Ammi B. Young

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Ammi B. Young

Ammi Burnham Young (June 19, 1798 - March 14, 1874) was an important 19th century American architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Neo-Renaissance

Neo-Renaissance

"Neo-Renaissance" is an all-encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of 19th century Revivalism which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes....
styles. Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Lebanon is a city in Grafton County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 12,568 at the 2000 census. Lebanon is located in western New Hampshire, south of Hanover, New Hampshire, near the Connecticut River....
, he showed a talent for designing monumental buildings. His Second Vermont State House

Vermont State House

The Vermont State House, located in Montpelier, Vermont, is the capitol and seat of Vermont General Assembly. The current Greek Revival structure is the third building on the same site to serve as the State House....
brought him fame and success, which eventually led him to become the first Supervising Architect

Office of the Supervising Architect

The Office of the Supervising Architect was an government agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed Federal government of the United States government buildings from 1852 to 1939....
of the U.S. Treasury Department. As federal architect, he was responsible for creating across the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
numerous custom house

Custom House

A Custom House or Customs House was a building housing the offices for the government officials who processed the paperwork for the import and export of goods into and out of a country....
s, post office

Post office

A post office is a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies....
s, courthouse

Courthouse

File:HistoricalMarkerUSGeorgiaMarchToTheSeaStatesboroRight.jpgA courthouse is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities....
s and hospital

Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
s, many of which are today on the National Register

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
.

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Ammi Burnham Young (June 19, 1798 - March 14, 1874) was an important 19th century American architect

Architect

Neo-Renaissance

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Vermont State House

Office of the Supervising Architect

United States

Custom House

Post office

Courthouse

Hospital

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
. His traditional architectural forms lent a sense of grandeur and permanence to the new country's institutions and communities. Young pioneered the use of iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
in construction.

Early life and works

He was the son of Samuel Young, a carpenter-designer of churches, courthouses and academy buildings in the Lebanon area. At the age of 14, Young began work in his father's trade, and in 1823 married his first wife, Mary Hough of Lebanon. He learned the classical orders from pattern books of architect Asher Benjamin

Asher Benjamin

Asher Benjamin was an United States architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and the later Greek Revival....
. Moreover, his design for the Federal style First Congregational Church, built in Lebanon in 1828, borrows significantly from Plate K of The American Builder's Companion. Early commissions included dormitories at nearby Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private university, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"...
, where his brother, Ira Young, was Professor of Natural Philosophy. But the novice architect also learned from working in the Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
office of Alexander Parris

Alexander Parris

Alexander Parris was a prominent United States architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect whose work transitioned from Federal style architecture to the later Greek Revival....
, whose characteristic work in granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
influenced Young's subsequent governmental commissions.

In 1830, Young opened his own office in Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County, Vermont. With a population of 38,889 at the 2000 United States Census, the city is the core of one of the nation's smaller metropolitan areas, and is also the smallest U.S....
, a trade center growing fast since the 1823 opening of the Champlain Canal

Champlain Canal

The Champlain Canal is a 60-mile canal that connects the south end of Lake Champlain to the Hudson River in New York. It was built as a feeder canal to the Erie Canal and is now part of the New York State Canal System and the Lakes to Locks Passage....
which connected Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada ? United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec....
with the Hudson River

Hudson River

The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York....
and New York City

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. Here he designed the 1832 St. Paul's Church in the Gothic Revival style. His first monumental work was the Second Vermont State House, a cruciform

Cruciform

Cruciform means having the shape of a cross....
Greek Revival structure built between 1833 and 1838, which combined a Doric portico

Portico

A portico is a porch that is leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls....
modeled on the Temple of Theseus

Theseus

For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night....
in Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, with a low saucer dome

Dome

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
inspired by the Pantheon

Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt circa 126 AD during Hadrian's reign....
in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. The building's granite blocks were hauled to Montpelier

Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is a city in the U.S. state of Vermont that serves as the state Capital and the shire town of Washington County, Vermont. As the capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the site of the Vermont State House, seat of the legislative branch of Vermont government....
on the frozen Winooski River

