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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
 1 drawings |  3 b&w photos |  21 data pages |  1 photo caption pages |
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TITLE:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Coconino County, AZ
CALL NUMBER:
HABS ARIZ,3-FLAG,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 1 (34 x 44 in.)
Photo(s): 3 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 20 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.
CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Balachwski, transmitter
Jacobsen, Rebecca, historian
NOTE:
Survey number HABS AZ-206
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N165).
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172
Significance: Founded in 1894, by Bostonian Percival Lowell in Flagstaff, it is an important landmark in the history of astronomy. The observatory's unique historic structures stand as examples of changing technology in the field of astronomy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its mountain location and placement of instruments in separate structures were forerunners of modern observatory arrangement...
SUBJECTS:
ARIZONA--Coconino County--Flagstaff
observatories
COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.az0371
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. SATURN GATES ADJACENT TO VISITOR CENTER, LOOKING NORTH
2. OLD ENTRANCE ROAD AT CENTER, NEW ROAD AND VISITOR CENTER TO LEFT, LOOKING NORTHWEST
3. WATER TANK ON LEFT, CLARK DOME AT CENTER REAR, LOOKING NORTHNORTHWEST
CONTROL #:
AZ0371
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