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The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Station (AKA the Coudersport Depot) was a railroad station in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Built in 1899 and opened in January 1900 during the lumber industry boom in Potter County. When the lumber ran out, the railroad's business decreased. The station was abandoned in 1970 and was unoccupied until 1975, when the borough of Coudersport purchased it. The borough restored it and uses the building for office space. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976.
Pennsylvania Road Trip May 27 - May 29, 2016 - Day 2
Constellation House (52nd St) is an Oceanfront building with lovely accommodations & amenities. Located just along the water's edge, this property offers you the best of both worlds: a quiet, Mid-Town setting with all of Ocean City's fun & excitement right at your fingertips. Many great shops, activities & restaurants are within walking distance, including Seacrets, Macky's Bayside Bar & Grill, Candy Kitchen, Maui Golf & Action Watersports. Best of all, you’ll be just minutes from the popular OCMD Boardwalk, thrilling amusement rides & world-class golf.
Don't wait to make your reservation! Call (410) 723-2002 or visit www.VantageOceanCity.com. Vantage Resort Realty of MD is located at 5200B Coastal Hwy., Ocean City, MD 21842.
The Kamishamusho (上社務所), also known as the Kitou-den, and formerly known as Goma-do, located on the right side of Yōmei-mon at Tōshō-gū, is the hall where the Chief Buddhist priest used to pray for world peace during the Edo Period. Beautifully decorated in black, gold and vermilion, it is used for ritual ceremonies and weddings today.
Nikkō Tōshō-gū (日光東照宮) is a lavishly decorated shrine complex consisting of more than a dozen Shinto and Buddhist buildings set in a beautiful forest. It was initially built during the Edo period in 1617 by Tokugawa Hidetada (徳川 秀忠), the second shogun, as a simple mausoleum for his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康) (1543-1615), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Ieyasu was buried on Mount Kunozan on his death in 1616, but according to his testament, his remains were to be moved to their last resting place at Nikko. It was enlarged during the first half of the 187th century by Ieyasu’s grandson, Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川 家光), the third shogun. Some 15,000 craftsmen were employed on the construction of the Toshogu Shrine, most of them coming from Kyoto and Nara, where there was a great flowering of architecture at that period. The result was a complex of buildings with an over-lavish profusion of decoration, incorporating all the sumptuousness of the preceding Momoyama period.
Today the shrine is dedicated to the spirits of of Ieyasu and two other of Japan's most influential historical personalities—Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉) (1536-1598), a daimyo (territorial lord) in the Sengoku period who unified political factions of Japan; and Minamoto no Yorimoto (源 頼朝) (1147-1199), the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199.
Together with Rinnō-ji and Futarasan Shrine, Tōshō-gū forms the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Though the construction of the Theory and Computer Sciences Building was announced in 2007, to me the interior feels very much like '60s brutalist construction. Which is not a critique at all; I'm rather fond of that style.
I love the concrete and sharp geometries here, along with the sand garden filling the inner courtyard spaces. The repeated vertical and horizontal lines help make the inside feel very modern, in keeping with the buildings purpose.
It houses Argonne's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, among other things.
Moonrise above the skyline
Set Description: A look at the first inaugural Chicago Fire Festival, and surrounding views, from the terrace at Trump Tower.
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This building is still in use as a hotel but what not many people know is a church and cemetary sat on this spot. The church was gone by the time they wanted to put up the hotel in the late 1960s but the cemetary was still there. The graves were dug up and moved where i don't know. I have photos of the church yard when i find them i'll be sure to put them on.
More of the same: this should hopefully give a tiny flavour of the place.
During my time here (at a conference) I didn't meet anyone else who had anything good to say about the building. And, y'know, I'd be hard pressed to say it's a masterpiece of function. But who needs function with form like this? It's daring, it's different ... and, to me, it's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
Heritage Plaza es un rascacielos situado en el Skyline District de downtown Houston, Texas. Con una altura de 232 metros (762 pies),1 la torre es el quinto edificio más alto de Houston, el octavo más alto de Texas y el 60º más alto de Estados Unidos. El edificio, diseñado por la firma local M. Nasr & Partners P.C., fue completado en 1987, con 53 plantas
Barcelona, Spain.
Day five ... our last day there. A day of wandering.
The Torre de Gas Natural ...
The last building designed by Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT in Barcelona, this office tower—the headquarters of the national Catalan gas company—makes an impressive mark on the city’s skyline and faces the sea.
The building is usually called ‘The Gas Tower’ but, as with most Miralles projects, it has very little to do with prototypical, corporate aesthetics, or even what one would typically conceive of as a tower. Clad in different colored glass panels, the building confounds onlookers, as there’s no discernible main axis or single perspective from which to regard its geometry.
Call it “form follows urbanism”: the building stands at the crossroads between the modern Olympic Village and the traditional maritime neighborhood of La Barceloneta.
The result is something beyond a simple ‘tower’; the architecture relates no less than a new concept of space and the last (and one of the most celebrated) of Miralles’ masterworks.
Read more: barcelona.unlike.net/locations/301399-Torre-Gas-Natural-H...
Photograph of an abandoned Catholic Church built by the Spanish Conquerors on the island province of Tawi-Tawi, located in the far south Philippines. Can anyone add information about this church?
Tawi-Tawi is an island province in the Philippines located in the Autonomous (ARMM). The capitals of Tawi-Tawi are Bongao and Panglima Sugala. It is the southernmost province of the Philippines, sharing sea borders with the Malaysian state of Sabah and the Indonesian North Kalimantan province, both on the island of Borneo to the west. To the northeast lies the province of Sulu. Tawi-Tawi also covers some islands in the Sulu Sea to the northwest, the Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi Island and the Turtle Islands, just 20 kilometres (12 mi) away from Sabah, North Borneo Island.
William McKinley Rigdon collection, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections.
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As one of Melbourne's oldest suburbs, South Melbourne has a rich history with many notable Victorian era buildings like these fantastic shop fronts on Clarendon Street which date to 1876.
There has been a gateway here for nearly 2000 years - Bootham Bar is on the site of one of the four main entrances to the Roman fortress. The existing structure is not Roman but it has been around for quite a while. The archway itself dates from the 11th century and the rest of the structure is largely from the 14th century. In 1501 a door knocker was installed as Scots were required to knock first and seek permission from the Lord Mayor to enter the city. Of course time passes, changes all things and forgiveness is generally to be encouraged....
The bar was damaged during the siege of York in 1644. Like Micklegate Bar, it was sometimes used to display the heads of traitors, the heads of three rebels opposing Charles II’s restoration were placed here in 1663. Bootham Bar was the last of the gates to lose its barbican, demolished in 1835. The plaque to the right of the pedestrian archway bears the following notice:-
ROMAN FORTRESS
This plaque marks the site of the Porta Principalis Dextra or North Wester Gate of the Roman fortress of which the foundations as rebuilt circa AD300 lie just below ground.