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The Old State House - ASD

Funding Deaf Education in America

In May 1816, the Connecticut state government passed an act that officially incorporated the American School for the Deaf. Later that year in October, the Connecticut legislature voted to give $5,000 in aid to the ...

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National Historic Landmark - Old State House

Designed by famed New England architect, Charles Bulfinch, and completed in 1796, the Old Statehouse was the first of Bulfinch's public buildings in his dignified Adamesque Federal style. The Hartford Convention of 1814, one the earliest debates on the ...

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United States Post Office and Custom House

Built in 1858 to house Richmond’s Federal customs house, post office, and courthouse, the original portion of the United States Post Office and Custom House is an imposing Italianate building. Its exterior is of local “Petersburg” granite, while the interior ...

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Indiana Statehouse

The Indiana State Capitol, the Statehouse, has been the seat of Indiana’s government since 1887 and is perhaps the grandest 19th-century Neo-Classical Revival building in Indiana. Alexander Ralston balanced his plan for the city with two symmetrically placed sites on ...

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The White Haven Estate: Other Houses

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

White Haven was the name given to both the house and the estate. Typical of many large plantations, other houses on the property were built and occupied by family members and slaves. White residents gave ...

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Court and State House

This edifice of which the older portion was begun in the year of Our Lord 1760 and first occupied in 1762 was used as Court and State House by the Colony and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations until ...

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National Historic Landmark -United States Custom House (NY)

National Historic Landmark -United States Custom House (New York)

Constructed in 1900-07, this is an outstanding example of the use of Beaux-Arts elements in a government structure, and one of Cass Gilbert's finest buildings.

Embellished with sculpture by Daniel Chester ...

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National Historic Landmark - Old State House Little Rock

From 1912 to 1916, the Arkansas State Board of Health, in partnership with the University of Arkansas Medical School, worked from this building on successful campaigns to control or eradicate hookworm, a scourge of the South, and malaria, a disease ...

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National Historic Landmark-Ohio Statehouse

National Historic Landmark-Ohio Statehouse

Considered one of the outstanding statements of the Greek Revival style in America, Ohio's Capitol was begun in 1839 and completed in 1861.

Announcement of an architectural competition for its design resulted in more than 60 entries, ...

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National Historic Landmark-South Carolina State House

National Historic Landmark- South Carolina State House

Begun in 1851 and completed in 1907, this fine example of Neoclassical architecture demonstrates the disruptive effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras on Southern development.

Here, between 1869 and 1874, the ...

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