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Pittsburgh Railways (Mount Oliver Incline Railway) Norwood Incline: 1901 1923 Island Avenue Norwood Place Nunnery Hill Incline: 1888 1895 Fineview: Federal Street near Henderson Street Fineview: Meadville Street near Catoma Street Nunnery Hill Incline Plane Company Penn Incline: 1884 1953 Strip District: Spring Way near 17th Street
Puerta de Europa, the first inclined skyscrapers ever built. [citation needed]An inclined building is a building that was intentionally built at an incline.Buildings are built with an incline primarily for aesthetics, offering a unique feature to a city's skyline, as well as framing other buildings and structures between them when built in pairs.
The then-abandoned Maid of the Mist Incline, photographed in spring 2005. The overgrown track has since been cleared and the 1977 cars replaced The Hornblower Niagara Funicular , previously called the Maid of the Mist Incline and originally known as the Clifton Incline , was a funicular railway in the city of Niagara Falls , Ontario , Canada.
Inclined towers are specifically distinguished from "inclined buildings" in that they are not built to be habitable, but to serve other functions.The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved, including: visibility of other features attached to the tower such as clock towers; as part of a larger structure or device to increase the visibility of ...
Troy Hill is home to six historic landmarks: the Troy Hill Firehouse, Saint Anthony's Chapel, the Rectory of Most Holy Name of Jesus, the Troy Hill Incline Building, the Allegheny Reservoir Wall, and the Ober-Guehl house. In the 1830s, Troy Hill's population escalated significantly, resulting in the need of a school.
The Monongahela Incline was the first of these to be built in 1869–1870. The Duquesne Incline opened to the public in May 1877, and it was one of four inclined planes climbing Mount Washington that carried passengers and freight to the residential area that had spread along the top of the bluff. As the hilltop communities were virtually ...
Incline, inclined, inclining, or inclination may refer to: Grade (slope), the tilt, steepness, or angle from horizontal of a topographic feature (hillside, meadow, etc.) or constructed element (road, railway, field, etc.) Slope, the tilt, steepness, or angle from horizontal of a line (in mathematics and geometry) Incline may also refer to:
A bridge had to be built to connect Johnstown to the lower station of the incline, on the opposite side of Stonycreek River as the city. [3] Work started on the bridge on June 11, 1890, with excavation of the bridge's abutments finished a week later. [4] By March 20, 1891, only the approach to the bridge remained to be completed.