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[Watch tower, Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, 11 soldiers in front]

[Watch tower, Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, 11 soldiers in front]

Copyrighted by St. Paul Book and Stationery Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts Ft. Snelling; Minn. Ft. Snelling; Shelf.; Geogr.

[Gas Pavilion and Swedish chalet at right, section of Eiffel Tower at left, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gas Pavilion and Swedish chalet at right, section of Eiffel Tower at ...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fountain Coutan and base of Eiffel Tower with Trocadéro Palace in background, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Fountain Coutan and base of Eiffel Tower with Trocadéro Palace in bac...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pavilion of Monaco, with base of Eiffel Tower, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Pavilion of Monaco, with base of Eiffel Tower, Paris Exposition, 1889...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eiffel Tower, with Fountain Coutan to left, looking toward Trocadéro Palace, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Eiffel Tower, with Fountain Coutan to left, looking toward Trocadéro ...

Original in PR 12, LOT 6634 Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eiffel Tower and exposition buildings on the Champ de Mars, as seen from the River Seine, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Eiffel Tower and exposition buildings on the Champ de Mars, as seen f...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

["Mont Chevalier," the tower and calvary, Cannes, Riviera]

["Mont Chevalier," the tower and calvary, Cannes, Riviera]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1063". Forms part of: Views of the French and Italian Riviera in the Photochrom ... More

[Panoramic view taken from The Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Ramleh, Holy Land, (i.e., Ramlah, Israel)]

[Panoramic view taken from The Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Ramleh, Hol...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "15004". Forms part of: Views of the Holy Land in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Quintagonal tower (i.e. Funfeckiger Turm), Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany]

[The Quintagonal tower (i.e. Funfeckiger Turm), Nuremberg, Bavaria, Ge...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1540". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Archway and St. Mark's Tower, Rothenburg (i.e. ob der Tauber), Bavaria, Germany]

[Archway and St. Mark's Tower, Rothenburg (i.e. ob der Tauber), Bavari...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Caption on item: Roderbogen & Markusturm. Print no. "16805". Forms part of: Views of Germ... More

[Sands and revolving tower, Yarmouth, England]

[Sands and revolving tower, Yarmouth, England]

Image shows the beach at Great Yarmouth, including the Revolving Tower which was built in 1897. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit... More

[The Mouse Tower, Bingen, the Rhine, Germany]

[The Mouse Tower, Bingen, the Rhine, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Title on piece: Mäuseturm bei Bingen. Print no. "9638". Forms part of: Views of Germany i... More

[Castle tower and Emperor William's Monument, Konigsberg,  East Prussia, Germany (i.e., Kaliningrad, Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)]

[Castle tower and Emperor William's Monument, Konigsberg, East Prussi...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "8211". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Castle, the round tower, Goodrich, England]

[Castle, the round tower, Goodrich, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11000". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

"Yeomen of the guard" - warders at the Tower of London (Henry VIII uniforms), England

"Yeomen of the guard" - warders at the Tower of London (Henry VIII uni...

D13430 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount under Sun Sculpture Trade Mark: Works and Studios - Washington, D.C., Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H.

[N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric Tower in center]

[N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric T...

Formerly filed as Oversize Miscellaneous, B size. Photo copyrighted by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Exhibitions New York (St.). Not on shel... More

"Maine" wreck, Havana Harbor, W. to Custom House (with tower, on right), Cuba

"Maine" wreck, Havana Harbor, W. to Custom House (with tower, on right...

H32512 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan

Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Towe...

Photographs shows people standing on side of street watching theater production in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. H45388 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 31. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount ... More

Manufactures and Education Bldgs., from wireless tel. tower s. to Festival Hall, World's Fair, St. Louis, U. S. A.

Manufactures and Education Bldgs., from wireless tel. tower s. to Fest...

H51057 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coney Island, N.Y.: View looking east from tower

Coney Island, N.Y.: View looking east from tower

Photoprint copyrighted by A. Loeffler. No. 788. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Towers; Amusement parks; Geogr.

Brooklyn Bridge from tower, New York City

Brooklyn Bridge from tower, New York City

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: New York New York City ca.1907-15; New York... More

Venice, Italy--The new campanile, San Marco

Venice, Italy--The new campanile, San Marco

Campanile under construction outside St. Mark's basilica. J152581 U.S. Copyright Office.

