Significance: The designed landscape of the Jefferson National ... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Renick House, U.S. Route 219, Renicks Valley, Greenbrier County, WV
Significance: After purchasing "Cave Farm" from Robert McClanahan about 1790, William Renick built a stone house on the property about 1795, the same year in which the Old Stone Church in Lewisburg was construc... More
1222 Reddour Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: This house is significant as a local example of a middle-class urban residence dating from the last quarter of the 19th century. I... More
Morris Lasker House, 1718-1726 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Lasker was a prominent Galveston businessman and philanthropist and his home was one of many Victorian mansions that once lined Broadway Street. The building was a fine example of the Victorian Fr... More
Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...
Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More
Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth & Twenty-fifth ...
Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps. Significance: The structure is a strange mixture of relatively new and daring structural concepts and a hopelessly outdated exterior shell. It is a "mule" w... More
Engine Company No. 24, 3702 Georgia Avenue at New Hampshire Avenue & R...
Significance: Built in 1911, Engine Company No. 24 is an excellent example of early twentieth century suburban firehouse design in Washington, D.C. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style by the locally signi... More
Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvide...
Significance: A manor house in the Federal Style, built as a residence and land office for John Barker Church and his son Phillip Church, who were involved in the original development and sub-division of a 100,... More
P. J. Heilman House, 401 East Cleveland Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County,...
Significance: This picturesquely massed house of 1895, built of local red sandstone and brick, was a point of pride in many of the early promotional publications of Guthrie, pointed out as a stately home and th... More
Enumclaw High School, 2222 Porter Street, Enumclaw, King County, WA
Significance: The Enumclaw High School is most significant as Enumclaw's sole reminder of its long educational heritage. However, like many schools in other small towns, the Enumclaw High School has served the... More
Montgomery Gateway East, One & Two, Montgomery & Monmouth Street, Jers...
Significance: This area grew most rapidly during the last two decades of the 19th century as a residential neighborhood for the new immigrant population which was drawn to Jersey City by the expanding industria... More
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
Old Drawyers Presbyterian Church, Route 13, Odessa, New Castle County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4, FN-8 - FN-11 Survey number: HABS DE-3 Building/structure dates: 1773 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000533
William James House, 95 Irving Street, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
Significance: This was the home of philosopher William James. The building is a conservative shingled Colonial Revival style designed by William R. Emerson, architect. Survey number: HABS MA-1024 Building/st... More
Lockwood-Coghlin Buildings, 119 & 121-123 Saint Clair Street, Toledo, ...
Significance: The Lockwood/Coghlin Buildings are significant as expressions of the work of prominent Toledo architect Norval Bacan, who was responsible for hundreds of designs in the late 19th and early 20th ce... More
Robert A. Grinnan House, 2221 Prytania Street, New Orleans, Orleans Pa...
Significance: The building is significant as one of the best works of Henry Howard, the architect who later designed the more famous Belle Grove Plantation, in which he used the same Greek Corinthian order. ...... More
Rockland, Mount Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Significance: Rockland, erected ca. 1810, is an excellent example of a Federal style house built by skilled, local carpenters and masons, and exhibiting many similarities to earlier country houses built along t... More
Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...
Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Electric Shop, Sixth Street opposite 10...
Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It is an annex to Facility 67 (HABS HI-491), built nearly two decades earlier. It was constructed as part of the major buildup of ... More
Essex Town Hall, Martin Street, Essex, Essex County, MA
Significance: Very well maintained example of the shingle style. Survey number: HABS MA-1222 Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
Middlesex County Superior Court Building, Third, Otis & Thorndike Stre...
Significance: The Middlesex County Superior Court Building is the oldest public building in Cambridge. The present structure, built 1848, incorporated an older structure built 1814. Noted architects were invo... More
Boston Public Garden, Suspension Bridge, Boston Public Garden, Boston,...
Survey number: HAER MA-76 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gorgas Hospital, Section O, Gorgas Road, Balboa Heights, Former Panama...
Survey number: HABS CZ-11-G Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Strub Building, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The building maintains integrity of setting within actively used State government buildings in the area. It contributes historically to the government district surrounding the Capitol. The Strub b... More
103 Calle San Jose (Commercial/Residential Bldg.), San Juan, San Juan ...
Significance: This building is an excellent example of the typical town house of 18th Century San Juan. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS PR-63
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...
Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810
Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...
Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More
1621 Thames Street (House), Fell's Point, Baltimore, Independent City,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28, FN-29 Survey number: HABS MD-22 Building/structure dates: 1763-1798
Kamm Building, 111 North Main Street, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, IN
Survey number: HABS IN-139 Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Saltus-Habersham House, 802 Bay Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC
Significance: exceptionally tall, this tabby structure originally incorporating three full stories over an elevated basement. It is a rare example of a late eighteenth-century merchant's house constructed along... More
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Bandstand, Eighth Street, south side betwe...
Significance: Building 56 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 56 is significant as the key ceremonial facility at Mare Island, as the centerpiece of the landscape at Alden ... More
Union Tavern, Main Street between Lee Street & Farmer's Alley, Milton,...
Significance: This Federal Tavern is best known for its association with Thomas Day, an important free black cabinet maker who produced fine furniture and interior woodwork. Survey number: HABS NC-110 Nation... More
Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull & Oglethorpe Streets, Savannah, ...
Survey number: HABS GA-237 Building/structure dates: 1817 Initial Construction
Third Judicial District Courthouse, 425 Avenue of the Americas, New Yo...
Significance: Originally the Third Judicial District Courthouse was part of a complex which included a police court, jail, and markets. An outstanding example of civic design, the complex occupied the entire tr... 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
Shaker Church Family Dwelling House, Shaker Village Road, Canterbury, ...
Survey number: HABS NH-180 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1814 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work
Prudential Building, 28 Church Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-5487 Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1969 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1970 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ... More
Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...
Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More
University of Alabama, Josiah Gorgas House, Ninth Avenue & Capstone Dr...
Significance: Gorgas House served as the last residence of General Josiah Gorges, the Pennsylvania-born chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance, and is the "only" known shrine to this Confederate General. ... More
300 Clarke Avenue (Commercial Building), 300 Clarke Avenue, Pocomoke C...
Significance: This building was used as furniture store for many years. (Smullen's Furniture) This building is typical of commercial architecture of the period. Survey number: HABS MD-1046 Building/structur... More
New Post Office Building, Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash...
Significance: Located at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Ariel Rios Federal Building, also known as the new Post Office, was designed by William Adams Delano and William T. Aldrich and constructed betw... More
Shaker Church Family Tailors' Shop, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Co...
Significance: This reputed to have been the tailoring shop of the Shakers. When acquired by the present owner, there was a small brick oven or stove with a metal top located under the stairs and adjacent to a ... More
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
University of Alabama, President's House, University Boulevard, Tuscal...
Significance: Designed by Philadelphia architect William Nichols, who also designed the Tuscaloosa Capitol, this Greek Revival residence is considered one of the state's finest structures. ...This residence was... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Twenty-fourth & Chestnut Streets, P...
Survey number: HABS PA-1220 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pioneer Post Office, 700 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, ...
Significance: The Pioneer Courthouse is one of the most important federally-funded buildings in the Pacific Northwest. Built in 1875, the Italianate building is styled with classic, restrained architectural det... More
Old Marengo County Courthouse, Cahaba Avenue & Mobile Street, Linden, ...
Survey number: HABS AL-143 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction
Beachside Avenue Bridge, Westport, Fairfield County, CT
Significance: Primarily one of local significance. This bridge is a Warren-Pony Truss and is one of several in the area of Fairfield County. Survey number: HAER CT-5 Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Co... More
Gemein Haus, 62-66 West Church Street, Bethlehem, Northampton County, ...
Significance: Built 1741-43, the Gemein Haus was the second building erected in the Bethlehem Moravian community after its establishment in 1741, built of legs, it is one of the largest such structures in the c... More
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Chapel,...
Significance: The two back-to-back Chapels on the Veterans Administration grounds at Sawtelle (called Building #20 by VA) was designed by J. Lee Burton, Los Angeles architect, and built 1900. It is of the more ... More
First Territorial Capitol of Kansas, Fort Riley Military Reserve, Rile...
Significance: This simple two story stone building served as the first capitol of the Kansas territory. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8 Survey number: HABS KS-15 Building/stru... More
Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...
Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... 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
Dade Apartments, 403-405 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Miami-Dade County,...
