High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owns and operates the light station.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! American Precision Museum;Cotton Mill Building Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop is a site in Windsor, Vermont.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert A. Thompson House is located along NY 302 in the Thompson Ridge section of the Orange County, New York, town of Crawford. It was built in 1822 in the Federal style. One of the stones in the northwest cable bears his initials and that date.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert L. Spotswood House, also known as the J. Clyde Glenn House, is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1926 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1991, as a part of the Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert Clagett Farm is a historic home and farm located at Knoxville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The house is a one-story sandstone structure measuring three bays long by two bays deep in the Georgian-style. The house features a two-story galleried porch and an interior stone chimney. The farm also includes a small 1875 stone-arched bridge, a mid-19th century dairy barn, a small shed-roofed frame outbuilding which may once have housed pigs, and a 1930s frame garage.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Brewton House, built in 1730, is the oldest dated "single" house in Charleston, South Carolina. A single house is one room wide, with the narrow end towards the street, the better to catch cool breezes.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alan "Bobby" Durst (born 1943) is a son of the late New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst, and brother of commercial developer Douglas Durst.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Maillart (February 6, 1872 – April 5, 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His completed Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert M. LaFollette House is a site of significant interest for its association with the life of Robert M. LaFollette. The house is located in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Norman Edmiston, Baron Edmiston (born 1946) is a British motor trade entrepreneur and philanthropist based in the West Midlands who has established a number of religious and educational charities, including Christian Vision.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Kinoshita (born February 24, 1914) is an artist, art director, and set and production designer who worked in the American film and television industries from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert Milne House is a historic residence in Lockport, Illinois, United States. Robert Milne was a mason from Banffshire, Scotland who immigrated to Chicago in 1836. In 1840, he was commissioned to build five of the locks on the Illinois and Michigan Canal (I M Canal) and moved to its headquarters in Lockport. He purchased a 240-acre (97 ha) lot and constructed a farm upon it. Milne was promoted to Canal Commissioner by Illinois Governor John M. Palmer in 1869. A porch was added to the Federal house in 1873. Four generations of the Milne family lived on the farmstead, owning the house until 1979. Most of the land that was previously on the farm is now owned by the Lockport school...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB), informally known as Robertsfield, is an airport in the West African nation of Liberia. Located near the town of Harbel, the single runway airport is about 35 miles outside of the nation`s capital of Monrovia, and as an origin and destination point is referred to as "Monrovia" and locally is often referred to simply as "RIA." The facility with its 11,000 feet (3,400 m) long runway was an emergency landing site for the United States` Space Shuttle program and the principal international airport in the country. The airport is named in honor of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first President of Liberia.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Milligan (1746 – 21 May 1809) was a prominent English merchant and ship-owner, and was the driving force behind the construction of the West India Docks in London.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Wornum (1780–1852) was a piano maker working in London during the first half of the 19th century. He is best known for introducing small cottage and oblique uprights and an action considered to be the predecessor of the modern upright action which was used in Europe through the early 20th century. His piano manufacturing business eventually became Robert Wornum & Sons and continued half a century after his death.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clerk was a British engineer officer who served in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years` War. His report on the state of the defences of Rochefort (Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)in 1757 was the main reason for that French naval port being chosen as the target for a major British expedition, the Raid on Rochefort, for which Clerk was appointed chief engineer.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Barnwell Rhett House was the home of Robert Barnwell Rhett, an extreme secessionist politician. He opposed John C. Calhoun to lead the Bluffton Movement for separate state action on the Tariff of 1842. Rhett was one of the leading fire-eaters at the Nashville Convention of 1850, which failed to endorse his aim of secession.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Akins House, also known as the Honey House, is a historic home located at Berkshire in Tioga County, New York. It is a Federal style house built about 1827. It is a two story, gthree bay, side entrance, gable roofed brick structure.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Goelet (September 29, 1841 - April 27, 1899) was a real estate developer in New York City and a director of the Chemical National Bank. He had a house in New York, at 591 Fifth Avenue, and seasonal residences in Tuxedo Park and Newport, Rhode Island. He was a member of exclusive New York Yacht Club, in addition to other fashionable clubs of the time.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert Moses State Parkway is an 18.42-mile (29.64 km) long north–south highway in western Niagara County, New York, United States. Its southern terminus is at the LaSalle Expressway on the east bank of the Niagara River in Niagara Falls. The northern terminus is at NY 18 at Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter near Lake Ontario. Originally, the parkway was one continuous road; however, due to low usage, a portion of the parkway near Niagara Falls was removed, separating the parkway into two sections. The length of the parkway is designated as New York State Route 957A by the New York State Department of Transportation. A 1.16-mile (1.87 km) long spur connecting the Robert Moses...