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…The middle arches which are over the river de la Morgia, are about 328 feet high. On the top of this bridge is the Aqueduct which carries the water to Spoleto. This structure was difficult to execute, and being built…
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…Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting the High Service Works located at the end of High Bridge, the dock and incline were built…
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…Bennett's watercolor Fishermen at High Bridge (1844, The New York Public Library) and John William Hill's watercolor of High Bridge (figure 48), exhibited at the American Art-Union in 1848,^'' reveal their continued interest in the Aqueduct as…
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…The water in the large aqueduct of masonry would, with much more uncer- tainty, be protected from frost on the high bridge, from the greatly elevated exposure and difficulty in surrounding it with a sufficient quantity
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…This would not carry the work up to the level of the Aqueduct, and would render it necessary to connect the Aqueduct on each side of the valley by iron pipes which would descend to the level of the bridge…
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…The arches of the bridge, originally designed to maintain the grade of the aqueduct, were elevated 112 feet above the high water mark of the river, which is 12 feet higher than the Act requires. It is obvious, therefore, that…
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…By constructing a temporary low-level bridge, it was possible to lay Iron pipes across the Harlem River Valley allowing the Aqueduct to be opened before the completion of the High Bridge. On July 4, 1842, the first water was…
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the system, including the 1927 adaptation to the High Bridge, the complete removal of the receiving reservoir in Bryant Park, the paving of walkways atop the aqueduct berm, and current plans to add eight-foot-high fencing to the High…
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…In a report to the Water Commissioners dated February 8, 1837, the chief engineer cited both the High Falls Aqueduct on the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Little Falls Aqueduct on the Erie Canal as examples of masonry watenway…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…The total cost of the Oroton Aqueduct enterprise (reckoning every item of expense) was nearly 812,500,000. High Bridge, as it is at present, was not completed until 1848.
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Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park embraced the Old Croton Aqueduct in design. Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting the High Service…
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…Martineau felt the use of inverted siphons would elimi- nate the need for the high bridge to keep a uniform grade level for the aqueduct. Douglass, in recommending the more expensive open aqueduct bridge was following the advice of Colonel…
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…that would become too high, and yet where a bridge was necessary, they built bridges of a height sufficient to carry the water over in syphons of easy curvature. The sources of supply of the aqueduct of Mont de Pile…
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…Tower, Croton Aqueduct at Haarlem River (High Bridge), c.1842 Ink with watercolor wash on paper; 4 V2 x 9 V2 inches Mrs. Helen Tower Wilson William James Bennett (1789-1844), Fishermen at High Bridge, 1844 Watercolor on paper; 12V4X…
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…AMAWALK FOUNTAIN 1897 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign ARDSLEY OPEN-CUT c 1888s Plate 24-11, New Croton Aqueduct A single arched granite bridge stretching 160 feet, the Archville Bridge carried the Croton Aqueduct across…
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…To make the capacity of the pipes for conveying water equal to that of the aqueduct, an extra fall of two feet has been given across the bridge, and the aqueduct on the southern side of the river is constructed…
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…Part of this ancient construction, consisting of two arches substantially built, still exists, near the modern Aqueduct. The Aqueduct bridge over the valley of Arcueil has twenty- five arches, is 72 feet high and 1,200 feet in length. In…
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…Tower, Croton Aqueduct at Haarlem River (High Bridge), c.1842 Ink with watercolor wash on paper; 4 V2 x 9 V2 inches Mrs. Helen Tower Wilson William James Bennett (1789-1844), Fishermen at High Bridge, 1844 Watercolor on paper; 12V4X…
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…The depth of the river, to the rock bottom, was found to be 32 feet below high water line, near the south shore ; and only 20 feet on the north shore. The aqueduct bridge Avill have an elevation of 163…
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…is the Aqueduct bridge over the road from Tarrytown to Sing-Sing ; before it reaches this place it passes through three tunnels, over high foundation walls, and encounters deep excavations. Plate XIV. is a view of this bridge : it is…
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…the bridge was about 40 feet high and the perpendicular height of the Aqueduct above it was 140 feet. Nine leaden pipes of about 8 inches interior diameter and one inch thick were laid upon the inclined planes and across…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The aqueduct which conveys the water from Croton Lake to New York city, forms a bridge over Saw-mill river at Yonkers. In the county twenty-five streams cross the line of the Croton aqueduct, which are from twelve to…
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…Numerous articles about the Aqueduct, which appeared in magazines ranging from Harper's Weekly to Scientific American after 1850, are embellished with not only the types of scenes described above but also — beginning with the enlargement of High Bridge in…
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…Significance(s) Interpretation Sign OLD CROTON DAM WASTE WEIR 1838-1841 (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct Accessed by a bridge, the overflow weir was protected by a small stone building. Inside, two sets of gates were capable of drawing…
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…he en- closed the town with new walls, built baths, and probably the Aqueduct of the bridge of Gard ("pont du Gard") for bring- ing water to them. This Aqueduct is nearly thirty miles in length, forming, in its course…
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…Bridge (High Bridge), C.1839-40 Watercolor and ink on paper In "Letter Book of John B. Jervis" (vol. II) Reproduction, courtesy of the Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY Lt. Theophllus Schramke, ProHle of Lower Part of Croton Aqueduct, c…
Wikipedia
…The aqueduct extended from the Old Croton Dam in Westchester County to the Harlem River, continuing over High Bridge at 173rd Street and descending Manhattan's West Side to the Receiving Reservoir between 79th and 86th Streets, Sixth and Seventh…
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
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…155 The Commissioners were in hopes, as they had abandoned the idea of crossing the Harlem river with an aqueduct bridge, that they would have been enabled to recommend the building of a similar structure for carrying the water over…
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…The Pont du Gard was a component of the Nîmes Aqueduct, a large gravity- fed water system built between 40–60 A.D to supply fresh water to the ancient city of Nîmes. The design of the High Bridge component…