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This location is across the state from the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall, a natural geological formation which afforded outlaws much welcomed protection and cover, so it is possible that Parker's ranching, at which he was never economically successful, was in fact a façade for clandestine activities, perhaps with Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws.
* Motörhead recorded their 25th Anniversary concert on 20 October 2000 at Brixton Academy entitled 25 & Alive Boneshaker, released as DVD music video in 2001 and as an audio album later in 2003 under the Live at Brixton Academy title, the latter featuring the façade of Carling Academy Brixton on the cover.
The wall paintings cover both the walls and the ceiling entirely, as well as the western façade.
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque is famous for its large quantities of exquisite İznik tiles, set in a very wide variety of beautiful floral and geometric designs, which cover not only the façade of the porch but also the mihrab, minbar, walls, columns and on the façade of the porch outside.
In 1927, to cover upkeep costs, the church permitted a commercial building to be built in front of its Sainte Catherine Street façade.

façade and sculpted
As well as their basic functions of controlling access to the interior, portals were the main locations for sculpted images on the gothic cathedral and it was on the west façade at Chartres that this practice began to develop into a visual summa or encyclopedia of theological knowledge.
Less obvious than the jamb statues but far more intricately carved is the frieze that stretches all across the façade in the sculpted capitals on top of the jamb columns.
There is a full-size sculpted figure of Thomas Chippendale on the façade of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The façade has a large marble portal in Baroque style, sculpted by Carlo Finelli and surmounted by a bas-relief with the " Madonna and the Souls of the Purgatory ".
After the completion of Michael Square, two sculpted fountains were installed on its façade: Power at Sea by Rudolf Weyr and Power on Land by Edmund Hellmer.
The west façade is divided in three parts and has three portals, the central one sculpted with vegetables motifs and scenes from the Old Testament, four mullioned windows and a rose window flanked by sculptures of animals supported by small columns.
Featuring seven statues of saints set into niches on its massive façade, the interior is painted with an original mud-based paint that is still visible centuries later, as well as a sculpted and gilded altar.
The façade has a main portal sculpted by Antonio Pilacorte, a late 15th century rose window and a 17th century portico.
The façade has blind arcades and a baldachin portal with sculpted frames.

façade and stone
Also, a special stone to commemorate Fulham 2000 and The Cottagers return to ' The Cottage ' was engraved on the façade.
Additionally, there has been a trend in recent years to add modern wings and façades to historic buildings, the most prominent example of which is the Bucharest Architects ' Association Building, which is a modern glass-and-steel construction built inside a historic stone façade.
Under master stone carvers Simon Verity and Jean Claude Marchionni, work on the statuary of the central portal of the Cathedral's western façade was completed in 1997.
* The church of Santo Stefano, built from 1286, but with a Renaissance stone façade added in 1586.
The interior of the amphitheatre was extensively stripped of stone, which was reused elsewhere, or ( in the case of the marble façade ) was burned to make quicklime.
The Stone-Cone Temple, named for the mosaic of colored stone cones driven into the adobe brick façade, may be the earliest water cult in Mesopotamia.
The main façade, built from red brick and Portland stone, stretches along Cromwell Gardens and was designed by Aston Webb after winning a competition in 1891 to extend the museum.
Chiswick Villa is built of brick and its façade fronted with Portland stone with a small amount of stucco.
The building was grand and the façade consisted of stone mined from Bath, Somerset.
The station entrance and exit sections of the street façade were constructed in granite and the other parts were built in the same style but using Portland stone.
Only the entry façade exhibits the typical late-19th-century ornamentation, while the remainder of the exterior is modest and shows mostly undecorated brick stone.
The main façade of the building faces Raoul Wallenberg Place ( 15th St ), the Tidal Basin, and the Jefferson Memorial, with stone columns spanning the length of the building's front.
Each block was required to be designed with a continuous unifying façade to the street, had to be finished in Portland stone, and with a uniform cornice level 66 feet above pavement level, excluding dormers, turrets and mansard roofs.
The foundation stone, laid by his wife Helen in 1888, can still be seen on the façade of the theatre, almost at ground level to the right of the entrance.
The façade, in Veronese pink marble and gilted stone, is horizontally parted by a gallery that dominates the three gates, decorated with capitals and Romanic statues.
The ruins now consist of the southern stone façade — intricately carved between 1620 and 1627 by Japanese Christians in exile from their homeland and local craftsmen under the direction of Italian Jesuit Carlo Spinola — and the crypts of the Jesuits who established and maintained the Cathedral.
The façade sits on a small hill, with 66 stone steps leading up to it.
After a lengthy controversy on the best conservation / restoration approach, the terrace was reinstated in 2005 with a traditional stone façade.
This structure is an adobe and stone mansion with a flat red façade with Moorish style decorative features.
The southern façade is facing the grand-style slope Slottsbacken ; the eastern façade is bordering Skeppsbron, an impressive quay passing along the eastern waterfront of the old town ; on the northern front is Lejonbacken, a system of ramps named after the Medici lions sculptures on the stone railings ; and the western wings border the open space Högvaktsterrassen.
Originally pierced stone screens faced the façade, and probably sub-divided the interior as well, suggesting it was built for the ladies of the court.
The façade of the building is covered in blue tinted windows and white stone cladding.
The focal point of the structure is at the south façade, where the stone tower at the center of the composition contains the main entrance of the college.

