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| | | | | | Leesburg is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 15,956 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 19,086. Leesburg is located in central Florida, between Lake Harris and Lake Griffin, at the head of the Oklawaha River system. It is part of the Orlando�Kissimmee�Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leesburg is the home of Lake-Sumter State College (LSSC) with campuses also in Clermont, Florida and Sumterville, Florida. ... |
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| | | | | | Carysfort Reef Light is located approximately six nautical miles east of Key Largo, Florida. The lighthouse has an iron screw-pile foundation with a platform, and a skeletal, octagonal, pyramidal tower, which is painted red. The light is 100 feet (30 m) above the water. It is the oldest functioning lighthouse of its type in the United States, completed in 1852. Carysfort Reef is named for HMS Carysfort (1766), a 20-gun Royal Navy post ship that ran aground on the reef in 1770. The light is curre... |
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| | | | | | W281AB (104.1 The Beat) is an FM translator station licensed to Mountain Brook, Alabama. It rebroadcasts an Urban Contemporary format from the HD2 subchannel of WMJJ. The translator, which was launched on July 29, 2011, replaced the simulcast of Urban AM WJLD. The translator is owned by Richardson Broadcasting Corporation and is leased to Clear Channel Communications, the owners of WMJJ. The station has studios at Beacon Ridge Tower in Birmingham (near Red Mountain). It specializes in current-ba... |
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| | | | | | Lake House Academy is a private therapeutic boarding school for girls located in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina. The school enrolls girls ages 10 through 16 in grades 5 to 10. Programs are tailored to the developmental, social, emotional and academic needs of pre-adolescent and young adolescent girls with a focus on helping girls gain the skills they need to be successful in the home, at school and with friends. Lake House Academy was founded in 2010 under the direction of Catherine... |
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| | | | Appalachian State Mountaineers football, Athletics (track and field) venues in North Carolina, College field hockey venues in the United States, College football venues, Sports venues in North Carolina, Multi-purpose stadiums in the United States, Sports venues in Watauga County, North Carolina, American football venues in North Carolina, Hidden categories:, Articles lacking reliable references from April 2012, All articles lacking reliable references, Articles with a promotional tone from April... | | Kidd Brewer Stadium is located in Boone in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is Appalachian State Universitys (ASU) 24,050-seat multi-purpose stadium. Nicknamed The Rock, the stadium is home to the Mountaineers, the NCAA 2005, 2006, and 2007 Division I FCS national champions. It is also the home of the schools field hockey and track and field teams. The stadium has undergone many face lifts since its construction, but still stands as a beacon to the Mountaineer faithful. It stands 3,280 feet ... |
| | | | | | Holston Mountain is a mountain ridge in Upper East Tennessee and southwest Virginia, in the United States. It is in the Blue Ridge Mountains part of the Appalachian Mountains. Holston Mountain is a very prominent ridge-type mountain in Tennessees Ridge and Valley Region, about 28 miles (45 km) long, running from southwest to northeast, covering about 268 square miles (694 km²). Its highest summit is Holston High Point, on which a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aircraft navigational beaco... |
| | | | | | St. Thomas More Academy (STMA) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory high school operated by Catholic laymen. It is operated independent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh. It serves students and their families in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. The goal of St. Thomas More Academy is to build good Christian leaders who will be a beacon to all who encounter them as stated in the schools mission statement. St. Thomas More Academy seeks to restore Catholic education through clas... |
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| | | | Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia, Art Deco architecture in Virginia, Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia, Theatres completed in 1928, Buildings and structures in Hopewell, Virginia, National Register of Historic Places in Hopewell, Virginia, Historic district contributing properties in Virginia, Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register, Central Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs, Hidden categories:, Coo... | | Beacon Theatre, also known as the Broadway Theatre and Pythian Lodge, is a historic theatre building located at Hopewell, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, vaudeville and movie theater with storefront commercial space, second-floor apartments and third-floor meeting space. It has Colonial Revival and Art Deco style details. The building features decorative bands of flush brickwork punctuated with rectangular cast-stone corner blocks and cast-stone detailing in the parapet cop... |
