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All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.
The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone.
), to the massive and imposing stone archways and thick wooden doors most associated with medieval citadels.
At six feet, two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and 210 pounds ( 95 kg ; 15 stone ), Forrest was physically imposing and intimidating, especially compared to the average height of men at the time.
Among them was the Campbell family of " Duntroon "; their imposing stone house is now the officers ' mess of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
It was still an imposing set of ruins in the 12th century but soon became a little more than an expanse of low ruins and scattered stone.
There are less than one dozen houses that claim a Ringling Road address ; but those houses range from a small, stone cottage to large, imposing mansions.
The school was kept in two buildings, one the large two-story stone structure erected in 1868, and having an imposing appearance with its twin towers.
When the 1925 Earthquake destroyed Dibblee's imposing stone mansion, Punta Del Castillo, on the cliff overlooking the harbor, land was available, and, by 1932, it had been purchased for the college.
Statues of the latter had been smashed and the pieces thrown into the foundations ; fragments of couchant stone jackals, which must have once formed an imposing avenue approaching the pylon, and broken drums gave some idea of the splendour of the original temple.
This wooden structure was replaced by a far more defensible stone castle during the reign of Henry II, and was imposing and of a complex architectural design, which eventually comprised an upper bailey at the highest point of the castle rock, a middle bailey to the north which contained the main royal apartments, and a large outer bailey to the east.
The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1906 and replaced by the Horticultural Building, an additional imposing structure of brick and stone.
Port St Mary Town Hall is an imposing stone building situated on the village's Victorian promenade at the upper end of the village and houses local government offices and a tourist information point.
There are inscriptions and imposing stone carved figures inside the stone mantapa.
The house, which is entirely faced with cut granite and has an imposing stone portico, was occupied in the eighteenth century by Edward Hudson, an eminent dentist.
An example of this is the officers ' mess, known as ' Duntroon House ', which is an imposing stone building, that was actually built as the Campbell family's house before the land was purchased by the Crown.
Several imposing stone residences ( Curias ) built by wealthy canons during the 14th century survive to this day in the old part of the town.
For example, Oxford and Cambridge Streets are dominated by imposing red-brick factories and warehouses, formerly occupied by the Foy and Gibson company, but also feature a number of stone, brick and timber dwellings that date back to the earliest days of the suburb.
After his death, the Meskwaki built a log crypt for Dubuque ; which was replaced in the late 19th century by an imposing stone monument.
Houses in Penarth vary from imposing three storey red brick Victorian houses found on both Plymouth and Westbourne Roads to compact stone terraces in Cogan and upper Penarth.
On Tenley Circle itself is St. Ann's Catholic Church, a large imposing stone church which serves area Catholics.
Half a mile of stone quays were built along the river front, and the railway line was extended to the steamer pier opposite Queen's Terrace, where the imposing new railway station was built in 1883.
The imposing local stone structure, fronted at the top with the Rockefeller emblem, is centrally located in an inner sanctum of about, referred to as the " Park ", in the expansive Rockefeller family estate.

imposing and structures
He built the Gate of all Nations and the Hall of a Hundred Columns at Persepolis, which are the largest and most imposing structures of the palace.
The use of vaults and arches, together with a sound knowledge of building materials, enabled them to achieve unprecedented successes in the construction of imposing structures for public use.
Developing as small shrines with the earliest settlements, by the Early Dynastic I period, they had become the most imposing structures in their respective cities, each dedicated to its own respective god.
To discourage the monastic lifestyle, the government required the building of permanent structures at government determined construction sites while imposing Russian architects ( Pozdneev, 1914 ).
According UNESCO, " the present temple is one of the earliest and most imposing structures built entirely in brick from Gupta period ".
Crumbling medieval buildings were razed and replaced with imposing Neoclassical structures.
This, in addition to many of the houses being single story and boasting colours of the natural surroundings exemplifies Griffin ’ s objective which did not involve establishing imposing and artificial built structures, but rather to have the buildings blend in with the environment ; retaining the bush setting.
By imposing additional conditions ( in form of suitable identities ) on these operations, one can then indeed derive the underlying partial order exclusively from such algebraic structures.
Black Mountain Tower is one of the most visually imposing structures on the Canberra skyline, visible from many parts of Canberra and Queanbeyan.
Some large industrial structures remain though most are shut down, most prominently the imposing Canada Malting Silos.
Although many of his films or scripts are based on real-life biographies ( Raging Bull, Mishima, Patty Hearst, Auto Focus ), Schrader confessed having problems with biographical films due to their altering of actual events, which he tried to prevent by imposing structures and stylization instead.
The station building is a fine example of the architecture Charles Holden built for the Piccadilly Line extensions, with a large and imposing box-shaped ticket hall surrounded by lower structures containing shops.
Of the whole easterly section, scarcely a building remained … of the costly and imposing structures and public buildings which were the pride and glory of the people, scarcely a vestige remained ; and St. John's lay in the morning as a city despoiled of her beauty, her choicest ornaments, presenting a picture of utter desolation and woe.
The hospitals themselves were, by the middle of the 19th century, fairly imposing and architecturally grand structures in many cases.
Some time in their evolution, the word meaning " palace " came into use, indicating that shrines had by then become the imposing structures of today.
In Malé, the Islamic Center and the Grand Friday Mosque, built in 1984 with funding from the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Brunei, and Malaysia, are imposing elegant structures.
Many of the new improvements are imposing structures, and would not suffer by comparison with the most elegant portions of our modern cities.
Is probable that Visigoths took over the existing structures by imposing a thin upper class.
North of Djelfa town there is an imposing physical feature known as Salt Rock ( Rocher de Sel ) that resulted from the erosion of rock salts and marls by rain, and to the west of the town Megalithic funerary structures are found.
He wrote about the imposing structures of the town like the church and convent, stone stairway or Inang-angan, and wharf ; children going to school ; an affluent community with well-kept environs ; and a spring flowing from a cave on the northern edge of the town, after which the name Loon ( from ‘ nag-loon ’, or the merging of freshwater and saltwater ) was coined.
He took note of the imposing structures of the town like the church and convent, stone stairway or Inang-angan, and wharf ; children going to school ; an affluent community with well-kept environs ; and a spring flowing from a cave on the northern edge of the town, after which the name Loon was coined.
The pristine beauty and bounty of the town ’ s terrestrial, estuarine and marine resources are complemented by imposing centuries-old structures, rich cultural traditions and warm-hearted people.
The imposing concrete structures use multi-colored panels ( attempting to emulate Le Corbusier's Unité d ' Habitation design ), which strongly dates the period of construction.

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