American
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Louis Sullivan | Frank Lloyd Wright | World's Fair
General
American Architecture - Boston University Library Guide
American architectural survey, 5/5
GSA: Historic Federal Buildings
Native American
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Native American Architecture
Native Pre-contact Housing: Types, map distribution, construction
Cities
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Historic Sites
Boston
The Boston Preservation Alliance
Boston National Historic Parks
Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Architecture
The Art Institute of Chicago: Collections
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago Architecture and Art Imagebase - U of Ill, Chicago
The Chicago Athenaeum: The Museum of Architecture and Design
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory - exhibition
New York
MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan
Museum of the City of New York
Paul Halsall/Fordham University/Medieval New York Guide
Seneca Village - New York, Central Park
Philadelphia
Welcome to PAB - Philadelphia Buildings
Other
Columbus Historic Foundation - Columbus Riverfest - Columbus, Georgia
Deerfield, MA - Welcome to Historic Deerfield
Estates and Mansion of the Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley Network - Great Estates
Hudson Valley Network - Historic Sites - Huguenot Street Historic District
Las Vegas Architecture and Buildings: Selected Bibliography and Guide to Sources
Levittown, NY
Portland, ME: Greater Portland Landmarks
Portsmouth NH - Strawbery Banke Museum
Salem, MA - Peabody Essex Museum
Salem @ nationalgeographic.com
Churches - United States
Cathedrals and Churches in France
The Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle U, by Steven Holl - Virtual Tour
Material History of American Religion Project - The Built Environment of American Religion
Saint Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, MA - Trappist
Buildings
17th century
Alden Kindred and Alden Museum Home Page
Fairbanks House Dedham, MA 1636
Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, MA
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site
Vernacular House Forms in Seventeenth Century Plymouth Colony
18th century
Destrehan Planation in Destrehan, Louisiana - 1787-1840
Historic Mount Vernon - The Home of Our First President, George Washington
The Massachusetts State House Today
Stratford Hall Plantation, Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
19th century
Andalusia on the Delaware - History of Andalusia
Cadiz Log Cabin Cadiz, Kentucky (Historic Houses)
Frank Furness - Brooke Mansion - Birdsboro, PA
Glessner house, Chicago - www.glessnerhouse.org
A History of The Mill - Maynard, MA
Lucy, the Amazing Elephant Building
The Smithsonian Building - 1 of 5
Philadelphia City Hall - Will Penn's Homepage
Victoriana.Com, Study Center: 19th Century Web Sites
Victorian Preservation Association - "The Old Home Folks"
Victorian Station offering decorating ideas and historical information about the victorian era.
U.S. Capitol - Library of Congress Online exhibition
U.S. Capitol - The Columbus Doors
20th century
The Dymaxion House at Henry Ford Museum
Grand Central Station - Introduction
House on the Rock - Sauk County
Roadside America: The House On The Rock
LIFE Dream House - annual presentation
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Architects
Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, Architects and Town Planners
From Louis Sullivan to SOM: MIT grads go to Chicago
Philip Johnson interview - Academy of Achievement
Frederick Law Olmsted NHS Home Page
Bart Prince - Architect - Bibliography
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP
SOM - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Jefferson
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
Rotunda Fire Commemoration, University of Virginia Designed by T. Jefferson; fire 1895.
US: Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Main Campus Tour, Illinois Institute of Technology
The Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van der Rohe
H.H. Richardson
H.H. Richardson's Austin Hall, Harvard
Louis Sullivan
Lieber-Meister - The Louis Sullivan Page
Images of Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-91, by Louis Sullivan.
Louis H. Sullivan's Purdue State Bank: HOME
The National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota
World's Fairs
1876
Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection | The Free Library of Philadelphia
Centennial Exhibition: Tours | State Buildings
McCabe - Illustrated History of 1876 Exhibition
World's Fair of 1876, Philadelphia
1893
The Book of the Fair: Paul V. Galvin Digital History Collection
North Side: People: George Ferris
World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
1900
Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Buffalo Worlds Fair of 1901
EXPO 2000 - Hannover, Germany (with historical background on exhibitions)
Amusement Parks