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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]

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, 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), 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

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 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 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...

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

Singer Tower and huge office buildings, seen from ferry in North River...

Photograph shows three men on ferry looking at boats and New York City in the distance.

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 & ...

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 & ...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing "I Am The Light Of Th...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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, 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 roc...

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

High Rocks Lookout Tower Guard House, Cherokee, Swain County, NC

Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 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,...

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, ...

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

Missouri Botanical Garden, Ridgway Center, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Sa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Sheridan, Ill., tower above general quarters

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Redwood Cooling Tower, U.S. Highway ...

Public domain photograph of Redwood National Park, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Redwood Cooling Tower, U.S. Highway ...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

Hat Point Fire Lookout Tower, Forest Service Road #4340, 24 miles from...

Significance: One of the few remaining operational fire lookout towers in the United States. The Hat Point Lookout is manned every fire season by a Forest Service lookout. The Tower is located on the edge of ... More

Hat Point Fire Lookout Tower, Forest Service Road #4340, 24 miles from...

Significance: One of the few remaining operational fire lookout towers in the United States. The Hat Point Lookout is manned every fire season by a Forest Service lookout. The Tower is located on the edge of ... More

Massachusetts Block, 1525 Tower Avenue, Superior, Douglas County, WI

Significance: The Massachusetts Block is one of eighteen commercial blocks erected between 1888 and 1892 by the Land and River Improvement Company of New Jersey. Designed by Carl Worth, the Massachusetts Block... More

Massachusetts Block, 1525 Tower Avenue, Superior, Douglas County, WI

Significance: The Massachusetts Block is one of eighteen commercial blocks erected between 1888 and 1892 by the Land and River Improvement Company of New Jersey. Designed by Carl Worth, the Massachusetts Block... More

Promenade Street Interlocking Tower, Promenade Street between Union St...

Significance: The structure houses the interlocking n signal equipment which regulates all train movements on the east end of Union Station for the main rail to Boston and for the east side branch to Bristol. ... More

Mispillion Lighthouse, Beacon Tower, South bank of Mispillion River at...

Significance: The beacon tower is associated with Mispillion Lighthouse, one of three surviving lighthouses in Delaware, and is an early example of the importance of steel-frame tower construction in providing ... More

Sparks Shot Tower, 129-131 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1621 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Creswell-Rozzle Ranch, Water Tower, Voss, Coleman County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-3352-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chollas Heights Naval Radio Transmitting Facility, Tower 32, 6410 Zero...

Survey number: HAER CA-154-P Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction

St. Peter's Episcopal Church & Bell Tower, Water State (State Route 10...

Survey number: HABS VA-261 Public domain photograph - monument, cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free to use, n... More

Bonnet House, Art Studio & Tower, 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdal...

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-42 Survey number: HABS FL-366-A Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction

Manzanar Relocation Center from tower / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Bird's-eye view of grounds from guard tower; view west, showing buildings, roads, and Sierra Nevada mountains in background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-... More

Olive Tower, 1624 Boren Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Olive Tower is a fourteen story modernistic apartment house, simply executed in a cream colored stucco finish with ivory colored terra cotta trim. Its vertical emphasis and Gothic treatment o... More

Olive Tower, 1624 Boren Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Olive Tower is a fourteen story modernistic apartment house, simply executed in a cream colored stucco finish with ivory colored terra cotta trim. Its vertical emphasis and Gothic treatment o... More

Balboa Park, California Tower, Balboa Park, El Prado Area, San Diego, ...

Significance: One of the most outstanding examples of Spanish Baroque reproduction in North America. The Tower was designed in the Spanish Chereguesque style to express the Spanish heritage of California by Be... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Security Guard Tower, Florida Street at Ai...

Survey number: HAER NY-326-F Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Deep Well Pump House & Tower, Twining Street...

Significance: The Deep Well Pump House and Tower (Building No. 1808) was built in 1953, probably in response to the base's increasing population at the time. It represents Ellsworth's significant growth in both... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Deep Well Pump House & Tower, Twining Street...

Significance: The Deep Well Pump House and Tower (Building No. 1808) was built in 1953, probably in response to the base's increasing population at the time. It represents Ellsworth's significant growth in both... More

Tower on the wall - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 206. Written on back: Grand; office. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Lualualei Radio Transmitter, Edison & T...

Significance: Antenna Towers S-109, S-110, S-111 are uncategorized facilities located outside the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. The historical significance of the towers is due to their role both du... More

Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, ...

