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Providence Downtown & CVS Facade
The Westminster Street shopping area was closed to vehicle traffic in the early 1960s in an effort to bring shoppers back to downtown Providence. The buildings in the area varied in architectural style. Some buildings have been removed, yet…
Historic Stephen Hopkins House (1974)
In 1743, Stephen Hopkins purchased a home built in 1707. Hopkins attached his own two-story house to the structure, built with a single ground floor room on either side of a central hallway and two chimneys
Historic East Side
The East Side of Providence is populated with historic homes. The area known as College Hill and Benefit Street are particularly ripe with historic homes built in the late 18th century, before and after the American Revolution. The federal style of…
Providence: Prescott O. Clarke House
This 2 1/2-story Tudor Revival house was designed by Prescott O. Clarke. Clarke was a principal in the architectural firm Clarke & Spaulding and designed the home for his own residence. The home was one of the first Tudor Revival houses in Providence…
Connecticut: Historic Saltbox House
A historical saltbox house in Litchfield, Connecticut. The saltbox style is a Colonial design that originated in New England in around 1650. They are characterized by having two stories in the front of the house and only one in the back, with a small…
Cornelius Vanderbilt II House (The Breakers)
The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1895 after its destruction in a fire in 1892. This home was originally a wood-frame house named The Breakers designed by Peabody and Stearns in 1877 and owned by Pierre…
Worcester City Hall
On Main St. in Worcester, Massachusetts, is Worcester City Hall with its notable clock tower.
Worcester City Hall, completed in 1898, features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, such as projecting porches, window balconies, and…
Worcester City Hall, completed in 1898, features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, such as projecting porches, window balconies, and…
Worcester City Hall, Renovation
Worcester City Hall photographed from an office building at 120 Front Street.
Worcester City Hall opened in 1898, and features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, such as its projecting porches, window balconies, and grand central…
Worcester City Hall opened in 1898, and features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, such as its projecting porches, window balconies, and grand central…
Richmond: Albert S. Potter Octagonal House
This early Victorian, two-story, wood-frame octagonal home was built in 1857 by watchmaker Albert S. Potter. As of 2016, the house is owned by the Carolina Preservation and Band Society and is listed as a landmark in the National Register of Historic…
Hall's Building (detail)
Detail of the Hall's Building on Weybossett Street showing the storefront prior to restoration in 1981. The Hall's Building is a cast-iron, five story structure built in the Victorian Gothic style. This detail shows the corbel-and-bracketed cornice…
Equitable Building and Wilcox Building
Pictured on the left, the Equitable Building (1872, 36 Weybosset St.) features a locally cast iron "Venetian" facade that is the best preserved of the few cast-iron facades in the city. The facade was cast by the Builders Iron Foundry. The design of…
Downtown Providence: Lauderdale Building
The Lauderdale building was designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson and constructed in 1894. The design received national attention when it published June 30, 1894 in American Architect and Building News, which made mention of it's "fireproof"…
Joseph and William Russell House
The Joseph and William Russell House was a once-handsome and sophisticated dwelling in the late Georgian Style, and is the earliest remaining example of the kind of three story, cubicle brick houses that were built to symbolize in 18th century…
Federal Building, Equitable Building, and Wilcox Building
The Federal Building (left) was completed in 1857 in the format of an Italianate Renaissance palace. Though not visible, the building is capped by an iron-cast dome that was conceived after construction on the building began. The intent of the dome…
Exchange Bank Building
The Exchange Bank Building, pictured here in 1979, is a commercial building in the Queen Anne style. The brick building featured granite trim typical of commercial buildings, and was rehabilitated as part of the Fleet Center complex in the 1980's.
John Barstow House
The former home of John Barstow at 60 Waterman Street in the College Hill neighborhood. The East Side is also home to Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and several historic homes and buildings.
