Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

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

Robert E. Lee home at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia

Robert E. Lee's onetime home, Arlington House, looms above the Kennedy Family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery

Robert Glen's "Mustangs of Las Colinas" sculptures, Irving, Texas

Roaring 20s weekend at the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C

Robie House, created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois

Roanoke Valley, Virginia

Robert F. Kennedy grave in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C

Rockefeller Center, New York, New York

Rocky coastline, Maine

Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light, Rockland, Maine

Rockwood is a 150 year old estate that is now a public park featuring a six acre historic garden and a mansion with a museum in Wilmington, Delaware

Rocky Mountain view, Colorado

Rocky beach below La Jolla in San Diego County, California

Rockwood Manor House, built in the 1850s in Wilmington, Delaware

Rock quarry, Virginia

Rock towers at Zion National Park, Utah

Rocky New England coast

Rocketry at Space Center, Houston, Texas

Roddy Road covered bridge near Thurmont in Frederick County, Maryland, built about 1850

Rocky statue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rodman gun at Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Roller skater passes the Chess Pavilion in Lincoln Park along Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois

Rolling Mill Road bridge in Maryland

Room at Manship House by Carol M. Highsmith

Rooftop view of Houston, Texas

Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse at 411 West Fourth Street, Santa Ana, California

Roman Goddess of War art on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Rooftop detail of Old Main train station in Richmond, Virginia

Rooftop view of a Manhattan block, showing an old water tower, New York, New York

Rolling Mill Road Bridge over Northeast Creek, Cecil County, Maryland

Room at the Manship House, built by Charles Henry Manship, a paperhanger and future mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Ronald Reagan Building under construction in the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Ronald Reagan at his desk with a Republican Senator in the White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C

Roof detail, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado

Roman chewing candy man, New Orleans, Louisiana

Roman Centurion sculpted by Louis St. Gaudens on the exterior of Union Station, Washington, D.C

Rolls of hay dot the landscape of rural Virginia

Rose Island Lighthouse, Newport, Rhode Island

Ropsley Garden detail in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Room in the New York City Tenement Museum, New York

Roseland Cottage, the 1896 winter home of Henry Chandler Bowen, Woodstock, Connecticut

Ropsley Estate in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rose's Mill Bridge over Antietam Creek, completed in 1839

Ropsley Estate in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rose Island Lighthouse, Rhode Island

Roseland Cottage & Ice House in Woodstock, Connecticut

Roseland Cottage, Route 169, Woodstock, Connecticut

Ropsley house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Connecticut

Ropsley House, built in 1916 on a small estate in the Chestnut Hill section, which was then in the countryside. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Roseland Cottage was built in 1846 in the Gothic Revival style as the summer home of Henry Chandler Bowen and family. The entire complex, with a boxwood parterre garden, an icehouse, garden house, and a carriage barn with a private bowling alley, reflects

Round barn on U.S. 66 in Arcadia, east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Rotunda ceiling, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Round barn, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Round barn in Wisconsin

Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas