Sentences with phrase «century houses built»

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Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, a prison built in the 19th century that housed Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, has been a museum since 1994.

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

Haute Living published a feature on Hinze and Clark's life in their new Hamptons home, which described the Linden Estate home: «The house was built nearly a century ago; the Clarks moved in this May.

Located in the energetic neighbourhood of Queen West, Workplace One's original Toronto location is housed in a stunning turn - of - the - century building that rises above restaurants, retail stores, venues and transit stops.

But an aging and shrinking order of Cistercian monks have accomplished what great men and cities could not: the reconstruction of Santa Maria de Óvila's most architecturally significant building, a 12th - century Gothic chapter house.

What might this garden - planting and house - building look like for the transient people of the 21st century?

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

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.

This twentieth century is desperately in need of stabilizing forces, and in personal character one of the primary tests is the ability to realize in experience an ideal presented long ago: «Everyone therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.»

Today no church is considered complete without a parish house or education building; but in the 13th century, if anyone had suggested that a church should erect a building to house the religious activities of the congregation, that person would have been regarded as out of touch with reality.

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

Kind of makes up for all the centuries when Muslims didn't allow Jews or Christians to build their own houses of worship.

By the 16th century ice houses were being built in Europe and the sharbat also made its way to Europe where it became very popular.

The space, which feels like a hybrid of a Shinto shrine and a tree house, was built with a similar thoughtfulness by Brackett's father who trained as a shrine carpenter (the bar is made out of a single century - old cedar tree).

Part of the old house in which she lives at Ojo de Agua was built more than a century ago by one of her ancestors, whose name was Pedro Luro.

The house appears every now and then — it's been a long rescue project to turn it from a run down building with history (it was an ale house, a monkey lived here for a while and back in the 18th century it was a peruke makers) into a cosy family home for the six of us and it's still ongoing!

Moreover, Tuohy said, the Park District already controls several high - cost historic buildings that remain largely unused, such as the Colonel Palmer house, another prominent 19th Century mansion.

This is a 19th Century house converted to a B&B that was built and furnished in that sort of late Victorian dark and heavy style.

Ninety - one buildings, containing 246 units and three commercial spaces, originally were constructed in the mid-19th century as row houses and converted to apartments in the 1980s.

This Green House Christopher Sedita is the founder of the «Green Buildings» program at the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, which prepares students for careers in 21st - century building design.

Doing so, the company announced in 2015, would help fund the creation of affordable housing along the cobblestoned Schermerhorn Row, lined by 19th - century brick mercantile buildings that were later converted into storefronts.

Small scale private house building in the 1980s gave way to more substantial developments in the 1990s and early 21st century and the current local plan visualises a doubling of the number of dwellings to around 1,500 by the early 2010s.

«While the name Sutton has been used by bars, restaurants, stores and apartment houses beyond our neighborhood, Sutton Place and Sutton Place South have for nearly a century been the exclusive identifiers of an enclave neighborhood of residential buildings and townhouses,» Bergin wrote to Solow in 2003.

Those directions might have served equally well for locating Barbour's house at the time it was built in 1659, a few decades before another English physicist, Isaac Newton, wrote his Principia, setting down the ideas about motion and gravity that dominated physics for almost three centuries.

While never built, a larger planned camp based on the concept of Camp Century would have housed a 4,000 - kilometer long tunnel system underneath the ice, capable of deploying up to 600 nuclear missiles.

We think it may have been associated with a small shrine in the bath house and dumped after the building fell out of use, probably in the 4th century AD.

Since October 2015, staff with CAU have found five roundhouses that likely date to 900 B.C.E. (The older posts appear to have belonged to a causeway across the river that had fallen into disrepair by the time the houses were built several centuries later.)

Housed in a former flourmill, (the 19th Century building is shining like never before) head chef Matt Carulei and team mill their own flour to make delicious breads, just one example of the «from the ground up» catering.

Romans» is housed in a 19th - century building, complete with a beer garden, so the vibe is classic and relaxed.

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.

The woman built what's reputed to be America's most haunted house, but the most terrible thing that ever happened to her — a whole century later — was this.

The 21st Century Green High - Performing Public School Facilities Act (HR 2187), passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives, would authorize $ 6.4 billion in fiscal year 2010 for school districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their buildings.

This award - winning museum contains weapons used by the Navy throughout the centuries and is housed in buildings of the Navy's former armaments depot centred around the original powder magazine of 1771.

I find myself in the Distillery District, where 19th - century buildings now house boutiques and several coffee shops (Tim Hortons not among them).

These actions build upon requirements of earlier transportation authorizations, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA - LU), as well as administrative approaches through Executive Order (EO) 13604, Presidential Memoranda and the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) modernization efforts, and DOT initiatives (e.g. Every Day Counts, eNEPA, etc.).

The castle which gave its name to the city after the Second World War is 17th century (built on the site of a 14th century one) and is surrounded by classic wood - beamed, white - painted German houses.

Our house was in a rural part of Pennsylvania and was not really a house at all but a wild castle built into the burnt - out ruins of a nineteenth - century silk mill, and our backyard was not a regular yard but a meandering meadow, with a creek running through it and wild geese living in it and a Death Slide cable that ran from high on an oak to the bank of the stream and deposited you, shrieking, into the shallow water.

The Begijnhof's complex of buildings includes two fifteenth - century churches later handed over to English and Scottish Protestants and a wooden house that is the oldest in Amsterdam.

Years ago, at the end of the Victorian century, the house had been built in dignified isolation, but later developers split its storeys into separate flats, and the once - grand staircases now ascended past empty landings and closed doors.

The conservator of the Palace of the Popes — the biggest Gothic palace in Europe — had agreed to give me a private tour of the place, which was built to house a series of French popes in the 14th century.

About EUR 130 M has been spent to date, primarily on a Dundrum residential portfolio (which requires further development) & on New Century House, an IFSC office building yielding 5.9 % once rent abatement ends in Oct - 2015.

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.

The Animal Rescue League of Boston's Dedham branch is holding an open house on Saturday, April 2, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to kick off fundraising for its «Building for the 21st Century» Safford Memorial Animal Care and Adoption Center renovation project.

The Vault resides in the Iconic Mid Century Modern building that was originally built to house the First National Auto Bank built from 1958 - 1959.

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.

The center is housed in an old white building from the 19th century dairy ranch.

Housed in a beautifully restored 19th - century mansion built for Prince Roland Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew, Shangri - La Paris is one of the top luxury hotels with Eiffel Tower view, the epitome of Asian hospitality and French «art de vivre».

On the way to Garrafon cliff and located right by the side of Playa Lancheros and Playa Paraiso in the central part of Isla Mujeres, Hacienda Mundaca is a plantation house built by a 19th century Spanish pirate and famous swashbuckler named Fermin Mundaca de Marechega.

• Brentano — The Brentano House was originally built in the 17th century and was bought as a family home in 1753 by Josephus Brentano, a Dutch merchant of Italian origin.

Housed in an 18th - century colonial - style building, the museum displays the largest and most impressive ceramic collection in the world, including the exquisite ceramics of the Moche civilization.