Sentences with phrase «century houses in»

Senate Democrats huddled on Wednesday at the Century House in suburban Albany, a catering hall and hotel venue, as they continue a push to gain a majority advantage in the chamber.

Our tiled 15th - century house in the old quarter of the city was marked by giant bronze doors.

This award - winning museum is set in the seventeenth - century house in which the famous explorer James Cook lived as an apprentice seaman in Whitby.

Occupying a 19th - century house in a rural, hillside setting, and offering a centuries - old tradition of exceptional service, the award - winning English - style country inn offers luxurious accommodations, delicious cuisine, upscale amenities and facilities, and gracious hospitality.

Cae Du is a 16th century house in a quite lovely location in Snowdonia with breathtaking views and relaxing garden and ponds.

Among his better - known videos are «Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore» (1999), which uses found footage to explore British club culture, and «Made in» Eaven» (2004) which centers on the spatial conundrums of Jeff Koons's highly reflective «Bunny» sculpture set in what looks like a small room in an 18th - century house in London.

Pace Gallery to curate a series of exhibitions at Chesa Büsin, a newly refurbished 12th century house in the Engadin town of Zuoz

The news of Sarah Charlesworth's sudden death sent me back to October last year, when I visited the artist in her 19th - century house in Falls Village, Connecticut.

The original gallery was located in Sloane Street, London, and in 1994, it was re-located to Roche Court in Wiltshire, a 19th - century house in Parkland.

In his recent work, Walker's interest in light — both real and projected — required him to sit in the dark in The Haining, a large 18th - century house in Scotland, the country of the artist's birth and where he continues to work.

A late - 19th - century house in west London.

This charming turn - of - the - century house in Svalnäs in the county of Stockholm, Sweden has been elegantly restored to mint condition.

A 9 bedroomed turn of the century house in the West Midlands.

When a Canadian couple relocated from Boston back to Canada, they purchased a 3,400 - square - foot turn - of - the - century house in Toronto.

This 17th - century house in the Cotswolds features a sitting room, family room, dining room, kitchen / breakfast room, cloakroom, utility room, five bedrooms (two en suite) and a bathroom..

Not exact matches

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.

Many of the structures and institutions he helped pioneer more than a century ago — in - house sales teams; geographic sales territories; sales conferences; quotas; training academies — we now take for granted.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

Born to London coffee - house proprietor Thomas Jemson in 1734, Lloyd's List was, for centuries, a leading shipping newspaper.

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.

A main lodge, housed in an 18th century farmhouse, features four rooms decorated with vintage flags, antique quilts, and other Americana.

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.

House hunters searching in this area can expect to find a lot of smaller century homes, that top out at 1,700 sq ft.. The make - up of this area is similar to the Glebe, say Robillard.

So far as book publishing is concerned there were practically no Jews in the business prior to 1915 and today Viking, Simon & Schuster, Knopf, Covici, Friede, and Random House do not rank in size of annual list with such non-Jewish houses as Macmillan, Scribner's, Harpers, Houghton Mifflin, Appleton - Century, Doubleday, Doran, and the like.

This historic but once - dilapidated enclave of small 18th - century houses and cobbled streets in the Green Point district, has blossomed since the 1990s, and it now bears all the hallmarks of gentrification.

Aggregate housing affordability measure for Toronto hit its most stressed level in a quarter century

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.

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

After traveling around Europe, overseeing the restoration of a ramshackle 19th - century country house in Burgundy, and simply enjoying life for a while, she began freelancing for various magazines and websites, including International Living, Forbes.com, Bankrate.com, and many others.

The biggest storm in a century hit Sydney and the Hunter region of NSW on April 22, killing three people, upending power poles and flooding houses.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

And in the following century, Canada's Fathers of Confederation set up «a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom,» consisting of a popularly elected House of Commons, an appointed Senate and an appointed Governor General to represent the Queen.

The president's 325 commutations for the month of August is the largest number ever granted by a president in a month, and in a year within the past century, according to the White House.

In the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century falleIn the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallein the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallen.

Factor in his pleas for just and moral laws or access to decent, affordable housing and guaranteed livable wages a half a century ago.

The fact that England had this Holy House, that it was Mary's land, that it honoured marriage as Pope St Gregory wished, led over centuries to that long continuity of our institutions, in which Christian values became writ large in national life.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).

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.

I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic Churches were so beautiful in earlier centuries; in the words of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.»

The venerable Durham Cathedral in England houses a manuscript containing a collection of eleventh - century Old English proverbs known as the Durham Proverbs.

From the Puritans to the Projects is a compelling history of the treatment in Boston of «public neighbors» — needy people unable to provide fully for themselves — from the early 17th century to the present, focused on the construction and management of public housing in that city since the mid-1930s.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

In a study of 18th century family life, one historian tells us that walls were paper - thin and houses crowded.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

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.

The Talmud is, in a sense, the business record of the House of Israel, extending over a period of about eight centuries, from 300 B.C.E. to 475 C.E. Much of it is concerned with the business of business or legal relationships, leading again to the charge that Jews are more concerned with mundane matters than they are with morality, more concerned with letter than spirit.

And, according to the White House, it's the largest amount of sentence commutations in a single day in more than a century

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.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.