One thing that nearly every person in the world can appreciate is a beautiful building. Whether it’s a skyscraper that’s 100 stories tall or a stunning house of worship surrounded by nature, we all love to marvel at these impressive structures.
And while you probably don’t consider the United States to be the nation with the most interesting architecture in the world, it still has some gorgeous buildings to offer. We took a trip to the Old American Architecture Instagram page and gathered some of their best pics down below. So enjoy scrolling through these breathtaking structures, and be sure to upvote the ones that give you a new appreciation for American architecture!
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#1 The Gran Hotel Ciudad De México In Mexico City, Built In 1918 By Jacques Grüber
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#2 The Art Deco Doors At The C.d. Peacock Jewelry Store In Chicago, Illinois, Completed In 1925
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#3 The Arcade In Cleveland, Ohio. Completed In 1890 And Still In Use Today
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#4 Art Deco Details On The Crown Of The Rca Victor Skyscraper In New York City
The building, also know as the General Electric Building, is a skyscraper at the southwestern corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building, designed by Cross & Cross and completed in 1931, was known as the RCA Victor Building during its construction.
It was designed by John Walter Cross of Cross & Cross in the Art Deco style with Gothic Revival ornamentation.
The building is still in use today
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#5 The Forestry Building In Portland, Oregon. Known As The “World’s Largest Log Cabin,” It Was Built In 1905 And Burned Down 1964
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#6 Grand Central Station In New York City, Circa 1929
“It’s not possible to take such a photograph anymore, as the buildings outside block the sun rays.”
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#7 Château Frontenac In Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
The hotel is situated in Old Quebec, within the historic district’s Upper Town, on the southern side of Place d’Armes. The Château Frontenac was designed by Bruce Price, and was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway company. It opened in 1893 and is still in use today
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#8 The Winter Garden Of The Biltmore Estate In Asheville, North Carolina, Completed In 1895
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#9 The Niagara Mohawk Building, An Art Deco Classic Building In Syracuse, New York
The building was built in 1932 and was headquarters for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, what was “then the nation’s largest electric utility company”
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#10 The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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#11 Cliff House In San Francisco, California, Prior To Being Destroyed By Fire In 1907
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#12 The Original Interior To Grauman’s Egyptian Theater In Hollywood, California. Opened In 1922. Gutted In 1998, But Partially Restored To Its Original Glory In 2023
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#13 Lone Brownstone Standing At 215 E 68th St In New York City, New York. 1881-1959
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#14 Pembroke Mansion On Long Island
The mansion was built for Captain Joseph DeLemar. It had a palm court, cave, 70 ft water tower with an elevator leading to a tea house, indoor tennis court, and stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The 60,000 square foot home included 12 bedrooms, 12 baths, a billiard room, den, dining room, mirrored breakfast room, long party rooms to entertain hundreds of guests. De Lamar enjoyed playing an intricate pipe organ at the base of his stairway. Large windows overlooked exquisite gardens, the private bathing casino and boat landing on the Long Island Sound.
Sadly demolished
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#15 The George Peabody Library In Baltimore, Maryland
The George Peabody Library was funded by George Peabody (1795–1869). Peabody, having become a wealthy man in Baltimore through commerce during the 1810s and 1820s, following his brief service in the state militia defending the city against the famous British attack during the War of 1812, “gave $300,000 as a beginning sum for the Peabody Institute” in February 1857.
The library interior is often regarded as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Completed in 1878, it was designed by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind in collaboration with the first Peabody provost, Nathaniel H. Morison, that described it as a “cathedral of books”. The visually stunning, monumental neo-Greco interior features an atrium that, over an alternating black and white slab marble floor, soars 61 feet high to a latticed skylight of frosted heavy glass, surrounded by five tiers of ornamental black cast-iron balconies (produced locally by the Bartlett-Hayward Company) and gold-scalloped columns containing closely packed book stacks. Between July 2002 and May 2004, the now historic library underwent a $1 million renovation and refurbishment
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#16 The Tribune Tower In Chicago, Illinois. Built Between 1923 And 1925
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#17 Main Street Bridge In Rochester, New York. Demolished In The 1960s
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#18 The Old Cincinnati Public Library In Cincinnati, Ohio
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#19 30th Street Station In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Completed In 1933
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#20 The Ruins Of The Original 1915 Palace Of Fine Arts In San Francisco, California, Pictured In The 1960s
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#21 Humboldt Bank Building In San Francisco, California
It was created by the Humboldt Savings Bank, with construction beginning in 1905. However, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed its initial construction phase. A new building was completed in 1908. The building consists granite, marble, and terra cotta tile facing over reinforced concrete and steel
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#22 The Knox Building In New York City. The 10-Story Building Is In The Beaux-Arts Style And Was Designed In 1902 By John H. Duncan
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#23 Portland, Oregon In 1939, Shortly Before These Buildings Were Demolished For The Construction Of Harbor Drive
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#24 Art Deco Skyscrapers In Chicago, Illinois
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#25 Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour, Near Kharkov In The Russian Empire (Modern-Day Kharkiv, Ukraine). Pictured In 1894. It Was Destroyed During The Second World War
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#26 Colorized Photo Of The Karlsaue Palace Orangerie In Hesse, Germany, Circa 1905
The main palace Orangerie was built by Landgrave Charles between 1654 and 1730 as an “exotic winter garden” until the beginning of the Second World War. It serves as an astronomy and physical cabinet today and the marble bath
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#27 The Portland In Washington, D.c., The City’s First Luxury Apartment Building. Completed In 1881 And Demolished In 1962
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#28 The Kaiserpalast Was A Five-Storey Neo-Baroque Building In Dresden, Which Stood On The North Side Of The Pirnaischer Platz Between Moritzring And Amalienstraße
It was built between 1895 and 1897 as the Geschäftshaus Ilgen by the architects Schilling und Graebner for the businessman Hermann Ilgen.
It was destroyed in bombing raids during WWII
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#29 The Sibley Breaker In Pennsylvania. Built In 1886 And Destroyed By Fire In 1906
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