Knowledge: iconic
Links
- Lucy the Elephant
http://www.jerseyboardwalk.com/lucy.htm - Photograph and brief history of this timber-built elephant in New Jersey from the Boardwalk catalog.
- The Big Duck
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYFLAduck.html - 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.
- A Scottish Pineapple
http://gillonj.tripod.com/ascottishpineapple/ - J.K. Gillon's illustrated description and discussion of the inspiration for the Dunmore Pineapple garden folly, built in 1761.
- The Big Duck
http://fortuna.home.pipeline.com/cafe-compendium/duck.htm - 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 Shoe House
http://fortuna.home.pipeline.com/cafe-compendium/shoe.htm - 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.
- Giant Shoe
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/PAHALshoe.html - Roadside America takes a look at houses shaped like giant shoes in Pennsylvania and California: history, description and images.
- Statue of Liberty
http://www.nps.gov/stli/prod02.htm - 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.
- Oakley Interplanetary Headquarters
http://americahurrah.com/Oakley/Entry.htm - America Hurrah hosts photographs of this extraordinary building in California designed by company president Colin Baden with a spaceship-like centrepiece.
- Wigwam Motel
http://www.wigwammotel.com/ - Boasts unique 'americana' architecture in the form of concrete teepees. Includes pictures, history, and typical motel information. Rialto, California.
- Longaberger Office Building
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/OH/NewarkLongaberger.html - 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.
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