Callahan Ranch Hotel & Farrington Hotel, Callahan, Siskiyou County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1189 Building/structure dates: after 1850 Initial Construction
Anchor Hotel, Main & Canal Streets, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5471 Building/structure dates: 1834 Initial Construction
Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, Fulton County,...
Significance: Was one of the few extant examples of Beaux Arts Classicism in Atlanta. When built, was the first free public library supported by a Georgia city. Name derives from a $100,000 donation from Andrew... More
Union Pacific Passenger Station, 121 West Fifteenth Street, Cheyenne, ...
Survey number: HABS WY-80 Building/structure dates: 1887 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1929 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001934
C. F. Pascoe Undertaking, Park Avenue, Clifton, Greenlee County, AZ
Significance: Associated with commerce in Clifton and the development of Clifton. Survey number: HABS AZ-187 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Numb... More
418 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...
Significance: 418 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More
Nicollet Hotel, 235 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN
Significance: The Nicollet Hotel is one of two remaining early twentieth century hotels in Minneapolis today. Unlike the Leamington Hotel, however, which is slated for demolition as part of the new convention ... More
North Eutaw Street, 200 Block (Commercial Buildings), Baltimore, Indep...
Survey number: HABS MD-40 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
123 West Church Street (Commercial Building), Anderson, Anderson Count...
Significance: None. Vacant until 1936-38 when U.S. Soil Conservation Service used it as warehouse and garage. 1940-42: C.C. Reynolds Skating Rink; 1942-44: Sears warehouse; 1945: Gordon Sherrard Motor Co.; 1947... More
332-334 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna ...
Significance: 332-334 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosp... More
John H. Smith's Row, 209-215 High Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virg...
Significance: These four fine Federal row houses were built c. 1837-1838 and are notable on the exterior for the wooden door light and iron fence remaining on and along the south facade of the 209 house. On th... More
Chalfonte Hotel, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May Cou...
Significance: Originally built as a private house, the building was later converted to hotel use. The Chalfonte is Cape May's oldest and most ornate large hotel in Cape May. Unprocessed Field note material ex... More
McCormick Apartments, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: Built as a one of the first Washington apartment buildings for luxury living, the structure was designed to complement a surrounding Beaux-Arts neighborhood. The composition of three principal ele... More
Iron Block, 205 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI
Significance: The Iron Block is notable as one of Milwaukee's most prominent early commercial buildings. It is one of a small number of pre-Civil War structures remaining in the central business district and i... More
Rancho Santa Fe School (Second), 6024 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe,...
Survey number: HABS CA-2318 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent Cit...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6, FN-7, FN-8, FN-9, FN-10 Survey number: HABS MD-7 Building/structure dates: 1819 Building/structure dates: 1970 Demolished
Poletown Historic District, Chene Street Commercial District, Chene St...
Significance: The Chene Street Commercial District achieves its significance from its role as an early Polish immigrant community in Detroit. Polish settlement along the street began in the 1860's and was grea... More
Atlanta Fixtures Building, 102-106 Pryor Street, Atlanta, Fulton Count...
Significance: The Atlanta Fixtures Buildings have been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as individual structures. They are contributing elements of the Underground Atl... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Bishop's Block, 90 Main Street, Dub...
Significance: Born August 1825 in Limerick County, Ireland, John Hennessey came to the United States at the age of 22. He entered a Catholic seminary at Carndelet, near St. Louis and was ordained there in 1850... More
Street view in Guadalajara - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Photo shows Avenida Hidalgo in Guadalajara, Mexico. To the left (north) is Mercado Ramón Corona and the Cathedral is in the background. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012) "W.H.J. Phot. Co." on negative. Detroit Pub... More
22-26 East State Street (Commercial Building), Trenton, Mercer County,...
Significance: Originally three separate commercial buildings, they were used as one unit as early as 1905 by S. D. Dunham & Co., a leading Trenton Department Store. The individual buildings housed a variety of ... More
Information Center, 801 North Palafax Street, Pensacola, Escambia Coun...
