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The Flatiron Building is located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, at the corner of Houston and West 9th streets. At the time of its completion in 1907 it was one of the city's first steel frame buildings and the tallest building in north Texas .
The Flatirons are rock formations in the western United States, near Boulder, Colorado, consisting of flatirons.There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south (First through Fifth, respectively) along the east slope of Green Mountain (elev. 8,148 ft or 2,484 m), and the term "The Flatirons" sometimes refers to these five alone.
The Flatirons near Boulder, Colorado, is both an example of these landforms and the source of their name. Other well-developed flatirons are found in the eastern Uinta Mountains in northwestern Colorado, [6] the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park, the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona, and on the flanks of the Marathon Uplift in west Texas.
Hay Building, aka Flatiron Building (Portland, Maine) 1925 built At Congress Square, between Congress St. and Free St. Portland, Maine: Maryland Inn: 1782 built Church Circle, between Main St. and Duke of Gloucester St.
Novaculite forms light grey flatirons in the Marathon Uplift area of Texas. [1] Novaculite, also called Arkansas Stone, is a microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline rock type that consists of silica in the form of chert or flint. It is commonly white to grey or black in color, with a specific gravity that ranges from 2.2 to 2.5.
Fort Worth's history of skyscrapers began with the completion of the 7-story Flatiron Building in 1907. When built, it was the tallest building in North Texas. [3] The Flatiron Building stood as Fort Worth's tallest structure until 1910, with the construction of the 10-story Baker Building (since renamed the Bob R. Simpson Building). [4]
Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers Flat Iron , a First Nations lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for Canada Flat-iron gunboat , a 19th-century iron gunboat typified by a single large gun fitted in the bow
The approximate center of the Solitario is located 56.8 km (35.3 mi) east southeast of Presidio, Texas, just west of the line dividing Brewster County, Texas and Presidio County, Texas. The formation covers a circular area of approximately 135 km 2 (52 sq mi). The geology of the Solitario is complex. In 1988, the state of Texas purchased the ...