Fenway Court, 280 The Fenway, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: It is significant for its association with the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and as an example of an American residence designed to house a museum collection. Isabella Stewart Gardner contribut... More
Fenway Court, 280 The Fenway, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: It is significant for its association with the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and as an example of an American residence designed to house a museum collection. Isabella Stewart Gardner contribut... More
Nat Conklin House, 280 Deer Park Avenue, Babylon, Suffolk County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-194 Survey number: HABS NY-542 Building/structure dates: 1803 Initial Construction
Nat Conklin House, 280 Deer Park Avenue, Babylon, Suffolk County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-194 Survey number: HABS NY-542 Building/structure dates: 1803 Initial Construction
Nat Conklin House, 280 Deer Park Avenue, Babylon, Suffolk County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-194 Survey number: HABS NY-542 Building/structure dates: 1803 Initial Construction
Deer Island Pumping Station, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: The Deer Island Pumping Station is significant as a component of the North Metropolitan Sewerage District, the first regional sewerage system in the Boston Metropolitan Area. The system and Pumpi... More
Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston...
Significance: The Harvard Bridge is located in the Charles River Basin Historic District. Survey number: HAER MA-53 Building/structure dates: 1887- 1891 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1898... More
Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston...
Significance: The Harvard Bridge is located in the Charles River Basin Historic District. Survey number: HAER MA-53 Building/structure dates: 1887- 1891 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1898... More
Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston...
Significance: The Harvard Bridge is located in the Charles River Basin Historic District. Survey number: HAER MA-53 Building/structure dates: 1887- 1891 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1898... More
Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston...
Significance: The Harvard Bridge is located in the Charles River Basin Historic District. Survey number: HAER MA-53 Building/structure dates: 1887- 1891 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1898... More
Transcript Building, Washington & Milk Streets, Boston, Suffolk County...
Survey number: HABS MA-1139 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caumsett Manor, Garage, Lloyd Neck, Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-6107-D Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...
Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from prod...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Howard Payne Memorial, James Lane, East Hampton, Suffolk County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-199 Survey number: HABS NY-547 Building/structure dates: 1660 Initial Construction
John Howard Payne Memorial, James Lane, East Hampton, Suffolk County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-199 Survey number: HABS NY-547 Building/structure dates: 1660 Initial Construction
James Blake House, 735 Columbia Road, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: One of earliest structures remaining in area. Lived in by descendants of builder for over 175 years. Survey number: HABS MA-560 Building/structure dates: 1650 Initial Construction Building/str... More
James Blake House, 735 Columbia Road, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: One of earliest structures remaining in area. Lived in by descendants of builder for over 175 years. Survey number: HABS MA-560 Building/structure dates: 1650 Initial Construction Building/str... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Incinerator, Midway along northern boundary of ...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: Building 203 is a significant arc... More
Sayrelands, Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, Suffolk County, NY
Significance: It was probably built in the late 18th century by Captain Nathan Post, its center-hall plan, clapboard front facade with shake-covered sides and rear, and white oak framing characterize it as typi... More
Laurel Lodge, Log Cabin, Arbutus Road, Greenlawn, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-5703-C Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Laurel Lodge, Log Cabin, Arbutus Road, Greenlawn, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-5703-C Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Laurel Lodge, Log Cabin, Arbutus Road, Greenlawn, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-5703-C Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Robert Pierce House, 24 Oakton Avenue, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Although there have been several alterations and additions to this early colonial house, the general form and proportions are still visible. It presents a good example of the narrow, one-room dee... More
Horton-Wickham-Landon House, Kings Highway (moved from NY, Southhold),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-198 Survey number: HABS NY-546 Building/structure dates: 1649 Initial Construction
Horton-Wickham-Landon House, Kings Highway (moved from NY, Southhold),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-198 Survey number: HABS NY-546 Building/structure dates: 1649 Initial Construction
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...
Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...
Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...
Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More
Silas Sammis House, West Neck Avenue & Sammis Road, Huntington, Suffol...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-196 Survey number: HABS NY-544
Ananias Conklin House, Main Street, Amagansett, Suffolk County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-202 Survey number: HABS NY-5416 Building/structure dates: ca. 1700 Initial Construction
Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...
Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More
Old Massachusetts State House, 206 Washington Street (corner of State ...
Significance: The Old Massachusetts State House is the oldest extant public building of Georgian design in the United States. Built in 1712-13 to replace an earlier structure of wood completed in 1658 and dest... More
Old Massachusetts State House, 206 Washington Street (corner of State ...
