Public School 186 opened in 1903 as a Harlem elementary school. C. B. J. Snyder, an architect who eventually became the Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and 1923, designed it. The building is shaped like an H and was inspired by the Hôtel de Cluny in […]
Proctor’s Palace Roof Theatre opened on November 22, 1915. The Palace was originally used for smaller vaudeville productions before switching over to film in the mid-1920s. During the next few decades, the Proctor’s Roof Theatre was not used very often but received a remodel into an art-house cinema and reopened in the summer of 1961 […]
The Union Theatre in Attleboro, MA originally opened in 1918 as a vaudeville and silent movie theater. It was operated by B & Q Associates and had 1,101 seats. Because of the decline in vaudeville, and the rise of the modern talking motion picture, the Union underwent a remodel in 1927 to give it the […]
Philadelphia’s Ice Castle was formerly the Locust Medical Center at 52nd and Locust Streets. The vacant doctor’s office and pharmacy caught fire in the early morning hours of February 16, 2015. The temperature was 3 degrees with a windchill factor of -16 below, and the water used on the fire froze on nearby buildings, power […]
The SS United States, nicknamed “The Big U”, isn’t just any passenger liner. At a length of 990 feet, with 12 decks and 101-feet wide, she is larger than the Titanic, and is in fact the largest liner ever built in an American shipyard. She is also the fastest, though for many years her top […]
Philadephia is an architecture lover’s delight: from Horace Trumbauer’s more classical Greek stylings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art or the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library to the more eclectic Frank Furness buildings like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts or the colonial flair of Old City, there are amazing discoveries around […]
Built in 1915 and opened in 1925, Richmond Generating Station is a neoclassical cathedral to the might of industry. The vaulted, crumbling roof of the main turbine hall soars 130 feet over what were once the largest turbines in the world. This coal burning power plant has festered in its own corrosive chemical stew since […]
Sometimes, all you need is the open road and a good playlist. The next time you are headed out on a road trip, try a collection of our favorite mood-boosting tunes! Mood Boosting Playlist
There are hundreds of musicians and venues along Route 1. We have started making a master playlist of music for your next road trip. If you are a musician that plays along US Route 1, send us a message and we will add you! Route 1 Music
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