Winooski River

The Winooski River is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 90 miles long, in northern Vermont in the United States. Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way from Lake Champlain through the Green Mountains towards the Connecticut River valley....
from quarries

Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone....
at Barre

Barre (town), Vermont

Barre is a New England town in Washington County, Vermont, Vermont, United States. The population was 7,602 at the United States Census, 2000. Barre town almost completely surrounds Barre , Vermont, which is incorporated separately from the town of Barre....
. But a fire in 1857 destroyed much of the building, except for the portico and some of the walls. With considerable respect for Young's original design, the Vermont State House was rebuilt, although now with wings extended by a bay

Bay (architecture)

A bay is a unit in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outside edges of an engaged column, pilaster, post, or vertical wall area....
, and a cupola

Cupola

File:Faneuil Hall Boston Massachusetts.JPGIn architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like structure, on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....
crowning the roof – the plan of Thomas Silloway, trained in Young's office from 1847 until 1851. The result was considered by architect Stanford White

Stanford White

Stanford White was an United States architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts architecture firms....
the finest example of the Greek Revival style in the country.

Entering the 1837 competition to design the Boston Custom House, Young submitted another cruciform scheme combining a Greek Doric portico with a Roman dome. Planned on a large scale at what was then the waterfront, the building reflected the strength and confidence of the young, growing nation. It won, defeating several other entries, including one by Asher Benjamin. Young was appointed supervisor of construction, which took from 1837 until 1847. In 1838, he established a Boston drafting room. The building's 32 columns were each carved from a single piece from Quincy

Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "The City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream"....
granite. They measured 5 foot 4 inches in diameter, stood 32 feet high, and weighed 42 tons. Purist

Purist

A purist is one who desires that a particular item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences. The term may be used in almost any field, and can be applied either to the self or to others....
s decried the Roman dome on a Greek form. Far less sympathetic to the building's Greek form, however, would be the soaring Custom House Tower

Custom House Tower

The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District, Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
which replaced the dome in 1913-1915. Boston's first skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition nor height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper....
, it was designed by Peabody & Stearns

Peabody and Stearns

Peabody and Stearns was a premier architect in the eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns, Jr....
to add both office space and presence to a building obscured by later others.

Supervising Architect of the Treasury

Young entered the 1850 competition to design enlargements to the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
. Although considered a leading competitor, he lost to Thomas U. Walter

Thomas U. Walter

Thomas Ustick Walter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania was the dean of American architecture between the death of Benjamin Latrobe and the work of Henry Hobson Richardson....
. As a sort of compensation, he was appointed in 1852 as the first Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, a position created by Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin, also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy was a politician from the state of Ohio who served as a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, and United States Senate, and as Governor of Ohio and United States Secretary of the Treasury....
, Secretary of the Treasury during the Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office....
administration. From a studio in the Treasury, Young produced designs and specifications for federal buildings ordered by the government to facilitate its various functions throughout the nation. Mandated to be fire-proof, the custom houses, post offices, courthouses and hospitals he built featured masonry foundations, walls and vaulting, with cast iron

Cast iron

Cast iron usually refers to Gray iron, but also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys, which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy....
interior structural and decorative elements, including columns, stairways and railings. Heavy iron shutters were mounted on the inside of windows. Floors and treads were marble

Marble

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
, and roofs were galvanized metal. Column capitols, fascia

Fascia (architecture)

Fascia is a term which generally describes any vertical surface which spans across the top of columns or across the top of a wall . From the Latin word, meaning "band" or "doorframe"; in architecture....
and pediment

Pediment

A pediment is a classical architecture element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns....
s on the exterior, when not stone, were cast iron painted to look like stone -- which drew criticism of parsimony

Parsimony

Parsimony is a 'less is better' concept of frugality, economy or caution in arriving at a hypothesis or course of action. The word derives from Middle English parcimony, from Latin parsimonia, from parsus, past participle of parcere: to spare....
by the federal architect. Cast iron components were manufactured to Young's specifications in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
state, then shipped to building sites.

