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Look at architecture through its materials, uses and changes over time.
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Look beyond the ceiling to the way a major railway terminal gathers, sorts and releases its passengers.
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The Flatiron’s recognizable outline begins with an ordinary problem: fitting a tall building onto an unusual parcel.
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The Cultural Center’s richly decorated rooms preserve the ambitions of a public library and a Civil War memorial within one building.
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The Rookery’s light court exposes a central challenge of early tall offices: bringing daylight and circulation into a deep building.
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The Marquette Building connects the repeated windows of an early office tower with a richly interpreted entrance.
A reading hall, a courtyard and several mural cycles explain the ambitions of Boston’s 1895 library.
A royal government building became a state house, city hall and museum while Boston grew around it.
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Philadelphia’s City Hall places municipal government at the crossing of two major streets.
Eastern State’s radiating corridors express a theory of imprisonment that changed long before the prison closed.
The Jefferson Building pairs a working research institution with an elaborate visual statement about knowledge.
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Union Station’s monumental rooms belong to a railway building that has repeatedly changed its public role.
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San Francisco City Hall combines a monumental civic image with later engineering hidden beneath it.
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The Palace of Fine Arts preserves the image of an exposition building through later reconstruction.
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The Bradbury’s interior court turns a compact office building into a vertical space of light and circulation.
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Union Station’s architecture and transport role share a site with the history of Los Angeles’s original Chinatown.
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Seattle’s Central Library organizes different activities into a building whose form makes those differences visible.
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Smith Tower’s pale exterior and narrow upper shaft distinguish it from the masonry district around its base.
Portland Union Station’s clock tower and waiting room belong to different stages of a continuously used railway building.
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The California Tower is an exposition landmark whose height and ornament belong to a designed architectural ensemble.
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The cathedral’s familiar silhouette combines a long religious presence with a largely nineteenth-century building.
The museum’s rooms and courtyard reveal how a shop, a household and later collections occupy the same address.
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The long, low palace is a record of government, occupation and restoration, rather than a single frozen architectural moment.
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San Miguel’s age is best understood through a sequence of repairs, rebuilding and continuing religious use.
San Fernando’s institution began in the eighteenth century, while its prominent front reflects a later enlargement.
Mission San José becomes clearer when the church is read alongside housing, workshops, water and the evidence of reconstruction.
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The Texas Capitol combines an 1888 statehouse, a carefully managed landscape and a large extension hidden below ground.
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Austin’s Central Library uses daylight, a large atrium and varied public spaces to make a substantial civic building approachable.
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The Owens-Thomas property explains architectural display and urban slavery through the relationship between the mansion, quarters and workspaces.
Rainbow Row’s colors are a chapter in twentieth-century preservation, layered onto older merchant buildings.
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The Old Exchange contains the overlapping histories of commerce, government, imprisonment and the domestic slave trade.
Freedom Tower’s meaning changed from a newspaper landmark to a place associated with Cuban refugee assistance and cultural memory.
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Vizcaya’s house, formal gardens and service village form one estate, combining historicist design with the work required to sustain it.
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The Guardian Building uses brick, tile and ceremonial interior space to turn a commercial office tower into an architectural statement.
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The arcade and tower translate automotive wealth into a building intended to be seen at several scales.
A carriage entrance survives as the most visible part of a station whose passenger functions moved elsewhere.
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Richardson’s courthouse uses heavy masonry and an interior court to give civic architecture a distinctive presence.
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A museum inside a fire-damaged mill explains both flour production and the decision to preserve a ruin.
The Minneapolis Municipal Building combines city and county functions beneath a clock tower, with a rotunda that helps explain its public identity.
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Denver Union Station has a historic hall, active transport facilities and commercial uses that occupy different parts of a larger interchange.
The Molly Brown House preserves a home, a changing collection and a history of preservation, all of which require more than the familiar Titanic story.
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St Louis Union Station retains the scale of a major railway terminal while accommodating uses that no longer depend on departing passenger trains.
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The Old Courthouse connects architecture with contested rights, including the Scotts’ freedom suits and Virginia Minor’s challenge over voting.
The George Peabody Library’s celebrated stack room is also a working research collection, with access arrangements shaped by the books it preserves.
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Baltimore City Hall is a visible civic landmark whose exterior can be studied separately from the arrangements for entering a working government building.
The Providence Arcade’s skylit interior began as a setting for shops and later accommodated homes above a commercial ground floor.
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The Rhode Island State House uses its elevated site, marble dome and interior symbolism to give state government a visible place in Providence.
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