The Niagara Hudson Building

The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity.

Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation's largest electric utility company and expressed the ...

The Helms Building

Constructed in 1930 in Zig-Zag Moderne style, the Helms Building played an important part in the history of Culver City. It housed the Helms Bakery until 1969, a family owned business founded by Paul Helms. Helms Bakery was known as ...

The Hull Building

The Hull Building was built on this site in 1925. Dr. Foster Hull, having the interest of his profession at heart, built the most modern medical offices and hospital possible for that time. Early in the 1930's, Louis Freeman acquired ...

The Richmond Supply Company Building

This building was built in 1903 at 139 West Richmond Avenue by J.Q. Black who supplied the area with coal, wood, hay, and grain. Robert Dornan Sr. bought the building in 1909 and added the service of moving goods.

In 1911 ...

The New Ferry Building – Ellis Island

Save America’s Treasures

Restoration of the New Ferry Building on Ellis Island is being supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures award administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

New Ferry Building

In 1999, the Statue of Liberty ...

Building the Statue of Liberty

The French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty as a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Over 300 thin sheets of copper, most of it from a copper mine in Karmoy, Norway, fit together to form the Statue’s outer ...

Building the Highway

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

This cement marker is one of 3,000 markers that were erected along the Lincoln Highway from New York City to San Francisco, approximately one per mile.

On September 1, 1928, cement posts with bronze medallions bearing President Lincoln's ...

Building the Lincoln Tomb

On April 24, 1865, several associates of Abraham Lincoln formed the National Lincoln Monument Association to raise funds for and build a fitting memorial over the president's grave. An 1868 competition chose the monument design of sculptor Larking G. Mead, ...

The National Building Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

“It’s too bad the damn thing is fire proof,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.

The nation’s only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one ...

The Bank Building

First Opened for Business on April 19, 1886

When the building opened, it was the second largest in Victoria with a total area 5,230 square feet. The original drawings came from London, England.

Using brick on a stone foundation, Mr. Williams combined ...