John Barstow (1791-1861) was a…
John Barstow (1791-1861) was a…
Washington Street
Washington Street and the corner of Mathewson Street, photographed in 1978. The Shepard Building, pictured at the left, was home to the Shepard Department store. At its height the company occupied surrounding buildings, expanding to cover two-blocks.…
Historic Joseph Brown House
Joseph Brown was one of the four famous Brown brothers of Providence who were heirs to the shipping fortune of their father. Joseph Brown taught mathematics and astronomy at Brown University, but was also an amateur architect. Brown built this home…
John Brown House 1789
One of America's grandest mansions when completed in 1788, the house at 52 Power Street was home first to John Brown, a businessman, patriot, politician, China Trade pioneer and slave trader who participated in the debates and practices that shaped…
Historic James Burrough House
John Holden Greene built two houses neighboring each other on Power Street. The first of two, pictured here, was built for James Burrough at 160 Power Street. Greene was known for his monitor-on-hip-roof which he featured in this small-scale home.…
Prescott and Mary Clarke House
This English Tudor Revival was built in 1896 for Prescott and Mary Clarke. The sprawling home, designed by Clarke and Spaulding, is considered one of the most exceptional architectural designs on Blackstone Boulevard.
The Proprietors of the Swan…
Union Trust Company Building (Detail)
The building looks like a skyscraper due to its slender massing. The client for this building was bank president Marsden J. Perry. Building was built by architects Stone, Carpenter & Willson. A 12-story, brick and stone sheathed, steel frame…
Armory District, Wood Street
The Armory Historic District of Providence was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Cranston Street Armory is visible in the background of these Wood Street houses. Houses in the area vary in style from Greek Revival,…
Independent Man Statue, State House
The “Independent Man” statue, which was erected on the top of the Rhode Island State House in 1899, was removed in 1975 for repairs and to receive a new coat of gold leaf. It was returned in the summer of 1976, and was the only time it left it’s…
Woonsocket Village & Marquette Building
Woonsocket under went a revitalization process in the 1970s, specifically in an area known as the Social Flatlands. This photograph shows Woonsocket Village, a housing development that replaced neighborhoods that had formerly been multiple family…
Allentown: Hamilton St. Lighting and Pennsylvania Light & Power Building
The street lights on Hamilton St. were installed in 1916 and remained until the 1970s when revitalization ended up junking the ornate lamp posts. The flower bowl lamp posts were suggested by Mayor Alfred L. Reichenbach’s wife, Maude, after returning…
London: Eaton Square
Eaton Square is actually a long narrow square west of Buckingham Palace in Belgravia, a district of Central London. Most of Belgravia was developed, under the supervision of Thomas Cubitt, when George IV commissioned the rebuilding of Buckingham…
Moscow: View Across Moskva River
The large building at the right was, at the time of this photograph, the Hotel Bucharest. The original structure, dating to 1898, was designed by local architect Alexander Ivanov. During the 20th century the building changed ownership numerous times…
Rio de Janeiro: Contrasting Architecture
This photograph shows contrasting styles of architecture in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Here we see a row of 19th century buildings on Rua Acre with the modernist twenty two story building, The Night, at the end of the street. The older buildings are…
Kharkiv: Annunciation Cathedral
The Annunciation Cathedral is a Neo-Byzantine building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was designed at the end of the Byzantine Revival by Mikhail Lovtsov, an architect local to Kharkiv. Completed in 1901, it’s 80-meter bell tower made it one of the tallest…
Moscow: State Historical Museum
The State Historical Museum is located at the end of Red Square in Moscow. It was designed by Sherwood and Semyonov (Berton, 177) at the end of the nineteenth century. It’s facade employs a psuedo-Russian style which arbitrarily incorporates designs…
Saint Petersburg: Cathedral of Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
While multiple versions of St. Isaac Cathedral had been attempted in the 18th century none had been completed to specification. At the beginning of the 19th century Alexander I commissioned this final, and much more grand vision of the Saint Isaac's…
Charleston: Four Corners of Law
The intersection of Broad and Meeting, seen here in this aerial photograph, is known as the Four Corners of Law, because of St. Michael’s Church (Divine), City Hall (local), the Charleston County Courthouse (County), and the U.S. Post Office and…
Disney World: Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom
