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The locally quarried gritstone has weathered nicely over the past 90 years and the house looks as though it belongs to the 17th Century. In 1913 the house was bought by the famous electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, whose seventh and last child, Yvonne, was born at the Hall in July 1914. That the Ferranti ’ s were happy here is clear from Mrs de Ferranti ’ s charming biography of her husband, but it is equally evident that life at the Hall had its hazards, largely because ‘ Basti ’( as Mrs Ferranti affectionately called her husband ), could not confine his passion for electricity to working hours.
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For many years, granite and volcanic rocks have been quarried locally for road base metal, riprap, armour stone and asphalt, although the main purpose now is for concrete aggregates.
The stone used to build the pyramids was limestone quarried locally and was cut to fit, not into freestanding blocks like the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The building is made of stone quarried locally on Pitt Street, Manhattan.
A stone courthouse was erected from locally quarried materials in 1880 but was replaced by a wooden structure in 1888.
Wallowa County Courthouse was built in 1909-1910 using locally quarried Bowlby stone, a type of volcanic tuff.
The Dodge County Courthouse, designed by E. Townsend Mix and built of locally quarried limestone in 1865, is the oldest working courthouse in Minnesota.
The campus ' distinctive architectural theme utilizes locally quarried sandstone to acknowledge the region's Native puebloan building style and evoke the Four Corners landscape and colors.
Opened in 1931, the hotel was built with locally quarried pink limestone and was founded by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish banker.
Built in 1876 from locally quarried stone, it is claimed to be the smallest jail in the United States.
The present buildings, of locally quarried sandstone, mostly date from the late 18th century.
A notable high style example of the village ’ s Greek Revival architecture is the 1824 Bronson House, built of locally quarried sandstone blocks.
A newly built Romanesque Revival style courthouse was constructed soon after with locally quarried limestone.
The Ridgeley is primarily a sandstone, and is quarried locally.
The Fremantle Arts Centre is another building constructed in the 1860s by convicts from locally quarried limestone: it is a former lunatic asylum building on Ord Street, and is one of Fremantle's most significant landmarks.
Built primarily from locally quarried gray granite, square and sparsely ornamented, El Escorial is austere, even forbidding, in its outward appearance, seemingly more like a fortress than a monastery or palace.
These sarcophagi are made of locally quarried marble from Saint-Béat and are of varied design, but with generally flat relief which distinguishes them from Roman sarcophagi.
The jury applauded its inventive use of materials ; consistent development of the project in relation to the original concept ; well-integrated plan / section ; and exemplary use of building siting, solar orientation, daylighting, and locally quarried fieldstone to achieve LEED certification.
The building material used in all the buildings at Fatehpur Sikri, palace-city complex, is the locally quarried red sandstone, known as ' Sikri sandstone '.
The first was Frank Lloyd Wright who designed the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo ( 1913 – 1923 ) and the Yodokō Guest House ( 1924 ), both of which used locally quarried Ōya stone.
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, constructed of locally quarried sandstone.
Bear Run and the sound of its water permeate the house, especially during the spring when the snow is melting, and locally quarried stone walls and cantilevered terraces resembling the nearby rock formations are meant to be in harmony.
The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
These are known locally as granite, ( geologically they were formerly described as markfieldite ), and are quarried commercially at Groby and Markfield.
The village is mainly constructed of locally quarried Cotswold stone.
Many of the buildings are built of locally quarried sandstone and despite more modern developments the town centre remains largely as it was when it was first developed.
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To the east of the village is a gritstone boulder and viewpoint locally known as ' The Fabrick ' or ' Ashover Rock '.
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It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;
Apart from the mosque, called Jāma ' Iltutmish ( pronounced Altamish locally ), nearly the whole of the ancient temple has fallen into ruins, but the relics are still unsurpassed as examples of Hindu architecture and sculpture.
The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.
The Alexandria City Court has a part-time locally elected judge.
Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as " the Perimeter " that has come to mark the boundary between “ Inside the Perimeter ” ( ITP ), the city and close-in suburbs, and “ Outside the Perimeter ” ( OTP ), the outer suburbs and exurbs.
Brazil has also begun negotiations with France to have Brazil build 120 Rafale aircraft locally by Embraer.
Recent research has suggested that certain growth factors may work to locally alter bone formation by increasing osteoblast activity.
In addition to the locally printed papers, a monthly entertainment pamphlet named Kraut Creek Revival has limited circulation and is funded by a Denver, NC-based newspaper.
Bandanese Malay is famous in the region for its unique, lilting accent, but it also has a number of locally identifying words in its lexicon, many of them borrowings or loanwords from Dutch.
The four species include the leopard snake ( locally known as Ochendra ), the Balkan whip snake ( locally called Dendrogallia ), the dice snake ( called Nerofido in Greek ), and the only venomous snake is the nocturnal cat snake which has evolved to deliver its venom in to geckos and small lizards and is not dangerous to humans.
Local archaeology has revealed instead the isolated enclosed farmsteads known locally as rounds.
As a result the Canadian government usage has replaced the ( locally ) defunct term Eskimo with Inuit ( Inuk in singular ).
It connects to only that many nodes, locally caching the addresses it has not yet tried, and discards the addresses it tried that were invalid.
Greenpeace has also supported the rejection of GM food from the US in famine-stricken Zambia as long as supplies of non-genetically engineered grain exist, stating that the US " should follow in the European Union's footsteps and allow aid recipients to choose their food aid, buying it locally if they wish.
Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models.
Northern India has a long social tradition in the production of hashish, known locally as Charas, which is believed to be the same plant resin as was burned in the ceremonial " booz rooz " of ancient Persia.
This Lie algebra is finite-dimensional and it has the same dimension as the manifold G. The Lie algebra of G determines G up to " local isomorphism ", where two Lie groups are called locally isomorphic if they look the same near the identity element.
A space is said to be locally metrizable if every point has a metrizable neighbourhood.
Followers of the traditional macrobiotic approach believe that food and food quality powerfully affect health, well-being, and happiness, and that a traditional locally based macrobiotic diet has more beneficial effects than others.
The Western world generally views North Korea as a dictatorship ; the government has formally replaced all references to Marxism-Leninism in its constitution with the locally developed concept of Juche, or self-reliance.
Each state also has a broadcasting company that broadcasts one or two locally operated terrestrial stations.
Plymouth Hoe has become notorious over recent years for the development of the sport known locally as ' tombstoning ' generally undertaken by youths taking spectacular leaps from the waterfront cliffs and fortifications into the sea.
Rosmalen has a significant and locally well known football-club, OJC Rosmalen.
In these warmer areas the taiga has higher species diversity, with more warmth-loving species such as Korean Pine, Jezo Spruce, and Manchurian Fir, and merges gradually into mixed temperate forest or, more locally ( on the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America and Asia ), into coniferous temperate rainforests.
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