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Swakopmund ("Mouth of the Swakop") is a city on the coast of western Namibia, [2] 352 km (219 mi) west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road. It is the capital of the Erongo administrative district. It has 75,921 inhabitants. The city is situated at the edge of the Namib Desert and is the fourth largest population centre in Namibia.
[18] [19] In 1999, as a result of unpaid property taxes, the building became the property of the City of Detroit and was re-addressed as 6051 Hastings Street. The building was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 2003. [21] In 2022, the City of Detroit mayor Mike Duggan announced plans to revive the building as Fisher 21 ...
The Detroit Naval Armory is a limestone structure with four main sections: a vestibule, a drill hall, an office / penthouse section, and a company drill hall. [2] The building mixes Art Moderne and Art Deco influences, and contains a large array of nautically themed WPA art [2] [3] by artists including John Tabaczuk, Edgar Yaeger, David Fredenthal and Gustave Hildebrand. [4]
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The first 225 kilometres (140 mi) of railway required 110 steel bridges to cross deeply eroded gullies through sparsely vegetated arid terrain. Most were deck plate girders. [ 3 ] The railway, known as the Otavibahn , was the longest 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) gauge railway in the world at its time of construction.
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MI-330, "Dry Dock Engine Works, 1801 Atwater Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI", 28 photos, 20 measured drawings, 60 data pages, 3 photo caption pages; Berlin Iron Bridge Company Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine history; Video of the structure; Inside the abandoned Dry Dock Complex
Corktown is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan.It is the oldest extant neighborhood in the city. [2] [3] The current boundaries of the district include I-75 to the north, the John C. Lodge Freeway (The Lodge) to the east, Bagley and Porter streets to the south, and Rosa Parks Boulevard (12th Street) to the west. [1]
The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more.