Built as a wedding gift, the Conrad Building is Venetian Gothic eye candy on Westminster Street in the Downtown Providence Historic District. Name: Conrad Building Location: 375 Westminster Street Year Completed: 1885 Architect: Stone, Carpenter & Wilson Style: Venetian Gothic / Romanesque Guide to Providence Architecture: Conrad Building Google Map
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The yellow brick fortress, once home of the militia and National Guard, is a landmark of the West Side’s Broadway-Armory Historic District. Name: Cranston Street Armore Location: 315 Cranston Street Year Completed: 1907 Architect: William R Walker & Son Style: Medieval Gothic Wikipedia: Cranston Street Armory Google Map
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Now known as SUNY Plaza, the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company Building is a castle-like landmark at the foot of Albany’s State Street. It’s a complex building, with a complex history to match. Name: D&H Building aka SUNY Plaza Location: 353 Broadway Year Completed: 1918 Architect: Marcus T Reynolds Style: Flemish Gothic Wikipedia: SUNY Plaza
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Albany’s IBM Building, 80 State Street, is a gleaming black glass cube on the corner of State and Pearl Streets. The monolith mirrors all of the masonry landmarks around it with graph paper precision. Name: IBM Building Location: 80 State Street Year Completed: 1984 Architect: Style: Postmodern Emporis: IBM Building Google Map
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Home Savings Bank, 11 North Pearl Street, is a prominent part of the Downtown Albany Historic District. The Art Deco landmark is distinctive for its polychrome terra cotta. Name: Home Savings Bank Location: 11 North Pearl Street Year Completed: 1927 Architect: Dennison & Hirons Style: Art Deco Wikipedia: Home Savings Bank Google Map
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Philadelphia City Hall is at the geographic center of Philadelphia, and until 1986 was the city’s tallest structure by “gentlemen’s agreement.” The structure is pure masonry – held up by granite and brick walls up to 22 feet thick! Name: PhiladelphiaCity Hall Location: 1400 John F Kennedy Boulevard / 1 Penn Square Year Completed: 1901
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Empire State Plaza, New York State’s vast gleaming white government office complex, was the vision of the late Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some 1,200 buildings were razed to make way for the modernist office towers and brutalist Cultural Education Center. Name: Governor Nelson A Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Location: 100 South Mall Arterial Year Completed:
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The nation’s most expensive state capitol was completed in 1899, after 32 years, three teams of architects, and $25 million ($778 million in 2020 dollars). Those impressive stairs aren’t just for a grand entry: They were added to stop the building from sliding down the hill! Name: New York State Capitol Location: State Street Year
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Cincinnati City Hall, seat of the municipal government, was built in 1894 and designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons in the Richardson Romanesque style. Name: Cincinnati City Hall Location: 801 Plum Street Year Completed: 1893 Architect: Samuel Hannaford Style: Richardsonian Romanesque Wikipedia: Cincinnati City Hall Google Map
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Boston’s brutalist-style City Hall was – and remains – controversial, condemned by some as one of the world’s ugliest buildings, praised by others as a great architectural achievement. Name: Boston City Hall Location: 1 City Hall Square Year Completed: 1968 Architect: Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles Style: Brutalist Wikipedia: Boston City Hall Google Map
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