Postal Station B

“Postal Station B, also known as the Central Post Office, is an eight-story building in Ottawa’s Confederation Square National Historic Site of Canada. Classically inspired, its cornice heights and its bay replicate those of its neighbor, Langevin Block.

“The building was ...

Parliament Buildings

“Parliament Buildings National Historic Site of Canada is prominently located on a hill above the Ottawa River on Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Four Gothic Revival style buildings grouped on landscaped grounds, namely the West Block, the Centre Block, ...

Hope Building

“The Hope Building stands on a narrow site on the north side of Sparks Street in the core of the Ottawa business district. The Hope Building was built in 1910 by Holbrooke and Sutherland, contractors to the designs of W.E. ...

Phillips Chapel CME Church

In 1911, the Las Cruces African American community constructed Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church. The adobe church has provided a place for worship and functioned as a community center since then. When the New Mexico legislature passed segregation ...

Dripping Springs Natural Area

In the late nineteenth century, Colonel Eugene Van Patten, a former confederate soldier, homesteaded property in the Organ Mountains above Las Cruces, New Mexico. He built a two-story 14-room stone resort, complete with dining room and a concert hall. Originally ...

Asbury Park Boardwalk

The heart of the Jersey Shore, the Asbury Park Boardwalk may bring back feelings reminiscent of old Bruce Springsteen songs and the romance of a summer at the shore. But even before Springsteen composed "Greetings From Asbury Park," the town ...

Archibald Smith Plantation Home

The Union gun fire echoed through the morning mist in the small southern town of Roswell, Georgia as the Smith family packed up their belongings, not knowing if they would ever return to their beloved home. The Archibald Smith Plantation ...

U.S. National Leprosarium Dormitories

These dormitories were built in 1940 at the site of the U.S. National Leprosarium, the only inpatient hospital for research and treatment of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy). The facility provided a home for 4,500 victims of Hansen's Disease, once considered to ...

Cemetery at U.S. National Leprosarium

The cemetery on the campus of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center has many graves dating to the opening of the Carville Center in 1894. Many of the names are aliases, due to the stigma attached to Hansen's Disease ...

Indian Camp (Woodlawn) Plantation

In 1857, during the period of Greek revival architecture (1820-1860), sugarcane planter Robert Camp built Indian Camp Plantation, deigned by architect Henry Howard. On Persac's map of the Mississippi, c1858, the tract of land is identified as "Woodlawn." The mansion ...