Foshay Tower dedication fireworks as seen from the parade, more than a mile away

Foshay Tower dedication fireworks as seen from the parade, more than a...

Photograph shows fireworks above an illuminated skyscraper at night, designed by Leon Arnal. J13595 U.S. Copyright Office. Azo photographic postcard. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 038, Box 57, Minnesota Minneapolis

North view from Abbot Hall Tower

North view from Abbot Hall Tower

J173450 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Roxbury Photo Co.; September 17, 1912. Copyright claimant's address: 6 Burton Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

Northeast from Abbot Hall tower

Northeast from Abbot Hall tower

Bird's-eye view of Marblehead, Massachusetts. J173210 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Fred. B. Litchman.

New York and West 23rd St. from Metropolitan Tower

New York and West 23rd St. from Metropolitan Tower

Bird's-eye view with Flatiron Bldg. in left foregrd. Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C-8801. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.

[Gramercy Park, between East 20th and East 21st Streets east of Park Avenue, New York, New York. View to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower]

[Gramercy Park, between East 20th and East 21st Streets east of Park A...

Site History. Park created in 1831 by Samuel B. Ruggels, managed by the Gramercy Park Association. Today: Park extant. Possibly photographed by Charles I. Berg, architect and photographer, who was secretary of ... More

Transylvania a rich province formerly belonging to Hungary is now under Roumanian rule.  This is a church tower showing the old German influence in architecture. It is in Brassav Someone told a joke to these belles of Roumania at a wayside station.

Transylvania a rich province formerly belonging to Hungary is now unde...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including a church in a plaza, Brașov, Transylvania; and peasant women, one holding a baby. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1292 (top image) and n... More

New York skyline from Welfare Island. Campanile to Tudor City from more southern point I

New York skyline from Welfare Island. Campanile to Tudor City from mor...

Public domain photograph of city skyline, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[St. Luke's Church, Smithfield vicinity, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Bell tower entrance]

[St. Luke's Church, Smithfield vicinity, Isle of Wight County, Virgini...

On slide (handwritten): "St. Luke, 1632, Isle of Wight." Slide for lecturing on "Tales Old Houses Tell." Title and date based on same image in the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, LC-J7-VA-3132... More

Tower of London. The Wakefield Tower and Bloody Tower

Tower of London. The Wakefield Tower and Bloody Tower

Copyright by Crown. Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John B. Lindale Farm, Water Tower, 24 South Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

John B. Lindale Farm, Water Tower, 24 South Main Street, Magnolia, Ken...

Survey number: HABS DE-172-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hiss Tower, 5400-5420 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hiss Tower, 5400-5420 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Cou...

Significance: This building represents a classic Moderne type of the 1920s and 1930s. A central tower is presented as an attenuated vertical block where the scale is deceptively presented so that one is not aw... More

White Rock Lookout Tower, On Mount Cammerer near the Appalachian Trail, Cosby, Cocke County, TN

White Rock Lookout Tower, On Mount Cammerer near the Appalachian Trail...

2012 Leicester B. Holland Prize, First Place Significance: The White Rock Lookout Tower, built between 1937 and 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), is representative of that time's fire management po... More

A black and white photo of a man in a control room. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man in a control room. Great Depression F...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man in a control room. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a control room. Office of War Info...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the crude-stripping tower, one of the many steps in the manufacture of the lubricants of war. Thousands of gallons of crude oil pour through this tower daily; it is here that impurities are extracted. Only the best oil is used for military purposes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the cru...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

[Control tower being constructed at Washington Dulles International Airport, Dulles, Virginia]

[Control tower being constructed at Washington Dulles International Ai...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Dulles Airport, WKL, 5/16/62." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 7851, frame 8.

[Boston Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Proposed tower. Rendering]

[Boston Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Proposed tow...

Original rendering of proposed tower by Helmut Jacoby. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Cooling Tower, In Limited Access Area, between Service Roads D & A, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Cooling Tower, In Limited Acce...