At the same time, ongoing modifications to the Treasury Building concerned Young, expected to create working drawings based on plans by Walter. For the South Wing, he invented a column capital which symbolized the department, substituting acanthus

Acanthus (ornament)

The acanthus is one of the most common ornaments used to depict foliage. Architectural ornaments are carved in stone or wood in the appearance of leaves from the Mediterranean Acanthus plant, with some resemblance to thistle, poppy and parsley leaves....
leaves of the Corinthian order

Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is one of the Classical orders of Greece and Rome architecture, characterized by a slender Fluting column and an ornate capital decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls....
with eagle

Eagle

Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
s and a fist holding a key. Young held the role until he retired on July 24, 1862, dismissed by Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase was an United States politician and jurist in the American Civil War era who served as United States Senator from Ohio and List of Governors of Ohio of Ohio; as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States....
of the Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
administration. Chase's friend from Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, Isaiah Rogers

Isaiah Rogers

Isaiah Rogers , born in Marshfield, Massachusetts to Isaac Rogers, a farmer and shipwright, and Hannah Ford, was a prominent American architect of national reputation who practiced in Mobile, Alabama, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, and Cincinnati, Ohio....
, succeeded him as Supervising Architect, although the Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
curtailed the department's activities. Several of Young's buildings would play a part in the rebellion, particularly his custom house in Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
, which served as the Confederate

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
Treasury. When Richmond in April 1865 was evacuated by the Army of Northern Virginia

Army of Northern Virginia

The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
, with orders to burn warehouses and factories, the Richmond Custom House survived the conflagration

Conflagration

Conflagration is an uncontrolled burning that threatens human life, health, property or ecology. A conflagration can be accidental or intentionally created ....
-- a testament to its fire-proofing. Indeed, from its courtroom Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Finis Davis was an United States politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War....
was indicted for treason

Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of loyalty to one's sovereignty or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife ....
in May 1866, although he would be granted amnesty

Amnesty

Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent persons....
.

Young was awarded honorary degrees (M.A.) from the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, more commonly known as The University of Vermont, is a national public research university and the state of Vermont's land-grant university....
(1839) and Dartmouth College (1841). He died in Washington.

Buildings

Custom House & Post Office, Waldoboro, Me

* 1828 - First Congregational Church, Lebanon, New Hampshire

Lebanon, New Hampshire

- Wentworth Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
  Hanover, New Hampshire
  
  Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 10,850 at the 2000 census....
- Thornton Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1832 - St. Paul's Church, Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County, Vermont. With a population of 38,889 at the 2000 United States Census, the city is the core of one of the nation's smaller metropolitan areas, and is also the smallest U.S....
1833-1838 - , Montpelier, Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is a city in the U.S. state of Vermont that serves as the state Capital and the shire town of Washington County, Vermont. As the capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the site of the Vermont State House, seat of the legislative branch of Vermont government....
1837 - (remodeled 1871 as Chandler Hall
Chandler Scientific School

New Hampshire native Abiel Chandler, a Boston commission merchant, bequeathed funds to Dartmouth College to establish the Abiel Chandler School of Science and the Arts in 1852....
, razed 1936) Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1837-1841 - , Enfield Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire
Enfield, New Hampshire

Enfield is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,618 at the 2000 census. Enfield includes the villages of Enfield, Enfield Center, Upper Shaker Village, Lower Shaker Village and Lockehaven....
1837-1847 - Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
1839-1840 - Reed Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1841 - , Burlington, Vermont
1842 - , Burlington, Vermont
1843 - Courthouse, Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
1845 - Campbell-Carter House, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Lebanon is a city in Grafton County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 12,568 at the 2000 census. Lebanon is located in western New Hampshire, south of Hanover, New Hampshire, near the Connecticut River....
1848 - Middlesex County Courthouse
Middlesex County Courthouse

The Middlesex County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, now on the National Register of Historic Places....
, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
1849 - City Hall, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043....
1850 - Courthouse, Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167....
1852 - , Hingham, Massachusetts
Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The population was 19,882 at the 2000 census....
1854 - Shattuck Observatory
Shattuck Observatory

Shattuck Observatory is the astronomical observatory of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It is a small building with three wings and a two-story dome ....
, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private university, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"...
, Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire

Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 10,850 at the 2000 census....

