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American Buildings Survey

Featured at the Library of Congress, the collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States. Use these images in social studies classes but also architecture, culture, literature and art.  Check out these examples: Pueblo of Acomahouseswindmillsone-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Then jump next door to the National Parks Service to see more. 

National Parks Service: National Register

There are so many things you can do with architecture in the classroom: art, science, math, environmental science, history...   The National Register of Historic Places includes lots of history in YOUR city or state....