Site of Donnell & Parsons Building

The firm of Donnell & Parsons built Columbia’s first brick building at this corner in April of 1853, a general store which carried a wide range of merchandise and provisions. The building survived a big fire in July, 1854 but ...

Formerly The Texas School Book Depository Building

This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, President and Director of Rock ...

The Sanford Herald Building

Erected - 1910

This two story building was built in 1910. It served the Sanford Herald, a newspaper that began publication in 1908, as offices and printing room. The architect and builder was W.G. Hammond.

The Sanford Lodge of the Independent Order ...

First Methodist Church Building

Initially a wood frame structure constructed in 1874, this “Forth Street Church” was completed in 1887 of brick and limestone. Admired by many, the building was chronicled as “A very imposing structure in the Town of Forth Worth, with two ...

Florida's Earliest Courthouse Building

Manatee County's first Courthouse was built in 1859-1860, and is the oldest remaining building constructed as a county courthouse in the State of Florida. It was built on the original Courthouse Square at 15th Street East and Fourth Avenue, two ...

Land Office Building

In 1838 the honorable Mr. A.P. Edgerton, agent for the Hicks Land Company of New York, erected this building as his headquarters from which he sold land to the first settlers of this community. It became the property of the ...

Site of the Kessing Building

On this site, the first frame building in Tehachapi was built by Mary and Bernard Kessing. They replaced the original wooden building in 1905 with a beautiful brick building named the Kessing Building, which was destroyed in the 1952 earthquake. ...

The First Building of the Centre Congregational Church

Here Stood the First Building

Of the Centre Congregational Church

Erected in 1815

Moved to Its Present Site 1842

This Marker Was Placed July 5, 1916

Marker is on Park Place 0.1 miles east of ...

This Building of

Of Native Limestone Erected in 1796

Is the oldest courthouse now in use

west of the blue ridge.

A few rods southeast from here

stood the church

in which Peter Muhlenburg preached

his martial sermon and made his famous

call to arms in 1776.

Thomas Marshall Sr. and ...

Executive Office Building

Originally

State, War, and Navy Departments

Constructed 1871-1888

South Wing

Ground broken June 1871

Completed December 1875

East Wing

Ground broken July 1872

Completed April 1879

North Wing

Ground broken July 1879

Completed December 1882

West and Central Wings

Ground broken March 1884

Completed January 1888

Total construction time 17 years and 4 months

On this ...