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20 August, 2008 

 
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Top: Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Iconic  (10)


  • The Big Duck - Illustrated description and history by Kathy Biehl of this building shaped like a duck on Route 24, in the care of Friends of Long Island's Heritage.
  • The Big Duck - An illustrated history from Roadside America of the roadside farmstand in Long Island, United States, shaped like a duck to advertise that ducks and duck+eggs were sold there.
  • Giant Shoe - Roadside America takes a look at houses shaped like giant shoes in Pennsylvania and California: history, description and images.
  • Longaberger Office Building - Glass, Steel and Stone provides a photograph and brief description of this 1997 building in Newark, Ohio, in the shape of a basket, headquarters of a firm that makes baskets.
  • Lucy the Elephant - Photograph and brief history of this timber+built elephant in New Jersey from the Boardwalk catalog.
  • Oakley Interplanetary Headquarters - America Hurrah hosts photographs of this extraordinary building in California designed by company president Colin Baden with a spaceship+like centrepiece.
  • A Scottish Pineapple - J.K. Gillon's illustrated description and discussion of the inspiration for the Dunmore Pineapple garden folly, built in 1761.
  • The Shoe House - Brief illustrated history and description by Kathy Biehl of a house shaped like a shoe built by a shoe magnate in 1948 in Hallam, Pennsylvania.
  • Statue of Liberty - An illustrated history, statistics and visitor information from the US National Park Service for this landmark designed by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and completed in 1886.
  • Wigwam Motel - Boasts unique 'americana' architecture in the form of concrete teepees. Includes pictures, history, and typical motel information. Rialto, California.

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