Significance: The substantial, three-story tower is the only intact structure remaining from the late nineteenth-century Chautauqua community based at Glen Echo, Maryland. The stonework reinforces the tower's ... More

Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, ...

Significance: The substantial, three-story tower is the only intact structure remaining from the late nineteenth-century Chautauqua community based at Glen Echo, Maryland. The stonework reinforces the tower's ... More

Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, ...

Significance: The substantial, three-story tower is the only intact structure remaining from the late nineteenth-century Chautauqua community based at Glen Echo, Maryland. The stonework reinforces the tower's ... More

Glen Echo Park, Chautauqua Tower, 7300 McArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, ...

Significance: The substantial, three-story tower is the only intact structure remaining from the late nineteenth-century Chautauqua community based at Glen Echo, Maryland. The stonework reinforces the tower's ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Mattes Street...

Public domain image of a historic place, portal, arch, doorway, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Missouri Botanical Garden, Administration Building, 2345 Tower Grove A...

Significance: The structure housed the Shaw School of Botany and was built to be a harmonious addition to the Henry Shaw Townhouse, a dwelling in the Renaissance Revival style, erected more than 50 years before... More

Tower Grove Park, Superintendent's House, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint L...

Significance: Park Superintendent, Miss Bernice E. Gurney, and family. This well-preserved and finely proportioned dwelling has Classical Revival features combined with an irregular towered silhouette character... More

Tower Creek series. The Tower - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

No. 77. Part of series: Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by 122 views.

Marvel Water Tower, Bibb County Road 10, Marvel, Bibb County, AL

Survey number: HAER AL-120 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Control Tower 19, Maintence Shed, Santa Fe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Vestner Tower, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany]. Photochrom print, 1880-1...

Historic Sites Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker Water Tower Building, U.S. Route 68, Shakertown, Mercer County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-59 Survey number: HABS KY-84 Building/structure dates: ca. 1871 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work National Reg... More

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana Stat...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The LSU Livestock Judging Pavilion was constructed in 1923 at a cost of $62,000. It was one of the first group of 21 buildings built on the campus, all... More

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana Stat...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The LSU Livestock Judging Pavilion was constructed in 1923 at a cost of $62,000. It was one of the first group of 21 buildings built on the campus, all... More

Louisiana State University, Livestock Judging Pavilion, Louisiana Stat...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The LSU Livestock Judging Pavilion was constructed in 1923 at a cost of $62,000. It was one of the first group of 21 buildings built on the campus, all... More

New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, Shell Interlocking Tower, Ne...

Significance: Although the Shell Interlocking Tower no longer contains its original interlocking equipment, it is architecturally significant as representative of the type of structure built by the New York, Ne... More

New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, Shell Interlocking Tower, Ne...

Significance: Although the Shell Interlocking Tower no longer contains its original interlocking equipment, it is architecturally significant as representative of the type of structure built by the New York, Ne... More

Samuel Phillips House, Tower Hill Road (U.S. Route 1), Belleville, Was...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS RI-50 Building/structure dates: 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1960 Demolished

Samuel Phillips House, Tower Hill Road (U.S. Route 1), Belleville, Was...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS RI-50 Building/structure dates: 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1960 Demolished

Church of St. James the Less, Wanamaker Tower, 3200 West Clearfield St...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church of St. James the Less, Wanamaker Tower, 3200 West Clearfield St...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Z Tower, State Route 46, Keyser, Mineral Co...

Survey number: HAER WV-91 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago Water Tower, 800 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...

Significance: The City Club, built in 1911, is representative of the work of Pond and Pond. Being a Chicago firm, many of its designs were carried out in this city in the early decades of the 20th century. Sur... More

Chicago Water Tower, 800 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...

Significance: The City Club, built in 1911, is representative of the work of Pond and Pond. Being a Chicago firm, many of its designs were carried out in this city in the early decades of the 20th century. Sur... More

[Bermuda Hundred, Virginia Butler's signal tower; another view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

Keechelus Dam, Outlet Tower, Yakim River, 10 miles northwest of Easton...

Survey number: HAER WA-80-D Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keechelus Dam, Outlet Tower, Yakim River, 10 miles northwest of Easton...

Survey number: HAER WA-80-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keechelus Dam, Outlet Tower, Yakim River, 10 miles northwest of Easton...

Survey number: HAER WA-80-D Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description