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Peterson Avenue Hill : ウィキペディア英語版 | Peterson Avenue Hill
Peterson Avenue Hill is one of the few remaining brick streets in Louisville, Kentucky. It is Louisville's best known brick street or alley. ==Description== The brick portion of the street covers a steep hill with a mean slope of approximately 15 degrees. The brick portion originally extended for approximately 740 feet but asphalt paving has already been applied to about 137 feet at the top of the hill, leaving an area, of brick paving 603 feet by 30 feet wide.〔 The hill is paved with vitrified bricks which are laid at angles in a sand base. The angling is not found in any other remaining brick alley street in the city. This method helps to create traction on the surface in wet weather. The hill is edged by a stone curb. sides.〔
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