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This film takes you behind the scenes and tells the stories of the people who built and have worked in this magnificent building. It is a story that inspires a deep appreciation for Colorado's history, from the turbulent territorial era and the protracted process of constructing a Capitol building, to the Capitol's distinctive adornments utilizing glass, marble, bronze, textile and pigment to form unique portraits of the people and events that influenced...
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A simulated atmospheric boundary layer flow over the Renaissance Center model was established whose characteristics compared favorably with the expected flow over the Detroit area. Flow visualization showed fluctuating separation features at certain locations on the center hotel structure and on the elevator towers of office buildings suggesting high values of pressure coefficient in those regions.
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Publisher's description: Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears--and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity,...
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"An in-depth look at the most famous home in the United States, this kid-friendly activity book educates young readers on the White House. Blending facts from numerous primary sources with engaging anecdotes--from learning that George Washington never actually slept in the White House and Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom to how Gerald Ford's daughter Susan held her high school prom in the White House--this book provides the complete...
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Pueblo's North Side Neighborhood is one of the most significant collections of residential buildings in southeastern Colorado. Beginning in the 1880s, Mahlon and John Thatcher, chose to locate their enormous estates in the North Side. They established a trend that would span the next seven decades.
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As part of Windsor's efforts to recognize the history of its downtown and provide preservation planning data for the economic revitalization of Main Street, the Town secured a State Historical Fund grant. The major goal of this project was to acquire as much architectural and historical data as possible for properties in the downtown Windsor survey area, allowing Town staff and others to make sound preservation planning decisions about the central...
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Salida is the county seat of Chaffee County and its largest city, with a population of 5,504 in 2000. The city is the service, supply, and tourism center for the Upper Arkansas Valley. The 2001-02 survey of historic buildings in Salida had two primary goals: to conduct an intensive level survey to record and evaluate properties within and adjacent to the historic commercial district and to conduct a reconnaissance level survey of the remainder of...