Survey number: HABS FL-302 Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Connor Hotel, 324 Main Street, Joplin, Jasper County, MO
Significance: The Connor Hotel, built 1906-07, was designed by Barnett, Haynes and Barnett of St. Louis, Missouri. The architects utilized the finest materials, including the shite crystaline limestone featured... More
U.S. Post Office, Customs House & Courthouse, Public Square, Cleveland...
Significance: Designed by Arnold W. Brunner of New York and built in 1905, the granite building features giant colonnades of attached Corinthian columns between end pavilions which are surmounted by sculptured ... More
Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
425 Marshall Street (Commercial Building), 425 Marshall Street, Northe...
Name changed to its correct name, 425 Marshall Street, from 425 Marshall Avenue. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS MN-29-11 Building/structure dates: 1857 Ini... 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
122 South Meridian Street (Commercial), Indianapolis, Marion County, I...
Significance: Built in 1866-67, 122 South Meridian Street is one of the original commercial structures erected to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil Wa... More
Clark Howell Homes, Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library, 538 Luckie S...
Significance: The Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library was the first branch library in Atlanta. Built in 1908, and named after the first librarian of the Carnegie Library System of Atlanta (predecessor to the F... More
J. H. Green & Company Building, 202 High Avenue West, Oskaloosa, Mahas...
Significance: The Rivola Theatre is a significant example of an early movie house. The building possesses architectural merit, exemplified by the bracketed tin cornice, tripartite arched windows, pedimented si... More
Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...
Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More
Hyderabad - street view in front of Mosque of Afgul Amri
Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 762. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More
Taggart-Steele House, Cathedral & Madison Streets, Baltimore, Independ...
Survey number: HABS MD-410 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sulphur Springs Hotel, 8122 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough...
Significance: The hotel was situated near the "miraculous" mineral waters of Hillsborough River and represents an excellent example of a resort recreation facility of early 20th century. The most distinguished... More
814 South Broadway (Brick Building), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-340 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bolton & Barron Building, Montgomery & Merchant Streets, San Francisco...
Survey number: HABS CA-1232 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Street view 2, Solvang, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: General commercial buildings; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John ... More
Dr. H. Genet Taylor House & Offices, 305 Cooper Street, Camden, Camden...
Significance: One of the most distinguished of Wilson Eyre, Jr's Arts and Crafts style townhouses. Eyre became an influential exponent of the style. Survey number: HABS NJ-844
Third Street Historic District, Gensmann Building, 225-227 Third Stree...
Significance: Part of the Third Street Historic District. Jacob Gensmann operated a clothing, boot and shoe store here in the late nineteenth century. These businesses remained the same until the late 1960s. ... More
The Connor Hotel, 324 Main Street, Joplin, Jasper County, MO
Significance: The Connor Hotel, built 1906-07, was designed by Barnett, Haynes and Barnett of St. Louis, Missouri. The architects utilized the finest materials, including the shite crystaline limestone featured... More
Big Four Building, 220-226 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: Originally three separate buildings erected in 1851-1852. The lower floor was occupied by merchants, three of whom later were associated with the founding of the first transcontinental railway li... More
Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Adams Building, 816 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Colum...
Significance: A building illustrating the commercial development of F Street during the 1870's, of interesting architectural character. Survey number: HABS DC-214 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction
John B. Read's Row, 102-104 West Old Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, V...
Significance: These fine Federal row houses were built for John B. Read c. 1815-1818. Originally there were stores on the first floor and living quarters above. Particularly noteworthy on the exterior are the... More
Baker-Megrew Rowhouse, 6122 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego...
Significance: This building, commissioned by the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company as small-scale pre-sold speculative housing in the midst of the commercial center of the town, is one of a group of four rowhou... More
Perry Block, 89 Court Street, Binghamton, Broome County, NY
Significance: A notable example of cast-iron facade in the High Victorian Italianate Style built by Isaac G. Perry, a Binghamton architect who was chief architect for the State Capitol in Albany. Survey numbe... More
Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1644 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Street view, looking toward Palais des Invalides, showing pavilions o...
Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kyburz Hotel, U.S. Highway 50, Kyburz, El Dorado County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1708 Public domain photograph of a house in California, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
504-520 Cathedral Street (Houses), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-376 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Church Block, 44 Front Street, Bath, Sagadahoc County, ME
Significance: This Victorian brick business block has a first story cast-iron front, made at the Bath Iron Foundry. It was built in 1863 for Oliver Moses. Survey number: HABS ME-157 Building/structure dates:... More
PEPCO Power Station, 922 I Street Northwest, Washington, District of C...
Significance: This building's stone facade solid massing and decorative elements contribute to the significance of the design. The architect, Arthur B. Heaton was a prominent Washington Architect, and received... More
Row Houses, 101-129 Gordon Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA
Survey number: HABS GA-2145 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Albert L. Scott House, 29 South Market Street, Petersburg, Petersburg,...
Significance: This fine Victorian house, built c. 1860-1861, is particularly noteworthy on the exterior because of its paneled facade, heavy bracketed entablature, bold balusters on the balconies and entrance s... More
Malott Building, 118 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Marion Count...
Significance: Built in 1896, the Malott Building was constructed to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil War, the Wholesale District served the city and ... More
Perry Block, 89 Court Street, Binghamton, Broome County, NY
Significance: A notable example of cast-iron facade in the High Victorian Italianate Style built by Isaac G. Perry, a Binghamton architect who was chief architect for the State Capitol in Albany. Survey numbe... More
Chalfonte Hotel, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May Cou...
Significance: Originally built as a private house, the building was later converted to hotel use. The Chalfonte is Cape May's oldest and most ornate large hotel in Cape May. Unprocessed Field note material ex... More
Overland Building, 101-109 North Eighth Street, Boise, Ada County, ID
Significance: The Eastman block is architecturally significant as a good example of the Renaissance Revival style in commercial architecture. Its granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta ornamentation are espe... More
The Breakers Hotel, South County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, ...
Significance: The Breakers Hotel is important for being the last remaining structure of the Flagler System Hotel complex that once included the Royal Poinciana Hotel, as well as the Ponce de Leon in St. Augusti... More
Street view, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Flanders Hotel, Boardwalk at Eleventh Street, Ocean City, Cape May Cou...
Survey number: HABS NJ-1116 Public domain photograph of hotel resort, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1626-1628 Thames Street (Row Houses), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-406 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Montgomery Street (Commercial Building), San Francisco, San Francisco ...
Survey number: HABS CA-1474 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lord & Taylor, business at 38th St. and 5th Ave., New York City. Stree...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Digel Block (Commercial Buildings), 218-220-222 South Main & 112 Lyon ...
Significance: A good example of the turn of the century small town commercial architecture. The vernacular form includes varied and unusual ornamentation. Digel Block is the last of the commercial buildings con... More
Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: The building is an example of the work of William LeBaron Jenney, the man credited with the invention of skeletal construction. It is important because of its remarkable structural system, which R... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
416 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...
Significance: 416 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More
E. D. Sweeney Building, 102 South Curry Street, Carson City, Carson Ci...
Significance: This is one of the earliest commercial buildings in Carson City, and one of the few brick buildings remaining from the city's earliest years. Located at what was an important intersection, the bu... 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
Patee House Hotel, South Twelfth & Penn Streets, Saint Joseph, Buchana...
Significance: Served as the eastern terminus and headquarters for Russell, Majors & Waddell, the owners of the Pony Express. It also played a significant local role in St. Joseph as a luxurious hotel in a front... More
Windsor Hotel, Beach Avenue, between Windsor & Congress Streets, Cape ...
Significance: Fine example of Second Empire hotel. Survey number: HABS NJ-749 Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000383
Central National Bank Building, 631 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Was...
