– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Consolidation Steam Locomotive The first true steam locomotive with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement was ordered by the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad and built by Matthias Baldwin in 1866. The design was given the name “Consolidation” by the Lehigh and Mahoney in honor of the recent consolidation of the Beaver...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Wilkins House Anyone familiar with Washington, DC’s radial street design will know that there are many lots which are of an unusual shape to say the least. We saw one example of how an architect can overcome these non-rectangular blocks when we visited the Patterson Mansion in an earlier post. Another solution to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – American National Red Cross Headquarters The American National Red Cross Headquarters occupies a complete city block on 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, just down the road from the Pan American Union Building. Constructed of Vermont white marble, it was consecrated to the memory of the women of the Civil War who,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Smyth County Courthouse Smyth County in Southwestern Virginia was formed on February 23, 1832 when the Virginia General Assembly took parts of the neighboring Washington and Wythe Counties to create a new county. It is named after General Alexander Smyth who once represented the area in both houses of the Virginia...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Neffs Mill Covered Bridge Neffs Mill Covered Bridge goes by many different names being also know as Pequea 7 after the creek it spans as well as Bowmans Mill Covered Bridge. It is situated on the border of West Lampeter Township and Strasburg Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built by...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Winery at La Grange La Grange is a historic farm surrounding a 1790s manor house just north of Haymarket, Virginia. It was originally carved out of Robert “King” Carter’s Bull Run Tract in the 1600s. The property changed owners many times over the next four centuries but fortunately the George Green built manor...
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