Currently the neighborhood is undergoing a transformation ; many of the original houses dating back over 90 years ago are being torn down and replaced by three-story brick apartment buildings and multi-family condominiums, sometimes referred to as " Fedders Houses " for their distinctive air conditioner sleeves.

Cuba Court, also known as Cuba House, was a house dating from the 1730s and may have been constructed by one George Frazer, a former Governor of Cuba and perhaps to a design of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce, who designed the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin.

On its first floor are four pairs of Corinthian columns and standing on the roof above these are four statues dating from 1792 by Richard Westmacott ; these statues have been moved from the Irish Houses of Parliament.

Houses designed to cope with interruptions in civil services generally incorporate a wood stove, or heat and power from diesel fuel or bottled gas, regardless of their other heating mechanisms.

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

Recent examples of this trend include the conversion of all public transport in the city of Delhi from Diesel engines to CNG engines on the basis of the orders of the Delhi High Court ; the monitoring of forest use by the High Courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that there is no unjustified loss of forest cover ; and the directions mandating the disclosure of assets of electoral candidates for the Houses of Parliament and State Assembly.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

The tensions between the Houses of Plantagenet and Capet climaxed during the so-called Hundred Years ' War ( actually several distinct wars over the period 1337 to 1453 ) when the Plantagenets claimed the throne of France from the Valois.

There is little notable building from the later parts of the 20th century, but major recent additions include the lifeboat station and two new structures for Trinity House ; that organisation's office building, next door to the Old Custom Houses, was completed in 2005.

In 1752, he founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire.

It included two tracks taken from the band's performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970, one each from the Led Zeppelin III and Houses of the Holy sessions, and three from the In Through the Out Door sessions.

At a conference between the two Houses, it was concluded that the Commons should consent to except him from the act of indemnity, the Lords agreeing, on their part, to concur with the other House in petitioning the King, in case of the condemnation of Vane, not to carry the sentence into execution.

Houses are mostly known from Old Babylonian remains at Nippur and Ur.

The Prime Minister, in consultation with the Cabinet, schedules and attends the sessions of the Houses of Parliament and is required to answer the question from the Members of Parliament to them as the in-charge of the portfolios in the capacity as Prime Minister of India.

* Bulstrode Park ( where the Duchess of Portland kept the Vase ) entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses

President Pierce's successors, however, returned to the former procedure of obtaining authorization from both Houses.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá first used the term " Universal House of Justice " to distinguish the supreme body from those local ' Houses of Justice ' to be established in each community, and the secondary ' Houses of Justice ' ( current Bahá ' í national spiritual assemblies ).

* Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes China

On January 20, 2010, MAS relocated from its longtime home in the historic Villard Houses on 457 Madison Avenue to the equally famed Steinway Hall

Houses are often very expensive in tourist villages as there is demand for them as second homes or holiday homes by holiday cottage firms or well-off people who live elsewhere, or who move to a local home from which they commute to work, making them unaffordable for local people.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

The BBC holds that " lobbying " comes from the gathering of Members of Parliament and peers in the hallways ( or lobbies ) of Houses of Parliament before and after parliamentary debates.

The three succeeding houses of English sovereigns from 1399 — the Houses of Lancaster, York and Tudor — were descended from John through Henry Bolingbroke, Joan Beaufort and John Beaufort, respectively.

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

Houses in these areas date from around 1875 until 1949, and are in Late Victorian and Gothic Revival styles.

" These centred around a series of wars waged by the Sindar, the Noldor and the Three Houses of the Edain against the armies of Angband and the evil Men from the East.

Immediately behind the ha-ha and positioned between the two Deer Houses was a building known as the Orangery, which, as its name suggests, originally housed Lords Burlington's orange trees over the cold winter period ( some of these trees were once positioned around the perimeter of the Ionic Temple ).

Houses and businesses quickly sprang up, and small farms appeared around the edges.

He oversaw the building of schools, community centers, youth camps, and " Chabad Houses ", and established contacts with wealthy Jews and government officials around the world.

It is a meticulous recreation of a 40 metre long display which had originally been situated around peace campaigner Brian Haw's protest outside the Houses of Parliament against policies towards Iraq.

The Houses are divided into In-College Houses which are mostly gathered around the central Court and Out-College Houses which are located around the western side of the town.

The event highlighted the poor security methods employed in and around the Houses of Parliament at the time.

Houses around the perimeter of the park were demolished and the land they stood on incorporated into the park.

Only eight continental Houses of Worship have been built around the world A photo of that model can be found in Baha ' i World vol.

Byng accompanied Rowton around the poorest areas of the city and suggested that retired senior soldiers from the rank-and-file be hired to maintain order in the Rowton Houses that Rowton had set up, thus starting a long-lived tradition.

The league was formed in the early 1970s and is based around the Vale of Evesham and surrounding districts It is mostly played in Public Houses, Working Men's Clubs, British Legion Clubs, Social and Recreational Clubs within a 12-15 mile radius of Evesham in Worcestershire.

Dudley's insistence on maintaining two very expensive Government Houses, in Sydney and Melbourne, on travelling around the country in vice-regal pomp, and on chartering a steam-yacht to circumnavigate the continent, infuriated Fisher, a frugal Scottish socialist.

State Opening of Parliament takes place annually around the autumn at the Houses of Parliament.

I frequently entertained them ( the Wada wurrung ), when sitting around the campfires, with accounts of the English People, Houses, Ships – great guns etc.

Ronald McDonald's Houses provide over 7, 200 bedrooms to families around the world each night, with an estimated value of $ 257 million in lieu of hotel costs.

Various sources state that Sinan was the architect of around 360 structures which included 84 mosques, 51 small mosques (" mescit "), 57 schools of theology (" medrese ") 7 schools for Koran reciters (" darülkurra "), 22 mausoleums (" türbe "), 17 Alm Houses (" imaret "), 3 hospitals (" darüşşifa "), 7 aqueducts and arches, 48 inns (" caravansary "), 35 palaces and mansions, 8 vaults and 46 baths.

The Field Houses provide accommodation in grand buildings which were purpose-built ( mostly around the time of Sanderson ) and are located slightly further from the town among the sports pitches and the school's other recreational facilities.

On 2 June 1780 he headed a crowd of around 50, 000 people that marched in procession from St George's Fields to the Houses of Parliament in order to present a huge petition against ( partial ) Catholic Emancipation.