The First Brick Building in Sacramento

The Bridge Lunch Restaurant was the last of a long line of restaurants, saloons and boardinghouses located at, or nearby, 1323 Front Street, the first brick structure in the city. George Zins, a native of Searsburg, Lorraine, started a brick-making ...

Site of Second Travis County Courthouse & Walton Building

Built in 1875 in term of County Judge James W. Smith. Former state officials on committees for site and building included Governor E.M. Pease, Secretary of State C.S. West, Attorney General N.G. Shelley, Treasurer James H. Raymond and Legislator George ...

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse / Citizen's Building

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse

This building was described as "handsome in every respect" when it opened in 1932. It replaced a 1906 post office and housed a new district court and federal offices. It served as a post office until ...

Florida Brothers Building

Thomas J. Florida established the Florida Brothers Company in 1926, supplying farm and home loans to families along the Cotton Highway. Mr. Florida built this Art Deco-influenced structure in 1935, featuring Indiana limestone. The building subsequently became home for the ...

The Styles and Stories of Vevay's Buildings

From where you now stand you are sampling some of the building styles found in Switzerland County. On Main Street to your left are three two-story homes. The farthest from you is a dwelling built in the Italianate style. This ...

U.S. Post Office Building

Constructed in 1915, this building served as the post office on the Cotton Highway until 1936. County Judge S.L. Gladish made sure that the Post Office contained European tiles like those used in the then-new courthouse. The building later housed ...

The Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America

This wall was once a part of the Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America.

In it were the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the Confederate Government.

Here ...

Building 98, Fort D.A. Russell

Constructed in 1920, Building 98 housed the officers club and bachelor officers quarters for Fort D.A.Russell. During the latter years of the World War II, from 1943 to 1945, German prisoners of war from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps ...

New York State Office Building

New York State

Office Building

Cornerstone Laid By

Gov. Alfred E. Smith, 1928.

Marker is on South Swan Street near State Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

High Street Office Building

The two story part of the building to the west of the 3-1/2 story part of the building was built in 1822 as the Ballantine House which served as a hotel. This German Style brick structure is one of the ...