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Casa Paoli

Casa Paoli is nationally significant as the birthplace of Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (1871-1946), recognized as the greatest tenor born in Puerto Rico and one of the most outstanding opera singers of all time.

Antonio Paoli, the Tenor of ...

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R.J. Hill Building

Built in 1910, the R.J. Hill Building is one of the oldest commercial buildings in the town of Palacios.

The two-story Richardsonian Romanesque building, constructed of cast concrete blocks, retains most of its original historic fabric and design features including ...

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The Anderson Building

The Anderson Building, constructed in 1924, is a mixed-use three-story brick and terra-cotta Sullivanesque building located among other two to three story multiple bay/multiple lot commercial and apartment buildings on the Southwest fringe of downtown Omaha.

The Sullivanesque style of ...

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Olcott Avenue Historic District

The Olcott Avenue neighborhood in the borough of Bernardsville, located in northeast Somerset County, was developed at the turn of the 20th century as a carefully laid out middle class residential neighborhood.

The streets in the district are characterized by ...

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Attucks School

Constructed in 1916-17, the Attucks School served the black community of Vinita, Oklahoma as a combined elementary, junior, and high school.

Stylistically, the school is a combination of a simplified Art Deco and WPA construction. It was not the only ...

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Detroit Financial District

From the 1850s to the 1970s the Financial District in downtown Detroit was the economic heart of the city, and it stills retains an important banking and office presence today.

Banks began to locate along Jefferson Avenue in the Griswold ...

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Captain Daniel S. and Fannie L. (Brooks) Lee House

The Lee house, built in 1867, is an excellent example of the Italianate Style of domestic architecture, popular in the United States from approximately 1840-1885.

Its simple cubical form, symmetrical proportions, belvedere, and extensive use of brackets are typical of ...

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Central Diner

The 1947 Central Diner--Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806 is a rare and well-preserved example of a distinctive twentieth-century American building type.

The Central Diner, which is still in use, is a one-story, steel-framed prefabricated structure, measuring ten feet six ...

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Whitewater Hotel

Between its construction in 1894 and its general demise as a functioning hotel around 1952, the Whitewater Hotel was an important component in the commercial life of the city of Whitewater.

During this period, Whitewater's economy was almost entirely dependent ...

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Bovill Opera House

Believed to have been built in the first decade of the 20th century, the Bovill Opera House served for five decades as the entertainment and social center for the town of Bovill and its surrounding communities.

Although used primarily as ...

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