Flood Building

Completed in 1904, the Flood Building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This 12-story steel-frame building was constructed on the site of Baldwin’s Hotel and Theatre, destroyed by fire in 1898, and later purchased by James L. Flood, ...

Bank of Italy Building, San Francisco

In 1908, this eight-story building became the headquarters of A. P. Giannini’s Bank of Italy (precursor of the Bank of America) after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the original bank building in nearby North Beach. ...

Pacific Fruit and Produce Building

Perched directly above the Orange Street underpass along North First Street is the old Pacific Fruit and Produce Building. This brick building with three tiered, arched windows has continued to house local industry for over a hundred years, now operating ...

Alamogordo Federal Building

Near the main intersection of Alamogordo, at Tenth and White Sands Blvd, one of New Mexico's greatest cultural treasures awaits.

Twentieth century native New Mexican artist Peter Hurd was commissioned to paint the frescoes which adorn the building. The architect, ...

Missoula Federal Building

Located on the corner of Pattee and East Broadway, Missoula’s first bona fide federal building was completed in 1913. Senator Joseph Dixon, from Missoula, secured funds for its construction, and James Knox Taylor, an architect with the U. S. Treasury ...

Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings

The Stearns Iron-Front and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings, known collectively as “the Iron Fronts”, are a series of cast iron-fronted commercial buildings. Construction began in 1866, a mere year after downtown Richmond burned to the ground near the end of the ...

First National Bank Building

The First National Bank Building dating from 1913 is the first skyscraper in Richmond, and a wonderful example of turn-of-the-century Neoclassical Revival architecture. Nineteen stories tall, the building crowned the city’s skyline until its height was surpassed in 1930. Constructed ...

Russell and Cannon Congressional Office Buildings

These first congressional office buildings are a set of nonidentical neoclassical twins that provide a visually appealing background for the United States Capitol. Both buildings are the oldest of the congressional office buildings, as well as fine examples of the ...

The Old Executive Office Building

The Old Executive Office Building, now renamed the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, is a National Historic Landmark, that was built between 1871 and 1888. Designed by Alfred B. Mullet in the Second Empire Style, the building first housed the Departments ...

Fox Theatre Building

Built in 1928 by internationally known theater architect Howard Crane, the Fox Theatre Building seats over 5,000 people and is Detroit's largest movie palace. The movie palace is surrounded by a U-shaped ten-story, steel-frame office building that is sheathed in ...