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The largest synagogue in the world occupies a prominent corner on New York City’s Fifth Avenue across from Central Park.

In 1982, the Pennsylvania Electric Company abandoned use of the historic Chester Waterside Station on the Delaware River, a 1916 coal-fired electrical power plant.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has long held one of the world's great collections of baroque masters, including Peter Paul Rubens, Velazquez, van Dyck, and others.

This building, originally an unassuming, three-story warehouse, was part of a thriving tobacco industry that socially and economically defined the South Boston, Virginia, community in the early 20th century.

Boston-based firm Ann Beha Architects transforms a historic Masonic Temple into a useful expansion for the Portland Art Museum.

Mechanical Hall at the University of Delaware was renovated by Ziger/Snead to house the Paul R. Jones Collection, one of the largest and most complete holdings of African-American art in the world.

The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar is an institution in a development on the outskirts of Denver in the city of Lakewood, Colorado.

When the Yale University Art Gallery first opened in 1953, this magazine included it in a roundup of new art museums.

Like Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory, a 1935 Art Deco masterpiece conceived by Russell Porter and designed by the firm Austin and Ashley, exists in several domains, illusory and real. Whether glimpsed in the movies—1955’s "Rebel Without a Cause" or 1984’s "The Terminator"—or as a twilight destination in the Hollywood Hills, the Griffith’s iconic three-domed structure, what longtime observatory director Edwin Krupp calls the “hood ornament of Los Angeles,” also provides that rare Los Angeles accident: true public space.

Newark City Hall was designed by John H. and Wilson C. Ely Architects with the firm of Mowbray and Uffinger, and completed in 1906.