| | | | | | Downtown Hopewell Historic District is a national historic district located at Hopewell, Virginia. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings in the central business district of Hopwell. The district primarily includes masonry buildings, largely built after a devastating fire in 1915. The scale is low with most buildings only two stories in height with decorative brick cornices and Art Deco features. Notable buildings include the Wells Building, Larkin Building (1916), Randolph Hotel (19... |
| | | | | | Building 29 is a historic aircraft hangar at 162 North Beacon Road, on the western edge of Walnut Ridge Regional Airport in Lawrence County, Arkansas. It is a large metal-framed structure, built in 1942 using the standard DH-1 Army plan for such buildings. It was part of the national home defense efforts of World War II. It is one of a small number of such buildings left in the state, and the only one surviving virtually unaltered of four built at Walnut Ridge, which was used as a military airfi... |
| | | | | | The current Cape Charles Light is a steel skeleton tower lighthouse at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on Smith Island. It is the tallest lighthouse in Virginia and the second tallest in the United States. This particular tower is the third lighthouse at this location. The first lighthouse at Cape Charles was a 55-foot (17 m) masonry tower completed in 1828. It was quickly deemed inadequate for its important seacoast location due to its low height and poor visibility at sea. It was soon threaten... |
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| | | | | | The Alton Chapter House is a historic building located at 509 Beacon St. in Alton, Illinois. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Altons chapter of the American Womans League. The American Womans League was a political and social organization founded by magazine publisher Edward Gardner Lewis in 1908. The organization was created to promote feminist causes, particularly the womens suffrage movement; Lewis also intended for the organization to promote and sell ... |
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| | | | | | The Academy Hill Historic District of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is bounded approximately by Baughman Street, North Maple Avenue, Kenneth Street, Culbertson Avenue, Beacon Street, and North Main Street. It consists of 252 structures on 63.5 acres (0.257 km2), with the most notable buildings from the years 1880 to 1949. The earliest building, a former farmhouse at 333 Walnut Avenue, dates from 1840. The Academy Hill Historic District is directly to the north of the Greensburg Downtown Historic Dis... |
| | | | | | The Grant Building is 40-story, 147.8 m (485 ft) skyscraper at 310 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building was completed and opened on February 1, 1929^ at a cost of $5.5 million ($75.5 million today). The art deco buildings facade is built with Belgian granite, limestone, and brick. It was famous for a radio antenna that rose roughly 100�150 feet from the roof of the tower which had an aviation beacon that spelled out .--. .. - - ... -... ..- .-. --. .... or P-I-T-T-S-... |
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| | | | | | The Cedar Point Light is a restored lighthouse on the grounds of the Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. The original lighthouse at the site was built in 1839, and a front range light was added to the station in 1853. A new lighthouse, the structure which stands today, was completed in 1867. This light served as a navigational aid until 1904, in which year the light tower was removed from atop the dwelling. In the ensuing years it was kept in use by the federal government as a buoy depot, a radi... |
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| | | | | | The Beacon is a new mixed-use development emerging from the rehabilitation of the original complex of the Jersey City Medical Center that also restores historical features of the exterior façades and public interior spaces. It is located on a 14-acre (57,000 m2) site on Bergen Hill, a crest of the Hudson Palisades and one of the highest geographical points in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It creates the northeastern corner the Bergen Lafayette Section and is just eas... |
| | | | | | 330 Hudson is a building located at 330 Hudson Street, in the Hudson Square- SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. Plans for developing the building began in 2011 when landlord Trinity Real Estate signed a 99-year lease agreement with Beacon Capital Partners. The agreement sought to transform the building into a 350,000-square-foot finished office space, retail space at the base, attracting a variety of commercial tenants. The plans included restoration of the façade of the existing e... |
| | | | | | 1211 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the News Corp. Building) is an International style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building, it was completed in 1973 as part of the Rockefeller Center extension, that started in the late 1950s with the Time-Life Building. The Celanese Corporation would later move to Dallas, Texas. 1211 is owned by an affiliate of Beacon Capital Partners, and leasing is managed by Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., of which the Rocke... |
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| | | | Skyscrapers in Manhattan, Skyscrapers between 250 and 299 meters, Buildings and structures completed in 2005, Residential condominiums in New York City, Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan, Office buildings in New York City, Media company headquarters in the United States, Bloomberg L.P., Midtown Manhattan, Full-block structures in New York City, César Pelli buildings, Hidden categories:, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014, All articles containing potentially dated stat... | | 731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2) glass skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower. The building also houses retail outlets, restaurants and 105 luxury condominiums. The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance. The tower is the 15th tallest building in New York City and the 46th tallest in the United... |