Significance: The Old Massachusetts State House is the oldest extant public building of Georgian design in the United States. Built in 1712-13 to replace an earlier structure of wood completed in 1658 and dest... More
Old Massachusetts State House, 206 Washington Street (corner of State ...
Significance: The Old Massachusetts State House is the oldest extant public building of Georgian design in the United States. Built in 1712-13 to replace an earlier structure of wood completed in 1658 and dest... More
Old Massachusetts State House, 206 Washington Street (corner of State ...
Significance: The Old Massachusetts State House is the oldest extant public building of Georgian design in the United States. Built in 1712-13 to replace an earlier structure of wood completed in 1658 and dest... More
Gardiner's Island Windmill, Napeague, Suffolk County, NY
Significance: Of the 11 surviving 18th and early 19th century windmills on Long Island, the Gardiner's Island Windmill is one of the least altered. The mill is one of 4 extant windmills built by Nathaniel Domi... More
Gardiner's Island Windmill, Napeague, Suffolk County, NY
Significance: Of the 11 surviving 18th and early 19th century windmills on Long Island, the Gardiner's Island Windmill is one of the least altered. The mill is one of 4 extant windmills built by Nathaniel Domi... More
Gardiner's Island Windmill, Napeague, Suffolk County, NY
Significance: Of the 11 surviving 18th and early 19th century windmills on Long Island, the Gardiner's Island Windmill is one of the least altered. The mill is one of 4 extant windmills built by Nathaniel Domi... More
Clough-Langdon House, 21 Unity Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: This is one of three brick houses built in Boston between 1700-1720. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-122 Survey number: HABS MA-342 Building/structure dates: after... More
Shelter Island Windmill, Manwaring Road, Shelter Island, Suffolk Count...
Significance: The Shelter Island Windmill is one of eleven surviving 18th and early-19th century wind-powered gristmills on Long Island. This is one of four extant windmills built by Nathaniel Dominy V, a prom... More
Hollis Street Theater, Hollis Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Built as a church 1810. Remodeled for a theatre 1885. Demolished 1935. Architect John R. Hall. Survey number: HABS MA-157 Building/structure dates: 1885 Subsequent Work
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...
The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More
Dorchester Heights Monument, Thomas Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: The Dorchester Heights Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service. The monument commemorates the fortification of the Heights which forced the evacuation of th... More
Dorchester Heights Monument, Thomas Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: The Dorchester Heights Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service. The monument commemorates the fortification of the Heights which forced the evacuation of th... More
Anderson Electric Company, 293 A Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: The Anderson Electric Company building is considered a contributing structure in the Fort Point Channel National Register District, which has been determined eligible for the National Register. T... More
Anderson Electric Company, 293 A Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: The Anderson Electric Company building is considered a contributing structure in the Fort Point Channel National Register District, which has been determined eligible for the National Register. T... More
Hyde-Worthen House, 69 Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown, Suffolk County,...
Survey number: HABS MA-192 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tool House, Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-498 Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hyde-Lincoln House, 32 Cordis Avenue, Charlestown, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-299 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
Hyde-Lincoln House, 32 Cordis Avenue, Charlestown, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-299 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
United States Post Office Garage, 135 A Street (northeast corner A & W...
Significance: Built in 1940-41 by the federal Public Buildings Administration, the United States Post Office Garage survives as a rare Boston-area of example of the International Style of architecture. This fu... More
United States Post Office Garage, 135 A Street (northeast corner A & W...
Significance: Built in 1940-41 by the federal Public Buildings Administration, the United States Post Office Garage survives as a rare Boston-area of example of the International Style of architecture. This fu... More
United States Post Office Garage, 135 A Street (northeast corner A & W...
Significance: Built in 1940-41 by the federal Public Buildings Administration, the United States Post Office Garage survives as a rare Boston-area of example of the International Style of architecture. This fu... More
United States Post Office Garage, 135 A Street (northeast corner A & W...
Significance: Built in 1940-41 by the federal Public Buildings Administration, the United States Post Office Garage survives as a rare Boston-area of example of the International Style of architecture. This fu... More
Marshall-Hancock House, 10 Marshall Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-2-55 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial Construction
Marshall-Hancock House, 10 Marshall Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-2-55 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial Construction
Marshall-Hancock House, 10 Marshall Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-2-55 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial Construction
East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...
Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More
East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...
Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More
East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...
Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More
East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...
Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 9, Between Piers 8 & 10, along Mystic Rive...
