The Mark Twain Watering Trough, one of four originally located beside the road at Quarry Farm, was moved to its current location at the center of Elmira College Old Campus in 1976. Quarry Farm was a family vacation property owned by Jervis Langdon, who later became father-in-law to Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain. Twain and his wife would summer on the property regularly, and he did a great deal of writing from this study, which was expressly built for him by his sister in law, Susan Langdon Crane about 200 yards away from the main house. Among the many pieces he penned here was the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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The Rockwell Museum, at 111 Cedar Street at Denison Parkway, was originally constructed as Corning City Hall in 1893 to the Romanesque Revival Style design of Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner. Based on Bob Rockwell's growing collection of art on display in the Rockwell Department Store on Market Street, the museum originally opened in 1976 under the name The Rockwell-Corning Museum in the Baron Steuben Hotel before moving into the City Hall building in 1982. Before the city vacated in 1974, following extensive damage suffered during the Flood of 1972, the ground floor served as the Corning Fire Station, with courts and a police station on the first floor. In 2015, The Rockwell Museum was named a Smithsonian Affiliate, the first in New York State outside of New York City.
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Artemus the Bison, created by Tom Gardner with a grant from the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Project Funding Program, was installed on The Rockwell Museum facade in 1999.
The Rockwell Museum, at 111 Cedar Street at Denison Parkway, was originally constructed as Corning City Hall in 1893 to the Romanesque Revival Style design of Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner. Based on Bob Rockwell's growing collection of art on display in the Rockwell Department Store on Market Street, the museum originally opened in 1976 under the name The Rockwell-Corning Museum in the Baron Steuben Hotel before moving into the City Hall building in 1982. Before the city vacated in 1974, following extensive damage suffered during the Flood of 1972, the ground floor served as the Corning Fire Station, with courts and a police station on the first floor. In 2015, The Rockwell Museum was named a Smithsonian Affiliate, the first in New York State outside of New York City.
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Gaffer on Bench, a 1993 bronze by sculptor Bruno Luchessi, was installed at the western edge of the Corning Inc Headquarters in 1993. The life-sized bronze artisan is depicted sitting on a gaffer's workbench blowing molten glass.
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Centerway Bridge was built in 1921 spanning 752-feet across the Chemung River. Designed by pioneer concrete bridge engineer Abraham Burton Cohen, this 40-foot wide earth-filled structure has seven arched spans and six piers. It closed to motor vehicles in 1981, and after an extensive renovation, reopened in 1986 for use by pedestrians, bicyclists and double-decker buses shuffling tourists between the Corning Museum of Glass and the Market Street Historic District. Following another renovation in 203, the bridge was converted to a full-time pedestrian bridge with green lawn and perennial gardens. In the fall of 2014, the bridge's restoration project was named the American Public Works Association Historic Restoration & Preservation Project of the Year.
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