Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Architectural detail in the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Architectural detail in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Architectural detail at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Architectural detail from the doorway of the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C

Architectural detail from the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C

Architectural detail in Boston, Massachusetts

Architectural detail from a building in New York City

Architectural detail of the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail of a venerable building, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail on a building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architectural detail in Washington, D.C

Architectural detail of a building on the campus of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail on a U.S. federal building in California

Architectural detail of the U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail

Architectural detail in the Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail on a U.S. Customs House building

Architectural detail, exterior of Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York

Architectural details in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Washington, D.C

Architectural details of the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C

Architectural details of Daniel Burnham's 1910 Peoples Gas Building, then a state-of-the-art office tower in Chicago, Illinois

Architectural details of an ornate office building

Architectural details in the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium in Washington, D.C

Architectural details, New York, New York

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C.

Archway to the Main Reading room within the 's Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Arizona's Grand Canyon watch tower

Area Studies reading room at the, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Aristotle door panel. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Arlington House interior, Arlington, Virginia

Archives II, a newer research and storage facility of the National Archives, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C

Army General Omar Bradley's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Architectural image: window details

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C

Arizona's painted desert

Arlington House, once the home of Robert E. Lee, high above Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former home, stands high above the Kennedy family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Arlington House, once the home of Robert E. Lee, Arlington, Virginia

Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River between the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia

Art "Movement Z" and "Delayed Energy" located in the lobby of the Claude Pepper Federal Building, Miami, Florida

Art ("Thetis") on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art "Rice Gatherers" in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Arrival and departure sign at Washington, D.C.'s restored Union Station train terminal

Art ("Neptunus") in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art "Indian Woman Dressing Deer Skin," by Brig. Gen. S. Eastman. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art "Timucuan Village" in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art "Buffalo Chase" in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art "Indian Woman Dressing a Deer Skin" in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C

Art at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Art at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art Deco, Miami Beach, Florida

Art Deco Cavalier Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

Art from the U.S. Capitol collection, Washington, D.C

Art from the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Art in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C

Art Deco detail in Miami Beach, Florida