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Writer Gertrude Stein lived in Reservoir Hill for a short period of time on Linden Avenue, near Whitelock Street in what is also called the David Bachrach House. [4] Pulitzer Prize winning poet Karl Shapiro was born on Brooks Lane in Reservoir Hill. Shapiro was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in ...
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., and the near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.
Sparrows Point in 2021. Sparrows Point is an industrial area in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, adjacent to Edgemere.Named after Thomas Sparrow, landowner, it was the site of a very large industrial complex owned by Bethlehem Steel, known for steelmaking and shipbuilding.
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. [1] It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.
The Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center is an aquatic facility in Federal Way, Washington constructed for the 1990 Goodwill Games. It has hosted US Olympic Diving Team Trials in 2000 and 2012 , [ 2 ] NCAA championships, PAC-12 conference championships, USA Swimming Winter National championships and Speedo Junior National championships. [ 2 ]
The Mona Plummer Aquatic Center is the aquatic center used by the Arizona State University Sun Devils swim team. It opened in 1981, [1] cost four million dollars to build, [2] and is named after Mona Plummer. Plummer was a national championship winning coach who died in 1979; she coached during three decades. [3]
Indoor 50m competition pool (opened 1997) Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre is an international sporting venue located in Albert Park, Victoria, Australia.The centre was opened on 24 July 1997 at a construction cost of A$65 million.