Sentences with phrase «century as the residence»

Created at the end of the 15th century as the residence of the sister of Pope Pius II, it craves attention in its own right.

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This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

There is some evidence of their earlier more or less temporary residence in the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor; and they, or related «maritime people,» actually threatened twelfth - century Egypt, as we know from records of Ramses III (C. I 175 - 1144).

This delightful 19th century residence is helpfully described in the information notes for journalists supplied by the media as «the only unaltered survivor of a group of extravagant town houses» which were the focus of social and political life a long time ago.

Gibson also notes that historical legends from several centuries later point as well to the possibility that the building is a priestly residence.

They were used as temples and monastic residences, centers of Buddhist thought for five centuries.

Is a traditional Okinawan style house, dating from the 18th century, when it served as the residence of the Nakamura family.

Students can explore the castle's role over the centuries as fortress, prison, baroque palace, family home, wartime refuge, heritage attraction and residence used by The Queen for official duties.

The Steves Homestead, maintained since 1954 as a historic house museum, is a Victorian French Second Empire design, three - story residence in the King William area built for Edward Steves in 1876 and furnished in a late 19th - century style.

This immense complex includes several buildings including temples, shrines, a museum, as well as the former residence of the Siamese royal family (inhabited from the 18th century until 1925).

Used as a winter residence for the leaders of Tibet since the 17th century, this architectural wonder, is the 12th stop in -LSB-...]

The castle presided over many years of important Scottish historical events, such as the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century and the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and was a royal residence right up until 1603.

Royal Palace known as Dar el Makhzen or the Sultanate Palace has for centuries been a residence of Moroccan royals when visiting Fes.

The building has served as a school, a private residence and a sugar plantation offices since being built in the 19th century.

We also explore the house, whose 14 rooms are furnished as they once were throughout the decades, dating right back to when the Villa was appropriated as a private residence in the 16th century.

The architect George Washington Smith is noted particularly for his residences around Montecito, and for popularizing the Spanish Colonial Revival style in early 20th century America, as is Lutah Maria Riggs, who started as a draftsman in Smith's firm, rose to partner, and later started her firm.

Erected from Roman times as a control structure to defend the important lines of communication which connected Northern Italy to the countries on the other side of the Alps, the Castle has undergone various enlargements over the centuries: it was the residence of a noble Italian family, who surrounded it entirely with imposing Guelph - style decorative battlements and built a central tower.

Originally constructed in 1904 as Villa Speyer, the residence of a prominent Frankfurt banking family, three additional wings have been added to the villa since ground was first broken more than a century ago.

Inspired by the summer residence for King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in the 19th century, the main building was later taken to Bangkok where it is now famous as the Vimarn Mek Palace.

Visit the upper level to see exceptional works such as the mid-19th century cedar sideboard crafted by George Dowden for the Cribb family's historic Ipswich residence «Gooloowan», Australian paintings such as Frosty morning by key Australian landscape painter Elioth Gruner, and the exquisite Australian wildflower tea service designed by renowned Australian botanical artist Ellis Rowan.

The original tropical Victorian home, which is now known as the Grano de Oro, was a private family residence belonging to the Pozuelo family, built at the turn of the 20th century.

The castle is recorded as having been completed by 1393 and the Earls of Lennox took up residence in the 14th century when they moved from their castle in Balloch during the plague.

The site is as old as the 3rd century BC and served as a monastery as well as a royal residence over the years.

The main residence building was built by the Dutch in the late nineteenth century as a gift to the king to help strengthen ties.

At Home at the White House Nov. 1: Architectural Digest magazine releases its December issue with a cover story exploring the selection of 20th and 21st century art displayed on the walls of the Obama private White House residence, including works by African American artists Alma Thomas, Glenn Ligon, and William H. Johnson, as well as Susan Rothenberg, Sam Francis, Hans Hofmann, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Mangold, Sean Scully, among others.

Until the middle of the 20th century the castle and the garden belonged to the family Felten - Guilleaume; today it serves as the residence of the family's granddaughter, Henriette Gräfin Strasoldo.

The initiative has been made possible with a substantial grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, a donation which has also supported a new artist - in - residence programme at the museum, as well as the appointment of 19th - century landscape specialist William L. Coleman as its new associate curator of American art.

Over the course of her five - decade - long career, most of which was spent as artist - in - residence with the City of New York Department of Sanitation, Ukeles mapped out a practice that seems to place her somewhere between the late - 20th - century strategy of institutional critique and the current vogue for social - practice art.

Kiesler's historic chairs, the Correalist Instrument and the Correalistic Rocker — designed specifically for looking at paintings in Peggy Guggenheim's gallery / museum Art of this Century in 1942 — are available for use, as is R.M. Schindler's «King Road's» series — Sofa and two Sling Chairs, designed in 1922 for his private residence in Los Angeles and later reconstructed by Donald Judd for looking at painting in one of Judd's environments in Marfa, Texas.

Highlights include a circa - 1800 barn that was adaptively repurposed into a charming residence, the Eliphalet Sturges / George Hand Wright house, which was originally built in 1764 as a simple two - room farm house and extensively remodeled in the colonial revival style by the dean of Westport artists, George Hand Wright, in 1910; «Duck Haven,» a house and cottage on the Saugatuck River adjacent to the historic low - tide crossing point; the David Judah House, circa 1760, which has gone through a meticulous restoration by its owner, who preserved every nail, piece of timber and window; a circa 1840 Italianate house whose owners uncovered an original back staircase hidden by 20th century renovations; Westport's first one - room schoolhouse west of the Saugatuck River, which includes a large collection of signed prints by abstract artist Frank Stella; a reproduction saltbox circa 1966 designed and built by well - known architect George White, which won a Historic Preservation Award this year.

It has also been able to maintain one of his most cherished projects, the new research center as well as its annual scholar - in - residence program led by figures such as Jonathan Brown, Salvatore Settis of the Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa, and Manuela Mena, chief curator of 18th - century painting and Goya at the Prado.

Meanwhile, artist - in - residence Emily Hesse initiated her New Linthorpe project by revisiting the history of the 19th - century Linthorpe Art Pottery, which began life in Middlesbrough as a response to increasing unemployment and experimental platform for local clay in high - end ceramics.

The Archer - Schmidt view of CO2 hanging around for centuries seems based on a model of residence time having what I see as at least three problems: fallacious appeal to paleoclimate, irrelevance of average residence time per molecule, and neglect of disequilibrium coefficients.

Some like to travel to Lakewood, which was the 19th century summer residence of the country's elite such as the Rockefellers, the Astors and the Vanderbilts.

CENTURY 21 American Homes is unique, Gallagher says, in that while it is a larger than average firm, with a footprint that encompasses almost 2 million residences, it is known as being accessible to its agents and support staff.

The San Remo, built in 1906 as a residence for Bank of America founder A.P. Gianinni, had operated as a licensed hotel for most of the century.

Check in to Le Mount Stephen for a chic sleep steeped in history — this stunning hotel was a 19th - century residence before it served as a men - only social club from the 1920s to the 1960s.

The original purpose of the 11th century fortresses «was to act as a fortified tower or residence that would act as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the motte - and - bailey castle be overtaken,» says architect Jason Eccles.