Electric Station, 30th and Smith Street, circa 1891

Includes residences and federal buildings designed by Aiken as a professional architect and as the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury. Included is the United States Post Office in Washington, D.C., designed by Aiken and under construction in 1896, as well as post offices in Racine, Wisconsin, Chester, Pennsylvania, and South Bend, Indiana. Residences designed by Aiken include the Charles Anderson Jr. house in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Henry Preserved Smith house in Walnut Hills, Ohio. Also included are photographs of buildings designed by the architects McKim, Mead, and White, the Edward C. Jones chapel in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1850, since destroyed, and various American and European churches.