10 Buildings in Context
10 Buildings in Context
A historical Timeline
1776 – The Declaration of Independence is signed.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1788 - The Virginia State House is constructed.
Photo Credit: Jonathan Nestor
1791 – Congress ratifies the Bill of Rights.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1812 – America goes to war against the British and their allies in the War of 1812.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1848 – Gold is discovered in California.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1857 – Dred Scott sues for his freedom, and loses.
Credit: Digital image ©1998 Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
1861 – The American Civil War begins. The Virginia State Capitol (shown here in 1865) houses the Confederate government alongside the Virginia State Assembly.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1865 - The Civil War ends; Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
1869 – The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1871 – Much of Chicago is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1877 - H. H. Richardson’s Trinity Church is constructed in Boston, Massachusetts.
Photo Credit: Katherine Castro
1879 – Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1869 – The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1871 – Much of Chicago is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1886 – The Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1891 – Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Building is constructed in St. Louis, Missouri.
Photo Credit: William A. Zbaren
1903 – The Wright Brothers achieve the first powered air flight.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1908 – Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress (Model T is driven by Ernest A. Franke of Washington, D.C.)
1910 – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House is completed in Chicago, Illinois.
Photo Credit: Kelly Manteck
1910 – Ford moves manufacturing of the Model T to a much larger plant designed by Albert Kahn in Highland Park, Michigan.
Photo Credit: Justin Maconochie
1912 – The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1914 – The Panama Canal is completed.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1920 – Women gain the right to vote.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress
1929 – The stock market crashes.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1941 – Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1944 – “D-Day”: Allies invade Normandy, France.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons; Source: U.S. Army Ctr. of Mil. Hist.
1945 – The U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
1954 – A ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education desegregates schools.
Photo Credit: Supreme Court of the United States.
1956 – The first indoor regional mall, Victor Gruen’s Southdale Center, opens in Edina, Minnesota.
Photo Credit: Rory Thomas O’Neill
1957 – Russia launches the Sputnik satellite.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons; source: NASA
1958 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building is completed in Manhattan.
Photo Credit: Peter Reitzfeld
1962 – John Glenn orbits earth on the “Friendship 7” Mercury spacecraft.
Photo Credit: NASA
1962 – Eero Saarinen’s Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.
Photo Credit: Antony Platt
1963 – Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1964 – Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House is completed in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Photo Credit: Steven Goldblatt
1969 – The U.S. lands on the moon.
Photo Credit: NASA
1974 – Richard M. Nixon resigns.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
1975 – The Viet Nam war ends.
Photo Credit: Hubert van Es
1979 – The Iran Hostage crisis arises.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
1989 – The Eastern Bloc dissolves.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
2001 – The World Trade Center is attacked.
Photo Credit: tbd
2003 – Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall is completed in Los Angeles, California.
Photo Credit: Steve Smith
2003 – The U.S. invades Iraq..
Photo Credit: Public Domain
