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After 29 years of work the wall was complete with a 6-foot base, stretching more than a 3/8 of a mile in length with an average height of 6 feet and 12 feet at places. [ 4 ] Along with the stone wall, a three-room sod house , built from sod cut out of the surrounding grasses, was completed in 1986 with help from others in the Smiley area.
The site includes a portion of the city wall built in the late-Republican age (second half of the 1st century BC) with subsequent additions, a domus dating back to the 1st century AD with high-quality pavementation and, on the outer side of the Republican walls, a section of the second city wall built by Theodoric the Great between the end of ...
Pony wall (or dwarf wall) is a general term for short walls, such as: A half wall that only extends partway from floor to ceiling, without supporting anything; A stem wall—a concrete wall that extends from the foundation slab to the cripple wall or floor joists; A cripple wall—a framed wall from the stem wall or foundation slab to the floor ...
Half-timbered wall with three kinds of infill: wattle and daub, brick, and stone. The plaster coating which originally covered the infill and timbers is mostly gone. This building is in the central German city of Bad Langensalza. Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, Germany, with half-timbered buildings dating from c. 1480
Only the chimney and a patch of the back wall stand, scaffolded by a leaning tower of the washer and dryer. ... The car rolls past a small community garden where a flag rests at half-staff. Days ...
A moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes . Atlas A support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. Atrium (plural: atria) The inner court of a Roman house; in a multi-story building, a toplit covered court rising through all stories. Attic
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
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