façade and only
Initially, civil aviation schools within Germany were used, yet only light trainers could be used in order to maintain the façade that the trainees were going to fly with civil airlines such as Deutsche Luft Hansa.
The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the " Vow of Louis XIII ", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques ( 14th and 15th centuries ), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style.
He also persuaded Fortnum to donate £ 10, 000 to build the extensive rooms behind the impressive façade, buildings which have only recently been demolished to make way for the new Ashmolean Museum.
* Cathedral of Pavia ( Duomo di Pavia ), begun in 1488 ; however, only by 1898 were the façade and the dome completed according to the original design.
However some German cathedrals have only one tower located in the middle of the façade ( such as Freiburg Münster ).
In each façade the central portal is particularly large and was only used for special ceremonies, while the smaller side portals allowed everyday access for the different communities that used the cathedral
A fire destroyed most of the building in May 1970 and only the façade remained, but it was completely rebuilt in 1978.
The wall is interrupted by 14 doors, however only one entrance, in the south corner of the east façade, is functional for the living.
Mosaics about St Mark relics ’ stories are in the lunettes of the lateral portals ; the first on the left is the only one in the façade preserved from the 13th century.
This original façade was only completed in its lower portion and then left unfinished.
Even though this reimbursement was never paid, it still meant that finally, within only seven years, the Cathedral had its façade completed.
From the old building only the façade, the entrance hall and the foyer ( Mirrors Hall ) remained.
* Plaques can only be erected on the actual building inhabited by a figure, not the site where the building once stood ( but in exceptional circumstances they may be put onto reconstructed buildings which have exactly the same façade on the identical site );
40 cm thick, traverse the structure, not only as a form of decoration, but also strengthening the cohesion of the structure by bonding the stone façade with the mortar core, and increasing endurance to earthquakes.
The interior of the building was gutted, and converted into a shopping arcade, preserving only the 1885 façade and the outer walls and roof.
It has two columns on the façade, only one of which is decorated, though only partially.
It was in connection with intensive studies of the Gulf Stream that the ship George S. Blake became such a pioneer in oceanography that she is one of only two U. S. ships with her name inscribed in the façade of the Oceanographic Museum ( Musée Océanographique ), Monaco due to its being " the most innovative oceanographic vessel of the Nineteenth Century " with development of deep ocean exploration through introduction of steel cable for sounding, dredging and deep anchoring and data collection for the " first truly modern bathymetric map of a deep sea area.
However, fortifications were not the only consideration for the new mansion — dark brick diapering and decorative mouldings add variety to the façade.
A façade that he had begun, and of which only the lower register can be seen, was partially obscured by the addition of a porch.
Since modern dictionaries are mostly descriptive and no longer prescribe outdated forms, they increasingly list unaccented forms, though in some cases the only correct English spelling ( as given by the OED and other dictionaries ) requires the diacritic ( e. g.,: wikt: soupçon,: wikt: façade ).
Of the temple of Aesculapius only one column is standing, though in the middle of the 19th century its façade was entire.
The only visible reminders of Rich's are the Great Tree, and the façade of the original ( 1924 ) part of the Rich's building, now attached to the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Building via another four-story bridge where the Crystal Bridge was.
Worse still, Clara, his social-climbing wife, seems only to care about nagging him and presenting a respectable façade.

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