In 1863, a memorial was erected at his burial site, in the form of a six-foot-tall marble obelisk, near where his home is believed to have been located, now part of Pennypack Park.

The result was Pathfinder, a six-foot-tall bronze bull elk, which students had a custom of kissing for good luck during exams.

It was replanted with 1, 100 six-foot-tall yew trees covering an area of one third of an acre ( 1. 2 hectares ) and opened to the public in 2011.

The task was a demanding one: the river was fast-flowing, up to deep, and had a bed formed of a deep layer of gravel which made the construction of piers on the river bed impossible, and so the bridge had to have a central span of.

Note: The airlines and destinations listed are not definite since very few airlines have a dedicated pier or gates ; the piers listed below are based on regularity.

It appears his designs would have made the church a good deal gloomier than the final design, with massive piers all the way down the nave, " like an alley " according to a critical posthumous analysis by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

The location of Stirling Bridge at the date of the battle is not known with certainty, but four stone piers have been found underwater just north () and at an angle to the extant 15th century bridge, along with man-made stonework on one bank in line with the piers.

Hartigan and Roark Junior have their first confrontation here in That Yellow Bastard, and Marv drives a stolen police car off one of the piers at the beginning of The Hard Goodbye.

The piers have become the site of present-day “ Flames Across the Susquehanna ” bridge-burning reenactments sponsored by Rivertownes PA USA.

The cliffs are constantly under attack from the sea: the original headlands, which once protected the port, ceased to do so, and artificial protection, in the form of breakwaters and piers have been necessary since the 17th century.

Built in 1848, his innovative design required only three piers, where five would ordinarily have been required ; this allowed ice floes and timber rafts to pass under with less damage to the bridge.

There is evidence of a dome in his Domus Transitoria at the intersection of two corridors, resting on four large piers, which may have had an oculus at the center.

Such piers have been in use since 1973.

For example, pleasure piers often also allow for the docking of pleasure steamers and other similar craft, whilst working piers have often been converted to leisure use after being rendered obsolete by advanced developments in cargo-handling technology.

Many other working piers have been demolished, or remain derelict, but some have been recycled as pleasure piers.

There are still a significant number of piers of architectural merit still standing, although some have been lost.

The five main banking halls were based on the same basic layout, starting with the Bank Stock Office of 1791 – 96, consists of a rectangular room, the centre with a large lantern light supported by piers and pendentives, then the four corners of the rectangle have low vaulted spaces, and in the centre of each side compartments rising to the height of the arches supporting the central lantern, the room is vaulted in brick and windows are iron framed to ensure the rooms are as fire proof as possible.

Lorient was a former base of the French Navy but these piers, docks, etc., have now been removed.

The Crystal Span was to have been a seven story building supported by two piers in the river, overhanging the river banks at either end.

The nave arcades have octagonal piers and are of 14th century date, the south aisle being earlier than the north.

Most of the piers that once existed in lower Manhattan fell into disuse or were destroyed in the last half of the 20th century, although a number have been adapted to new uses.

Most large international airports have piers, including Chicago's O ' Hare International Airport, Larnaca International Airport, Frankfurt International Airport, London Heathrow Airport, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Bangkok International Airport, Mazatlan International Airport, Beirut International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, Allama Iqbal International Airport, Tijuana International Airport and Miami International Airport.

Dive boats, longtail boats and supply boats have their own drop off points along the piers, so making the pier highly efficient in the peak seasons.

Mansart's elevations for the pavilions were to be frescoed to designs adapted from a suite that Le Brun had recently drawn and the frescoed exteriors of the otherwise somewhat severe buildings created a richly Baroque ensemble of feigned sculptures against draperies and hangings, with vases on feigned sculptural therms against the piers — all in the somewhat eclectic Olympian symbolism that Le Brun and the King favoured everywhere at Versailles: the decor of the pavillon du Roi featured Apollo, the Sun King's iconographic persona, and Thetis.

Two superposed orders of columns and rich sculptural decor in pediments and niches, on piers and panels are kept under control by strong horizontal cornice lines.

Romanesque churches are characterised by rounded arches, arcades supported by massive cylindrical piers, groin vaults and low-relief sculptural decoration.

The central truss is hidden when crossing the bridge in either direction by vertical extensions of the bridge's masonry piers into imposing concrete towers, connected by overhead galleries, which are embellished with architectural and sculptural details that create a torch-like entrance of pylons.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Ellis Island showing Central Railroad of New Jersey yards and piers before the development of Liberty State Park, which opened in 1976

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

This has the effect of flattening the arch and the solution is to lay the bricks forming the arch at an angle to the abutments ( the piers on which the arches rest ).

In 1826 the ferry operations were taken over by the Torpoint Steamboat Company, which built landing piers on both sides of the Tamar.

Historically, the Kingston waterfront was Jamaica's main port with many finger piers at which freighters and passenger liners could dock.

The nave at Chartres features alternating round and octagonal solid cored piers, each of which has four attached half-columns at the cardinal points, two of these ( on the east-west axis ) support the arches of the arcade, one acts as the springing for the aisle vault and one supports the cluster of shafts that rise through the triforium and clerestory to support the high-vault ribs.

In rebuilding the Chenonceau château in the 16th century, Thomas Bohier razed the castle-keep and the fortified mill of the Marques family, erecting the new château upon the piers of the former mill and keeping only the ancient donjon: The Marques Tower, which he transformed in Renaissance style.

Chenonceau's kitchens are located in the huge bases which form the first two piers sitting on the bed of the river Cher.

It was dismantled for scrap by November 1964, but its stone piers, which supported the Civil War-era bridge, can still be seen today, running parallel to the Veterans ’ Memorial Bridge on Route 462.

A modern example is the Covered Bridge, Lovech, Bulgaria, which uses stone piers and steel beams.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

In the 1880s, he oversaw extension of the C & O's new Peninsula Subdivision, which extended from the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond southeast down the peninsula through Williamsburg to Newport News, where the company developed coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

Each of the two piers is part of a boardwalk that stretches for, which offers many family-friendly attractions ranging from arcades, to games of chance, to beaches, to the wide variety of foods and desserts, all within walking distance.

Connected by timbers shackled together with iron yokes and rings, the piers anchored an enclosure into which the river current forced floating logs.

Colonial Beach has been devastated by several hurricanes including the 1933 Chesapeake Potomac hurricane which destroyed an amusement park and three " beer piers ," Hurricane Hazel in 1954, and Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

The brick and masonry piers from the old bridge were left as breakwaters for the new piers, which were monocoques of wrought iron and steel.

Its seven bays are divided by square Tuscan piers which support the frieze, cornice and blocking course.