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Rumbling Bridge
the lower one is the original bridge from 300 years ago. It was superceded by the upper (wider) one a hundred years later. The newer bridge also cuts out a rather tricky incline on the approaches on either side of the gorge. The bottom bridge is the abandoned one
Learning something new
.."So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track/ I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back/ Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart/ For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart.' - Joyce Kilmer
thatgirlpaula
Glen Echo Plantation, built in 1773 in Ellabelle, Georgia, USA. Glen Echo and Bird View (a second plantation that was razed in 1960s) were the ancestral homes of the Bird family in Bryan County Built during the 1770s on a 400 acre Royal Grant from King George III on January 1, 1771, to Israel Bird, Abraham Bird and Hugh Bird.
The Humble Legacy
Abandoned church in autumn. Love the red foliage!
12 Hobbit Houses to Make You Consider Moving Underground
Icelandic Turf Houses For over 1,000 years, Iceland has been constructing these turf houses, which blend into the landscape and capitalize on nature's insulation. While similar constructions in Norway, Scotland, Ireland and Greenland were only built by those who couldn't afford anything else, turf houses in Iceland were even built by tribe chiefs.
Ziegfeld Girl
❦ The Armour-Stiner House, also known as the Carmer Octagon House, Irvington, NY — a unique octagon-shaped and domed Victorian style house built in 1859-1860 by financier Paul J. Armour. The octagon style has been referred to as the brain house, and rightfully so. Before he designed houses, architect Orson Fowler practiced phrenology, the study of the skull’s bumps and contours to determine one’s character.