For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

That summer the gambling houses were closed, despite the threats of Pierre Ameaux, a gaming-card manufacturer.

Suppose the lines in front of the movie houses were too long and we couldn't get in??

Only eight of the 50 houses were completed at the time of the editor's visit on June 8th ; ;

Sample units ( villages in rural areas, houses in cities ) were drawn systematically within these strata.

The structured schools were in an industrial city, with three-family tenement houses typical of the residential areas, but with one rather sizable section of middle-class homes.

There were three houses in Salyer's Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff, the road winding along the top, entering above, and then passing down in front of the houses, thence to the Vermejo.

The ten or more dangerous parties singled out for prosecution were still at large, and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe houses, defending themselves through loopholes, it would be most difficult to capture them.

The sewer on Bonnet Street was constructed when there were only a few houses on the street.

Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

And not one single dwelling left there, though once, in the early eighteenth century, there were close to a hundred houses.

The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

In addition, houses for public officials and missionaries, and outstations for police and surveyors were also constructed during Gawler's governorship.

The city exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat by the time Grey left in 1845, contrasting with a low point in 1842 when one-third of Adelaide houses were abandoned.

They were arranged in lines like the tents in an encampment, or the houses in a street.

Under the heading of " places ," his class explores where texts were made, read, and listened to, including monasteries, schools and universities, offices of the state, the shops of merchants and booksellers, printing houses, theaters, libraries, studies, and closets.

Ultimately, only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudí.

Roadways around the park to service the intended houses were designed by Gaudí as structures jutting out from the steep hillside or running on viaducts, with separate footpaths in arcades formed under these structures.

The archaeology, however, shows that they were largely Romanized, lived in Roman-style houses and used Roman artifacts, the Alemannic women having adopted the Roman fashion of the tunic even earlier than the men.

His main policies were concerned with avoiding the development of great noble houses, kingdoms inside the kingdom, and concentrating power in the person of the king.

In 1589 Pope Sixtus V united to the Congregation of St Ambrose the monasteries of a group known as the " Brothers of the Apostles of the Poor Life " ( or " Apostolini " or " Brothers of St. Barnabas "), whose houses were in the province of Genoa and in the March of Ancona.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

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.

After 1965 most parts of the preserved old town with its precious town houses were demolished, the historical layout was abolished, and the city was rebuilt in modern forms.

The Rosetta Stone was transferred to the sculpture gallery in 1834 shortly after Montagu House was demolished and replaced by the building that now houses the British Museum.

* 10 January-11: The Israeli army demolished 59 houses and damaged another 200 in Rafah refugee camp.

The wooden one to two-story houses that were the dominant mode of building in the city were mostly demolished in the 50 ´ s and 60 ´ s to both enable more efficient building and to ease car traffic.

According to United Nations observers ; bullet-riddled bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet hits on the doors of the demolished houses indicated that the inhabitants may have remained inside until their homes were blown up over them.

The houses on the west side of the street were demolished in the nineteenth century to make way for government offices, now occupied by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The houses between Number 10 and Whitehall were taken over by the government and demolished in 1824 to allow the construction of the Privy Council Office, Board of Trade and Treasury offices.

15-16 Downing Street, long since demolished, formerly held the Foreign Office, which also occupied two houses on the west side of the street.

* Old Burlington Street, London: houses, including one for General Wade: 1723 ( demolished ).

The line itself and the station have since been demolished and replaced with houses ; however it is possible to walk the approximate route.

To begin the construction, the bishop had several houses demolished and had a new road built in order to transport materials for the rest of the cathedral.

Jarrah has become more highly prized, and supports an industry that recycles it from demolished houses.

While relatively few houses were demolished in the years before the Intifada, Israelis believed that house demolitions had " deterrent value ".

Most of the houses in Edensor were demolished, and the village was rebuilt out of sight of the house.

Presently, short stretches of degraded perimeter wall still exist, but take some time to find because they are covered by houses or buildings, or partially demolished to less than a meter in height.

UN observers noted that they saw bodies near doorways, and bullet hits on the doors of demolished houses, and concluded that residents may have been forced to stay in their homes due to heavy fire.

Many of their grand houses had been demolished by the middle of the 20th century, though a number remain around the Common and in the Old Town, as do a substantial number of fine late 18th and early 19th century houses.

Pursuant to an Order of the High Court obtained by the Council in 2005, 21 of the houses were demolished after the squatters were evicted from those houses ; the Rastafari temple was subsequently demolished in 2007.

The stables of the old Keston Lodge remained until the late 1970s when they too were demolished to make way for three new houses in Forest Ridge.