Significance: Dade Apartments is one of the few commercial buildings remaining in Miami from the period before the development boom of the 1920s. Built in the masonry vernacular style, the stuccoed concrete con... More
Tracy Building, 532-527 French Street, Erie, Erie County, PA
Written data includes a site plan. Significance: Site was purchased in 1826 by John A. Tracy, who erected a wooden commercial and residential building that was replaced after a fire by a brick commercial struct... More
O. Henry Hotel, North Elm & Bellemeade Streets, Greensboro, Guilford C...
Significance: The O. Henry Hotel, built 191701919, was designed by W. L. Stoddart, a firm which was responsible for many of the south's better hotels. The hotel, a source of local pride, was constructed from fu... More
J. F. Darmody Company Building (Commercial), 25-27 West Maryland Stree...
Significance: Built in two phases 1904-05 and 1911, following the designs of architect P.C. Rubush and later Rubush & Hunter, the J.F. Darmody Company Building functioned as a confectionery and wholesale outlet... More
Eden Publishing House, 1712-1724 Chouteau Avenue, Lafayette Square, Sa...
Significance: The building served as headquarters for retail and printing operations of the Eden Publishing Company from 1869 to 1979. Several expansions occurred throughout the company's time of occupation. ... More
59-61 South Market Street (Commercial Building), Frederick, Frederick ...
Significance: 59-61 South Market Street is primarily significant as an early nineteenth century structure (c. 1820) which embodies the distinctive characteristics of Federal style and Victorian Commercial Itali... More
John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...
Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More
U. S. Post Office Building, Broad & Meeting Streets, Charleston, Charl...
Significance: A Federal building representative of the late 19th century. Office space, filling in central core, constructed recently. There is some similarity to Spanish models such as the Palace of the Counts... More
University of Florida, Floyd Hall, Gainesville, Alachua County, FL
These drawings were donated to the H/H collection by the University of Florida's College of Architecture; the drawings were produced by architecture students at the University of Florida who chose to participat... More
Dan's Hill, State Route 1011 vicinity, Danville, Danville, Virginia
Significance: Dan's Hill was built by the Wilson family and the house and outbuildings were completed by 1833. The large brick house with Federal style details remained in the family until the early twentieth c... More
National City Depot, 900 West Twenty-third Street, National City, San ...
Significance: The California Southern Transcontinental Railroad Terminus is the last original transcontinental terminus depot in the United States. It is listed on the local register as a Designated Significan... More
Shaker Church Family Square House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Cou...
Significance: This building was originally the dwelling of Shadrach Ireland and his "New Light" followers. It then became the early headquarters for the Shaker movement in Harvard, Massachusetts. It was used ... More
City Hall, 6801 Delmar, University City, St. Louis County, MO
Significance: The City Hall of University City, a five-story octagonal structure, was built in 1903 to serve as the executive building for the corporations of Edward Gardner Lewis, the founder of the city. Univ... More
Washington Hotel, 710 Turnpike Street, Stoughton, Norfolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-171 Building/structure dates: 1808 Initial Construction
Bibb-Goldthwaithe-Arrington House, 203 Church Street, Montgomery, Mont...
Survey number: HABS AL-611 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1870 Subsequent Work
First Presbyterian Church, 1301 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: This may be the oldest documented building in downtown Wheeling. Noah Zane deeded the land on which this Church stands "for the use, purpose and design of erecting a meeting house or church," in ... More
Blandfield, U.S. Route 17 & State Route 624, Caret, Essex County, Virg...
Significance: Blandfield, in Essex County, is one of Virginia's largest houses of the Georgian period, and one of its major essays in the Palladian style. The mansion dates from 1769-1773, and was built by Rob... 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
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
Salubria, Salubria Lane, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Virginia
Significance: Salubria is a refined and rare example of a mid-eighteenth century Georgian mansion of Piedmont Virginia. The dwelling is architecturally significant for its austere, yet well-proportioned, exteri... More
Salubria, Salubria Lane, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Virginia
Significance: Salubria is a refined and rare example of a mid-eighteenth century Georgian mansion of Piedmont Virginia. The dwelling is architecturally significant for its austere, yet well-proportioned, exteri... More
Salubria, Salubria Lane, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Virginia
Significance: Salubria is a refined and rare example of a mid-eighteenth century Georgian mansion of Piedmont Virginia. The dwelling is architecturally significant for its austere, yet well-proportioned, exteri... More
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928
Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928