Main Street USA is a themed land at Magic Kingdom styled parks run by The Walt Disney Company. This photograph shows the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, Florida. Main Street USA mixes architectural styles from around the United States at the turn of…
Charleston: White Point Gardens, Fort Sumter Hotel, Battery Carriage House
This photograph of downtown Charleston reflects the city’s prosperity during the nineteenth century. At the center left of the frame is the Battery Carriage House Inn, a large home built by Samuel N. Stevens in 1843. Colonel Lathers commissioned…
Chaleston: Randolph Hall at College of Charleston
The College of Charleston is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. It was founded in 1770. This photograph shows the quad and an obscured view of Randolph Hall. The building was created in two parts, the center of…
Charleston: Aerial View of “The Citadel: Military College of South Carolina”
This photograph, taken in the late 1970s, is an aerial view of the Citadel: Military College of South Carolina. The Romanesque design of the buildings was based on the architecture of the Old Citadel, which was designed by Frederick Wesner in…
Tel Aviv: Dizengoff Center
The Dizengoff Center was Israel’s first mall and was built over a period of eleven years, from 1972 to 1983. The first stores opened in 1977 and today it has a total of 420 sores. The Dizengoff Center is partly blamed for declined business on nearby…
Jerusalem: South Wall
A photograph of the south wall taken from outside of Old City Jerusalem. This wall was constructed during the Ottoman in the sixteenth century, but Jerusalem has a long history of being a fortified city with city walls dating back to ancient times.
Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Interior
The interior design of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a rhythmic sequence of light and less light designed to illicit emotional climaxes from visitors. The floor plan is based normal Roman house and palace design, the church progresses from…
Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Detail)
Also known as the Church of the Resurrection, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church built on a site venerated to be Golgotha. It was built in the third century under the rule of Constatntine at the site of Christ’s crucifixion and entombment.…
Jerusalem: Chruch of the Holy Sepulchre
Originally constructed during the rule of Emperor Constantine, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built as one of a number of memorial structures intended to, “enshrine places or objects associated with Gospel episodes or other hallowed events.”…
Jerusalem: Tomb of Bene Hezir and Tomb of Zechariah
This photograph show’s two of the monumental tombs in Kidron Valley. The tomb at the left is the Bene Hezir tomb, or Sons of Hezir. The tomb is carved into rock with a porch featuring a Doric style facade. It is the oldest tomb in the Kidron Valley…
Jerusalem: Shrine of the Book
This unique structure is the Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum that is home to the Dead Sea Scrolls. The dome has been used in several science fiction due to it’s unique design which is based on imagery from the Scroll of the War of the…
Jerusalem: Shrine of the Book
The Shrine of the Book is a museum built to house the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered between 1947 and 1956. The unusual design for the dome was based on imagery from one of the scrolls, specifically the War of the Sons of Light Against the…
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, Sculpture, Shrine of the Book
This photograph shows an unidentified outdoor sculpture at the Israel Museum. In the background the unique dome of the the Shrine of the Book peaks between the foliage.
Jerusalem: New City
This photograph looks toward the New City district of Jerusalem. In contrast to the historical and religiously significant architecture of the old city, the New City’s skyline is ripe with modernist architecture and skyscrapers in the international…
Tel Aviv: University, Diaspora Museum
Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora was designed by Eliahu Gwircmann and Itzhak Yashar after winning an international competition judged by a panel headed by Miles van der Rohe. Opened in 1978, the museum, located on Tel Aviv…
Tel Aviv: Beit Hatfutsot
This 1980 photograph shows Beit Hatfutsot just two years after it was opened. It is the Museum of the Jewish People on the campus of Tel-Aviv University. The idea was proposed by Nahum Goldman, who wanted to create a monument to the Jewish Diaspora.…
Tel Aviv: Beit Hatfutsot, Soldiers
Beit Hatfutsot the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora was opened in 1978. The design for the museum was decided by a competition in which renowned architect Miles van Rohe was the head of a panel of judges. The museum is located on the campus of Tel-Aviv…