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  • But Friday morning I indeed found myself inside the arch, and not just inside it, having entered through a small side door in the arch's western leg, but climbing a 102-step spiral staircase toward its summit.

    Inside the Washington Arch Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • My guide was John Krawchuk , the New York City Parks Department's director of historic preservation, and the project manager for the arch's 1997-98 and 2001-04 renovations.

    Inside the Washington Arch Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal A small door in the arch's western facade provides entry.

    Inside the Washington Arch Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Peters hops from the SUV and points out how the designers set the arch's foundations into the sides of the stream valley, avoiding the stream itself.

    The Rough Road: Maryland's Intercounty Connector highway is in the hands of Melinda Peters 2010

  • About 80 people were trapped in the arch's trams, another 100 were stranded at the top of the 630-foot landmark and it took up to three hours to evacuate everyone.

    CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2007 2007

  • Blinking as he stepped out of the arch's shadows, Matteo felt a breeze sharp with sawdust and resin, heard hammering echo off walls, and saw before him as on a broad canvas an enclosed world, womanless and under construction, the outspread hive of the _Officina delle Meraviglie, _ the Factory of Marvels.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • After this, most of our attention went to the re-erection of the first arch's archivolt in the back wall.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects - Antonine Nymphaeum Report 4 2003

  • Its eastern end has not been found yet, but we exposed a wall fragment (1.72 m wide) with a facing of regular mortared rubble and an infill of opus caementicium (Roman concrete) just north of where the arch's eastern end should be.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 4 2003

  • Zane took comfort in the idea that because of the arch's remote location the "tourist, the leisurely traveler, the comfort-loving motorist would never behold it: only by toil, sweat, endurance, and pain could any man ever look at Nonnezoshe."

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • Even now, he was not certain that he truly understood the arch's ancient, alien magic.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

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