ArtWorld 3D Collection

Architecture Gallery

Lost landmarks of American cities. Every building in this collection has been demolished or is almost gone: grand hotels, railway stations, theaters, mansions and early skyscrapers, recreated in layered shadowbox depth as they once stood.

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44 artworks

• ARCHITECTURE 01 Beacon Towers, Sands Point, New York, 1918 Beacon Towers, a white castle-like mansion with turrets and spires on the Long Island shore at Sands Point, New York, as it stood in 1918.
• ARCHITECTURE 02 Betz Building, Philadelphia, 1900 The ornate Betz Building, a tall stone office building rising above a busy Philadelphia street in 1900.
• ARCHITECTURE 03 Bogardus Building The Bogardus Building, a cast-iron commercial building with rows of arched windows.
• ARCHITECTURE 04 Bradbury Mansion, Los Angeles, 1887 The Bradbury Mansion, a red Victorian residence with towers and gables in Los Angeles, 1887.
• ARCHITECTURE 05 Chicago Federal Building, 1905 The domed Chicago Federal Building, a massive classical government building surrounded by city streets in 1905.
• ARCHITECTURE 06 Cincinnati Public Library The old Cincinnati Public Library's grand interior, with tiers of iron book alcoves rising around a skylit hall.
• ARCHITECTURE 07 City Hall Post Office, New York, 1905 The City Hall Post Office, an ornate domed Second Empire building at the tip of City Hall Park, New York, 1905.
• ARCHITECTURE 08 San Francisco City Hall, Lost in 1906 San Francisco's domed City Hall, the grand civic building destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
• ARCHITECTURE 09 City Investing Building, New York City The City Investing Building, an early skyscraper with a tall mansard-roofed tower in Lower Manhattan.
• ARCHITECTURE 10 Cliff House, San Francisco The Victorian Cliff House, a turreted chateau perched on rocky cliffs above the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco.
• ARCHITECTURE 11 Forbes Mansion, Portland, Oregon, 1887 The C. M. Forbes Mansion, an ornate Victorian house with towers and gables in Portland, Oregon, 1887.
• ARCHITECTURE 12 Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio, 1907 A domed stone courthouse with a clock tower in Columbus, Ohio, 1907.
• ARCHITECTURE 13 Detroit City Hall Detroit's old City Hall, a Second Empire civic building with a tall central clock tower.
• ARCHITECTURE 14 Erie County Savings Bank, Buffalo, 1908 The Erie County Savings Bank, a castle-like granite bank with turrets on a busy Buffalo, New York, street in 1908.
• ARCHITECTURE 15 Beach Hotel, Galveston, Texas Galveston's Victorian Beach Hotel, a long red-roofed resort with a central tower on the Texas shore.
• ARCHITECTURE 16 Gillender Building, New York, circa 1900 The slender Gillender Building, an early skyscraper with a domed tower on a narrow Manhattan corner, circa 1900.
• ARCHITECTURE 17 Hotel Astor, Times Square, 1909 The Hotel Astor, a grand Beaux-Arts hotel with a mansard roof on Times Square, New York, 1909.
• ARCHITECTURE 18 Hotel Manhattan, New York, 1904 The Hotel Manhattan, a tall brick hotel with a copper roof rising over a New York street, 1904.
• ARCHITECTURE 19 Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit, 1912 The Hotel Pontchartrain, a tall golden-stone hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan, 1912.
• ARCHITECTURE 20 Hotel Seattle, 1890 The Hotel Seattle, a wedge-shaped Victorian hotel on a triangular downtown Seattle corner, 1890.
• ARCHITECTURE 21 Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia, circa 1907 The ornate gilded entrance of Keith's Theatre in Philadelphia, with a vintage automobile at the curb, circa 1907.
• ARCHITECTURE 22 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 1900 Chicago's Masonic Temple, once among the tallest buildings in the world, with its steep gabled roof, 1900.
• ARCHITECTURE 23 Municipal Palace, Cincinnati, circa 1907 A grand Romanesque civic building with arched windows and towers in Cincinnati, circa 1907.
• ARCHITECTURE 24 New York World Building The New York World Building, the domed Pulitzer newspaper headquarters on Park Row, Manhattan.
• ARCHITECTURE 25 North Terminal Station, Boston Boston's North Terminal Station, a long brick railway station with arched windows and streetcars out front.
• ARCHITECTURE 26 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York A sweeping marble staircase inside the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building in New York.
• ARCHITECTURE 27 Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles The Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles, a Streamline Moderne arena with sweeping green-and-white towers.
• ARCHITECTURE 28 Penn Station, New York The vast steel-and-glass concourse of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York.
• ARCHITECTURE 29 Pennsylvania Station, circa 1910 The original Pennsylvania Station in New York, its colonnaded granite facade stretching along the street, circa 1910.
• ARCHITECTURE 30 Possner Castle, Providence Possner Castle, a stone castle-style mansion with a round tower in Providence, Rhode Island.
• ARCHITECTURE 31 Post Office, Pittsburgh, 1904 Pittsburgh's old Post Office, a towering stone Romanesque building with turrets, 1904.
• ARCHITECTURE 32 Ryan Hotel, St Paul, Minnesota, 1905 The Ryan Hotel, a red-brick Victorian Gothic hotel on a corner in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1905.
• ARCHITECTURE 33 Schiller Building, Chicago, 1890 The gilded arches of the theater inside Chicago's Schiller Building, 1890.
• ARCHITECTURE 34 Schlitz Brewery House, Milwaukee A grand arched hall in the Schlitz brewery complex in Milwaukee.
• ARCHITECTURE 35 Terminal Station, New Orleans, circa 1910 New Orleans Terminal Station, a classical railway station with a great arched entrance, circa 1910.
• ARCHITECTURE 36 Uptown Theatre, Chicago The opulent lobby of Chicago's Uptown Theatre, with grand staircases, arches and chandeliers.
• ARCHITECTURE 37 Granada Theatre, Chicago The Granada Theatre in Chicago, an ornate movie palace with a richly decorated arched facade.
• ARCHITECTURE 38 The Hollenden, Cleveland, 1900 The Hollenden Hotel, a large red-brick hotel on a Cleveland street corner, 1900.
• ARCHITECTURE 39 The Metropolitan Building, 1890 The Metropolitan Building, a tall red-brick Victorian building with a corner tower, 1890.
• ARCHITECTURE 40 Singer Building, New York City, 1909 The Singer Building, its slender domed tower rising over Lower Manhattan, 1909.
• ARCHITECTURE 41 Victorian House, Dubuque, Iowa, 1940 A turreted red Victorian house among trees in Dubuque, Iowa, 1940.
• ARCHITECTURE 42 Wabash Station, Pittsburgh, 1905 Pittsburgh's Wabash Terminal, a Beaux-Arts railway station with a great arched window, 1905.
• ARCHITECTURE 43 William A Clark House, New York The William A. Clark House, a lavish Beaux-Arts mansion with a tall corner tower on Fifth Avenue, New York.
• ARCHITECTURE 44 Young's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, 1905 Young's Million Dollar Pier stretching from the Atlantic City boardwalk out over the ocean, 1905.

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