Significance: The tower provided cooling water to the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Power Plant during normal surveillance operations. Survey number: HAER ND-9-S Building/structure dates: 1972 Initial Construction

Nevada Test Site, Test Cell C Facility, Elevated Water Tower, Area 25, Jackass Flats, Road J, Mercury, Nye County, NV

Nevada Test Site, Test Cell C Facility, Elevated Water Tower, Area 25,...

Survey number: HAER NV-30-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the Las Vegas Strip, including the Paris Eiffel Tower replica. Las Vegas, Nevada

Part of the Las Vegas Strip, including the Paris Eiffel Tower replica....

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Historic Bok Tower, Lake Wales, Florida

Historic Bok Tower, Lake Wales, Florida

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Indep...

Significance: The site of important botanical research since its inception, the Garden was one of the first institutions in the country for horticultural display and education. Just ten years after it was found... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Indep...

Significance: The site of important botanical research since its inception, the Garden was one of the first institutions in the country for horticultural display and education. Just ten years after it was found... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Indep...

Significance: The site of important botanical research since its inception, the Garden was one of the first institutions in the country for horticultural display and education. Just ten years after it was found... More

Estate Hammer Farms, Windmill Tower Ruins, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Hammer Farms, Windmill Tower Ruins, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: Estate Hammer Farm is recorded as early as the 1720s. It was under cultivation before 1733. Its sugar factory site predates 1780. The windmill was constructed sometime between 1800 and 1833, pro... More

Estate Hammer Farms, Windmill Tower Ruins, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Hammer Farms, Windmill Tower Ruins, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: Estate Hammer Farm is recorded as early as the 1720s. It was under cultivation before 1733. Its sugar factory site predates 1780. The windmill was constructed sometime between 1800 and 1833, pro... More

Devil's Island Light Station, Tower, La Pointe, Ashland County, WI

Devil's Island Light Station, Tower, La Pointe, Ashland County, WI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N47 Survey number: HABS WI-324-A

Rock Creek Water Tower, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, Rock River, Albany County, WY

Rock Creek Water Tower, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroa...

Significance: The Rock Creek Water Tower is the best preserved of six extant structures of a late 19th-century town that flourished during the early days of the trans-continental railroad. Once a center for t... More

New York from tower of Brooklyn Bridge

New York from tower of Brooklyn Bridge

Photograph shows bird's-eye view of New York City with people and trolleys crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground. Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. No. 1730-7. George Grantham Bain Collection (Librar... More

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...

Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...

Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...

Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...

Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street & New Braunfels Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street...

Significance: This ninety-foot high limestone tower, built in 1876-78, stands at the center of the original Quartermaster Depot, now the Headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army, and serves as a focal point for the ... More

Death Valley Ranch, Chimes Tower, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Death Valley Ranch, Chimes Tower, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, ...

Significance: The Chimes Tower is the most prominent structure within the Death Valley Ranch complex for a variety of reasons. Its height and hilltop location, large clock, lavish use of brightly colored tile ... More

[Eiffel Tower, full-view, looking toward the Palais du Trocadéro, Paris, France]

[Eiffel Tower, full-view, looking toward the Palais du Trocadéro, Pari...

Print no. "1052". Printed on lower left: 1052. P.Z. - Paris La Tour Eiffel. Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection.

Panoramic view of Tower of London & Bridge

Panoramic view of Tower of London & Bridge

J129685 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Moffett Studio; July 24, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43847. Image is duplicate of PAN FOR GEOG - England, no. 3.

Tower Grove Park, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Tower Grove Park, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, ...

Significance: The first driving park established in St. Louis and was regarded by the noted 19th century botanist Asa gray as having no equal in the country in variety of foliage. Because of the preservation of... More

Elysian Water Tower, Pumphouse, Frank Street Northeast, Elysian, Le Sueur County, MN

Elysian Water Tower, Pumphouse, Frank Street Northeast, Elysian, Le Su...

Survey number: HAER MN-19-A Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction

Missouri Botanical Garden, Japanese Tea House, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Japanese Tea House, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue...

Survey number: HABS MO-1135-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71001065

Elysian Water Tower & Engine House, Frank Street Northeast, Elysian, Le Sueur County, MN

Elysian Water Tower & Engine House, Frank Street Northeast, Elysian, L...

