Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, New York

[basefinder]

Completed in 1951, the thin-shell concrete roof spans 204 feet and is 3 inches thick. Architects were Edgarton & Edgarton; structural engineers were Ammann & Whitney. From ground level you can only get occasional glimpses of the barrel vault roof, so we found a parking garage to get a better view.

Comments

[amethyst_witch]

Wow that last photo is really special :)

[basefinder]

Thanks, I do enjoy an occasional city view with lots of buildings.

[albatrossxwing]

I live in a town that has a small museum... nothing like this though... :)

[basefinder]

I would like to go back on a sunny day and get some close up photos. We were dodging raindrops that afternoon!

[restoman]

The pictures came out very well!

I guess that parking garage was a good vantage point after all.

:-)

[basefinder]

Yes, we lucked out finding that garage. :-D

[stormdog]

Better views of the place than I got to see when I was living there!

[basefinder]

Ha! I would like to revisit on a sunny day and get some closer, ground-level pics.