| | | | Public education in New York City, Lincoln Square, Manhattan, Educational institutions established in 1993, Schools in Manhattan, 1993 establishments in New York, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2008, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles needing additional references from November 2011, All articles needing additi... | | The Beacon School is a college-preparatory public high school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, near Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle. Beacon offers a dynamic inquiry-based education program with technology and arts infused throughout the curriculum. Beacon emphasizes a rigorous well-rounded liberal arts education based on the principle of shared exploration and problem-solving. The curriculum exceeds standards set by the New York State Regents. In assessments for graduatio... |
| | | | | | The Beacon Theatre is a historic theater at 2124 Broadway (at West 74th Street) on Broadway in Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City. The 2,894-seat, three-tiered theatre was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager and opened in 1929 as a movie palace for motion pictures and vaudeville. Today it is one of New Yorks leading live music and entertainment venues, under the management of the Madison Square Garden Company. The theater was the site of the 2011 and 2012 Tony Awards, whic... |
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| | | | | | South Buffalo North Side Light is a lighthouse formerly located at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo, New York. It is one of two bottle shaped beacons located in Buffalo Harbor; the other is the Buffalo North Breakwater South End Light. It is a 29-foot (8.8 m) high beacon constructed of boiler plate. It measures 10 feet 3� inch (3.067 m) at the bottom and 2 feet 3 inches (0.69 m) at the top. It is distinguished by four cast iron port windows and a curved iron door. It was first lit on Se... |
| | | | | | Buffalo North Breakwater South End Light is a lighthouse formerly located at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo, New York. It is one of two bottle shaped beacons located in Buffalo Harbor; the other is the South Buffalo North Side Light. It is a 29-foot (8.8 m) high beacon constructed of boiler plate. It measures 10 feet 3� inch (3.067 m) at the bottom and 2 feet 3 inches (0.69 m) at the top. It is distinguished by four cast iron port windows and a curved iron door. It was first lit on Se... |
| | | | | | Storm King Mountain is along the west bank of the Hudson River south of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Together with Breakneck Ridge on the opposite bank of the river it forms Wey-Gat or Wind Gate, the picturesque northern gateway to the Hudson Highlands. Its distinctive curved ridge is the most prominent aspect of the view south down Newburgh Bay, from Newburgh, Beacon, and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. It can also be seen by southbound travelers on nearby sections of the New York State Thruway. T... |
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| | | | Industrial buildings completed in 1929, National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York, Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York, Beacon, New York, Art museums in New York, Contemporary art galleries in the United States, Museums in Dutchess County, New York, Art museums established in 2003, 2003 establishments in New York, Hidden categories:, Commons category template with no category set, Commons category without a link on Wikidata, Co... | | Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries is the museum for the Dia Art Foundations collection of art from the 1960s to the present. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff, and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice. Along with Dias permanent collection, Dia:Beacon also presents temporary exhi... |
| | | | Cities in New York, Cities in Orange County, New York, Populated places established in 1709, Newburgh, New York, Populated places on the Hudson River, Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area, 1709 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies, Cities in the New York metropolitan area, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from May 2015, Coordinates on Wikidata, Geobox usage tracking for settlement type, Articles needing additional r... | | Newburgh- �nu�b�rɡ- is a city located in Orange County, New York, United States, 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Albany, on the Hudson River. Newburgh is a part of the New York metropolitan area. The Newburgh area was first settled in the early 18th century by the Germans and British. During the American Revolution, Newburgh served as the headquarters of the Continental Army. Prior to its chartering in 1865, the city of Newburgh was part of the town... |
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| | | | | | Beacon is a Metro-North Railroad station that serves the residents of Beacon, New York, via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every hour during off peak hours, and about every 15�25 minutes during rush hour. It is 59 miles (95 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central Terminal vary depending on run, ranging from 1 hour and 10 minutes (super-express runs) to 1 hour and 15�18 minutes (trains making all local stops north of Croton-Harmon and 1 hour and 25�... |
