Sentences with phrase «of clapboard»

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.

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

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.

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

Seventy years ago, this town of clapboard churches and modest, pastel - hued homes was the hub of the sugarcane industry, which eventually went bust in 1975.

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The clapboard cottages that line the curvy crescents of this neighbourhood are the most expensive in the province.

My maternal grandparents» sky - blue clapboard farmhouse never had air - conditioning, and yet it was my favorite place to spend part of every summer as a child.

And the way we used to hold hands as we wandered through Gruene, listening to Americana music through clapboard walls of an old dance hall.

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.

The exterior is of the same materials seen in countless New England buildings since the 18th century; clapboard (horizontal) and board and batten (vertical) wood siding.

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.

Religion paves the moral main street of a white - clapboard America inhabited by independent individuals who lend each other a helping hand to earn their own way, support their own families and worship their own God, instead of depending for handouts on a welfare state that regulates hardworking individuals out of existence and replaces Christian charity with legal entitlements.

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.»

Pre-cut precision engineered parts and sturdy construction of 3/8» milled clapboard exterior walls.

New York's architecture isn't as flammable as San Francisco's clapboard Victorians, but within 200 years, says Steven Clemants, vice president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, tons of leaf litter would overflow gutters as pioneer weeds gave way to colonizing native oaks and maples in city parks.

On one side is a verdant park, with a gazebo and a children's slide, surrounded by a handful of small, tidy clapboard homes with well - tended lawns.

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

Up in, a group of weary civilians, many dressed in rags and ill - fitting, problem uniforms, waited in anticipation amid their sorry camp of takes and structures made from clapboard and sheets of free dating sites for jamaicans what in tar paper.

... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.

Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.

And I have every one of them from every movie, including the original «Halloween» clapboard.

The second thing I have are the actual clapboards for syncing the film that are at the beginning of every shot in a movie.

Without revealing too much, the film starts to fold in on itself in a Persona - like manner, complete with shifting identities, repeated scenes, and even abstracted glimpses of the film's own clapboards.

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

«Black Mass» gets Boston reasonably right — the brick of the North End versus the clapboards of Southie — although it gets a few things wrong as well: Since when have the FBI's offices been located in City Hall or the Mystic River Bridge been visible from the banks of the Neponset?

Co-director Chris Miller took to Twitter this morning to announce the news, showing off a behind - the - scenes shot of the film's clapboard and a caption that riffs on the classic «Han shot first» Greedo controversy: HanFirstShot pic.twitter.com/KReR6rgKFT — Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) January 30, -LSB-...]

• 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...

Its white clapboard steeple was almost painful to look at against the brilliance of the sky.

In The Half Brother, her second novel after 2010's sensual The Swimming Pool, Holly LeCraw has created an appealing setting in the Abbott School, a campus at the top of a ridge in north Massachusetts where azaleas and cherry blossoms surround the stone and clapboard buildings, and the grass almost shimmers with mist.

With her invisible wolves around her and her daughter gripping her hand, Rin plows through the now - strafing rain to the clapboard box of a clinic and up to its plate - glass front, on which, painted in jaunty gold lettering, are the words Captain Thomas C. Brittall Federal Health Care Center's Pediatrics / U.

The cowboy-esque dirt streets and preserved clapboard buildings of gold rush charmer Dawson City make it a midnight sun must - see.

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

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.

Another part of the room preserves the clapboard of the 1880s, as well as the «Mission Revival» look of the 1930s.

Slowly, the town began to reinvent itself into a destination where visitors could experience old Hawaii town, outfitted with clapboard style buildings and a quaint swinging bridge that connected residents of Hanapepe Valley to the main town.

A 20 - year period of British rule greatly affected the look of St. Augustine today, as the British settlers added wood clapboard second floors to the existing Spanish homes, with balconies overhanging the roads.

«A dream realized by Italian fashion designer, Piergiorgio, this white clapboard inn has a wrap - around verandah adorned with ornamental gingerbread, characteristic of Sosua's glory days in the Victorian era.

American buildings of the Georgian period were very often constructed of wood with clapboards; even columns were made of timber, framed up, and turned on an oversized lathe.

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.

Hilo's bright, handsomely restored clapboard and stucco buildings near the bayfront are home to flower and antique shops, boutiques featuring the creations of local aloha wear designers, exotic ethnic restaurants and fun hole - in - the - wall eateries with favorite Hawaii dishes.

The mix of the white natural stone, clapboard and wooden décor offers a relaxing and tranquil ambiance.

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.

Located in the Inn, the clapboard cottages have lovely views and are within walking distance of the island's shops and restaurants.

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.

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

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.

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

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.