The residents had used the marble columns and structures as support beams and roofs for their improvised houses, a usual way of rebuilding towns that were partially or totally destroyed, especially after the earthquake in 1580, which demolished several towns in Phocis.

The Kerameikos Mouseum is housed there, in a small neoclassical building that houses the most extensive collection of burial-related artifacts in Greece, varying from large-scale marble sculpture to funerary urns, stelae, jewelry, toys etc.

Westminster Abbey houses a white marble tablet in memory of Young bearing the epitaph by Hudson Gurney:

* Roman artists begin attempting to produce the illusion of thin slabs of colored marble covering the walls, which are set off by actual architectural moldings and columns, in private houses.

:" numberless buildings erected in the very water, for the bed of the lake in this part is rock ; and they have built pleasure houses that are supported on columns of marble, rising up out of the water.

The interior of the upper reading-room houses a six foot marble statue of John Radcliffe, carved by John Michael Rysbrack.

The temple also houses a relief map of India, carved out of marble.

" In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory ; and it was filled with trees and with fountains, and its gates were wrought of mithril and steel, and its streets were paved with white marble ; and the Folk of the Mountain laboured in it, and the Folk of the Wood rejoiced to come there ; and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and no window was blind nor any courtyard empty ; and after the ending of the Third Age of the world into the new age it preserved the memory and the glory of the years that were gone ".

It houses, besides the tomb of Paolo Rucellai ( 15th century ) and the marble statue of the Madonna and the Child by Nino Pisano, several art treasures such as remains of frescoes by the Maestro di Santa Cecilia ( end 13th-beginning 14th century ).

Named for its outside cover of black marble and glass, it houses a concert hall in addition to the library.

The Hall of Busts houses marble busts of the many Presidents of Argentina, made by diverse artists both national and international.

It is well known for its houses, embellished with marble and Burma teak, wide courtyards, spacious rooms, and for its 18th century mansions.

Chettinad is rich in cultural heritage, art and architecture, and is well known for its houses, embellished with marble and Burma teak, wide courtyards, spacious rooms, and for its 18th century mansions.

The last park area houses the Smarak or martyr monument which is a white marble tower that cradles a pink lotus atop it.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica noted that, in Kalgan, " the ordinary houses have an unusual appearance, from the fact that they are mostly roofed with earth and become covered with green-sward " and that " on the way to Peking the road passes over a beautiful bridge of seven arches, ornamented with marble figures of animals ".

There is no entrance except by stone bridges, one of the two of which has 14 arches, and the other 8 ... for the most part the houses are of square stone of black marble and built in the form of towers and fortresses.

It houses the sepulchre of Cristoforo Caetani, a marble bishop cathedra and Cosmatesque pulpit from the 13th century, an Annunciation Tryptych by Cristoforo Scacco and Majesty with St. Peter and St. Paul by Antoniazzo Romano.

It houses various works of art, notably a large Saint Michael painting above the marble main altar, a recumbent sculpture Christ ( 18th century ) known as the ”’’’ Christ of the Galleys ’’’” and a polychrome wooden statue of San Rocco.

There is no entrance except by stone bridges, one of the two of which has 14 arches, and the other 8 ... for the most part the houses are of square stone of black marble and built in the form of towers and fortresses.

In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room, long gallery, or hall may double as a ballroom, but a good ballroom should have the right type of flooring, such as hardwood flooring or stone flooring ( usually marble ).

Kashan today houses most of Iran's mechanized carpet-weaving factories, and has an active marble and copper mining industry.

Khalili spent three years and more than £ 20 million turning the two houses into one, building a swimming pool and indulging in his taste for marble floors and pillars ( with marble from the same quarry as that used for the Taj Mahal ).

The dargah complex also houses graves of later Mughal emperors, Bahadur Shah I, Shah Alam II, and Akbar II, in an adjacent marble enclosure.

* A statue of him was installed in front of one of the houses which Bartók owned in the hills above Budapest.

Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.

A statue of George dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the building that houses the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Mining Institute, and near to Newcastle railway station.

The Lhakhang houses a statue of Chenresig in a manifested form of 11 heads and thousand arms.

As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.

It houses a precious wooden statue of the Incoronata from 1334.

He scared away demons from houses, so his statue was put up as a protector.

Today, the site of the battle houses a small visitor center and the recently authorized River Raisin National Battlefield Park. George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument | Custer ’ s statue, unveiled in 1910, now sits at the corner of Elm Street and M-125 ( Michigan highway ) | Monroe Street.

A specially constructed building in the College, the Shelley Memorial, houses a statue by Edward Onslow Ford of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley — a former member of the college, who was expelled for writing The Necessity of Atheism — depicted lying dead on the Italian seashore.

The local church, built in 1496, houses the statue.

The village features 18th-century houses and artisans ' workshops ; a life-size statue of Voltaire ; a smaller bust of him, surmounting a fountain ; many restaurants, French and foreign ; and proximity to the nearby cosmopolitan city of Geneva, Switzerland.

The pedestal of the Voltaire statue, erected in 1890, dedicates that memorial to the town's " benefactor ," noting that he built over a hundred houses for the inhabitants, as well as a school and church, gave the town interest-free loans, and fed its inhabitants in time of need.

The main building is the central ubosoth, which houses the statue of Emerald Buddha.

In July 2008, a statue of him was erected at Luce Hall at the U. S. Naval Academy ; the hall also houses the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership.

The Musée de l ' Ephèbe houses the bronze nude statue known as " l ' Ephèbe d ' Agde " (" the Youth of Agde ").

As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.

It houses the statue of Thongdee, the father of King Rama I and a Buddha footprint.

A swallow meets the statue of the late " Happy Prince ", which houses the soul of the original prince, who in reality had never experienced true happiness.

Commissioned by the Queen of Thailand, Wat Huay Mongkol houses the largest statue of Luang Phor Thuat in Thailand in a park-like setting.

Its Great Buddha Hall ( 大仏殿 Daibutsuden ), houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu ( 大仏 ).

Some houses were marked with a statue of an African-American man holding a lantern, called " the Lantern Holder ".

The main hall of Seokguram houses a Bojon statue Bodhisattva and his disciples.