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| | | | Cultural centers, Former library buildings in the United States, Arts centers in New York, Buildings and structures completed in 1872, Richard Morris Hunt buildings, National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York, Buildings and structures in Dutchess County, New York, Visitor attractions in Dutchess County, New York, Beacon, New York, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, Commons category template with no category set, Commons category with page title same as on Wikidat... | | |
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| | | | Beacon, New York, Cities in New York, Populated places on the Hudson River, Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area, Cities in the New York metropolitan area, Cities in Dutchess County, New York, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, Settlement articles requiring maintenance, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2010, Articles needing additional references from May 2009, All articles needing additional references, Commons c... | | Beacon is a city located in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The 2010 census placed the city total population at 15,541. Beacon is part of the Poughkeepsie�Newburgh�Middletown, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York�Newark�Bridgeport, New York�New Jersey�Connecticut�Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area. It was named to commemorate the historic beacon fires that blazed forth from the summit of the Fishkill Mountains to alert the Continental ... |
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| | | | | | The Hamilton Fish Newburgh�Beacon Bridge is a cantilever toll bridge that spans the Hudson River in New York State. The bridge carries New York State Route 52 and Interstate 84 between Newburgh and Beacon. Consisting of two separate spans, the original northern span which carries westbound traffic, was opened on November 2, 1963, as a two-lane (one in each direction) bridge . A second span completed in 1980, now carries all eastbound traffic. Still often referred to by its original name, the N... |
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| | | | | | Beacon Hill, (est.) 130 feet (40 m) above sea level, is a traprock outcrop located 1.2 miles (1.9 km) southeast of New Haven, Connecticut overlooking the mouth of the Farm River 1.2 miles north of Long Island Sound. It is the southern-most notable summit of the Metacomet Ridge which extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to nearly the Vermont border. Beacon Hill is known for its scenic ledges overlooking a surroundi... |
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| | | | | | The AXA Towers are two commercial office buildings in Syracuse, New York. AXA Tower I was built in 1966 and Tower II was built in 1971, and both stand at 81.7 meters and have 19 floors. They are tied for the second tallest buildings in Syracuse. They were both built with a tube-in-tube structural system with a steel and glass curtain wall facade. The buildings serve as offices for New-York-based AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, and have illuminated logos on top. AXA Tower I, formerly the MO... |
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| | | | | | The Rathbun House is a historic house at 343 Beacon Drive in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It is a 1-1- 2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. Its exterior trim is simple and lacking in significant detailing. The interior plan is a typical five-room setup, with a narrow entry hall, two rooms on either side of the chimney, and the kitchen behind. It is one of a small number of surviving mid-18th century farmhouses in the town. It was probably one of four hous... |
| | | | | | Mount Lincoln, 1,240 feet (380 m), is a high point on the Pelham Dome or Pelham Hills, an upland plateau overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Pelham, Massachusetts (near Amherst, Massachusetts). The mountain is mostly wooded, but a fire tower located on the summit provides views of the Holyoke Range and the east-central Pioneer Valley. The summit, located within the University of Massachusetts Amhersts 1,200-acre (490 ha) Cadwell Memorial Forest, is traversed by the Metacomet-Monadnock Tr... |
| | | | | | The John F. Adams House, listed incorrectly as the John E. Adams House by the National Register of Historic Places, is a historic house at 11 Allen Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The houses unique exterior and architecture was described in the multiple property submission which described it as the finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket. Its design is similar to the dwellings designed by Henry Austin and features Moorish window hoods and Indian porch columns. The John F. ... |
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| | | | | | The Beacon Street Firehouse is a historic fire station at 108 Beacon Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was designed by Worcester architect George H. Clemence, and built 1901-2 for $25,600 by local French-Canadian builder Eli Belisle. It is a two story rectangular building with three truck bays, and an entrance door on the right. The truck bays are topped by shallow arches of alternating brick and limestone sections. The second floor windows are arched in pairs by round arches of similar sty... |
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