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Château Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River north of Loveland, Ohio, United States. Built in the style of a Medieval castle , construction began in the 1927 by Boy Scout troop leader, World War I veteran, and medievalist Harry D. Andrews. [ 1 ]
Franklin Castle (also known as the Tiedemann House) is a Victorian stone house, built in the American Queen Anne style, located at 4308 Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood. [2] The building has four stories and more than twenty rooms and eighty windows.
Woolworth Building under construction in 1912 A structural worker on the Empire State Building. Workers such as this man were often referred to as "old timers" because in that time era, most men working on building structures were middle-aged. Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, was finished in 2010.
In religious architecture, the common design features were brick, stone-like stucco, and a single spire that tops the entrance. They can be seen in Saint Paul's Church (1761) in Mount Vernon, New York or Saint Paul's Chapel (1766) in New York, New York. The architects of this period were more influenced by the canons of Old World architecture.
Castles were introduced into England shortly before the Norman Conquest in 1066. [83] Before the 12th century castles were as uncommon in Denmark as they had been in England before the Norman Conquest. The introduction of castles to Denmark was a reaction to attacks from Wendish pirates, and they were usually intended as coastal defences. [73]
This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Ohio, including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Ohio. Only buildings built prior to 1830 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
The first type, which also existed in America, is characteristic especially for Southern Africa. These were used by Bantu-speaking groups in southern and parts of east Africa, which was made with mud, poles, thatch, and cow dung (rectangular houses were more common among the Bantu-speaking peoples of the greater Congo region and central Africa).
By the middle of the 19th century, as a result of new technology, construction was able to incorporate metal materials as building components. Structures were erected with cast iron and wrought iron frames. However, due to being weak in tension, these materials were effectively phased out in place for more structurally sound steel. [2]