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The sun started to turn everything a lurid orange as the approaching cloud started to encroach on the sun.
The cloud won and we went for breakfast, which wasn't so spectacular as the sunrise!
The Ontario Power Company Generating Station, a former generating station along the Niagara River, was built as part of the Ontario Power Company complex to the Beaux Arts design of E.B. Green in 1906. Water would enter the station through buried conduit pipes and steel penstocks from an inlet one mile upstream near Dufferin Islands, generating power through transmission lines downstream to DEvil's Hole where it crossed the Niagara River for delivery to New York State, where it was sold in bulk to Niagara Lockport and Ontario Power Company. The plant continued to operate until 1999 when Ontario Power Generation (formerly Ontario Hydro) decommissioned the Ontario Power Company Generating Station from service in order to accommodate the construction of Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.
The Tower Hotel was built in 1962--the first of the contemporary observation towers near Niagara Falls. The 99-metre tall tower, which towers 160-meteres above the falls, featured an indoor observation deck with panoramic views on the 25th floor that is currently closed to the public, restaurant, wedding chapel and hotel. It assumed its current name following a renovation in 2010. It was originally called the Seagram Tower and has changed names multiple times throughout its life--the Heritage Tower (1969), Royal Inn Tower (1971), Royal Center Tower (1972), Panasonic Tower (1973), Minolta Tower (1984), and Konica Minolta Tower Centre (2003).
The Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, commonly known as Fallsview Casino, opened overlooking Horseshoe Falls, in 2004. The $1 billion, 230,000 square metre, 111-metre tall belle époque complex, owned by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and managed by Mohean Gaming and Entertainment restaurant, includes a 19,000 square metres (200,000 sq ft) casino that holds over 130 gaming tables, including poker tables; and over 3,500 slot machines. The resort also includes more than a dozen restaurants, a shopping center,a nightclub, a fitness spa, a hotel with 372 rooms and suites, and the 1500-seat Avalon Ballroom Theatre. The east façade retains the walls of the terrace and front entrance of the transformer station built in 1904. The main entrance has a water feature called 'The Teslatron'
The Ontario Power Company Generating Station, a former generating station along the Niagara River, was built as part of the Ontario Power Company complex to the Beaux Arts design of E.B. Green in 1906. Water would enter the station through buried conduit pipes and steel penstocks from an inlet one mile upstream near Dufferin Islands, generating power through transmission lines downstream to DEvil's Hole where it crossed the Niagara River for delivery to New York State, where it was sold in bulk to Niagara Lockport and Ontario Power Company. The plant continued to operate until 1999 when Ontario Power Generation (formerly Ontario Hydro) decommissioned the Ontario Power Company Generating Station from service in order to accommodate the construction of Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.
The Tower Hotel was built in 1962--the first of the contemporary observation towers near Niagara Falls. The 99-metre tall tower, which towers 160-meteres above the falls, featured an indoor observation deck with panoramic views on the 25th floor that is currently closed to the public, restaurant, wedding chapel and hotel. It assumed its current name following a renovation in 2010. It was originally called the Seagram Tower and has changed names multiple times throughout its life--the Heritage Tower (1969), Royal Inn Tower (1971), Royal Center Tower (1972), Panasonic Tower (1973), Minolta Tower (1984), and Konica Minolta Tower Centre (2003).
The Embassy Suites Niagara Falls, a 384-foot tall, 42-floor hotel, was built in 2003.
The Niagara Falls Marriott Fallsview Hotel & Spa, a 197-feet (60 m) tall, 20-floor hotel, opened in 1998. A second tower adding 185 rooms across 14 floor and 17 stories was added in 2002.
The eclectic skyline of Niagara Falls, Ontario across the Niagara River, shimmers in the night as the American and Canadian falls are bathed in the nightly spectacle of light. Niagara Falls, New York, USA.
El ecléctico horizonte de las Niágara Falls, Ontario, al otro lado del río Niágara, brilla en la noche mientras las cataratas americanas y canadienses se bañan en el espectáculo nocturno de luz. Cataratas del Niágara, Nueva York, Estados Unidos.
