Sentences with phrase «built by railroad»

Built by railroad companies as a destination hotel in just 90 days, the Grand Hotel was completed in 1887.

Though this city was built by railroads, the biggest employer nowadays is tourism.

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Seeing this problem as an opportunity, Wilgus suggested that New York Central Railroad build a new Park Avenue by leasing land to commercial builders where the old rail yard had stood.

Bechtel is also the quintessential family business: It has been led, with a brief exception, by a succession of four family CEOs since cattle farmer Warren Bechtel founded the firm in 1898 to help build railroad lines.

She was daughter of Martín Amador, one of the most prominent citizens of the Mesilla Valley.7 In May 1908, García was preparing to build a house on land he owned facing the railroad depot by having a supply of adobes made.8 As time went by, he acquired numerous pieces of property throughout Las Cruces and Mesilla Park.

The Park District began moving towards a recreation program by erecting the first community Christmas Tree in 1926 and allowing the Business Men's Association to build a bandstand in one of the railroad parks in 1929.

The park — which is being built over the old railroad yard in the northwest corner of Grant Park — will cost $ 230 million and is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2001, a year after Mayor Richard M. Daley's original target.

Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, was the original preferred site, but, after being bombarded by complaints from residents, officials backed off from building a skate park in any neighborhood park.

Daily reminder that nearly every single railroad in Africa was built by Europeans.

However, residents from communities along the LIRR's right of way turned out by the hundreds to oppose the project, which would have required the railroad to build on about 80 private properties.

In this western, cattlemen and wheat farmers tire of being bilked by a buyer with a monopoly on the only railroad in Texas and so endeavor to build their own town / railroad stop where sellers will receive a fair price for their goods.

You can build a fun layout in minutes, faithfully recreate a railroad from days gone by or develop a fully - fledged prototypical route; the choice is yours.

(Calif.) From life - saving techniques to the contributions of Chinese immigrants in building the railroad, K - 12 curriculum in California schools is set for a new wave of updates and additions under legislation signed over the past week by the governor.

From a magical realism viewpoint, maybe Whitehead was trying to say that the railroad was built by slave labor to help slaves escape.

And indeed, the original Underground Railroad drew its name from an analogy with a powerful new method of travel — built by slaves (or imported cheap labor treated as free men in name only).

Without trying to sound crass of course ROE will continue at it's current level he is buying a railroad (high fixed cost business and a monopoly) it's not like someone is going build a competeing railroad in the same area there will only ever be one and it will always be cheaper than trucking or shipping by air.

Goleta Depot was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. in 1901 and closed in 1973.

Seizing on the ever - growing popularity of Eureka Springs» «healing waters,» the hotel was purchased by the Frisco Railroad in 1905 to serve their customers while building train ridership, specifically from the Chicago and St. Louis areas.

This lake was built by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1907.

The Inn at Death Valley was built by the Pacific Coast Borax Company of Twenty Mule Team fame as a means to save their newly built Death Valley Railroad.

A journey into the Blue Mountains by rail allows you to travel on the superb Katoomba Scenic railroad, which was originally built to service a coalmine located in the Jamison Valley.

Sun Valley Resort is America's first destination resort, built in 1936 by the Union Pacific Railroad.

Built in 1981 by railroad baron Henry Villard and luxuriously renovated in 2013, the grand entrance of this hotel is right across Madison Avenue from majestic St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Begin your visit at Railroad Square, the historic heart of Old Town, still replete with beautiful historic stone buildings constructed by Italian immigrants who favored Sonoma County for its resemblance to the «old country.»

Transport Fever by Urban Games is a transportation focused tycoon simulator that tasks you with building bus stations, railroads, and airports in an attempt to increase the transit of people and goods.

Originally constructed in 1853 and transformed in 2011 by architect Christian Sottile — a university alumnus and SCAD architecture professor — the museum building is a National Historic Landmark and the oldest surviving antebellum railroad depot in the country.

Based in the Parc des Ateliers — a sixteen - acre site formerly occupied by railroad workshops built in the mid-nineteenth century — LUMA Arles includes a resource center designed by architect Frank Gehry; various industrial buildings undergoing rehabilitation by Selldorf Architects; and a public park designed by landscape architect Bas Smets.

Perhaps best known as the futuristic vision behind projects like the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka and the Kyoto Station Building, Hiroshi Hara turned literary, philosophical and theoretical texts — ranging from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi and the Greek Odyssey, to mathematical treatises by Leibniz and Poincaré, and from Kafka's The Castle to TS Eliot's «The Waste Land» and Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad — into the basis for conceptual architectural / meta - physical sketches on sheets of ethereal tracing paper that covered the walls of the museum.

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Remember how we trained a generation for a new, industrial economy by building a nationwide system of public high schools; how we laid down railroad tracks and highways across an entire continent; how we pushed the boundaries of science and technology to unlock the very building blocks of human life.

In place of the suburb, it wants Soviet - style high density housing; changes in zoning laws that increasingly make it impossible to maintain single family residences (let alone build new ones); mandated use of public transportation (thus positioning the high density housing near railroad or bus depots and excluding from those «human residential zones» most roadways and parking installations); and severe limitations on private food, water, and energy consumption, in return for enormously high taxes that will fund «cradle to grave» care by the nanny government.

It's surrounded on three sides by industrial buildings, and the fourth side borders a little - used railroad and 25 acres of forested wetland.

Although that court suggested that any regulation of private property to protect landmark values was unconstitutional if «just compensation» were not afforded, it also appeared to rely upon its findings: first, that the cost to Penn Central of operating the Terminal building itself, exclusive of purely railroad operations, exceeded the revenues received from concessionaires and tenants in the Terminal; and second, that the special transferable development rights afforded Penn Central as an owner of a landmark site did not «provide compensation to plaintiffs or minimize the harm suffered by plaintiffs due to the designation of the Terminal as a landmark.»

General Labourers are employed by construction companies building a variety of structures, from buildings to railroads.

The design and ornamentation of the Beaux Arts tower «celebrate the prowess of the New York Central Railroad Co.,» which built it in the 1920s to serve as its headquarters, according to the Guide to New York City Landmarks, published by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The building was owned by the defunct Reading Railroad, which operated a train station on the second floor above the market.

Knowing why they were here, how they got built, what they were used for after they stopped being used by the railroad, and how the neighborhoods around them became developed — all these factor into becoming an expert on the context of place in a community.