A grant of £ 300, 000 was made by English Heritage in 2006 to restore the hall's facade.

The French name is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l ' Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium ; in an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the Marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes.

The outstanding characteristics of his houses are his use of beautiful golden sandstone, Corinthian or Ionic pillared entrance porticos, elegant staircases with beautiful ironwork balustrades leading to an upper gallery with an iron balustrade of the same design, and the hall's having a domed ceiling and glass centrepiece.

The hall's acoustical sound was exactly what I wanted to recapture: the same kind of ambience that lent such character to Bill Russell ’ s 1940 ’ s American Music recordings from San Jacinto Hall.

In addition the dining hall's hours were extended to include the 9pm-12am period, a time referred to as " Late Night " by students.

In the music hall's casts were some of the greatest performers and comics on the American stage at that time, including Lillian Russell, Ross and Fenton, Fay Templeton, and DeWolf Hopper.

Despite the fact that many of the dates and figures of Oxford's medieval and early life are imprecise, Blackfriars ' history is unusually well documented, largely as a result of the hall being part of an international fraternity of scholarship, which was able to monitor and document its fortunes, even during times of the hall's collapse.

The first documentary reference to a London Guildhall is dated 1128 and the current hall's west crypt may be part of a late-13th century building.

However, in 1865, two years after moving in, the prince found the hall's size insufficient for his needs, and he commissioned A. J. Humbert to raze the hall and create a larger building.

Examples of cost-cutting measures employed during the construction of the building include the use of plasterboard to mimic concrete on the banking hall's ceiling and the use of an alternative metal to bronze for the banking hall doors.

The great hall influenced the design of Bolton and Raby castles, while the hall's roof design became famous and was copied at Arundel Castle and Westminster Hall.

Heusden was literally decimated, as one tenth of the town's population died that night in the town hall's cellar.

That claim is repeated in the hall's official guidebook, which goes on to suggest that it was created in the hope that Queen Elizabeth I would visit the hall on her royal progress, but she never did so.

The facade of the town hall was redesigned 150 years ago and the highly elaborate entrance door, made of wood and copper, is the town hall's most outstanding feature.

The hall's operating budget for the 2008 – 2009 season was $ 84 million.

The hall's employee who oversees props was paid $ 530, 000 in salary and benefits during the fiscal year that ended in June 2008.

The hall's Irish Catholic base enabled the magazine to rationalize more completely its conviction that the Catholic Church, ruled by a foreign potentate dressed in the irrational garb of infallibility, was a menace not only to the nation's body politic but also to its democratic soul.

It replaced the hall's first organ, built in 1900 by George S. Hutchings of Boston, which was electrically keyed, with 62 ranks of nearly 4, 000 pipes set in a chamber 12 feet deep and 40 feet high.

Symphony Hall's acoustic, widely considered one of the finest in the world, was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin, ( who together formed the Convention Centre Partnership for the ICC ) with specialist help from Russell Johnson of Artec Consultants Inc .. A particularly innovative feature is the hall's acoustic flexibility.

In 2001, a 6000-pipe symphony organ was installed, designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn and specially tailored to the hall's reverberation chambers.

He was the first to build and own cinema hall's in Madras.

In the sessions, 33 microphones placed around the orchestra captured the music which was transferred onto eight optical recording machines located in the hall's basement.

The hall is reputedly haunted by a Green Lady ; believed to be the daughter of a former owner who drowned herself in the hall's lake when her Roundhead lover was killed.

These two ensembles raised the standards of orchestral playing in London to new heights, and the hall's resident orchestra, founded in 1893, was eclipsed and it disbanded in 1930.

The third was to provide the hall with a keg of beer of the hall's choice.

The Brandlings appointed John Blenkinsop to manage their collieries in Middleton and he was the hall's occupant in 1809.

While initial reaction to the improvements was favorable, overall feelings about the new hall's sound soured, and the acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall continued to be problematic.

As the floor of the exchange was unable to take the weight of the theatre and its audience, the module is suspended from the four columns carrying the hall's central dome.

On 9 February 2010, she was presented with The Wigmore Hall Medal by HRH The Duke of Kent KG, at the launch of the hall's 110th anniversary programme.

The hall's debut concert was on June 14, 1894.

The hall's interior decor was also inspired by acoustic design: hardwood floors to absorb sounds, and textured walls made from plastered gypsum to reflect sound ( De Santis, 2008 ).

The city hall's coat of arms, by decree, was granted to promote “ My Loyal City of Horta ” by King Luis I on May 3, 1865.

In 2007, the village transferred its offices and the police department from its location at North Main Street, primarily to address the old village hall's limited space and failure to meet mandated handicapped-accessibility requirements.

The tradition of Promming remains an important aspect of the festival, with over 1000 standing places available for each concert, either in the central arena ( rather like the groundlings in the pit at Shakespeare's Globe ) or high in the hall's gallery.

In keeping with Zen's Mahayana tradition, the iconography in various buildings is an array of potential confusion for newcomers: at the Sanmon are four kings standing guard named Shitenno ; the Buddha hall's main altar has three statues of Buddhas past, present and future ; the Hatto displays Kannon the bodhisattva of compassion, and four white lions ( called the a-un no shishi ); the Yokusitsu has Baddabara ; the Sanshokaku has a statue of Hotei ; and the Tosu displays Ucchusma.

The opening week of concerts included performances by a specially-invited list of guest orchestras ( Boston, Philadelphia, and Cleveland ), who were regularly appearing at Carnegie Hall each season, as well as the new hall's home ensemble.

The historic depth of American pool halls and their subculture was touched on in The Color of Money in various ways, including dialogue extolling the virtues of particular landmark venues, the disappointment at discovering one such hall's closure, a comment that regulars at a well-known hall " never leave the street " it is on, and the return of a pool hall janitor in The Hustler as a hall owner decades later in the sequel.

* From the city's main plaza a skeleton is readily visible at the top of the town hall's tower.

The original Swithland Hall, which stood at the eastern end of the village as it is today, on the site now occupied by Hall Farm, was destroyed by fire in 1822, although part of the hall's boundary wall, including two towers are still in existence, both of which are on Main Street.

It has been theorized that the famous rich " Philadelphia Sound " of the hall's orchestra was, at least in part, the result of an effort by its music directors to compensate for this weakness.

The city hall's bell tower, at 353 feet ( 108 m ), also made it the second tallest structure in the nation, behind the Washington Monument.

The oculus at the top of the hall's dome