Sentences with phrase «clapboard house»

She found this project, a 1795 clapboard house on 20 acres in Woodbury, Conn. «The property took my breath away,» says Nancy.

With a wife and two grown sons, he lives the classic, comfortable life of a New England professor, residing in a wooden clapboard house in Newton, Massachusetts, filled with shelves crammed with books and LPs of classical music, opera, jazz, folk, and musical comedy.

He displayed the paintings to the public in the yard of his clapboard house.

Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1944, 5 7:8 x 7 3:8 inches; Arnold Newman — Clapboard House, West Palm Beach, FL, 1940.

Here, in what was then a small white clapboard house, Bradbury wrote much of what would become his celebrated book, The Martian Chronicles

Located just off the harbor, the clapboard house has lovely lighthouse views and is within walking distance of the island's shops and restaurants.

The Long Island - style clapboard house features three suites, each of which is beautifully decorated in country - style décor with hardwood floors, sleigh beds, private bathrooms, and French windows boasting lovely views.

The rooms in this clapboard house with three gables are appointed with antiques, floral - print bedding and curtains, and plenty of thoughtful touches - some have fireplaces and whirlpool tubs.

Finally, she allowed Gary's brother and his family to move into the Cape Breton clapboard house.

• Season after season, Beloved «s clapboard house stands above a country road: primal zones of past and future, staying and going, womb and rite of passage, peculiarly American dialectics...

Einstein's white clapboard house at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived from 1936 until his death, has remained a private residence, off - limits to the public as well as to journalists and photographers.

Weeks later I sit with my seven - year - old son in a small clapboard house on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

This coalition of sometimes strange bedfellows helped elect Eisenhower (and later Richard Nixon and Reagan), but the genial man from the Abilene clapboard house ultimately had no interest in dismantling the New Deal.

I drove in thick congested traffic, and then the city ended and I drove through half - forgotten towns, past clapboard houses, Christmas lights slung everywhere like a strange imperative.

The halls of Harvard, nestled amid the 19th - century clapboard houses and cobbled streets of Cambridge, seem an unlikely place to take extraterrestrials seriously.

It has a general store, white picket fences and clapboard houses and captured in his paintings.

The town is all clapboard houses and coffee shops and antiques stores in which to while away the time.

Wander the streets of Fort George, a residential neighborhood of clapboard houses on stilts and yards lush with banana trees and bougainvillea.

Its colourful clapboard houses with their ornate porches, are arranged in a neat grid, just back from the wharf and the lighthouse.

The quaint town of San Juan del Sur, with its Victorian clapboard houses and vibrant local scene, makes for the perfect place to begin exploring the southern pacific beaches of Nicaragua.

A handful of streets lead through the small village of seaside restaurants, lodges, pubs, shops and clapboard houses in many bright colors.

It is one of the top places to visit in Panama or for Panama tourism with an archipelago that brags vibrant and full of Caribbean style clapboard houses.

Point Loma, San Diego «Point Loma is the conservative neighbor of hippy Ocean Beach, with its sports fishing centers, yacht clubs, and naval base... [it's] home to a mishmash of New England - style clapboard houses, tropical - themed hotels, and exquisite modern hilltop homes with panoramic views of the city and harbor below.

Her photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations feature images familiar to the north Florida and Tennessee landscapes that are home to her family: boiling swamps and tall pines, vespid wasps and green anoles, wild horses and white clapboard houses.

Drifting across the rust belt wastelands of America, the Northern Irish artist focuses on the closed curtains of clapboard houses, barbed - wire fences, back yards and vacant lots.

«Lois Dodd: Catching the Light,» the modest retrospective of Ms. Dodd's work at the Portland Museum of Art here is populated by paintings of landscapes, interiors and river views; of flowers, garden sheds and lawns; of compact clapboard houses and barns, by the light of the moon or sun; of wood - slat doors and steep farmhouse steps; and, quite often, of reflection - catching four - pane windows.

Hopper's watercolor views of clapboard houses, electric lines and windswept landscapes are displayed alongside black - and - white photographs by Robert Adams, Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, as well Stephen Shore, a pioneer of color photography, whose works here eerily echo Hopper's depictions of domestic architecture.

Not exact matches

One frat house is a red - brick multifloor building where brothers sleep, and next door is a pale - blue clapboard siding house where they throw parties.

In particular, I photograph houses of worship, whose bricks and clapboard, stained glass and steel are often the largest and most visible manifestations of religious faith.

Reef House, by contrast, is unobtrusive and simple — three tidy clapboard cottages open to the trade winds, a natural swimming hole back of the coral reef and, thanks to Kepler's two cooks, Juanita and Olive, the best cuisine south of Joe's Stone Crab in Miami.»

Rather than granting us an intimate glimpse behind the clapboard fence that pops up around their front yard, we find our attention diverted toward the house next door, where a frowning businessman named Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) lives with his wife, Rose (Julianne Moore), and their young son, Nicky (Noah Jupe, a find).

This is true for Read House, the yellow clapboard building next to Gutman Library, that houses Sponsored Projects.

One of the few Bahamian - owned spas in Nassau, the Baha Retreat, is a full - service facility set in a clapboard colonial estate house.

This is something that would happen in DC when I was growing up, where you walk by a house and there was that weird moment where it's stucco or something and then clapboard and then you look and there's that green that in DC is so intense and you see that backyard green zoom right through the dark inside of the house.

The house — neat white clapboard with blue trim, the symbol of both the rise and fall of the American dream — has just been launched in the vacant block behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), where Mike Kelley had staked a claim for a multi-purpose community and arts space in the guise of a replica of his family home.

Founded in 1964 by Larry Aldrich, the museum is housed in an 18th century converted church and general store, and maintains a white, clapboard appearance (along with a modern glass extension).

A Foursquare house with crisp white clapboard siding and black shutters is usually identified as a Colonial Revival.

we painted the clapboard blue, the rest of the house light gray and are just trying to keep things light and bright and airy!

Historically the house would probably have had 1 neutral mod - tone color on the clapboard, another neutral mid-tone color on the siding (or siding left natural), and dark neutral trim.

Magnificent stone Georgian on 5.34 acres with pool house and pool on coveted Clapboard Ridge Road in mid-country Greenwich.

Designer Peter Dunham and architect Scott Laidlaw transform a Mediterranean - style stucco house in Newport Beach, California, into a cottage - style clapboard.