Significance: Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and Pier 9 occupies the site of one of the early wharfs at Charlestown Navy Yard. Originally known as Sh... More
Old St. Patrick's Church, Northampton Street, Boston, Suffolk County, ...
Survey number: HABS MA-154 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction
Old St. Patrick's Church, Northampton Street, Boston, Suffolk County, ...
Survey number: HABS MA-154 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction
William Clapp House, 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Caleb Smith Slave House, Commack, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-371-A Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caleb Smith Slave House, Commack, Suffolk County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-371-A Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Li...
Significance: The construction of South Station in 1896-98, involved the rerouting of several of the old lines from the west and south. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad constructed a six-track rollin... More
Bird-Sawyer House, 41 Humphreys Street, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-81 Survey number: HABS MA-278 Building/structure dates: 16h1 Initial Construction
Boston City Hall, 41-45 School Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Old City Hall is significant as one of the first major structures in the country to be built in the French Second Empire style and as a nationally-known work which inspired the building of other s... More
Boston City Hall, 41-45 School Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Old City Hall is significant as one of the first major structures in the country to be built in the French Second Empire style and as a nationally-known work which inspired the building of other s... More
Boston City Hall, 41-45 School Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Old City Hall is significant as one of the first major structures in the country to be built in the French Second Empire style and as a nationally-known work which inspired the building of other s... More
Boston City Hall, 41-45 School Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Old City Hall is significant as one of the first major structures in the country to be built in the French Second Empire style and as a nationally-known work which inspired the building of other s... More
Boston Elevated Railway, Elevated Mainline, Washington Street, Boston,...
Significance: Elevated structure is the last remaining portion of a formerly extensive elevated rapid transit system built at the turn of the century in Boston. / This portion of the Orange Line elevated is his... More
Boston Elevated Railway, Elevated Mainline, Washington Street, Boston,...
Significance: Elevated structure is the last remaining portion of a formerly extensive elevated rapid transit system built at the turn of the century in Boston. / This portion of the Orange Line elevated is his... More
Boston Elevated Railway, Elevated Mainline, Washington Street, Boston,...
Significance: Elevated structure is the last remaining portion of a formerly extensive elevated rapid transit system built at the turn of the century in Boston. / This portion of the Orange Line elevated is his... More
Fenway Court, Carriage House, 280 The Fenway, Boston, Suffolk County, ...
Significance: It is significant as a part of Fenway Court for its association with the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and as an example of an American residence designed to house a museum collection Unproces... More
Fenway Court, Carriage House, 280 The Fenway, Boston, Suffolk County, ...
Significance: It is significant as a part of Fenway Court for its association with the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and as an example of an American residence designed to house a museum collection Unproces... More
Harrison Gray Otis House (second), 85 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Suf...
Significance: This is the second of three mansions designed by the noted architect Charles Bulfinch for Harrison Gray Otis and the only one of the three which has been used continuously as a private residence. ... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 10, Between Piers 9 & 11 along Mystic Rive...
Significance: Pier 10 is one of four piers built at Charlestown Navy Yard in the decade prior to World War I. Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and occu... More
Charlestown Navy Yard, Ropewalk & Tar House, Boston, Suffolk County, M...
See also HAER No. MA-90-2, Ropewalk Significance: The Ropewalk (Building 58) and the Tar House (Building 60) were the principal structures in the Charlestown Navy Yard's rope manufacturing complex. From 1838 t... More
Windmill at Water Mill, Montauk Highway & Halsey Lane, Water Mill, Suf...
Significance: The Windmill at Water Mill is one of 11 extant late 18th and early 19th century wind-driven gristmills on eastern Long Island; it served the milling needs of local farmers when eastern Long Island... More
"The Gothic" Apartment House, 47 Allen Street, Boston, Suffolk County,...
Significance: This apartment is typical of the housing built about 1900 which was demolished for the Boston West End Redevelopment. Survey number: HABS MA-669 Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction
Arlington Street Church, Arlington & Boylston Streets, Boston, Suffolk...
Survey number: HABS MA-817 Public domain photograph of neoclassical architecture building, element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
South Station Tower No. 1 & Interlocking System, Dewey Square, Boston,...
Significance: South Station's interlocking system was a prototypical solution to the problem of handling the huge numbers of track and signal changes required at a large railroad terminal. The interlocking sys... More
South Station Tower No. 1 & Interlocking System, Dewey Square, Boston,...
Significance: South Station's interlocking system was a prototypical solution to the problem of handling the huge numbers of track and signal changes required at a large railroad terminal. The interlocking sys... More