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an study of the built environment and cultural landscapes

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The Long Cost of Holding the Gulf: the Military Infrastructures of the Florida Keys

Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas lies seventy miles west of Key West, far enough out to feel terminal. Outside the Aleutians and the Philippines, there is no American fortification that asks more of you simply to arrive. The sea insists on it. And on this fragment, buffeted and eroding, sits Fort Jefferson. A brick ring […]

observation tower, fort miles, delaware

Estell Manor, “Belcoville”

Plans of the Bethlehem Loading Company and “Belcoville” site 1918.

Thomas Mill Bridge from Thomas Mill Dam

The only covered bridge in the city and county of Philadelphia. Originally built in 1737, rebuilt by the WPA in 1939 and re-restored by the Fairmount Park Commission in 1999-2000.

rustic overlook on white trail, wissahickon

chinese wall diagram

a rough sketch of the extent of the old chinese wall, philadelphia, pa.

bacon bits

Sent from my iPad

batsto lake hike

Tacony Savings Fund

[john ord’s Tacony Savings Fund building (1893) at 4900 Longshore with Sullivanesqe arches]

Cresheim to Rox Reservoir to Miquon

The route.