The Riverside Hangar is a historic

hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word ''hangar'' comes from Middle French ''hanghart'' ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish ...

complex at the

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, United States. It comprises two parallel hangars with a connecting structure and some additions. Built on the bank of the

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in 1942, it was part of a

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modification center that operated at the airport during

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. The two hangar buildings were constructed with

glued laminated timber Glued laminated timber, commonly referred to as glulam, is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensioned lumber, dimensional lumber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural adhesives so that ...

arches, an innovation born of wartime steel shortages. Their important design features were their low cost and that they were erectable quickly by unskilled workers. With Riverside Hangar was listed on the

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for its state-level significance in the theme of engineering. It was nominated for being one of

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's leading examples of glued laminated timber construction.

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The two parallel hangars are both long, wide, and high. They are apart, with a wooden structure between them. Riverside Hangars from west

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