Significance: The Central National Bank Building has stood at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and C Street since the mid-1860's. Originally a simple trapezoidal Renaissance Revival building, it is an early e... More
2-6 East State Street (Commercial Building), 2-6 East State Street, Tr...
Significance: This building was for two decades the office of the New Jersey State Gazette, one of Trenton's two most important 19th century newspapers. It was here, in 1847, that the State Gazette began publi... More
Carriage Factory, Main & East Fourth Streets, Tuscumbia, Colbert Count...
Survey number: HABS AL-315 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction
Skyline Urban Renewal Area, Larimer Square, 1400 Block, Larimer Street...
Survey number: HABS CO-50-A Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of shopping cent... More
[Street view in Mexico City during the "Tragic Ten Days" of the revolu...
J179320 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Saint Paul & Saratoga Streets (House), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-70 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
508-522 North Paca Street (Houses), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-382 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shopping center, Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Street view, Mille...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Allison-Moore-Crump Building, 1309 East Main Street, Richmond, Indepen...
Significance: Built as a typical commercial building sometime before 1863, the Allison-Moore-Crump Building remains from the nineteenth-century commercial atmosphere of Main Street. Survey number: HABS VA-846 ... More
Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building, 1111 Constitution Aven...
Significance: The French Renaisance-style Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) Building was the first of several U.S. Government buildings of monumental scope to be erected in the 1920s and 1930s in the ... More
Jacobs Building, 523 Exchange Street, Geneva, Ontario County, NY
Significance: The building originally was a double mercantile building, with the lower floor used for store space and the upper floors for office space. For many years the first floor of the northern section of... More
Reliance Building, 32 North State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: An important example of the early Chicago School, it anticipates future developments in skyscraper design. Terra cotta was employed for exterior surfacing for the first time in this building. The ... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
David May's Row, 217-223 High Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia
Significance: These four elegant Victorian row houses were built c. 1859-1860 and should be noted for their bracketed cornices, window lintels, and classical revival porches. Survey number: HABS VA-660 Buildi... More
Big Four Building, 220-226 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: Originally three separate buildings erected in 1851-1852. The lower floor was occupied by merchants, three of whom later were associated with the founding of the first transcontinental railway li... More
LaClede Hotel, 150-160 Government Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-811 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
226 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...
Significance: 226 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More
Chaille Commercial Building, 425-429 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Miami-...
Significance: The Chaille Commercial Building 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 stucc... More
320 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...
Significance: 320 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More
Perry Block, 89 Court Street, Binghamton, Broome County, NY
Significance: A notable example of cast-iron facade in the High Victorian Italianate Style built by Isaac G. Perry, a Binghamton architect who was chief architect for the State Capitol in Albany. Survey numbe... More
Yale University, Dwight Hall, 69 High Street, New Haven, New Haven Cou...
Significance: Dwight Hall was designed by Henry Austin in 1842. It is a fine example of the early Gothic revival style and was reputedly modeled after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England. It was built... More
Central National Bank Building, 631 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Was...
Significance: The Central National Bank Building has stood at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and C Street since the mid-1860's. Originally a simple trapezoidal Renaissance Revival building, it is an early e... More
Heywood Building, 1001-1009 Second Street, Sacramento, Sacramento Coun...
Significance: Typical mid 1800s brick commercial structure for Old Sacramento. Survey number: HABS CA-1258 Building/structure dates: 1857 Initial Construction
Union Hotel, 76 Main Street, Flemington, Hunterdon County, NJ
Significance: Representative example of later 19th century hotel architecture. Survey number: HABS NJ-732 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction
Society National Bank Building, 127-145 Public Square, Cleveland, Cuya...
Significance: The building is notable for the excellence of its design, its well-maintained condition, and its significance as one of the first skyscrapers in Cleveland. It is one of the outstanding examples of... More
Placer Mining - Street view in Columbia, Tuolumne County
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
800-810 Cathedral Street (Row Houses), Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-379 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description