Hershey Sports Arena, Hershey, Pennsylvania
This was the first large-scale thin-shell concrete project in the US, constructed in 1936. Engineer Anton Tedesko of the Roberts & Schaefer Company designed the building, with 3.5 inch thick barrel vaults spanning 222 feet. This was his third thin-shell project in the US, after the first Hayden Planetarium in New York and the temporary dairy barns for Brook Hill Farm at Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair, both in 1934. With the demolition of the Hayden in 1997, this became the oldest extant thin-shell concrete structure in the US. The aerial view is taken from the Hersheypark ride named the Kissing Tower.
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