Mission San Luis

The village that Spaniards called San Luis was always a prominent entity in Apalachee Province. It first appeared in the historical record as the capital village called Anhaica where de Soto wintered in 1539-40.

Shortly after the founding of St. ...

De Soto Winter Encampment Site

The site of the Hernando de Soto Winter Encampment is located at the B. Calvin Jones Center, home to the offices of the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Archaeological Research.

Archaeological investigations confirm that the Hernando de Soto ...

Fort Gadsden Historic Site

Fort Gadsden, also known as the Negro Fort, was built by the British during the War of 1812. In 1818 the U.S. government took over and rebuilt the fort, naming it after the lieutenant who supervised the construction.

In 1814 ...

Charles Hitchcock Hall

The Charles Hitchcock Hall was designed by Dwight H. Perkins in 1901-1902 as a four-story dormitory for the University of Chicago.

Significant in its contribution to the Prairie School movement, the medieval style building exhibits ornamentation detailing local flowers and ...

Hotel Del Prado

Built in 1918, the Hotel Del Prado is one of the earliest and largest of the Hyde Park Apartment Hotels. The H-shaped red brick and terra cotta building rises 10 stories.

Built in the Neoclassical style, the hotel features an ...

East Park Towers

As one of a series of hotel apartment buildings erected in the Hyde Park area between 1918 and 1929, the East Park Towers rises 10 stories and is an irregular U-shaped red-brick building with terra cotta trim. The pie-shaped lot ...

Wabash Avenue YMCA

The Wabash Avenue YMCA was a major social and educational center in the Black Metropolis, the center of Chicago's African American culture in the early 1900s. Funds for its construction came from Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, ...

Chicago Bee Building

Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chicago, entrepreneur Anthony Overton commissioned his second building in this commercial district for the offices of the Chicago Bee, an African American newspaper he founded in 1926.

Ironically enough, soon after ...

The Matheson Museum

The Matheson homestead dates from 1857, when Alexander Matheson brought his family from Camden, South Carolina to establish a home on the Sweetwater Branch at the eastern edge of the new town of Gainesville. The present one and a half ...

Eighth Regiment Armory

In 1915, the Eighth Regiment Armory was the first armory building to be erected for a regiment commanded entirely by African Americans.

The three-story brick building, designed by Illinois state architect James B. Dibelka, included a clear-span drill hall, meeting ...