Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 28—Scattered across the riverfront, the mossy, aging and oftentimes rotten timber pilings serve as both a symbol of Astoria's ...

Most buildings in and around the Midwest have standard foundation systems that use spread concrete footings or “feet” to displace the load of the building over the supporting soils below. These types ...

Some of the same stuff that used to be growing near where they stand. A number of the buildings constructed downtown in the city's formative years and after — especially in East Town and the Third ...

Del MarDel Mar — A thicket of 130-year-old wood pilings only revealed during the lowest tides of the year has been given a new lease on life. The small, coastal city of Del Mar on Monday renewed its ...

POPHAM BEACH, Maine — A ragged cluster of rotting pilings juts from the water here, the cracked, crooked remnants of a wharf where 19th-century steamships from Boston and elsewhere brought throngs of ...

Pilings along Astoria's waterfront can be difficult to maintain. Scattered across the riverfront, the mossy, aging and oftentimes rotten timber pilings serve as both a symbol of Astoria’s history and ...