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Alcazar Hotel, St Augustine Florida

Built by Railroad Magnate Henry Flagler, its now a City Hall and Museum

The Alcazar Hotel was constructed in 1887-1889 Henry Flagler as a part of a complex of three buildings of Moorish-Spanish Architecture, in his quest to create a Riviera on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The Alcazar Hotel, the name being Arabic(Al-kasr) for royal castle, was the second of the luxurious hostelries erected in St. Augustine by Henry M. Flagler, known first in the nation's financial marts as an associate of John D. Rockefeller in the creation of the parent Standard Oil Company. The Alcazar Hotel building is an original architectural style composite of Spanish Renaissance mingled with adaptations borrowed from Moorish buildings in Spain. The castles of Seville were copied in some of the decorative design, and the facade

El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, Sarasota Florida

This Grand Hotel Building Was Built in 1926 and Demolished in 1998

The El Vernona Hotel located at 111 North Tamiami Trail was designed by New York and Sarasota architect Dwight James Baum and was constructed by the Burns Construction Company. The Mediterranean Revival style structure was designed with a brownish gold stucco facade which was ornamented with cast stone door and window enframements with additional design created by the application of wood and wrought iron balconies. The Logan Company of Louisville, Kentucky manufactured the wrought iron work for the structure. Much of the cabinet work was provided by the Evansville Planning Mill Company of Evansville, Indiana, with woodwork by the Burns Construction Company. J.J. Davis and Son were responsible for the mechanical system, ventilating, plumbing system, steam and electrical wiring, Construction cost

Livermore Truss Bridge, Wilton New Hampshire

The Livermore Bridge is the only known example of a timber, half-through, pony lattice truss in North America. Crossing Blood Brook at an almost north-south axis, the 52' -3 long bridge, measured from outside edge to outside edge of the truss siding, forms a dangerous T intersection with State Route 101. The abutments are irregular granite blocks. Granite faced concrete wings dating to the 1990s project from the old abutments and support the bottom chords. A dry-masonry ramp made of mid-sized granite boulders supports the Russell Hill approach. The approximate dimensions of the truss sheathing, exclusive of the galvanized standing seam roof covering, are 8'-l 1 x 2'-3-l/2. Because the standing seam metal roof and the vertical siding both protect and