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Designated CP. July 23, 1973. Designated NMSRCP. June 20, 1971. The Loretto Chapel is a former Roman Catholic church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, that is now used as a museum and a wedding chapel. [2] It is known for its unusual helix -shaped spiral staircase (the "Miraculous Stair").
Technical. Line length. 281.6 metres (924 ft) Highest elevation. 183 metres (600 ft) Maximum incline. 87% (41°) Jacob's Ladder is a Grade I listed staircase leading from Jamestown, Saint Helena, up the side of Ladder Hill to Ladder Hill Fort. The name is a reference to the biblical Jacob's Ladder, a ladder extending to heaven.
[76] [63] Cosmo III noted Althorp's "spacious staircase of the wood of the walnut tree, [g] stained, constructed with great magnificence; this staircase, dividing itself into two equal branches, leads to the grand saloon, from which is the passage into the chambers, all of them regularly disposed after the Italian manner, to which country the ...
Hang a Statement Chandelier. In the foyer of our 2019 Whole Home, designer Vern Yip installed a stunning gold chandelier in the middle of the curved staircase. The gold metal brings out the gold ...
Swallow Cliff Woods. Swallow Cliff Woods is an 800-acre [1] nature preserve located near Palos Park, Illinois, in the Palos Forest Preserves. [2] It was built in 1930 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and operated by the Cook County Forest Preserve District. One of the highlights is a 100 foot bluff with 125 limestone stairs of varying heights.
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is a United States national monument protecting the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante (Escalante River) in southern Utah. It was established in 1996 by President Bill Clinton under the authority of ...
Devil's Staircase (New Zealand), a section of New Zealand State Highway 6 in Otago. a feature on the Afon Irfon in the Cambrian Mountains, Wales. a waterfall on the Coosa River at Wetumpka, Alabama, U.S. a descent on the Peak Cavern caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England. a path in The Silverpeaks, New Zealand.
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 [1][2][3][4] and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. [5] A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which ...