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Taking down a streetcar arch at Broad and Wall streets, 1915. Arches were first used on streets in Columbus in 1888. The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a national veterans organization, held its 22nd annual convention in the city that year, bringing about 250,000 people to the city that had held a population of about 90,000.
The Union Station arch is located in McFerson Commons (sometimes known as Arch Park), where it serves as its central focal point. [1] The site was formerly the eastern edge of the Ohio Penitentiary, which stood there from 1834 to 1997. The Beaux-Arts arch measures 35 ft (11 m) tall, and weighs about 4 short tons (3.6 t). [2]
Cast stone is commonly manufactured by two methods, the first method is the dry tamp method and the second is the wet cast process. [6] Both methods manufactured a simulated natural cut stone look. Wood, plaster, glue, sand, sheet metal, and gelatin are the molding materials that are used to manufacture drawing work and casting molds like ...
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
The monument in 1909. The monument was erected in 1902 and commemorates the 2,260 Confederate soldiers buried at the site. [5] [6] The memorial is 17 feet (5.2 m) and includes a bronze figure of a soldier standing on a granite arch, holding a rifle.
Bowne Station Road stone arch bridge over tributary of the Alexauken Creek; Brand Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge; Bridge 182+42, Northern Central Railway; Bridge 634, Northern Central Railway; Bridge at Falling Creek; Bridge between Guilford and Hamilton Townships; Bridge in Albany Township; Bridge in Buckingham Township; Bridge in City of ...
A street in SoHo in New York City famous for its cast-iron facades. Spa Colonnade in Mariánské Lázně, 1889.Nearly every element is cast iron. Cast-iron architecture is the use of cast iron in buildings and objects, ranging from bridges and markets to warehouses, balconies and fences.
The Main Street Bridge in Columbus, Ohio is a 700 ft (210 m), three-span, inclined tied arch bridge over the Scioto River. The bridge is the first in North America and the fifth in the world to use an inclined single-rib-tied arch superstructure. [1] [2] The final cost for the bridge was $60.1 million. [3]