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It plans to convert it into a museum once it pays off its loan, as the boathouses are currently being rented as private residences. [5] The association had to pay $1.55 million (equivalent to $2,193,478 in 2023) to purchase the buildings and the apartments behind it.
The Nathan Cobb Cottage at 137 Orchand Lane in Ormond Beach, Florida is a half story residential structure that was constructed in 1897 from salvaged cargo and wood parts from the shipwreck of the Nathan F. Cobb schooner.
A dingbat apartment building in Southern California (Santa Monica) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front ...
Marina City is situated near the building that was used for exterior shots of Bob's office, 430 North Michigan Avenue. The building used for exterior shots of Bob's apartment sits 7 miles (11 km) to the north, on Sheridan Road in the Edgewater neighborhood. Three The Hard Way (1974), Jagger Daniels (Fred Williamson) is a resident in one of the ...
The interior of the Boathouse had double staircases that ascended to a second floor, merging at a landing in the middle. There was a boat-renting office at ground level, between the staircases. The second floor was composed of a dining room with doors opening outward onto the terrace. The terrace received a shed in 1915. [3]
The floor of a turf house could be covered with wood, stone or earth depending on the purpose of the building. They also had a fireplace that would be in the center of the house heating and lighting the whole house. Over time, the turf houses changed in size which directly related to their purpose and status of the owner.
Developer Ronald Buck asked Gesner to work with the unusually narrow, steep lots, which had been subdivided in 1911 and had lain vacant ever since. Gesner chose to design and build them like boats, going to the extreme of bringing in boatbuilders with tools more suited to boats than houses, leading to their unique appearance. [1] [2] [3]
Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored. A boathouse may be the headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells, in which case it may be known as a shell house. [2] Boat houses may also include a restaurant, bar, [3] or other leisure facilities, [1] perhaps for members of an associated club ...