It was an old and dirty wooden structure, sadly in need of repair.

Constantino Brumidi designed the decorative scheme as a whole, in collaboration with the architect Charles U. Walter, at the time when plans were being made to replace the wooden dome of Bullfinch with the present much larger iron structure.

Due to parts of the structure being wooden, there was a historic no-smoking policy in this part of the ground, and indeed now the whole ground with national laws.

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

The wooden structure built in 1892 to house the immigration station burned down after five years.

In fiberglass or composite hulls, the structure may resemble wooden or steel vessels to some extent, or be of a monocoque arrangement.

The first Juneau Avenue plant was a single-story wooden structure.

The first grandstand at the MCG was the original wooden members ’ stand built in 1854, while the first public grandstand was a 200-metre long 6000-seat temporary structure built in 1861.

While the wooden structure of the Mary Rose and the individual artifacts have been undergoing conservation since their recovery, the Holland 1 provides an example of a relatively recent ( metal ) wreck for which extensive conservation has been necessary to preserve the hull.

* Elbauenpark containing the highest wooden structure in Germany.

( 1. 5 to 1. 75 m ), the rest of the road, above the Danube, was made from wooden structure, projecting out of the cliff.

* 1250 – The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.

* The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.

The original church, a wooden structure known as Church of Eastchester, was built in 1695.

The Halifax Gibbet was a monolithic wooden structure consisting of two wooden uprights, capped by a horizontal beam, of a total height of 15 feet.

The cars were initially successful in the marketplace, but soon competitors ( who were still using a wooden structure for their bodies ), introduced new body designs.

The building is a wooden gothic revival structure, rectangular with a square bell tower with trefoil window.

It is built as a three storied structure with rammed mud walls and wooden doors, windows and roof covered with slates.

The first recorded church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria.

The bridge ’ s structure on the other hand, rests on a practical system of wooden poles.

The whole unit was pivoted so that assistants outside could pitch and roll the device in accordance with the pilot's use of the wheels, using long wooden rods attached to the barrel structure.

Described in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia papers of 1796 as a “ two-story wooden structure w / addition & a cellar floored in stone w / kitchen ”, Violet Bank originally fit an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of the late colonial Tidewater Virginia.

In Syriac Church usage, a consecrated wooden block called a thabilitho is kept for the same reasons.

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops ( often called " wickets " in the United States ) embedded in a grass playing court.

He made a wooden frame with carved reliefs for the large painting Metabolism ( 1898 ), initially called Adam and Eve.

The item, originally called a " Tourney Horse ", was made of a wooden or basketwork frame and was designed to mimic a real horse, with a fake tail and head, for church and civic occasions.

The game was played with a wooden curved bat ( called Colf or Kolf ) and a ball made of wood or leather between two poles or simply convenient nearby landmarks, with the object hitting the chosen point with the least number of strokes.

There are two types of incunabula in printing: the Block book printed from a single carved or sculpted wooden block for each page, by the same process as the woodcut in art ( these may be called xylographic ), and the typographic book, made with individual pieces of cast metal movable type on a printing press.

The disastrous failure of glass panels on the John Hancock Tower | Hancock Tower demanded the use of huge wood panels ; some called it " the world's tallest wooden building ".

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

The mast was supported by a large wooden maststep called a kerling (" Old Woman " in Old Norse ) that was semicircular in shape.

The lower part of the stay was about 500-800 mmm long and attached to a combined flat wooden turnblock and multi V jamb cleat called an angel ( maiden, virgin ).

From this, the mandolino ( a small cat gut-strung mandola with six strings tuned g b e ' a'd g sometimes called the Baroque mandolin or cat-banjo and played with a quill, wooden plectrum or finger-style ) was developed in several places in Italy.

During his rule, a big wooden house was built out of one single tree which was called ' Kasthamandapa ', from which the name of the capital, ' Kathmandu ', is derived.

Olive was one of the woods used to fashion the most primitive Greek cult figures, called xoana, referring to their wooden material ; they were reverently preserved for centuries.

The player's breath is compressed into a linear airstream by a channel cut into the wooden " block " or fipple ( A ), in the mouthpiece of the instrument, so as to travel along this channeled duct ( B ) called the " windway ".

Following the Japan 2001 festival, Kew acquired a Japanese wooden house called a minka.

* That it derives from the late 19th-century French slang use of the word sabot to describe an unskilled worker, so called due to their wooden clogs or sabots ; sabotage was used to describe the poor quality work which such workers turned out.

Japanese blades, however, typically have their sharp cutting edge protected by a wooden scabbard called a saya.

In 1961, a volcanic eruption forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to wooden huts in the disused Pendell Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England, before moving to a more permanent site at a former Royal Air Force station in Calshot near Southampton, England, living mainly in a road called Tristan Close.

The name " slapstick " comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the " slap stick " in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in commedia dell ' arte.

The Ancient Greek hoplites used a round, bowl-shaped wooden shield called an aspis.

Zulu warriors carried large lightweight shields made from a single ox hide supported by a wooden spine, these were called Ishlangu.

The first is the Norway pavilion, a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church which is now preserved at a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

Images — usually resembling a visually complex scenario — are carved unto a wooden surface called cukilan, then smothered with printer's ink before pressing it unto media such as paper or canvas.

Afterward, the skeleton and head were preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet called the " Auto-icon ", with the skeleton padded out with hay and dressed in Bentham's clothes.

When prepared manually, this is done using wooden boards called scotch hands.