Significance: The Elysian water tower is the oldest working wooden municipal water tower in the State of Minnesota. In February 1981, the water tower was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Su... More

Kineth Farm, Tower House, 19162 State Route 20, Coupeville, Island County, WA

Kineth Farm, Tower House, 19162 State Route 20, Coupeville, Island Cou...

2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: This tower house is one of two complete remaining structures of its type on Whidbey Island and it is the most intact of the two. This building illustrates th... More

John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), The Tower, 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), The Tower, 4041-4055 Ri...

Significance: The tower on the Dobson Mill site is significant as the only remnant of what had been one of the largest buildings on the site, the Brussels Carpet Mill. The structure rises above many of the Dobs... More

Tudor City Complex, Prospect Tower, 45 Tudor City Place, New York, New York County, NY

Tudor City Complex, Prospect Tower, 45 Tudor City Place, New York, New...

Survey number: HABS NY-6075-C Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Loui...

Significance: Representative of the classical mode popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the museum's significance lies in its being one of the first botanical-library-museum-herbarium complexes in the country... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Loui...

Significance: Representative of the classical mode popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the museum's significance lies in its being one of the first botanical-library-museum-herbarium complexes in the country... More

[St. Mark's Place with campanile, Venice, Italy]

[St. Mark's Place with campanile, Venice, Italy]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6979". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

Tower Grove Park, Sailboat Pond, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Tower Grove Park, Sailboat Pond, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Ind...

Significance: This is one of the principal water features of Tower Grove Park and is a well-preserved example of the Romantic landscape design favored by British and American architects in the 19th century. The... More

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Church Lane (moved from Tower Hill), Wickford, Washington County, RI

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Church Lane (moved from Tower Hill), Wick...

Survey number: HABS RI-45 Building/structure dates: 1707 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1923-1930 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000009

Lawson Water Tower, First Parish Road, Scituate, Plymouth County, MA

Lawson Water Tower, First Parish Road, Scituate, Plymouth County, MA

Significance: A unique architectural landmark, the Lawson Water Tower stands as a memorial to Thomas Lawson, the "Copper King" who is responsible for its construction. To avoid the view of an unadorned water t... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 Vandenberg Court, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 V...

Significance: The Operations Tower and Fire Station was built in 1951 as a combination operations control tower and crash truck building containing eight crash stalls for the Fire Department. The building repre... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 Vandenberg Court, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 V...

Significance: The Operations Tower and Fire Station was built in 1951 as a combination operations control tower and crash truck building containing eight crash stalls for the Fire Department. The building repre... More

Tower Grove Park, East Gate Entrance, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Tower Grove Park, East Gate Entrance, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis...

Significance: Designed as the principal entrance for vehicular traffic into Tower Grove Park. It remains an excellent example of the more formal type of landscape architecture popular in the late 19th century. ... More

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & 86, Lampe, Stone County, MO

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & ...

Significance: The Wilderness Tower Site is a Civilian Conservation Corps-built, U.S. Forest Service fire lookout station which included a 100-foot, standard plan, steel lookout tower, in addition to a towerman'... More

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & 86, Lampe, Stone County, MO

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & ...

Significance: The Wilderness Tower Site is a Civilian Conservation Corps-built, U.S. Forest Service fire lookout station which included a 100-foot, standard plan, steel lookout tower, in addition to a towerman'... More

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & 86, Lampe, Stone County, MO

Wilderness Tower Site, East of intersection of Missouri Highways 13 & ...

Significance: The Wilderness Tower Site is a Civilian Conservation Corps-built, U.S. Forest Service fire lookout station which included a 100-foot, standard plan, steel lookout tower, in addition to a towerman'... More

Devil's Tower. With water scene from east side, 1200 high, 800 diameter. Description furnished free

Devil's Tower. With water scene from east side, 1200 high, 800 diamete...

Distant view of Devils Tower in center; pool of water in foreground. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Aven...

Significance: Representative of the Renaissance Tevival style popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the structure was the town residence of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Unprocessed Fi... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Aven...

Significance: Representative of the Renaissance Tevival style popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the structure was the town residence of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Unprocessed Fi... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Aven...

