Some architects specialize as building code, building envelope, sustainable design, technical writing, historic preservation ( US ) or conservation ( UK ), accessibility and other forms of specialist consultants.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.

* Ceres School, a historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York.

To support the intended process of nation building even further, a vague myth of some common Germanic original language developed, and German dialectology began to name dialect groups after presumed and real groups of historic tribes having existed from BC to about 600 AD, from which they were assumed to have descended.

The world class, multi-story MONA gallery built directly underneath an historic Sir Roy Grounds building, over looks the majestic Derwent River.

* Quincy Market, a historic building in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace shopping center in Boston, Massachusetts

* Rhea County Courthouse, historic building in Tennessee

Entrance to the historic building of the École Polytechnique

Modeled after recent successes in downtown ballpark building ( such as San Francisco's AT & T Park ), and incorporating San Diego history in the form of the preservation of the facade of the historic Western Metals Company building ( now the left-field corner, the corner of the building substituting for the left field foul pole ), the new Petco Park is a sharp contrast to their previous home at Qualcomm ( Jack Murphy ) Stadium which was a cookie-cutter type football-baseball facility located in an outer, mostly commercial-industrial, area of the city near an interstate interchange.

The reconstruction of these buildings and also building monuments to the some most famous historic peoples of Macedonia are part of the project Skopje 2014, which should be completely over in the year of 2015.

Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.

The 19-storey Flinders Street building overlooks Melbourne's historic Flinders Street Station, the Yarra River and the Southbank precinct.

The ULC Headquarters holds weekly church services in a historic church building in Modesto.

A historic house may be a building of special architectural interest, the birthplace or home of a famous person, or a house with an interesting history.

* Purcell Miller Tritton, an award-winning practice of architects, designers and historic building consultants, founded in 1947

Not only may the building itself be architecturally significant, but the church often houses treasures such as stained glass, stone and wood statues, historic tombs, richly carved furniture and objects of both artistic and religious significance such as reliquaries.

The historic Omaha Star building along North 24th Street, listed on the National Register of Historic Places | NRHP

The historic National Academy of Sciences building is located at 2101 Constitution Avenue, in northwest Washington, DC ; it sits on the National Mall, adjacent to the Federal Reserve and in front of the State Department.

In June 2012, it reopened to visitors after a major two-year restoration project which restored and improved the building ’ s historic spaces, increased accessibility, and brought the building's aging infrastructure and facilities up to date.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.

Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

* Article on Aachen's historic buildings

A scholarly consensus has not yet been reached on the origin of the historic Achaeans relative to the Homeric Achaeans, and is still hotly debated.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

The historic centre of Aalen and the other areas in the Kocher valley are founded completely on holocenic floodplain loam ( Auelehm ) and riverbed gravel that have filled in the valley.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

It is based primarily on statistics and is particularly apt for prehistoric sites where the social evidence is relatively scant compared to the historic period.

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

A cheap way to explore the Bosphorus is offered by the public ferries that traverse the Bosphorus from Eminönü ( ferries dock at the Boğaz İskelesi ) on the historic peninsula of Istanbul to Anadolu Kavağı near the Black Sea, zigzagging between the Rumelian and Anatolian sides of the city.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as " an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble " of the 18th century.

The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association's ( BHRA ) shop, trolley barn and offices are located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers ( circa 1870 ).

The making of a historic bandy ball, from the original cork on the left to the final ball painted red.

No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.

The Bacardi legacy lives on in Santiago and Havana through its grand buildings and its historic significance.

Some collectors focus on coins of a certain nation or historic period.