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1960s postcard of Cornwall Bridge. The Cornwall Bridge is located in southwestern Cornwall and southeastern Sharon, near the village known as Cornwall Bridge.It is oriented east-west, principally crossing the south-flowing Housatonic River, but also the tracks of the Housatonic Railroad which parallels the river's east bank, and roads named River Road on each side.
Built from 1899 to 1902, designed by Gustave Eiffel, the 2.4-kilometre bridge was the longest bridge in Asia for its time. [12] Although built by the French, the majority was built by (3000) Vietnamese. [13] During the period of French, The bridge was formerly named Paul Doumer. It signified a symbol of architecture in South East Asia.
The West Cornwall Covered Bridge (an earlier incarnation was known as the Hart Bridge) is a wooden covered lattice truss bridge carrying the Sharon-Goshen Turnpike over the Housatonic River in the town of Cornwall, Connecticut. Records indicate that a bridge may have been in place in this location as early as 1762.
Cornwall Bridge is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the hamlets of Cornwall Bridge and Calhoun Corners in the towns of Cornwall and Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is primarily in the southwestern corner of the town of Cornwall, but extends west across the Housatonic River into the town of Sharon in the ...
Indian rock-cut architecture is more various and found in greater abundance in that country than any other form of rock-cut architecture around the world. [1] Rock-cut architecture is the practice of creating a structure by carving it out of solid natural rock. Rock that is not part of the structure is removed until the only rock left makes up ...
Mumbai Architecture came to be present through the British in the 18th and early 19th centuries. At first it was the neoclassical style of architecture but later, the Victorian Gothic style (also known as Gothic revival) came to dominate the city. Where the neoclassical has an orderly monochromatic presence, the Gothic style is expressive ...
Category: Architecture in India by period or style. ... Gothic Revival architecture in India (1 C, 18 P) H. Hindu architecture (3 C, 22 P) I. Indo-Islamic ...
Cornwall Bridge station is a former train station in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The station building was built in the 1880s to serve passengers on the Housatonic Railroad . Passenger service on the line ended in 1971, at which time Penn Central auctioned off the station.