Sentences with phrase «20th century house»

Built in 1912, this stately post-Victorian early 20th century house sits on the corner of Bayo Vista and Fairmount Avenues in Oakland's Piedmont Avenue neighborhood, just blocks from the renowned shopping and dining on Piedmont Avenue.

The practical adobe structures built by Pueblo Indians inspired a 20th century house style known as Pueblo Revival.

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Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

For example, at the beginning of the 20th century we in New Zealand commonly left our houses unlocked, for there was no fear of burglary.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

In the historical context, these churches housed the vast majority of American Christians from the colonial era up until the early 20th century where they began to lose membership due to their being labeled too «liberal».

This house in picturesque Catskill, NY was originally part of a girls» camp that was active for a good chunk of the 20th century.

The notion of a Mom happily taking care of the kids and house all day * by herself * is a nutty 20th Century notion that seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of making women feel guilty.

A very long sitting With an unparalleled love of politics, Winston Churchill served for almost 64 years in the House of Commons, longer than any other 20th century MP.

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

Her two predecessors Viscountess St Davids and the 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, who had been ennobled in the first half of the 20th century, had died before women were allowed to sit in the House of Lords.

In the face of mounting budget deficits, the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown is planning to sell 19th - and 20th - century paintings and tapestries valued at as much as $ 1 million from its art collection through two New York City auction houses.

No Democrat from Polk County — the historic home of three Democratic governors and four U.S. Senators along with one speaker of the House and three Senate presidents in the 20th century — has served in either chamber of the Florida Legislature since 2000.

Would it not be wrong for the Government's legislation to exclude the possibility of a Prime Minister being in this House, as used to be the case right up to the early years of the 20th century?»

The forests vanished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the settlement of the relatively treeless Great Plains, where houses and fences were constructed largely from those once - grand woods.

Yorkshire About Blog The House of Foxy is a ladies wear brand of vintage inspired clothing made in Britain (formerly known as 20th Century Foxy).

Considered one of the greatest figures in French fashion in the 20th century, Yves Saint Laurent created a fashion house that revolutionized the industry.

Lacroix is one of the fashion houses to have been started in the late 20th century.

In House of Caravan you play as a young boy in what seems to be the early 20th Century who has been kidnapped and brought to a mysterious house, from which he must escape by solving puzzles while slowly piecing together the story of the house's owHouse of Caravan you play as a young boy in what seems to be the early 20th Century who has been kidnapped and brought to a mysterious house, from which he must escape by solving puzzles while slowly piecing together the story of the house's owhouse, from which he must escape by solving puzzles while slowly piecing together the story of the house's owhouse's owners.

Avondale Brewing Company (which is housed in an early 20th century building that was once a pharmacy, saloon, and brothel) has one of the most unique stories of any brewery.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

In England at the turn of the 20th century, a year after the death of her husband, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decides that she, her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood), and their housekeeper (Edna Best) will move out of the house of her mother - and sister - in - law.

Whitaker's character was White House butler to eight US Presidents, and thus a witness to some of the most important events of the 20th century in his 34 - year tenure.

Marvel Studios» President Kevin Feige shared new details about upcoming movies at his studio as well as 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.'s DC Films in a recent open house press event.

Marvel's already made announcements about being in early development on Black Panther and Inhumans movies in - house, so perhaps those rights were carved out when they sold the rights to the FF to 20th Century Fox?

We get inside peeks into the White House and into the homes and private lives of blacks throughout the 20th century — places not unlike every other home, but tainted by the hatred and ignorance of discrimination.

It was a hit that got overlooked when another 20th Century Fox science fiction film, a little thing called Star Wars, opened just a few weeks later, but a cult following kept it alive through revival house, college campuses, and video releases ever since.

The first trailer for Phantom Thread, which debuted Monday, offers a first look at Day - Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, an English couturier designing for society ladies («dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock,» reads the film's synopsis) in the middle of the 20th century.

Far From the Madding Crowd 20th Century Fox, $ 29.98; Blu - ray, $ 39.99 With very little hoopla, director Thomas Vinterberg's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic has become one of the most successful art house releases of 2015 — and for good reason...

The White House assassination tale «The Sentinel,» a 20th Century Fox thriller starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria, opened in third place with $ 14.65 million.

Images copyright 2011 20th Century Fox, Michael De Luca Productions, Rough House Pictures, and Fox Home Entertainment.

20th Century Women (Mike Mills, 2016) In trying to understand the punk rock tribalism preoccupying the younger generation in the house, Dorothea (Annette Bening) and William (Billy Crudup) dance to Talking Heads and discover they are more «art fag» than Black Flag.

Crudup will play the 20th century man who becomes one of Dorothea's boarders, renting out the bungalow behind her main house.

The Quiet Ones is a revamped Hammer Films release, the British movie house who put out many classic chillers in the third quarter of the 20th Century of similar ilk.

The Grey Goose bash saw production companies Fox Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century, Entertainment One, Sony Pictures Releasing UK and Lionsgate UK partying at the newly opened Soho House, 40 Greek Street.

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Miller, who has done strong visual effects work through his VFX house Blur Films, was just set by 20th Century Fox to make his feature directing debut on X-Men Origins: Deadpool, the X-Men spinoff film expected to star Ryan Reynolds.

Their roots lie also in the caring practices of the social reformer Jane Addams, whose 19th - and early 20th - century settlement houses were designed to help immigrants and the poor gain solid footing so they could contribute to the country's prosperity.

One reason: Connolly clearly details how the development of cities — including urban renewal programs and the construction of housing projects that blighted so many cities in the 20th century — were strongly influenced by Jim Crow segregation.

The Historic Millwork District was redeveloped from old factories and mills, dormant since the early part of the 20th century, into a new mixed - use development incorporating housing, workplaces and entertainment.

In the 20th century romantic modernism, the publishing house made the cover with very little input given to the author.

We sat in our small London house saying to ourselves that we really should go and see it, but we'd just got back from our honeymoon, and there were things to do, thank you cards to write, jobs that we shouldn't really take any more time off from - and as a result we frittered away the opportunity to see first - hand one of the most momentous events of the 20th century.

Throughout the 20th century, he dispatches a series of women in brutal fashion, removing a small item from one victim here, depositing it with another there, then materializing back at the House to review his exploits.

James Joyce had to self - publish Ulysses, one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the 20th Century, because it was too weird for any publishing house to have it.

Andy Weir's THE MARTIAN sold a ton of copies and was picked up by Random House and 20th Century Fox.

Did You Know: The Phillips House Museum is designed to depict everyday life in Rockville Centre during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Yorkshire About Blog The House of Foxy is a ladies wear brand of vintage inspired clothing made in Britain (formerly known as 20th Century Foxy).

AHMP's historic buildings include a large, Tudor - style house, which dates from the early 20th Century and was home to the family that founded the cemetery, and a kennel, which housed their prized dogs.

Containing the largest collection of material culture of 19th century Louisiana, the Museum also houses artifacts dealing with everyday rural life up to the early 20th century.

Designed by the Amsterdam School in the early 20th century, it is decorated with busts of famous navigators and cartographers, and today houses Amsterdam's transport authority.

In addition to the hotel, the castle also houses the Puglia Culinary Centre — developed in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America to teach ancient Pugliese cooking — and a museum wing with restored frescoes and a permanent collection of 20th - century Italian art.