Buildings while Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department

1856 - Appraisers' Store, San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....

Custom House & Post Office, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Barnstable, Massachusetts

Barnstable is a city, referred to as the Town of Barnstable, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the county seat of Barnstable County, Massachusetts....

1857 - Custom House, Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek , near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River....

Custom House & Post Office, Waldoboro, Maine
Custom House & Post Office, Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
Custom House & Post Office, Belfast, Maine
Belfast, Maine

Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, Maine, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 6,381. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County, Maine....
Custom House & Post Office, Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky, Ohio

Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County, Ohio. The municipality is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo, Ohio to the west and Cleveland, Ohio to the east....
Custom House & Post Office, Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County, Vermont. With a population of 38,889 at the 2000 United States Census, the city is the core of one of the nation's smaller metropolitan areas, and is also the smallest U.S....
Custom House & Post Office, Bristol, Rhode Island
Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol is a New England town in and the historic county seat of Bristol County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 22,469 at the United States Census, 2000....
Custom House & Post Office, Windsor, Vermont
Windsor, Vermont

Windsor is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,756 at the 2000 United States Census....
New Dungeoness Lighthouse, Clallam County, Washington
Clallam County, Washington

Clallam County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of 2000, the population was 64,525. The county seat is at Port Angeles, Washington, which is also the county's largest city....
Cape Flattery Lighthouse, Tatoosh Island, Washington
Tatoosh Island, Washington

Tatoosh Island is an island about a half mile off Cape Flattery on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. In reality there is a small group of islands, of which Tatoosh is the largest....

1858 - , Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County....

Custom House & Post Office, Bath, Maine
Bath, Maine

Bath is a city in Sagadahoc County, Maine, Maine, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 9,266. It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County....
Custom House & Post Office, Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
Custom House & Post Office, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of North Shore . As of the Census of 2003, the city population was 30,730....
Custom House & Post Office, Ellsworth, Maine
Ellsworth, Maine

Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, Maine, United States. In the United States Census, 2000, it had a population of 6,456....
Custom House & Post Office, Oswego, New York
Oswego, New York

Oswego is a city in Oswego County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 18,096 at the United States Census, 2000. The 2005 population estimate for the city of Oswego is 17,705....
Custom House & Post Office, Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 128,283....
Custom House & Post Office, Galena, Illinois
Galena, Illinois

Galena is the largest city in, and county seat of, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Illinois in the United States with an estimated population of 3,396 in 2006....
, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Georgetown is a neighborhood located in the Washington DC Address #Quadrants of Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River waterfront. Founded in 1751, the city of Georgetown substantially predated the establishment of the city of Washington and the District of Columbia....
Marine Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston, Massachusetts....
, Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Virginia in the United States. With a population of 234,403 as of the United States Census 2000, it is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city....

1859 - Custom House & Post Office (now Petersburg City Hall), Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States located on the Appomattox River and 23 miles south of Richmond, Virginia. The population was 33,740 as of the United States Census 2000....

Custom House & Post Office, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
Courthouse & Post Office (now Rutland Free Library), Rutland, Vermont
Custom House & Post Office (now ), Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Marshall County, West Virginia and Ohio County, West Virginia counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Most of the city lies in Ohio County, for which it is the county seat....
Marine Hospital, Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County, Maine. The city population was 64,249 at the 2000 United States Census....

1860 - Custom House & Post Office, New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the third largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport, Connecticut and Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people....

Custom House, Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
Custom House & Post Office, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 20,784 at the United States Census, 2000....
Courthouse & Post Office, Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....

1861 - , Galveston, Texas
Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a city in and county seat of Galveston County, Texas located on Galveston Island on the Gulf Coast of the United States in the U.S....