Istanbul (Turkey)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey--Istanbul--History
Following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans, a new trend in architecture developed that achieved a balance between the traditional Ottoman building practices of Bursa and Edirne with the styles found in Byzantium and the West....
Arcadia Hall, northwest corner, Fourth and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Large, high roofed room with a shiny bare floor. Domed trellises high over the floor, lit below with many bulbs, are supported by pillars at the room's wings. At the back of...
Domed, one-story building with domed windows and high ceilings, built in 1904 with funding from Andrew Carnegie to establish a public library in Paducah. Stairs with two wreaths carved on either railing rise over the above-ground basement to a...
Emerson School, at Sylvia Street and Hickory Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Corner view of two-story brick building with a pediment on the center of each side, on the roof over the entrances. The entrance on the left also has a smaller pediment and...
Louisville Automobile Club exterior. A two-story brick building with a white entryway (domed door and two domed windows) topped by a small iron balcony, while the building is topped by a small wood balcony. On back of image: "Lou Automobile...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. School of Law
Architect's rendering of Law School (now known as Wyatt Hall), University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Wide, two story brick building with central two story pillars and portico, with a domed tower with a weather vane over the center...
Close up of four-door-wide domed and windowed entrance of Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. Inside the domed section is written "Frank Fehr Brewing Company." The Frank Fehr Brewing Company was originally on Green Street (now Liberty...
Entrance hall in Casa Mia, house of Alexander P. Witty, on Red Fox Road in Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. High, domed ceiling. Lantern shaped light fixture hangs from center of ceiling. Hexagonal tile floor with area rugs. Curving stairway at...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Drug abuse
Courtyard, Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky. Between two brick walls, there is a grass courtyard with a rectangular path near its edge. The courtyard's far wall, a lower wall with domed cutouts, separates it from another grass courtyard. The...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Drug abuse; Religious facilities; Chapels
Chapel interior, Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky. White walls, wide domed arches, beam ceilings, and circular metal chandeliers. Domed mosaic window at back of room behind an iron rail atop three low steps. The Narcotic Farm was built as a drug...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels
The Willard Hotel, 516-520 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Five-story stone building with a vertical sign labeled "Willard." Three domed two-story windows at base, one with a sign saying "Willard Hotel;" the two top...
Address: 625 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The interior of Loew's Theatre shows the stage set up for a band with a drum, two pianos and music stands. The backdrop curtain has a patterned design and a side panel blocks the view of the...
Address: 1400 S. Forty-third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This structure was built in 1921 in Spanish Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Two domed columns frame the three sets of entry doors at the middle...
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919; Freer Gallery of Art
This qualifying paper examines the contradiction of a public museum dedicated to one man's vision of art collecting. Charles Lang Freer established the Freer Gallery of Art in 1906, regarded as the first national public art museum on the National...
A two-story brick building topped by a small, open, octagonal enclosure with a bell-shaped roof. The front door is reached by a small flight of stairs with concrete sides. Above the front door is an embellishment of a small wood rail. The first...
The Barren County, Kentucky county seat of Glasgow's courthouse, a two-story brick building with a clock tower and a double, domed entrance with two white pillars. A scalloped metal fence runs along the property, and a little closer to the street...
Built in 1904 with funding from Andrew Carnegie, this public library features dark wood floors and walls as well as white marble pillars and a white domed ceiling painted with rectangular images, two of which are labeled "Music" and...
Indoor exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, probably in the Palace of Agriculture, containing many open-sided structures or display cases topped by domes and then balls with triangular tufts above. "Virginia" is written...
View of "Grand Canal" of World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with domed Festival Hall and Central Cascades (three fountains). The right side of the canal is bordered by a barrier with some low and high pillars, and a boat traverses the...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; DuPont Manual High School (Louisville, Ky.)
DuPont Manual Training High School at 1909, Brook and Oak Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Three-story brick building with a semicircular domed entryway on short pillars. DuPont was founded in 1892 with funding from A. V. duPont (Alfred Victor du...
