Leiter I Building, 200-208 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Cook County, I...
Significance: The first Leiter Building, built in 1879, has been cited as a Chicago Architectural Landmark, "In recognition of its contribution towards the development of skeleton construction. Cast iron pilast... More
Convention Center Site, I Street, 900 & 1000 Block, Tenth Street, 800 ...
Significance: Included in the Convention Center Site were many examples of 19th and 20th century residential, commercial, and mixed use buildings, such as: the American Mosaic Company Building (DC-387), Pepco P... 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
Niobrara Valley Bank, Fifth Avenue & Maple Street, Niobrara, Knox Coun...
Significance: The Niobrara Valley Bank, organized in the early 1880s was Niobrara's first banking institution. It served the community for more than forty years before closing its doors in the mid 1920s. The ... More
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Brown-Hayes Department...
Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More
Sallie Zetterower House, 331 South Main Street, Statesboro, Bulloch Co...
Significance: Part of the South Main Street Residential Historic District. The district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in September 6, 1989 as part of the Downtown Statesboro Multiple Pr... More
Commercial Block, Main & First Streets, Roscoe, St. Clair County, MO
Significance: This late 19th century commercial structure features cast iron storefronts, pressed metal cornices, and a pressed metal ceiling. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-66 ... More
Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA
See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More
Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA
See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More
James N. Jones House, 1460 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Wayne Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS MI-13 Building/structure dates: 18t4 Initial Construction
Historic Zone, Block Study, Calle de las Cruz,Sol,Luna & San Jose, San...
Significance: This block, a typical division of San Juan Antiguo, is composed of eighteen one-, two-, and three-story masonry buildings facing directly onto surrounding streets. Most of these buildings were bui... More
Johnson Wax Corporation Building, 1525 Howe Street, Racine, Racine Cou...
Significance: Corporate complex, noted example of Wright's commercial design. Survey number: HABS WI-284
Cullinan Building, 415 Seventh Street, Northwest, Washington, District...
Significance: A late nineteenth century building on a historic commercial street, with attractive architectural features. Survey number: HABS DC-225 Building/structure dates: ca. 1883 Initial Construction
Phillips-Thompson Building, 200-206 East Fourth Street, Wilmington, Ne...
Significance: Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1980, the Phillips-Thompson Building is an excellent example of late nineteenth-century urban commercial architecture. Built in 188... More
McConaughey Building, 1 Waynesburg Avenue, Cameron, Marshall County, W...
Significance: Constructed circa 1870, the McConaughey Building survived the Cameron fire of 1894, making it the earliest extant building within the corporate limits of Cameron. Survey number: HABS WV-294 Buil... More
504-510 West Broad Street (Commercial Buildings), Richmond, Independen...
Survey number: HABS VA-362 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
51-69 Government Street (Commercial Building), Mobile, Mobile County, ...
Survey number: HABS AL-62-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Native Daughters of the Golden West Building, Jackson, Amador County, ...
Survey number: HABS CA-1509 Public domain photograph - car advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lakeside Press, 731 South Plymouth Court, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: The Lakeside Press, designed by Howard Von Doren Shaw, is one of few large buildings designed by any of the group of architects identified as the Prairie School. Survey number: HABS IL-1020 Buil... More
211-213 King Street (Commercial Building), Charleston, Charleston Coun...
Significance: A mid 19th century commercial building of interesting architectural character. It has a masonry front approaching skeletal proportions, with interesting details; condition is fairly good. Survey ... More
Potomac Electric Power Company Substation, 405 Eighth Street, Northwes...
Significance: As an isolated entity, the substation constitutes a pleasant example of small-scale industrial architecture popular in Washington at the turn of the century. The typical Queen Anne integration of... More
19-21 North Water Street (Commercial Building), Mobile, Mobile County,...
Survey number: HABS AL-65-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Merchants & Mechanics Savings Bank, Seventh & G Streets Northwest, Was...
Survey number: HABS DC-239 Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Initial Construction
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
Rene Beauregard House, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, LA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS LA-18-7 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Rene Beauregard House, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, LA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS LA-18-7 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Rene Beauregard House, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, LA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS LA-18-7 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Rene Beauregard House, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, LA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS LA-18-7 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Faneuil Hall, Dock Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Faneuil Hall was called the "Cradle of Liberty" because many important meetings of protest were held here before the Revolution. It was the first Colonial attempt at academic design, completed in... More
Downtown Boscobel, 826-1120 Wisconsin Avenue, Boscobel, Grant County, ...
