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James Dolan House (1894) – staircase reflections
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96 South Union Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Now operating as offices with a third-floor apartment, I'm told it was once a brothel.
This single-family Queen Anne style, eaves-front house, dominated by a large round tower filling the right half of the front facade, faces west on South Union Street. The 2 x 4 bay shingle and clapboard sided wood frame structure rises from the redstone foundation to the steeply pitched gable roof.
While the roof was originally all covered by slate, the main eaves-front gable has been covered by asphalt shingles. The area with slate remaining has gray slate laid with a band of clipped shingles. The large tower is covered with plain wood shingles except for the first course on on second floor, which has sawtooth shingles. The finial-capped tower has a hip roof dormer extending from the front (west) side of its conical roof. The window in this dorrner and in the dormer protruding west from the main gable (which has cheeks which round into half circles before ending at the recessed sash) have multi-light windows. Most of the building is 1/1 windows, some of the exceptions being two fixed-sash stained glass windows and a set of replacement windows toward the back of the budding. One stained glass, a small elaborate window located on the right (south) side year beyond the tower, is a more recent (1987) sash designed with mountains and a sunset. The right (south) gable has a slate hood and a projecting gable toward the rear of the main gable which, contains a bow window below it. The gable of this bow window has fishscale shingles in the lower corners and a 3/1 window in the rear. A bay window on the left (north) side gable wall rises two stories and ends in a hip roof.
The porch on the left front facade has a full-width pediment filled with floral carvings which is held up by steel cornerposts. The front door consists of a large rectangular pane above two vertical panels. The two round arch openings above the porch look as if they originally enclosed a small sunporch. Now these two openings are filled with large fixed panes of glass.
The double-flue chimney is made of brick and has a corbelled top. The back (east) side of the building retains in basic shape of a 2-1/2 story building but has been altered with skylights, additional construction and at least one window replacement. The lot is flat and sits a few feet above the sidewalk. This house was built for James Dolan, who had a grocery business at 203-205 College Street called Dolan Bros. – From the NRHP application.
☞ This building is one of 136 contributing structures of the 280 acre Buell Street - Bradley Street Historic District, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#95001260), since November 13, 1995.
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′45″N 73°12′31″W.
Pittsburgh: Gateway Clipper Fleet Majestic and Roberto Clemente Bridge
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The Gateway Clipper Fleet Majestic is a 1,000-passenger riverboat that cruises the three rivers of Pittsburgh-- the Monongahela, the Allegheny, and the Ohio. The Gateway Clipper Fleet, founded by John E. Connelly, was named after the city of Pittsburgh, which in earlier times was known as the "Gateway to the West." The original riverboat, the Gateway Clipper, set sail in 1958. Today there are five watercraft in the Gateway fleet.
The Roberto Clemente Bridge, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge, spans 884 feet across the Allegheny River, connecting the North Shore and the Central Business District in downtown Pittsburgh. Originally opened on October 19, 1928, it was renamed after Pittsburgh Pirates slugger, Roberto Clemente on August 6, 1998. The bridge was built from 1925 to 1928 by architect Stanley L. Roush and engineers Vernon R. Covell, H. E. Dodge, Alfred D. Nutter and T. J. Wilkerson of the Allegheny County Department of Public Works.
Along with the Rachel Carson Bridge and the Andy Warhol Bridge, it is one of the "Three Sisters Bridges," three parallel self-anchored suspension bridges crossing the Allegheney. They were the first self-anchored bridges built in the United States. The Municipal Art Commission had mandated the bridges all be suspension, but the site conditions didn't allow for typical anchorages. The unusual self-anchored design features heavy anchorages to hold the cable ends and rigid towers to hold the ends apart. The deck girders were originally painted green with the remaining superstructure aluminum grey, but today, like most downtown Pittsburgh river bridges, it is painted yellow.
The Sixth Street Bridge was designated a landmark by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark in 1988.
National Register #86000017 (1986)
