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Astoria has one sister city, [98] as designated by Sister Cities International: Walldorf, Germany, which is the birthplace of Astoria's namesake, John Jacob Astor, who was born in Walldorf near Heidelberg on July 17, 1763. The sistercityship was founded on Astor's 200th birthday in 1963 in Walldorf by Walldorf's mayor Wilhelm Willinger and ...
Astoria: Opened in 1925 amid reconstruction after Astoria's fire of 1922, this theater and commercial building symbolized the city's rebirth. Its Italian Renaissance style was unique in Astoria, and the auditorium features a set of 12 mural-style paintings depicting Venetian canal scenes by local artist Joseph Knowles. [7] 2: John Jacob Astor Hotel
The Astoria Column is a tower in the northwest United States, overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River on Coxcomb Hill in Astoria, Oregon.Built in 1926, the concrete and steel structure is part of a 30-acre (12 ha) city park called Astor Park.
Live web cameras around the Myrtle Beach area allow people to watch the beach as Hurricane Ian approaches S.C.
Dashboard cameras can come in handy on the road, especially if you are accident-prone or would like to know what goes on in or around your vehicle. These cameras capture just about everything ...
Astoria, Oregon's oldest settlement, was established as a fur trading post in 1811 and named after John Jacob Astor. Clatsop County was created from the northern and western portions of the original Twality District on June 22, 1844.
The Astoria–Megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through-truss bridge in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States that spans the lower Columbia River. It carries a section of U.S. Route 101 from Astoria, Oregon, to Point Ellice near Megler, Washington. Opened in 1966, it is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
The Hotel Astoria (later John Jacob Astor Hotel) was designed by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel, who were based in Portland from 1922 to 1930 and who, after the Astoria project, designed two other hotels that are now NRHP-listed: the Lithia Springs Hotel (Ashland, Oregon) and the Redwoods Hotel (Grants Pass, Oregon). [1]