Significance: The proposed Boscobel Downtown Historic District is of local significance as a fine collection of primarily mid and late nineteenth century and early twentieth century commercial buildings that ar... More
510 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Ridgely, Caroline County, MD
Significance: Typical Country Store, originally used as a General Store. Developed by 1913 into a Hardware and Building Supply Store, with supporting Sawmill and Lumberyard. Survey number: HABS MD-970 Buildi... More
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
515 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...
Significance: Although much altered, 515 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875, is a good example of a post-Civil War Italianate brick rowhouse. This type of building was constructed throughout Washingto... More
Main Street, South Side (Buildings), 18-54 Main Street, Nantucket, Nan...
Significance: All buildings built after the fire of 1846; typical late nineteenth and early twentieth century retail shopping street. Survey number: HABS MA-950 Building/structure dates: ca. 18h2 Initial Construction
Central Union Telephone Company Building, 311 North Wayne Street, Piqu...
Significance: The structure was begun on April 16, 1918 and finished in late June of 1919. The new structure combined and consolidated the offices and telephone switching boards of the Central Union Telephone C... More
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 472-550 Auburn Avenue ...
Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More
Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince Georg...
Significance: Hyattsville Hardware is an intact turn-of-the-century hardware store with original interior features such as a pressed-tin ceiling, shelving, cases and bins. It is also of interest as one of few ... More
La Casa Grande, Park Avenue, Clifton, Greenlee County, AZ
Significance: Constructed ca. 1874, La Casa Grande is the oldest known extant building in Greenlee County. It was constructed by Henry Lesinsky who, with his brother Charles and Uncle Jules Frudenthal, opened ... More
A. J. McDonald Homeplace, 103 West Roanoke Drive, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill...
Significance: The architectural style of this particular structure was typical for this period of history. The home was used as a personal residence until 1978, a rental house from 1978-1981 and a commercial bu... More
Plaza House, 507-511 North Main Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...
Significance: Designed by the architectural firm of Kysor & Morgan, it is significant for its historical and architectural contribution to the evolution of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles, the original City of Los... More
Victor Block, 202 West Harrison Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: The Victor was among the most handsome and celebrated business blocks of early Guthrie, as well as the largest. Erected for one of the most successful developers of the commercial district, the b... More
Victor Block, 202 West Harrison Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
Significance: The Victor was among the most handsome and celebrated business blocks of early Guthrie, as well as the largest. Erected for one of the most successful developers of the commercial district, the b... More
Metal Exchange Building, 234 Pearl Street, New York, New York County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33, FN-34 Survey number: HABS NY-431 Building/structure dates: ca. 1846 Initial Construction
Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...
Significance: The Field-Pacheo Complex is a commercial and residential complex covering half a block. The two-story, brick corner Field-Pacheco building was built after 1894 as a combination store and residence... More
16-22 South Sixh Street (Commercial), Fort Dodge, Webster County, IA
Significance: 16, 18, 20, and 22 South Sixth Street compose a rare (for Fort Dodge) surviving business block retaining a set of first-floor, Queen-Anne-Revival-style, cast-iron store fronts. No. 16, which pred... More
Washington Park (Buildings), Maine, Fourth, Hampshire, & Fifth Streets...
Structures include Lincoln-Douglas Hotel, 115-117 Fourth Street, 119-123 Fourth Street, 127-131 Fourth Street, 403-407 Hampshire, 419-417 Hampshire, 419-423 Hampshire, 134-130 Fifth, 128-120 Fifth, 118-112 Fift... More
Content Corner, Southwest corner of Wallace & Jackson Streets, Virgini...
Significance: This is one of the earliest (1864) 2 story stone buildings built in Virginia City. The 2nd floor was leased to serve as the Territorial Administrative Offices for the newly formed Territory of Mon... More
Metropolitan Building, 25-107 John R Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Significance: This is a significant example of the kind of speculative commercial construction commonplace in Detroit during the city's period of rapid growth brought about by the success of the automobile indu... More
10 North Warren Street (Commercial Building), 10 North Warren Street, ...
Significance: A restrained example of late 19th century commercial architecture with original details reflecting the influence of the Victorian Gothic style, and subsequent storefront alterations in the popular... 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
Small Block, 704 North Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, ...
Significance: Built in 1866, this Italianate business block is one of the older buildings remaining in downtown Milwaukee and is one of a group of commercial blocks, all erected in the 1860s and 1870s, which st... More
Kid-Chandler & Kid-Physick Houses, 323-325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia...
