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Conway Covered Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:27:16 +0000

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This bridge crosses the Swift River just before it enters the Saco River at Conway in New Hampshire. Constructed in 1869 it replaced the original structure that was destroyed in a flood in that year. It is 129 feet long and 21 feet wide.

There are sixty-six covered bridges in New Hampshire and six of them are in the North Conway and the surrounding area. All were built in the 1800’s and all but two of them are still in operation. These bridges were covered to help protect the wooden structure from the weather.

Liberty and freedom

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:41:16 +0000

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The Staten Island ferry 'John F Kennedy' swings past the Statue of Liberty on a westward run. There may be no such thing as a free lunch but the Staten Island trip does not incur a charge

Hudson Avenue

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 05:27:10 +0000

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The Hudson Avenue Generating Station (the Station) was constructed in 1922 and is currently serving as a steam and peak capacity electric generating plant that is owned and operated by Con Edison. The 13-acre facility, located in the Vinegar Hill section of Brooklyn, New York and fronting on the East River, manages over 10 million gallons of petroleum storage capacity including No. 6 fuel oil, No. 2 fuel oil and kerosene. The Station supplies nearly 3 million pounds of steam an hour to Manhattan, as well as electric power for customers throughout Con Edison’s service area.

Flatiron Building

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:06:14 +0000

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The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.

Ammonoosuc

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:03:04 +0000

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Locomotive No.2 'Ammonoosuc' at the base station of the Mount Washington Cog Railway. This is currently the oldest locomotive operating on this line, having been built in 1875 at the Manchester Locomotive Works and subsequently rebuilt after the major fire of 1895.

Sherry-Netherland Hotel

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 09:56:43 +0000

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The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-storey apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. The building is 560 feet high, and was noted as the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened in 1927.

Boston

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:06:27 +0000

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Panorama of Boston from the Hilton Hotel at Logan International Airport.

Saco River Bridge, Conway, New Hampshire

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:08:22 +0000

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In 1850, Jacob Berry and Peter Paddleford built a covered bridge to replace a crudely framed log bridge that had collapsed at this site. This bridge stood until the Swift River covered bridge crashed into it in 1869. The Saco River covered bridge was rebuilt by Allen and Warren of Conway but it was destroyed again by a tannery fire in 1890. The current bridge was built by Charles Broughton and his son Frank. The design is Paddleford truss with added arches.

New Hampshire autumn

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:07:02 +0000

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A panoramic reminder of the autumn colours from a visit in 2015.

Memorial lifting bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 06:40:24 +0000

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The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine. A large overhead plaque facing traffic on the bridge reads "Memorial to the Sailors and Soldiers of New Hampshire who gave their lives in the World War 1917-1919."

The lift span can be fully opened to allow large commercial vessels to pass. During summer, the lift section remains partially elevated every half-hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for about 15 minutes. This allows smaller commercial and recreational boat traffic. The bridge is currently the only one of the three Piscataqua River bridges with provisions for pedestrians and bicycles. This bridge replaced the original structure that was completed in 1923 and closed in 2011.

The opening of the new bridge in August 2013 was reported in the local paper thus:-

New Hampshire and Maine celebrated the opening of a new bridge Thursday that has become a steel symbol of their past cooperation and their commitment to future commerce.
The $81.4 million Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, replaces one that was built in 1923 and closed in 2011. As she did 90 years ago at age 5, former Portsmouth mayor Eileen Foley did the ribbon-cutting honors, riding across the bridge in a golf cart with a bouquet of flowers on her lap. The crowd cheered as she cut the ribbon, then sang "God Bless America."

A forest of tanks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:08:50 +0000

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If you like water tanks then the United States is the place to be. This plantation is on a commercial building in New York.

Carbon rain

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:07:52 +0000

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Climbing hard on the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The black dots are falling char that has been thrown out by the locomotive.

Rockingham

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:11:47 +0000

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The Rockingham is a historic hotel building in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was originally built in 1785 as a residence by Woodbury Langdon, prominent merchant and politician. Thomas Coburn converted it into a hotel in 1833. Frank Jones, who was, among other things, mayor of Portsmouth, a US Representative, and a brewer, bought it in 1870. After a fire in 1884, Jones rebuilt it extensively. The only significant part saved from Langdon's mansion was the dining room, which is now the Library Restaurant. The building incorporates lions, Jones's personal symbol, terracotta sculptures of the Four Seasons of Man, and busts of Jones and Langdon. It was a hotel until 1973 and is now condominiums. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Koch and Co, 136 West 125th Street

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:37:54 +0000

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In 1860 H. C. F. Koch & Co. opened its first store in Greenwich Village, New York, selling dry goods and fancy goods, and in 1875 moved onto Sixth Avenue.In 1891 the business moved to Harlem after Henry Koch commissioned William H. Hume to design a grand new store. This was an extensive five storey, fireproof building in brick, stone and steel. In 1893 the store was enlarged and on September 24 an advertisement announced that the additions to and alterations in their magnificent establishment are now completed. A nearly seamless sixth floor provided another acre of floor space and ten new departments. The business continued until 1932 by which time the neighbourhood had greatly changed. Today the Koch building clings on whilst most of the adjacent commercial buildings have been demolished.

Lots more about the business and building can be found here: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-1891-koch-co-bldg-no-136-west-125th.html

Vineyard Sound

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:00:37 +0000

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Fishing vessel Humbak in Vineyard Sound. Seen from the ferry between Falmouth and Oak Bluffs on the way to Martha's Vineyard.

175 Fifth Avenue

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 18 May 2016 15:47:17 +0000

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Stiles and Hart

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:34:59 +0000

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The Stiles and Hart Brick Company
was established in 1886 and is the only brick manufacturer in Massachusetts. The work is in the town of Bridgewater.

Pequonnock River Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:38:50 +0000

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Pequonnock River Bridge on Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut was built in 1975 as a replacement for a double span bascule bridge.

Capawock

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:56:00 +0000

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The Capawock Theater in Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard opened in 2013 when it was described as 32 x 54 feet and as having a seating capacity of 320 with a 'clear view of stage and pictures'. In July 1932, Alfred Hall of Edgartown, agent for Vineyard Theatres, Inc., leased and then purchased the Vineyard Haven theatre, which was then renamed the Capawock. The venue continued to show films until 2011 and after a period of closure it has been restored by the Martha's Vineyard Theater Foundation and reopened in 2015.

Going back down

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:15:25 +0000

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Locomotive No.2 'Ammonoosuc' and its coach are leaving the summit of the Mount Washington Cog Railway. I had travelled up the mountain on this train but the conditions were so cold that the operators sent it back immediately due to worries about the water in the tender and its connections becoming frozen if they waited for an hour or so. This is currently the oldest locomotive operating on this line, having been built in 1875 at the Manchester Locomotive Works and subsequently rebuilt after the major fire of 1895.