Significance: Representative of the Renaissance Tevival style popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the structure was the town residence of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Unprocessed Fi... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Aven...

Significance: Representative of the Renaissance Tevival style popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the structure was the town residence of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Unprocessed Fi... More

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Missouri Botanical Garden, Henry Shaw Townhouse, 2345 Tower Grove Aven...

Significance: Representative of the Renaissance Tevival style popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the structure was the town residence of Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Unprocessed Fi... More

Tower Grove Park, West Gate House & Gate, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Tower Grove Park, West Gate House & Gate, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint L...

Significance: The only examples of the Gothic Revival style in the park. The structures are well-preserved examples of the picturesque design favored by British and American landscape architects in the 19th cen... More

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacific, Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei, Marine Barracks, Intersection of Tower Drive & Morse Street, Makaha, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Eastern Pacif...

Significance: The now-vacant Marine Barracks, Building 5, was built in 1935, and is associated with the earliest phase of the installation's development. The building, along with the Officer's housing, forms a... More

Fort Point, Observation Tower, 25 Wentworth Road, New Castle, Rockingham County, NH

Fort Point, Observation Tower, 25 Wentworth Road, New Castle, Rockingh...

Survey number: HABS NH-239-I Building/structure dates: 1942 Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Enston Home, Water Tower, 900 King Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

William Enston Home, Water Tower, 900 King Street, Charleston, Charles...

Significance: The picturesque water tower was built as part of the Home's original water and sewage system. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N233 Survey number: HABS SC-686-E Nation... More

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen rock. Tower 800 feet high from its base

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen roc...

Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Tower Grove Park, South Gate Lodge, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Tower Grove Park, South Gate Lodge, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, ...

Significance: The Lodge was the last major park structure to be built under founder Henry Shaw's supervision. It has very finely carved capitals and several other features representative of the Romanesque style... More

North Point Water Tower, East North Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

North Point Water Tower, East North Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Count...

Significance: Part of the complex erected for the Milwaukee Water Works almost one hundred years ago, the lofty Victorian Gothic Water Tower stands on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan and encloses an iron stan... More

[Eiffel Tower and general view of the grounds, Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris, France]

[Eiffel Tower and general view of the grounds, Exposition Universelle,...

Print no. "1051". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection.

Easthampton Town Hall, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, Hampshire County, MA

Easthampton Town Hall, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, Hampshire County, ...

Significance: An outstanding example of Victorian architecture, this building dominates the town center with its 133 ft. campanile and includes a tower memorializing the soldiers of the Civil War. Survey numbe... More

Baltimore & Potomac Interlocking Tower, Adjacent to AMTRAK railroad tracks in block bounded by Howard Street, Jones Falls Expressway, Maryland Avenue & Falls Road, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Potomac Interlocking Tower, Adjacent to AMTRAK railroad tr...

Significance: The tower is part of the Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station terminal complex, which represented the peak of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's development in Baltimore. The tower's design, constru... More

Armijo House, Water Tower, 301 Montano Street, Holbrook, Navajo County, AZ

Armijo House, Water Tower, 301 Montano Street, Holbrook, Navajo County...

Significance: The Armijo House is associated with the pioneering Armijo and Ortega families of Holbrook. The water tower is additionally significant as an unusual adaptation of the Second Empire style adapted t... More

Singer Tower, 149 Broadway, New York, New York County, NY

Singer Tower, 149 Broadway, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: One of the outstanding works of architect Frank Flagg, the Singer Tower was for sixty years a familiar silhouette on the New York skyline. Ironically, the height of the building had established tw... More

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Significance: The Bovey water tower was constructed in 1907 of cast iron material for the tower with a wooden-stave tank. Research into the engineering literature of the first decade of the 20th century indica... More

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Significance: The Bovey water tower was constructed in 1907 of cast iron material for the tower with a wooden-stave tank. Research into the engineering literature of the first decade of the 20th century indica... More

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Bovey Water Tower, Eighth Avenue & T.H. 169, Bovey, Itasca County, MN

Significance: The Bovey water tower was constructed in 1907 of cast iron material for the tower with a wooden-stave tank. Research into the engineering literature of the first decade of the 20th century indica... More

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