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Chase-Lloyd House, (Samuel Chase House), Annapolis, Maryland.
This three-story brick mansion was one of many great Georgian mansions built in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, during the eighteenth century. Begun in 1769 for Samuel Chase, a young lawyer and future signer of the Declaration of Independence, the mansion passed unfinished two years later into the hands of the wealthy plantation owner Edward Lloyd IV. Lloyd hired the renowned English architect and master builder William Buckland to complete the mansion. The elaborate carved details, including the windows, cornices, and doorways, are by Buckland.
Front elevation. Photograph by Charles E. Peterson, May 1942.
(Reproduction Number: HABS MD,2-ANNA,2-10)
Lobster Cove, Annisquam, Massachusetts.
While most of the documentation in the HABS and HAER collections records individual sites, there are fascinating examples of buildings recorded within their environmental context. These cultural landscapes show the visual and functional relationship among buildings. In this instance, the location and arrangement of the eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings was closely tied to the transportation and commercial opportunities the New England fishing village waterfront presented.
Detail of [Measured drawing delineated by J. C. Halden.]
(Reproduction Number:
HABS, MASS,5-ANNI,3- Sheet 4 of 6)
Quincy Mining Company: No. 2 Shaft-Rockhouse (1908), Hancock, Michigan.
Like many copper-mining operations on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Quincy Mining Company depended on complex processes such as the one illustrated in this HAER drawing to handle the copper and rock blasted from mines. At the company's No. 2 mine, the Shaft-Rockhouse separated the copper and rock mechanically into three distinct groups: "mass" copper (pure ore), poor rock containing little or no copper ore, and ore-rich rock and chunks larger than twenty inches. Once separated, the mass copper was shipped directly to smelters via the Great Lakes, the poor rock was crushed for use in road construction, and the material in the third group was crushed before shipment to smelters.
Detail of [Rock-handling Process (1908). Measured drawing delineated by Richard K. Anderson,
Jr., 1978.]
(Reproduction Number: HAER, MI-2, sheet 18 of 34)
James C. Burbank House, (Livingston Griggs House), St. Paul, Minnesota.
This carved oak staircase connects the first and second floors of the three-story mansion built for James C. Burbank, a Vermont-born pioneer and major figure in early Minnesota transportation. Burbank, who made his fortune in stage-coach and riverboat traffic, hired the Chicago architect Otis C. Wheelock in 1862 to build him a mansion in the latest style. That style, commonly known as Italianate, features round arches, brackets, belvederes or cupolas, and other architectural elements found in villas and country houses around Italy. Today, the Burbank House is one of the finest early Italianate-style houses in St. Paul.
Stairhall, stair, details of balusters. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November
1960.
(Reproduction Number: HABS, MINN, 62-SAIP,13-7)