The laminated wood beams are anchored in eight considerable sized concrete buttresses sheathed with native stone from the area.
There is the bridge The steelwork seemed feathery and insubstantial as it crossed the half mile of riverbed, leapfrogging across its concrete buttresses.
Beyond the grate was a six-foot-diameter concrete drain between anchoring concrete buttresses.
The dam's design combined with its record height was highly controversial; the state mandated renovations in 1932, in which concrete buttresses were added to the dam face.
The interior of the bathhouse is admirable, with mirror-image locker rooms and arched concrete buttresses extending across overhead.
Flanking it on either side are concrete buttresses supporting the dam wall.
By 1911 the river was crossed on the same site with a steel bridge, which had concrete buttresses and a wooden roadway.
Cameras in the streets caught lines of volunteer workers continuing their long toil with sandbags and concrete buttresses.
The 30 foot mirror is a circular dish, similar to a deeply curved satellite dish, 9 m (30 ft) across, supported on concrete buttresses.
It is built in a characteristic shape, employing eight concrete buttresses to support a slender central cylinder.