Significance: The adjoining brick houses, built as speculative properties, are a good example of an early Philadelphia use of the first floor as commercial space and the second floor as main living quarters. Th... More
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
7 North Commerce Street (Commercial Building), Mobile, Mobile County, ...
Significance: Before the Civil War, three old adjoining buildings were renovated, creating the single existing structure. The facades were reworked, unifying the exterior, cast-iron decorative elements were ad... More
4 Garfield Place (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, O...
Significance: Italianate late-nineteenth-century commercial building contributing in size, scale, and date to the older commercial homogeneity of the area. Survey number: HABS OH-2349 Building/structure dates... More
Sinsel Hardware Building, 2 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cameron, Marshall Cou...
Significance: This brick structure, built ca. 1910 and located in Cameron's central business district, is an example of an early twentieth century commercial brick building, unusual for its parallelogram shape.... More
Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...
2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More
Chesneau Mansion, 533 Saint Louis Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish,...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Chesneau Mansion, situated along St. Louis Street in the renowned Quarter Francaise of New Orleans is one of the finest examples of late eight... More
Reed Building, 2125 Market Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This 1885 dry goods store has a long history of mercantile activity in the Centre Market area of Wheeling. The Market Street facade reveals a sharp distinction between the commercial and resident... More
Mitchell Building, 207 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Coun...
Significance: This large commercial structure of 1876 is representative of the period of Milwaukee's rapid growth and commercial development following the Civil War. Survey number: HABS WI-156 Building/struct... More
Convention Center Site, I Street, 900 & 1000 Block, Tenth Street, 800 ...
Significance: Included in the Convention Center Site were many examples of 19th and 20th century residential, commercial, and mixed use buildings, such as: the American Mosaic Company Building (DC-387), Pepco P... More
Niobrara Valley Bank, Fifth Avenue & Maple Street, Niobrara, Knox Coun...
Significance: The Niobrara Valley Bank, organized in the early 1880s was Niobrara's first banking institution. It served the community for more than forty years before closing its doors in the mid 1920s. The ... More
Tracy Building, 532-527 French Street, Erie, Erie County, PA
Written data includes a site plan. Significance: Site was purchased in 1826 by John A. Tracy, who erected a wooden commercial and residential building that was replaced after a fire by a brick commercial struct... More
House of Crane Building, 124 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Mari...
Significance: Built in 1866-67, the House of Crane Building was one of the original commercial structures erected to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil... More
920-930 F Street, Northwest (Commercial Buildings), Washington, Distri...
Significance: 920,922-24 and 926 F Street Northwest are three small-scale brick commercial structures which illustrate the traditional building patterns associated with the late 19th and early 20th century comm... More
U.S. Naval Air Station, Post Office, 446 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...
Significance: Building No. 223, constructed as a Post Office in 1918, reflects Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola's development from its initial establishment in 1914 as a naval aeronautical station through its ... More
Commercial Block, Main & First Streets, Roscoe, St. Clair County, MO
Significance: This late 19th century commercial structure features cast iron storefronts, pressed metal cornices, and a pressed metal ceiling. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-66 ... More
Commercial Block, Main & First Streets, Roscoe, St. Clair County, MO
Significance: This late 19th century commercial structure features cast iron storefronts, pressed metal cornices, and a pressed metal ceiling. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-66 ... More
Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, PA
See also HALS PA-21 for additional documentation. Significance: The mansion house at Graeme Park -a rare surviving example of early colonial American architecture -was conceived of as a utilitarian structure on... More
Phillip Morris Leaf Storage Warehouse, 1717-1721 East Cary Street, Ric...
Significance: Built as a warehouse in the early-twentieth century, this building stands as an excellent example of the sparingly ornamented yet functionally designed commercial structure of the turn-of-the-cent... More
1143-1167 Elm Street (Commercial Buildings), Manchester, Hillsborough ...
Significance: The several structures that comprised the Ferretti Building were constructed during the early development of Manchester on lots laid out by the Amoskeag Company. As originally designed, Ferretti ... More
Virginia Fire & Marine Insurance Building, 1015 East Main Street, Rich...
Significance: This structure is an exceptionally fine example of Richmond's iron-fronted commercial buildings erected in the years after the Civil War. Further distinguishing this building is the free-standing ... More
Johnson Wax Corporation Building, 1525 Howe Street, Racine, Racine Cou...
Significance: Corporate complex, noted example of Wright's commercial design. Survey number: HABS WI-284
Jayne Building, 242-244 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-111 Survey number: HABS PA-188 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1851 Subsequent Work Building/struc... More
City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...
Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More
Aluminum Building, 215 Governor Street, Richmond, Independent City, Vi...
Survey number: HABS VA-652 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description