At one point, he even floated a plan to remove the Met's " great staircase " leading from the central lobby to the second-floor galleries.

The windows of the four bays flanking the portico, at first-floor level, have alternating pointed and segmented pediments, while at second-floor level the pediments are flat.

The four sets of double doors giving entry to the room have heavy pediments supported by scagliola columns, and at second-floor height, grisaille panels depict classical themes.

In 1985, the administration of Monroe County Executive Lucien A. Morin ( R ) proposed a complicated terminal expansion that would have had baggage claim carousels across the driveway in a separate building, which tugs would have reached by a tunnel, and passengers would have reached by second-floor bridge corridors.

A wide portion of the school's roof collapsed, and the massive downward rush of heat would probably have instantly killed anyone remaining in the second-floor classrooms.

His L-shaped townhouse contained spacious rooms and would have been enhanced by exterior features such as a second-floor overhang and casement windows.

Other attractions include a multimedia program, wildlife artwork, a reconstructed study with murals by renowned painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a smaller second-floor observatory, and the Adelson Library which contains historical and contemporary ornithological materials, including an extensive collection of monographs and journals.

The Comedy Connection, one of Boston's two largest comedy clubs, only recently vacated one of the second-floor spaces, and bars and restaurants occupy space on the basement levels.

The Fire Administration attributes “ Failure to clean ” as the leading factor contributing to clothes dryer fires in residential buildings, and observed that new home construction trends place clothes dryers and washing machines in more hazardous locations away from outside walls, such as in bedrooms, second-floor hallways, bathrooms, and kitchens.

After all, he hadn't happened upon us in that second-floor hall without warning.

The kitchen is separated from the living area ( called the stube, the area of the home heated by a stove ), and second-floor bedrooms benefit from rising heat.

On the exterior Le Corbusier installed a stairway to provide second-floor access from ground level.

In November 1990, following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, as a crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel, Kahane was assassinated.

Fencing coach Andre Spitzer, who spoke fluent German, and shooting coach Kehat Shorr, the senior member of the Israeli delegation, had a brief conversation with German officials while standing at the second-floor window of the besieged building, with two kidnappers holding guns on them.

At the site of the trial, the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, a $ 1-million restoration project was completed in 1979, which restored the second-floor courtroom to its original appearance during the Scopes trial.

She escapes from Leatherface by jumping through a second-floor window and flees to the gas station.

The bow has a ground floor double staircase leading to a Ionic colonnaded loggia ( with the Truman Balcony at second-floor level ), known as the south portico.

Decades of poor maintenance, the construction of a fourth story attic during the Coolidge administration, and the addition of a second-floor balcony over the south portico for Harry Truman took a great toll on the brick and sandstone structure built around a timber frame.

File: White-house-floor2-yellow-oval-room. jpg | The Yellow Oval Room in the private, second-floor family residence centered directly above the Blue Room.

Many of Balzac's tormented characters were created in the small second-floor bedroom.

The Musée de Montmartre is in the house where the painter Maurice Utrillo lived and worked in a second-floor studio.

* The 2000 Ramallah lynching included throwing the ( already-dead ) body of either Vadim Nurzhitz or Yossi Avrahami out of a second-floor window, after those two Israeli soldiers had been lynched.

In 1875, a new three-story grand town hall opened, featuring a second-floor auditorium that seated over 900 and was used as an opera house.

On September 27, 2008, the Allen Parish Tourist Commission opened Leatherwood Museum in Oakdale in a two-story house which served during the early 20th century as a hospital where women waited on the second-floor balcony to deliver their babies.

In addition, a second-floor security search area opened.

Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief.

As the floor of the second-floor auditorium gave way in the center, the audience of at least 300 people dropped to the first floor.

1885 ) at East Main and Cemetery Streets, which formerly housed the post office, and two wood-frame store fronts with second-floor apartments on East Main.

Some of these second-floor bars are run by scam artists who lure tourists with offers of low prices and later present a wildly inflated bill along with a threat of physical harm should the bill go unpaid.

" Michelangelo's renovation of it incorporated the first use of a giant order that spanned two storeys, here with a range of Corinthian pilasters and subsidiary Ionic columns flanking the ground-floor loggia openings and the second-floor windows.

There are nearly one hundred galleries open to the public, representing of exhibition space, although the less popular ones have restricted opening times.

Some libraries have additional galleries beyond the public ones, where reference materials are stored.

Flint mines have been found in chalk areas where seams of the stone were followed underground by shafts and galleries.

There have been fractal art exhibits at major international art galleries.

Gothic openings such as doorways, windows, arcades and galleries have pointed arches.

Declining wharfage trade, light industry and factories have given way to residential development, shops, restaurants, galleries, bars and most notably major office developments housing international headquarters of accountancy, legal and other professional services consultances, most notably along London Bridge City and More London between Tooley Street and the riverside.

His expressionist paintings and drawings command high prices, and have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world.

He was instrumental in convincing Monet to have a cataract operation in 1923, and for over a decade encouraged Monet to complete his donation to the French state, the " Nymphéas " ( Water Lilies ) paintings that are now on display in Paris ' Musée de l ' Orangerie in specially constructed oval galleries ( which opened to the public in 1927 ).

Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.

Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries.

Most museum and large art galleries own more works than they have room to display.

There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual museum.

There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art.

Bangladeshi artists have been able to exhibit in German galleries and museums.

With the recent enormous growth of autograph sellers on eBay, and the appearance of a multitude of new galleries and retailers offering expensive autographs, casual autograph collectors and one-time buyers have in many instances sought " certificates of authenticity " issued by the seller at the time of sale.

: "... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath ; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there ; rooms so small, so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter ; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud and threatening to fall into it — as some have done ; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations, every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Jacob's Island.

In 2001, " FuturePlan " was launched, which involves redesigning all the galleries and public facilities in the museum that have yet to be remodelled.

To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.

The guides have fly-through videos of the dome galleries and zoomable close-ups of the ceiling mosaics, painting and photography.

A strong community of living artists, and many dealer galleries have premises in the historic precinct.

The galleries have near of show space.